Huston Smith's 1976 argument for the perennial philosophy — that the world's major religious traditions (Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Indigenous) share a common metaphysical structure of hierarchically ordered levels of being (terrestrial, intermediate, celestial, infinite) that modern reductionist science has displaced.
Makes the perennialist case against scientific reductionism — Forgotten Truth argues that human beings have always recognized a multi-layered cosmos with subjective depths corresponding to objective heights, and that modern science's restriction of reality to the quantifiable has impoverished human self-understanding.
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