Life is stressful and complicated. We deal with good and bad choices, competing desires, and contradictory influences, pressures, and ideals. We are fortunate to have a reliable guide, our conscience, if properly used. It is our opportunity and responsibility to understand and utilize it. In today's world, we look around and wonder, with all the clearly wrong choices people are making, where is that good old inner voice? Delve into this book and understand the past through critical historical accounts, most particularly the pivotal Axial Age, when society progressed from mythical beliefs and tribalism to using reason, the Golden Rule, and moderation. Such progress needs to be revived and become widespread. See how the past gives us hope, even now, for a future where we can all flourish

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