WELCOME TO LIOLOGY

Liology offers a worldview that will enable humans to thrive on our planet 
harmoniously and sustainably.

READ MORE EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THE THEMES OF LIOLOGY:

A new book by Jeremy Lent, founder of Liology.
The Web of Meaning:
Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe

The Web of Meaning offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for a worldview based on deep interconnectedness, showing how modern scientific knowledge echoes the ancient wisdom of earlier cultures.

Weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom, it offers a rigorous and integrated way of understanding our place in the cosmos that can serve as a philosophical foundation for a life-affirming future.

DISCOVER THE WEB OF MEANING

our objectives

  • Integrating science with life's meaning
  • Living the "Tao of complexity" 
  • Embodying the source of meaning 
  • Living sustainably on the earth 
  • Understanding humanity’s cognitive history 
  • Experiencing ourselves as an integrated organism

what is liology?

Liology (pronounced lee-ology) is a word made up from the Chinese word “li,” which means “the organizing principles” and “ology” which is the Greek-derived word for “study.”  So liology means “the study of the organizing principles.”  

You might ask: the organizing principles of what?  The answer: everything.  The complete set of dynamic patterns that make up our entire universe - what the traditional Chinese called the Tao. 

ONLINE WORKSHOP
ATTUNING TO THE WEB OF MEANING:
INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF LIOLOGY

This workshop offers a combination of didactic explanation, guided meditation, qigong, video clips, breakout groups, and general group discussion. The practices are intended to help integrate different domains of experience that are usually considered separate—mind and body, science and traditional wisdom, material and spiritual, inner subjectivity and social/political engagement—and show how meaning itself emerges as a function of their integration.
Following Jeremy Lent’s talk on Tuesday, Oct. 26 on the themes of his new book, The Web of Meaning, this workshop explores an integrative framework that attunes to the meaning that arises from our intrinsic connectedness within ourselves, with each other, and with the natural world.
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Liology (pronounced lee‐ology) comes from the Chinese word li that means “the organizing principles.” This interactive workshop introduces Liology as an embodied investigation into the organizing principles of the dynamic patterns that make up our universe––what traditional Chinese sages called the Tao. It shows how core principles of love, harmony, and kindness can form the bedrock of an integrative worldview that could foster sustainable flourishing on a regenerated Earth.
Date And Time
Saturday, October 30, 2021
10:00–11:30 am Pacific​
Free | Registration Required

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