In this episode, I speak with Jeremy Lent, author of The Pattering Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, and founder and president of the Liology Institute.

The premise of The Patterning Instinct is that culture shapes values, and values shape history. Through this exploration, Jeremy examined various cultures and societies and determined the underlying premises of their cultural stories and metaphors, and how that informs how the collective patterns meaning onto the world and their place within it.

We discussed the ways, through our understanding of humanity's patterning instinct, how our culture and society can begin to adopt more holistic understandings and relationships with our fellow human beings and life on this planet.