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Jeremy Lent

Jeremy Lent is an author and founder of the non-profit Liology Institute, an institute dedicated to a worldview that could allow humanity to thrive sustainably. The institute's objectives include stimulating and encouraging the integration of science with spiritual meaning as well as joining the worldwide movement towards sustainable living His writings investigate the thoughts that have led civilisation to our current crisis of unsustainability. In 1996, Jeremy Lent founded NextCard which was the first company to enable consumers to apply for a credit card over the internet and be approved in real time, as well as the first company to offer consumers the ability to personalise their own card. Lent's books include The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning and Requiem of the Human Soul. His latest book is The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe.

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