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Fundamental Truths & Choices: What the ancients knew and we need to remember
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $46.99
ISBN13: 9781764596510
Publisher: Funguy Publishing
Published: Mar 27 2026
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.25 Width: 11.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Fundamental Truths & Choices is a beautiful photo-book designed for placement on a coffee table, reception or place of gathering, where it can hopefully touch you, shift you, or simply remind you of what you already know deep down.
Ancient texts from civilisations, cultures, and spiritual traditions as diverse as Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Islamic, Greek, Taoist, Gnostic, Egyptian, Hermetic, Mayan, Confucian, Sumerian, and Indigenous traditions emerged thousands of miles and thousands of years apart. They developed in isolation, using entirely different languages, scripts, and world-views, with little to no direct contact or influence.
Yet they all articulate remarkably similar fundamental truths.
This is not about religion. It is something deeper, something we all ought to consider regardless of faith, background, or belief system.
History's greatest teachers, across oceans and centuries, sought to awaken us to what we already carry within. It is something we intuitively know deep down, yet we have forgotten. These truths recur everywhere, yet as flawed humans, we too often defend our preferred texts, translations, doctrines, or interpretations instead of noticing the shared essence they all point toward.
Imagine, for a moment, all these teachers, from different continents and epochs, simultaneously describing the same core realities of existence. What would that compel us to confront?
If this convergence is real, then the greatest spiritual truths have never truly been hidden. They have simply been expressed imperfectly. The human mind and human language are inadequate vessels for the indescribable.
The instant we attempt to articulate fundamental truth, we distort and contain it. We compress the infinite into finite symbols. We resort to metaphors, parables, stories, poetry, and myth - because direct description fails. We have all stood before a sunrise so vast, so majestic, so overwhelming that words suddenly feel trivial and inadequate. Now imagine trying to convey that experience to someone who has been blind all their life.
And these ancient voices, despite their differences, were all gesturing toward the same reality.
This book is about those truths and choices the ancients knew and we need to remember.
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