By Laura M. Slot
$17.99
Paperback: 978-94-93460-03-4
Publication Date: December 21, 2026
Available: Worldwide
Language: English
Size: 6″x9″
Categories: World history; history of consciousness; history of ideas; historiography; spiritual science.
Description
The driving forces behind world history are non-physical forces that manifest as human thoughts, ideas, feelings and willpower – both conscious and subconscious – which are expressed in external human behaviors and historic events. History studies external events and to some extent the inner life of people, but not the driving forces of life.
The physicalist framework of thought that has been dominant in academia since 1850 has hitherto excluded any connection to the non-physical spiritual realm. Now that multiple scientific disciplines, from physics to psychology, are providing evidence of the relative triviality of external, observable reality, the physicalist scientific realm is reconnecting with spiritual science in a new, profound way.
In academic historical research, spiritual science alone can provide the much needed context that can lead to a true understanding of world history and the evolution of humanity.
Laura M. Slot (1984) is a historian and writer with a focus on outsiders in twentieth century intellectual history, the history of ideas. She received graduate degrees from the department of history at Utrecht University in The Netherlands and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. Slot’s first book described the limits of philosopher Bertrand Russell’s pacifism and her other writings have appeared in American and Dutch publications. www.lauraslot.com