Religion in America Book

Good and important, although it gets a little repetitive over time. I appreciated the deconstruction of the great lie of Monotheism (our Aryan ancestors raping and exploiting the primordial life-affirmative culture, later twisting the story by claiming it was the other way around, turning Earth gods into 'demons' and claiming nature life itself is 'evil' and placing their God at heaven, unreachable, despotic, forcing people into ascetism, turning life into desert). Metzner demonstrates all this greatly on the study of myths. That turning upside-down of meaning is still deeply at roots of our perception dissociated from nature (inside or outside wilderness), resulting at environmental destruction and depression, absence, selfdestruction of western culture. This book is nothing groundbreaking but definitely helped me with some further re-connection, and with understanding the psychopathology growing up in the West imposed on us.