Maurice Ash believes that all contemporary issues are inter-related - the destruction of the environment can be traced to the way we use language and the overweening power of the state results from our failure to sustain community. He argues that the current spiritual vacuum in the West stems from the very nature of the dualistic thought in which we are trapped. From a philosophical background much influenced by the perceptions of the Buddhist tradition and Wittgenstein, Maurice Ash weaves together the spiritual and the economic, the philosophical and the political, into a vision that each of us may follow in our own way.