About the book: year / This book is about those people who gave us this world in exchange for our minds. The book "The Gift of the Axe" explores the double-edged history of humankind culture. It is written with brilliant imagination and awareness. Using the entirety of human history and Western culture as its canvas, this extraordinary book shows how, at each new stage of evolution, from the stone ax to the supercomputers of the modern world, those few with the ability to sequence analysis (the Ax Makers) gave birth to technologies that giving them the power and authority to control and conceptually influence another part of the human community. Other, more ancient types of knowledge, generated by intuition and the multifaceted non-verbal abilities of the brain, did not develop and remained largely neglected. The progressive impact of Ax Maker technology has now brought us to a point, the authors say, where it is possible - and urgently necessary - to re-engage ancient forms of knowledge that still exist in the modern world in cultures other than that of the Ax Makers. Brilliant, radical and The book “The Gift of the Ax”, incredible in its scope, contains the right questions, seeks and finds the right answers.