Extending boundaries – Empowering individuals
Extending boundaries – Empowering individuals
Publishing date 21 October 2026 for paperback and hardback editions. **
by Irina Kuzminsky, Foreword by Anne Baring
Paperback, ISBN 978-1-915594-12-9,
with 22 B&W illustrations, 540 pages
Hardback, ISBN 978-1-915594-13-6,
with 22 colour illustrations, 540 pages
“A well-researched, timely, sensitively written, and urgent appeal that we wake up to what is threatening our humanity.”
Irina Kuzminsky’s new book confronts the history, promises and dangers of transhumanism and human ‘enhancement’, addressing the two core questions underlying the whole transhumanist debate: what is a human being, and what is consciousness?
** The hardback edition will be first available at the launch on 23rd October. Contact InterActions for further information. Some pre-release copies of the paperback edition will be made available for specific events ahead of the publication date and launch.
For those purchasing the B&W paperback edition, colour reproductions of the author’s illustrations will also be found on this page by at latest the publishing date if not before.
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“In the very midst of our race towards a future projected synthesis of human and AI, the Handless Maiden stands and weeps, standing for all that we have forgotten and all that we risk to lose.”
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Transhumanism is emerging as a new secular faith, distorting and inverting spiritual traditions of human transcendence, and positioning itself as a new religion, with AI as its enabler. The ‘Superhuman’ AI, supposedly imminent, is projected to outstrip all human abilities and render humans obsolete and expendable – except for the promoters, who see themselves as the privileged elite. Enter eugenics, with the author exposing in detail the shocking views of many of the influential and wealthy proponents.
The crux with transhumanism: if we start defining ourselves as comparable to the machines we ourselves have created, we are welcoming in our own devolution.
This book is a gripping meditation on evolution, identity, the sacredness of life and the soul of humanity itself.
“This book is a brilliant in-depth study and analysis of transhumanism – one that should be on the reading list of every university student… The aim of this inhuman technology seems to be to eliminate our emotional intelligence: our capacity to feel, to imagine, to create, to dream, to love as well as to hate and to fear; to banish or degrade the relationship between child and parent, between man and woman, and between human beings in general… I find it hard to believe what I am communicating, because it is so evil and so utterly destructive of the values that we, as a species, have fought for centuries to articulate and defend.”
From the Foreword by Anne Baring, D.Phil., author of Divine Wisdom and the Holy Spirit: The Forgotten Feminine Face of God
and The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul
“This is an important, immensely readable and very learned book which I highly recommend… The most powerful, the richest and the seemingly cleverest people are invested, materially and mentally, in this movement and will try to use their political leverage to make its tenets compulsory.”
Prof. Harald Walach, Ph.D., author of
Transhumanism: Next Step in Human Development, Dangerous Ideology, Negligible, or What? (Report for the Galileo Commission)
“A well-researched, timely, sensitively written, and urgent appeal that we wake up to what is threatening our humanity. I wholeheartedly recommend this book.”
Andrew Wolpert
“This is immensely interesting, important, very well written… The debate about transhumanism is insufficiently widespread in public and urgently needs addressing. This book brings the key issues into focus and should spark that wider discussion”
Prof. Anthony Grayling, CBE MA DPhil (Oxon) FRSL FRSA
Below is an extract from the book containing the Table of Contents, the Foreword by Anne Baring and the Preface by the author. (copyright material, for personal use only).