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When documentary filmmaker Nancy Ryley was afflicted with an environmental illness (symptoms of fatigue, depression, hypersensitivity to foods and chemicals), she began to see her disease as "an opportunity to warn others of the dangers we all face if we continue to contaminate the planet." She decided to interview four wise elders who had done a lot of thinking and writing about the link between our health and the well-being of the planet.
The late conservationist and author Laurens van der Post (1906 - 1996) talks about the dire effects of cowboy industrialism and the need to find a regenerative myth on the level
When documentary filmmaker Nancy Ryley was afflicted with an environmental illness (symptoms of fatigue, depression, hypersensitivity to foods and chemicals), she began to see her disease as "an opportunity to warn others of the dangers we all face if we continue to contaminate the planet." She decided to interview four wise elders who had done a lot of thinking and writing about the link between our health and the well-being of the planet.
The late conservationist and author Laurens van der Post (1906 - 1996) talks about the dire effects of cowboy industrialism and the need to find a regenerative myth on the level of the Quest for the Holy Grail. Jungian analyst Marion Woodman discusses the connection between the rape of the earth and our refusal to honor the sacred feminine in ourselves. She also ponders the meaning of suffering and the phenomenon of addictions as perverted religions. Ross Woodman, a professor of English, reveals how romantic poets such as William Blake give us cues for the healing of our souls. Theologian and cultural historian Thomas Berry is most impressive with his mystical view of the earth as a sacred trust.
In the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, people were engaged in what they called the "Great Work," which was the creation of a finer civilization after the chaos of the Dark Ages. This book will enable you to see that saving the planet is the Great Work of our time.
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Manufacturer: Quest Books
Release date: 25 October 1998
ISBN-10 : 0835607712 |
ISBN-13: 9780835607711
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