ARTICLE

Perspectives on the Current Global Crisis: A Conversation with Ralph Metzner

By Will Shonbrun — 2016

A conversation with Ralph Metzner about his book, The Expansion of Consciousness, and his reflections on questions that touch on the most profound problems we face for our survival, our existence as a species.

Read on awaken.com

FindCenter Post-Image

Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

The book will appeal most to people who realize that they are “tree people.” It is poetic, educational, inspirational, spiritual, and down to earth, covering the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

3

FindCenter Post-Image

Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for Our Time

We are all members of a one-earth society, and caring for the earth and soul is interrelated. This is the message of Satish Kumar, the internationally respected peace and environment activist who has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years.

Satish Kumar, Marion Cotillard (foreword)

FindCenter Post-Image

Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community

This new collection of essays, from various years and occasions, expands and deepens ideas articulated in his earlier writings and also breaks new ground. Berry opens our eyes to the full dimensions of the ecological crisis, framing it as a crisis of spiritual vision.

FindCenter Post-Image

Theory U - Learning from the Future as It Emerges | Otto Scharmer | TEDxTUHH

Otto Scharmer talks about how we, as individuals and collectively as a society, create results no one wants - ecological, social and spiritual divide. He talks about what causes such divides and how we can overcome them.

FindCenter Post-Image

The Living Universe: Where Are We? Who Are We? Where Are We Going?

Traditionally, science has regarded the universe as made up of inert matter and empty space.

Duane Elgin, Deepak Chopra (foreword)

1

FindCenter Post-Image

A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and Agricultural

The title of this book is taken from an account by Thomas F. Hornbein on his travels in the Himalayas. “It seemed to me,” Horenbein wrote, “that here man lived in continuous harmony with the land, as much as briefly a part of it as all its other occupants.

FindCenter Post-Image

It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays

An impassioned and rigorous appeal for reconnection to the land and human feeling by one of America’s most heartfelt and humble writers.

FindCenter Post-Image

Our Only World: Ten Essays

The planet’s environmental problems respect no national boundaries.

FindCenter Post-Image

Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community: Eight Essays

In this collection of essays, first published in 1993, Wendell Berry continues his work as one of America’s most necessary social commentators.

FindCenter Post-Image

Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth

Reclaiming the Commons presents the history of the struggle to defend biodiversity and traditional practices against corporate biopiracy and details efforts to realize legal rights for Mother Earth and achieve the vision of the universal commons and Earth as family.

1

1
2
Next

EXPLORE TOPIC

Consciousness