An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of NatureLantern Books, 2004 - 319 ページ First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason's An Unnatural Order has become a classic. Now in a new Lantern edition, the book explores, from an anthropological, sociocultural, and holistic perspective, how and why we have cut ourselves off from other animals and the natural world, and the toll this has taken on our consciousness, our ability to steward nature wisely, and the will to control our own tendencies. Jim Mason writes: "My own view is that the primal worldview, updated by a scientific understanding of the living world, offers the best hope for a human spirituality. Life on earth is the miracle, the sacred. The dynamic living world is the creator, the First Being, the sustainer, and the final resting place for all living beings--humans included. We humans evolved with other living beings; their lives informed our lives. They provided models for our existence; they shaped our minds and culture. With dominionism out of the way, we could enjoy a deep sense of kinship with the other animals, which would give us a deep sense of belonging to our living world. "Then, once again, we could feel for this world. We could feel included in the awesome family of living beings. We could feel our continuum with the living world. We could, once again, feel a genuine sense of the sacred in the world." |
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... Western culture . I am indebted also to Selma Miriam , who informed me of Woman's Creation . Through friendship with her , Betsy Beaven , and Noel Furies , I have learned of most of the basic works and ideas discussed in this book . In ...
... Western views of animals and nature , I am indebted to Sir Keith Thomas , whose book Man and the Natural World is among the best . For a general survey of human cultural evolution , Joseph Campbell's series , The His- torical Atlas of ...
... Western culture . I celebrate the plenty of good strands that can have greater room to grow in the spaces they leave . Some think that human society seems to be steadily going insane . They note the ridiculous hatreds that keep us ...
... Western history — compresses , focuses . So when that trip was over I began looking into Oklahoma's history . As have others before me , I saw an instant replay of Western people's inva- sion , then colonization , and , finally ...
... Western humanity's finest day . According to the Morgans , " One successful settler stumbled over the body of a man with a slit throat and crushed skull , hidden in a hollow soon after the opening . Another ... met a man who appeared ...
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Dominionism Identified | 21 |
Before Agriculture A World Alive and Ensouled | 50 |
Animals The Most Moving Things in the World | 91 |
Agriculture A New Relationship with Nature a New World Order for Living Beings | 118 |
Misothery and the Reduction of Animals and Nature | 158 |
Misogyny and the Reduction of Women and Female Power | 186 |
Racism and Colonialism Dominating Lands and Others | 210 |
Rituals of Dominionism Then and Now | 242 |
Beyond Dominionism | 269 |
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