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Loading... My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization (1994)by Chellis Glendinning
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I couldn't get past the buzz-word laden intro. Painfully new age (rhymes with sewage) and too, too. At first I thought this book might be a little hokey but as I got into it I realized it's very well reasoned and the author makes a lot of interesting points. The main point the author makes is that the domestication of humans that occurred as a result of adopting agriculture has led to trauma, which can be seen in the addictions and neuroses of people to this day. She makes the argument that we are cut off from our "primal matrix," our natural way of being, and this is something that we need to heal from. Sisällyksestä: Preface: My Name Is Chellis; Ahéhee Roots. People and Nature; Primal Matrix; A Lesson in Earth Civics Domestication and Its Discontents. Original Trauma; Domestication; Discontents; Techno-Addiction; We Create Our Own Reality Hunting, Gardening, and Healing. The First Step; Moose Becomes Me; The Whole Story and Nothing but the Story; Earthgrief Re-arising within Us. Primal Matrix Re-arising; All My Relations; Our Wildest Dreams no reviews | add a review
What is the relationship between addiction and the ecological crisis? How can we use the lessons of individual recovery to address our collective need to heal society and the Earth? Chellis Glendinning goes beyond the personal to the very heart of Western civilization to answer these questions, and she shows how we can use trauma recovery and deep ecology, along with the wisdom of native cultures, to reclaim our innate wholeness. No library descriptions found. |
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