How the great wisdom traditions offer perspective on the physical, psychological, political, and cultural crises of our times.

States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age

Spretnak, Charlene

Self-Help

Harper-San Francisco

Shares the views of the Buddha on the nature of mind, native American sprituality on our relationship with nature, Goddess spirituality on the sacredness of the body, and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam on social justice

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harpercollins

The closing years of this century find Americans skeptical of modern institutionsthe political system, the gloablized economy, the public schoolsand their abilities to solve the most basic problems of our time. Amid the rising tide of discontent, the public debatesincluding the ”culture wars”seem to be a mere spinning of wheels.In a penetrating analysis of our times, Charlene Spretnak asserts that both the liberal and conservative sides in those debates are situated in the very orientation that created the modern crisis: the mechanistic worldview with Homo economicus at the center. The grand claims of modernity no longer inspire confidence because its destructive effects seem to be multiplying. The author, an influential public intellectual, speaks poignantly to our growing sense of what has been lost and what is slipping away.Yet Charlene Spretnak argues persuasively that the intensification of the modern crises is not inevitable and is already being challenged by an impressive network of corrective efforts. The new acceptance of holistic medicine (forced by the healthcare crisis, the new understandings in science of nature's powers of dynamic creativity and self-organization, the new political opposition of community-based activists to the forces of globalization, and the new surge of independence efforts by ancient nations that have been devoured by modern statesall are part of an emergent value system that counters the modern conception of liberty as a flight from body, nature and place.After identifying ”epochal rumblings” embedded in the nightly news in the 1990s, Charlene Spretnak illuminates the sources of the modern condition with exceptional clarity. Moreover, she reframes ”the other history” of the modern era: the ecospiritual lineage of movements that resisted the corrosive effects of the industrialized modern world. These include the Arts and Crafts movement, the cosmological schools of painting, the stream of Modernist writers and artists who did not embrace the ”machine aesthetic” after World War One, and Gandhi's ”Constructive Program.” The grassroots movements today that are forging a new politics of local and regional revitalization beyond left-and-right are heir to a rich tradition, to which the author brings original interpretations.Finally, Charlene Spretnak concludes her wideranging exploration with an engaging story of an American heartland city in the near future that has largely decoupled from the destructive dynamics of the globalized economy and initiated a range of pragmatic alternatives in its region.Both a sharp critique and a graceful performance of the art of the possible, The Resurgence of the Real changes the way we thing about living in the modern world.

The Resurgence Of The Real: Body, Nature, And Place In A Hypermodern World

Philosophy

Basic Books

This feminist classic (first published in 1982) presents a chorus of voices exploring their authentic spirituality. The essays are active rather than reactive, revolutionary rather than reformist, and express a broad political awareness. Rather than codifying a religion exclusively for women, the authors address a range of contemporary issues that are informed by spirituality, our attitude toward life on Earth. Part One: Discovering a History of Power • What the Goddess Means to Women • Mythic Heras as Models of Strength and Wisdom Part Two: Manifesting Personal Power • Consciousness/Energy/Action • Self-Images of Strength and Wholeness Part Three: Transforming the Political • The Unity of Politics and Spirituality • Applications of Spirituality as a Political Force

The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement

History

World

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World

In this insightful,beautifully written work, one of America's most important feminist ecological thinkers reflects on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Spretnak argues that an "ecological postmodern" ethos is emerging in the 1990s. the creative cosmos, and the complex sense of place." Both a sharp critique and a graceful performance of the art of the possible, The Resurgence of the Real changes the way we think about living in the modern world.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Exercise & Fitness

Routledge

Green Politics

Politics & Government

Paladin Press

RELATIONAL REALITY reveals the coherence among numerous surprising discoveries, most made since 2004, about the interrelated nature of physical reality. These discoveries are now transforming every mainstream ﬁeld of human endeavor, as basic assumptions (built on the old idea that everything in the physical world is essentially separate and functions mechanistically) are being reconsidered. No longer a marginal perspective,the Relational Shift is based on the realization that all entities in this world, including humans, are thoroughly relational beings of great complexity who are both composed of and nested within networks of creative, dynamic interrelationships. Nothing exists outside of those relationships. As we try to grasp the interrelated nature of reality, emergent relational approaches are already transforming the way we educate our children, attend to our health, green our communities, and rethink economic activity. New analyses of the crises of modernity and abundant new solutions are the result. "A vital book." -- Bill McKibben CONTENTS: Ch. 1: Relational Revelations; Ch. 2: The Relational Shift in Education and Parenting; Ch. 3: The Relational Shift in Health and Healthcare; Ch. 4: The Relational Shift in Community Design and Architecture; Ch. 5: The Relational Shift in the Economy; Ch. 6: Stepping Up

Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World

Green Horizon Books

For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates the contemporary emergence of a spirituality based on our embeddedness in nature.

Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths

Religion & Spirituality

Beacon Press

For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates, the original, goddess-centered myths and illuminates the contemporary emergence of a spirituality based on our embeddedness in nature.

Lost goddesses of early Greece: A collection of pre-Hellenic myths

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Examines the rise of West Germany's Green Party and discusses the impact of the Greens on European political culture and their relevance to America's future

CAPRA, FRITJOF

Bear & Co

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States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age

States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age

The Resurgence Of The Real: Body, Nature, And Place In A Hypermodern World

The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays by Founding Mothers of the Movement

The Resurgence of the Real: Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World

Green Politics

Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World

Lost Goddesses of Early Greece: A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths

Lost goddesses of early Greece: A collection of pre-Hellenic myths

Green Politics