A MUST book for all seeking meaning in post modern life

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	• The Dream of the Earth Thomas Berry Sierra Club Books, 2006 - 264 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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Healing the Earth

Our planet, Gaia, is sorely in need of healing. Her earth, waters, and air are polluted. Natural resources are being depleted. Thousands of plant and animal species are becoming extinct.

In this classic book, Thomas Berry summarizes and discusses the dire needs of our planet for healing. While not going so far as to advocate spiritual healing as a solution, Berry strongly advocates for awareness of the innate intelligence of Gaia.

Berry masterfully explores the mind-sets that have contributed to the dangerous depletion of our planetary resources. He suggests that we have yet to find the guiding myths and images to inspire us to relinquish our focus on personal and national material gains in order to properly focus our energies on relating to Gaia in a harmonious way.

The annotated bibliography invites focused further reading.

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Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry

The change in consciousness that is needed for the human race to achieve the nobility and wisdom we are capable of requires that we recognize Earth's nonhuman beings and us as one interconnected community. This book outlines that this consciousness is required in all professions but none more than in our schools and religions. Presently most western peoples are radically cut off from this consciousness and the legs of our culture are becoming sand.

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A Dream, Not The Dream

With this book Mr. Berry created an important milestone in a late 20th-century environmental movement, which had begun to sour from an excess of quantative analysis. The Dream of the Earth helped restore some qualitative analysis to the discussion of where-to-next, which appropriately enough was published by an exemplary Sierra Club press.

At its best (and there are some gratifying moments) the narrative is an pointed critique of "western" civilization's patriarchy. In that respect Berry strays from old-world Catholicism. At its worst (book title included) it is patriarchic itself. Whats with all the "the"s? Berry seems to be stuck in the western mentality, even though his training includes eastern philosophy, which would be more suggestive of possibility. Berry is describing A Dream, not The Dream. Further let us hope he comprehended that a universe this immense allows for myriad Earths.

Read the book. It presents a useful construct; biocentrism (aka ecofeminism).

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Powerful and Compelling!

The Dream of the Earth is a classic on environmental philosophy. It may perhaps be the most important environmental book ever written outside of Rachal Carson's Silent Spring. Berry tells us what went wrong and what needs to be done to reverse the dysfunction. A must read for anyone who loves our Earth Mother.

A MUST book for all seeking meaning in post modern life

Reading John Shelby Spong's book _Jesus for the Non Religious_ has led me to recall this magnificent book as a beginning ot non theistic Christianity. This is the path of the 13,14th century Christian mystic that is apparently once more rising.

A MUST book for all seeking meaning in life.

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This landmark work, first published by Sierra Club Books in 1988, has established itself as a foundational volume in the ecological canon. In it, noted cultural historian Thomas Berry provides nothing less than a new intellectual-ethical framework for the human community by positing planetary well-being as the measure of all human activity.
Drawing on the wisdom of Western philosophy, Asian thought, and Native American traditions, as well as contemporary physics and evolutionary biology, Berry offers a new perspective that recasts our understanding of science, technology, politics, religion, ecology, and education. He shows us why it is important for us to respond to the Earth?s need for planetary renewal, and what we must do to break free of the ?technological trance? that drives a misguided dream of progress. Only then, he suggests, can we foster mutually enhancing human-Earth relationships that can heal our traumatized global biosystem.

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