Future Sacred: The Connected Creativity of Nature
Description
Reveals how our survival depends on embracing complexity consciousness and
relating to nature and all life as sacred • Rejects the “survival of the
fittest” narrative in favor of sacred symbiosis, creative cooperation,
interdependence and complex thinking • Provides examples from complexity
studies, cultural history, philosophy, indigenous spirituality, biomimicry,
and ecology to show how nature’s intelligence and creativity abound everywhere
• Documents how indigenous cultures lived in relative harmony with nature
because they perceived themselves as part of the “ordered whole” of all life
In Future Sacred, Julie J. Morley offers a new perspective on the human
connection to the cosmos by unveiling the connected creativity and sacred
intelligence of nature. She rejects the “survival of the fittest” narrative–
the idea that survival requires strife–and offers symbiosis and cooperation
as nature’s path forward. She shows how an increasingly complex world demands
increasingly complex consciousness. Our survival depends upon embracing
“complexity consciousness,” understanding ourselves as part of nature, as well
as relating to nature as sacred. Morley begins by documenting how indigenous
cultures lived in relative harmony with nature because they perceived
themselves as part of the “ordered whole” of all life–until modernity
introduced dualistic thinking, thus separating mind from matter, and humans
from nature. The author deconstructs the fallacy behind social and neo-
Darwinism and the materialist theories of “dead matter” versus those that
offer a connection with the sentient mind of nature. She presents evidence
from complexity studies, cultural history, philosophy, indigenous
spirituality, biomimicry, and ecology, highlighting the idea that nature’s
intelligence and creativity abound everywhere–from cells to cetaceans, from
hydrogen to humans, from sunflowers to solar panels–and that all sentient
beings contribute to the evolution of life as a whole, working together in
sacred symbiosis. Morley concludes that our sacred future depends on
compassionately understanding and integrating multiple intelligences, seeing
relationships and interdependence as fundamental and sacred, as well as
honoring the experiences of all sentient beings. Instead of “mastery over
nature,” we must shift toward synergy with nature–and with each other as
diverse expressions of nature’s creativity. Read more
Features:
Product Details:
- Publisher : Park Street Press (February 12, 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1620557681
- ISBN-13 : 86
- Item Weight : 15.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.66 x 5.91 x 0.98 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,186,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #511 in Gaia-based Religions #1,202 in Cosmology (Books) #2,038 in Ecology (Books)
- #511 in Gaia-based Religions
- #1,202 in Cosmology (Books)
| Dimensions | 9.02 × 5.98 × 0.79 in |
|---|---|
| Ean | 9781620557686 |
| Mpn | 9781620557686 |
| GTIN | 19781620557683 |
| Isbn | 1620557681 |
| ISBN10 | 1620557681 |
| ISBN13 | 9781620557686 |
| Upc | Does not apply |
| Brand | Park Street Press |
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