Download or read book Gaia Connections written by Alan S. Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia Connections addresses several arenas of concern as humankind faces an escalating ecological and moral crisis in this new millennium. Beginning with an overview of the history of philosophy and the importance of traditional thinking on modern-day ethical reflection, the book then looks at the development of theories of justice, the problems of equity in global human relations, the inability of existing economic systems to resolve our human and environmental dilemmas, the unnatural connections now obtaining between genuine human need and the technological drift of science, the new genetics and reproductive technologies, and the nature of modern war. The study concludes with some historical perspectives on American environmental history and the urgent need for change in our ecoethical, social, and value systems. The principal focal areas of the original edition are continued: the actual state of the global environment today, the imperative for the development of sustainable economic and resource systems, the movement within much of science toward an almost universal biological determinism, and the need for a reaffirmation of an ethical value system which places the needs of people before the needs of property and profits. The revised edition not only updates these data and the concerns of the original book but also visits a number of new issues: the movement for environmental justice, the connections between global poverty and the now almost universal allegiance to a new world market and free trade system, the progress and the dilemmas of molecular biology and genetic engineering, and the growing disarray within the global systems of political economy.
Download or read book The Gaia Connection written by Mechi Garza and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mechi takes us on magic journeys into the middle of the earth, up through the highest atmosphere, deep into the sea and helps us realize the earth is an entity, conscious, breathing and very much alive.
Download or read book New Social Connections written by J. Burnett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fresh approach to new explorations of the reconfigurations of sociological thought, this book provides a mix of literature review, original theory and autobiographical material in order to understand formations of sociological knowledge.
Download or read book Reinventing Eden written by Carolyn Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of Carolyn Merchant’s classic Reinventing Eden has been updated with a new foreword and afterword. Visionary quests to return to the Garden of Eden have shaped Western Culture. This book traces the idea of rebuilding the primeval garden from its origins to its latest incarnations and offers a bold new way to think about the earth.
Download or read book Gaia written by James Lovelock and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia, in which James Lovelock puts forward his inspirational and controversial idea that the Earth functions as a single organism, with life influencing planetary processes to form a self-regulating system aiding its own survival, is now a classic work that continues to provoke heated scientific debate.
Download or read book An Ecological Approach to International Law written by Prue Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ecological Approach to International Law shows that international environmental law is fundamentally flawed and not equipped to meet global challenges. The book examines international legal responses to global climate change by analysing key concepts such as the doctrine of state sovereignty, the law on state responsibility, environmental rights and common heritage of mankind.
Download or read book To Be As God written by R. J. Rushdoony and published by Chalcedon Foundation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental work is a series of essays on the influential thinkers and ideas in modern times. The author begins with De Sade, who self-consciously broke with any Christian basis for morality and law. Enlightenment thinking began with nature as the only reality, and Christianity was reduced to one option among many. It was then, in turn, attacked as anti-democratic and anti-freedom for its dogmatic assertion of the supernatural. Literary figures such as Shelly, Byron, Whitman, and more are also examined, for the Enlightenment presented both the intellectual and the artist as replacement for the theologian and his church. Ideas, such as "the spirit of the age," truth, reason, Romanticism, persona, and Gnosticism are related to the desire to negate God and Christian ethics. Reading this book will help you understand the need to avoid the syncretistic blending of humanistic philosophy with the Christian faith.
Download or read book The New Age Movement and the Biblical Worldview written by John P. Newport and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Newport delivers a comprehensive study of the impact of New Age beliefs on contemporary culture - and on Christianity itself - while also offering an effective, biblical antidote to today's worldview crisis. After first surveying the historical development of the New Age worldview, from ancient times through important tendencies in nineteenth-century America to recent Far Eastern influences, Newport explores in depth eleven key areas of the New Age worldview and contrasts each area of belief with the traditional biblical worldview.
Download or read book Cosmic Connections written by Murry Hope and published by Thoth Publications. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Gaia Dialogues, Murry Hope employed the 'field theory' accessing technique - a method akin to the Eastern system of Samyama (fusion) - to initiate a series of dialogues with the genius of the planet Earth, to whom Professor James Lovelock ascribed the name 'Gaia'. Much of the information given in The Gaia Dialogues being drawn from well-proven scientific data, Murry Hope now applies the same modus aperandi, to affect similar connections with the other planets in our solar system, the planetoid Chiron, the Sun and the Universe herself with startling results. This book is for those interested in the broadest possible spectrum of the Cosmos and its relationship to life on Earth, the content presupposing a broad knowledge of para-physics, psychology, mythology and esoteric knowledge. For the advanced metaphysical student and the beginner alike it will prove a mine of information about the myriad connections throughout our universe.
Download or read book EVOLVING INTO CRYSTAL BEINGS VOL I A GIFT TO CONNECT WITH YOUR HIGHER SELF written by Ank Fay Kha Tron and published by Ank Fay Kha Tron. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents six thematic conversations about our evolution as "children of the universe" in human temples (bodies). The fundamental purpose of the book is to support the reader in raising their Crystal consciousness through the activation process called the Naming Ceremony. Among other topics addressed are the importance of transiting towards the truth of ourselves legitimizing what we are to become crystalline and understand our cosmic origin as "stellar seeds". In this book you will learn: The evolutionary process as children of the universe and the importance of the name change to activate your Crystal consciousness. How to raise consciousness and the capacity of understanding in the process of our spiritual awakening. How to be true to our inner truth. Why we are all spiritual masters. The cosmic origin of humanity: Are we really starseeds? "Discover the key to raising your crystal consciousness and understanding your cosmic origin as a "star seed" in the six thematic conversations in this book. Immerse yourself in a transformational experience and activate your true self today!"
Download or read book Gaia s Garden written by Toby Hemenway and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensively revised and expanded edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban gardeners. The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.
Download or read book Dossier of the Ascension written by Michael Sharp and published by Avatar Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed step by step guide to chakra activation and kundalini awakening. The Dossier of the Ascension (DOA) covers the big and little fears that block energy flow, the chakra control clauses that trick us into supporting misconcieved social and political systems, and appropriate (right) thinking that will free us from our limitations and move us towards fully activated, fully enlightened energy/light workers. A must read for anyone wishing to move beyond the basics and into a more advanced understanding of the truths of this universe and our creative role in it.
Download or read book Ethical Challenges to Business as Usual Second Edition written by Shari Collins and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers a fresh approach to the ethics of business, casting a critical eye on entrenched assumptions and practices. It includes central works from such thinkers as John Locke, Karl Marx, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, and Thomas Piketty, while also introducing new voices on a range of pressing practical topics, including racial discrimination in the workplace, factory farming, climate change, affirmative action, and whistleblowing. A truly applied anthology, this book encourages students to see the real-world applications of the theories at issue and to examine the consequences of business as usual.
Download or read book Music and the Skillful Listener written by Denise Von Glahn and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Denise Von Glahn, listening is that special quality afforded women who have been fettered for generations by the maxim "be seen and not heard." In Music and the Skillful Listener, Von Glahn explores the relationship between listening and musical composition focusing on nine American women composers inspired by the sounds of the natural world: Amy Beach, Marion Bauer, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Victoria Bond, Libby Larsen, and Emily Doolittle. Von Glahn situates "nature composing" among the larger tradition of nature writing and argues that, like their literary sisters, works of these women express deeply held spiritual and aesthetic beliefs about nature. Drawing on a wealth of archival and original source material, Von Glahn skillfully employs literary and gender studies, ecocriticism and ecomusicology, and the larger world of contemporary musicological thought to tell the stories of nine women composers who seek to understand nature through music.
Download or read book Writing Gaia The Scientific Correspondence of James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis written by Bruce Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full and annotated collection of the correspondence between two extraordinary scientific individuals, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.
Download or read book Gaia s Hidden Life written by Shirley J. Nicholson and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of essays on the living intelligence within nature from various spiritual and scientific perspectives, by James Lovelock, Dorothy MacLean, Joan Halifax, Thomas Berry, John Seed, Serge King, author of Earth Energies, and others.
Download or read book Mobility Patterns and Urban Structure written by Paulo Pinho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite extensive efforts to understand the overall effect of urban structure on the current patterns of urban mobility, we are still far from a consensual perspective on this complex matter. To help build agreement on the factors influencing travel behaviour, this book discusses the influence of alternative urban structures on sustainable mobility. Bringing together two existing and complementary methods to study the relationship between urban structure and mobility, the authors compare two case studies with distinct urban structures and travel behaviour (Copenhagen and Oporto). Of particular concern is the influence of urban structure factors, namely land use and transport system factors, and motivational factors related to the social, economic and cultural characteristics of the individual traveller. The research presented in this book highlights the relevance of centrality in travel behaviour and in more sustainable travel choices. Different operational forms of the centrality concept are revealed as important: it is shown that more sustainable travel can be influenced by several urban structure factors and that no particular combination is required as long as a certain level of centrality is provided. Finally, the book concludes that urban structure can, on the one hand, constrain and, on the other hand, influence travel choice.
