Download or read book Scientists Debate Gaia written by Stephen Henry Schneider and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scientists bring the controversy over Gaia up to date by exploring a broad range of recent thinking on Gaia theory.

Download or read book Gaia Alchemy written by Stephan Harding and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Examines how integrating important alchemical images with Gaian science can offer insights into our interconnectedness with Gaia • Looks at how the four components of the living earth--biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere--mesh with the four elements of alchemical theory and the four functions of consciousness as understood by depth psychology • Offers guided meditations and contemplative exercises to open your receptivity to messages from the biosphere and help you connect more deeply with Gaia During the scientific revolution, science and soul were drastically separated, propelling humanity into four centuries of scientific exploration based solely on empiricism and rationality. But, as scientist and ecologist Stephan Harding, Ph.D., demonstrates in detail, by reintegrating science with profound personal experiences of psyche and soul, we can reclaim our lost sacred wholeness and help heal ourselves and our planet. The book begins with compelling introductions to depth psychology, alchemy, and Gaia theory--the science of seeing the Earth as an intelligent, self-regulating system, a theory pioneered by the author’s mentor James Lovelock. Harding then explores how alchemy, as understood through the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, offers us powerful methods of reuniting rationality and intuition, science and soul. He examines the integration of important alchemical engravings, including those from L’Azoth des Philosophes and the Rosarium Philosophorum, with Gaian science. He shows how the seven key alchemical operations in the Azoth image can help us develop deeply transformative experiences and insights into our interconnectedness with Gaia. He then looks at how the four components of the living Earth--biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere--mesh not only with the four elements of alchemical theory but also with the four functions of consciousness from depth psychology. Woven throughout with the author’s own experiences of Gaia alchemy, the book also offers guided meditations and contemplative exercises to open your receptivity to messages from the biosphere and help you develop your own Gaian alchemical way of life, full of wonder and healing.

Download or read book Gaia Awakens written by C. D. Tavenor and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The climate crisis looms. The Earth awakens. Climate change. The greatest existential threat in the history of human civilization. And our species is the cause. We must reforge our roots with our only planet. Humanity must choose a side if it is to survive and thrive. Join us. Join the World's Revolution. Embark on a journey across the planet through 23 stories written by 16 authors from 6 different countries. From superpowered humans taking down polluting industries to genius inventors creating innovative high-tech solutions to protect their communities, Gaia Awakens explores the gauntlet of climate fiction, SciFi and Fantasy alike. And every story occurs in the same persistent universe, weaving a united narrative in the first volume of The World's Revolution. The world is awakening, and so are its heroes. Read Gaia Awakens: A Climate Crisis Anthology today. _______________ The World's Revolution was initially backed on Kickstarter, and we're incredibly thankful for our contributors who made this project possible. Climate change threatens everyone, and we believe storytelling is one key method to inspire people to take action to combat the climate crisis. But we can't stop with only stories! Find your way to join the fight against the climate crisis. Doesn't matter how big or small your impact is, we need everyone in the fight. Stand for justice. Stand against systems of endless exploitation. Stand for a new way of connecting with the world and your community. We hope you enjoy The World's Revolution, and may its words inspire you to change the world, too.

Download or read book The Cosmic Revolution written by Jayne Derbyshire and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we enter the age of Aquarius, everything we know about our existence is changing. Opportunities will present to show us a greater truth. Our positive transformation is here... This book explores the cosmic backdrop of our current time and your role in the expansion of consciousness. Our DNA is updating through the live stream of the Aquarian age and we are undergoing a mass soul replenishment, whilst being caught up in a cosmic war not of our making. We are sitting right on the edge of our evolutionary cusp, but humanity is stalling the cosmic expansion. We are scuppering our own cosmic coming out party and letting the earth school down by not being present on our watch. We currently have the power to pull the whole cosmos into the sinkhole we are becoming. The gravity of this moment is immense. We have twice failed to take the leap in consciousness we are capable of. We are flagging behind as the race we are meant to be. Our world is becoming warped. However, the alien belt has responded and help is at hand, but we must rise to meet it. The challenges of our long overdue awakening have arrived.

Download or read book Transcendence written by Gaia Vince and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species "A wondrous, visionary work." --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time. She explains how, through four key elements -- fire, language, beauty, and time -- our species diverged from the evolutionary path of all other animals, unleashing a compounding process that launched us into the Space Age and beyond. Provocative and poetic, Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvelous.

Download or read book Fermenting Revolution written by Christopher Mark O'Brien and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving around beer. Globalization pitches the corporate worldview that is essentially selfish, rewarding the few while demeaning the many and devastating nature, against the sustainability movement that calls for cooperation, the protection and celebration of nature and the nurturing of equitable communities. Beer exemplifies the struggle. This book: Traces the path of brewing from a women-led, home-based craft to corporate industry; Describes how craft breweries and home-brewing are forging stronger communities; Explains how corporate mega-breweries are saving the world by pioneering industrial ecology; and Profiles the most inspiring and radical breweries, brewers and beer drinkers that are making the world a better place to live. The return to beer as a way of life is communal, convivial, democratic, healthful, and natural. The American beer renaissance champions ecologically sustainable production, and is helping to create thriving community places. After reading Fermenting Revolution, mere beer drinkers will become "beer activists," ready to fight corporate-rule by simply meeting their neighbors for a pint at the local brewpub -- saving the world one beer at a time.

Download or read book The Biomimicry Revolution written by Henry Dicks and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity is founded on the belief that the world we build is a human invention, not a part of nature. The ecological consequences of this idea have been catastrophic. We have laid waste to natural ecosystems, replacing them with fundamentally unsustainable human designs. With time running out to address the environmental crises we have caused, our best path forward is to turn to nature for guidance. In this book, Henry Dicks explores the philosophical significance of a revolutionary approach to sustainable innovation: biomimicry. The term describes the application and adaptation of strategies found in nature to the development of artificial products and systems, such as passive cooling techniques modeled on termite mounds or solar cells modeled on leaves. Dicks argues that biomimicry, typically seen as just a design strategy, can also serve as the basis for a new environmental philosophy that radically alters how we understand and relate to the natural world. By showing how we can imitate, emulate, and learn from nature, biomimicry points us toward a genuinely sustainable way of inhabiting the earth. Rooted in philosophy, The Biomimicry Revolution has profound implications spanning the natural sciences, design, architecture, sustainability studies, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities. It presents a sweeping reconception of what philosophy can be and offers a powerful new vision of terrestrial existence.

Download or read book Gaia s Limits written by Rud Istvan and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated essay concerns sustainability. Its simple thesis is that trees do not grow to the sky. Basic facts are used to figure Earth’s human carrying capacity. Soft food and hard petroleum limits are reached within present lifetimes. Liquifying other fossil fuels and biofuels cannot make up for future petroleum shortfalls given a world population at sustainable food limits, with present GDP levels. The issue is not yet addressed by public policy, although more serious and sooner than climate change.

Download or read book The Intuitive Heart Revolution written by Kate Connolly and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We can agree on one thing, the world is in dire straits. There is more separation than we have ever seen as a global community, as well as separation from our true selves. But... Imagine if everyone on the planet chose to live their lives by listening to their intuition and treating themselves with unconditional love every day. What would the world look like? Your beliefs are powerful, your feelings are important, and your behaviour is only ever an extension of these. Living a life of fear results in a constant state of reaction, drama and issues. So, if you really want to live a life of joy and change the world around you, you must go within. It’s the only way. The Intuitive Heart Revolution is an energetic formula for healing that can free you from everything that is keeping you from authenticity and living your best life. The ultimate goal is to move from unhappiness and worry to a state of trust. When you can live your life, make decisions, and move in a direction with trust, everything becomes an adventure of love and connection. And by living your best life you can change the World, one emotion, one change, one day at a time.”

Download or read book Gaia s Lost Children written by R. J. Pearson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia’s Lost Children is a politically conservative sci-fi novel of a near-term dystopian future. In the story, the Extinction Reversal Corp. (ERC) genetically engineers and reintroduces the recently extinct moas, woolly mammoths, and passenger pigeons species to the Earth’s environment. Unfortunately, these reintroductions unsettle the Global Union (GU), a carefully balanced, all-encompassing world government. In reaction, the members of the ERC are banished to a huge space habitat located equal distance from the Earth and Moon. A later attempt at further punishment leads the space exiles to rebel. The novel follows two childhood friends, Peter Tanaka and Ivar Hardford, as they try to navigate the turmoil in the GU. Peter joins the ERC and becomes a leader of the space exiles. Ivar establishes himself as the head of a mercenary band used as off-the-books government enforcers. Peter and Ivar end as mortal enemies on opposite sides of the space rebellion.

Download or read book Gaia s Gift written by Anne Primavesi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning human importancene. They challenged the notion of our God-given centrality within the universe and within earth's evolutionary history. Yet as our continuing exploitation of earth's resources and species demonstrates, we remain wedded to the theological assumption that these are there for our sole use and benefit. Now James Lovelock's scientific understanding of the existential reality of Gaia's gift of life again raises the question of our proper place within the universe. It turns us decisively towards an understanding of ourselves as dependent on, rather than in control of, the whole earth community.

Download or read book The Astronomy Revolution written by Donald G. York and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 400 years after the first known patent application for a telescope by Hans Lipperhey, The Astronomy Revolution: 400 Years of Exploring the Cosmos surveys the effects of this instrument and explores the questions that have arisen out of scientific research in astronomy and cosmology. Inspired by the international New Vision 400 conference held

Download or read book Retelling the Nicaraguan Revolution as a Dionysian Ritual written by Martina Handler and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2010 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncountable books have been written on the Nicaraguan revolution in 1979, due to the fascination connected with the idea of revolution in general and with its realization in Nicaragua in particular. This book retells the story of the Nicaraguan revolution with the words of women, aiming to show how a high level of transformative energy was accumulated in the Nicaraguan society over time, based on a common utopian vision of a better future for all. The energetic upheaval can be analyzed as a Dionysian ritual. However, the book also follows up on the Apollonian aftermath of the revolution. Martina Handler is a social scientist and a graduate of the Master Program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation in Innsbruck, Austria.

Download or read book American Revolution written by Kate Jennings and published by Quarterly Essay. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time: "the run-up to the election ... a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable news stations, obsessively tracking the DOW, VIX, LIBOR spreads, polls in red states. So much at stake." American Revolution is a dazzling and perceptive look at the United States between hope and despair: an election-year kaleidoscope. Jennings describes how and why the US economy fell off a cliff and how an apparently endless run of primaries and an increasingly rancorous campaign culminated in a world-changing victory. She surveys the characters - Obama, Palin, McCain and the Clintons - and conveys the concepts - derivatives, bailouts and moral hazard. This is an essay that shows America in fascinating flux: it is witty and poetic, acute and evocative. "The television networks are justifiably in raptures about the historic election of an African-American as the president. All the same ... to reduce Obama to a label, to 'African-American,' does him - and us - a disservice. He wasn't elected for the colour of his skin; he was elected because he offered the hope of a wise, steady and healing leadership to a country bullied and battered in the name of patriotism, plundered and pillaged in the name of free markets, neglected and abandoned in the name of small government." —Kate Jennings, American Revolution

Download or read book After the Anthropocene written by Anne Fremaux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental crisis is the most prominent challenge humanity has ever had to battle with, and humanity is currently failing. The Anthropocene—or so called ‘age of humans’—is indeed a period when the survival of humanity has never been so much at risk. This book locates itself in the field of critical green political theory. Fremaux's analysis of the current environmental crisis calls for us to embrace radical shifts in our modes of being; or, in other words, socially progressive innovations that will be described within the unique framework of "Green Republicanism." In offering a constructive and emancipatory delineation of what could be considered an ecological civilization that is respectful of its natural environment and social differences, this book describes how to shift from an ‘arrogant speciesism’ and materialistic lifestyle to a post-anthropocentric ecological humanism focusing on the ‘good life’ within ecological limits. This new political regime calls for a radical reinvention of our societies, a decentering of the humans within our metaphysical worldview, and a withdrawal of the capitalist technosphere at the benefit of the biosphere. It will require a new economic paradigm that replaces the unsustainable capitalist logic of growth by sustainable degrowth and steady economics. Rooted in ethical thinking and political philosophy, this book seeks to offer a concrete roadmap of how sustainable societies can be fostered.

Download or read book Hungry written by H. A. Swain and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Giver, a futuristic thriller with a diverse cast. In Thalia's world, there is no more food and no need for food, as everyone takes medication to ward off hunger. Her parents both work for the company that developed the drugs society consumes to quell any food cravings, and they live a life of privilege as a result. When Thalia meets a boy who is part of an underground movement to bring food back, she realizes that there is an entire world outside her own. She also starts to feel hunger, and so does the boy. Are the meds no longer working? Together, they set out to find the only thing that will quell their hunger: real food. It's a journey that will change everything Thalia thought she knew. But can a "privy" like her ever truly be part of a revolution?

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.