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Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff & Ouspensky. Vol. I -
Maurice Nicoll - 1984 - ISBN 0-394-72395-3
Here is the classic work on the fundamental ideas of Gurdjieff
and Ouspensky, expounded by one of their foremost students. The Commentaries,
concerned with the immediate processes of applying certain principles in daily
life, have come to be known and loved by entire generations of people interested
in the ongoing evolution of psychological transformation. Some of the topics
discussed include the emotions, suffering, awareness, man as self-developing
organism, what it means to work on oneself, effort, prayer, dreams, cosmology,
self-love, memory, violence and understanding, relationship, and habitual
patterns.
Shadows of Forgotten
Ancestors - Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan - 10/93 - ISBN:0345384725
"Dazzling...A feast.
Absorbing and elegantly written by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, it tells of the origins of
life on earth, describes its variety and character, and culminates in a discussion of human
nature and the complex traces of humankind's evolutionary past...It is an amazing story
masterfully told."Ecological
Psychology - healing the Split Between Planet and Self - Deborah Du Nann Winter - October 1996 - ISBN: 0673997642
Explaining how human behavior, thoughts, beliefs, values, and feelings have contributed to environmental
crises, Ecological Psychology: Healing the Split Between Planet
and Self articulates the contributions that psychology makes to the
understanding and resolution of our environmental problems. After an
introductory chapter that details our environmental difficulties, each of the
five core chapters examines one major field of psychology (social psychology,
psychoanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive, or gestalt/transpersonal psychology) and
applies it to a selected environmental problem. A final chapter summarizes and
synthesizes the five psychological approaches. Useful as a supplement in a
psychology course to demonstrate the application of theory to a particular
issue, or in an environmental studies course to suggest an alternate way of
looking at our problems, this book is scholarly without being dry, well-balanced
without being devoid of opinion, intimate without being indulgent, and helpful
and accessible without resorting to pop psychology.
The Web of
Life - Fritjof Capra - October 1997 ISBN: 0385476760
Fritjof Capra offers a
brilliant synthesis of such recent scientific breakthroughs as the theory of complexity,
Gaia theory, chaos theory, and other explanations of the properties of organisms, social
systems, and ecosystems. Capra's surprising findings stand in stark contrast to accepted
paradigms of mechanism and Darwinism and provide an extraordinary new foundation for
ecological policies that will allow us to build and sustain communities without
diminishing the opportunities for future generations.
The Gaia
Theory - James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis - December 1987 ISBN: 0192860305
In the late 1960's to British scientists,
James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, put forth the Gaia Theory to propose that separate
organisms could unconsciously modify the environment in a way that is favorable for life.
The principle of the Gaia theory is simple. Life has modified and been modified by
the biosphere, a process called co-evolution. The organisms that survive and
thrive on the planet are those that help maintain the biosphere in a way that is
favorable for life.
Coming
Into Being: Artifacts and Texts in the Evolution of Consciousness - William Irwin
Thompson - 1996 - ISBN 0-312-15834-3.
An exploration of the evolution of
consciousness from early stone carvings through folktales and civilized literature --
ranging from an examination of Osiris and Gilgamesh to the Enuma Elish and the Rig Veda,
the Ramayana, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita, and chaos theory in relation to the
cosmic feminine in the Tao Te Ching.
By Nature Equal : The
Anatomy of a Western Insight - John Coons and Patrick Brennan - June 1999 - ISBN:
0691059225
What do we mean when we refer to people as being equal by nature? In the
first book devoted to human equality as a fact rather than as a social goal or a legal
claim, John Coons and Patrick Brennan argue that even if people possess unequal talents or
are born into unequal circumstances, all may still be equal if it is true that human nature
provides them the same access to moral self-perfection.
Experience and Nature - John Dewey - June 1958 - ISBN: 0486204715
John Dewey's
Experience and Nature provides a philosophical background to the field in this excellent
analysis of dualism, which I argue is at the central core of a real ecopsychology. His
writing is very tough going, but worth it.
Earthdance
Elisabet
Sahtouris's Earthdance: Living Systems in Evolution:"To find meaning and
guidance in nature, I integrated my personal experience of it with those
scientific accounts that seemed to best fit it. From this synthesis, meaning and
lessons for humanity emerged freely. I did the work in the peaceful, natural
setting of a tiny old village on a small pine-forested Greek island, where I
could consider the research and debates of scientists, historians, and
philosophers, then test them against the natural world I was trying to
understand."
Voluntary Simplicity - Duane Elgin - April 1993 - ISBN: 0688121195
Voluntary
Simplicity by Duane Elgin, first published in 1981 and revised in 1993, Is the sacred text
for those wanting to liberate themselves from enslavement to a job and the pursuit of
status symbols. Elgin's work emerges from a concern for the environmental consequences of
our mass consumption lifestyles. His book exhorts us to save the planet and our souls by
"living with balance in order to find a life of greater purpose."
World as Lover, World as
Self
JoAnna Macy's engrossing collection of talks and essays teaches us
to consider our world and its creatures as continuous--not separate from--our
own being.
Coming Back to
Life: Practices to reconnect our lives, our world.
"Inspiring, universal
truths about self, community and world. Without having to consult a post-modern
dictionary, Joanna Macy and co-author, Molly Young Brown give inspiring and
heartfelt explanations and examples of their lifework: dealing with the roots of
conscious and unconscious pain that we all feel with regards to ourselves, while
bringing home the concept of our connectedness to this world. They point out the
fallacy of basic assumptions that we can fix whatever problems we create (the
fix-it mentality), as well as dealing with resulting issues of burn-out and
stress by alternatively doing the "work that reconnects". The dynamic model set
forth in this book recognizes the role of community and encourages us out of an
antagonistic "us" versus "them" concept which tends to lead us towards
short-term NIMBY (not in my backyard) solutions." Angela Sevin
Social History
Re-Enchanting
Humanity : A Defense of the Human Spirit Against Antihumanism, Misanthropy,
Mysticism and Primitivism
Murray Bookchin's tremendously challenging to
positions of neo-primitivism and anti-humanism.
Ken
Wilber in Dialogue
A passionate conversation among the best minds in
transpersonal studies about the ideas of Ken Wilber, the prominent contemporary
thinker whose first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, launched the
transpersonal psychology movement. Transpersonal thinkers taking part in this
dynamic dialogue combine Eastern and Western spirituality with mainstream fields
such as psychology, medicine, physics and ecology to map the human drive toward
Spirit.
The Eros of Everyday Life:
Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society
"If you are seeking a profound
understanding of our times, you will want to read Susan Griffin's work. She
builds upon a foundation of knowledge both wide and deep [and tells us how]
Western civilization has lost the eros of everyday life by vanquishing nature
and by holding duality instead of connectedness at the center of our religions,
philosophies and lifestyles . By placing ourselves outside nature, we lose the
means of locating ourselves, and therefore each other. Yet our situation is far
from hopeless. Through a combination of awareness and compassion, we can learn"
(Barbara Hirshkowitz, Buddhist Peace Fellowship).
Origins of the Sacred: The
Ecstasies of Love and War
Dudley Young, the Joseph Campbell of the 90's.
Lots of good stuff on gender differences, love, hunting, scapegoats and
sacrifice!
Nature and Madness
In Shepard's groundbreaking 1982 study Nature and Madness, he
launched the first searching discussion of the interplay between human psychology and
humankind's increasingly destructive environmental behavior. His analysis amounted to a
radically ecological rereading of cultural history as well as of individual neurosis.
Sacred Land, Sacred Sex -- Rapture of the
Deep
This book can change how you see the land, and how you integrate with others.
It is, in effect, a complete handbook on deep ecology. It is like a wild ecosystem in
itself, full of delightful surprises and incisive challenges. The book shows how to
rekindle a sense of place-oriented community, nature based ritual and ecologically
sustainable lifestyles.
The Spell of the
Sensuous -- Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Elegant in
exposition, vast in implication, this groundbreaking work of ecological
philosophy compellingly argues the necessity for restoring humanity's lost
connections with the sensuous world. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as
phenomenology and sleight-of-hand magic, Abram explains how the processes
readers think of as "mental" actually derive from a deeply physical interaction
with the rest of nature. 352 pp.
The Dream of the
Earth
The Dream of the Earth is a balanced, deeply felt declaration of
planetary independence from the sociological, psychological and intellectual
"conditioning" that threatens the death of nature. It shows readers how to move
their traumatized planet toward health, and to avoid a catastrophic
future.
The Way - An Ecological World View
Edward Goldsmith's magnum opus, proposes that the stability and integrity of the human
depend on the preservation of the balance of natural systems surrounding the individual -
family, community, society, ecosystem, and the ecosphere itself. Goldsmith calls for a
paradigm shift away from the reductionist approach of modern science. Echoing the way of
traditional cultures, he presents an all-embracing, coherent worldview that promotes more
harmonious and sustainable practices capable of satisfying real biological, social,
environmental, and spiritual needs. Revised to include a glossary, index, bibliographic
notes, and several updated chapters, this is a major work by one of our boldest and most
promising thinkers.
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