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Wild Mind, Wild Earth : Our Place in the Sixth Extinction by David Hinton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Wild Mind, Wild Earth : Our Place in the Sixth Extinction about?

Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet. Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event—this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual/philosophical problem, for it is the assumptions defining us and our relation to earth that are driving the devastation. Those assumptions insist on a fundamental separation of human and earth that devalues earth and enables our exploitative relation to it. In Wild Mind, Wild Earth , David Hinton explores modes of seeing and being that could save the planet by reestablishing a deep kinship between human and earth: the insights of primal cultures and the Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism of ancient China. He also shows how these insights have become well-established in the West over the last two hundred years, through the work of poets and philosophers and scientists. This offers marvelous hope and beauty—but like so many of us, Hinton recognizes the sixth extinction is now an in

Who reads Wild Mind, Wild Earth : Our Place in the Sixth Extinction?

Author

David Hinton

Publisher

Shambhala Publications, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781645471479

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Buddhism, Literary Fiction, Nature