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A ground-breaking work on nature and humanity. This book deepens the spirit of Silent Spring, and of Walden--into human conservation and healing. It reveals the stunning breakthrough into Nurturome. It breaks open, then completes our view of evolution; it reveals the Second Missing Link. It redefines and redirects the Environmental Movement--the nature-human debate. It dispels the issue of nature vs. culture, and other key myths of 'civilization', Modernism, and Postmodernism. It reveals the Origin and Emergence of Alien Being--Alienism. It presents the Revelation of Selflifeworld. It reveals the Origins of Egoself that comes to displace whole self and whole mind. Over one hundred-fifty subheadings mark more surprises on the journey! A vast pot-pourri for laymen, professionals, and students!
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781401068363 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Xlibris US |
| Publication date: | 01/26/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 446 |
| File size: | 2 MB |
About the Author
Intensely committed by age 13 with fostering his unconventional, original, naturalistic mind, consciousness, and being, the author, largely charting his own unique education, was rewarded at age 33 with a breakthrough revelation (similar to Rousseaus illumination), pulling his original thinking, with new breakthroughs, into a complete system of philosophical thought. Overwhelming at first! But, after 11 years, the most seminal, provocative, revolutionary book to laymen and professionals, possibly, ever written! The Last Human Spring is an unprecedented, historical event for the West: one volume revealing what we are and why we are (underneath modernitys sci-technic and commercial-overlays) -- Natural, human nature, being, spirit, identity, and reality manifested within a natural, whole self, lifeworld, and nurtureculture, all authentic and belonging to us. This book offers the conceptual-spiritual-ontological journey into the rediscoveries and recoveries constituting our renurturalization, our renaturalization, into Earths play of life, hopefully, avoiding looming, human decimation.
Table of Contents
| PREFACE | 7 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
| Chapter I: THE OTHER SPRINGTIME and THE THREE BIG BANGS | |
| A. The Other Springtime | 19 |
| 1. The Regathering 'Human Tribe' | 24 |
| 2. The Journey Back Homeward-Partial Redemption | 26 |
| 3. Natural, Human Society | 27 |
| 4. Humanity's Primary, Earth-folk Innocence | 28 |
| 5. Living Nature and the Human Circus-Zoo | 30 |
| 6. To Saddle and Bridle Things | 33 |
| B. The Three Big Bangs | 37 |
| C. Evolution's Missing Story | 39 |
| Chapter II: INTRODUCTORY LIGHT | |
| A. Revelation as Rediscovery | 43 |
| 1. Sociocultural Revelation | 43 |
| 2. One Last Respringing | 52 |
| 3. The Root, Human Birthright | 56 |
| 4. Human Nature, Patterns, and Nutrients | 58 |
| 5. The Loss of Being | 59 |
| 6. Emergent, Subliminal Self-destruction | 60 |
| 7. Truth Vs. Human Truth | 60 |
| 8. An Allegory of Transmutation | 61 |
| 9. Three Alien Elements to Human Nature and Being | 63 |
| 10. The Human Break From Living Nature | 65 |
| 11. Alienization and Artificialization as Transmutation | 67 |
| 12. Secular and Religious Responses to Alienization | 68 |
| 13. Values and Beliefs Attain to Human Transmutation | 70 |
| 14. Through Sociocultural Into Species Unreality | 70 |
| B. Philosophical, Human Rediscovery-Human Authenticism | 71 |
| 15. Human Authenticism, the Philosophy in Brief | 71 |
| 16. The Eclipse of Being and Meaning by Personal Identity | 74 |
| 17. Doctrine of Infinite, 'Human' Possibility vs. Fulfillment of Human Nature | 75 |
| 18. The Transmutation of Human Will and Purpose | 78 |
| 19. The Last and Lasting, Human Struggle | 79 |
| 20. The Authentic Bears Fruit-Human Reality | 82 |
| 21. Toward Western Unity With Humankind | 84 |
| 22. Digging Out, Cleansing and Preserving Humankind | 86 |
| 23. Intershining Human and Sacred Light | 89 |
| Chapter III: THE REVELATION OF NURTURECULTURE AND NURTUROME | |
| A. Short Forward | 91 |
| B. Slaughter of Great Myths | 92 |
| 1. Glimpse of Human Authenticism | 92 |
| 2. Modern Myths Vs. the Human Journey | 95 |
| 3. The 'Savage' Myth vs. Human Science | 96 |
| 4. Threshold to the Human Revelation | 98 |
| 5. Nature Vs. Nurture and Culture: the Key Myth | 99 |
| 6. The Fall of the "Savage" and Wilderness Man | 100 |
| 7. Recent Quickenings of The Last Human Spring | 103 |
| 8. Rediscovering and Re-embracing Human Nature | 106 |
| 9. The Fall of 'Culture' as Human Distinctive | 109 |
| 10. The Revelation of Nurtureculture and Nurturome | 110 |
| 11. The Fall of the Human-Animal Dichotomy | 111 |
| 12. Human Nature Rediscovers Home Within Living Nature | 114 |
| C. The Revelation of Human Selflifeworld | 116 |
| 13. Short Forward | 116 |
| 14. The Unified Field of Human Being and Reality | 117 |
| 15. The Revelation of Triecologic, Whole Self | 118 |
| 16. Whole Self and Triecologic Selflifeworld | 119 |
| 17. Human Selflifeworld Collides With 'Civilization' | 121 |
| D.'Civilization': the Megamyth | 124 |
| 18. A Fresh Wind of Freedom | 124 |
| 19. The First Mistake | 125 |
| 20. Seven Revelations About 'Civilization' | 126 |
| 21. Written History's Misrepresentation of Humankind | 127 |
| 22. 'Civilization' as Humanity's Misbegotten Socioculture | 127 |
| 23. Who's In and Who's Out | 128 |
| 24. The Dichotomy of Human Society | 129 |
| 25. The Endurance and Triumph of Unwritten History-Folklore | 130 |
| 26. Written History as Elitist Myth and Propaganda | 131 |
| 27. Historic Myth and Self-illusion Become Species Delusion | 132 |
| E. Science Out on a Limb | 132 |
| 28. An Age Surprise for Humanity | 132 |
| 29. The Myth of 'Barbarians' Vs 'Civilization' | 134 |
| 30. Equestrian Warriors as Aberrational | 134 |
| 31. The Precursor, Alien Society | 136 |
| 32. The Horse and Dog as Suspects for Alienism | 136 |
| F. Other Possible Origins of Alienism | 138 |
| G. Selflifeworld as Subject-Object in Unity-Short Forward | 142 |
| Chapter IV: EGOSELF: ORIGINS, | |
| DEVELOPMENTS, AND ARISINGS | |
| A. Organismicities: Whole Self and Human Being | 147 |
| B. Egoself: Heidegger, Fromm, Psychology and Individualism | 148 |
| C. Alienism's Penetration and Fragmentation of Selflifeworld | 151 |
| D. Individual and Social Arisings of Egoself | 157 |
| Chapter V: NATURAL, AUTHENTIC, | |
| HUMAN MIND | |
| A. Short Forward | 167 |
| B. Natural Mind from Natural Nutrients | 168 |
| C. Transmutation of Mind and Intelligence | 169 |
| D. The Household of Mind | 170 |
| E. Analogical Genetic and Mental Transmutation | 173 |
| F. Fragmented and Alienized Dysfunction of Mind | 176 |
| G. Transmuted, Diminished, Partial Mind | 178 |
| H. Transmuted, Diminished, Artificialized, Alienized Being | 180 |
| I. Organismicity of Mind, Intelligence and Will | 181 |
| J. Natural Perception Vs. Transmuted Perception | 183 |
| Chapter VI: DIALECTICS | |
| A. Short Forward | 185 |
| B. Organismic, Human Reality | 185 |
| C. Living Nature; Natural, Authentic, Humanity, and 'Civilization' | 187 |
| Chapter VII: THE BIG BANG WITHIN EVOLVING | |
| LIFE: ORIGIN AND EMERGENCE | |
| OF ALIENISM | |
| A. Ground Zero: 'Civilized' Humankind | 195 |
| B. We Have Met the Aliens, and They Are Us | 197 |
| C. Aliens From Where, and How? | 198 |
| D. Alienism Overrides Alienation | 203 |
| Chapter VIII: HUMAN AUTHENTICISM | |
| VS. ALIENISM | |
| A. Short Forward: Reaching for Stars | 205 |
| B. The Main Conflict and Struggle | 206 |
| Chapter IX: WALDEN III: AN ECOPHILOSOPHY | |
| A. The Exodus From Earth-Being | 214 |
| B. The Innate, Ecological Paradigm | 215 |
| C. Ecological Identification Without a Base | 216 |
| D. Neither Ecocentrism nor Anthropocentricism | 218 |
| E. From Wildernessism to Ecophilosophy of Human Authenticism | 222 |
| 1. Resisting the Exodus from Earth Village | 222 |
| 2. Paleolithic and Neolithic Lifeways vs. The City | 225 |
| 3. Post-Historic Primitivism Within Earth-Folk, A'Civilization Pardigm | 227 |
| A 'Civilization' Paradigm | 227 |
| 4. The Limits of Wildernessism | 230 |
| F. Humanity: Living Nature Become Self-conscious? | 234 |
| G. Economy, Ethics, Ecosystems, and Living Nature | 236 |
| H. Deep Ecology Versus Ecofeminism? | 237 |
| I. Science Penetrates Living Nature | 240 |
| J. Getting On-Line or Getting Off-Line? | 245 |
| K. Life and Non-Life as First, Primary Dichotomy and Perception | 247 |
| L. Cultured or Crabbed or Cancered | 249 |
| M. From Walden to Nature-Human Village | 251 |
| N. Epilogue | 260 |
| Chapter X: BRIEF APPLICATIONS | |
| OF HUMAN AUTHENTICISM | |
| 1. Search for Nutrients Vs. Search for Discovery | 266 |
| 2. Motherhood I, Mother Nature, and the Aliens | 269 |
| 3. Human Environmentalism | 272 |
| 4. Truth and Reality | 274 |
| 5. Metaphysics and Epistemology | 276 |
| 6. The Cosmos of Carl Sagan vs. Earthlifeworld | 278 |
| 7. Beauty | 288 |
| 8. Earth-life-Sun Cosmos vs. Universe/Cosmos | 289 |
| 9. Astronomy, Outer Space, and Living Nature | 290 |
| 10. Natural Perception | 295 |
| 11. Human Organismicity | 296 |
| 12. Twentieth Century History and L. Mumford | 297 |
| 13. Futurism | 299 |
| 14. Cultural Movements | 302 |
| 15. Joseph Campbell and Mythology | 303 |
| 16. Living Nature, Intelligence and 'Civilization' | 306 |
| 17. Living Nature, Intelligence and Being, | 307 |
| 18. Freedom Vs. Determinism | 308 |
| 19. Freedom and Automatized Sci-Technics and Commercialism | 312 |
| 20. Computers | 315 |
| 21. Cybernetics | 316 |
| 22. Heidegger | 317 |
| 23. Symbolism | 324 |
| 24. Overpopulation | 326 |
| 25. Western Religions | 327 |
| 26. 'Primitivism' | 329 |
| 27. Anthropology and History | 330 |
| 28. Religion and Science | 331 |
| 29. Science | 333 |
| 30. 'The Unity of Science' as False Quest | 338 |
| 31. Confucianism and Taoism | 339 |
| 32. Individualism | 344 |
| 33. Language, Reality, and Being | 347 |
| 34. Sight and Language | 348 |
| 35. Language | 350 |
| 36. Television | 353 |
| 37. Photography | 356 |
| 38. Childhood | 357 |
| 39. Contemporary Philosophy | 361 |
| 40. Linguistic Philosophy | 363 |
| 41. Gadamer's Hermenuetics | 365 |
| 42. Relativism | 366 |
| 43. Mind-body Unity | 367 |
| Chapter XI: THINK VERSE, SOUL LINES, | |
| ECOPOETRY | |
| Ecolove: Ode to True Humanity | 369 |
| Alien From Nowhere | 371 |
| Quakes | 372 |
| To Speak the Body of We | 373 |
| Junk World, Flash World | 374 |
| Fossil Speech | 375 |
| Story of the Night | 376 |
| Leaving Her | 378 |
| The Question of Being Alone | 380 |
| Pretty Lie | 381 |
| The Bang Within | 382 |
| War and Peace | 384 |
| The Right Stuff | 385 |
| Recent Sex | 387 |
| Story of Earth-Life | 388 |
| Retaken | 390 |
| Perception's Storm | 391 |
| Machine | 392 |
| Flow | 393 |
| Old Knowledge | 395 |
| New Knowledge | 396 |
| Through This Skin | 397 |
| History | 397 |
| Being's Memory | 398 |
| The Answer | 400 |
| Unaborted Lines | 402 |
| Flash | 403 |
| Calls from the Wild Within | 404 |
| Oh, Fresh Eternal Day | 406 |
| Body Meets Culture | 407 |
| Spark or Fire | 409 |
| Life and Soul | 410 |
| Forgiving Earth | 411 |
| Time Affair | 413 |
| Incubation Words | 415 |
| Informed Speech | 415 |
| Time and Space | 416 |
| Real Exploration | 417 |
| Second Nature, Second Death | 418 |
| Body Time | 419 |
| Old Soul | 420 |
| That Thousand Years | 421 |
| Starkly | 422 |
| Resolution | 422 |
| Youth Triadics | 423 |
| In Memoriam | 424 |
| The Year Recalls in Thee | 425 |
| NOTES | 427 |
| INDEX | 429 |
What People are Saying About This
Bill Devall
I commend [the Author] on the diligence of [his] investigation ...engaged in what Thomas Berry calls the 'great work' of restiring harmony between humans and the rest of nature.
—Author of Simple in Means, Rich in Ends: Practicing Deep Ecology
Gary Snyder
It is an amazing book, truly ground-breaking,...I respect and acknowledge [the] vision,...I hope [the] book is widely read.
—Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, Human Rights Leader, Ecoleader, and Poet Laureate of the Environmental Movement Correct
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