Confronting the Crisis: Essays and Meditations on Eco-Spirituality

by David Sparenberg

Overview

If the human species has an evolutionary purpose that purpose is delight. Aren’t we constituted to experience and express conscious delight in the immensity and intimacy of creation, the diversity, abundance, and miracles of life? We have moved far from such purpose. Instead of imagination’s dreamers with the Earth, maturing into avatars of relationships, narrators of wonder, we are now a clear and present danger to all species. How do we change identity, direction, and move toward a future inclusive of Earth stability and Human responsibility?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789049749
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	10/29/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	411 KB

About the Author

David Sparenberg is a freelance writer and teacher, ecosopher and eco-poet living in Seattle, US. David's writings have been published in numerous periodicals and journals throughout the world, most recently in INDIE SHAMAN ((UK), OVI (EU), COUNTERCURRENTS (India), and The MYTHIC CIRCLE (USA).

Table of Contents

Essays 1

Confronting Crisis and the Specter of Critical Mass 3

A Clarifying Note on the Magnitude of Earth Crisis 9

Looking 12

Illusion or Presence 15

Starting from Blake 18

Warriors of Ancestral Plain 21

Parzival in a Nutshell 24

Blessing Way and Prayer to the Interior Forms of the Earth 26

The Next Phase 29

Majority Report 32

Love the Earth - Gaia-Earth 36

Meditations 41

Leafy Bower 43

First Democracy 45

Tao and Dharma 47

Poet's Love and Samurai Sword 50

Eco-Dharma 52

Gestalt of Love's Completion 54

Walking Back Zarathustra 56

Configurations of a Change Mandala 59

Voice of Andrea Bocelli 63

Circle Maker 66

Free of Clutter 68

A Wild God 70

I and Thou 71

To 72

Sufi 75

The Bard Exam 77

The Everlasting Small 78

Man Walking an Unpaved Road 80

In Footsteps of the Wise 83

Mother and Child 85