The Dream of the Earth

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Summary: Should be required reading for college first-years
Review: "Dream of the Earth" should be considered a definitive work of 20th century, but, sadly, it has been overlooked by most of the populace. So powerfully written and earnest in some places that I was actually moved to tears, this book serves as a final plea and loose guide on how to save the planet - and with it, ourselves. In a broader sense, the book serves as a history of the human condition, how we came to be in the fix we are in today, and what massive, cultural changes need to take place in order to retain the last scraps of our mythic, extraordinary being.

Most see the coming ecological cataclysm (the next 50 years) as impossible to avoid or as nonsense. It is neither of those things. If this book doesn't drive you to change your lifestyle, nothing will.

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Summary: Should be required reading for college first-years
Review: A friend recently recommended this book. In this deep-ecology classic, Berry examines man's relationship with the earth. He explores our mistaken beliefs that we are separate from the planet, and that it exists solely for human destruction, pollution, exploitation and profit. He encourages us to take responsibility. This book forever changed the way I will look at our world. Read it. Then read Wes Nisker's "Buddha's Nature" (1998/2000) to learn, from a buddhist perspective, how to put Berry's "dream" into everyday practice.



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Summary: This book may change the way you look at the earth.
Review: A friend recently recommended this book. In this deep-ecology classic, Berry examines man's relationship with the earth. He explores our mistaken beliefs that we are separate from the planet, and that it exists solely for human destruction, pollution, exploitation and profit. He encourages us to take responsibility. This book forever changed the way I will look at our world. Read it. Then read Wes Nisker's "Buddha's Nature" (1998/2000) to learn, from a buddhist perspective, how to put Berry's "dream" into everyday practice.

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Summary: A tool to create the New Mythology for our times
Review: Berry is the first to clearly uncover the foundation.. the very fabric of the universe... as found in fundamental earthly reality. This reality expressed as differentiated reality, subjective reality, and communion reality represents the essential trinity contained within all elements of the within and the without of all existence. This foundation will enable us to move forward and grow our understanding of unfolding cosmogenesis well beyond todays dreams. This triple reality though largely hidden will become like a modem and enable the unfolding transformation of inner trinity to emerge as conscious objectivity. And it is interactions within and among differentiated, subjective, and communion realities which are at the heart of and in fact represent the incipient communion experience which each reality of the universe offers to every other reality in the universe. Simply stated we will grow only as we interact.

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Summary: The dream is a search to find the trinity in objectivity.
Review: Berry is the first to clearly uncover the foundation.. the very fabric of the universe... as found in fundamental earthly reality. This reality expressed as differentiated reality, subjective reality, and communion reality represents the essential trinity contained within all elements of the within and the without of all existence. This foundation will enable us to move forward and grow our understanding of unfolding cosmogenesis well beyond todays dreams. This triple reality though largely hidden will become like a modem and enable the unfolding transformation of inner trinity to emerge as conscious objectivity. And it is interactions within and among differentiated, subjective, and communion realities which are at the heart of and in fact represent the incipient communion experience which each reality of the universe offers to every other reality in the universe. Simply stated we will grow only as we interact.

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Summary: New Age Religion in the Guise of Christianity
Review: Don't be misled. Because Thomas Berry is promoted as a Catholic priest, many people are falsely led to believe that his books present Catholic or Christian teaching about the environment. Instead, this book presents a New Age blend of do-it-yourself religion mixed with pseudo-science. If you're into that, you'll probably like this book...

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Summary: New Age Religion in the Guise of Christianity
Review: Don't be misled. Because Thomas Berry is promoted as a Catholic priest, many people are falsely led to believe that his books present Catholic or Christian teaching about the environment. Instead, this book presents a New Age blend of do-it-yourself religion mixed with pseudo-science. If you're into that, you'll probably like this book...

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Summary: A Global Story, A Saving Story
Review: In one of his Dialogues, Plato says that the most serious difficulty one faces when attempting to philosophize is in "finding a suitable story for what one wants to say." But it's a difficulty worth facing at this time in history because a suitable story may serve to energize and advance current efforts to develop a globally responsible spirituality.

Everywhere we hear from perceptive folk that our conventional story has grown dangerously obsolete, and only by reimagining the world and our place in it can we advance beyond the dysfunctional limits of the old story.

The "dream of the earth" so beautifully described in this work by "geologian" Thomas Berry just may be the "big enough story" needed now to creatively navigate the global transition from a way of destruction to a way of sustainable wisdom rooted in a respect for the earth as respect for our very own bodies

Rating:
Summary: A Global Story, A Saving Story
Review: In one of his Dialogues, Plato says that the most serious difficulty one faces when attempting to philosophize is in "finding a suitable story for what one wants to say." But it's a difficulty worth facing at this time in history because a suitable story may serve to energize and advance current efforts to develop a globally responsible spirituality.

Everywhere we hear from perceptive folk that our conventional story has grown dangerously obsolete, and only by reimagining the world and our place in it can we advance beyond the dysfunctional limits of the old story.

The "dream of the earth" so beautifully described in this work by "geologian" Thomas Berry just may be the "big enough story" needed now to creatively navigate the global transition from a way of destruction to a way of sustainable wisdom rooted in a respect for the earth as respect for our very own bodies

Rating:
Summary: A Global Story, A Saving Story
Review: In one of his Dialogues, Plato says that the most serious difficulty one faces when attempting to philosophize is in "finding a suitable story for what one wants to say." But it's a difficulty worth facing at this time in history because a suitable story may serve to energize and advance current efforts to develop a globally responsible spirituality.

Everywhere we hear from perceptive folk that our conventional story has grown dangerously obsolete, and only by reimagining the world and our place in it can we advance beyond the dysfunctional limits of the old story.

The "dream of the earth" so beautifully described in this work by "geologian" Thomas Berry just may be the "big enough story" needed now to creatively navigate the global transition from a way of destruction to a way of sustainable wisdom rooted in a respect for the earth as respect for our very own bodies