The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology

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An exciting new perspective on the connection between man's inner being and the outer world from the author of The Making of a Counterculture. Rozak examines topics such as the Anthropic Principle, Gaia Hypothesis, mysticism, religion, nature, and more. Line drawings. Cover Back Cover Praise Title Acknowledgments Contents Preface: Ecopsychology — A Reconnaissance Part One: PSYCHOLOGY 1. “Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?” Anna in the Aisles of Plenty Can the Earth Afford Us? The Clash of Ideologies Scare Tactics and Guilt Trips In-Here/Out-There The Boundaries of the Ego 2. Modern Psychology In Search Of Its Soul Bart Simpson and the Tiger The Third Outrage Collusive Madness Thanatos Normative Alienation The Denatured Environment The Psyche and the Biosphere 3. Stone Age Psychiatry: A Speculative Reconstruction Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog The Sacramental Realm A Fragment of Historic Truth The Environmental Context Ecological Madness The Sense Sublime Science and the Sacred Part Two: COSMOLOGY 4. Mind in the Cosmos: Agnosticism and the Anthropic Principle The Politics of Godlessness Matter, Chance, Eternity Matter Transcends Itself The Ambiguities of Randomness The History of Time One Thousand Monkeys Cosmic Coincidences and the Fitness of the Environment The Credulity Index 5. Anima Mundi: The Search for Gaia The Many Faces of Mother Earth The Cosmic Housekeeper The Alchemical Mistress The Goddess Goes High Tech “Mere” Metaphors, "Real” Mechanisms An Autopoietic Gaian World Learning from Gaia 6. Where God Used to Be: Deep Systems and the New Deism The Whole Is Equal To ... ? The Art and Science of Systems The Higher Reductionism The Ghost in the Machine Deep Systems The Old Deism and the New 7. The Human Frontier: The Meaning of Omega The Billions and the Billionths Time’s New Arrow The Paradox of Dissipative Creation Satan’s Anus Noosphere or Neurosisphere? Ecological Hierarchy Imago Mundi The Microcosm Redrawn Part Three: ECOLOGY 8. City Pox and the Patriarchal Ego Urbanism in Extremis The Madness of Cities The Dream of Savage Wisdom Neolithic Conservatism and the Ethical Unconscious Deep Systems, Deep Ecology Paleolithic Conservatism and Feminist Spirituality The Trouble with Men Recapturing the Pnrruuve 9. The Neon Telephone: The Moral Equivalent of Wretched Excess A Product is a Product is a Product The Age of Democratic Luxury Plenitude Utopian Transformations Ecology, Ethics, Aesthetics Fools of God 10. Narcissism Revisited The Wall The Great Refusal Spanking Narcissus The Eupsychun Vision Socrates and Freud The Rights of Self-Knowledge 11. Toward an Ecological Ego The Strength of the Ego The Wisdom of the Id The Perfect Environment The Enchanted Child The Ecological Unconscious 12. Attending the Planet The Promethean Interval Where Shall We Hear the Voice? The Question of Scale A Congress of Unauthorized Identities Epilogue: Ecopsychology—The Principles Appendix: God and Cosmology Notes Bibliography Index