Other Ways of Knowing: Recharting Our Future with Ageless WisdomSimon and Schuster, 1997 M06 1 - 272 pages A powerful exploration of diverse world views long ignored by the Western world that suggests possible solutions to the environmental and social problems that face us in the next millennium. Our civilization is in crisis. Overpopulation and overconsumption have jeopardized our survival and the great promises of technology have resulted in environmental disaster. This situation, says author John Broomfield, results from the serious error the Western world makes in equating one way of knowing with all ways of knowing--mistaking a thin slice of reality for the whole. Broomfield argues that the necessary wisdom to chart a new course is available to us from many sources: the sacred traditions of our ancestors; the spiritual traditions of other cultures; spirit in nature; feminine ways of being; contemporary movements for personal, social, and ecological transformation; and the very source of our current crisis, science itself. Other Ways of Knowing shows us the wisdom of other cultures who may hold the knowledge necessary to arrest our headlong race toward destruction. From the ancient Polynesian navigational technique of remote viewing to the formative causation theory of Rupert Sheldrake, Other Ways of Knowing examines perceptions and practices that challenge the narrow perspective of the Western world and provide answers to the complex questions that face us as we move into the next millennium. |
Contents
The Frail Hero and the Small Demon | |
The Legend of the Green Earth | |
All That Exists Lives | |
Our Medicine Their Medicine | |
Is There Any Time but the Present? | |
The Mahatma and the Shrewd Peasant | |
Whole Education for a Whole World | |
Love Is a Cosmic Force | |
About the Author | |
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