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Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1: HISTORICAL ROOTS
1. MOTHER NATURE AND THE DESECRATION OF THE WORLD
Mother Nature
The Triumph of the Gods
The Loss of the Sacred World
The Righteousness of Desecration
The Rising Power of Mammon
The Final Desecration
2. THE CONQUEST OF NATURE AND THE SCIENTIFIC PRIESTHOOD
Man’s Dominion over Nature
Dreams of Power: The Faustian Bargain
Francis Bacon and the Scientific Priesthood
From Cosmic Organism to World Machine
Scientific Detachment from Nature
The Conquest of the Earth: The Map Becomes the Territory
3. RETURNING TO NATURE
The Need to Return
American Wilderness
The Poet within the Scientist
The Hidden Goddesses of Darwinism
Materialism and the Mother
PART 2: THE REBIRTH OF NATURE IN SCIENCE
4. THE REANIMATION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD
The Denial of the Life of Nature
Gravitational Attraction
Souls and Fields
Universal Energy
Indeterminism and Chaos
Attractors
The Mystery of Dark Matter
The Rebirth of Nature in Science
5. THE NATURE OF LIFE
The Life Force
Three Theories of Life and Nature
The Mystery of Development and Regeneration
Morphogenetic Fields
Morphic Resonance
The Mystery of Instinct
The Mystery of Memory
The Mystery of Social Organization
The Controversies Continue
6. COSMIC EVOLUTION AND THE HABITS OF NATURE
Eternity and Evolution
Cosmic Evolution
Laws or Habits of Nature?
Evolutionary Physics
Why Is the Universe As It Is?
Natural Selection of the Habits of Nature
Evolving Habits of Life
Spontaneous Variation
The Spread of New Habits
Creativity and Habit
PART 3: THE REVIVAL OF ANIMISM
7. THE EARTH COMES BACK TO LIFE
The Rediscovery of Mother Earth
The Life of the Earth
The Gaia Hypothesis
The Purposive Development of Gaia
The Morphic Field of Gaia
8. SACRED TIMES AND PLACES
Space, Place, and Time
Seasonal Festivals
Rituals and Morphic Resonance
The Changing Qualities of Time
The Spirits of Places
Sacred Places
Living in Harmony with Places
From Tourism to Pilgrimage
9. THE GREENING OF GOD
The Rediscovery of the God of the Living World
The Animistic Roots of Judaism and Christianity
Shamanic Aspects of Judaism and Christianity
The Mother of God
Nature without God
Evolutionary Creativity
Creative Trinities
The Gender of God
An Evolutionary God
Mystery
10. LIFE IN A LIVING WORLD
From Humanism to Animism
The New Millennium
Remembering Our Connections with Nature
The Reality of Mystical Experience
Remembering Childhood Experience
Recognizing Sacred Places
Remembering Sacred Time
Gratitude
The Power of Prayer
A New Renaissance
Notes
References
About the Author
About Inner Traditions
Copyright
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