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Wild Mind, Wild Earth
- Our Place in the Sixth Extinction
- Narrated by: David Hinton
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, Wild Mind, Wild Earth reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet.
Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event—this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual and philosophical problem, for it is the assumptions defining us and our relation to earth that are driving the devastation. Those assumptions insist on a fundamental separation of human and earth that devalues earth and enables our exploitative relation to it.
In Wild Mind, Wild Earth, David Hinton explores modes of seeing and being that could save the planet by reestablishing a deep kinship between human and earth: the insights of primal cultures and those of Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism of ancient China. He also shows how these insights have become well-established in the West over the last two hundred years through the work of poets, philosophers, and scientists. This offers marvelous hope and beauty—but like so many of us, Hinton recognizes that the sixth extinction is now an inexorable and perhaps unstoppable tragedy. And he reveals how those primal and Zen insights enable us to inhabit even the unfurling catastrophe as a profound kind of liberation. Wild Mind, Wild Earth is a remarkable and revitalizing journey.
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- Petrus
- 18-06-24
For me, an entirely fresh way to think about being in the world. Life changing in a subtle kind of way.
A remarkable intuition in to a way forward to bring humans into harmony with the planet. It requires close attention to listening to it, made harder by the poor recording, was it done at home without the input of a sound engineer? The voice booms in the mid range making it hard to follow.
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- tamara
- 27-06-23
A nudge to take ownership over our actions
Hinton softly reminds us of a confronting reality we live in and potential ways to remedy, heal, restore and adjust our perspective to gauge a better pulse of the planet we call home. I left with the feeling that the more I treat my body as a savred space, the same intention will follow suit to the planet.
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