MOTHER EARTH AND NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY
There is in our day a deep disillusionment. Many people no longer believe that the endless growth of science will create a happier and more just world. There is a widespread distrust in technological progress, professionalized rationality, masculine, detached control, and the conquest of nature. We...
| Published in: | Journal of Dharma |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
1993
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Journal of Dharma
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| Further subjects: | B
Earth
B Spirituality |
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| Summary: | There is in our day a deep disillusionment. Many people no longer believe that the endless growth of science will create a happier and more just world. There is a widespread distrust in technological progress, professionalized rationality, masculine, detached control, and the conquest of nature. We have seen how a political and technological bureaucracy can become the tool for the insanity of the Holocaust; how the endless production and consumption of gadgets coexists with a population vexed systemic injustice and violence; how a scientific establishment of unprecedented scope and power devotes itself to the creation of weapons of mass destruction; and perhaps most terrifyingly — how our entire civilization has developed forms of life that are toxic for us and for the natural world as a whole. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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