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Title: My Name Is Chellis by Chellis Glendinning ISBN: 0-87773-996-X Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 24 May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant, Passionate and Compelling
Comment: The title was a little weird, and the cover photo should be on the back, but get over it and buy this book. I don't know where she came from, butthis book is a compelling, heart-felt, angy and convincing book about how messed up we are and how we must change. I underlined page after page of it. The author does not even own a computer, so she'll probably never read these comments, but she's just great and I wanted to book her for a workshop immediately after reading the book.
God bless, Chellis. Kepp writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Dose of Sanity
Comment: Do you ever feel as though something is profoundly wrong with the world today? Ever feel tired, thwarted, disconnected or overworked? Ever feel as though you don't belong? These are some of the vague notions that often plague many of the so-called normal who are succeeding in life. Perhaps you are one of them. Or perhaps you have come closer to the pathology and directly experienced the violence, exploitation and abuse of life in the modern world. In response to the crises we all know by now, Glendinning's thesis - hailed as both obvious and brilliant - is that, behind the sparkles and glitter, we all suffer from post-traumatic stress syndrome, induced from life inside Western Civilization.
A doctor of psychology, with years of work in the field under her belt - as well as personal taste of abuse our civilization deals out - Glendinning's diagnosis for our collective madness is illuminating and profound, constituting nothing less than a critique of Western Civilization, progress, normality and rationality. After providing example after example of the folly, abuse and suffering we continually inflict upon ourselves, our loved ones and the earth who created and sustains us, her thesis quickly passes from specious to plausible, from doubtful to obvious. Perhaps more enthralling than the pathology is the cure, though.
Not only a message of suffering and pain, Glendinning offers us hope, beauty and joy. Aside from critique, Glendinning provides concrete examples of cultures that - in contrast to our culture - offer full political and social participation, genuine democracy, equality of the sexes, leisure, good food and nutrition, stability, ecological sustainability, and most importantly a sense of a connection and belonging. In a word, she reconnects us with the traditions, cultures and communities abundant with all the things we have lost in the Faustian bargain for that evanescent more we call progress. Should not be overlooked.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough proof for a back to earth movement
Comment: This book provides a thoroughly documented (with footnotes) thesis: We live neurotic lives generated by a perpetuated trauma called civilization.This trauma started 10,000 years ago with the Agricultural Revolution and has grown to an incredible state in this posmodern era. As with any trauma there is a recovery path to 100% sanity, Glendinning shows that path.
It is a moving book, very powerful in stating our addiction to this techno-society and the symptons it generates. It is written by a psychologist and it shows that the author has gone through her own recovery and has come out with message to be heard.
If this book falls into enough hands it should help to change the world.
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Title: Off the Map by Chellis Glendinning ISBN: 1570623600 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 28 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Sierra Club: Ecopsychology : Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind by Allen D. Kanner ISBN: 0871564068 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology by Theodore Roszak ISBN: 1890482803 Publisher: Phanes Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Spell of the Sensuous : Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram ISBN: 0679776397 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth by Ralph Metzner, Ralph, Ph.D. Metzner ISBN: 0892817984 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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