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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9781897408056
ISBN: 1897408056
Label: New Catalyst Books
Manufacturer: New Catalyst Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 260
Publication Date: August 01, 2007
Publisher: New Catalyst Books
Sales Rank: 233600
Studio: New Catalyst Books
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
When it came out in 1994, My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization quickly became a classic of the ecopsychology movement. It is a book about roots which reach back millennia to a time when humans lived in and honored the natural world. By documenting the entanglement of the ecological crisis with modern addictions, the book gives an unusual glimpse into matters of culture, history, politics, and personal consciousness; and by helping us make sense of the senseless abuses in the world today, it inspires the remembrance of new/old pathways towards healing.
Amazon.com Review:
"You and I are not people who live in communion with the earth," Chellis Glendinning begins. "We exist instead dislocated from our roots by the psychological, philosophical, and technological constructions of our civilization, and this alienation leads to our suffering: massive suffering for each and every one of us, and mass suffering throughout our society."
Whether you believe the full ramifications of Glendinning's connections between addictive behavior and the ecological crisis depends entirely on whether you accept the premise that one can be "addicted" to civilization. But her call for a return to a nature-based culture, one in which people live "as if [we] were responsible for building the culture that the rocks and trees and birds of this place expected of human beings," is a compelling proposal, elaborated from the heart.
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I read this book in '94 or '95 and it has been one of my top recommendations ever since. This is a book for real people looking for reasonable perspective on how our current snapshot of cultural evolution fits into the grand scheme. My outlook on life is that its all related. Chellis reinforced this for me even though I don't subscribe to her complete framework. I do appreciate the connections she makes to actions and consequences.
It has been a long time since I read this so I ... Read More
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Those familiar with the recovery movement will instantly connect with the thrust of Glendinning's work. She has looked at the loss of connectedness humans endured in shifting from nature-based, hunter/gatherer cultures to agro-industrial life, and found that the symptoms mirror post-traumatic stress. Using anthropological studies and the stories of surviving nature-based groups, Glendinning makes a strong case that we are cut off from the "primal matrix" in which we lived for 35,000 generations before ... Read More
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When I was 4 years old I ran away from school. It was a cold, rainy day and I'd been herded into a large barn filled with noisy children for lunch. I looked around and saw nothing to soothe my feelings of emptiness. I wanted to go home. Escape filled my mind and drove me to run out of the school and to try to get as far away as I could from my misery. Feelings of alienation, lonliness, and despair have pursued me ever since. I've spent a lifetime alternately trying to either escape or understand my ... Read More
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Totally useless concept.. nowadays, everyone is a victim of something or other... don't waste your time with this book.
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I read this book many years ago, and it transformed my understanding of the world. It is a difficult book to read since it defies some basic assumptions about good and bad in civilizations. However, reading "My name is Chellis" (in 1999) gave me a framework for comprehending some of the chaos of the modern world that stays with me today.
I noticed a few negative reviews of this book on Amazon. Many of them disagree with the title or the general premise, so I must point out that even if you ... Read More
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