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...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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1993
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| In: |
Journal of Dharma
Year: 1993, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, Pages: 191-195 |
| Further subjects: | B
Earth
B Spirituality |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| 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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