Earthbodies
Earthbodies

Author: Glen A. Mazis

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 0791488381

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Earthbodies describes how our bodies are open circuits to a sensual magic and planetary care that when closed off leads to disastrous detours, such as illness, "dis-ease," and toxicity. In doing so, it answers a variety of questions. Can we understand our bodies without understanding how they are part of a rhythmic flow with the rest of the planet? How can we decide how to treat the animals around us when we fail to realize the nature of our kinship with them? Without hearing the voices of the earth, rocks, and ocean waves, how can we dialogue with the planet or understand ourselves? Why are we so fascinated with film versions of nightmarish ghouls and vampires? How can celebrities impact more on our lives than our own families? What kind of human connection can we expect from the Internet? How is it that some of our adolescent boys shoot down their schoolmates? Despite our apparent cynicism, is our culture overly sentimental? What kind of ethics would help us find a moral way to achieve an inclusive global community and cherish the environment?

EarthBodyBoat
EarthBodyBoat

Author: Ahjo K. Sipowicz

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578581750

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Ahjo's journey of initiation begins at a political protest when they expose their naked female nipples in a gesture of resistance. Charged with public indecency, Ahjo constructs an unusual defense--a pastiche of letters, journal entries, essays, poems, composite photographs, Tarot card images, and performances. EarthBodyBoat is this collection. Part visual journal, part memoir, it chronicles Ahjo's journey of discovering their nonbinary essence, of using art to heal their infant trauma and the multiple selves within. The Crone's voice emerges to guide them with "Earthbody" wisdoms. The way is fraught with marvel and peril, but Ahjo's art-making and embodied practice in Nature become the foundations, the keel, of their Earthbodyboat--a vessel sturdy enough to navigate the storms, inner and outer, and head toward home.--Publisher.

Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions
Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions

Author: Christopher Key Chapple

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1993-08-24

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780791414989

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This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, including its impact on East Asian Cultures. It then turns to a variety of contemporary issues relating to this topic such as: vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance.

Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences
Four Revolutions in the Earth Sciences

Author: James Lawrence Powell

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-12-23

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0231538456

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Over the course of the twentieth century, scientists came to accept four counterintuitive yet fundamental facts about the Earth: deep time, continental drift, meteorite impact, and global warming. When first suggested, each proposition violated scientific orthodoxy and was quickly denounced as scientific—and sometimes religious—heresy. Nevertheless, after decades of rejection, scientists came to accept each theory. The stories behind these four discoveries reflect more than the fascinating push and pull of scientific work. They reveal the provocative nature of science and how it raises profound and sometimes uncomfortable truths as it advances. For example, counter to common sense, the Earth and the solar system are older than all of human existence; the interactions among the moving plates and the continents they carry account for nearly all of the Earth's surface features; and nearly every important feature of our solar system results from the chance collision of objects in space. Most surprising of all, we humans have altered the climate of an entire planet and now threaten the future of civilization. This absorbing scientific history is the only book to describe the evolution of these four ideas from heresy to truth, showing how science works in practice and how it inevitably corrects the mistakes of its practitioners. Scientists can be wrong, but they do not stay wrong. In the process, astonishing ideas are born, tested, and over time take root.

Earth Matters
Earth Matters

Author: Karen E. Milbourne

Publisher: The Monacelli Press, LLC

Published: 2013-11-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 158093370X

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Featuring more than 100 extraordinary works of art from 1800 to the present, Earth Matters reveals how African individuals and communities have visually mediated their most poignant relationships with the land—whether it be to earth as a sacred or medicinal material, as something uncovered by mining or claimed by burial, as a surface to be interpreted and turned to for inspiration, or as an environment to be protected. Both internationally recognized and emerging contemporary artists are represented, from the continent and diaspora, including El Anatsui, Ghada Amer, Sammy Baloji, Ingrid Mwangi and William Kentridge. Highlights include a pair of rare Yoruba onile figures, a one-of-a-kind Punu reliquary from Gabon, and 3 bocio figures from the personal collection of legendary French dealer Jacques Kerchache. The text includes statements by contemporary African artists including Wangechi Mutu, Clive van den Berg, Allan de Souza, and George Osodi. National Museum of African Art curator Karen E. Milbourne explores how diverse African concepts of healing, the sacred, identity, memory, history, and environmental sustainability have all been formed in relation to the land in this pioneering scholarly study.

New Earth Light Body
New Earth Light Body

Author: Maurene Watson

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2017-09-11

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1490784659

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Masters, light body is your divine-human spirit embodied in the substance of love. Light body will evolve its DNA codes and transcriptions exponentially throughout the many New Earths. The New Earth Heart is your transporter star gate, a magnetic imprinter, source code/r, centrifuge, quark stem cell particle, and bioship for New Earth spirit matter, inside embodied love. We offer a simple base line descriptive physics that is relevant for this perceptual moment to switch from the Old Earth matrix blueprints and mass programming to New Earth quantum DNA blueprints. The light body in the Multilight Universe is a blend of the physical and nonphysical into new conscious superconductive light systems. These bio-systems include new adaptive DNA source code templates made of organic essence consciousness. Your new species DNA Soul Heart Core Light allows parallel potential realities at once in your light universe. It is a blend of divine and human. It is a blend between seen and unseen worlds. It is a blend between the atom and newly born quantum light particle. It is a blend of a crystal soul cell, a diamond spirit cell, a multiplasma orb, and liquid light particle cell. It is a new heart stem cell that can regenerate, re-imprint, or repair your entire bio organism right out of your own consciousness. It is a blend of Old Earth atomic and New Earths quark blueprints. It is a blend of linear and multiple applications of time and space. Your creations exist on all dimensions or in all realities at once. It is the prototype of a unique ensouled sovereign organic essence human-angel-god or love master fully embodied as atomic-quantum matter. Science has called it dark matter, that which makes new light universes!

Reading with Earth
Reading with Earth

Author: Anne Elvey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-08-25

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 056769514X

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Winner of the 2023 ANZATS Award for the Best Monograph by an Established Scholar Applying a re-envisioned, ecological, feminist hermeneutics, this book builds on two important responses to twentieth- and twenty-first-century situations of ecological trauma, especially the complex contexts of climate change and cross-species relations: first, ecological feminism; second, ecological hermeneutics in the Earth Bible tradition. By way of readings of selected biblical texts, this book suggests that an ecological feminist aesthetic, bringing present situation and biblical text into conversation through engagement with activism and literature, principally poetry, is helpful in decolonizing ethics. Such an approach is both informed by and speaks back to the new materialism in ecological criticism.

Bodies of Water in African American Literature, Music, and Film
Bodies of Water in African American Literature, Music, and Film

Author: Sharon A. Lewis

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-05-04

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1527502112

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This is an edited volume of original essays which explore the meaning of bodies of water in creative narratives by African Americans. The contributors explore the representations of still and moving waterbodies across several genres of literature, film, and music. They also deploy socio-historical and environmental theories, in addition to close-reading interpretive strategies, all acknowledging and developing traditional ways of thinking about water in relation to African American experience and culture. The writers gathered here showcase insightful and vigorous research in various art forms, and, together, embody provocative, innovative and refreshing ways to contemplate water in Black American artistic expressivity.