Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope: Relearning Environmental Connectiveness

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope: Relearning Environmental Connectiveness

by James T. Powers
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope: Relearning Environmental Connectiveness

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Hope: Relearning Environmental Connectiveness

by James T. Powers

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Overview

For 14,000 years, the Indigenous people of Southern New England survived and thrived despite experiencing extreme and dramatic climate and environmental changes. Like our present and near future, they faced dramatically warming temperatures that brought about a radical transformation in the climate, ecology, and biodiversity of their environment. Why were they successful? Despite enormous environmental challenges, they adapted and prospered because of their perception of and conscious relationship with every single living and non-animate element within their environment. Unlike our current society which views humanity as separate from nature and therefore free to exploit all of creation for our benefit, Indigenous people understood deeply that we humans are part of a web of interconnected and interdependent energy and consciousness within a Living Earth. They lived in spiritual harmony with all of creation honoring all its aspects with gratitude and a sense of reciprocity. If we embrace the perceptive and consciously interconnected view of all creation that has sustained Indigenous people for thousands of years, we can begin a transformation that will heal our relationship with the Living Earth for ourselves and future generations. The future of life on the planet is up to us.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781782792444
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 11/01/2021
Series: Earth Spirit
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.54(w) x 8.55(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

James T. Powers is a historian, archaeologist, lecturer, author, and retired teacher who holds a BA and two MA’s from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. James has devoted his entire career to understanding our prehistoric and historic past and how they have shaped who we are as a people and society. He lives in Durham, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction: The Warning 3

Part 1 Who We Were: The First People, their Environment, and a Living Earth 13

Chapter 1 The First Five Thousand Years 15

Chapter 2 Adaptability and Survival 25

Chapter 3 The Archaic Transition 33

Chapter 4 The Disaster Begins 42

Part 2 Ancient Lessons for a Modern World 51

Chapter 5 A Second Chance 53

Chapter 6 Shifting Perceptions 64

Chapter 7 Changing Consciousness 75

Chapter 8 The Choice is Ours to Make 86

About the Author 93

End Notes 94

Bibliography 100

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