Table of Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Kenosis: The Overview Effect 1
The Greening Of The Self Did Not Happen 7
Pure Anthropocentrism Didn't Work Either 14
And God Is Not Coming To Save Us 16
First Root Question: What Is The Circle Of Life? 19
In Nature, There Is No Balance Of Nature 21
Twelve Paths To Ecology 29
The Primacy Of Symbiosis 36
Little Whirlpools 42
Tipping Points 47
Love 50
The Dialogue Of The Seen And The Unseen 53
All Things Become The Things Of Man 59
The Calling 62
Second Root Question: Who Faces The Circle of Life? 69
Birth: Thrown-ness, Emergence, And Giftedness 76
Infancy: Seeing, Hearing, Touching, And Knowing 82
Childhood: The Naming Of The World 87
Childhood: Innocence And Play 99
Adolescence: Disenchantment 110
Adulthood: Work And Mastery 114
Adulthood: Shifting Baselines 123
Middle Age: The Urban Hyper-Reality 127
Middle Age: No Climate Reckoning 133
Elderhood: We Broke The World For Nothing 140
One Question, Many Answers 146
Third Root Question: Can The Circle Be Healed? 149
Ecofascism Is Not Environmentalism 154
The Gatekeepers of Human Nature 160
Face The Immensity 167
If There Is Magic 176
Plerosis: Green Sabbatical and Ecological Pilgrimage 179
References 185
