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                                     We Have to Change the Way We Think

 

 

 

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Essays from

 

  David Anderson

 

 

 

Prominent scientists throughout the world are now telling us that before the end of the present century we may be facing a sudden and dramatic reversal in planetary sustainability. They point to a succession of dangerous environmental “tipping points” from which there can be no return. These essays acknowledge this concern. They call for a change in human consciousness. They ask us to change the way we think.  

 

INTRODUCTION -- Appalachian Springtime

 

ESSAYS

 

#   1   Socrates, the Sophists and the Religionists

#   2   A Warning from Sigmund Freud 

#   3   The Anthropomorphic God of Abraham

          Part I      Yahweh

          Part II     The Devil’s Dance

          Part III    Evangelical Christianity

#     Human Civilization - The Future

  Part I     The Bridge

  Part II    Our Ecological Dilemma 

  Part III   Survival

  Part IV   A New Axial Age

#   5   A Clue from the Monastery at Nag Hammadi

#   6   Co-Creation in the Caves at Lascaux

#   7   Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

#   8   American Assumptions Gone Wrong

#   9   The Dangerous Zero Sum Game—Energy Markets

 vs the Planet

#   10 Forging a New Global Ethic for Planetary Survival

#   11 Reinventing the Sacred in the Age of the Cosmos

#   12 Egyptian Reflections on Our Future

#   13 “longue durée”