Cultural addiction : the greenspirit guide to recovery
"The profound ecological degradation we are currently witnessing and the rise of addictive behaviors such as alcoholism and drug addition are two sides of the same coin. Industrialized societies have created a culture of consumerism that disintegrates the human person at the same time that it disintegrates the Earth. Yet we are addicted to consuming. Like all addicts, we deny the addiction and keep seeking the next "fix," which only brings us closer to destruction." "Cultural Addiction is a 12-step guide to the recovery of individuals, communities, and the planet. Drawing on ecological, psychological, and spiritual tools, author Albert J. LaChance shows us how to acknowledge, accept, and grieve the realities that consumerism denies. In so doing, we reawaken to our essential selves and reconnect with the Earth's life systems. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2006
North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, Calif., ©2006
xxiv, 256 pages ; 23 cm
9781556436147, 1556436149
62782102
Ecological reality is for those who can't handle consumerism!
Collective or cultural addiction
the dilemma of the Western World
Step One
Step Two: The "New Story"
Step Three: Consciousness: The Cognitive Brain
The Personal Subconscious
The Collective Unconscious
Step Four: The Dysfunctions of Excess
Step Five
Step Six: Cultural fields and cultural addiction
Step Seven: The four forces
Personality, Community, Systems
Step Eight: The five addictions to death
Step Nine: Breaking our fixation with the five addictions to death
Step Ten: The twelve dysfunctions, all together
Progress toward the ecological age
Step Eleven: The global spiritual tradition of the human
Step Twelve: The earth in the Ecological Age
Revised edition of: Greenspirit : twelve steps in ecological spirituality. Rockport, Mass. : Element, 1991