Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation

We are living in end times. With climate chaos, an accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational...
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Author: Sean Kelly
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Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation by Kelly, Sean

Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation

BD$48.06

Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation

BD$48.06
Author: Sean Kelly
Format: Paperback
Language: English

We are living in end times. With climate chaos, an accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse, the Earth community is being drawn into a planetary near-death experience (NDE). These end times, however, also mark the threshold of new planetary identity in the making. Drawing on an impressive range of scholarship from such fields as Big history, comparative religion, transpersonal psychology, and integral philosophies, Sean Kelly reveals the features of this new identity and invites us to consciously participate in its making. Guided by the ideal of Gaia as "concrete universal," Kelly offers compelling insights on the nature of an emerging world spirituality that some describe as a second Axial Age; on the elements of a complex-integral ethics for the Planetary Era; and on the role of the death/rebirth archetype for understanding the charged field of contemporary climate activism. The book culminates with an inspiring meditation on the possibility, in these end times, of a third way beyond both hope and despair. In contrast to the restrictive anthropocentrism and technocentrism of mainstream discourse around the Anthropocene, Kelly speaks instead of the Gaianthropocene as our new geological epoch. It is an epoch where, even and especially as we face the fires of planetary initiation, we can awaken to our deeper nature as living members of Gaia, the living Earth in and through whom we have our being.



Author: Sean Kelly
Publisher: Integral Imprint
Published: 02/14/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9781947544284

About the Author
Kelly, Sean: - Sean Kelly is professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He is the author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era, co-editor of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era, and co-translator of Edgar Morin's Homeland Earth: A Manifesto for the New Millennium. Along with his academic work, Sean teaches t'ai chi and is a facilitator of the group process Work that Reconnects developed by Joanna Macy.

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