Wild Mind, Wild Earth av David Hinton

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<b>Exploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, <i>Wild Mind, Wild Earth</i> reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet.</b><br><br>Earth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event—this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual/philosophical problem, for it is the assumptions defining us and our relation to earth that are driving the devastation. Those assumptions insist on a fundamental separation of human and earth that devalues earth and enables our exploitative relation to it.<br><br>In <i>Wild Mind, Wild Earth</i>, David Hinton explores modes of seeing and being that could save the planet by reestablishing a deep kinship between human and earth: the insights of primal cultures and the Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism of ancient China. He also shows how these i