Earthbodies Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses

Name: Earthbodies Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses
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ISBN: 9780791454176

ISBN-10: 0791454177

ISBN-13: 9780791454176

Edition: 2002

Authors: Glen A. Mazis

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Earthbodies describes how our bodies are open circuits to a sensual magic and planetary care that when closed off leads to disastrous detours, such as illness, "dis-ease, " and toxicity. In doing so, it answers a variety of questions. Can we understand our bodies without understanding how they are part of a rhythmic flow with the rest of the planet? Will we ever overcome the stress of time speeding toward our death as long as we see time as a separate dimension? How can we decide how to treat the animals around us when we fail to realize the nature of our kinship with them? Without hearing the voices of the earth, rocks, and ocean waves, how can we dialogue with the planet or understand…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 7/11/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 281
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Earthly Dance of Interconnection


Moving Earth and Flowing Flesh


Dancing versus Diabolical Logic


Addicted to Self-Laceration


Earthbody Sense


Ceremonial Awareness



Earthbody Dimensions


We Are Time


Sensing Enters the Earth


Eroticism Truly



Discordant Contemporary Rhythms


Introduction: Detachment as a Curse upon the Land


Ghouls: Our Love of Horror and Compulsion to Consume


Vampires: Hunger for Experience and Fear of Intimacy


Aesthetes: Obsession with Novelty and Control


Who Has the Last Laugh?



Cyberspace: Rootedness versus Being in Orbit


Introduction: A Different Kind of Materialism


Cyberspace: A Material and Embodied Place in the World


The Virtual Is the Heart of Reality


Cyborg Life: Protean Selves versus Fragmented Selves


Deep-rooted Emotion versus Cyberspace Sentimentality



Planetary Meaningfulness


Introduction: The World Is Our "Out of Body" Body


Animals and Humans as Part of the Same Dream


Animals and Vitality, Morality, Spirituality, and Play


Traditional Western Ethics as a Perverse Reaction to the Planet



Rejoining the Planet


An Earthbody Ethics of Achieving Presence and Co-presence


Patterns of Perversity in Flight from Pain


Rhythm's Power, Changing Destructive Patterns, and Finding Place


A Dynamic Sense of the Depth of Surfaces


Responsibility, Reverberating Resonance, and Joy


Afterword: A Poem


Notes


Index