Cultural Addiction The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery

Name: Cultural Addiction The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery
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ISBN: 9781556436147

ISBN-10: 1556436149

ISBN-13: 9781556436147

Edition: 2006

Authors: Albert J. LaChance, Thomas Berry

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Addiction, argues Albert LaChance in this insightful book, affects more than the individual who suffers from it.Cultural Addictionshows how contemporary lifestyles have become addictive, consuming the planet's resources–soil, air, water–in a destructive way that comprises earth's life systems and endangers the survival of both humankind and other species. This book presents a 12-step program for recovery from these dangerous lifestyles. Identifying such traits as egocentricity, materialism, overeating and drinking, and apathy as products of addiction, the author draws on the world's spiritual traditions–Hinduism, Buddhism, shamanism, Christianity, and others–to show individuals and…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 5/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Albert LaChance speaks nationally on psychology and spirituality through Cross Country University. He has taught at numerous universities in the areas of psychology, spirituality, ecology, and cosmology. Featured in numerous magazine and newspaper articles, he has also appeared on television and radio programs. He lives in New Boston, NH.



Foreword



Preface


Notes for the Reader


Acknowledgments


The Twelve Steps of Ecological Spirituality


The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous


Introduction


Ecological Reality Is for Those Who Can't Handle Consumerism!


Collective or Cultural Addiction-the Dilemma of the Western World








The "New Story"





Consciousness: The Cognitive Brain


The Personal Subconscious


The Collective Unconscious





The Dysfunctions of Excess








Cultural Fields and Cultural Addiction





The Four Forces


Personality, Community, Systems





The Five Addictions to Death





Breaking Our Fixation with the Five Addictions to Death





The Twelve Dysfunctions, All Together


Progress Toward the Ecological Age





The Global Spiritual Tradition of the Human





The Earth in the Ecological Age


Appendix


Greenspirit Preamble


Greenspirit Suggested Group Format


Notes


Index


About the Author