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Ecological images—the fragile web of life, NASA's “blue marble” Earth, everything being connected—appeal to our love for the planet's being and our faith that there is still hope, if we can just care enough. But this imagery is neither true nor false. In other words, when we visualize thes...

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Main Author: Morton, Timothy 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: American Anthropological Association [2017]
In: Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2017, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 135-142
Further subjects:B Interbeing
B ecological imagery
B ecology and mental health
B co-arising
B totality
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Summary:Ecological images—the fragile web of life, NASA's “blue marble” Earth, everything being connected—appeal to our love for the planet's being and our faith that there is still hope, if we can just care enough. But this imagery is neither true nor false. In other words, when we visualize these sorts of things, we don't know what we're talking about! We think we do. But what is this wholeness really, are we actually parts of it, and what kind of part? A lot of thinking ecologically sounds religious because it involves extremely profound and hard to express (at least at present) concepts and feelings.
ISSN:1556-3537
Contains:Enthalten in: Anthropology of consciousness
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12073