By Rupert Sheldrake
ISBN-10: 0892815108
ISBN-13: 9780892815104
Rupert Sheldrake, one of many world's preeminent biologists, has revolutionized clinical considering together with his imaginative and prescient of a dwelling, constructing universe--one with its personal inherent reminiscence. In The Rebirth of Nature, Sheldrake urges us to maneuver past the centuries-old mechanistic view of nature, explaining why we will be able to not regard the realm as inanimate and purposeless. Sheldrake exhibits how fresh advancements in technology itself have introduced us to the edge of a brand new synthesis within which conventional knowledge, intuitive event, and medical perception could be together enriching.
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According to this new theory of the world, nature no longer had a life of her own: she was soulless, devoid of all spontaneity, freedom, and creativity. Mother Nature was no more than dead nlatter, moving in unfailing obedience to God-given mathematical laws. This new worldview was first articulated on November 10, 1619, in Germany, at Neuburg on the Danube. There the twenty-three-year-old Rene Descartes had a visionary experience; he "was filled with enthusiasm, and discovered the foundations of a marvellous science.
What is unique in the modern world is not the fact of human power itself nor the sense of the uniqueness of humanity but the vast increase in human power. Mythological, theological, and philosophical justifications for human power over the natural \vorld are not a unique feature of modern civilization or of the Judeo-Christian tradition; they are found everywhere. So are anthropocentric views of man's relationship to nature. Even the heroic imagery of man's conquest of nature, so important in the modern ideology of progress, has ancient precedents.
For the modern materialist, nature or matter is the. source of all things; all life emerges from her, and to her all life returns. She may no longer be venerated, but she has taken on some of the most fundamental properties of the Great Mother. Just as the gods were once thought to be descended from the primal Mother, so in the 20 MOTHER NATURE AND THE DESECRATION OF THE WORLD eyes of the modern materialist are they descended from matter. From the blind material processes of evolution, human minds emerged; and from human minds the gods arose by a process of psychological projection.
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