Comments on: Eco-Shock and Mythic Imagination http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2008/08/25/eco-shock-and-mythic-imagination/ balance, stasis, adaptation, change and transformation in turbulent times Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:07:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: The Realization of Oneness as an Ecological Change and Hardiness Strategy « wild resiliency blog! http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2008/08/25/eco-shock-and-mythic-imagination/#comment-1852 The Realization of Oneness as an Ecological Change and Hardiness Strategy « wild resiliency blog! Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:57:06 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.wordpress.com/?p=341#comment-1852 [...] known individual life form on the planet utilizes it as a strategy to thrive through what is eco-shock or eco-trauma for others, these are not reason enough to dismiss Oneness as a change and hardiness [...] [...] known individual life form on the planet utilizes it as a strategy to thrive through what is eco-shock or eco-trauma for others, these are not reason enough to dismiss Oneness as a change and hardiness [...]

]]> By: Marc Choyt http://wildresiliencyblog.com/2008/08/25/eco-shock-and-mythic-imagination/#comment-1757 Marc Choyt Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:56:29 +0000 http://wildresiliencyblog.wordpress.com/?p=341#comment-1757 I think this ego shock is partially tied to the destruction of indigenous life ways-- perhaps in the European tribal sense the last knife in the heart driving that deep connection was the witch burnings... Right now, so many generations later, people are struggling to find some sense of basic connection but they do not know where to look. The accumulation of possessions has become a kind of shadow expression of the real need to be in contact with the earth. I think this ego shock is partially tied to the destruction of indigenous life ways– perhaps in the European tribal sense the last knife in the heart driving that deep connection was the witch burnings…

Right now, so many generations later, people are struggling to find some sense of basic connection but they do not know where to look. The accumulation of possessions has become a kind of shadow expression of the real need to be in contact with the earth.

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