{"product_id":"loving-the-world-as-our-body-1","title":"Loving the World as Our Body","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcclaimed author David Loy explores what has gone wrong with humanity and how we can fix it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHumanity’s survival instincts worked great back when humans were few, primitive, and had to fight against the entirety of nature to survive. But those same instincts proved disastrous once humans began to organize themselves into complex societies. How did we manage? We developed moral and ethical frameworks that kept societies functioning for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut now, in the modern era, those frameworks again have proven unsatisfactory—rigid, inflexible, and often unable to accommodate new information and ideas. So some of us have turned to secularism and scientific progress, which have resulted in awesome technologies—many of which improve our lives immensely, but some of which threaten our existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eE. O. Wilson sums up our quandary: “The real problem of humanity is that we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” Where do we go from here?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Loy describes how today we are left with three primary worldviews competing for our allegiance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first has the most adherents and includes traditional religious versions of cosmological dualism, including the promise (or threat) of individual post mortem salvation (or damnation).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second is secularism, supported by the physical sciences and offering a naturalistic understanding of the world that does not support any spiritual or afterlife transcendence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third worldview regards the earth and its creatures as sacred, without the need for a “higher reality” to have created them. Humanity is one of the manifestations of a self-organizing cosmos that, according to some versions, is evolving to become more self-aware. According to this nondualist paradigm, everything is a manifestation of the sacred, which we can experience when we wake up from the delusion of being a separate self in an objectified world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis third view is our way out of the quandary, and Loy shows readers how this nondualist view has actually been with us longer than we think: within the more esoteric views woven through and among a wide variety of otherwise traditional religious traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat We Can Learn from Our Evolution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Inevitable Certainty\u003cbr\u003e\nSexuality\u003cbr\u003e\nBeyond Freedom and Determinism\u003cbr\u003e\nHow to Be an Ape\u003cbr\u003e\nAltruism and Tribalism\u003cbr\u003e\nSelf-Domestication\u003cbr\u003e\nCivilization\u003cbr\u003e\nReligion\u003cbr\u003e\nWhy Our Evolutionary Psychology Matters Today\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat We Could Have Learned from Our Religions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Axial Age\u003cbr\u003e\nScript\/ure\u003cbr\u003e\nTranscendence\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Birth of the Axial Age\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\u003cbr\u003e\nWhy This Matters\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat We Need Today\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nShamanism\u003cbr\u003e\nJudaism\u003cbr\u003e\nChristianity\u003cbr\u003e\nIslam\u003cbr\u003e\nVedanta\u003cbr\u003e\nBuddhism\u003cbr\u003e\nChina\u003cbr\u003e\nWaking Up to the Dream\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003e\nTouching the Earth\u003cbr\u003e\nNotes\u003cbr\u003e\nIndex\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46716364259538,"sku":"1eb19cbf-e660-3142-8f64-6bcade1beaba","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_6f82882f-8cc8-4d8d-be56-ca798ff51a21.jpg?v=1771012896","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/loving-the-world-as-our-body-1","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}