Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 186 • January/February 1998

Natural Spirituality

THE SPEED MERCHANTS • Wolfgang Sachs

Speed gives the illusion of power and pleasure. But it also brings environmental destruction.

INDUSTRIAL LOGIC • Jerry Mander

The machine is adapted for humans and humans are adapted to the machine. It is a human-machine merger.

MODERNITY RULES OK? • Charlene Spretnak

Communism or capitalism, Labour or Conservative, democracy or dictatorship, republicanism or monarchy, rule by any name, we are ruled by modernity.

FOUR CHANGES • Gary Snyder

Population, pollution and consumption are the problems. Transformation is the solution.

IS HUMANITY SUICIDAL? • Edward O. Wilson

If homo sapiens goes the way of the dinosaur, we have only ourselves to blame.

U'WA AND OXY • Robert Benson

Oil drilling on land that threatens an indigenous people with cultural death and contributes to environmental destruction is illegal.

A CRUEL AGRICULTURE • David Ehrenfeld

Genetic engineering is justified as a humane technique that feeds more people with better food. Nothing could be further from the truth.

GAIA'S GUARDIAN ANGEL • Fred Pearce

James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis has been awarded the Blue Planet prize worth fifty million yen.

THE GREAT TURNING • Joanna Macy

After the agricultural and industrial revolutions we are now at a point of ecological revolution.

NATURAL SPIRITUALITY • Thomas Moore

What reason could be more compelling for honouring the natural world than to know that it is the prime source of our spirituality.

PUT INTO PRACTICE • Stephen Batchelor

Buddhism is not something to believe in, but something to do.

THE ART OF ATONEMENT • Peter Abbs

The artist Andrzej Jackowski transforms objects of everyday life into a spiritual reality.

ART OF ARROGANCE • Derek Hodgson

The so-called "Earth Art" may be no more than imposition of human will upon nature.

A PARTICIPATORY WORLD • Peter Reason

From a participative point of view we see the world as a creative dance of mind and cosmos.

AN EPIC DEATH • Jeremy Seabrook

The death of Princess Diana evoked unparalleled public grief. What can it all mean?

HOMES NOT OFFICES • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

The story of Coin Street is an urban fairy-tale. Against all odds, a local community saved itself from a faceless office development.

The Occasional Didymus • John Moat

Being out of England in golden September is instant exile.

Poetry • Rolf Jacobsen

Good News For Gaia • Lorna Howarth

Stop lorries from using our country lanes, save water and use solar power.

Business Diary • Francis Kinsman

"I didn't get the money, but I had the pleasure."

The Web Page • Fritjof Capra

Human community is a network of conversations.

Letters to the Editors

CORPORATIONS ATTACK ENVIRONMENTALISTS • David Edwards

Review of sounds the alarm.

BANK AGAINST THE POOR, • Ann Pettifor

Review of goes against the World Bank.

POWER OF PROTEST • Tony Juniper

Review of reviews the work of Greenpeace.

GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM • Donella Meadows

Review of exposes the poisoning of the public.

A TALE OF EVOLUTION • Peter Bunyard

Review of traces the human story.

INTERCONNECTED UNIVERSE • Timothy Glazier

Review of leaps into the new paradigm

COSMIC STORY • David Spillane

Review of celebrates the unfolding universe.

A NON RELIGIOUS WAY • Don Cupitt

Review of looks at Buddhism in the West.

PRAYER OR PANIC • Anthony Ramsay

Review of favours traditional thought.

WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY • Frances Hutchinson

Review of searches for economic democracy.

SONG OF LIFE • John Lane

Review of appreciates a storyteller.

LIFE AND DEATH • Kirsty McGee

Review of Looks at how we die.