Human Image, World Image: The Renewal of Sacred Cosmology

Sherrard, Philip

doi:10.5422/fordham/9780823251445.003.0019

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“…Such healing would, it seems, be a very constructive form of development. Phillip Sherrard (1992) enriches our understanding of the modern mindset by associating individualism with the ecological crisis. He argues that the modern individual is encouraged to believe himself or herself to be the autocratic, omnipotent ruler of his or her own affairs and of the surrounding world.…”

Section: Causes Of Alienation From Nature and The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Eco-Psychological and Phenomenological Approach to Sustainability

Riggs¹,

Hellyer-Riggs²

2019

EJSD

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Our purpose is to show the value of eco-psychology and phenomenology for a cognitive paradigm fostering sustainable development. Our hypothesis is that those fields help lay the groundwork for truly sustainable development. Our method is a review of scholarly and theoretical work on the origins of the modern paradigm that has governed conceptions of development, and on eco-psychology, phenomenology, cognitive science, and sustainable development. Our contribution is a fully informed understanding of psychological and socio-cultural issues relevant to sustainability. The prevailing conception of development derives from the origins of modern science in seventeenth-century Europe. Francis Bacon and René Descartes elaborated a vision of development, or material progress, based on exploitation of a nature without inherent value, as a source of raw materials for human purposes. Eco-psychology aims to repair the rift between humanity and nature. Our dominant idea of development implies the alienation from nature that makes it difficult to prioritize authentic sustainability. Maurice Merleau-Ponty makes the crucial point that “we can never grasp the world in its totality but we grasp it according to the mode in which we inhabit it” (Merleau-Ponty, 1962, as cited in Buckley, 2013). What will we sustain? How will we negotiate the socio-cultural and psychological obstacles and achieve reconciliation? What are some examples of meaningful, practical movement toward sustainability?Keywords: eco-psychology, phenomenological, sustainability, mindset/paradigm, mindfulness, emotions, healing

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Section: Causes Of Alienation From Nature and The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%