Ecozoic Era
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Thomas Berry talks about the need to turn from an anthropocentric perspective to a biocentric and ecocentric focus.
- Used by people who call the work: New Cosmology, The New Story
- Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Agriculture, Art, Biology and Earth Systems Science, Current Issues, Ecology/Sustainability, Education, Government, Law, Religion/Spirituality, Science, Social Justice
- Learning Stages: Adult Education, Higher Education, Lifelong, Secondary 9 - 12
- Type: Article
- Keywords: Thomas Berry, Ecozoic
- File:https://dtnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Chapter-8-from-Thomas-Berry-Selected-Writings-on-the-Earth-Community.pdf
- Posted By: Jennifer Morgan
- Date Added: August 17, 2020
It would be great to explore more deeply these two topics from the end of this article: “10. A new language, an Ecozoic language is needed. Our Cenozoic language is radically inadequate. A new dictionary should be compiled with new definitions of existing words and introduction of new words for the new modes of being and of functioning that are emerging. And 11. Psychologically, all the archetypes of the collective unconscious attain a new validity, also new patterns of functioning; especially in our understanding of the symbols of the heroic journey, the death-rebirth symbol, the Great Mother, the tree of… Read more »