{"product_id":"wild-mind-wild-earth-our-place-sixth-extinction-9781645471479-new","title":"Wild Mind, Wild Earth: Our Place in the Sixth Extinction","description":"\u003cb\u003eExploring the confluence of ancient Chinese spirituality and modern Western environmental thought, \u003ci\u003eWild Mind, Wild Earth\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the unrecognized kinship of mind and nature that must be reanimated if we are to end our destruction of the planet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarth is embroiled in its sixth major extinction event--this time caused not by asteroids or volcanos, but by us. At bottom, preventing this sixth extinction is a spiritual\/philosophical problem, for it is the assumptions defining us and our relation to earth that are driving the devastation. Those assumptions insist on a fundamental separation of human and earth that devalues earth and enables our exploitative relation to it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWild Mind, Wild Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, David Hinton explores modes of seeing and being that could save the planet by reestablishing a deep kinship between human and earth: the insights of primal cultures and the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism of ancient China. He also shows how these insights have become well-established in the West over the last two hundred years, through the work of poets and philosophers and scientists. This offers marvelous hope and beauty--but like so many of us, Hinton recognizes the sixth extinction is now an inexorable and perhaps unstoppable tragedy. And he reveals how those primal\/Zen insights enable us to inhabit even the unfurling catastrophe as a profound kind of liberation. \u003ci\u003eWild Mind, Wild Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable and revitalizing journey.","brand":"SHAMBHALA","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67611371307298,"sku":"9781645471479-new","price":17.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781645471479.jpg?v=1793065962","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/wild-mind-wild-earth-our-place-sixth-extinction-9781645471479-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}