Essay: Enacting an Earth-Centred Worldview – By John Revington

Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

By John Revington. Originally published by the Rainforest Information Centre; republished here with permission.

Publication date not stated on the original page; estimated from internal references (cites the author’s own 1997 paper).

How are we to develop and enact an Earth-centred worldview when our everyday experience obscures our connections with the Earth?

Q. First of all, perhaps you should explain the question and answer format of this paper.

A. It’s an approach I’ve seen used elsewhere (Wilber 1996). It seems to offer a clear and interesting way of presenting ideas, so I’ve decided to use it here.

Essay: Intimate Places – By John Revington

Wed, 01 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000

By John Revington. Originally published by the Rainforest Information Centre; republished here with permission.

The author dates this account explicitly within the text: written in 1997.

There is a strong connection between our separation from the Earth and the harm we do to it. That’s old hat. It’s obvious; it’s been said countless times and it is not very useful simply to lament our alienation and stress the importance of ending it. Humans are not likely to develop intimacy with the places they inhabit just because ethically, it would be a nice thing to do. Changes made purely out of a sense of duty lack authenticity and are seldom sustainable. But there is a much more compelling reason to develop relationships with land. Intimacy enriches our lives, whether it is with the people we know or the places we inhabit. Conversely, if the places we inhabit remain mere acquaintances, our lives are impoverished every bit as much as if we never get close to the people we live with. So this paper explores the ways in which we can learn to develop intimacy with the places we know.

Sense-of-Place on deep ecology

Essay: Enacting an Earth-Centred Worldview – By John Revington

Essay: Intimate Places – By John Revington