Ecological_medicine_related_concepts_and_their_intersection_with_psyched

Geologian and cultural historian Thomas Berry argues that what humanity is called to today is the Great Work of “transition[ing] from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.” (Berry, 1999). An important component of the Great Work is retiring the dominant mod

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Whereas one’s cosmology provides a context for ecology within the nature of the universe, one’s ontological assumptions and perspectives take into consideration the nature of being, existence, reality, and relationships between all things. One ontological or spiritual stance is that all individual minds, human and nonhuman, participate in a collect

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Ecological values may be contextualized within broader cosmo-ontological perspectives. Relationships between humans and nonhumans have been described within a “household” model of the cosmos, one which requires a sympoietic (making with) orientation (Haraway, 2016) to a profound entanglement in the web of life. This is no small task amid a sixth gr

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