Natural Spirituality

Issue 186 • January/February 1998

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THE SPEED MERCHANTS

Speed gives the illusion of power and pleasure. But it also brings environmental destruction.

INDUSTRIAL LOGIC

The machine is adapted for humans and humans are adapted to the machine. It is a human-machine merger.

MODERNITY RULES OK?

Communism or capitalism, Labour or Conservative, democracy or dictatorship, republicanism or monarchy, rule by any name, we are ruled by modernity.

FOUR CHANGES

Population, pollution and consumption are the problems. Transformation is the solution.

IS HUMANITY SUICIDAL?

If homo sapiens goes the way of the dinosaur, we have only ourselves to blame.

U'WA AND OXY

Oil drilling on land that threatens an indigenous people with cultural death and contributes to environmental destruction is illegal.

A CRUEL AGRICULTURE

Genetic engineering is justified as a humane technique that feeds more people with better food. Nothing could be further from the truth.

GAIA'S GUARDIAN ANGEL

James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis has been awarded the Blue Planet prize worth fifty million yen.

THE GREAT TURNING

After the agricultural and industrial revolutions we are now at a point of ecological revolution.

NATURAL SPIRITUALITY

What reason could be more compelling for honouring the natural world than to know that it is the prime source of our spirituality.

PUT INTO PRACTICE

Buddhism is not something to believe in, but something to do.

THE ART OF ATONEMENT

The artist Andrzej Jackowski transforms objects of everyday life into a spiritual reality.

ART OF ARROGANCE

The so-called "Earth Art" may be no more than imposition of human will upon nature.

A PARTICIPATORY WORLD

From a participative point of view we see the world as a creative dance of mind and cosmos.

AN EPIC DEATH

The death of Princess Diana evoked unparalleled public grief. What can it all mean?

HOMES NOT OFFICES

The story of Coin Street is an urban fairy-tale. Against all odds, a local community saved itself from a faceless office development.

Regulars

The Occasional Didymus

Being out of England in golden September is instant exile.

Poetry

Good News For Gaia

Stop lorries from using our country lanes, save water and use solar power.

Business Diary

"I didn't get the money, but I had the pleasure."

The Web Page

Human community is a network of conversations.

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

CORPORATIONS ATTACK ENVIRONMENTALISTS

Review of sounds the alarm.

BANK AGAINST THE POOR,

Review of goes against the World Bank.

POWER OF PROTEST

Review of reviews the work of Greenpeace.

GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM

Review of exposes the poisoning of the public.

A TALE OF EVOLUTION

Review of traces the human story.

INTERCONNECTED UNIVERSE

Review of leaps into the new paradigm

COSMIC STORY

Review of celebrates the unfolding universe.

A NON RELIGIOUS WAY

Review of looks at Buddhism in the West.

PRAYER OR PANIC

Review of favours traditional thought.

WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY

Review of searches for economic democracy.

SONG OF LIFE

Review of appreciates a storyteller.

LIFE AND DEATH

Review of Looks at how we die.

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