Please define "spiritual."
Doug
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On Wed, 21 Sep 1994, anne jordan dashiell wrote:
>
> hello to roxanne- and im glad to see other people on the list who see the
> spiritual dimension in ecofeminism as important.
>
> i wrote a post yesterday in response to the several anti-spiritual" posts
> but i think i sent it wrong and it didnt get on..
>
> what i had said was that i think a spiritual consciousness is INTEGRAL to
> an ecofeminist perspective, and that a critique of our culture is only
> holistic if it the political, historical, spiritual, and scientific
> aspects are seen as interconnected...for me, the spiritual dimension is
> the basis and the various cultural dimensions can be viewed within that
> framework. unless we work to deconstruct the judeo-christian influences
> in our culture, and rediscover the relationship we as humans originally
> had to nature/the sacred, working to critique the institutions is
> superficial. i believe in change from the roots up...and to me, humans'
> relationship to nature is the root.
>
> > For those interested in very readable, diverse expressions of
> > ecofeminism, I would recommend two anthologies: "Reweaving the World"
> > and "Healing the Wounds." I believe one of these has already been
> > mentioned. I have also found the writings of Ariel Salleh and Ynestra
> > King useful. A less polemical discussion of many aspects of
> > environmental philosophy (including different aspects of ecofeminism)
> > is Carolyn Merchant's "Radical Ecology" (I think that's the title),
> > released in 1992. For those of you who don't know, Merchant wrote the
> > first major ecofeminist analysis of the history of Western thought
> > back in 1980. Although it is very dense, it is also verrrry thorough
> > and I would recommend at least a skim of it for newcomers to
> > ecofeminist thinking. It's called "The Death of Nature." I would
>
> i am totally in agreement about the importance of these works...along
> with susan griffin (esp her piece in healing the wounds "split culture"
> as well as king's piece in the same book) and STARHAWK STARHAWK STARHAWK!!
>
> anyway i would definitely like to engage in a debate/dialogue about
> spirituality in ecofeminism etc..
>
> -anne dashiell
>
