The Dream of the Earth

Written by Thomas Berry

Narrated by Thomas Berry

This landmark work— a foundational volume in the ecological canon— points to a necessary transformation of consciousness if mankind and the planet are to survive. Drawing upon the wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers, Thomas Berry forges a balanced, deeply felt declaration of planetary independence from the sociological, psychological, and intellectual conditioning that threatens the death of the Earth. Offering a path that will avert ecological catastrophe, Berry builds his case on a comprehensive review of the history of ideas. He provides insights, inspiration, and ethical guidance, which will help us move beyond exploitation and disengagement to begin a restorative relationship with the natural world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
• Release date: Jun 1, 1991
• ISBN: 9781614674719

Thomas Berry

I was diagnosed with a major mental illness decades ago. That diagnosis would no longer apply now. Being on disability I had a lot of time to read. I mostly read academic philosophy about which I became very disenchanted. I came to the conclusion that academic philosophy was not the harmless puzzle solving activity that academic philosophy appears to be. I was amidst a personal apocalypse and could not relate at all to apocalyptic entertainments. I also had an early liking for science fiction. The Republic of Helios combines a disenchantment with academic philosophy, a repulsion at apocalyptic entertainments with an early liking for science fiction. Is there an esoteric Spinozist group amidst the West now? I think there is. Individuals producing philosophical texts, who reason more or less infinitely, have no place to run to except Spinoza.The Farthest Reaches of the Liminal is the second book in the Anti-Apocalypse Trilogy. Book I and Book II of the Anti-Apocalypse Trilogy are stand alone books though both are anti-Apocalypses. The Liminal is a memoir of a mania and there are at least a couple of non-factual incidents which is fitting to a memoir of a mania. The obsession with philosophy was, however, absolutely true to my mania.I have a blog, Neurological illnesses, the transsulfuration pathway and epigenetics, that addresses the biology of neurological illnesses.