A Book in Five Minutes’: No.10. ‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization
Posted: 29th March 2022
‘A Book in Five Minutes’: No.10. ‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization’ , 29th March 2022
One of my favourites, and the second in a series of three ‘technology-critical’ books looking at the modern world from three different perspectives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWGa2LPSZoE
‘My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western
Civilization’
A Book in Five Minutes No.10. 29th March 2022
This was one of the first books I read which clearly
explained the basis for an indigenous, ‘non-Western’ world-
view: Not in terms of some analgesic ‘spiritual’ practise
to be appropriated for the weekend; but of an all-
encompassing way of looking a the Earth, and our position
within that system – which should form the heart of our
daily interactions with the world around us.
Almost three decades from its publication, this is a book
that still needs to be read today, and that still has a
place within the debate on change; to allow people to look
inwards, with a fresh perspective, at how the world endures
through the trauma it creates – and why letting go of that
world is the most effective means to shed the pain that
modern-day existence inflicts.
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“Then I was made to write a little book called,
‘The New Law of Righteousness’, and therein I
declared it. Yet my mind was not at rest, because
nothing was acted, and thoughts run in me that
words and writings were all nothing and must die.
For action is the life of all, and if thou dost
not act, thou dost nothing.”
(Gerrard Winstanley, 1649)
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