The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University)

Okita, Kiyokazu

English

The World-affirming Vision of Non-duality:Vaiṣṇava Vedānta Contribution to Deep Ecology

Stables, Andrew

Can Humanism Be an Environmentalism? A Further Response to Lewis P. Hinchmann

Conesa-Sevilla, Jorge

“Minding Animals”: Paul Shepard’s “Selfish” Argument for His Own Question “What Good Are Animals?”

Levenson, Christopher

 
 
Two Poems  
Christopher Levenson 
 
BANYANS 
Though hacked at piecemeal, year in year out, for firewood, 
the banyan trees 
sacred to Hindus, still spread their limbs protectingly, 
send down 
feelers into the soil again, plumb lines seeking out 
forgotten roots. They make a gentle prison, an all-embracing  
shade for the villagers so broad support is needed  
to keep the boughs aloft. Did the tree grow holy  
only for being so old and powerful? No one seems to know,  
but gnarled and bending villagers gather there. 
 
Lizard 
 
I am sharing my room with a lizard . . . 
and how many other creatures? The earth 
has crevices for all of us. 
 
---from LOCAL TIME (Stone Flower Press, Ottawa, 2006) 
 
 
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Two Poems

Booth, Kate

Holism with a Hole? Exploring Deep Ecology within the Built Environment

Caley, Michael T.

Cover and Contents

Bender, Frederic

On the Importance of Paul Shepard’s Call for Post-Historic Primitivism and Paleolithic Counter-Revolution against Modernity

Caley, Michael

 
 
The Trumpeter  
ISSN: 0832-6193 
Volume 23, Number 3 (2007) 
 
Introduction 
 
This is the second special issue celebrating the life and work of Paul 
Shepard. My own introduction to Shepard was a first edition copy of 
The Tender Carnivore and the Sacred Game. Like most, I was both 
captivated and challenged by his arguments and assertions. Shepard is, 
for me at least, difficult to read. His ideas, though, are provocative, and 
he makes me work to understand them. But he is also evocative, as his 
lyrical style pulls me into his worldview. 
 
In this issue, Fred Bender applies Shepard’s ideas to the problems of 
global environmental catastrophe. Bender takes us deep into post-
historic primitivism. 
 
Douglas David Karrow, Bob Henderson, and Jeanne Kentel give us a 
variety of approaches to modern environmental education, based on 
Shepard’s ideas. They teach us how Shepard shapes “thought, word, 
and deed in both teaching and learning.” 
 
Gene Halton turns our thinking upside down with Eden Inverted. 
Halton asks, “It is a social science truism that selves are made through 
socialization. But how was socialization made?” We experience “the 
wild self” through Shepard’s paleolithic human. 
 
Jorge Conesa-Sevilla starts with this enticing statement: “I explore 
perhaps his most radically consistent claim and far-reaching exposition, 
an extension of his studies of the totemic mind.” The material that 
follows will draw you in and arouse your heart and mind.  
 
We reprint here Florence Shepard’s own experience “Riding the Bear.” 
Paul investigated bears cults in Europe and in North American 
Aboriginal societies.  Flo gives us a first hand account of living the 
myth. 
 
Terry Winogrond takes us with him on a personal journey of discovery 
led by the ideas of Paul Shepard.  Here we discover differences between 
wild and domestic life from a Shepardian perspective. 
Volume 23 Number 3 1 
 
This marvelous group of submissions, written by some of the best 
thinkers in deep ecology, pays an extraordinary homage to Paul 
Shepard’s original visions. These authors will keep you questioning and 
thinking about Shepard and his legacy as it applies to our current 
problems—local to global. They also keep Shepard’s ideas alive and 
well for current and future ecologists and philosophers who have yet to 
confront him. 
 
My gratitude goes to Flo Shepard for providing me with numerous 
contacts and for her unflagging support in developing these two issues. 
We have become good friends in our advancing elderhood. Also, I must 
acknowledge the work of Bill Devall in teaching me the fundamentals 
of the editing craft. His discerning eye and encyclopedic knowledge has 
made these issues much better than I could have done alone. 
 
When I accepted the position of Associate Editor, I did so with the 
stated intention of revisiting the work of inspired thinkers in ecological 
philosophy. I started with Paul Shepard because of his enormous 
influence on my “deep ecology.” It is, I think, important that we keep 
seminal work alive for current and future generations of scholars. 
Progress is usually recursive. 
 
As the bumper sticker admonishes: “Don’t believe everything you 
think!” 
 
Michael T. Caley  
Associate Editor 
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Introduction

Shi, Jingbi

The Development of Jack London’s Ecological Thought in “All Gold Canyon,” Burning Daylight, and The Valley of the Moon

Rosmarin, .

In Conversation with Sun Dew: A Metaphysics of Invocation

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