The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University)
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The Wild Way
Get PDFThe Wild Way is a learning and practice system that is a synthesis of several unifying disciplines or whole arts. Its design draws from many cultural models, for example, the martial arts of China and Japan, yoga forms of India, and shamanic practices of aboriginal cultures. Experiential journeying in wild nature has evolved into the Wild Way art. This article surveys the scope of the Wild Way by systematizing its features, techniques, and practices using journey, adventure, and healing narratives. The Wild Way has many levels of meaning grounded through adventure in wilderness areas. Its metaphoric and mythic journey narratives unite us communally and personally, from physical to spiritual, and theoretic to practical. Living the Wild Way gives us deep meaning as we reconnect with wild energies in wilderness and our home places
The Environmental Ethic Implicit in Three Theories of Evolution
Get PDFThis paper examines the environmental ethic that is implicit in three different interpretations of evolution that are intended for the general public and that attempt to explain the past and future developments of the world’s cultures. The three interpretations include: (1) the computer-futurist thinkers who claim that we are entering the post-biological phase of evolution and that the diversity of cultural knowledge systems is being replaced by a global intelligence; (2) the genocentric interpretation of evolution articulated by E. O. Wilson, which also represents evolution as a linear process leading to the extinction of non-scientifically based cultures; and (3) the Brian Swimme/Thomas Berry interpretation (The Universe Story) that adapts the mainstream account of evolution to account for religious themes—but is still based on western cultural assumptions about the linear nature of progress and the need to abandon the mythopoetic narratives of other cultures in favour of the theory of evolution. The paper also considers how the three interpretations reinforce the “survival of the fittest” ethic that underlies the current efforts to globalize the western technology/consumer-dependent lifestyle
