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Review: Saving Paradise

Saving Paradise
How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
by Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker
The classic crucifixion image of Jesus in agony on a cross, so ingrained in Christian consciousness as to be its dominant archetype, is a rather new expression (probably less than a millenia old) created for political reasons [...]

Review: Radical Ecology

Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World
by Carolyn Merchant
Routledge, 2005
How we comprehend our world determines, to a large extent, how we interact with its features — soils, water, air, plants and animals. Logical positivism, handed down from Aristotle and Isaac Newton, is largely responsible for a mechanistic worldview that looks at nature as individual [...]

Review: Food Energetics

Food Energetics
The Spiritual, Emotional, and Nutritional Power of What We Eat
by Steve Gagné
Healing Arts Press, 2008
Author Steve Gagne has been publishing books and articles about “Food Energetics” for almost two decades. His Energetics of Food: Encounters with Your Most Intimate Relationship was published in 1990. This latest work, published by Healing Arts Press, is [...]