Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul. Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall Orr explores the heritage of Western thought with precision, enthusiasm and sensitivity, considering how soul, spirit, mind and consciousness have been understood through millennia. Challenging the prevailing worldviews of materialism and dualism, she presents animism as a radically different, yet mature and coherent philosophy. Providing deep green ethics with a wholly rational metaphysical foundation, The Wakeful World is a compelling view of the nature of existence and the experience of reality, giving solid ground for the now necessary journey to a sustainable world.
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- Sales Rank: #762615 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Moon Books
- Published on: 2012-11-30
- Original language:
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- Binding: Paperback
- 225 pages
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Over the past few hundred years, animism has been dismissed as a primitive, naive and irrational perspective, irrelevant within the civilised West. In The Wakeful World, Emma Restall Orr argues that this is based on the misrepresentation, drawn in crayon, that each tree and stone has its own Christian-like immortal soul. Taking the reader on a philosophical adventure, Restall Orr explores the heritage of Western thought with precision, enthusiasm and sensitivity, considering how soul, spirit, mind and consciousness have been understood through millennia. Challenging the prevailing worldviews of materialism and dualism, she presents animism as a radically different, yet mature and coherent philosophy. Providing deep green ethics with a wholly rational metaphysical foundation, The Wakeful World is a compelling view of the nature of existence and the experience of reality, giving solid ground for the now necessary journey to a sustainable world.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
This book deserves six stars.
By Violette Rose-Jones
This book has profoundly changed the way I viewed the world. It is an intelligent and reasoned argument for animism. This is not an easy book that you will knock off in a day; it is a demanding, intellectual work that rewards persistence with fresh and remarkable insights. Things occurred to me whilst reading this book that had not in a decade of animistic practice. I sincerely believe that this book will go on to be a classic text in this subject area like David Abram’s Spell of the Sensuous:Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World and Graham Harvey’s Animism: Respecting the Living World. Buy this while it is still this cheap.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Animism’s Perfect Book
By Hedy
OBOD Druid Emma Resall Orr’s Book The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature has nailed it. Waaaay better than Harvey’s. For those who complained Harvey was too textbook-like compared to their Llewellyn fluff, Orr is going to make you miserable. The first 40% of the book doesn’t even touch on animism: it is theories from everyone from ancient Greeks to Kant and Descartes to materialists to panpsychism to Idealists to emergence to quantum physics to neuroscience, and none of it dumbed down. She uses big words. She goes for the root of words like spirit, soul, nature, matter, god, memory, pattern, world, universe and much more. Pantheism and Monism are naturally covered as they are part of animism. Have to say I love her definitions of animism:”Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.”"Animism is a relational ontology.”Now that she has said everything I can imagine could ever be said about animism, everything I have found true in my animist lifeway, let’s all go do it, live it, see where it takes us. If we base our actions on our belief, the world would surely change. I am ready for adventures in animism!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Bit Difficult to Read, Last Three Chapters Are Brilliance
By TommyElf
Restall-Orr has written a very comprehensive look at Animism with this particular book. To be completely honest, much of the vocabulary left me scratching my head and lunging for my dictionary. While not a sure-fire recipe for readability with me, this was not a bad thing for me. I enjoy books that allow me to stretch my own home recipe for words and knowledge. However, there were a few other factors that also brought me to my knees in terms of erudition. The first six chapters of the book lean heavily in knowledge fields I have very little desire to delve deeply into. Thus my depth of understanding was limited in terms of conceptual information, as well as a feeling for the raison d’etre of the severe quotations utilized to illustrate points. Psychology and Philosophy are simple two areas of the scholastic environment that interest me very little.Leaving that aside, once Restall-Orr starts to get into the meat of the idea of Animism in the final three chapters – I began to see the lights of brilliance on the subject. To borrow two quotes from the book:”So, in his practice of learning and reverence, the animist will acknowledge the spirits of a place, the spirits of a river, of fire and storm, the spirits of a tribe, of motherhood, of the dead, the spirits of a gathering, of an event in time, and so on. In doing so he is reaching to perceive those fleeting patterns that, so filled with energy and potentiality, are the essential moments flowing into moments, the raw creativity that manifests each form, saturating each experience. Awake to that perception, he is aspiring to play an active and respectful part in the creative process of life, even if only through gratitude, awe and devotion. In his practice, the animist will also acknowledge the soul, reaching here to catch a glimpse of what is the summation of all that has been.”"…the song is the expression of the moment as it unfolds, our soul riding the current of the spirits whose perpetual motion is our becoming. The Songs of being are the music of presence. The song is what we express and celebrate in every moment of our living.”It is passages such as these two that literally bring her points to Life. Beautifully evocative, intellectually provocative, Restall-Orr shows that there is true wonder in every moment that we have. That there is life in every breath. That there is awareness in everything – we may not be able to define some aspects of that awareness, but there is a unity of community in the creation of everything.
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