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Theodore Roszak’s THE VOICE OF THE EARTH is a big book. Big not only in
actual volume, chapter to chapter, page by page, but big in scope and containing a largess, as
in abundant wealth; for THE VOICE is rich in perspective and reflective depth.
Professor Roszak’s work comes at the onset with a foretelling recommendation from
Nobel Prize recipient and former US Vice President Al Gore, who writes: “Powerful,
compelling, extraordinary… We need urgently to heal our relationship with our life-giving
planet and feel the intimate connection with nature Roszak so beautifully describes.” I second
this evaluation, placing emphasis on the term “extraordinary. Considering other writings;
from Metzer’s GREEN PSYCHOLOGY and John Hays’ IN DEFENSE OF NATURE, to
Shephard’s NATURE AND MADNESS and Andy Fisher’s RADICAL
ECOPSYCHOLOGY; Roszak’s book stands out even from such important contributions in
the field of eco-consciousness and the new science of ecopsychology. Our author is never
content with the dispensation of information alone, howsoever insightful, but he continuously
relates readers to the mandala-universe (Gary Synder) or dynamic gestalt of the Earth as a
living system through establishing relationships of contemplation and inter-connective
experience. Due to this interconnecting process, beyond all else, THE VOICE is a vital
addition toward establishing what Deep Ecology founder Arne Ness called upon future
generations to awaken within and live by, namely “an emotional philosophy” of the biotic
plenum of our miraculously metamorphic and evolutionary Earth.
Part One of THE VOICE OF THE EARTH Roszak labels Psychology and it runs
through such topics as The Boundaries of the Ego and Psyche and the Biosphere, to The
Sacramental Real and Ecological Madness. On page 90 one reads the following: “Long
before modern biology formulated its theories about the descent of man, traditional therapies
were instinctively drawing upon an evolutionary priority older than family and society, rooted
in the foundations of life itself: the claim of the nurturing planet upon our loyalty. Where our
society tries to gain security by domination and conquest, tribal societies have relied on trust,
expecting their loyalty to be fairly requited. Whether we, in the long run, will prove to be the
more justified in our expectations than they have been in there is yet to be seen. If our greedy
and heedless industrial culture should meet the bad end some ecologists predict, then our
choice will have been a foolish one that brought us neither peace of mind nor long term
prosperity.”
Roszak names Part Two Cosmology and leads us through chapters and subtopics
which include Anima Mundi, The Alchemical Mistress, Deep Systems and Imigo Mundi. On
page 137 there is this: “Myths like the anima mundi never die. They have the immortality of
the phoenix. Reduced to ashes, they undergo miraculous transformations, returning to life
with their essence intact. They might be described as a sort of ethereal gene passed from
mind to mind across the centuries, mingling along the way, as all genetic traits do, with other
cultural strains and intellectual mutations. Some myths have sufficient vitality to transcend
the boundaries of history and ethnicity, finally to become the common property of the human
family. These are perhaps what Jung called archetypes, the ageless furniture of the collective
actual volume, chapter to chapter, page by page, but big in scope and containing a largess, as
in abundant wealth; for THE VOICE is rich in perspective and reflective depth.
Professor Roszak’s work comes at the onset with a foretelling recommendation from
Nobel Prize recipient and former US Vice President Al Gore, who writes: “Powerful,
compelling, extraordinary… We need urgently to heal our relationship with our life-giving
planet and feel the intimate connection with nature Roszak so beautifully describes.” I second
this evaluation, placing emphasis on the term “extraordinary. Considering other writings;
from Metzer’s GREEN PSYCHOLOGY and John Hays’ IN DEFENSE OF NATURE, to
Shephard’s NATURE AND MADNESS and Andy Fisher’s RADICAL
ECOPSYCHOLOGY; Roszak’s book stands out even from such important contributions in
the field of eco-consciousness and the new science of ecopsychology. Our author is never
content with the dispensation of information alone, howsoever insightful, but he continuously
relates readers to the mandala-universe (Gary Synder) or dynamic gestalt of the Earth as a
living system through establishing relationships of contemplation and inter-connective
experience. Due to this interconnecting process, beyond all else, THE VOICE is a vital
addition toward establishing what Deep Ecology founder Arne Ness called upon future
generations to awaken within and live by, namely “an emotional philosophy” of the biotic
plenum of our miraculously metamorphic and evolutionary Earth.
Part One of THE VOICE OF THE EARTH Roszak labels Psychology and it runs
through such topics as The Boundaries of the Ego and Psyche and the Biosphere, to The
Sacramental Real and Ecological Madness. On page 90 one reads the following: “Long
before modern biology formulated its theories about the descent of man, traditional therapies
were instinctively drawing upon an evolutionary priority older than family and society, rooted
in the foundations of life itself: the claim of the nurturing planet upon our loyalty. Where our
society tries to gain security by domination and conquest, tribal societies have relied on trust,
expecting their loyalty to be fairly requited. Whether we, in the long run, will prove to be the
more justified in our expectations than they have been in there is yet to be seen. If our greedy
and heedless industrial culture should meet the bad end some ecologists predict, then our
choice will have been a foolish one that brought us neither peace of mind nor long term
prosperity.”
Roszak names Part Two Cosmology and leads us through chapters and subtopics
which include Anima Mundi, The Alchemical Mistress, Deep Systems and Imigo Mundi. On
page 137 there is this: “Myths like the anima mundi never die. They have the immortality of
the phoenix. Reduced to ashes, they undergo miraculous transformations, returning to life
with their essence intact. They might be described as a sort of ethereal gene passed from
mind to mind across the centuries, mingling along the way, as all genetic traits do, with other
cultural strains and intellectual mutations. Some myths have sufficient vitality to transcend
the boundaries of history and ethnicity, finally to become the common property of the human
family. These are perhaps what Jung called archetypes, the ageless furniture of the collective
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