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Cultural Addiction: The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery

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What makes this book unique is that it is not meant to be simply read, but rather experienced. Albert LaChance weaves together so many disciplines in this stunningly beautiful book- informed by the work of Thomas Berry, it combines ecology, cosmology, and psychology elegantly enriched by the deep spirituality of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous whose wisdom has helped millions recover from addiction. The truth is, this is not a book for those who are unwilling to recognize and feel the genuine pain of the Earth as she struggles to accommodate our cultural greed and the inability on the part of the human to live within our "niche" like other species are able to do. However, if one already feels this pain or is willing to face it, reading and working this book, especially in a group context as I have done and as the book suggests, will offer the individual a poignant experience of transformation at the core and a new vision of our role in helping to heal our distorted relationship with the Earth. As a professor, I have also used many excerpts from this book to inform my students of their place in the whole Earth story. A simply beautiful book!

This is one of the WORST books I have ever read and I read A LOT. To start with, it wasn't at all what I thought it was, I could have lived with that BUT this was just bad.

This guy has an agenda and crazy beliefs, put them together and Voila! you have this book. If you aren't a WAAAYYYY "out there" new-age type with a radical left view you'll probably have a hard time stomaching this book. I read many books by people who have political and religious views that I disagree with or might even think are a little kooky but this book...well, my title says it all. Yikes.

I bought this used on Amazon. I feel like I was cheated out of my $1.99. I usually donate the books I don't need to our local library, this one is going to the recycle bin.