Customer Reviews

Pagan Visions for a Sustainable Future

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In response to the past two reviews I must say, That if you are looking to find an easy step by step book on how to sustain the future...this is not the book. However it does provide the answer. It is a more complex view that mixes philosophy, psyhology, and reality to conclude with the best logical solution that pagans today can connect with. It requires you to think and to look deep within your self to find the truth. It is exactly what true paganism is bout no matter the tradition!!! Give the book a chance and let it help you along your path.

Like the other reviewer, I was expecting specific visions for a concrete sustainable future and was quite disappointed. Particularly in light of the renown of the authors, my disappointment was sharpened by the poor quality of the essays--- they are airy-fairy pieces of fluff. Some with the addition of overwhelming prejudice; 'don't eat factory-farm chickens' 'be a vegetarian' 'live in the woods' in order to be a good Pagan, but wholly without any sustainability.

Thom van Dooren was the one star with interesting ideas and good writing.

I bought this book hoping it would be filled with concerete ways that pagans can work towards a sustainable future for this planet. If you too are hoping for a hands-on type of book, then this is not the book for you.

Instead it is a collection of very highbrow, esoteric essays by various well-known pagan authors. I found it to be very dry reading and at times I was wondering what the essays had to do with a sustainable future. Take a look at the table of contents...essays like "The Ethics of Paganism: The Value and Power of Sacred Relationships" and "The Sacred Art of Communication" while worthwhile, in my opinion do not belong in a book about building a sustainable future.

If you like scholarly works and enjoyed reading your college textbooks you might like this.

I was not very impressed with this one... in fact, I sold it less than a week after I got it.