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The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
by Thomas Berry,Thomas Berry
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The future can exist only if humans understand how to commune with the natural world rather than exploit it, explains author and renowned ecologist Thomas Berry (The Dream of the Earth, The Universe Story). "Already the planet is so damaged...(more)
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Thomas Berry : Gaia Explorer
Sun Sep 16 00:56:14 UTC 2007
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future, Page: 170
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg.
Thomas Berry said

The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the individual self, the individual self is fulfilled in the Great Self. Alienation is overcome as soon as we experience this surge of energy from the source that has brought the universe through the centuries. New fields of energy become available to support the human venture. These new energies find expression and support in celebration. For in the end the universe can only be explained in terms of celebration. It is all an exuberant expression of existence itself.

Thomas Berry : Gaia Explorer
Sun Sep 16 00:55:25 UTC 2007
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future, Page: 170
Contributed by: Christopher Galtenberg.
Thomas Berry said

Our main source of psychic energy in the future will depend on our ability to understand this symbol of evolution in an acceptable context of interpretation. Only in the context of an emergent universe will the human project come to an integral understanding of itself. We must, however, come to experience the universe in its psychic as well as in its physical aspect. We need to experience the sequence of evolutionary transformations as moments of grace, and also as celebration moments in our new experience of the sacred.