All of these GreenSpirit Publications can be ordered from:
GreenSpirit Books, 56 Downlands Road, Devizes, Wiltshire. SN10 5EF.
Tel. 01380 726224. http://www.greenspirit.org.uk/books/

The Green Mantle of Romanticism by Christine Avery and Michael Colebrook
GreenSpirit Press

The poets and other writers who became labelled as Romantics based their ideas and their creative work on an intense I-thou relationship with Nature. From this experience they derived revelation and wisdom. The authors of this book, one a scientist and the other with a literary background, look at emerging ideas about deep time, evolution, an organic interpretation of nature, and the status of human subjectivity, as they appear in the work of  some major Romantic writers, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau and John Muir. We believe that their ideas are relevant and their writings important for the environmentalists of today.

How Things Come To Be by Michael Colebrook
GreenSpirit Pamphlet No. 7

[Mother Carey] sat quite still with her chin upon her hand, looking down into the sea with two great grand blue eyes, as blue as the sea itself. Her hair was as white as the snow – for she was very very old – in fact, as old as anything which you are likely to come across… “I heard, ma'am, that you were always making new beasts out of old." "So people fancy. But I am not going to trouble myself to make things, my little dear.I sit here and make them make themselves."

The thesis of this essay is that things come to be by making themselves. It also begins to address what is in many ways the more interesting problem of finding out why there are the things that we see around us and not others.

Holy Night by Vincent Tilsley

Holy Night is a blending of an old mystery with a new one, the ancient tale of God's nativity on Earth but within modern cosmology's view of our planet as just one tiny dot in a colossal universe that emerged billions of years before the Bethlehem event. The result is a science fiction drama which quickly widens to include a cosmic power struggle, above and below. Beginning in the "Star" which hovers over Bethlehem, it develops into a confrontation between a God and a Satan who look disconcertingly like each other. The outcome is startling.
Published 2006.

This book is now out of print but will be re-published in 2009 by O-Books. Check back here for more information when it is available.

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Imagining Otherwise by Lindsay Clarke
GreenSpirit Pamphlet number 6

How can one become a whole person in a violent, complicated world? This is the theme of this gripping essay, first presented as a lecture to the GreenSpirit annual conference. Lindsay Clarke is best known for his original and unexpected novels on some of the deepest territories of the human condition. In this essay he points out the simultaneous growth of two movements. One is the wider ecological awareness which, against many odds, is necessarily growing as we understand how destructively the human race is as a species on the earth. The other movement is the personal change being experienced by many individuals. The new emerging consciousness is related to the development of depth psychology, the notion of individuation, and the realisation of spirit. Published 2004, 24 pages. £3.00

The Triple Mirror by Erna and Michael Colebrook
(for children and adults)

Did you know that you are descended from the stars! You can find out with Bran and Brydie, as you travel with them through the universe. The Triple Mirror highlights some significant stages in the 13.7 billion year story of cosmic evolution - our common creation story - and lets two children discover that awesome epic as they travel through time with the Great Mother as their guide. Published 2003, 108 pages. £5.75

Walking the Sacred Story. A New Ritual for Celebrating the Universe by Erna & Michael Colebrook
GreenSpirit Pamphlet Number 5

"The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human". Thomas Berry

There can be little doubt that such alienation lies at the heart of many of the current environmental crises faced by humanity today. In this little book Erna and Michael Colebrook invite the reader to "Walk the Sacred Story" of the universe and so regain a sense of perspective and a sense of belonging to the Earth. Through a cosmic time walk we can rediscover our place in the 14 billion year history of the universe, our own creation story.

This is a work-book explaining how to plan and conduct such a walk, step by step. But it is also a book for the walker to read and keep as a memento. Armchair walkers too will find much to interest them. Published 2000, 44 pages. Price: £3.30

What is Creation Centred Spirituality? by Grace Blindell
GreenSpirit Pamphlet number 4

An eloquent and authoritative introduction, it conveys not only the ideas behind the movement, but also what it feels like, through a blending of poetry and prose. A brilliant, brief description of an authentic green spirituality. Published 2001, 48 pages. £3.00

The New Universe Story by Michael Colebrook
GreenSpirit Pamphlet number 3

With a sure hand he touches on some of the more significant features of the story, and hints at some of its implications for the human condition. Lovely quotes, and I think this is the greatest story ever told! 
New edition 2006. 29 pages. Price: £3.00

What's Radical Now? Politics and Creation Spirituality by Victor Anderson
GreenSpirit Pamphlet number 2

We now have a world in which free-trade capitalism seems the only viable economic system, rapidly spreading throughout the worlds. Is a new alternative to this system, which is so destructive to our planet and to social justice, growing, and could Creation Spirituality have a part in this new understanding?

Victor Anderson's pamphlet addresses these issues, bringing together modern science, a new view of human nature, ecology, spirituality and post-Blair politics. Published 1998, 32 pages. Price £2.50

Rediscovering St Francis: Earth Wisdom for the New Millennium by Alan José
GreenSpirit Pamphlet Number 1

We have all heard of St Francis (1181-1226), and yet most of what we actually know consists of a few traditional stories and prayers. What was his life really like at the start of this Millennium, and what is his relevance for us now eight hundred years later?

Alan Jose, the author of this short book, has reflected on Francis over twenty years. This gentle, sympathetic and accessible treatment of Francis's life places him in the context of the Four Paths of Creation Spirituality, as presented by Matthew Fox, following the creation tradition within Christianity. We begin to perceive Francis as a person as well as a saint; a person who loved all life and regarded all living creatures as sacred and uniquely themselves. He personified even Sister Poverty and Sister Death, welcoming them into his own experience as significant presences within it. All of life is relationship. Published 1998, 45 pages. Price: £2.90

Other Creation Spirituality books available from GreenSpirit books:

Living in Connection: Theory and Practice of the New World View by Chris Clarke.

On our threatened planet the gap between spiritual wisdom and main-stream science is as wide as ever, despite many hopeful ideas from the speculative fringes of science. How can humanity now come together within a world-view that can be widely accepted, to build a world where all beings can survive and flourish? Placing tested mainstream science and the insights of spiritual traditions within the story of a personal journey, the book sets out an integrated account of a universe governed by love, constantly open to new creativity. Published 2003, 292 pages. £16.70.

Visions of Creation edited by Eileen Conn and James Stewart

This book provides a fine introduction to the awakening of our collective memories of visions of Creation; visions that are more alive than ever today, given our new creation story from science and given the peril that our earth-home finds itself in. May these visions inspire many to the action and contemplation, to the prophecy and mysticism, that our times demand. Forward by Matthew Fox. Published 1995, 140 pages, £6.50 plus postage and packaging