GreenSpirit Book Series
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All Our Relations: GreenSpirit connections with the more-than-human world
The Universe Story in Science and Myth
Rivers of Green Wisdom: Exploring Christian and Yogic Earth-Centred Spirituality
Pathways of Green Wisdom: Discovering Earth-Centred Teachings in Spiritual and Religious Traditions
The Rising Water Project: Real Stories of Flooding, Real Stories of Downshifting
Dark Nights of the Green Soul: From Darkness to New Horizons
Awakening to Earth-Centred Consciousness: Selection from GreenSpirit Magazine
Anthology of Poems for GreenSpirits
The Lilypad List: Seven Steps to the Simple Life
Meditations with Thomas Berry: With additional material by Brian Swimme
“Green spirituality – a spirituality centred on this planet Earth, which is the only home we humans and our ancestors have ever known – is without doubt the oldest form of spirituality in existence.”
~ Marian Van Eyk McCain
What is Green Spirituality?
Edited by Marian Van Eyk McCain
Contributors: Joan Angus, Niamh Brennan, Brendan Caulfield-James, Michael Colebrook, Janice Dolley, Victoria Field, Claudia Van Gerven, Malcolm Hollick, Mary Kelson, Emily Kimball, Alison Leonard and Susan Meeker-Lowry.
This is the introductory volume in an inspiring series of books about green spirituality. The book describes and illustrates, through the well-blended voices of thirteen writers, the basic concepts and expressions of this rapidly growing kind of spiritual attitude in today’s world – what it is, where it comes from, who practises it and how and why.
Green spirituality is based on a love of the Earth, the intrinsic value of all life forms, and a deep respect for the integrity of ecosystems and for the importance of biodiversity. It includes a belief in the total interconnectedness of the cosmos and offers a sense of identity rooted in being part of – and interdependent with – ‘all that is’. It regards Nature as a great teacher and as a revelation of the divine and holds ideals of peace, social justice, ecological justice, low-impact living and sustainability.
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“Eden, I think, is not simply a mythical place, or a metaphor for original innocence, or an outworn and divisive religious symbol. Eden is a state of being, and we are free to return every time we know ourselves again in deep communion with the rest of life.”
~ Eleanor O’Hanlon
All Our Relations: GreenSpirit connections with the more-than-human world
Edited by Marian Van Eyk McCain
Contributors: David Abram, Clea Danaan, Franziska Holmes,Kathleen Martin, Sky McCain, Susan Meeker-Lowry, Helen Moore, Eleanor O’Hanlon, Rupert Sheldrake, Stephanie Sorrell, Suzannah Stacey and Hilary Wilmshurst.
All Our Relations celebrates and honours human beings’ relationships with all those other life forms who share our planetary home. How we treat these ‘fellow-travellers’, how we perceive them and interact with them – and the extent to which we love and respect them – is a measure of our humanity and our spiritual evolution.
Contributors to the book include scientists, researchers, poets, authors, health practitioners and others. Here you will find discussions ranging from the merits of vegetarianism to the problem of linguistic ‘speciesism’. You will read about dogs who know when their humans are coming home and be encouraged to rediscover your own inherent, animal ‘knowing’. Above all, you will almost certainly delight in the first-person accounts of life-changing interactions with members of other species, from snakes to horses, from dogs to oak trees and from huge whales to baby frogs.
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“The story of the Universe is the epic unfolding of the world, an evolutionary tale of awesome scope. It speaks of unity and diversity, of desire and curiosity, of wonder and awe. It speaks of creativity and imagination, of death, destruction and transformation. It is the story of science. It is the story of spirit.”
~ Niamh Brennan
The Universe Story in Science and Myth
By Greg Morter and Niamh Brennan
Everyone has a life story. Cultures too have stories about how the world and its creatures came into being. We call those ‘mere myths’ but had nothing to put in their place until science gave us the contemporary story of our Universe. This book retells that awesome story, the span of which covers billions of years of evolution, and considers its implications for the future development of human consciousness.
Greg lives with his family and works as a gardener in Somerset. His fascination with the story of the Universe was kindled when he watched Brian Swimme’s ‘Canticle to the Cosmos’ in the early 1990s. Since 2009 he has been teaching the Universe Story in the form of a scaled walk in which each metre represents a million years in time. Further details can be found at www.universewalk.co.uk
Niamh is a writer and facilitator in Cosmology and Spirituality. Having studied under Brian Swimme and Jim Conlon, she is committed to the telling of the Universe Story and the implications it contains for our spirituality. Her latest book is The Human in the Universe (Wyndham Hall Press, 2014). She is currently completing a Phd at Trinity College Dublin on ‘A hermeneutical reading of The Universe Story‘. Contact details niamhbbrennan@hotmail.com
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“If we embrace the whole – including Earthly life, the more than human life, and transformative and compassionate actions – in order to untangle ourselves from unhealthy patterns of desiring things we do not need, or from rejecting wholesome ways of living because they force us to reassess how we view the rights of other people and species, we will arrive at a more centred, nourishing and spiritual place.”
~ Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
Rivers of Green Wisdom: Exploring Christian and Yogic Earth-Centred Spirituality
By Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
In Rivers of Green Wisdom the author shares personal reflections on Christian, Yogic and Earth-centred wisdom and key stages encountered on his own spiritual journey. This book unveils central teachings about the sacredness of Earth and Nature, covers both past and present understanding about our interdependent relationship with the natural world, and how various teachers have looked for East-West fusions for deeper and more responsible living.
Overall, Rivers of Green Wisdom highlights essential challenges we need to embrace in order to move forward skilfully and build a harmonious and sustainable Earth community that compassionately cares about the diversity of life our Earth-Mother has sought to celebrate.
Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston) is a Psychosynthesis counsellor and a OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation minister. He played in one of London’s first punk rock bands and later studied world religions and religious education at King’s College London. He is the current Chair of GreenSpirit’s publications team and an author, coauthor and editor of over a dozen books, including Spirituality Unveiled: Awakening to Creative Life, and The House of Wisdom: Yoga Spirituality of the East and West.
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Review by Sky and Marian McCain
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“First, it is important to affirm that every action makes a difference. In a religious or spiritual perspective such as animism, where we are all inherently connected within the fabric of Nature, the smallest action is significant. Perceiving every part of Nature as animate, soul-full, shimmering with its own story, changes how we behave with everything.”
~ Emma Restall Orr
Pathways of Green Wisdom: Discovering Earth-Centred Teachings in Spiritual and Religious Traditions
Edited by Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
Contributors: Jean Boulton, Vivienne Cato, Chris Clarke, David E Cooper, Jean Hardy, Donna Ladkin, Marian Van Eyk McCain, Marie Miller, Emma Restall Orr, Chris Philpott, Aidan Rankin and June Raymond.
Pathways of Green Wisdom covers teachings and practices that promote honouring and compassionately caring for Nature. It brings together numerous reflective and informative pieces by contributors to GreenSpirit magazine spanning a period of 11 years, along with especially written new material.
Contributors include progressive and insightful writers from scientific, educationist and eco-activist backgrounds. Each of them writes skilfully while displaying a wealth of knowledge and deep understanding of green wisdom found within a specific tradition. Each offers an enriching well for eco-spiritual readers to draw some nourishment and appreciate numerous Earth-centred dimensions of a particular path.
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“Once we truly understand that we are the Earth, that the Earth is a living, conscious being and that it is NOT all about us; we shall surely recognise that our health and Gaia’s health are not just connected but utterly intertwined, joined and interdependent. They are one and the same. Our healing and the wellbeing of all life are dependent on Gaia’s healing. Neither we nor any other living organism can be healthy unless Gaia is healthy.”
~ Sky McCain
Deep Green Living
Edited by Marian Van Eyk McCain
Contributors: Eric Alan, Ted Carter, Helen Cockburn, Rachel Corby, Duane Elgin, Ellen Gunter, Chris Holmes, Donna Ladkin, Nigel Lees, Sky McCain, Eleanor O’Hanlon, Peter Quince and Marianne Worley.
Beyond simply living green there is an even more radical way to live. And that is to understand, with your entire mind and body and soul, that you are not simply ‘on’ the planet, you are an intrinsic part of the planet.
When you can truly know and feel yourself not as something separate from the Earth, but as a living part of a greater living organism, a cell in the body of that great living organism that many of us like to call Gaia, you touch into an even deeper level of awareness. Deep green living is not only to know and understand that but to live your entire life out of that humble knowing. It is the path of sustainability, spirituality, a sense of permanent and eternal belonging and of deep, abiding joy.
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“So far, what I most love about this way of life is having more time, flexibility and autonomy for the things that really matter to me. For me this has been as much a spiritual journey and awakening as anything else.”
~ Sally Lever
The Rising Water Project: Real Stories of Flooding, Real Stories of Downshifting
Compiled and with a Foreword by Ian Mowll
Contributors: Claire Appleby, Hazel Beck, Mary Dhonau, Jane Faith, Lynne Jones, Sally Lever, Marian Van Eyk McCain and Graham Styring.
Many of us have heard about the science of climate change and may have wondered how it causes turbulent weather conditions, particularly flooding. You may have wondered what can be done about it on an individual level and how to inspire a difference in the way we humans live.
This book is about people’s personal stories of flooding, produced by extreme weather conditions. By listening to people’s experiences, we become aware that the problem of climate change is immediate, affecting us today. Also, by listening to people’s positive experiences of downshifting, we can learn that combating climate change can be beneficial for the environment, leading to a more fulfilled life because downshifting can result in reduced carbon emissions and a simpler way of living.
The compiler, Ian Mowll, is the coordinator of GreenSpirit, a OneSpirit Interfaith Foundation minister, and a co-editors and layout artist of GreenSpirit magazine.
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“At every level our health is inextricably linked to our connection with the planet. Everything, physical, emotional and spiritual within ourselves resonates with qualities already within creation.”
~ June Raymond
Dark Nights of the Green Soul: From Darkness to New Horizons (expanded edition)
Edited by Ian Mowll and Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
Contributors: Joan Angus, Grace Blindell, Alex Brianson, Christine Connelly, Gail Davidson, Caroline Rosie Dent, William Fulford, Malcolm Hollick, Marshall Wayne Lee, Marian Van Eyk McCain, Sky McCain, Mary Jo Radcliffe, June Raymond, Trevor Sharman, Nicola Smalley, and Mary Reynolds Thompson.
While bringing together a collection of articles published mostly in GreenSpirit magazine, Dark Nights of the Green Soul highlights insights about facing difficult times, alongside reflections on our interactive relationship with Nature and our shared responsibilities.
The book’s four main parts present various perspectives about working with darkness and ways in which we can creatively move forward. The first section considers different types of darkness as well as its benefits. The second and largest section includes further wisdom, along with personal stories about times of difficulty people encountered, and how each of the storytellers found new meaning and growth by either connecting with an animal friend or in Earth-centred spiritual awakenings and teachings. The seven articles in the third and last sections reflect upon the state of the planet and offer practical views for the times in which we live and ‘the great work’ we need to embrace.
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Review of first edition by Chris Holmes
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“Dream big, then go out and make it happen. Not just because it’s fun and it’s the right thing to do. We have to. There’s no waiting around for technology to save us. In fact, all the technology we need is right here, right now. Not just pipes, and systems, and theories. But spirit, and magic, and most of all, hope.”
~ Jonathan Furst
Awakening to Earth-Centred Consciousness: Selection from GreenSpirit Magazine
Edited by Ian Mowll and Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
Contributors: Richard Adams, Jean Boulton, Susan Canney, Chris Clarke, Erna Colebrook, Victoria Field, Jean Francis, Jonathan Furst, Katie Hill, Amelia Kinkade, Margaret Lee, Nigel Lees, Marian Van Eyk McCain, Nicola Peel, June Raymond and Piers Warren.
Awakening to Earth-Centred Consciousness shares personal stories, engages thoughtfully with green topics, and provides insightful teachings about our interconnected relationships with the natural world. A wide range of major subjects are covered such as green burials, veganism, raising green awareness in the Amazon, elephant protection, ecopsychology, and how Nature can heal us.
This book encourages us to embrace an inclusive, compassionate and mindful spirituality – one that leads to interacting with profound levels of life and Nature, of which we are all wondrously interwoven and a part, and the essential obligations this brings for responsible Gaia-centred living.
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“Nature is full of wonder and surprises.”
~ Nigel Lees
GreenSpirit Reflections
Compiled by Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)
A meditations book of profound and inspiring quotations on green spirituality. Drawing from a variety of GreenSpirit publications, this little book of reflections gathers together numerous key insights in nine essential categories that can be seen as the core of Earth-centred wisdom.
GreenSpirit Reflections is the tenth title in the GreenSpirit Book Series, which is a low-cost series on Earth-centred spirituality, sold at production price only. Passages are by contributors and editors of numerous articles and authors of titles published by GreenSpirit. The book also includes some wonderful images and is beautifully designed.
Compiled by Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston), who studied world religions at King’s College London, is a member of GreenSpirit’s publications team, and the author and editor of over a dozen books.
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Anthology of Poems for GreenSpirits
Compiled by Joan Angus
This is a collection of poetry written by people who are spiritually green, expressing their love of Mother Gaia and the community of the Natural World. The book is loosely arranged in sections to represent different aspects of Earth-centred life and death. The poems were lovingly gathered from the poets’ personal collections and from some previously published in GreenSpirit magazines, as well as those contributed by friends and family. It is a book for browsing or dipping into; thought provoking, uplifting and meditational.
Compiled by Joan Angus, who has been a member of GreenSpirit for twenty years, much of that serving on the Council.
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Review by Steve Wollaston aka Santoshan
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The Lilypad List: Seven Steps to the Simple Life
By Marian Van Eyk McCain
A small inspirational self-help book on an increasingly popular topic – how to simplify one’s life in order to achieve better health, lower stress, greater enjoyment, satisfaction and spiritual growth. This timeless book, originally published by Findhorn Press, and now republished and redesigned as the twelfth title in the GreenSpirit Book Series, is written in an autobiographical style by someone who has experienced, at first-hand, a number of different versions of ‘the simple life’ and discovered for herself, over many years, the immense joy and pleasure that is gained by living simply, sustainably and close to the Earth.
Marian Van Eyk McCain: Originally a social worker and then a transpersonal psychotherapist/workshop leader/health educator with an MA in East-West Psychology, Marian officially ‘retired’ in 1996 to concentrate on her writing. A member of GreenSpirit for many years and co-Editor of our magazine, she is the author of seven books, and editor of the anthology ‘GreenSpirit: Path to a New Consciousness’ (Earth Books), plus several other books in the GreenSpirit Book Series. For more details about Marian, visit her Edlerwoman website.
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Meditations with Thomas Berry: With additional material by Brian Swimme
Selected by June Raymond
A collection of profound and inspiring quotations from one of the most important voices of our times: the late Thomas Berry, author, geologian, cultural historian and lover of the Earth. It includes several quotations from work that Berry co-authored with cosmologist Brian Swimme. All the quotations were selected and arranged by June Raymond especially for GreenSpirit publication. Along with her introduction, June has included her suggestions on how the book may be used as a tool for meditation.
This small but immensely rich in content book demands a permanent place on every eco-spiritual reader’s bookshelf. It was first published by GreenSpirit Books and later made available with design changes in our GreenSpirit Book Series.
Selected by June Raymond, who is a sister of Notre Dame, read English at Oxford and served as a long-standing member of the GreenSpirit Council and its Publications Team. She lives in the north of England.
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