Process and Reality, Whitehead’s magnum opus, is one of the major philosophical works of the modern world, and an extensive body of secondary literature has developed around it. Yet surely no significant philosophical book has appeared in the last two centuries in nearly so deplorable a condition as has this one, with its many hundreds of errors and with over three hundred discrepancies between the American and the English editions, which appeared in different formats with divergent paginations. The work itself (...) is highly technical and far from easy to understand, and in many passages the errors in those editions were such as to compound the difficulties. The need for a corrected edition has been keenly felt for many decades. (shrink)

We take I.Q. tests but not Compassion Aptitude tests. Yet mind and emotions need to be seen as two different parts of the same spectrum if the battered human psyche is to be mended. Skolimowski sees the opportunity for a new order to be brought about if the Western mind can return to, then reintegrate, the spiritual.

This dissertation articulates the epistemological and ontological complexity of traditional Dine holistic consciousness. From this cultural consciousness a paradigm process model was developed, based on the dynamic cosmic order. The paradigm process is intrinsically related to cosmic motion, somewhat similar to what physicist David Bohm termed "holomovement." ;The Navajo term Nanit'a Sa'ah Naaghai Nanit'a Bik'eh Hozhoon as used in the title of the dissertation, expresses an emphasis on interrelated holism and the systematic order of all things. The paradigm of organized (...) knowing is also a paradigm of living the order. The fundamental nexus that provides the organization of the paradigm and the dissertation is designed and guided by traditional Dine order expressed through spiritual terms. ;The dissertation has been written from a Native American perspective. Selected concepts have been juxtaposed in order to illuminate differences and similarities among western Cartesian-Newtonian based scientific knowledge, Quantum Physics, other sciences of wholeness and traditional Native American ways of knowing, with emphasis on Dine cosmology. ;The dissertation provides four major application models of Dine knowledge. A paradigm process model has been applied to each area, utilizing traditional teachings of the four directions. Traditional Dine knowledge is applied to four contemporary situations, showing continued relevancy and validation for future generations. The selected areas of application are Native American education, organizational planning and assessment, holistic healing and ecology . The applications take traditional indigenous knowledge out of the realm of abstraction, thus providing specific and authentic contextualization for m of abstraction, thus providing specific and authentic contextualization for contemporary native communities. (shrink)

In this insightful,beautifully written work, one of America's most important feminist ecological thinkers reflects on the roots of modernity in Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, Spretnak argues that an "ecological postmodern" ethos is emerging in the 1990s. the creative cosmos, and the complex sense of place." Both a sharp critique and a graceful performance of the art of the possible, The Resurgence of the Real changes the way we think about living in the modern world.