Sacred Soil

Author : Robert Tindall,Frederique Apffel-Marglin,David Shearer
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781623171193

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Sacred Soil by Robert Tindall,Frederique Apffel-Marglin,David Shearer Pdf

A fascinating description of how utilizing the biochar embedded in terra preta, the recently rediscovered sacred soil of the pre-Columbian peoples of the Amazon rainforest, can cut our dependency on petrochemicals, restore the health of our soils, remove carbon from our overheating atmosphere, and restore the planet to pre-industrial levels of atmospheric carbon by 2050. The authors show that the rediscovery of terra preta is an opportunity to move beyond the West’s tradition of plunder and genocide of the native civilizations of the Americas by offering an invitation to embrace the deeper mystery of the indigenous methods of inquiry and to participate in an animate cosmos that gave rise to such a powerful soil technology. Sacred Soil, in recognizing the need for biocultural regeneration, takes a multi-disciplinary approach to the phenomenon of biochar soils, utilizing mythopoeic, historical, anthropological, and scientific perspectives to embrace the deep past, the vexed present, and the prospectus for our future. Coming at this crucial juncture in human history, the potential resting in biochar is also an open doorway into the indigenous ways of knowing that enabled the pre-Columbian Amazonian high civilizations to support a population of millions while leaving their lands more fertile than when they arose.

Author : Philip Lutz (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000009251382

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We Stand on Sacred Soil Today by Philip Lutz (Jr.) Pdf

Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781888729337

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Sacred Places North America by Brad Olsen Pdf

This revised and updated comprehensive travel guide examines North America's most sacred sites for spiritually attuned explorers. Important archaeological, geological, and historical destinations from coast to coast are exhaustively examined, from the weathered pueblos of the American Southwest and the medicine wheels of western Canada to Graceland and the birthplace of Martin Luther King, Jr. Histories and cultural contexts are objectively surveyed, along with the latest academic theories and insightful metaphysical ruminations. Detailed maps, drawings, and travel directions are also included.

Author : David Suzuki
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781926685496

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The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki Pdf

In this extensively revised and enlarged edition of his best-selling book, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in nature and science — from global warming to the science behind mother/baby interactions — and examines what they mean for humankind’s place in the world. The book begins by presenting the concept of people as creatures of the Earth who depend on its gifts of air, water, soil, and sun energy. The author explains how people are genetically programmed to crave the company of other species, and how people suffer enormously when they fail to live in harmony with them. Suzuki analyzes those deep spiritual needs, rooted in nature, that are a crucial component of a loving world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance is a powerful, passionate book with concrete suggestions for creating an ecologically sustainable, satisfying, and fair future by rediscovering and addressing humanity’s basic needs.

Author : David Suzuki
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781771649872

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The Sacred Balance, 25th anniversary edition by David Suzuki Pdf

“The Sacred Balance has a beautiful spirit.”—E.O. Wilson With a new foreword from Robin Wall Kimmerer, New York Times-bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass—and an afterword from Bill McKibben—this special 25th anniversary edition of a beloved bestseller invites readers to see ourselves as part of nature, not separate. The world is changing at a relentless pace. How can we slow down and act from a place of respect for all living things? The Sacred Balance shows us how. In this extensively updated new edition, David Suzuki reflects on the increasingly radical changes in science and nature—from the climate crisis to peak oil and the rise in clean energy—and examines what they mean for humankind. He also reflects on what we have learned by listening to Indigenous leaders, whose knowledge of the natural world is profound, and whose peoples are on the frontlines of protecting land and water around the world. Drawing on his own experiences and those of others who have put their beliefs into action, The Sacred Balance combines science, philosophy, spirituality, and Indigenous knowledge to offer concrete suggestions for creating an ecologically sustainable future by rediscovering and addressing humanity’s basic needs. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute

Author : John Eadie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590324159

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A biblical cyclopaedia, or, Dictionary of Eastern antiquities, geography, natural history, sacred annals and biography, theology and biblical literature, illustrative of the Old and New Testaments by John Eadie Pdf

Author : John EADIE (LL.D.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019761055

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A Biblical Cyclopaedia, or Dictionary of Eastern Antiquities, Geography, Natural History, Sacred Annals and Biography, Theology and Biblical Literature, illustrative of the Old and New Testaments by John EADIE (LL.D.) Pdf

Author : Melina Rudman
Publisher : Harding House Publishing, Incorporated/Anamcharabooks
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1625247842

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Sacred Soil by Melina Rudman Pdf

In these fifteen intimate essays, Melina Rudman explores the pain of loss and the joy of connection. She writes of gardening as a spiritual practice, one that has the power to ground us in the seasons and cycles of Nature.

Author : James Webb
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307567451

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The Emperor's General by James Webb Pdf

Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Japanese army during World War II's final days. And he had abandoned his beautiful Filipina fiancée to see his duty through. But not even Marsh could guess the terrible personal price he would have to pay for his loyalty. He would follow General Douglas MacArthur to Tokyo itself. There he would become the brilliant, egocentric general's confidant, translator, surrogate son--and spy. Marsh would play a dangerous game of deliberate deceit and brutal injustice in the shadow world of postwar Japan's royal palaces and geisha houses, and recognize that the defeated emperor and his wily aides were exploiting MacArthur's ruthless ambition to become the American Caesar. The Emperor's General is a dramatic human story of the loss of innocence and the seduction of power, about the conflict between honor, duty, and love, all set against an extraordinary historical backdrop.

Author : Katherine Van Liere,Simon Ditchfield,Howard Louthan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594795

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Sacred History by Katherine Van Liere,Simon Ditchfield,Howard Louthan Pdf

The first geographically broad, comparative survey of early modern 'sacred history', or writing on the history of the Christian Church, its leaders and saints, and its internal developments, in the two centuries from c. 1450 to c. 1650.

Author : Shalom L. Goldman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781469620237

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God's Sacred Tongue by Shalom L. Goldman Pdf

In a comprehensive examination of how Christian scholars in the United States received, interpreted, and understood Hebrew texts and the Jewish experience, Shalom Goldman explores Hebraism's relationship to American society. By linking history, theology, and literature from the colonial period through the twentieth century, Goldman illuminates the religious and cultural roots of American interest in the Middle East. God's Sacred Tongue is structured around a sequence of biographical and intellectual portraits of individuals including Jonathan Edwards, Isaac Nordheimer, Professor George Bush (an ancestor of President George W. Bush), and twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson. Since the colonial period, America has been perceived as a western Promised Land with emotional, spiritual, and physical links to the Promised Land of biblical history. Goldman gives evidence from scholarship, diplomacy, journalism, the history of higher education, and the arts to show that this perception is linked to the role Hebrew and the Bible have played in American cultural history. The book's final section takes up the story of American Christian Zionism, among whose Protestant adherents political Zionism found much of its strongest support. Religious and cultural figures such as William Rainey Harper and Reinhold Niebuhr are among those who exemplify the centuries-old ties between America, the Land of Promise, and Israel, the Promised Land.

Author : William Edgar Gell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317845805

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Sacred 5 Of China by William Edgar Gell Pdf

First published in 2007. Geil argues in this book that five is a number most remarkable to the man of the Central Kingdom. Crafted to the rule of fifths, the author discusses aspects of the world, mountains and religion which lead to the analysis of five. These include the ascent of five key figures: Tai Shan, Nan Yo, Sung Shan, Hua Shan and Heng Shan. This title includes illustrations throughout with a comprehensive index.

Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041509766

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The Sacred City of the Hindus by Matthew Atmore Sherring Pdf

Author : Daniel Benjamin,Steven Simon
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812969849

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The Age of Sacred Terror by Daniel Benjamin,Steven Simon Pdf

Winner of the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations From two of the world’s foremost experts on the new terrorism comes the definitive book on the rise of al-Qaeda and America’s efforts to combat the most innovative and dangerous terrorist group ever. Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon trace the growth of radical Islam from its medieval origins and, drawing on their years of counter-terrorism work at the National Security Council, provide essential insights into the thinking of Usama bin Laden and his followers. With unique authority, they analyze why America was unable to defend itself against this revolutionary threat on September 11, 2001, why bin Laden’s apocalyptic creed is gaining ground in the Islamic world, and what the United States must do to stop the new terror.

Author : Mary Dring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : English poetry
ISBN : BL:A0021974173

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Poems, Sacred and Miscellaneous by Mary Dring Pdf