Challenge to Civilization

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Publication Year:
2024

ISBN-13: 9780889779822

<B>Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future.</B><BR /> &#160;<BR /> Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit it and profit from it. Despite being a relatively recent development, civilization&rsquo;s inherent logic has resulted in over-population, inequality, poverty, misery, war, and climate change and now threatens humanity&rsquo;s very survival. How can humanity expect to survive if it continues to look for solutions from the very structures and ideologies that have brought it to the brink of extinction?<BR /> &#160;<BR /> In this final book of his trilogy, Dr. Blair Stonechild deftly illustrates how Indigenous spirituality, wisdom, and land-based knowledge is critical to human survival in the face of environmental destruction and human-induced climate change. Reinterpreting world history from an Indigenous perspective, Stonechild&rsquo;s solution to this unfolding catastrophe is &ldquo;ecolization,&rdquo; a state in which humans recognize they are not the central purpose of creation and a way of existing harmoniously with the natural and spiritual worlds.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Beautifully written, urgent, and critical, <I>Challenge to Civilization </I>reminds us that it is not Earth that is in danger of extinction, but ourselves, and Indigenous spiritual wisdom can be the guiding light through what will otherwise be humanity&rsquo;s final, ever-darkening days.<BR /> &#160;