Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses

Earthbodies......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Moving Earth and Flowing Flesh......Page 14
Dancing versus Diabolical Logic......Page 20
Addicted to Self-Laceration......Page 25
Earthbody Sense......Page 30
Ceremonial Awareness......Page 36
We Are Time......Page 46
Sensing Enters the Earth......Page 57
Eroticism Truly......Page 70
Introduction: Detachment as a Curse upon the Land......Page 90
Ghouls: Our Love of Horror and Compulsion to Consume......Page 92
Vampires: Hunger for Experience and Fear of Intimacy......Page 100
Aesthetes: Obsession with Novelty and Control......Page 109
Who Has the Last Laugh?......Page 124
Introduction: A Different Kind of Materialism......Page 132
Cyberspace: A Material and Embodied Place in the World......Page 134
The Virtual Is the Heart of Reality......Page 144
Cyborg Life: Protean Selves versus Fragmented Selves......Page 152
Deep-rooted Emotion versus Cyberspace Sentimentality......Page 169
Introduction: The World Is Our “Out of Body” Body......Page 192
Animals and Humans as Part of the Same Dream......Page 194
Animals and Vitality, Morality, Spirituality, and Play......Page 203
Traditional Western Ethics as a Perverse Reaction to the Planet......Page 212
An Earthbody Ethics of Achieving Presence and Co-presence......Page 224
Patterns of Perversity in Flight from Pain......Page 234
Rhythm’s Power, Changing Destructive Patterns, and Finding Place......Page 240
A Dynamic Sense of the Depths of Surfaces......Page 248
Responsibility, Reverberating Resonance, and Joy......Page 254
Afterword: A Poem......Page 264
1. The Earthly Dance of Interconnection......Page 268
3. Discordant Contemporary Rhythms......Page 269
4. Cyberspace: Rootedness versus Being in Orbit......Page 270
5. Planetary Meaningfulness......Page 272
6. Rejoining the Planet......Page 273
C......Page 276
E......Page 277
H......Page 278
M......Page 279
R......Page 280
T......Page 281
Z......Page 282