One Earth One Mind

by Michael W. Fox

This volume is meant to help you discover your authentic, transpersonal self in the totality of all. Rather than taking a mystical or religious approach, the author has combined objective, scientific... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089874752X
• ISBN13: 9780898747522
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Krieger Pub Co
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The Title of this Book Says it All

Dr Fox is a Veterinarian and a Professor of Psychology and after reading this profound book, one might see him as a Profit of Empathy for all life for he not only sees life on a multi-dimensional level, he sees the need for a radical change in our relations to all other life forms outside of the anthropocentrically narrow vistas of the human norm. The disassociation resulting in distance and hence, lack of responsibility to the needs of the non-human world are clearly spelled-out as only a broad-range psychologist could do, but he doesn't dwell exclusively on detachment and it's unfortunate tailings; he has an uncommon dedication to reviews, overhauls and reformation of our human perceptions and ways of doing business, especially in the ways animals are used and abused under the color of existing laws. To point out the blinding distractions of "modern" society, Fox has put together a multitude of quotes from studied observers of reality all through history. This is worth the read and re-read in itself. From Fox himself, there is the "Rat Race and Treadmill" which underscores our too busy to care dilemma. "Similar in many ways to a `busy' man is a zoo animal in it's cage pacing endlessly to and fro, neurotically driven to continue. He might also be compared to a runner driving a treadmill-the activity perpetuates itself, the driver is driven, and he can't get off. The urge to be constantly `doing' is a neurotic compulsion, motivated by its own momentum, by habit, by social competition, greed, and by the fear of failure or loss of status."...and much more. (p 30-). Reminds me of the dog chasing it's own tail, blinding it to all other concerns at the moment. Of course, in the dog's case, it's no harm/no foul; just a silly waste of time. From the Findhorn Garden there is: "Though he has dominion over nature, he cannot destroy it without destroying himself. The key to his expression of dominion is first to gain sovereignty of his own nature." (p 46) From Barry Commoner there is: "Ecological survival does not mean the abandonment of technology. Rather it requires that technology be derived from a scientific analysis that is appropriate to the natural world on which technology intrudes." (p 37) From Dane Rudhyar: We have reached a state of total crisis of civilization, not only in the West but all over the globe. We can only give our allegiance to a universal whole." (p 60) From Ashley Montagu: "Shall we never learn to understand that-when we demean any part of nature, because we are part of nature, we demean ourselves." (p 218) On and on it goes, but a note of caution here. If you start in with any of Fox's many books, you will probably feel compelled to read them all for he has much to offer!