"For our children to come of age securely situated in the understanding of organic and cultural interconnectedness might, just might, rescue them from the contagion of narcissism, aimlessness, and alienation that plagues so many of our young adults.
It might well give them back their birth right as human organisms fully engaged with the embodied, embedded, organic interconnections needed to be healthy and to thrive, no longer isolate units of “coolness” and consumption but linked in their very cells with the dynamics of the entire Earth community and the entire universe." -- Charlene Spretnak
"I attended the opening of an art exhibition at a New York gallery with a friend of mine. She introduced me to the gallery’s senior staff person, an elegant woman in her 50s who was predictably dressed in black, and mentioned that I was writing a book on art. The woman inquired about the specific subject, and when I told her that I was researching the spiritual dynamic in modern art, the muscles in her face tightened, and her eyes hardened into a penetrating stare focused on a perspectival point somewhere on the wall behind my head.
Slowly and firmly she corrected me in modulated tones of unassailable authority—“ You mean the psychological dynamic in modern art”— then turned abruptly and walked away. I smiled for it was hardly the first time I had encountered disdain at my raising an unwelcome “nonsubject” concerning modern art." -- Charlene Spretnak
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