DMT, Ecocide, and the Western Psyche
Sebastian Job
Clio's Psyche 2014 DOI: 10.70763/29c0c0ee223856f336d7ea8052057753 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | DMT |
| Keywords | Psyche Psychoanalysis Environmental ethics |
| Key points | Argues that modern Western culture's relationship to nature is undermined by a spiritual malaise rooted in consumerism, corporate dominance, and the very scientific attitudes that diagnose ecological crisis. |
Abstract
Plagued by fears of civilizational collapse, the human relation to nature is charging back into modern consciousness. The natural sciences alert us to calamities on a vast scale, yet court the suspicion that they themselves presuppose an attitude intrinsic to the destructive dynamic. Thoughtful people diagnose a spiritual malaise at the heart of modern western culture. They wonder aloud how consumerist, status-conscious, gadget-obsessed urbanites in pseudo-democracies dominated by mega-corporations can ever re-capture a compelling relationship to the suffering Earth.
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