{"product_id":"9780991155422","title":"From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy does so much human activity continue in the illusionary bubble where lifestyles and societies require the resources of more than one Earth? In his first book, \u003cem\u003eBlinded by Progress\u003c\/em\u003e, Lee Van Ham contributed to a deeper understanding of that question. This book takes us on the heroic journey to relocate outside of that illusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a 1.5° Celsius temperature rise above pre-industrial levels now certain by 2026, we must immediately and massively scale-up many excellent ecological efforts in order to have any chance of avoiding 2° by mid-century. It requires we take a heroic journey on which our most challenging choices are met with new thinking, aroused imaginations, and a greater consciousness where we live out our truest human capacities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Egos to Eden\u003c\/em\u003e guides us on this journey, moving from ego to Self, from civilization to Earth-size living, from smaller topographies of consciousness to transforming ones. We metamorphose into our fuller capacities as humans—people eager to leave MultiEarth living and join Earth in co-creating OneEarth societies. The powers of our imagination help us crossover into a world in which we take our place with other species in Earth’s interdependent community of life—a OneEarth livable world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author reclaims Eden from a morality tale of human failure and returns it to the cutting edge it had when its creators told it in protest of the coercive, over-sized ways of empires. In their case it was the Babylonian Empire of the 6th century BCE; in our case, Eden turns its spotlight on the United States superpower, China’s rapidly emerging super-status, and the globalization driven by transnational corporations. All are revealed as flawed, MultiEarth models that need to unravel or be radically re-imagined to fit with nature’s demands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuides on this heroic journey include First Peoples who have resisted for millennia the Civilization Project of MultiEarth living; Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, who gives a psychological-spiritual basis for believing we can be new humans; and David Korten whose map shows us five topographies of consciousness through which we can and must journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComing to see clearly that living with the thinking of a MultiEarth paradigm can never get us to OneEarth living, we can undergo the metamorphosis to the greater OneEarth standards of thought and choice that the current context requires of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OneEarth Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021337772272,"sku":"9780991155422","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780991155422_p0.jpg?v=1763897054","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780991155422","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}