"Insanity is when we keep doing the same thing and keep expecting different results"
Albert Einstein
Have you ever felt like the world has gone mad? Ever felt alienated by the culture you find yourself in? Have you wondered why the human race tries to set itself apart from nature, denies its place in it, and acts as if the environment, and all the other species in it, are only there for us to exploit? I know I have. Why can we not see that the planet is dying? Why do we pathologically deny our part in the 500+ species that are driven to extinction every day? We are systematically destroying our own life support system, our ecoshpere, and yet we are totally detached from this reality. Why? Perhaps it is because we are sick. Maybe we all collectively suffer from the same mental illness characterised by the pathological denial of the damage we are causing.
In this brilliant paper by Robin van Tine, Ph.D., this illness is given a name. It is Gaeaphobia, and its symptoms are undeniable...
http://www.ecopsychology.org/journal/gatherings2/robin.htm
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