Shattered Earth: Approaching Extinction - Couverture rigide

Prattis, Dr Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1988058511 ISBN 13 : 9781988058511

Editeur : Manor House Publishing Inc, 2020

Synopsis

Claudiu Murgan, author: Ian Prattiss previous books - Failsafe: Saving the Earth From Ourselves; New Planet New World, and Our World is Burning should be part of our schools curriculum. Shattered Earth is no exception... abrasive message... the existing ecological balance is broken and only a sudden halt of destructive actions fuelled by greed and power can dim down the effects. A must-read for all who care about their legacy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Poet, Global Traveler, Founder of Friends for Peace, Guru in India, Zen teacher and Spiritual Warrior for planetary care, peace and social justice, Dr. Ian Prattis presently lives in Ottawa, Canada and encourages people to find their true nature, so that humanity and the planet may be renewed. Dr. Ian Prattis is Professor Emeritus at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He is an award winning author of seventeen books. Recent awards include Gold for Redemption at the 2015 Florida Book Festival, 2015 Quill Award from Focus on Women Magazine for Trailing Sky Six Feathers and Silver for Environment from the 2014 Living Now Literary Awards for Failsafe; Saving the Earth From Ourselves. His novel - Redemption - is being made into a movie. His poetry, memoirs, fiction, articles, blogs and podcasts appear in a wide range of venues. He was born in the UK and has spent much of his life living and teaching in Canada. Born on October 16, 1942, in Great Britain, Ian grew up in Corby, a tough steel town populated by Scots in the heartland of England's countryside. Cultural interface was an early and continuing influence. Ian was an outstanding athlete and scholar at school, graduating with distinctions in all subjects. He did not stay to collect graduating honours, as at seventeen years old he travelled to Sarawak, Borneo, with Voluntary Service Overseas (1960 - 62), Britain's Peace Corps. Returning to Great Britain after Sarawak was an uneasy transition. He did, however, manage to stumble through an undergraduate degree in anthropology at University College, London (1962 - 65), before continuing with graduate studies at Balliol College, Oxford (1965 - 67). At Oxford, academics took a back seat to the judo dojo, rugby field, bridge table, and the founding of irreverent societies at Balliol. Yet by the time he pursued doctoral studies at the University of British Columbia (1967 - 70), his brain switched on. He renewed his passion for other cultures, placing his research on North West Coast fishing communities within a mathematical, experimental domain that the discipline of anthropology was not quite ready for. Being at the edge of new endeavours was natural to him, and continues to be so. He was Professor of Anthropology and Religion at Carleton University from 1970 to 2007. He has worked with diverse groups all over the world and has a passion for doing anthropology. His career trajectory has curved through mathematical models, development studies, hermeneutics, poetics and symbolic anthropology, to new science and consciousness studies. The intent was always to expand across existing boundaries, to renew the freshness of the anthropological endeavour and make the discipline relevant to the individuals and cultures it touches. He studied Tibetan Buddhism with Lama Tarchin in the early 1980's, Engaged Buddhism with Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh much later, Christian meditation with the Benedictines, and was trained by First Nation medicine people and shamans in their healing practices. He also studied the Vedic tradition of Siddha Samadhi Yoga, and taught this tradition of meditation in India. He was ordained as a teacher and initiator - the first westerner to receive this privilege - and is acknowledged in India as a guru. Later in life he lived in a hermitage in Kingsmere, Quebec, in the middle of Gatineau Park forest when his pet wolf was alive. He facilitated a meditation community in Ottawa called the Pine Gate Mindfulness Community from 1997 to 2017. At the outbreak of the Iraq war he founded Friends for Peace Canada - a coalition of meditation, peace, activist and environmental groups to work for peace, planetary care and social justice. He received the 2011 Ottawa Earth Day Environment Award and edits an online Buddhist Journal. In 2018 he received the Yellow Lotus Award from the Vesak Project for his spiritual guidance and teaching of the Dharma.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manor House Publishing Inc
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1988058511
• ISBN 13: 9781988058511
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible