Experience: Release From Self-Sabotage
[Exploring Life] When we are sabotaged we are in some manner undermined, injured, attacked, or vandalized. Sabotage retrieves imagery of warfare in which one side secretly attempts to destroy or disable critical facilities, structures, or positions of the enemy. The essence of sabotage lies within opposition and hostility directed toward a perceived threat to our [...]
Ecopsychology: Release from Spiritual Confinement
[Exploring Life] Ecopsychology embraces three vital concepts, relationship, interaction, and belonging. Psychology has had an incestuous history, one in which it constantly looked for solutions to the problems it was responsible for creating in the first place. In this sense, psychology created its own market by infecting people with false assumptions about behaviour, emotions, and [...]
Ecopsychology: The Commodification of Nature
[Exploring Life] Nature is a vast system of interaction between all life forms and organic material of the planet that provides the foundation for existence. From this perspective, it the destruction of the planet is equivalent to the destruction of life. Capitalism is an economic and political system that embraces the notion of private ownership [...]
Ecopsychology: Law of Mother Earth
[Exploring Life] Bolivia is posed to create a law that grants nature equal right to a humans, and have also suggested that the United Nations adopt a Proposal Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. The proposal originates in an eco-sensitive set of presuppositions that redefine our relationship with the earth and dramatically alters [...]
Ecopsychology: Water – A Fundamental Human Right
[Exploring Life] Can an individual or organization claim the right to own and profit from a natural resource that is essential to the preservation and well being of all life on our planet? The battle to claim ownership and control the world’s fresh water supply brings us to the particular nexus where money, the natural [...]