Eco-Wisdom, or, Mind the Dog

Abstract

The condition we face today in the eleventh hour of ecological recklessness requires more than changes in what we are doing (using fossil fuels, wasting resources, throwing away food, overpopulating, accumulating plastic, despoiling the planet). The condition requires a fundamental change in thinking about our place in the cosmos. To help us make this shift, I turn to the wisdoms I most honor in my fields of study: writers, mythmakers, and a psychology based on archetypal knowing, such as that propounded by Carl Jung.