Primal Awareness

Subtitled 'reconnecting with the spirits of nature', this book gives a history of our separation from nature and the world of spirit and what we can do to reconnect. The background context is shamanic primal awareness and the author describes 19 levels of separation that we have undergone, covering a surprisingly wide range of topics such as language, settlement and farming, possession and property, organised religion, patriarchy, bureaucracy, writing, Reformation, science and industrialisation, colonialism and capitalism, mechanistic thinking and modern technology. This is a long list and contains in each case there is guidance towards overcoming the particular form of separation. The author sees a transformative process underway and the first steps towards learning how to live more harmoniously with the environment and each other. However, one should remember that existing political and economic structures will not give up power, so we can only lead by personal example.