Why Can't We Be More Like Trees?: The Ancient Masters of Cooperation, Kindness, and Healing

Author:   Judith Bluestone Polich
Publisher:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
ISBN:  

9781591435044


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   18 January 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Why Can't We Be More Like Trees?: The Ancient Masters of Cooperation, Kindness, and Healing


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Reveals how we can learn from the intelligent communities of trees and plants • Shares breakthrough research on how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and sentient new world • Examines the attributes we share with trees and plants and how the behaviors of altruism, cooperation, and community are genetically coded in our beings • Looks at how to learn to see, think, imagine, and live with holistic eco-centric awareness and the benefits that come from working with our plant allies Breakthrough research is not only revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence but also that humanity, like the tree and plant kingdom, thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community. Breakthrough research is not only revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence but also that humanity, like the tree and plant kingdom, thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community. Exploring the latest cutting-edge environmental and ecological studies, climate advisor and environmental advocate Judith Polich explains how we can now see how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and seemingly sentient new world. She explains how trees communicate, how they share resources, and other ways in which they express holistic and cooperative behaviors. Looking at the new scientific understanding of the evolutionary basis of altruism, cooperation, and community—and how these behaviors are genetically coded in our beings—the author examines the attributes we share with trees and other plant communities. She explores the healing powers offered by the plant kingdom, not just as medicines but through shared sentience that can help heal our sense of dissociation and disenchantment. Revealing how to see, think, imagine, and live with holistic eco-centric awareness, the author discusses how the stories we tell ourselves and our spiritual belief systems are becoming greener, including a resurgence of beliefs that originated with plant teachers. She also explores how to overcome our current cognitive biases through greater interaction with plant intelligence. By viewing the world through a greener lens, not only can we reframe and unravel the deeper causes of the climate crisis, but we can also help co-create a new more conscious world with our plant allies.

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Author:   Judith Bluestone Polich
Publisher:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Imprint:   Bear & Company
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.240kg
ISBN:  

9781591435044


ISBN 10:   1591435048
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   18 January 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Heart-Brain of the Forest 2 Finding Our Place in Nature 3 How Nature Heals Us 4 Our Tree Connections 5 Greening Our Stories 6 Seeing with a Greener, More Humble Lens 7 Restoring, Rebalancing, Regreening Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

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Spirituality / Nature “Judith Polich has given us a magnificent gift. . . . She brilliantly points out that we must awaken to the ancient indigenous wisdom that everything is alive, is conscious, and interconnected. . . . She inspires a more holistic approach to life through her emerging narratives and gets readers to think outside the box. . . . A remarkable book written so beautifully, it has a healing energy that can be felt through every page.” —SANDRA INGERMAN, M.A., international shamanic teacher, coauthor of Speaking with Nature, and author of Walking in Light Breakthrough research is not only revealing a brilliant green world with amazing attributes like dispersed intelligence but also that humanity, like the tree and plant kingdom, thrives on innate cooperation, sharing, altruism, and community. Exploring the latest cutting-edge environmental and ecological studies, climate advisor and environmental advocate Judith Polich explains how we can now see how tree and plant communities function, revealing a holistic, interconnected, communal, and seemingly sentient new world. She explains how trees communicate, how they share resources, and other ways in which they express holistic and cooperative behaviors. Looking at the new scientific understanding of the evolutionary basis of altruism, cooperation, and community—and how these behaviors are genetically coded in our beings—the author examines the attributes we share with trees and other plant communities. She explores the healing powers offered by the plant kingdom, not just as medicines but through shared sentience that can help heal our sense of dissociation and disenchantment. Revealing how to see, think, imagine, and live with holistic eco-centric awareness, the author discusses how the stories we tell ourselves and our spiritual belief systems are becoming greener, including a resurgence of beliefs that originated with plant teachers. She also explores how to overcome our current cognitive biases through greater interaction with plant intelligence. By viewing the world through a greener lens, not only can we reframe and unravel the deeper causes of the climate crisis, but we can also help co-create a new more conscious world with our plant allies. JUDITH POLICH, is a former lawyer, environmentalist, and wetlands advocate. She holds a master of science degree in environmental studies and environmental education from the University of Wisconsin. The author of a climate change column for the Albuquerque Journal and the book, Return of the Children of Light, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “Judith Polich has given us a magnificent gift in writing Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees? She brilliantly points out that we must awaken to the ancient indigenous wisdom that everything is alive, is conscious, and interconnected. In Why Can’t We Be More Like Trees? she inspires a more holistic approach to life through her emerging narratives and gets readers to think outside the box. Judith is so passionate about waking people to an entire new level of consciousness. A remarkable book written so beautifully, it has a healing energy that can be felt through every page.” * Sandra Ingerman, M.A., international shamanic teacher, coauthor of Speaking with Nature, and author *


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Judith Polich is a former lawyer, environmentalist, and wetlands advocate. She holds a master of science degree in environmental studies and environmental education from the University of Wisconsin. The author of a climate change column for the Albuquerque Journal and the book, Return of the Children of Light, she lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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