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Cultural Addiction

The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery

By: Albert LaChance

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Paperback | 15 July 2011 | Edition Number 1

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The Architecture of the Soul introduces and maps out a model of the human person that represents a new way of interpreting and treating human? and by extension global? dysfunction. Arising from the transpersonal and integral schools of psychology, this model provides an alternative to the view of the human person as a product of brain chemistry, whose dysfunctional behavior can be treated through pharmaceuticals and traditional psychology. Based on the author's years of clinical experience treating addiction, the book posits a human psyche made up of three zones of awareness. The first two are reached by present-day psychology, focusing on cognitive and affective disorders, and therapies that treat addictive disorders. The crucial third zone, called Tertiary Awareness, is the 'rudder' of the human personality that contains deep bio- and eco-wisdoms that must be brought to consciousness and cultivated. In explaining how to integrate self and spirit, the author demonstrates how people must be made aware of this zone if we are to survive as a species and a planet.

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"LaChance offers us a deep spiritual analysis of the human roots of the present ecological crisis facing the world, through the lens of addiction, pathology, and denialism. But rather than simply describing the situation, he offers us a practical spiritual framework to respond to the crisis through adaptation of the 12-step program."
- The Reverend Adrian Robbins-Col, MA, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Peterborough, Diocese of New Hampshire

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Non-Fiction Self-Help, Personal Development & Practical Advice Popular Psychology Fiction Modern & Contemporary Fiction Family & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with Drug & Alcohol Abuse Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Religion & Beliefs

Christianity Advice on Careers & Achieving Success Aspects of Religion for Non-Christians Spirituality & Religious Experience Psychology

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xvii
Notes for the Reader	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
The Twelve Steps of Ecological Spirituality	p. xxi
The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
Ecological Reality Is for Those Who Can't Handle Consumerism!	p. 6
Collective or Cultural Addiction-the Dilemma of the Western World	p. 9
	p. 15
	p. 27
The "New Story"	p. 28
	p. 43
Consciousness: The Cognitive Brain	p. 47
The Personal Subconscious	p. 49
The Collective Unconscious	p. 55
	p. 61
The Dysfunctions of Excess	p. 67
	p. 81
	p. 97
Cultural Fields and Cultural Addiction	p. 101
	p. 111
The Four Forces	p. 113
Personality, Community, Systems	p. 115
	p. 125
The Five Addictions to Death	p. 129
	p. 143
Breaking Our Fixation with the Five Addictions to Death	p. 149
	p. 159
The Twelve Dysfunctions, All Together	p. 166
Progress Toward the Ecological Age	p. 170
	p. 173
The Global Spiritual Tradition of the Human	p. 184
	p. 223
The Earth in the Ecological Age	p. 231
Appendix	p. 235
Greenspirit Preamble	p. 235
Greenspirit Suggested Group Format	p. 236
Notes	p. 239
Index	p. 247
About the Author	p. 255
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