Pre-Owned The Voice of the Infinite in the Small: Revisioning the Insect-human Connection (The New Millennium Library, V.5) Paperback

Less a book about insect biology and behavior that it is about reinventing ourselves as a non-hostile species, this unique psychological and spiritual perspective offers an opportunity to expand and deepen the commitment to live in harmony with other species. There are reasons why we mistrust and fear insects. Few have much to do with the real creatures. Most involve misperceptions about them, ourselves, and our relationship to the Earth community -- the roots of our enmity are embedded in a false creation story and a bid to overpower and control the natural world. The Voice of the Infinite in the Small: Revisioning the Insect-Human Connection is less a book about insect biology and behavior than it is about reinventing ourselves as a non-hostile species. It is a unique psychological and spiritual perspective on insects and the recasting of our relationship to the Lilliputian world. It offers readers an opportunity to expand their circle of concern and deepen their commitment to live in harmony with all other species. It also facilitates spiritual self-understanding and growth by revealing creeping creatures as mirrors of divinity and harbingers of an alienated primitive self we need to resurrect for our continuation as a species. By investigating the reasons why we have, individually and collectively, adopted an adversarial and false stance toward insects and their kin, the reader learns that we have an innate affiliation for them. Returning to an ancient indigenous view of insects as emissaries of the numinous and agents of the creative powers within us and the universe, we open ourselves to their teachings.