Cultural Addiction The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery

by LaChance, Albert J.; Berry, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9781556436147
• ISBN10: 1556436149
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-15
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

The profound ecological degradation we are currently witnessing and the rise of addictive behaviors such as alcoholism and drug addition are two sides of the same coin. Industrialized societies have created a culture of consumerism that disintegrates the human person at the same time that it disintegrates the Earth. Yet we are addicted to consuming. Like all addicts, we deny the addiction and keep seeking the next "fix," which only brings us closer to destruction.

Author Biography

Albert J. LaChance, Ph.D., LADC, CAS, DAPA, is a certified addiction specialist and a licensed addictions counselor who has treated individuals, families, and groups since 1991.

Table of Contents

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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