EHE Book Reviews

Earth EEs/EHEs; Planetary Consciousness Record Type: Review ID: 457
Gaia's Hidden Life: The Unseen Intelligence of Nature Nicholson, Shirley, & Rosen, Brenda
This is a collection of 26 essays, 17 published previously, on the Earth as a living organism. They are arranged in five parts. The first consists of 5 selections that present "Worldviews of a Living Cosmos." The authors are Shirley Nicholson, Elisabet Sahtouris, Sean McDonagh, Clara Sue Kidwell, and David Valbracht. Part two consists of four chapters on "Ecological and Scientific Perspectives," by James Lovelock, Peter Tomkins/Christopher Bird, Patrick Milburn, and Pamela Kant Demers. Part Three, "Traditional Views of Nature as Alive," contains 6 chapters, by Thomas Berry, David P. McAllester, Joan Halifax, W.Y. Evans-Wentz, Carolyn Merchant, and Manly Palmer Hall. Part Four, "Encounters with Intelligences in Nature," consists of five essays by C.W. Leadbeater, Kenneth Cooper, Dorothy MacLean, Dora van Gelder, and Geoffrey Hodson. The last section is on "Living With Unseen Lives," and consists of 6 chapters by Machaelle Small Wright, Henryk Skolimowski, David Valbracht, Serge Kahili King, John Seed, and Geoffrey Hodson. The editors provide an introduction to each section.
Publisher Information:	Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1992. 290p. 3 figs; 5 illus

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Gaia's Hidden Life: The Unseen Intelligence of Nature