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Author: Eileen Crist

Eileen is recently retired from Virginia Tech where she taught for 22 years. Her writing focuses on Life’s crisis, its root causes, and pathways towards an ecological civilization. She’s an advocate of plant-based eating and yoga teacher. Her work can be found on her website: http://www.eileencrist.com/
Human-nature dualism, Mass extinction

Are humans part of, or apart from, nature?

The dominant human is apart from nature and in centrifugal acceleration away from it—as human supremacy, oblivious to its self-reification, propels the world with giddy abandon toward terra incognita. Continue reading Are humans part of, or apart from, nature?

Eileen Crist20 March 202323 March 2023
Human supremacy, Mass extinction

Don’t lose heart

It is said we are made of stardust. Perhaps that’s where accomplished meditators return. The rest of us may more easily return to what we’re made of by contemplating the first lifeform that emerged: the Archetype, which literally means “the first form.” Continue reading Don’t lose heart

Eileen Crist9 August 202220 March 2023
Bioregionalism, Disarmament

Demonic war

Our call: Love all, no more war on nature, nonhuman and human. Embracing peaceful coexistence heralds humanity’s return to our Earthling nature, our authentic identity. Continue reading Demonic war

Eileen Crist5 June 202211 January 2023
Mass extinction, Technoscepticism

The discourse of COVID vaccination and the sovereign technological fix

How did we as a humanity lose touch with what is the most precious thing of all—our home planet and our relationship with it? How could we (let) unwind the breathtaking beauty of this Earth, the onetime gift of a living planet, and our love for our Earthling kin? Continue reading The discourse of COVID vaccination and the sovereign technological fix

Eileen Crist14 February 2022
Human alienation, Human supremacy, Mass extinction

Broken mirror

The real way forward, away from suffering and toward hope, lies in denouncing the root cause of our predicament, the human-supremacy story, the destructive platitude of human specialness. Continue reading Broken mirror

Eileen Crist7 December 202110 February 2022
Agroecology, Factory farms, Green living, Habitat loss, Mass extinction, Nature needs half, Overpopulation

Four frameworks for Agroecology

We must make food in harmony and collaboration with nature: healing for the planet, replenishing soils, with kindness to animals and reverence to plants, wholesome and available to all people. That is the way of Agroecology. Continue reading Four frameworks for Agroecology

Eileen Crist3 September 20211 January 2023
Human supremacy, Identity politics

Earthling (we/us)

Earth keepers call out to one and all to opt out of the sociocultural identity game, to choose freedom from anthropocentric herd costumes that furnish simulacra of reality for a sleepwalking, and now moribund, existence. Continue reading Earthling (we/us)

Eileen Crist26 May 202121 August 20223 Comments
Animal rights, Factory farms, Human supremacy

Shutter the factory farms

At first glance, it may strike us as odd that human food is made from the suffering and torture of animals. But it’s the fact that it is not odd that should command our attention. Continue reading Shutter the factory farms

Eileen Crist26 February 20211 January 2023
Artificial intelligence, Human supremacy

Grace versus dystopia

Earth is a place of exquisite vitality pervaded by the mystery of awareness. It is being catastrophically impoverished. Artificial intelligence will not bring back what is vanishing, nor replace it. If you wish to know transcendence, forget the machine. Look for an octopus teacher. Continue reading Grace versus dystopia

Eileen Crist17 November 20201 January 20231 Comment
Green economies, Mass extinction, Nature needs half, Overpopulation

On rational and sacred ground

Do people actually believe that humanity can cause a mass extinction and there will be no consequences? I am not talking only about consequences for human physical well-being, which will be numerous. I am talking about an everlasting legacy of sorrow to human posterity. Continue reading On rational and sacred ground

Eileen Crist31 August 202010 February 20221 Comment
Climate upheaval, Disarmament, Mass extinction

Before midnight

Even as the existential threats of mass extinction and climate upheaval are gathering intensity and becoming increasingly inescapable, the world’s superpowers and many other nation-states, in alignment with the corporate-industrial sector, are busy adding insult to injury. Continue reading Before midnight

Eileen Crist31 May 20201 January 20232 Comments
Defaunation, Habitat loss, Overpopulation

The COVID-19 mirror

If we refuse to heed the systemic underpinnings of COVID-19, the current epidemiological debacle will surely be dwarfed by other catastrophes in the not too distant future. Continue reading The COVID-19 mirror

Eileen Crist22 April 20201 January 20231 Comment

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