The root of the ecological divide
The separation between the senses and the self
”At the root of the ecological divide is the separation between the, senses and the self. Here we enter the ”aesthetics” dimension of the ecological crises. The term ”aesthetics” comes from the Greek word, aistesis, ”sensual sensing”; it means activating all our senses. Unless we rediscover our senses as gateways to the living field our around us, we will newer resolve the environmental crisis. Just as the social divide reflects the loss of the other on an interpersonal level, the ecological crisis reflects the loss of the senses as gateways in to the living fields of nature. People often fill the void left by the loss of the senses with consumption – which in turn deepens the exterior manifestation of the ecological crisis”.
Quoted from Otto Scharmer – Theory-U, page 100
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