Other Ways of Knowing: Recharting Our Future with Ageless Wisdom [Paperback]

"Other Ways of Knowing is a thoughtful presentation of a new paradigm for humanity. Weaving a synthesis of observations from science, nature, philosophy, mysticism and personal experience, Bloomfield presents us with a vision congruent with the realizations which are coming to us all through spiritual awakening."

Other Ways of Knowing is a thoughtful presentation of a new paradigm for humanity. Weaving a synthesis of observations from science, nature, philosophy, mysticism and personal experience, Bloomfield presents us with a vision congruent with the realizations which are coming to us all through spiritual awakening.

Broomfield gives us the pattern that connects. A wide-ranging, erudite work. Broomfield writes exquisitely, his knowledge is huge.

As overpopulation and overconsumption have jeopardised our survival and the great promises of technology have resulted in environmental disaster, Other Ways Of Knowing shows us the wisdom of other cultures who may hold the knowledge necessary to arrest our headlong race toward destruction. The author says that this situation of 'our civilisation in crisis', results from the serious error that the Western world makes in equating one way of knowing with all ways of knowing. By doing this, he feels that a thin slice of reality is mistaken for the whole. In his book, John Broomfield argues that the necessary wisdom to chart a new course is available to us from many sources: the sacred traditions of our ancestors; the spiritual traditions of other cultures; spirit in nature; feminine ways of being; contemporary movements for personal, social, and ecological transformation; and the very source of our current crisis, science itself.

John Broomfield was Professor of modern Indian history at the University of Michigan for twenty years and has written extensively on the impact of the modern West on non-Western peoples. He has studied shamanism with Michael Harner and Sandra Ingerman and was President of the California Institute of Integral Studies from 1983-1990. He now lives in New Zealand.