{"product_id":"the-breathing-cathedral","title":"The Breathing Cathedral, feeling your way into a Living Cosmos by Martha Heyneman","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Breathing Cathedral, feeling your way into a Living Cosmos by Martha Heyneman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the tradition of \u003cem\u003eThe Dream of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ethis beautifully written, personal, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erichly eclectic work suggests a new unifying vision of the cosmos that brings together contemporary science, modern psychology, and the \"perennial philosophy\" of the mystics into one harmonious whole. Essayist Martha Heyneman attempts nothing less than wrestling into coherent definition what she sees as a newly emergent cosmology -an all-encompassing understanding, a \"framework of order for the psyche\" -that integrates the life of the intellect with the life of the senses and the spiritual dimension with the natural realm.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor centuries, Heyneman notes, we have had no \"communal image of the whole of things and our place and function within it,\" such as that provided for the inhabitants of medieval times by Dante's \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince the Copernican Revolution, when faith and reason were split and rationalism began its ascendancy, ours has been a \"formless, meaningless universe,\" a \"flood upon which we all have drifted aimlessly for four hundred years.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne terrible consequence has been our abuse of nature. \"Our treatment of each other and of the earth could not have arrived at its present level of insensitivity had we not settled for a picture of the universe that was the product of only one or two faculties,\" she writes. One kind of knowledge can be obtained through the dissection of the eagle, another (equally valid but having a different purpose) can be obtained by dancing the Eagle Dance of the Native Americans.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut in our time-through the work of scientists such as Einstein, Prigogine, and Hawking, spiritual teachers such as Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti, poets such as Eliot, Yeats, and Milosz-cosmology has come alive \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eagain, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erestoring \"the image of a shape, in spacetime, of the whole.\" This renascent cosmology is creating a new synthesis based on knowledge gleaned from science, religion, art, and, even, our daily experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeyneman argues that reintegrating these types of knowledge-\u003cem\u003efeeling\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eknowing\u003c\/em\u003e-leads to \"a realization of our absolute dependence on the natural world and to an unexpected revival of the emotion of gratitude\"-the net result being a kind of ardent stillness of mind, a \"silent attentiveness\" with which we can truly inhabit our lives and our planet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMARTHA HEYNEMAN is a poet, essayist, editor of \u003cem\u003eA Journal of Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e, and frequent contributor to \u003cem\u003eParabola\u003c\/em\u003e, where the themes of \u003cem\u003eThe Breathing Cathedral\u003c\/em\u003e were first developed. She lives in Rochester, New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDetails\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover with dust jacket \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCondition: Very good, dust jacket is good, no notes\/stamps. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN: \u003cstrong\u003e0871566877\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e9780871566874\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Sierra Club Books\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Eureka Editions ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59787320688988,"sku":null,"price":24.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0796\/6333\/3724\/files\/The_breathing_Cathedral.jpg?v=1793987407","url":"https:\/\/www.eurekaedition.com\/products\/the-breathing-cathedral","provider":"Eureka Editions ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}