LibGuides: CNS5842: Week 6 Resources

Week 6 Required Resources

The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
Lent, Jeremy (2021). The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers.
This text reviews major concepts explored in the CPT program and will serve as a companion on the summative journey taken in this course. Chapters 6 and 7, “The Deep Purpose of Life” and “The Tao in My Own Nature,” apply the scientific and systems theory concepts explored in last week’s readings to our individual self-understanding, sense of purpose, and sense of vocation or calling at this pivotal time in human history.

We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late
We Need an Ecological Civilization Before It’s Too Late by Jeremy Lent
This brief article makes the case for the programmatic application of living systems principles, at this time of planetary crisis, for a more sustainable, life-friendly civilization. It supports the “applied” dimensions of living systems principles that we have explored in depth in the CPT program.

Texts, your notes, and your written papers or other assignments from the Paradigms of Consciousness and Shamanic Traditions courses.

These resources will help you identify key concepts and principles related to PLO 3, as explored in The Web of Meaning, and particularly through the courses listed above.

The Wicked Problem of Climate Change (Kaltura Video)

This brief explainer video clarifies the difference between ‘tame’ and ‘wicked problems’ and explores climate change as a paradigmatic example of a wicked problem.