Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@SherPoint Thomas Moore: "Hillman’s point is that therapy on our own souls is ultimately ineffective without equal attention to the world soul"; notably, a defining Eliatic function of the 'paradise gardening' or 'prophetic earthwork' movement and, of course, David Abram's work.

Copy of tweet here: 7/ In this regard, a dynamic, co-evolutionary relationship with our habitat harkens back to the 'Deus humanus' of Renaissance philosophers, the wedding of part and whole, individual and Singularity, and our lives to the enormous force of the spirit of a time. Quote tweet There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order.
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Copy of tweet here: 7/ In this regard, a dynamic, co-evolutionary relationship with our habitat harkens back to the 'Deus humanus' of Renaissance philosophers, the wedding of part and whole, individual and Singularity, and our lives to the enormous force of the spirit of a time. Quote tweet There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order.

We are Nature Long have we Been absent, But now we return. - Walt Whitman
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We are Nature Long have we Been absent, But now we return. - Walt Whitman

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @alastairmci Kind sir, the words of yours he relates remind me of Moore quoting Hillman, and not simply the inverse—that no therapy of the world soul succeeds without equal attention to our own—but the further insight that earthly and human solidarity is itself a therapeutic simultaneity.Quoted by@alastairmci Kind sir, the words of yours he relates remind me of Moore quoting Hillman, and not simply the inverse—that no therapy of the world soul succeeds without equal attention to our own—but the further insight that earthly and human solidarity is itself a therapeutic simultaneity.