Modern society, says the author, is a "schizophrenic civilization" which has trivialized our lives and seduced us with trinkets. He seeks to stop the rot, laying out a detailed argument for a new "ecological consciousness" concerned as much for our inner as our outer environment. Attacking modern analytical philosophy, the author claims it is not so much liberation of the mind as "confinement in the circus of technical virtuosity". Our political systems, he says, rob us of our highest attributes and reduce us to despair. Our architecture violates us, and the vacuum in our values breeds indulgence and indifference. The author foresees the tasks as nothing less than a recycling of our minds. For "without wisdom, we shall be like Don Quixote fighting with the windmills".

Living Philosophy: Eco-Philosophy as a Tree of Life

Skolimowski, Henryk

Science & Math

Penguin??Books

We have taken IQ tests but, strangely, no Compassion Aptitude Tests (CATs). Yet mind and emotions need to be seen as two different parts of the same spectrum, says holistic thinker Henryk Skolimowski, if the human psyche, having taken an unprecedented battering this century, is to be mended. This cannot be accomplished, however, either through the offices of dusty philosophical treatises or popular psychological fixes, only by our arriving at a new way of looking at the world. In a Grand Theory of participatory mind that builds on the insights of such thinkers as Teilhard de Chardin and Bergson as well as contemporaries Dobzhansky and Bateson, Skolimowski points to a new order, one brought about by a Western mind returning to, then reintegrating, the spiritual. This quest for fresh perspectives, as we approach the twenty-first century, has now become 'the hallmark of our times'.

The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe

History

Penguin Group USA

Eco-Philosophy: Designing New Tactics For Living

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Marion Boyars

Eco-Philosophy

Evolutionary Illuminations
This stimulating book expresses the eonic drama of our eternal growth--from instinct to intuition. Skolimowski is a constant delight and surprise as an image-breaking philosopher/scientist/mystic. He establishes his position as an intrepid spokesperson for ecologically sound progress. He writes irreverent things in a reverent manner. From Prometheus to Prigogine, through a philosophy founded on experience, he develops the law of progressive development based on an ever-growing sensitivity to life. 
Man, the author concludes, is a mind-making animal and evolution works through us. We are its custodians, the inheritors of tremendous stores of knowledge and of tremendous confusion.
"Glory to evolution," concludes Skolimowski.

Theatre of the Mind: Evolution in the Sensitive Cosmos (Quest Books)

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Quest Books

Polish Analytical Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

Routledge

Can you dialogue with the stars…and remain sane?  Yes you can.  I have had a good fortune to do so.  This is rare.  But not entirely startling.  Let us remember:  We all come from the stellar dust.  Some fragments of my stellar existence have been residing in my being from the time immemorial.  Permit me to repeat, we are all fragments of the stellar universe.   I have been fortunate enough to play in my imagination with my stellar beginnings.  Moreover, my dialogues with the stars may be seen as dialogues of stars themselves — yes, when they acquired human consciousness.  Alternatively, you may see these dialogues as dialogues with myself — when I was inspired by the presence of stars just over my head.    There is more to us than the bones and lots of blood.  Some deeper layers are hidden in you.  They can be reached if you have enough courage and imagination to uncover them.  You will find from my dialogues that it is possible to tune to the consciousness of the stars — if you have perseverance and courage to do so.   If you find that the stars are not responding, don’t worry.  There may be another time.  Stars are very patient.  There are always ready for a dialogue, if you summon enough courage and determination.  Courage is required for things extraordinary.  One of them is dialoguing with the stars.   What follows are dialogues with the star Annabel.  What I am presenting in these dialogues is a cosmic play in some ten short acts.  Some readers will find them fictitious.  And I will not be offended.  All dramas and good plays are fictitious.  Actually all significant cosmic knowledge is fictitious.  And the pretentious science, which attempts to describe it, is fictitious itself.  I do not expect the readers to believe in the truths, which Annabel and my humble self have tried to convey.  I expect the readers to enjoy the dialogues as a form of theatre.  If you are taken to a significant art exhibition, there is no guarantee that you will experience a great thrill.  But it is a good idea to come with an open mind so that you can experience something unusual.    The play, of which my dialogues are composed, is about the stars.  But there is something important in the background.  It is the CANVAS.  I am inviting you to the most magnificent canvas that has ever existed.  And the stars are the greatest actors that ever existed or will exist.  At times we have the glimpses of it.  But most of the time we are numb and unseeing—while the greatest play ever staged and performed happens in front of our eyes.  Whoever is awoken to the glories of the Theatre of the Stars is truly privileged to live in the universe of radiant stars, which lend some of their radiance to us.  That is what my Dialogues wanted to convey and to share.

Dialogues with the Stars

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

From Henryk Skolimowski:  "I was born in a wrong country and at a wrong time. To have been born in the interwar period in Poland -- when the two giants (Germany and the Soviet Russia) were soon to smash us, one after another -- was not an auspicious occasion. Yet, I have survived, and even tried to sculpt out of the magma of circumstances a sculpture of my own life, which I cherish and am proud of. I think I have been a significant witness of the chaos and craziness of the 20th century Western Civilization.  For all its pitfalls, unfulfilled promises, dark hours of the soul -- and even tragedies -- life is glorious. I have had my share of agonies in life. But what I mainly wanted to share in this autobiography is the glory of life."

The Lotus and the Mud: Autobiography of a Philosopher

Building on the insights of such thinkers as Teilhard de Chardin and Bergson, as well as contemporaries like Dobzhansky and Bateson, Henryk Skolimowski points us to a new metaphysical order in which mind and world are intimately connected. This new participatory worldview explains how the concept of the world ‘out there,’ independent of the mind, is incoherent. Rather, says Skolimowski, we must see the mind as actively shaping and creating the world. Even truth itself, he argues, is enmeshed in the web of the participatory mind. And all are encompassed by a universal process of cosmic evolution.“In beholding, we are articulating.In articulating, we are co-creating.In the act of articulation, mind and reality merge. Reality becomes an aspect of mind.”In an era of stale and tedious analytic philosophy, Skolimowski brings us brave new visions, expansive metaphysical theorizing, and penetrating insight. Few individuals have proven able to encompass the scope of philosophy as he has, all while retaining an ability for truly creative work. A pinnacle of a stunningly impressive career, this book is destined for greatness.

Creative Fire Press

TRADITIONAL RELIGIONS are everywhere on the decline, and yet interest in "spirituality" is steadily increasing. At the same time, concerns about the environment and the planetary ecosystem are also rising, especially with the growing awareness of the risks of climate change. Thus, it is natural that we look to combine these two areas of interest: the intersection of religion and environmentalism. It was precisely this kind of thinking that led prominent eco-philosopher Henryk Skolimowski to develop, beginning in the 1980s, a new concept that he called "eco-theology." Inspired by the earlier works of Teilhard and Bergson, Skolimowski realized that the idea of evolution was much more far-reaching than merely a theory about biology. Evolution encompassed not only all life, but also the Earth as a whole, the origins of the planets and stars, and indeed the universe as a whole. More to the point, it must encompass all aspects of humanity and human culture, including such traditional concepts as God and religion. Simply stated, if everything evolves, then religious truth must evolve, spirituality must evolve, and even God must evolve. These basic insights have far-reaching consequences. Eco-theology fully integrates humanity into the natural world. We are not some mysterious strangers to the universe, not divinely created with utterly unique properties, not here to exercise our "dominion." We are part and parcel of the world. We came from the Earth, and we belong to the Earth. The cosmos is our home. The world is a sanctuary. There is indeed 'god' and divinity in this evolutionary universe, but such things reside in us; we make them real by manifesting our best and highest qualities. Skolimowski thus offers us something startlingly new: a "religion for our times." This is no New-Age philosophy, no fuzzy-headed wishful thinking. This is serious philosophical innovation by an Oxford-trained philosopher, in an area of gravest concern. Eco-theology is badly needed today; our very survival depends on it.

Eco-Theology: Toward a Religion for our Times

Religion & Spirituality

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