{"id":667,"date":"2010-08-26T12:15:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/08\/david-abrams-new-book-becoming-animal-an-earthly-cosmology.html"},"modified":"2010-08-26T12:15:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T12:15:43","slug":"david-abrams-new-book-becoming-animal-an-earthly-cosmology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/08\/david-abrams-new-book-becoming-animal-an-earthly-cosmology.html","title":{"rendered":"David Abram’s New Book – Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

I have begun reading a wonderful book, David Abram’s Becoming
\nAnimal: An Earthly Cosmology<\/a><\/i>. No book I have ever encountered does as good a job of describing what it is like to be
\nfully aware of our immersion in the field of consciousness that is our world.  <\/span>It may well be the most powerful literary
\ncorrective that has yet appeared to the soul killing cultural autism that defines the modern
\nworld.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to completely immerse myself in it, but between being
\nin the middle of a move,  <\/span>the
\nattention generated by the New Yorker article on the Kochs, and the madness generated
\nby cruel bigots over the proposed Islamic Cultural Center in New York, I am making
\nslow progress. So while I will write a review after I’ve done reading it, I want
\nto recommend it enthusiastically based only on reading the first few chapters. I think it is a must read for people interested in plumbing the deeper implications of being Pagan.<\/p>\n

Abram earlier wrote The Spell of the Sensuous<\/a><\/i>, one of the most magickal books on our perceptions of the natural world that I
\nhad ever encountered.  <\/span>It was one
\nof those books that changes the way everything looks after its message is
\nabsorbed.  <\/span>That book came out in 1997,
\nand I have been waiting for another from him, always wondering whether it could
\npossibly be as powerful as his first. 
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It sure seems to be.<\/p>\n

Abram obviously writes only when he has something serious to
\nimpart, and he does so with a breathtaking beauty in style and impact.  <\/span>I won’t write more about this book till I’ve had the
\npleasure of finishing it.  <\/span>But don’t
\nwait for my final opinion.  <\/span>Get it
\nnow!<\/p>\n

And for those who think I like politics too much – this is
\nNOT a political book.  <\/span>It is
\nsomething much much deeper and better than that.<\/p>\n

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