Terra Mortis II: The Death of the Earth

The collective cannot think beyond the “threat to human civilisation". Its pathological optimism maintains our ecological coma. But thinking the unthinkable inhabits it with human consciousness. We've run out of planet–-1.7 planet’s worth. Monotheism has abandoned the earth for heavenly rewards. Her waters can no longer dream. Her bones have been mined. The rocks can no longer breathe. Her skin is scabrous with parking lots. And the Great Barrier Reef is dying. 

Terra Mortis: Part II continues Michael Owen's exploration of the mortality of our planetary home. All with the help of C G Jung and indigenous consciousness.

CONTENTS

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Part 1. Shadow: The god of monotheism (God, Allah and Yahweh) in all its forms, origins and offspring, has abandoned the Earth for heavenly rewards. God’s shadow is the narcissistic aberration that is the contrary to indigenous consciousness.
Part 2. Matter: The consciousness of all matter and life. "We believe that water has memory. It responds to human behaviour." —Vernon Masayesva, Hopi elder
Part 3. Body: The health of the Earth and the health of our bodies are one. When the memory of the rocks, the trees and the animals is lost then human memory is also lost.
Part 4. Disorder: Pre-traumatic Stress Disorder (yes, you read that right), depression, despair, and the pathology of hope. It is what will happen in the future that is traumatic. There will be flash-forwards as well as flash-backs.
Part 5. Science: The rise of scientism and our planetary illness. So what’s my beef with CBT? Because behaviourism and its cuzzie-bros are the psychological version of colonisation.
Part 6. Earth and Self: The mirrors of the Earth (the original Self) and Jung’s “God-image within”. The suggestion that the Earth is dying is felt as an attack on the Self and disturbs the relationship with whatever external object the Self is projected onto (religion, atheism, motherhood, the First Amendment, sports hero, or saving the planet).
Part 7. Apocalypse anytime: Some far-fetched but aspirational remedies. Ask the Earth for help. What if as many people said prayers to the Earth as they do to God-Allah-Yahweh? What if Sunday morning services at the church, Friday evening prayers at shul, and Friday midday prayers at the mosque, were just for the Earth. Not to God for the Earth--but to the Earth.

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Kahurangi Press 2026, ISBN 978-1067113902, 414 pages, 6 x 9 ins, bibliography, index.