Consciousness Beyond Consumerism: A Psychological Path to Sustainability

This is a profound tool for liberation. It will change the way you think but more much more it will change the way you feel.Ed Mayo CEO Pilotlight co-founder of the Fairtrade Mark and former Director of the New Economics Foundation and Secretary General of Co-operatives UKWe still have the consciousness needed to create an Industrial Revolution not to deal with its aftermath.Consciousness Beyond Consumerism: A Psychological Path to Sustainability draws on psychology religion science philosophy and economics to demonstrate how our consciousness has been industrialised over centuries becoming the root of our current sustainability crisis. Part one will enable you to examine your mind and understand how your consciousness supports and reinforces our unsustainable economy. Part two demonstrates how we can individually and collectively develop a new level of consciousness to enable sustainable living and provides practical techniques to support this personal growth.Heres what you will learn: The interrelatedness of our current environmental social and psychological crisesHow our consciousness causes our environmental social and psychological crisesThe degree to which your consciousness has been industrialised and how it happenedHow businesses exploit our industrialised consciousness to condition us into being consumersThe nature of our unsustainable economic system and how it is maintained by consumerismHow you can develop your consciousness beyond consumerismWhat different aspects of society can do to facilitate the development of our consciousnessBy developing a new consciousness we can create a more sustainable society. If we do not our consumerism will continue to destroy the environment upon which our lives depend.