The Pattern of the World

Salamah Pope

‘We now know that the earth is a small, fragile whole in which everything is connected with everything else, and everything affects everything else. As this planet – our metaphorical Mother Earth – is the only home we have, it behoves us to learn to understand her and ourselves as a single and singular living being. With the world on the verge of drastic climate changes, what is needed is an integrated and coherent vision of human life in, on, and with the earth – a cosmology fit for Gaia.’

With this, Salamah Pope offers insights on a long-forgotten pattern which, unseen today, permeates the ordinary world around us. Drawing on both modern Western and ancient Eastern thought, she points out the prevalence of this spiral pattern of process, what it can do for us as individuals and as a species, and how – by using it as a holistic philosophical synthesis – it shows answers to questions such as, What is a human being? and How ought we to live? The pattern thus enables us to re-envision ourselves and the world as a healthier, wholesome, whole.

This work is now in its second printing. It has been reviewed by Kirkus. Read the review here.

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