Review GARY SNYDER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 22 books, translatedinto 19 languages, poet, essayist and Professor Emeritus of English at UC Davis--"..an amazing book, truly ground-breaking,.. I respect and acknowledge the vision... I hope the book is widely read."   Dr. Richard R. Jurin, N. Colorado State in 6/22/2014 issue ofJOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION --"a mind-expanding series of short essays, convincing and thought-provoking...highly readable...uplifting and wonderful... can be read in short sections... [suited to] high school and college audiences with the aid of a good teacher or instructor, despite a negative view of the future."READER Review--" an absorbing, enlightening and  fascinating work... may become as important as any work by Darwin or B.F. Skinner." -- Darryl House, Magalia CA 3/25/09 Product Description A ground-breaking work on nature and humanity. This book deepens the spirit of Silent Spring, and of Walden-into human conservation and healing. It reveals the stunning breakthrough into Nurturome. It breaks open, then completes our view of evolution; it reveals the Second Missing Link. It redefines and redirects the Environmental Movement-the nature-human debate. It dispels the issue of nature vs. culture, and other key myths of 'civilization', Modernism, and Postmodernism. It reveals the Origin and Emergence of Alien Being-Alienism. It presents the Revelation of Selflifeworld. It reveals the Origins of Egoself that comes to displace whole self and whole mind. Over one hundred-fifty subheadings mark more surprises on the journey! A vast pot-pourri for laymen, professionals, and students! From the Publisher Arguably, this is the most semenal, provacative, revolutionary book of our age. an astonishing literary event! So much newly broken ground should make this dig hard to resist. From a deserving life-long philosopher of humanity and nature. This is a journey of rediscovery into natural, authentic consciousness, human nature, whole mind, whole self, spirit, soul, family, community, nurture-culture, our human species, wildness, humanness, wilderness, transmutation, alienization, conservation, biodiversity, Earthlifeworld(ecospere), and a thousand other issues-phenomena. About the Author In addition to this major book, L.S. Heatherly, a life-long philosopher, poet and socialcommentator has (since 2010), written song lyrics and (from his bare-bones home studio) produced and performed sound recordings and song recordings. His songs, not yetreleased or published, are transformative, "fair use" derivative songs-- from many of the top 150 best selling singles of all time.