Grizzly Man and the Spiritual Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12901595 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Curry (0009-0002-6751-4375, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 206-219 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of Religion Nature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-4907 • E-ISSN: 1749-4915 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/jsrnc.v4i3.206 |
| OpenAlex | W2075117334 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
The story of Timothy Treadwell, as portrayed in Werner Herzog’s film (2005), provides a basis for a critique of two opposing attitudes and programmes which can be identified, in broad metaphysical terms, as spiritual idealism and scientific materialism. I criticize the former, inferring from Treadwell’s fate the danger – for spiritual seekers, directly, and for scholars, indirectly – of trying to be at-one or achieve absolute unity with the beloved. I then recommend a radical but viable middle way, grounded in our embodied, imperfect, unstable, liminal nature – a view clearly evident in aboriginal and folk wisdom traditions but also articulated by philosophers including Merleau-Ponty, Plumwood, Abram, Snyder and Bateson
Absolute (philosophy · Aesthetics · Dualism · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Idealism · Imperfect · Liminality · Materialism · Metaphysics · Naturalism · Poetics · Poetry · Seekers · Sociology · Theology · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Philosophy · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |