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Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics) (Original 1984; 2019. Auflage)

von Lyall Watson (Autor), Nick Hunt (Einführung)

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Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings warmth and water, enriches and strips away the soil, aerates the globe. Wind shapes the lives of animals, humans among them. Trade follows the path of the wind, as empire also does. Wind made the difference in wars between the Greeks and Persians, the Mongols and the Japanese. Wind helped to destroy the Spanish Armada. And wind is no less determining of our inner lives: the föhn, mistral, sirocco, Santa Ana, and other "ill winds" of the world are correlated with disease, suicide, and even murder. Heaven's Breath is an encyclopedic and enchanting book that opens dazzling new perspectives on history, nature, and humanity.… (mehr)
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Titel:Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind (New York Review Books Classics)
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fabulous! fascinating! as enthralling as any book I've read. one of the few books i would gladly reread. ( )
  farrhon | Feb 24, 2021 |
A work of natural history focused on Wind. The author, with experience in videography, zoo-keeping, sailing expeditions, whale tracking, marine biology and anthropology, speaks of the invisible power of Wind. With a Dictionary of Wind and an extensive Bibliography enabling us to reach the original sources, he chapters the following connections of Wind: One - to Earth, its physics and geography; Two - to Time, its history and future; Three - to Life, its biology and sociology; Four - to Body, the physiology and perception; Five - to Mind, the psychology and philosophy of wind.

In the final chapter on "Heaven's Breath", the author reprises the work. Beginning with babies' first breath, he unwinds the way breathing enlivens each individual and in giving us power, unites us. [329] He notes that Myths are "animated theories about how things work", and are "more a product of science than religion".

"Students of comparative religion once believed that the panoply of separate spirits required by animism, gradually combined into general gods -- such as Aeolus for ALL the winds. And that further generalization and abstraction transformed these departmental deities into a monotheistic God, who became the Lord of Heaven and Earth. But this is an unnecessarily ethnocentric attitude, which gives undue prominence to our own most-recent beliefs. The evidence suggests a reverse process, a growth of animism out of a very early monotheistic concept of a supreme force or being." [328, citing James, "Worship of the Sky God" (1963)]. ( )
  keylawk | Sep 3, 2019 |
Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind begins with an observation about the trend in science being towards knowing more and more about less and less; Watson obviously laments this trend. Dredging many hundreds of references from newspapers, literature, mainstream academia and fringe research, he has categorised his findings into the physics, geography, history, future, biology, sociology, physiology, perception, psychology and philosophy of wind. A delightful, eye-opening exploration that doubles as a love letter to an under-examined phenomenon. ( )
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Se definiamo la tendenza alla specializzazione nella scienza come il sapere sempre più intorno a sempre meno cose, allora questo libro ne è la logica conclusione.
Tutto quanto avete sempre desiderato conoscere, su nulla.

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Tutto cominciò con una grande esplosione primordiale. Con un'immane esplosione che si verificò contemporaneamnte in ogni luogo, «riempiendo tutto lo spazio dal principio, mentre ogni aprticella di materia fuggiva, allontanandosi da ogni altra particella».
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Students of comparative religion once believed that the panoply of separate spirits required by animism, gradually combined into general gods -- such as Aeolus for ALL the winds. And that further generalization and abstraction transformed these departmental deities into a monotheistic God, who became the Lord of Heaven and Earth. But this is an unnecessarily ethnocentric attitude, which gives undue prominence to our own most-recent beliefs. The evidence suggests a reverse process, a growth of animism out of a very early monotheistic concept of a supreme force or being.
An atmosphere is the most vital prerequisite for life and mind.
'If we trust to language', said Freud, 'it was the movement of the air that provided the image of spirituality, since the spirit borrows its name from the breath of the wind.' In Latin, spiritus described an intake of breath by a god, literally an inspiration. The Greeks used the word pneuma for both wind and spirit. And in Hebrew and Arabic, ruh means both breath and wind. 'The idea of the soul was thus born as the spiritual principle in the individual...Now the realm of spirits had opened for man, and he was ready to endow everything in nature with the soul he had discovered in himself.'
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Wind is everywhere and nowhere. Wind is the circulatory system of the earth, and its nervous system, too. Energy and information flow through it. It brings warmth and water, enriches and strips away the soil, aerates the globe. Wind shapes the lives of animals, humans among them. Trade follows the path of the wind, as empire also does. Wind made the difference in wars between the Greeks and Persians, the Mongols and the Japanese. Wind helped to destroy the Spanish Armada. And wind is no less determining of our inner lives: the föhn, mistral, sirocco, Santa Ana, and other "ill winds" of the world are correlated with disease, suicide, and even murder. Heaven's Breath is an encyclopedic and enchanting book that opens dazzling new perspectives on history, nature, and humanity.

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