Giles Hutchins - Illusion of Separation: Exploring the Cause of our Current Crises

Praise for The Illusion of Separation

Robert Sardello, PhD, author of Love and the Soul: Creating a Future for Earth

Giles Hutchins takes us on an amazing tour de force, the intellectual tour of our lives. With ease and incredible clarity, he reveals simultaneously the history and the philosophy and the implications of the dire plight Earth is now within Never before, that I know of, has the choice of life, true life, or the path of degradation been put before us with such clear equanimity.

Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, author of On the Mystery

Cutting through habitual denials and academic evasions, Giles Hutchins exposes the delusion at the root of our planetary crisis. And with a holographic richness of resources and disciplines, he disclosesindeed activatesthe attitude that might just provoke our needed evolution. This is a wise and urgent text: may it be heard, and soon!

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, PhD, Sufi teacher and author of Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

With clarity and insight Giles Hutchins analyses the roots of our present collective mindset of separation, and yet shows how science and spirituality point to a deeper, inclusive consciousness. Here are signposts for a future that is vitally needed in the present moment.

Tim Smit, KBE, founder of The Eden Project

This is a powerful and timely work that asks the most important question of all Have we evolved from Homo sapiens sapiens (so good we named ourselves twice) into Homo Hubris - the ape that lost its nature.

Chris Laszlo, PhD, author of Flourishing Enterprise: The New Spirit of Business

A treasure of a book that I will share widely; a brilliantly written insightful tour de force.

Stephan Harding, Head of Holistic Science, Schumacher College

In this wonderful book, Giles Hutchins helps us to understand the cultural roots of the current crisis and suggests modes of leadership that can help us to find a more fruitful relationship with nature. Well written, well researched and full of insight, this book will open your heart and mind to a deeper way of being in the world.

Mary Midgley, philosopher, author of Are You an Illusion?

This is a well-expressed book on a fearfully important topic. Read it!

Ian Skelly, broadcaster and writer, co-author of Harmony by HRH The Prince of Wales

As the world cries out for the shift in perception we know is needed, this is a positive response to the deep seated crisis we face. We may be aware of being, but we have lost contact with the beingness of which we are aware. But how do we opt in rather than opt out? How do we participate in creation, rather than seek its control and mere consumption? Here lie the answers. Ours is not the generation to enjoy the fruits of such a shift. As this book so ably demonstrates, it is our task is to make the turning possible. The brilliance of it is that it explains how.

Simon Robinson, author of Holonomics

The Illusion of Separation is a richly thought-provoking journey which teaches us how we can rediscover our humanity, and become inspirational leaders and authentic co-creators.

Tim Mac Macartney, Founder of Embercombe and author of Finding Earth, Finding Soul

Giles Hutchinss new book The Illusion of Separation took me on a roller-coaster journey of ideas, distant memories, broken dreams, and new horizons. He has spread a map at our feet and dares us to look. We, the prodigal species, who with Prometheus help, stole fire from the gods and imagined ourselves superior. And where does he leave us? Giles is on a personal journey walking home and the path is wide with room for me and you, and all our friends. Home to our true place of belonging.

Peter Hawkins, author and Professor of Leadership, Henley Business School

The biggest challenge facing our world today is the urgent need for the human species to evolve its collective ways of thinking. Not since reading the work of Fritjof Capra, have I read a book that so clearly brings together many of the ideas, research and writing that provide the ingredients to help us explore the transformation in our ways of seeing, thinking and being. The Illusion of Separation is medicine we all need.

This book is dedicated to Nature and her magical ways, and also to my daughter Lilly-Belle who, like all daughters and sons, is a uniquely beautiful expression of Nature.