Ebook {Epub PDF} The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

The Fifth Sacred Thing. (New York, Bantam, ) Starhawk’s epic tale, set in , California. In a time of ecological collapse, when the hideously authoritarian and corporate-driven Stewards have taken control of most of the land and set up an apartheid state, one region has declared itself independent: the Bay Area and points north. The Fifth Sacred Thing Movie Project- Book to Video. “We believe the world needs a powerful vision of a positive future here on earth. Once we might simply have told the tale around the fire. Two decades ago, I wrote it as a novel. Now, as the world becomes ever more visual, we want to make it a film.”. The Fifth Sacred Thing, Starhawk's first novel - perhaps more pertinent now than ever before. A powerful tale of a community without poverty, hunger, or hatred, rich in diversity of culture, race, religion and sexual orientation, honouring the Four Sacred Things that sustain life – /5().

The Fifth Sacred Thing is an epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind. It tells of a 21st century California clan caught between two clashing worlds: one based on tolerance, the other on repression. It is both a love story between two people and a war story between two opposing ideals. Starhawk's writings include twelve books including the classics The Spiral Dance (), the ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing (), and her latest novel The Empowerment Manual: a Guide for Collaborative Groups (). These are mostly about spiritual practice for surveillance of nature. As mentioned, in this study Starhawk's The. Starhawk, author of The Fifth Sacred Thing and Walking to Mercury, lives with her husband, stepchildren, and Goddess-children in San Francisco, where she works with the Reclaiming collective.

The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk was published in but in the more than two decades since the book has hit the shelves, it has become strangely apt for the times we live in. 1 This novel eerily mirrors much of the political upheavals and changes that are happening in the world today but also tells us a lot about the power that is in us to resist these changes that will harm marginalized people. The Fifth Sacred Thing is a post-apocalyptic novel by Starhawk. The title refers to the classical elements of fire, earth, air, and water, plus the fifth element, spirit, accessible when one has balanced the other four. The Fifth Sacred Thing, Starhawk's first novel - perhaps more pertinent now than ever before. A powerful tale of a community without poverty, hunger, or hatred, rich in diversity of culture, race, religion and sexual orientation, honouring the Four Sacred Things that sustain life – Earth, Air, Fire and Water – above all.