The idea of humans as the thinking beings and the rest of the world as the unconscious biosphere is still relatively young – and completely wrong. In her retrospective on human history, through her inquiries into what mind, brain, and thought actually are, and in her examination of the stages of human life, Dolores LaChapelle convincingly argues that human knowledge alone is insufficient to achieve a global ecological balance. Rather, our human spirit must reconnect with the greater spirit, the wisdom of the Earth.