Are you a potential Carverphile?
This website exists to make you aware of—and get you excited about!—George Washington Carver and, specifically, Peter D. Burchard’s long-awaited biography Heaven on Earth: the Life and Vision of George Washington Carver. I believe, says Burchard, “that the people who will love this book are we who are concerned about the trouble humanity is in, as life-sustaining topsoil washes away, big agriculture scorches the earth, local economies fall prey to corporate ones, global warming threatens, and racism continues to bear its ugly fangs. Carver’s company,” Burchard says, “will offer them a vacation from problems that seem simply too huge, like a trip to an awe-inspiring national park. His perspective offers a refreshing break from the often-piecemeal attempts to solve systemic problems and counter-productive antagonism of the players."
"My audience" says Burchard, "believes that a critical mass of human consciousness change is necessary to solve global problems, and will find that Carver’s teachings further this change in them. They value spiritual ideas but are not necessarily religious.
They lament the harm that rigid, abstract religious tenets have done in separating humanity from nature, and will find in Carver a spiritual worldview that perfectly integrates love and honor of nature. Some of my readers are the black intelligentsia—the segment of the African American population this work has acquainted me with—fascinated with a black man as a figure great in so many unanticipated ways.”