Caring for Our Sacred Earth

September 2nd, 2020

By Santoshan (Stephen Wollaston)

Guest Writer for Wake Up World

“We have been trying to go into the future as a human community in an exploitative relationship with the natural community without any sense of being integral with this natural world as a sacred community. From now on, that is just not acceptable, purely and simply, because it is a way, not of life, but of death.”

~ Thomas Berry

As the quotation by Berry highlights, there is a global cry for us humans to wake up and think about changes that embrace a wider vision of community. Yet the roads leading to and embracing a healthier and wider inclusiveness can be difficult, as it requires stepping out of current modes of thinking and entering new and unfamiliar territory. Various wisdom traditions teach us about stages of unfoldment where it sometimes becomes hard to grasp the perspectives of unattained levels of growth until they are reached (the contemporary psychological system Spiral Dynamics also teaches this).

This inability to understand wider perspectives is why some religious believers are unable to embrace those from other traditions and unite with them in the work that is needed for bringing about a lasting peace in the world and living harmoniously with Nature. Religions in the hands of narrow thinkers, as we know only too well, can separate people, whereas a global and Earth-centred spirituality seeks to unite humanity and include all. Inclusiveness not only helps us to truly come together with people, but also helps us to find unity with other species and the Earth. There is an unquestionable need to embrace what it is to be a member of a wider global community.

This is not just about individual beliefs and what things we can individually do. It is also about addressing greater problems of power and materialism. Before Greta Thunberg, a Swedish child named Tove asked the following question:

When the last leaf falls, when the last drop of water dries out, when the ozone layer is already destroyed, will it be too late to understand that money is not going to save us?2

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Recommended Article by Santoshan:

• Nature Mysticism: A Postmodern and Age-old Wisdom of the Heart

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