Posted by giveawayboy on September 03, 2002 at 09:08:32:
In Reply to: Re: Another Rant from Bob posted by john on September 03, 2002 at 07:09:32:
: Now you seem to think that this is impossible, and in most ways I agree, but there are many more people who think this way than you may expect. And many more who potentially could if given an understanding of how their beliefs already support it. Many major world religions justify this mindset. Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism (certain types), just to name a few.
: This is why I love deep ecology so much. To me, my Christian beliefs are one and the same with my ecolgoical bleiefs. How can they be separate, when I have sat in a swamp and prayed, meditating on the world around me and awakened to my interconectedness as God shows up. Our world is a religious place. It is full of the divine and it is far too sublime for us to gaze at in full. To truly see the full ecology of the cosmos (the interactions and relationships that create an interdependent synergistic system) is to see the will of God. Truly who can know it!
Im reading a book by John Michael Talbot called COME TO THE QUIET. In it he talks about the importance of spiritual reading, but he also talks about reading the book of creation. Pretty neat. He is talking about how we need to connect through nature again, as we have lost our place in it. Pretty cool. Also, I recall Father Phil telling us that every square inch of earth is CRAMMED with Heaven, but we have to become aware of it, and this applies to nature as well.
Bill