1/ In pagan cultures, people kept alive a sense of divine partnership between humanity and nature. Rituals were held routinely to fortify the bond between people and trees, rivers, earth and sky.

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2/ An early dispensation of Christendom destroyed that sacred connection, calling it blasphemous & replacing it with the idea that God had given earth to man to use for his utilitarian purposes. That split was for all intents and purposes the beginning of our environmental crisis
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3/ The attitudinal and philosophical split between humanity and nature has caused extraordinary damage not only to nature but also to ourselves. The industrialized, rationalistic and materialistic perspectives of the 20th C fortified the split and did tremendous collective harm.
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4/ The 21st C has brought a reckoning with a worldview so out of alignment with who we truly are, as well as a rebirth of understanding that a purely material explanation of the world will never satisfy either the needs or longings of the human race. It is time for repair & reset
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Replying to @marwilliamson
How do you handle the problem that to actually build that connection back with nature we pretty much have to take apart consumerist industrial society?
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And that makes perfect sense. Like First Nation Australians who believe that they are part of nature. Not superior to it. We have exploited nature for too long.
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The Native Americans had it right. This is one of the big reasons I left the “church”.
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We’d be less likely to dump waste in the ocean if we saw it as divinity. Or if we saw that we are all one, polluting anything would be hurting all creation. Personally, I see the divinity in all the things of nature.
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And please stop with "pagan cultures". Buddhism (the real thing, not the one you mistakenly compare to ACIM) is very nature conscious. So is Taoism. And your *follows are right. There are some *really nasty* pagan "cultures".
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Let's bring back shamanism
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And because we have forgotten this, we have forgotten ourselves. People are nature; trees are invariably wiser than human beings; animals exhibit more unconditional devotion than we do. Our tragedy is that we have cut ourselves off from life itself and fetishized the deadness.
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Look into a flower and you see the whole cosmos. Nhat Hanh
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I believe we are all connected; humans, animals, trees, oceans, everything. We need to remember we have a duty to protect and care for our surroundings. We are dependant on our planet, it is not dependant on us. However, my dog and cat enjoy their cushy lifestyle.
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It still hurts me deep inside when I think of all the ancient and majestic trees/groves that were destroyed by Christianity on its conquest. The pain some must have felt as churches rose from their ashes
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