Spiritual ecology

By Llewelllyn Vaughan-Lee
Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on reconnecting to the sacred as a means to heal ourselves and the environment. The signs of a growing ecological crisis are becoming more and more clear: global warming, acidification of the oceans, the massive depletion of species. Weather patterns are increasingly unstable as our ecosystem becomes out of balance--a direct result of our materialistic, fossil fuel driven culture. We are destroying our own ecosystem, the same finely balanced system that sustains us. And we seem unable to take the measures that are needed to slow down this accelerating disaster--our politicians putting short-term economic growth before any long-term ecological considerations. [Read more] ...