Laurence Newey is Lucis Trust Vice-President.
Since the dawn of the industrial age, the onward march of science and technology has brought great gifts to humanity but further undermined the instinctive spiritual relationship that human beings once had with the land, fauna, and flora. As the large-scale burning of fossil fuels began in earnest to power incredible new machines, it sparked the beginning of what can only be called a disintegrative worldview, which is now being directly reflected back at us through the Earth’s polluted and dysfunctional ecosystems.
Even so, it is only a perceived life threat to the whole of humanity – a common enemy in the form of global warming – that has caused sufficient alarm for the nations of the world to start rallying around the new mindset of ‘sustainable development.’ And while we might say that this represents humanity waking up from its disintegrative dream state, it still has to adjust its vision to the dawn of a new day and see things in a different light. For the notion of sustainable development remains connected to the mindset that placed humanity in its dire position in the first place – the concrete, scientific mindset of measurement and control that can, so easily, isolate itself from the balancing, feminine energy of the intuitive mind. We might regard the current scientific approach as a transition period that may help to limit the damage, but as yet, it contains no impelling vision – no narrative worthy of forming a new, integrated worldview that unites masculine science with feminine Nature.
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