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Spiritual Materialism

Honour

Air, Earth, Fire, Water.

36" x 48" - oil on canvas

Thomas Berry writes that the United Nations is 'pledged to maintain international peace and security and to provide a context of mutual assistence in economic and social development. There is no mention of any relationship with the natural world or with any other mode of being, not even of the planet we live on and out of which comes all that we are and all that we have.'

He then goes on to say, 'We have thought to reduce the Earth to our own human dimensions, to domesticate the Earth, to somehow insert the Earth into our own mechanistic pattern of functioning, to make the Earth obedient to ourselves rather than ourselves becoming responsive to the Earth. Obviously we are not succeeding.'

He ends with, '…our way into the future is not through relentless industrial development but through the living forces that brought us into being and are the only forces that can sustain us in the coming centuries.'

from the forward of Wild Law by Cormac Cullinan