New website, Earth Vision, presents spiritual ecology

The Earth Vision website presents spiritual ecology as a means of highlighting

 the nature-human relationship.  In a bid to take readers to a deeper place

 with nature, the Earth Vision project diverges from the voice of the

 intellect, and enters into a language that speaks at the core of being, a

 poetic, non-cerebral voice that interlaces strands of nature with the human

 experience.
By means of condensed language, and with full existential bearing, spiritual

 ecology presents two doorways that lead, ultimately, to the same forum of

 discovery.  The first approach, by penetrating into nature's core, arrives at

 a place where the human soul is discovered to be dwelling.  The second

 approach entails the inverse of the first  - penetrating into the human soul

 until the numerous aspects of nature are encountered.
As the author of Earth Vision, I express my sense of why spiritual ecology is

 not more widely and consciously lived into by suggesting that our connection

 with nature is so close  - it could not possibly be closer  - that we have

 difficulty discerning it.  When you are one with something, it takes a

 special exercise in self-reflection to ascertain that something.

We bring our powers of cognizance to bear through science, and learn what we

 can.  But the scientific modality of learning, so far, has only been able to

 go so deep.  The practice of spiritual ecology is about holding still with an

 aspect of nature until its core is penetrated in a sentient way  - an

 experiential, rather than analytic, way.  Or, to be more accurate, it could

 be said that, when we are in an optimal mode of perception, we bring all our

 faculties to bear  - analytic, intuitive, perceptual, even engaging all 12

 senses in the process (see Steiner material for more on the 12 senses).
The stance of Earth Vision is not to do away with science.  Science and

 rational process are seen to have a role in bringing more understanding to

 the ways of nature.  And so, also, have other arenas of research.  The heart,

 for example, is an equally viable forum of understanding.

In my exploration of the bridge between people and nature, I came to discover

 that while nature and the human soul share much common ground, they also

 counterpoint each other.  And I found a particularly productive framework for

 this counterpoint residing in the masterwork by Rudolf Steiner known as The

 Calendar of the Soul.
The divergence between nature and the soul, as Steiner so artfully portrays,

 is most keenly experienced in the turning of the seasons, winter being the

 summer of the soul, and vice versa.  What this means is that when the outer

 world of nature waxes most wakeful, the human faculty enters into an inward

 state of dormancy.  And, as the world of nature dies away during its autumn

 phase, human discernment and inward powers increasingly awaken.
At the same tine, however, as there is this aspect of counterpoint, there is

 also a parallel process underway, in that, as events in the world of nature

 unfold, its seasonal events have an attendant process within the human arena.

  Therefore, in the face of simultaneous counterpoint and parallel, it could

 be said that the nature-human interweave is a multi-level process.  The more

 one delves into this relationship, the more intricate does it appear to be,

 and the more one realizes the time has surely passed for denying the

 metaphysical relationship between humanity and nature. 
The materialistic perspective, as a stage of development, may have held a

 transitory purpose, but can no longer serve the common good.  Scientific

 approaches to nature are called upon, now, to carry a greater sense of what

 is real than that of the status quo to date.  As demonstrated by quantum

 physics, and numerous other proceedings, the deeper science delves, the more

 it encounters spirit.  In fact, at this point, it would not be too bold to

 say that only by retreating into more shallow arenas of scientific

 exploration can the deeper reality of spirit be avoided.

We will evolve above the darkness of the world when it comes to recognize, for

 what they are, the achievements of such pioneering spiritual scientists as

 Goethe and Rudolf Steiner.  Steiner still remains the best kept secret of the

 20th Century  - at a time when we need, precisely, to implement his stellar

 vision across the field of humanity's pressing sociological and empirical

 crises.
Waldorf education, Biodynamic farming, Anthroposophical medicine, spiritual

 ecology, and many more forums  - what deep and wide counsel still lies

 untapped by all too many of the so-called leaders of our time!
Earth Vision is here to wage peace on the world.  Put another way, it means

 waging war on materialism.  Its principle weapon is the experiential arena of

 spiritual ecology.

To access Earth Vision, and its five books, visit www.evbooks.net
Or contact Josef Graf - josefgrafev@yahoo.ca