Making Eco-Spirituality Accessible Residency 2022
Channel: Life Itself
Date: 2022-02-15

Join us on the 24th of March for the Making Eco-Spirituality Accessible Residency at the Life Itself Hub in Bergerac, France. 

Apply now: https://lifeitself.us/sympoiesis/making-eco-spirituality-accessible-residency-2022/

This residency will explore what an engaged and accessible form of ecological spirituality might look like, how we can live with it openly, and the role it might play in a broader climate movement. It is part of Life Itself’s Sympoiesis series, which are meant to allow people to pursue a work life while spending time in a community of like minded people concerned with a specific question. Our convener is Rupert Read, a former spokesperson of both Extinction Rebellion and the UK Green Party, and Professor of Philosophy at East Anglia University. Rupert’s recent work has been focused on organising a moderate, inclusive flank of the climate movement.

An effective climate movement may require (and certainly would be helped by) a greater spiritual connection with our planet and its sacredness to us, as well as deeper realisation of our interdependent relationship with nature. The question is ─ how can we foster an eco-spirituality, in our personal lives, and public life, that is compatible with a broad based climate movement?

True eco-spirituality cannot be a hoop that people need to jump through, a jargon or a club. It must be a welcoming way to live in the paradigm-shift and system-shift that is desperately needed.

When we truly accept the present moment in its totality, on the macro as well as the micro level, then we take entirely seriously our yearning for something more beautiful and loving, and our commitment to making it happen. One can accept the present moment globally only by embracing our natural emotions and intentions that imply world-wide change. Real acceptance of life does not mean running away, but profoundly engaging with it ─ as it is.

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Looking around us we can see that neither our society nor our planet are as well as they should be. Greater wisdom is needed both in diagnosis and in finding cures.

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