"Our neglect and dismissal of the sacred within creation are creating an INNER wasteland as real as the Tar Sands in Alberta. The globalization of our soulless, materialistic culture is having disastrous effects in the inner world, polluting it as much as the outer environment. And like the danger of climate change and extinction of species, this inner wasteland is growing faster than we realize . . . One could say that this outer physical predicament is a reflection of an inner catastrophe - a catastrophe that is even more disastrous because we remain unaware of it. We may not be consciously aware of what is happening, yet many people feel it deep within. There is a primal anxiety beneath the surface of our Western material abundance. We may project this anxiety onto the outer political or economic situation, but there is a sense that something vital to life is being lost . . . The effect on the inner world remain veiled, hidden by our very forgetfulness of the inner world and its sacred nature. All that is sure is that an inner tragedy as potent as climate change is taking place - the inner and outer life reflect each other more than we know."
Lllewellyn Vaughan-Lee,
Sufi teacher
"Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth"
Photo: A group of "Needles" and a Pinyon Pine killed by pine bark beetle; Canyonlands National Park, UT; December 1, 2013
Lllewellyn Vaughan-Lee,
Sufi teacher
"Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth"
Photo: A group of "Needles" and a Pinyon Pine killed by pine bark beetle; Canyonlands National Park, UT; December 1, 2013
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