The Loss of the World Soul and its Return
by Anne Baring
Once upon a time, in a past so distant that we have no memory of it, the invisible and visible dimensions of life were imagined and instinctively experienced as a sacred unity. Read More
Spiritual Principles in Action: A Story for a Younger Generation
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, December 2015
First published in Dust Magazine
In answer to a question from a 31-year-old person, “What advice do you have for people my age in dealing with a world that tells us we are nothing but material mechanisms, and has almost no concept of the soul?” Read More
Shifting the Climate Debate Onto Sacred Ground
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, July 2015
First published on The Huffington Post
"The ecological crisis is essentially a spiritual problem." These words spoken by an Eastern Orthodox theologian, Metropolitan John Zizioulas, at the Vatican news conference on the papal encyclical are profoundly important. Read More
Pope Francis’ Encyclical: Hearing the Cry of the Earth
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, June 2015
First published on The Huffington Post
The Earth "now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her." So begins Pope Francis in his powerful and long-awaited encyclical on ecology. "The earth herself, burdened and laid waste, is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor." Read More
Global Citizens of a Living Earth
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, March 2015
First published on Kosmos Journal
On February 19, 2015, Rhonda Fabian interviewed Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee for Kosmos Journal. Read More
Sustainability, Deep Ecology, & the Sacred
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, April 2013
An edited version was first published online on The Huffington Post
As our world stumbles to the brink of ecological collapse, the “tipping point” of irreversible climate change, sustainability has become a vital issue. But in order to consider the question of sustainability, it is important to begin with the question: who or what is being sustained? Read More
Oneness & Spiritual Ecology
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, March 2013
Published in the Interspiritual E-zine: The Coming Interspiritual Age
The Interspiritual Age belongs to our awakening sense of an interconnectedness rooted in the deep awareness of the oneness to which we all belong. Read More
Ecobuddhism Interview with Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee on Spiritual Ecology
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, July 2012
Originally published by Ecobuddhism.org
Ecobuddhism: 'Spiritual Ecology' is a concept you have put forward that we also find very relevant. Could you please expand on what you have written about ‘loss of soul’ in the context of the global ecological crisis: "The inner wasteland is as barren as the Tar Sands in Alberta" and "Like climate change and the extinction of species, the inner wasteland is growing faster than we realize." Read More
A Great Urgency: To All World Religious and Spiritual Leaders
by Avrol Looking Horse, May 2010
19th generation keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle.
Published online at The Huffington Post. Read More
Spiritual Ecology
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, August 2009
Published online at Seven Pillars House of Wisdom
How can we speak about sustainability without speaking about the Sustainer?
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