Spiritual Foundations for an Ecologically Sustainable Society
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The Journal of Bahá'í Studies 2, 33-57Abstract: This paper takes a broad macroevolutionary appraoch to our changing relationship to nature in light of Baha'i teachings. Humanity is perhaps after all not a delinquent species running out of control but is at the very center opf a vast growth process clearly approaching a tremendous transition. Humanity is in a process of evolving consciousness that is leading to the birth of a new planetary culture. This process subsumes the development of a mature copperative relationship between humanity and the ecosphere that gave it birth. The article explores the basic attitude to nature taken in the Bahá'í Faith; implicit throughout is the Bahá'í view of the balance and cohesion of material and spiritual realities.
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Spiritual Foundations for an Ecologically Sustainable Society was originally published in the Journal of Baha'i Studies (Vol 2. No.1). This special edition is sponsored by the Baha'i International Community Office of the Environment, Suite 120, 866 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY, USA 10017. Distributed at the Eart Summit, Brasil, 1992,
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This paper takes a broad macroevolutionary appraoch to our changing relationship to nature in light of Baha'i teachings. Humanity is perhaps after all not a delinquent species running out of control but is at the very center opf a vast growth process clearly approaching a tremendous transition. Humanity is in a process of evolving consciousness that is leading to the birth of a new planetary culture. This process subsumes the development of a mature copperative relationship between humanity and the ecosphere that gave it birth. The article explores the basic attitude to nature taken in the Bahá'í Faith; implicit throughout is the Bahá'í view of the balance and cohesion of material and spiritual realities.
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