GreenSpirit

GreenSpirit, Path to a New Consciousness, is a new book edited by Marian Van Eyk McCain, who many of you will know from the Elderwoman blog and her book The Lilypad List.

The book is a collection of articles about aspects of green spirituality by Satish Kumar, Matthew Fox (the priest, not the actor!), Brian Swimme and many others. How do we define green spirituality? On the back cover is the following blurb:

Only by placing Earth and its ecosystems – about which we now understand so much – at the centre of all our thinking can we avert ecological disaster.

Only by bringing our thinking back into balance with feeling, intuition and awareness and by grounding ourselves in a sense of the sacred in all things can we achieve a new level of consciousness.

I’ll post a proper review of the book soon, but meanwhile, I was delighted to have been asked recently by Marian to compile a promotional video based on materials she sent me. It describes the book and the philosophy behind it.  Here’s the result:

Bee image by Stuart Webster

Elsewhere:

You can become a Facebook fan of GreenSpirit here, and find out more about the book here. And it was coach Sally Lever who introduced me to Marian’s books, so here’s a link to a recent blog post of hers describing an appeal by the Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales.