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the temptation technology affords us to mold a world
responsive to our whims alone.

Perhaps the most astonishing example is the Winter, 1993 issue of Amicus
Journal, the publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council, whose
cover story, “Is God Green? Ecology, Theology & Spirituality”, is illustrated
by a green hand of God excerpted from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel,
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reaching to touch, not Adam, but our late 20 Century icon, Earth from
outer space.

Curiously, this new awareness is coming to us primarily through the
sciences, perhaps not so surprising when one reflects that the scientific
community has been the priesthood of our time. With impressive leaps of
reason, scientists in every field from quantum physics to systems theory are
leading the way toward a new cosmology and a deeper spirituality than
could have been conceived of earlier. To be sure, these scientist/poet/
philosophers are still in the minority, a situation that cannot long prevail now
that these sensibilities are finding their way into the mainstream.

So, as we inhale the breath of another spring, we can, perhaps for the first
time, feel the spirit of an entirely new world-view rising. This breath,
brought to us on warm freshets, redolent with the fragrance of humus and
grasses, can be experienced as the ancient Hebrews experienced it, as
“Rhuah”: spirit, breath and wind, all rolled up in one. The spirit of our time,
the zeitgeist, is the knowledge that our science is not split off from our
deepest knowings, nor are we humans split off from the cosmos out of which
we have emerged and continue to emerge. Its name is written on our
innermost parts. Its song is woven into our bones. We bear the universe in
our being since before Abraham was born. Appropriately in 1993, the year
of Indigenous People, it may well be that the next pop culture catch phrase
will be “Earth R Us.” It’s okay with me. Really, it’s OK.

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