Spiritual Ecology is an emerging and growing movement exploring these questions and addressing the deeper spiritual roots of our ecological crisis. The field is largely emerging through three individual streams of formal study and activity: science and academia, religion and spirituality, and ecological sustainability.

Is it possible for us to step out of the centrality of the human story? What might it mean for us to respond to the cry of our earth by going deeper? Can we learn how to make enough inner and outer space for a consistent relationship to emerge with the more-than-human? Can our work be a container for wholeness to be lived once again and a vehicle for a conversation that extends beyond ourselves? In the words of Thomas Berry, this task is a numinous venture.

Our outer relationship with the living world will only be healed when we address the core inner wound at the centre of our modern civilization: the severing of intimate connection to something greater than ourselves.

To be aware of the wonder and enchantment of this world, it's astonishing creatures and complex interactions, and to be aware simultaneously of the remarkably rapid destruction of every living system, is to take on a burden of grief that is almost unbearable.

What will it mean for the oldest stories of ancient knowledge in the world today, held safe by the knowledge keepers in the archives of the land?