Now, however, Gaia, the Greek earth goddess, is offering us a chance. Gaia has brought us to the brink of crisis. Climate change, and all of its moving parts—from litter to light bulbs to deforestation—is more than a crisis of survival. It’s a crisis of significance, where we must grasp the essential connectedness of everything and reinvest in our source of meaning, or die.
In the past 40 years—since the baby boomers came of age—Western society has shifted from wild postwar optimism to epidemic affluenza, obesity, and depression. Over the same period, our sacred architecture, eviscerated by populism, consumerism, and the collective solipsism that lets us remake God in our own, increasingly infantile image, has been systematically stripped of all that smacks of transcendence, poetry, or mystery. Anything, that is, that makes us feel small. The mega-church is just a barn with better lighting.
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