May 10th, 2015: Facing the Anthropocene: The New Cosmology and Earth Spirituality by Mike Bell

 Earth itself is the primary source of the inner creative force found in all religions, even among those “with no religious background or even a belief in a divine being. Human spirituality is an extension of the spirituality of Earth, the anima mundi, the earth soul. As Teilhard de Chardin put it, “We are not human beings on a spiritual journey; we are spiritual beings on a human journey.’ Earth itself, from which we have come, is sacred.