Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness..

We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can also model comm….

The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be..

In Hinduism, Shiva the Cosmic Dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic universe. Through his dance, Shiva sustains the mani….

The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems….

Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the….

Understanding of life begins with the understanding of patterns..

The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may a….

When carbon (C), Oxygen (o) and hydrogen (H) atoms bond in a certain way to form sugar, the resulting compound has a sweet taste. The sweetness resid….

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see li….

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both..

In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive ….

Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the myst….

When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos as a whole, it beco….

The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human ….

The elements of life are dynamic patterns of mass and energy, events rather than objects..

The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between th….

In ordinary life, we are not aware of the unity of all things, but divide the world into separate objects and events. This division is useful and nec….

Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instr….

Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to d….

The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence ….