This talk explores an implicit ecospirituality contained in the Bhagavadgītā. A proper understanding of the Bhagavadgītā’s well known “yoga of action” (karmayoga) depends on a cosmic sacrificial wheel described by Kṛṣṇa in verses 3.9-16. This cosmic wheel is an all-encompassing ritual ecology that provides meaning to the world and views individuals as essential causative participants within it. Individuals have the religious and moral responsibility to perpetuate the wheel through a relationship of mutual reciprocity with the deities based on an economy of food. I extend this ritual ecology to include moral responsibility to the environment (personified as the deities); and explain how it provides an ecopsychology of interconnection and identity with the environment, and how it frames a practice of equanimous eco-resilience for handling our anxiety of imminent ecological catastrophe.
Spiritual ecology may be defined as the vast, diverse, complex, and dynamic arena of interactions of religions and spiritualities with ecologies, environments, and environmentalisms. It is predicated on understanding that secular approaches to resolve environmental problems from the local to the ...
We are living in an unprecedented era. The triple pandemics of COVID-19, white supremacy, and the climate crisis are drawing worldwide attention to the deep economic, social and environmental injustices of our time. In a March 10, 2021 interview with the CBC’s What on Earth host Laura Lynch, one ...
A Panel Discussion on Racial Justice & Healing with Jasmine K. Syedullah, N. Fadeke Castor, H. “Herukhuti” Sharif Williams.
