Spiritual Ecology addresses one key aspect of our global environmental crisis--our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation, and how this affects our relationship to the environment.
Seeing the girl in my class cry broke my heart, but it reminded me of the significance not only of our forgetfulness, but also of our kindness.
That is, what if our contemporary forgetfulness of these difficult texts and authors forgets, to borrow from MacKendrick's Fragmentation and Memory, its own forgetfulness?1 In this way, the forgetfulness of this aspect of our tradition risks a repetition of its worst aspect, risks a repetition of a disaster.
It is our very forgetfulness of the circumstances of the Holocaust that convinces us that we are different from Nazis and shrouds the ways that we are the same.
The cause of our forgetfulness, he claims, is the ever-growing amount of knowledge.
But it does nothing to rid us of our forgetfulness.
Destructive politics is inevitably bound up with forgetfulness of our humanity, in one way or another – the organised inhumanity of tyranny, the messianic aspirations of communism, the passion for control on the part of managerial modernity, the naked and brutal murderousness of terrorism.
However, it is also likely that the "forgetfulness" of patients in our study was influenced by other factors.
We need to recognize this growing darkness which is a forgetfulness of the sacred within our own souls and within all of creation.
It is about the forgetfulness of the history of our species -- the record that there is no morality among nations and the only law is the law of the jungle.
