Excellent article The Sacred from Below: the ecological spirit of our time, from David Tacey, Australian David Tacey (2009), professor in literary and cultural studies along with depth psychology...

Our civilisation is at the edge of a new experience of the sacred. The sacred is about to be realised where it is not ‘supposed’ to be, in the realm of nature, earth, embodiment and physicality. This is a momentous change not only for the West, but insofar as a Western-style mentality has infiltrated every corner of the world, for the entire globe. The shift is a relocation of the sacred from the heavens to the earth, from the higher cosmic realm to the natural realm ‘below’. Typically, in the three major monotheisms of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, the divine has been located in the realm ‘above’, in the empyrean of starry space and distant skies. In symbolic terms, the figure of a Heavenly Father has ruled over our apprehension of the sacred for millennia. But the Sky God has expired, ‘God is dead’, and the divine effulgence appears to have fallen to earth, lighting up the world of nature with an otherworldly glow. Click here to read the full article....