We are beginning to reach out, to touch the flesh of other
planets, the flesh that the Universe is. This is part of our creation story
today -- that we all participate in the same flesh, all derive from the
same origin. Now that technology allows us to transmit live photos in color
from the planet Mars into our living rooms, and from the edges of the Universe
via the Hubble [and Chandra] telescopes, cosmic flesh is coming ever closer
to our own. We yearn for the Universe, for proof that our lives are not
trivial and not meaningless.
When you look at a star, you may be looking at a being that died a long
time ago. We are seeing the light it beamed before it died. To look into
space is to took into time. This is new! Early in this century we thought
that the Universe was static, that all flesh was essentially static. But
flesh is old, evolving, full of the scents of time and space. Flesh has
a long story to tell. Every flower contains that story, every body, every
peach, every blade of grass, every face.
Matthew Fox, from his latest book,
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh
4 Seeing with New Eyes -- K. Lauren de Boer
6 Reader Forum
8 Earth Beat:
Green Power
in the Faith Community
National Council
of Churches' Global Warming Campaign
The Ecozoic's
First Monastery
Corporate Watch:
WTO, Biotechnology, Climate Crisis
11 The Real Meaning of Chaos: Gifts of Wisdom
from the
Science of Change
John Briggs
and F. David Peat
14 Background Radiation and the Big Love -- David Spangler
16 Interview with Peter Russell
Consciousness:
Evolution's New Edge
with K. Lauren
de Boer
20 Cloudhand, Clenched Fist
A story of t'ai
chi, chaos, and the empowerment
of community
-- Rhea Y. Miller
21 SPECIAL FEATURE: In Service to the Sacred
Restoring Community through the Ecology of Art
22 A Soul Connection to Place -- Lynne
Hull
profile by Susan Kleihauer
23 Art, Humor, and Restoring the Earth
-- Kathryn Miller
profile by Sharon Abercrombie
25 Kids, Trees, and an Ancient Art --
Lana Rose
profile by Sharon Abercrombie
26 Beyond the Skin of Reality -- Patricia
Johanson
profile by Susan Kleihauer
28 The Reenchantment of Art -- Suzi
Gablik
Reviews
Song of the Meadowlark by James Eggert
-- reviewed by Robert Schutz
The Forsaken Garden by Nancy Ryley
-- reviewed by Charlotte Gildea
Endnote: Ants -- Patty Sheehan
43 Back Cover: We Are Stardust
