An Activist's Perspective: The Inner Nature of the Environmental Crisis

Argues that humanity's inability to find inner harmony is reflected in its inability to live in harmony with nature. Jung (1931) points to the connection between the inner and outer environments when he raises the issues of psychic influence, archetypes, and consciousness. The more people fail to consciously face the need for inner change, the more they heighten the problems of the outer world. Human beings struggle for meaning and purpose in a world that has reduced the planet to markets and commodities to be bought and sold, managed and controlled. Based on scientific rationalism, dualism, and monotheistic religion, modern society has repressed both the feminine principle and the natural world. Drawing on both the ecological and feminist movements, ecofeminism tries to pursue the creative process of a vision of wholeness and human connection with nature.