The Dark Mountain Project

Berry: Twelve Principles The tongue of the largest glacier in Alaska, seen from space (courtesy NASA) Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process 1. The universe, the solar system, and the planet Earth, in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence, constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Carolyn Toben has written: Thomas Berry’s life and works have notably influenced the spiritual and intellectual history of the 20th and early 21st century. What we are experiencing in the degradation of the Earth, is a soul loss, a loss of meaning in life itself that calls for a recovery of a sense of the sacred.

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