Living the sacred

The search for holiness is central to the human project - and so, to the evolutionary project.

Holiness is found at the intersection of the problematics of behaviour and value.
What should we do? That which is of most value.
What is of most value? That is the question...

We show what we value by how we behave (or, to be generous, how we aspire to behave).

The domain of the sacred is characterised by maximal intensity and maximal consequence - that which is of utmost importance, which demands utmost concentration on the part of its practitioners.

Sacral practices act out the relationship of the limited with the unlimited, the immanent with the transcendent. The immediacy of mystery, where here and now touches eternity and infinity - this is the phenomenological basis for experience of the numinous.

In principle, there is no reason to limit the capacity for ecosacral behaviour to the human species, any more than to think that intelligence is bounded by human reason. The only difference is that some human beings, to some degree in some circumstances with unproven veracity, are prepared to talk about why they consider their actions to be imbued with holiness and how that makes them feel. Equally, it is only humans who are able to argue convincingly that they find no numinous dimension in their life.

Holy is as holy does.

Implicit in the concept of ecosacrality is an identification of sacred value with the integrity of ecosystem. Wisdom or knowledge or intelligence or understanding proves itself in favourability of outcome and that can only reside in the persistence and development of the whole.

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