November 2015
I wrote this essay in 2015 as an attempt to clarify my thoughts about extending the aims of the Climate Psychology Alliance - and psychological thinking about the climate crisis - to include the wisdom of the perennial traditions. The thinking and analytical practices of our modern scientific culture have, arguably, led to the climate emergency. If there is a new consciousness emerging, then it must embrace a new vision of us - the human phenomenon - not an idealised one, but based on a global psychological and philosophical understanding that integrates both the scientific material knowledge of the modern West with the immaterial, meta-physical wisdom of the East.