Beyond the Pandemic: Spiritual and Ecological Challenges

Sets out some of the leading features of the evolutionary spiritual reawakening initiated in part by the COVID-19 pandemic, and their implications for our time. The pandemic entails a reset, one that involves a major shift in human consciousness-in the very ways we see and understand life (or fail to do so!) Considers the somewhat uneven response of the church and the shortfalls of the response of institutionalized medicine, and urges a spiritual response that embraces paradox and engages in the discernment needed to weather and emerge "reset" from this crisis. Also draws on the work of ecopsychologists/ecophilosphers Theodore Roszak and David Abram to examine "zoonotic spillover as a spiritual imperative."