TOWARDS TOMORROW'S MANKIND

REFLECTIONS ON THE EARTH PROCESS AND ITS NEWLY EMERGING PHASE

Abstract

Our contemporary world is awakening once again to the reality and wonder of the earth. Hardly anything is more important for the future of man. The human venture depends absolutely on this quality of awe and reverence and joy in the earth and all that lives and grows upon the earth; for man himself is among these living things. As soon as man isolates himself from these currents of life and from the profound mood that these engender within him, then the most basic satisfactions of human existence are diminished, for all the products of his machines cannot evoke in man that total commitment to life from the subconscious regions of his being that is needed to sustain the life process and to carry it on into a hazardous future. How man feels about himself and about the earth process, these are questions of utmost urgency, not only because of the inherent difficulty that we face in moving on into the future but also because of the idea presented by some of a disposeable earth the idea that man will soon have used up the earth and its energies and must find a way of colonizing another planetary body if he is to survive.