What happens when environments shape not only civilisations, but spiritual communities as well?
In this new reflection, I explore Environmental Determinism, consciousness, ethics, institutional culture, and the difficult tension between aspiration and the enduring realities of the human condition.
Beginning with a flooded basement flat in Iowa and culminating in a rain-soaked drive to Cambridge thirteen years ago this month, this essay reflects upon how disruption, scarcity, structures, and environments may influence behaviour even within communities devoted to transcendence.
Yet perhaps not all storms arrive solely to destroy.
Some alter the road sufficiently to reveal a different horizon entirely…
“The Environment Within the Walls: Reflections on Environmental Determinism, Spirituality, and the Human Condition”
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