Eco-Spirituality: Connecting with Earth Beings

Based on an ethnography of the intertwined networks of collapsology and ecopsychology, this article shows how eco-spirituality, lived through practices of direct relationship with the cosmos and the beings that populate it, is based on the monistic vision of a “transcendental immanence”. This ecological spirituality responds to the need to give meaning to a world that no longer has much meaning for these environmentalists, by emphasising an ideal of harmony to be (re)composed with other-than-human beings. Eco-spirituality does not necessarily imply a relationship with the divine—which is the original meaning of the notion of spirituality—but it remains an option for those who claim a Christian eco-spirituality, of the panentheistic type, not without the risk of being reduced to “worshippers of Gaia”.