The Farming Revolution and The New Spirituality

The Contemplative Column by Theodore Richards

Just as we are all nature, we are all, essentially, farmers. Very few of us would survive for very long without farms. Our lives and, indeed, civilization itself, are completely dependent upon the existence of farms. But one of the deep paradoxes of Modernity is that, at the same time, none of us is a farmer, either—or at least very few of us. We are co…