Philosophising Our Way to Wellness: Environmental Spiritualism & the All
“Nutrients are recycled throughout nature, throughout millennia, this is the essence of life, life is a beautifully complex selforganising combination of elements that come from stardust and will eventually return to the cosmos.” - Jane Cull
The volition to do good by the planet is an honest one not nurtured on a whim. It takes a true, heartfelt self-questioning to reach the point where, after considerable hours of contemplation, we set ourselves the task of amending our ways for the benefit of the greater good; not necessarily because we want to, but because we must. After all, an individual’s impact multiplied by billions of other individuals’ impacts becomes a veritable human movement, a species-driven shift to save the Earth before it’s too late. 58
The debates rage on, but there is not as yet a panacea lifestyle prescription that encompasses suiting everyone (including medically) with ameliorating the state of the environment and adhering to ethical consideration of all sentient non-human animals. So it is that there can be voiced questions such as the seemingly ridiculous “Is bone broth vegan?”, contemplating (a) how vegans assert we must eat the plants for their nutritional benefits directly, rather than as processed through animals and, also, (b) the interconnectedness of life
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and how a vegan diet still results in the deaths of small animals and insects in fields ploughed (and chemically treated if the farm is nonorganic; or fertilised with bone meal if the farm is biodynamically managed – very few use seaweed – in which case why not sip on bone broth directly?). Points of view are thus myriad and all is cyclical, an endless rolling wheel of birth, and life, and death. Yet, as planets orbit the sun, so Mankind has come to believe that everything else revolves around itself. How very wrong we are.
