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In this essay, Paul explores the embracive Thomas Berry phrase "the universe is a communion of subjects rather than a collection of objects" as it relates to the understanding of and relation to the passion of animals. Throughout this work, Paul highlights key ideas from a remarkable collection of eductors, authors, and activists to provide pathways to an understanding of ourselves as citizens in a more-than-human world that are responsible to a "greater self".

The world watched in horror as some of history's most beautiful works of religious art became flame, then smoke, then atmosphere. Stunned to our bones, again, by the mystery of death. Only in the rarest places, including the poetry of our most profound mystics as well as the ravings of our saddest lunatics, is death admired. Our fear reveals our intense love of our fragile lives. Even pyramids fail as bargaining chips.

Faced with a preponderance of evidence, it is time to revive an idea that was once roundly mocked: the Gaia hypothesis. Conceived by the British chemist James Lovelock in the early 1970s and later developed with the American biologist Lynn Margulis, the Gaia hypothesis proposes that all the living and nonliving elements of Earth are “parts and partners of a vast being who in her entirety has the power to maintain our planet as a fit and comfortable habitat for life.”

A new essay from Brian Thomas Swimme on how our solar came emerged. In this essay, Brian takes readers to the earliest moments of our solar system and invites us to imagine what it might feel like to experience the waves that gave birth to world as we know it today. Out of chaos, order evolves, takes form and fights for it's existence. In such moments, Brian suggests, we catch a glimpse of our destiny.