Mary Evelyn Tucker, educator, co-author of the Earth Charter, and leading voice in the religion and ecology movement, speaks with WIE editors Carol Raphael and Ross Robertson about the need to re-envision our humanity in a cosmic context—a perspective that encompasses not only our care for planet earth, but the even greater responsibilities inherent at the leading edge of consciousness itself.

In this in-depth two-part interview, Tucker, Raphael, and Robertson delve into some of the most challenging questions facing humanity today. Their wide ranging discussion of religion and ecology, complexity and order, evolution and enlightenment, revolves around a pivotal question: Is a global perspective big enough? Is the embrace of our planet earth and all life upon it a vast enough platform from which to address our most pressing crises and concerns? Or is there a greater perspective still—a cosmic view, whose expansive embrace includes not only our planet, our solar system, and our galaxy—but our self-aware consciousness and the impulse behind creation itself? As we enter an epoch in which natural selection will largely be determined in the human domain, the fate of species, eco-systems, and our own humanity may well hinge on just how big a perspective we are willing to embrace, individually and collectively. This is perhaps the most important and urgent discussion we can have today.

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