Evaldo Lima, The Hero's Journey & the Rediscovery of Gilgamesh / Fletcher Harper, Nature and Soul…/ Shirley Frances McNeil, Staying Found in the "None" Zone

 
Fletcher Harper, an Episcopal priest, is Executive Director of GreenFaith, an interfaith environmental coalition based in New Jersey. An award-winning spiritual writer and nationally-recognized preacher on the environm denominations about the moral, spiritual basis for environmental stewardship and justice. A graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary, he served as a parish priest for ten years and in leadership pStaying Found in the "None" Zone In Man and His Symbols C. G. Jung observed that as "scientific understanding has grown, so our world has become dehumanized," resulting in humans who feel acutely isolated in the cosmos. When contact with nature d supplied." A national study by religious scholars found that the Pacific Northwest region had the highest percentage of respondents who answered "None" when asked their religious identification. Yet the research shows a spiritual fulfillment in nature rather than organized religious communities. This presentation explores how contemporary Northwest writers evoke the phenomenological experience of spiritual seekers who discover a reson