ABSTRACT
This chapter aims at better understanding the values and actions of the proponents of ecospirituality, as well as the reasons, implications and limits of drawing such a connection. Ecospirituality emerged as an organized discourse around the 1980s in the context of a crisis of the environmental movement as well as of the great world religions. In parallel to the move toward a 'greener' religion, ecology has become increasingly 'spiritual' since the 1980s. Inside the new religious movements which have been forming a loose mystical-esoteric and New Age network since the end of the 1960s, discussions are centred around criticism of Christianity's approach to nature and the need to incorporate the insights of Eastern doctrines, in which nature and culture are not separated one from the other. Esotericism has integrated the whole of nature, visible and invisible, into its spiritual praxis and has developed very concrete practices such as divination, alchemy and magic in its various guises.
