ABSTRACT
The whole human community can draw on the globally accessible resources of the world's religious heritage to develop a more holistic, an ecologically more balanced spirituality for humanity and the planet. The hominised planet is now developing a noosphere, thus moving evolution in the direction of a new level of complexity-consciousness. The spiritual arises out of and is strengthened by the mutual embeddedness and contemporary co-evolution of the biosphere and noosphere. There exist quite a few attempts to develop a stronger ecological spirituality, not least in ecofeminism, where the concerns of the women's movement come together with those of the ecological movement. From the point of view of a person of faith, spirituality forms part of the history of divine-human interaction, a breakthrough of the spirit into history, a piercing through beyond history. Much spirituality is too past-oriented and far too individualistic by being primarily focused on a person's inwardness.
