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Spirituality, Not Dogmatic Faith

"Earth in the Balance" is a brilliantly written, prophetic, even holy book, clearly pointing the way we need to change to assure the survival of our grandchildren. I pray it will have the dramatic impact it deserves -- and must have for our collective salvation." M. Scott Peck, author of "Road Less Traveled"

In Earth in the Balance, Gore wrote of his faith, which he said was ''rooted in the unshakable belief in God as creator and sustainer, a deeply personal interpretation of the relationship with Christ, and an awareness of a constant and holy spiritual presence in all people, all life, and all things.''

Faith, he wrote, should lead to an adherence to just principles, including a responsibility to preserve the earth for future generations. He talked of lessons to be learned from other religious traditions, including ancient earth goddess worship, and of God's place in the universe.
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Archetypes

Al Gore is metaphysically aware of the Feminine dimension of the sacred: "The spiritual sense of our place in nature...can be traced to the origins of human civilization. A growing number of anthropologists and archeo-mythologists...argue that the prevailing ideology of belief in prehistoric Europe and much of the world was based on the worship of a single earth goddess, who was assumed to be the fount of all life and who radiated harmony among all living things...[Ceremonial sites] seem to confirm the notion that a goddess religion was ubiquitous throughout much of the world until the antecedents of today's religions--most of which still have a distinctly masculine orientation--swept out of India and the Near East, almost obliterating belief in the goddess. The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity...[I]t seems obvious that a better understanding of a religious heritage preceding our own by so many thousands of years could offer us new insights." (p. 260) ....read more