Radical Ecology is Godfrey Devereux' legacy of a life time of enquiry. This enquiry began with yoga and psychedelics in the Seventies, and continued within the teaching of yoga, meditation and tantra for almost 50 years.  The concept of Radical Ecology as the practice and fruit of Somatic Intimacy emerged in an interview for the Ecologist magazine many years ago. A few years ago, about the time environmental collapse could no longer be reasonably ignored, Godfrey's methodologies of Somatic Intimacy all merged into Resilience Training. Where traditional yoga and meditation are solitary paths of self enquiry, Resilience Training has a clear target: the Invulnerability of your Spiritual Heart. At the same time it is an embodied celebration of relationship in all its expressions. This shift was based on understanding how much we are social, as well as spiritual, beings. Resilience Training is the experiential womb within which a Radical Ecology gestates.

As a human being you are simultaneously a biological, sexual, social and spiritual being. As a biological being you have many vulnerabilities, and the needs that they create: for oxygen, water, protein, lipids, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, warmth, sleep. As a sexual being you have many vulnerabilities, and the needs that they create: for touch, intimacy, love. As a social being you have many vulnerabilities, and the needs that they create: for company, support, understanding, acceptance, respect. As a spiritual being you have no vulnerabilities, but you do have two deep and ineradicable needs: for silence, and to give without demand. As long as any one of your biological, sexual, social or spiritual needs is not being met you cannot be satisfied. You cannot feel completely safe. Even if you do not realise it. 

Radical Ecology is based on the understanding that our social and biological vulnerabilities will always create unease, unless they are experientially contextualised within our Spiritual Invulnerability. While accessing our Spiritual Nature has limited effect and value if it is not experientially integrated into our social vulnerabilities.

Radical Ecology is an embodiment of the nature and significance of Consciousness. It recognises our explicit evolutionary heritage as being also an implicit spiritual one. Just as we share our biological origins with the whole of the Natural World, so too do we share our spiritual nature with all living beings. While this perspective confounds the assumptions of many, it helps explain why so many species have been found to display empathy, compassion and solidarity. Not only within their own species, but also with members of other species. The compassion and empathy that they need from us right now. When Consciousness is recognised as being the intelligence that drives evolution and sustains life, and that both body and mind are expressions of Consciousness, it is not so hard to realise that all forms of life have shared spiritual roots. As love is a fundamental property  of Consciousness and empathy, compassion and solidarity are expressions of love, their participation in the behaviour of non primate species points directly to our common spiritual heritage. Now is the time to take solidarity as far as it can go.