A dialectical, conversational approach to ecospirituality, exploring ways to make the evolutionary epic a basis for a modern religion that values biodiversity, bioregionalism, and geophysiology. Barlow explores ways to reunite scientific knowledge of the world with a sense of the sacred. ( )

About the author: Kurt Lauren de Boer, editor of 'Earthlight Magazine,' said, "Connie Barlow is a pioneer, a sure-footed and spirited guide equally at home in the two terrains of scientific theory and ecoreligious experience." About the book: Lynn Margulis of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, said of this work, "Connie Barlow slashes through the shopping-mall contrivances of trashy consumerism to regain communication with the living, breathing wilderness of our planet. Celebrating a corrigible evolutionary epic she argues, mainly through lively conversation with scientists and scholars, for a new, value-laden, science-based religion wider than the sky."