Insight into Deep Ecological Perspectives as Energy Transmutation to Self Realization for Sustainable Development

Abstract

Deep ecology is a unique perspective on the environment that depends on an innovative view of reality that has significant implications for everyday existence, science, and philosophy. By emphasizing the connectivity of all living things, deep ecology transforms the perspective of the independent human self to one of the self as an essential element of the broader ecological system. The self appears as an intersection of connectivity within the vast network of energy interaction and exchange that pervades the natural universe as a whole rather than as an independent entity. Since the self is the living force that permeates all ecosystems, it can be associated to energy from this perspective. Human relationship with the environment depends on the potential identification with otherness where the self is widened and deepened. Deep ecology, which stresses the interdependence and mutual dependence of all living things and considers the self as a vital part of the deeper ecological system, transforms the idea of the independent human self. This approach considers the self not as a separate entity but as an intersection of connectivity in the vast network of energy relationships and exchanges that underlies the natural world. According to this perspective, the self can be compared to energy since it symbolizes the life force that encompasses and transcend ecosystems and species.