"Our traditions, customs and beliefs had to be swept away, our profound attachment to nature removed, our authentic essence smothered, because these were all obstacles to the advance of the global empire of greed". Paul Cudenec, author of 'The Green One' and 'The Withway', looks at some of the ways in which humanity's belonging to divine nature has everywhere been celebrated for millennia. He then examines how this age-old sense of a sacred world has been progressively stifled in the modern era, before going on to suggest how it might now be revived.