This thesis deals with the idea that there is one dimension missing in modern life, the dimension of spirituality. The absence of spirituality as a real practice and a living element shows itself through the environmental crisis, the feeling of general alienation and being cut-off from nature. We can see the consequences of this absence also in the rise of mental afflictions and overall materialistic direction of conduct in man. The thesis connects, researches and compares indigenous and Indian religion, mythology and their ways of perceiving the world, time and the ethical conflict between light and dark, good and evil, in Indian terminology dharma and adharma. We are researching the traditionalist concepts of Rene Guenon and examine connections, similarities, universals and differences between the two systems of thought through his intellectual tools. We are also researching works of some authors of deep ecology, who define the latter as an experiential and spiritual science. We offer a critique of modern materialist logic and the mentality of profit at the expense of exploitation of natural resources, based on the idea that man is something more and other than nature. We are looking at how man is connected to the biosphere and the ecosystems. We also touch upon the concept of “sacredness”, defining it as a tangible option of human consciousness and as a natural state of man as part of creation, when we stop to identify as a separate creature and “merge” with the environment, not as something supernatural and not-human.
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