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A lifetime’s work in applied marine ecology convinced me that trying to conserve wild populations by ‘Scientific Resource Management’ is often unsuccessful. Rather than a technical deficiency, this seems to stem from modern society’s lack of an ethical context for conserving ‘Mother Nature’. A higher priority is placed on the economic value of a resource than preserving its role in the ecosystem. This deficiency didn’t apply to the ancient belief system of Animism, which saw Mother Nature as ‘The Great Spirit’ and the landscape and its ecosystem as Her expression. The old idea that Nature is feminine persisted until roughly 100 years ago, and much further back, links us to an ancient view of life prior to Monotheism. We rarely refer nowadays to ‘Mother Nature’ as the guiding spirit for events on this planet, although close analysis shows that we have scant control over them: ‘She’ is still in charge. Hence, reviving a belief in the unitary spirit of nature on this planet and elsewhere, should be a guide for conservationists. The ancient counterpart to Mother Nature is James Lovelock’s Gaia; our local planetary ‘super-organism’ – again, a huge female entity who commands little media attention while we disrupt world ecosystems in the name of profit. The change in our way of thinking that will probably follow from contact with extraterrestrial civilizations will be even more traumatic than the shift in Celtic countries from shamanic/Animistic beliefs to Christianity, documented by Evans Wentz (1911) and Dames (1992), which is offered for comparison. It is speculated that a neo-shamanic approach sensitive to vital energy and aware of other planes of reality, may be easier to reconcile with successful modes of perception and communication with extraterrestrial species than a materialistic viewpoint.

From shamanism to the space age: reconciling with ancient beliefs may prepare us for Contact