The roots of ecospirituality are in the bowels of Gaia and the soul and spirit of humans. The roots of ecospirituality started forming when earth and life first began coexisting. The fact that we are composed of soil and minerals and water, given some sort of indefinable breathe and become alive and function and interact is astounding and mysterious, still. Ecospirituality has its roots in the need for humans to explain their interactions with the Mystery that is Gaia.

The stems of ecospirituality are various spiritual practices, the repeatable ways in which spiritual traditions teach, reinforce beliefs, allow for transformative space, maintain order, and create and celebrate community. Religion is an aspect of ecospirituality, but not the fullness of it, as religion can be narrow, and lose actual spirit along the way. Religion and dogma can limit minds and hearts, act as a toxic pesticide, and can be employed for catastrophically destructive, as well as healing, ends. The breadth of mystical traditions that are experiential in practice is closer to the reality of ecospirituality within Gaian methodologies than either philosophy or narrow religion. While there are stems that develop from religion and philosophy, they may very well produce different flowers and seeds than stems growing from the roots of mystical traditions.

Mystical traditions that urge a unity of mind, body, and spirit have practices that provide opportunities for revelatory experiences of nonduality. The state of nonduality, the state of oneness, of complete integrity, free-will and unity combined, is the perpetually dynamic state of Gaia. These experiences of nonduality are the flowers of ecospirituality, aesthetically pleasing, gorgeous, creative, vibrant flowers. Flowers that bloom from the soil and nutrients of conscious and embracing sustainability. There are other flowers, blooming from other stems, their life force kinked perhaps by dogma or an inharmonious or fragmented relationship with Gaia, but blooming nevertheless. Gaia is resilient and finds creative uses for imperfection, ultimately transforming improbabilities and imperfections into viable parts of the sustainable cycle of life.

The seeds of ecospirituality are the scattered holonic truths (Wilber, 2000, p. 40) that are disseminated throughout the planet and begin to form roots in the soil they land in. The seeds are the truths and methods and wisdom we use in our relationship with Gaia now and in the future. The seeds are the trees we plant, and the international space stations, and the sustainable water, waste, and energy systems we develop out of an understanding of mutuality with Gaia and all her inhabitants. The seeds are born from the flowers of our experiences, the seeds contain within the fullness of action, the fullness of healing, the fullness of resilience, in a continual cycle.