  Integral World Forum   Michael Zimmerman Michael Zimmerman is
author of Environmental Philosophy, Heidegger's Confrontation
with Modernity, and Contesting Earth's Future. He is a member of
the Integral Institute's Ecology group, Professor of Philosophy
at Tulane University, Clinical Professor of Psychology at the
Tulane Medical School, Director of the Environmental Studies
Program and Co-Director of the Asian Studies Program, and can be
contacted at  A Contest Between Transpersonal Ecologies  Michael
E. Zimmerman  In Toward a Transpersonal Ecology (1990), the
noted eco-philosopher Warwick Fox maintains that scientific
accounts of the biosphere provide the basis for a this-worldly
spirituality involving closer identification with the plants,
animals, and ecosystems with which we share an ancient physical
and biological kinship.[1] As a naturalist, Fox holds both that
humans are inextricably related to the biosphere, and that
neither humankind nor the biosphere has any ultimate meaning or
purpose. As a transp