In a new kind of spirituality based on ecological principles, which might be called an incarnational spirituality, the periphery or boundary is not the place of walls and protection but the place of bridges and interfaces, the place of communication and communion, the place of discovery and emergence.

          Likewise, a spirituality of the whole system, the whole ecology, is very incarnational as it moves away from traditional center/periphery hierarchies and distinctions. The non-physical realms, the spiritual realms and beings, are no longer seen as the sole resources for truth, light, love, and so forth. Such "good stuff" can now be found in the incarnational periphery, in the presence and expression of matter and the life of the embodied person. 

          We are reimagining the center to being part of an alliance, part of a community, part of an ecology, a partner in the expression of the whole system, not just in one aspect of it.

          In this sense, the millennia-old image of the Sun is morphing into a different image that is that of the Star. Obviously, the celestial object that is our sun is also a star. As such it is a radiant part of a larger galactic community. It is part of a cosmic ecology.

          Any of us can be a sun. We are all centers of something in our lives. But we are also engaged at our boundaries with others who also are centers. We live in the midst of an ecology of centers, an ecology of suns, a galaxy of everyday life. In this sense, we can think of ourselves as stars as well. It is the emergence of our stardom and learning what this implies in a world of interactive and co-creative partners and systems that is our next step.