“The American anthropologist David Abram believes that our modern Western focus on the “inner world” and the Christian idea of a supernatural heaven are both results of a profound psychic change.” — Armstrong, Karen. Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World (p. 8). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2023. Kindle Edition.

Yes, it’s called gnosticism. The West has fully embraced it as a tool for their ideologies of extractive, destructive, utilitarian treatment of the natural world.

And gnosticism has long been considered a vast theological heresy (which it is, especially to Ecotheology). Except, that is, to those completely swallowed up in it. For them, those who revere the natural world are “pagan” and “superstitious” ; “Savages”.