This book provides a credible alternative to the so-called 'western' religions, which all trace their ancestry to the Hebrew Yahweh, who was the first sky-god to divorce (or be divorced by) his earth-mother consort, so initiating the long separation of God from Nature, putting an end to the feeling of oneness with Nature that had typified primal forms of religion. The author goes back in time, beyond the gods and goddesses of natural forces to the natural forces themselves, and then to the earliest known god-concept—generally known as 'mana', translatable as 'energy' and denoting not only the forces of external nature, but also the creative powers of human beings. For 'mana', he substitutes the more familiar 'divinity' to depict the energy, presumed intelligence and rightness (beauty and goodness) of our universe. A central theme is that religion should be understood as a positive attitude—intellectual and emotional—towards Planet Earth and, by implication, the total cosmos of which we are,