Ecological Mysticism and the Poetics of Interdependence: A Trans-Corporeal Reading of Rumi's Love Poetry

Abstract This paper focuses on the discussion of "Ecological Mysticism," where the researcher will investigate the theme of the Poetics of Interdependence in Rumi's love poetry along with the concept of "Trans-Corporeality." In this way, we come across the intertwining of four main interconnected areas of inquiry: (i) religion, mysticism, and spirituality; (ii) environment, ecology, and animality; (iii) poetry, literature, and art; and (iv) ontology, metaphysics, and process philosophy. Earlier scholarship has often overlooked the divine as well as ecological and cosmological dimensions of Rumi's love poems, recasting them as romantic or spiritual expressions. In our reading of Rumi, we venture a new approach by transitioning towards the idea of mystical ethico-ontological ecology. This approach not only helps us unfold the underlying gaps between (Cartesian) bodies of modern Occidental sciences and alternative modern art but also postmodern trends. Trans-Corporeality provides an alternative apparatus, or poetic style, to apprehend interconnectedness while differencing it from unity or identity, alterity or duality. This concept also diminishes the odds of emphasizing interconnectedness, thereby saving your poems from turning into some pious or nostalgic moral parables. Inter-corpo-relation of trans-corporeality betrays dual and "flat ontologies," because it deals with overcomings, becoming full, and an even relation of bodies in a process of co-genesis and co-being. Instead of a "network" of objects and subjects (a "flat ontology,"), trans-corporeality assumes Brodey's idea of a "multiverse" made up of abstract complementarity, process ontology, and complimentary pluralism of religious sacred. In a transcendent sense, the corroboration of trans-corporeality with process philosophy presents three main attributes of process ontology and biodiversity of science process philosophy in a religious such as process theology or mystic. (Fleming, 2023).