the kind that happens every 65 million years or so. We (Humans) are the cause of it and we are not even aware of it. Don't believe me? Do some research. Since modern man and the industrial revolution made its entrance into Earth's history, the number of species that go extinct every year is in the thousands and increases every year. Don't believe me? Do some research!!!
The good news is our world is pretty frickin' resilient. Look at how the Gulf has rebounded after the BP oil catastrophe. It's not totally back but is recovering much nicer than most people would have ever expected. In spite of all our misguided efforts to completely destroy Mother Earth, she is still providing us everything we need to survive. Thank You Mother Earth!!!
I was reading one of my favorite books this morning while pondering my next chapter. I am accepting the call to adventure for something new and leaving what has been a great experience for me the past 23 years. The chapter I was reading was on the underlying intelligence of life and specifically, how every cell in our body contains the DNA for the larger organism known as us. Yet, as the cell matures it has the wisdom or intelligence to develop as a cell to be part of our heart or eye or finger. The cell knows it is part of the whole we call our body, it knows it is connected to every other cell and likely every other thing in the Universe and it fulfills a role that completes the whole.
This cell regenerates pretty frequently and does so over and over in the body's physical existence. It regenerates perfectly by understanding its role as a part of the whole and it releases the exact RNA (the blueprint from the DNA that tells it what to regenerate as) it needs to fulfill that role as part of the whole. A problem arises when the cell loses its social identity and what its role is within the whole. It reverts to blind undifferentiated cell division and begins taking over the area of the body it resides in. Science has proven (Look it up, do some research, don't just believe me) that the cell does this due to its perception of the environment it lives in. It loses touch with the guiding principle that it is interconnected with every other cell and is as important as any other cell. It is no longer cooperating with the whole when the environment is not status quo or normal. When a cell does this we call it Cancer.
I only bring this up, because it is a great analogy for what is happening to the Earth and Humanity. Think of Earth as a cell in the body of the Universe. Whats happening in Syria, or The Ukraine, or our government for that matter? We are killing ourselves, little pockets of humanity killing each other for no reason congruent with us all being connected. Look at all the atrocities that have taken place in just the last century. It's almost blind luck we have not destroyed ourselves already, we certainly have enough nuclear missiles.
Take Religion for instance. In human history, the sideways thinking people have about religion has resulted in more people being killed as a result of differences in beliefs about which religion is true than any other reason combined. How does that happen? The perceptions of the environment of those involved in "Religion", and no one religion has a monopoly on this unhealthy approach to religiosity. Anyone that says "my belief is the only true way" is cancerous to the whole because that is contentious and creates fear and angst or rebellion, none of which are healthy progressive states for a cell or Human to reside in.
Now Calm Down!!! It's just a metaphor, don't get all sideways on me. If that last paragraph pissed you off, I made my case and you can now see how hundreds of thousands if not millions of people have been killed in the name of God, or religion. I personally believe there is truth in most religions when you look at the teachings as metaphors rather than absolutes. We are as a society metaphorically challenged unfortunately.
So how can we as a world or humanity become Cancer free? Simply changing our thoughts. Having a different thought about our circumstances and understanding that circumstances in our life happen for a reason the meaning of which is up to us to determine. I don't have to agree with you in order for me to like or respect you. But if you try to steal from me, I'm removing you from my life and I may have you arrested. Disagreements do not need to end in injury or death, but you also do not need a sledge hammer up side the head before you know its time to move on. Choose your thoughts wisely, more on that next time.
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