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"They that languish in the wastes of separation
be led unto
the home of eternal
reunion."- Bahá'u'lláh
"Within your legends, your myths,
your various religions with their stories of Gardens of Eden, and within the
tales of ancient advanced civilizations, is a collective memory of a time when
humanity was not separate. They recall a time when
human consciousness was one with God,
connected to earth and to all of creation." - Vincent Cole
"Most people are on the
world, not in it - having no conscious
sympathy or relationship to anything about
them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone,
touching but separate" - John Muir
"In our modern minds
nature and human society are separate things.
Our
comforting sense of the permanence of our natural
world, our confidence that it will change gradually and imperceptibly if at
all, is the result of a subtly warped perspective. Changes that can affect us
can happen in our lifetime. I believe that without
recognizing it we have already stepped over the threshhold of such a change:
that we are at the end of nature.
By
the end of nature I do not mean the end of the
world. The rain will still fall and the sun shine, though differently than
before. When I say "nature," I mean a certain set of human
ideas about the world
and our place in it.
The death of those ideas begins with concrete changes in the
reality around us - changes that scientists can
measure and enumerate. More and more frequently, these changes will clash with
our perceptions until our sense of nature as eternal and separate is
washed away, and we will see all too clearly what we have done." - Bill
McKibben
"We conceptually separate ourselves
from the environement in order to manipulate it;
equally, our successful
manipulation of the
environment spurs our conceptual separation from it.
The more
we dominate, own, and control, the more
separate we experience ourselves.
The more separate we experience
ourselves, the greater the urge to dominate,
to own, to control.
The inescapability of the present crises is
demolishing the fundamental illusion
beneath the course of separation. As long as we believe ourselves to be
discrete beings fundamentally separate from the
environment, then in principle
there is no limit to our ability to insulate ourselves from the degeneration of
the social and natural
environment.
Reality is an Other, and its suffering has
nothing to do with me, provided I am skillful enough in insulating myself.
Today, as the wreckage proliferates, its effects become increasingly
difficult to manage. The habitual response is to try harder: to invent new
technology to clean up the problems of the old. To insulate ourselves still
more skillfully from the mess. But as this becomes impossible, as burgeoning
crises overwhelm us, another possibility emerges: to abandon the program of
insulation and control, and the
conception of the separate
self on which it rests.
When the
illusion of separation is healed,
we will come to define our collective purpose in terms of
beauty." -
Charles
Eisenstein
"Scientists at the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Landscape and Human Health Laboratory have
compiled evidence that suggests that a connection to nature is vital to our psychological and physical
health as it helps recharge our brains so that we're better able to cope with
the stresses in life."
- Andrea
Thompson
" We evolved to thrive in
our natural surroundings." - Frances (Ming)
Kuo
"Urban environments, with their traffic and
harried pace, are a constant drain on our mental resources because we have to
work to pay attention to a myriad of stimuli. Similarly, animals taken out of their natural habitats can start to
degrade mentally and physically - parenting skills decline, aggression
increases and playful activity stops." - Andrea Thompson
Immersion in
nature increases focus and reasoning because nature is filled with "soft
fascinations" such as rustling trees or bubbling water that allow high-level
functions the leisure to replenish, whereas, on the other hand, urban life is
filled with the harsh distracting sensory stimuli of sirens, helicopters, car
horns and eardrum rupturing rap that overloads high-level functions with the
natural biological orienting response mechanism inherent in all mammals
creating cognitive confusion through
distraction.
"The larger
concern is that technological "nature" will shift the baseline of what people
perceive as the full human experience of nature, and that it will contribute to
what we call environmental generational amnesia."
- Jolina Ruckert
(technological "nature" = high definition plasma
screens)
"Solastalgia" is a
combination of the Latin word solacium (comfort) and the Greek root –
algia (pain), which Glenn Albrecht, who coined the term defined as "the pain
experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that
one loves is under immediate assault . . . a form of homesickness one gets when
one is still at ‘home.'"
"There are fundamental problems of philosophy at the
root our social culture. I have come to the belief that the flaw is
fundamental, unreformable. Unless the idea that the world is a resource for us
to use is dealt with, unless humans can find their way home again, then the
problems will continue to grow." - Dave Foreman
There is an ancient wisdom,
sometimes referred to as the hermetic wisdom,
which states the law of correspondence, namely, as above so below, as
within so
without, as in the macrocosm so in
the microcosm. The universe works as a great
oneness in which the whole is
reflected in every part.
The ancient Greeks knew of
this wisdom.
Above the temple of Eleusis
was carved "Man,
know thyself,
and thou shalt know thy
universe".
One hundred and forty years ago,
the federal government of
America was transferring to itself
the
ancestral Indian lands of the Suquamish tribe in the Washington Territory.
The leader of that
tribe, Chief Seattle, said the
following:
"This we
know:
The
Earth does not belong to
man, man belongs to the Earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Humans did not weave the
web of life, humans are merely a strand in it.
Whatever man does to the
web of life, man does to himself."
These remarks mean nothing to a
materialistic
intellect such as that of the
Pharisees.
They do not make
sense to a
materialistic
intellect that is
concerned only with pleasing itself.
The
materialistic
intellect has only reached the point of
experiencing separation, not
unity. Religiously speaking we would
say that the materialistic
intellect, the intellect of the
Pharisees or
Talmudists are
seperated from God, and therefore seperated
from God's creation. When
an individual grows into maturity
they realize that they are dependent on all other
individuals within the
social culture.
Civilization is built upon
cooperation not
competition.
Cooperation creates a civilized mindset wereas
competition
creates a law-of-the-jungle survival of the fittest
mindset - the mindset of the Ashkenazi
Talmudists.
People cut of from God,
spiritually corrupt and
immature individuals,
experience themselves as a separate entity among a mass of
'other' separate entities.
Those that
conceptualize themselves as separate feel no
obligation to do right by their fellow man and
fail to
understand that
civilization is built upon
competition given through a free
will and not competition given
begrudgingly at the end of a gun
barrel.
A life of simplicity, of
moderation and peace, of
love for one another, of
respect for all
creation and of
harmony with
nature is the spiritual way
out of the tragedy which
mankind now faces.
Mankind has the intellect to create.
Mankind, as a whole, does not have the
wisdom to use our creations
wisely. Technology is born out of
intelligence. Intelligence
is God's gift to us which we need to use
responsibly. This requires wisdom. Proper
exercise of our responsibilities is the key to
whether inventive genius
produces beneficial results or
creates the havoc on the Earth
that we are now experiencing.
"We live in a
reality of old and new that doesn't
conform to cliches.
The
important idea is that we must
rethink what we mean and
understand by the term 'technology'.
When we
imagine technology we typically focus on
innovation - the new.
We typically think of one-way, progressive
time lines, dates of 'invention' and 'first use'.
Hence if
you go to certain countries in the so-called undeveloped world and ask them if
they have any technology they will
ruefully answer 'no'. By which they mean they haven't
invented anything important lately.
I would maintain that's a very odd definition of
technology because it's neither a
definition that looks at what matters, technologically, nor does it focus on
historically significant
inventions.
In
the 1940s everyone was excited about supersonic flight and atomic
power, and in today's
history books we continue to
think of that era being dominated by those
technologies.
It wasn't.
Those history books are derived
largely from propaganda about
technology.
One might more
correctly think of the 1940s as a
time of tanks, airplanes, cars, coal, wheat and
pig farming.
We inhabit a
reality where what I call 'the
futurism of the
past' falsely
conditions our conception of the
past.
At the
moment our
understanding of
technology is driven by an
obsession with glamorous innovation
which systematically narrows our vision and
obliterates any comprehensive account of technology's
past.
This tendency is exacerbated by
narratives which repeat themselves over time (propaganda), irrespective of what actually
happened in history.
So we have the
steamship, the railway, the airplane, the radio, global
trade, the internet and the "coalition of the willing" all portrayed as
breaking down barriers between nations.
The end result?
We are
blinded by cliches when we turn our
mind to technology.
There is a consensus
in commerce that certain areas of
technology are sexiest and should be concentrated on.
In fact, we
should invent wherever and whenever we can.
We should, for example, apply ourselves to
inventing new modes of public transport, we
should invent new methods of cutting metal,
we should invent new techniques of
extruding plastic.
If we stop thinking
about technology, as we have
conventionally conceived it, and
think instead about 'things', we might better grasp the complexities
involved.
We might even decommission the word 'technology' which has an inbuilt
futurist spin." - David Edgerton, historian of
technology
"The
consumer driven
economy of America is based on a constellation of
concepts about ourselves, God, growth,
wealth, and the world
we live in. These conceptions deny the
relevance of God or spiritual life to
business activities. Nature is primarily to be
used for human benefit, and anything that cannot be counted or measured in
monetary terms has limited or marginal "utility." The Earth is valued for its
resources, which are assumed to be
infinite and inexhaustible. Even if not, we have faith that human ingenuity
will find suitable substitutes for any shortages, and technological "fixes" for
serious degradation of our natural
environment.
The consumer driven economy presumes that nations and
corporations must grow in order to
"progress," and assumes that the "rational
economic person" will strive to amass as much
material wealth and experience as much pleasure as
possible. These false
beliefs encourage overconsumption as a
way of life,
for they posit a world of boundless
freedom without natural limits or
moral restraints on human action.
Electing freedom to disobey
God's limits,
mankind exits the
Garden of Eden and enters a
world where nature is
to be conquered rather than accepted or
embraced.
The roots of our
alienation from nature are deep.
The
illusions created by the
corporate dream merchants have become the
new religion.
In feeding the
dreams and desires of
material salvation here and now,
corporations have deliberately
created "the
consumer," an ideal
marketing target who rejects
tradition, focuses on
immediate gratification, and is
steeped in desire for all things new.
When
environmentalists claim that we
need to reduce consumption,
business and the
consumer both recoil. The
consumer is so
well-conditioned to satisfying needs through
things that any suggestion to cut back is met with "intense
anxiety,
depression,
rage, and even
panic.
The average
American is
exposed to hundreds of advertisements
each day, and the process begins at an early age. Even if the specific
product is not remembered, the overall message is: there is a product to meet
your every need, if only you will buy it.
In our irrational addiction
to more and more, we practice a kind of collective blindness.
While
many of us pay frequent lip-service to the "free market," we do our best to disregard
some of its most fundamental precepts, a disregard that often has serious
environmental
consequences." - Donald O. Mayer
"Many ecopsychologists seem to share a
belief that modern
humans are somehow separated or
disconnected from nature. To most
ecopsychologists, the existence of a
human-nature disconnection in most modern individuals and in modern
culture as a whole may be self-evident: In
industrial social cultures, most
people live indoors and most interactions take place either with other people
or with human-made artifacts. Most people spend more time watching
television than being outdoors. More
people go to theme parks than go to national parks. Many ecopsychologists claim
that this physical separation from the natural
world leads to a psychological disconnection, that the physical separation
arises from the psychological alienation, or both." - John
ScullAdvancing technology has enabled
mankind to analyze nature,
to dissect nature, to control nature and to
conquer nature, but we have
lost the ability to see an
obvious truth:
.
The
Earth is entirely subject to the
rule and control of
Natural Law and
Natural Law has
absolute organization.
Mankind needs, therefore,
to restructure and overhaul the entire
industrialized materialistic social cultural fabric, for it is, at the
moment, not woven by
reasoned intelligence, spirituality and
harmony, but by base
emotion, greed
and disunity.
Every human
of discernment feels
humility when walking upon the
Earth as he is fully
aware that the
source of his prosperity, his wealth, his advancement and
power is, as ordained by God, the very Earth
which is trodden beneath the feet of all men.
We cannot
segregate the human
heart from the
environment outside
us and say that once one is reformed everything
will be improved.
Man is
organic and is one with the
Earth.
A man's inner
life molds the
environment and is itself deeply
affected by the environment.
The one acts upon the other and
every abiding change in the
life of man is
the result of these mutual reactions.
Mankind has a faculty which
plants and animals do
not have, the power to
discover the
secrets of nature. Men
therefore have the responsibility to use this power only in a positive
way, to ensure that
balance is maintained on the
Earth.
Change is natural and continual in all
life but disruptive and powerful change
caused by human greed and thoughtlessness does not give
nature time to adapt.
This requires a more
spiritual, less
selfish attitude than that which is too often found
today.
We need to preserve the
diversity of life forms not only for their
own sakes, but for ours too.
A
variety of plants are required to maintain a healthy diet, and
for medicinal purposes as well.
Mankind
generally is waking up to what those with insight, the enlightened ones, and those
most directly suffering, have
known for years:
that we are rapidly destroying
our natural
environment.
There are
many causes for this, including lack of unity amongst mankind, lack of a
common
philosophy of life, lack of political maturity, the
existence of poverty and exploitation, the
division of the
Earth into rival nations,
ideologies and religions, an unjust global
economic system,
and many more.
It is obvious to
any concerned individual that if
we solved the
problems listed above - in
other words
created fairer and more
rational systems of economics (resource distribution),
social administration and
social justice -
the destruction of the
environment could be halted and be
rapidly thrown into reverse.
Abdu'l-Bahá sketches the following
image of the future state of
life on Earth when
he says:
"The Lord of all mankind hath
fashioned this human realm to be a
Garden of Eden, and Earthly paradise. If, as it must, it findeth the
way to
harmony and
peace, to love
and mutual trust, it will become a
true abode of bliss, a place of manifold blessings and
unending delights. Therein shall the
rays of the Sun
of Truth shine forth over the Earth."
In Christian words -
"Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done, on Earth, as it is in heaven."
The message of the Georgia Guidestones is eight
languages: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Ancient Chinese,
and Russian. The message of the Georgia Guidestones
reads:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with
nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith -
tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and
nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally
resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and
useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9.
Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not
a cancer on the earth -
leave room for nature.
A perpetual
balance with nature sounds good but who decided
the human biomass must equal 500,000,000 people? Who makes the reproductive
choices in this future vision? Why does everyone
have to speak the same language? What will that language be? When they speak of
ruling passion does that mean everyone will have to take Soma like in the book
a Brave New World or take prozium as in the movie Equilibrium?
Will those that feel called by God have their
faith crushed by those that explain such happenings as a chemical imbalance?
What traditions are to be done away with - the family perhaps? ("Pick you sons and your daughters
too, from the bottom of a long black tube." - In the Year 2525) Fair
laws - in whose eyes, the eyes of the traitorous neo-cons that
deceive Americans today? Just courts - that inflict severe punishment for
minor mistakes like American courts today (curse those evil
marijuana users)? Petty
laws - a
communal affair in the vain of the Kahal perhaps? Useless officials - does
this mean eliminate military men and police men or
social workers and disaster responders?
Balance rights with social duties - are these "rights" actually privileges that
come after serving a corporate overlord for forty years - like the so-called
"retirement" and pensions of today? Nothing wrong with number nine - obviously
a far cry from the materialistic world of today. Nothing wrong with number ten
- but does this not mean abandoning the use of fossil fuels and petrochemicals
for sustainable resources unlike the world of today?
"Humanity has been compared to a cancer on the planet. A
cancer is a tissue that has forgotten its proper function and continues to
consume the body's resources even when its headlong growth threatens to kill
the very body upon which its own survival depends. Can you think of a more
accurate characterization of humanity's role on planet earth? Is it any wonder,
then, that what we have done to the world is manifesting physically in our
bodies?" - Charles
Eisenstein
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