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Originally Posted by north  perhaps it would be a good idea to start with the fundamental truth of what " allows " one to be able to discuss ideas in the first place. |
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Originally Posted by north |
Dear North,
Thank you for your comments.
Perhaps we have to go back further than good air and water, because current theory has it that both were in short supply in the early days following our planet's birth. We have evolved from the seeds of life however they came to germinate in the frightfully hostile environment of Mother Earth in her volcanic youth. As our germinal, plant and invetebrate ancestors purified the air and waters over the ages they also surrendered their corpses to the land over countless generations. The earth we walk upon and grow our food in is an inheritance of our living history that we call the biosphere and to which we are indebted. Even our legs and arms, our skeletal arrangement, our visceral organs, and the development of our nervous system in stages of cerebral expansion are a contribution of our mammalian parents. We share their capacity to reflect in cerebral awareness on primal emotional impulses. It is only through the bilateral polarization of the hemispheres of our brain that came with language that we have been invested with the power of reason that accentuates our intuitive quest for insight and understanding. Language pried open our social minds to the reality of our own biological birth and death and the need to find some transcending intuitive meaning in our short social visit with Mother Earth.
But we have to go back further still if we want to get to a source. We have to go back to the structure of the atoms and molecules that the celestial spheres are made of. We have to go back to the birth and death of suns and planets. We have to go back to the efflux of primal hydrogen from galactic centers that condense into first generation stars that supernova to provide the heavy elements essential for second generation suns with terrestrial planets. Only these planets can be seeded with organic life complete with a mandate to know itself before the star and planet which nourish it die and return in reflux to the galactic source from which it came.
That seed contains a living spirit that can evolve to know and understand the cosmic order by which the heavens turn to nourish life. We ourselves are expressions of this cosmic order that seeks to know itself, and thus transcend the endless cycles of birth and death. We sense it in our bones. We seek to know it by being born anew in the full realization of the creative process that we are eternal participants in. We seek to awaken from an hypnotic slumber induced by the same capacity to speak that pried our intuitive perceptions open. It can be such a fearsome thing to face, yet such a wondrous gift. In my view we are cosmic beings with a cosmic destiny. Our cosmic role requires that we bridge the impossible rift between the timeless reach of the heavens and our transient social visit with Mother Earth.