Spirituality -What will you create?
FIRST DRAFT -
It's not hard to imagine the devastation humanity has accomplished on Gaia.
Kindly reconsider the old rant about pollution and my particular hobby horse ; humanities wildly accelerating population.
We are all familiar with the concepts of de-forestation, the extinction of species and the view that human beings are a rapidly spreading parasite or virus here on Earth.
To some, the human is Nature's anti-christ.
Humanity itself seems driven by the 'body mind'. That part of the mind that fights like any animal for survival at all costs.
People often would rather live lives of painful desperation than die.
This rationale also reflects in the collective cultural doctrines:
"If one person can be saved..."
Humanity seems outside of Nature.
At this point one can see some sort of error in the argument. Humanity clearly is within Nature here on Earth. We are on Earth - we are in Nature.
I have stated before - all is well - everything is a dream in the mind of God.
But I could add to this:
"All is perfect",
otherwise there is some error in the Creator's set up.
To say some things are wrong or bad could be argued as telling God,the Infinite Awareness - that it has made a mistake.
Perhaps if it's all a dream in God's imagination the it is better to state that:
"Nothing Matters".
But that doesn't feel right either!
What could be an expanded revised view concerning the above :de-forestation,extinction of species, humanities accelerating breeding and pouring of more concrete?
Our BIG BANG.
Jupiter the planet is HUGE and catches a lot of BIG asteroids. When one day it doesn't humanity could become another dinosaur.
People could look up at the fires in the sky and everyone will realise it's GAME OVER!
The earth meanwhile will continue,perhaps wobbling around the sun in a slightly new orbit and flora and fauna will carry on without us....Gaia will say to herself "Ouch" or maybe "Whoops" and that's that.
Everything everywhere is consciousness. Consciousness is a guarantee . Life forms and human bodies are not.
The prospect of this type of holocaust scenario engenders an emotion of resignation. It doesn't seem good or bad anymore. Just life. And death.
Perhaps we could see our slow and gradual destruction of the planet in the same way?
Could a concrete planet,of 100 billion humans fed by processed food bars,processed water, processed oxygen and sprinkled with museums of lost species be our future?
In which case the earth's holocaust would have occurred except it is humanity that has remained and not a smattering of other life forms on the impacted(!) planet.
For me either holocaust,the big hitting asteroid or a gradual human destruction by over population are neither good nor bad.
But it would be a shame.
Decency
The concrete planet - human only scenario seems indecent.
There is a pitiful lack of responsibility in it.
It has been said that "decency" is senior to responsibility and ethics and morals.
A God, a minor deity might easily decide that the life of an ant in a particular situation ranked higher than that of a human being...some drunken fool staggers out of a bar and decides "all bugs should be squished" - our demi-god sees this as not decent and smites him dead and that's before his lowering boot has flattened his first ant. The demi-god factors in grieving relatives and the "tragedy" as reported by the local newspaper - but still sees this as the decent thing to do.
Indecency is a type of 'wrong' perhaps when I suggested there is no right or wrong.
But indecency isn't wrong; it isn't all of wrongness,because definitions of right and wrong also contain the 'lower harmonics' of human survival computations. Decency and indecency are perhaps senior also to right and wrong, and to good and bad.
What right have we to do this to our planet?
We elbow Nature out of the way.
It's not decent.
But we are Creators.
I have offered in earlier articles on this blog, that our thoughts manifest as objects in the world.
Some people feel they can access their Higher Self or even the Infinite.
We are Creators and this I suggest is the true feeling of detachment we have with Nature and all the world.
We are part of Nature only inasmuch as we are creating Nature and ourselves within it.
As Creators of our world we must decide on the model.
From this perspective :
Shall we make only horror movies?
Or shall we have some with a bit of love and compassion?
Some with decency.
So I have revised my view on good and bad and right and wrong and responsibility and ethics and morals and humanity and our role in Nature.
This I can summarise thus:
You are a God - what will you create?
The mostly decent,
Paloma Porta
3rd September 2011
