MORE ON SEPARATION

This probably won't be a long blog, it is already 2:15 PM. Then I don't know how things will turn out. Jamie and I had a lengthy discussion this Morning, then we went to town for shopping and got milk at the Amish.

I have several things to say about our separation at all levels: our bodies from our minds, our minds from our spirit and ourselves from Nature.

Let us begin with our separation from Nature. When we began to see ourselves as separate, from the usual processes, of Nature we began to exploit the Earth, rather than look for the best way, to live in harmony with Her. We began to see the Earth, as an unlimited source of goodies, rather than a living being, eager to care for us. What we lost mainly is WISDOM.

When we quit listening to Nature we gave up any hope of being wise. We fell in-love with that part of our mind, that is capable of taking things apart, without reference to the whole. We are like the small child, who takes apart his grandfather's intricate time piece, scatters the parts across the floor, tries to reduce the small parts into smaller parts in anyway he can. Then he wonders what time it is. He doesn't know what he has done, because he never stopped to 'see' the whole. He did not appreciate the function or the process.

Modern Science started out with observation. The Scientific Method can be described as structured observation. Does not observation include understanding the whole before tearing things apart? Despite our childlike wish to examine all the parts, the scientific method held itself together, fairly well, until the influence of money and power.

Some of the Ancient Greek philosophers taught that everything was energy. One of the philosophers postulated the existence of atoms and wave lengths. They knew of the potential energy that lay within the atom. They were attempting to understand, what we think of, as reality. Would they have tampered with the atom if they had the tools? I don't know. I can't know enough, but we did.

Albert Einstein, among many others at the time, warned against a headlong production of an atom bomb. Why did we do it? Separation on many fronts. Separation from each other, as people, we thought it was okay to kill a bunch of folks across the ocean, because they were labeled an enemy. Separation from observation of the whole: we went ahead with something we did not know enough about.  {A separation from the solid Scientific Principle of Observation}. Without the pressure of money and power, coupled with rampant paranoia, would we have done it? I will leave folks to argue whether it has been a worthwhile endeavor.

There is wisdom in the way Nature works things out. There is wisdom in all the processes of Nature. Our ability to manipulate natural processes, far outweighs our wisdom.

Would most of the pesticides and herbicides exist today, if we could think outside our economic boxes? Would we have created GMOs? Would we have made plastic from petroleum? Plastic was made from hemp before it was made from petroleum, hmmmmmm wonder what happened? Which industry was backed by big money?

This is just an introduction to the discussion, I would like to have, about the consequences of  separation. It is late and I have afternoon chores to do. Let us see what Wednesday brings.

Love and Peace,  Gregg