As I watched Barbie this evening it gave me hope that as humanity finds its rightful place in Nature once more, we will find the cruelty and inhumanity, that is so evident today, fade before the growing awareness of empathy and compassion.
I am not aware of any other species that practices cruelty as a method of controlling its populations. Ostracisation or exile is a common punishment. This use of violence is evidence, not of human intelligence and superiority, but of how remote we have grown from Life’s impulse on Earth, during this phase of Biblical dominance, as we find it demonstrated in all other creatures.
With the passing of the age of the Bible in 1988, a period necessary for humanity as it entered into its darkest passage on Earth, we can find that many indigenous cultures did not suffer from this alienation as marked by their demonstration of love and respect for the other life forms about them. Creatures among these earlier cultures are viewed not merely as food to be eaten or to be feared as predators. Many marginalised cultures recognise how these creatures too have families and share their love for their young as well as loyalty and respect for their tribal members and immediate family, and learn from their behaviour. Modern commercialised humans have forgotten this and lost their respect for others, human as well as other species.
Increasing numbers of videos both professional and amateur, on youtube and other platforms, show clearly how LOVE is the driving force in Nature, not fear or hatred. The idea of competition still drives the scientific outlook however, yet this is increasingly shown to be lacking. As the stillness, natural to our mind, grows, deeper insights can be gained. Through listening to Nature and keeping our aggressive mind in abeyance we begin to hear the actual conversations that are being held between birds, instead of imposing the colonial mindset of the 19th century which preaches Nature is ‘red in tooth and claw’. We are taught, in our competitive educational systems and combative employment interviews, to have an immediate response to any situation. This is both aggressive and misleading. Many things in Nature take time to develop.
Trees show a different way to approach life, from the reckless cut-throat commercial approach adopted by some human societies. They stand for centuries and support the lives of generations of animals, insects and birds, as well as human beings, with their abundance. Trees grow families of young through their roots and through their abundant seeds. Standing rejoicing in gratitude for the sunlight, rain and stars they have much to teach us still.
Sadly the mechanical mindset rules the scientific approach and things are seen in mechanical terms only, as if these were determinative intentional actions, with mechanical interactions seen as causal rather than resulting from deeper unseen causes. These interpretations can be identified not so much as the intentions and ambitions of species, but the inner impulses driving the scientist’s life. In short they share little of value as insights into Nature but more into the psychology of the researchers and orthodox interpretations according to the academy of ‘rational thinking’. As if humans were entirely and only rational beings. This unbalanced emphasis on the mental masks the more significant emotional, heart-centred consciousness which guides our lives.
We are moving from the throat centred declarative mode of being to the speculative third eye centred awareness. Computers are helping us do this. Capable of multiple calculations a second technology is demonstrating multifarious outcomes from a single starting point. We did not have this opportunity in the days of manual calculation which lead to hardened ‘authoritative’ approaches to learning. There was only one ‘correct’ answer. This is generally described as a masculine trait. I prefer to think of it as a mental, rather than a holistic, approach. The mind likes fixed patterns. Life is bigger than that.
