Learning to listen is so important now because, in a way, we have all recently been blinded. Everyone learns to see the world through the lens of native-culture. For tens of thousands of years, those countless cultures all of them cultivated the natural curiousness of children about the unknown, into knowledgeable adulthood.
At their root, they taught people to see the environment as enchanted, brought to life by an external agent (read it as 'God' or 'Big Bang' as it suits).
This enchanted-place was not called ‘nature,’ or the ‘natural world,’ then. Nor was the immense knowledge of the world people acquired and passed on named ‘the natural sciences.’ Most importantly, cultures accumulated a continuous treasure of beneficial knowledge piled generation upon generation as a whole and recognized the living connection between everything on earth, beneath its soils, above in skies, and in its sweet and salty waters,of the rivers and oceans.
They further connected this with the spirit of life that ran through it all from a Living Source beyond in the realm of the Unseen (atoms - the invisible building blocks). Never would they flatten the cycle of life into a one dimensional chronological line. Never would they sever worldly life from its otherworldly(heavenly) origin, splitting life in two, calling this part “sensible,” and therefore real, and that part “insensible,” and therefore irrelevant.
Because of their holistic understanding of the world themselves in 'Physical-Matter' and 'Physical-Matter' in them, come to them from a Life-Source apart(abiogenesis) they understood that they were to live in it, work from, work with, and on the portion of it in their immediate grasp, and take care of it so that it would remain there for them and their children, grandchildren, and furthest posterity.
They also knew that their offenses against Earth(Physical-Matter) were violations against the Natural-cycle and would inevitably be met with own hand-made disaster directly affecting their vicinity, if left uncorrected.They called this Divine Judgment, or the Knowledge of Unknown(read it as 'God' or 'the Undiscovered science').
Such was the wisdom of man. In only the last few centuries, however, this most basic intelligence and outlook has been lost to us. Steadily, but abruptly, we have accepted to wear lenses that cut life from its Source and ourselves from our own environments. And because of this, we have generation-by-generation killed-off the native curiosity of our children and forgotten how even to live in our own localities.
In the place of the continuum of human knowledge bequeathed to us by our predecessors, we have assumed an incapacitating reliance on mechanized world-spanning control systems for the very bread we put into our mouths, the water we drink, the fire we kindle, the land we live on, the shelter we repose in, even for the cloth to cover our own nakedness.
This humiliating dependence on collectivized, unnatural(dehumanized) enterprise has disabled our hearts. For even if we claim belief in the "Ultimate Source of All" as alive or just matter,nothing changes, we can no longer see the Provider as actually providing.
We look on these interlocking control structures—what modern scientists have accurately called for short, “the system” as giving us our provision. This has proven a most fatal error, for it forfeits the prime human-right: Freedom to verify the single thread of truth running through all reality (Call it the molecules/atoms or quarks or energy or mass ): All else is one fellowship of a Singular-Source (Call it Big-Bang or God): so that man can make of himself, his society, and his environment a living witness to the basic-rules of the One source:which in the end must cycle back into a continuous esthetically of beauty, reflecting the infinite splendor of the sublime process. Herein reside the two qualities upholding the delicate interlace of our earthly human architecture: Dignity and rectitude.
To replace in our hearts a faith ,that earth can be a better place, the All-Living, with a dead matrix is surely the ill-fated exchange which the modern-science decries: What a barbaric transaction? It strips men of their mutual respect, or responsibility, making Gods by Dozens and Scores out of material-matter, exploiters and ravenous blood-letters and when the civilized Aliens would see this in us, perhaps on the pattern of the unknown, destroyed vicegerents of the earth our kind may have succeeded - These Aliens would spit on our faces, and call us a disgrace to the Universe, we will be a life that are not worth to live on a planet that provided everything, and still the greedy-man wanted for more and raped the planet.
Believing that the system that caused man to abandon his trust, to care for the environment. It renders him unconscious that all things on the earth—the animals, plants, elements, and minerals—the earth, mountains, and sky themselves—are consciously alive by the touch of the very scientific terms (atoms buzzing around everywhere), communicating and complying with the momentary command of the One Sublime, though we may not perceive their discourse and actions.
It tricks man into substituting mere crumbs falling from the lowly table of market-interest for the opulent grace of the morality, and thereby to upset the Heavenly Control-System, the delicate balance of the very Universe, that originally set and then bequeathed to care us.
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Post Inspirations: "An Inconvenient Truth" and "The 11th Hour"
Global warming is the bigger issue, which is eclipsed by smaller issues like Religion, War and Swine-Flu.
~ Insanity in individuals is something rare, but in groups, politics, nations and epochs it is the rule
