Comments on: Inconvenience http://www.persephonearbour.com/this-earth/ Conscious Ageing – the grand adventure? Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:49:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: James E. Bonser. http://www.persephonearbour.com/this-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-1867 James E. Bonser. Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:11:11 +0000 http://www.persephonearbour.com/?p=14#comment-1867 I hope what I am about to say will not injure our friendship in any way, and I hope that my innocent wisdom will not escape me now. I fully understand what you say and the passion with which it was written. We as human beings, very often regard the planet earth as something we can save, as if we alone have the right to decide its future. And, I understand that is the very existence of mankind that is at stake. Yet Mother Earth may have her own agenda, not forgetting the agenda of the cosmos. I believe we are too close to see clearly. If history teaches us anything it is that everything that rises, shall once again fall. We take the idea of the world ending too personally, it's not meant to be. If we can look inward and know that everything is as it should be, everything is in its right place. Then we are looking at the inner cosmos, which complies in every aspect to the outer cosmos. We, as frail physical human beings, seek only to survive. The energy of the universe and the multi-verses may have other plans. Both of us came through the cold war, including the threat of atomic weapons. I personally, never berated the Americans or the Russians for leaving me that legacy. The future will unfold in its own form. We have no say in what form that will be. We are not separate from nature, we are as much a part of it as all the trees, flowers and animals. If there is a process of extinction for them, then why not for us? Are we so exclusive? Maybe if I had children, I might just take the cessation of the planet earth a little more seriously, and then again, maybe not. I hope what I am about to say will not injure our friendship in any way, and I hope that my innocent wisdom will not escape me now. I fully understand what you say and the passion with which it was written. We as human beings, very often regard the planet earth as something we can save, as if we alone have the right to decide its future. And, I understand that is the very existence of mankind that is at stake.

Yet Mother Earth may have her own agenda, not forgetting the agenda of the cosmos. I believe we are too close to see clearly. If history teaches us anything it is that everything that rises, shall once again fall. We take the idea of the world ending too personally, it’s not meant to be. If we can look inward and know that everything is as it should be, everything is in its right place. Then we are looking at the inner cosmos, which complies in every aspect to the outer cosmos. We, as frail physical human beings, seek only to survive. The energy of the universe and the multi-verses may have other plans.

Both of us came through the cold war, including the threat of atomic weapons. I personally, never berated the Americans or the Russians for leaving me that legacy. The future will unfold in its own form. We have no say in what form that will be. We are not separate from nature, we are as much a part of it as all the trees, flowers and animals. If there is a process of extinction for them, then why not for us? Are we so exclusive?

Maybe if I had children, I might just take the cessation of the planet earth a little more seriously, and then again, maybe not.

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