Nature Has One Mind

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I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful — an endless prospect of magic and wonder.

~ Ansel Adams

‘We see the result of this neglect, which is with us still, in the decay of the feeling and the caring values of life and in the pursuit of the masculine rationalism which seems to be the dominant element in the establishments of today…it is the loss of this feminine eventfulness which has led to the most urgent and dangerous problem of our time; the exploitation and also the rejection of our Mother Earth, our mother not only deprived of the great store of life it had prepared for us but increasingly being denied the chance to do more.’

— Laurens van der Post. Part of the Forward to The Myth of the Goddess, Anne Baring and Jules Cashford.

Being as how there is only one mind in the universe and all life participates in it, we humans could be called a virus or even a cancer. We are turning against our ground of being through hubris and failure to listen to our inner wisdom. The civilization we live in and take for granted is sick, unbalanced. Yet we go about our daily tasks as if that’s all that matters.

The immigrants who came to these shores and began a genocide replaced a civilization that had endured ten thousand years or more. But their eventual…