THIS IS THE SECOND BLOG ON THE ELEMENTS
& THE FOUR BEINGS OF NATURE
Architects and all students of eco-psychology understand that nature gives restorative effects. Blues and greens are relaxing colors and are used in surgical environments to help stress. Sunlight is essential for mental health and the lack of it can cause Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.) Buildings are often designed to facilitate a restorative effect to prevent the "Sick Building Syndrome." Inmates of jails and hospital patients do better if they have a view of nature out of their windows and prisoners who work in gardens are more healthful. Research has shown that a nature walk is more restorative than an urban one and a backpack trip better than a short hike. Folks who have easy access to natural surroundings are happier if they have "accessible green" available to them. In Bhutan they have a minister of happiness who I'm sure also attends to the accessibility of all humans to the natural beauty of Bhutan's wilderness areas as part of his/her office.
Richard Louv has defined a condition which is real and increasing called the "Nature Deficit Disorder" in his book Last Child in the Woods. The younger generation is being separated from their birth rite by the allure of social media - I phones, I Pads and other enticing technology. Although not a recognized medical disorder it is becoming more and more prevalent. When we isolate ourselves from nature we get sick.
Richard Louv has defined a condition which is real and increasing called the "Nature Deficit Disorder" in his book Last Child in the Woods. The younger generation is being separated from their birth rite by the allure of social media - I phones, I Pads and other enticing technology. Although not a recognized medical disorder it is becoming more and more prevalent. When we isolate ourselves from nature we get sick.
The Gaia hypothesis supposes that nature in all its glory deserves to exist for its own sake and not purely for what it can provide humanity.
Also!
John Hendee a famous wilderness psychologist once stated that the key to successful tinkering was to keep all the parts. We are losing vital "parts" of the still, growing and wild beings day by day. We may soon be extinct even though nature will probably survive, though never be the same.
Divine intelligence runs through all our humanly conceived secular parts of it and its ignorant to think we can get rid of one thing without it having a ripple affect.
The Ancestors would agree that when it comes to the four beings of nature the others are just as important as we are; "we are all one though not the same." We coexist together.
As Thich Nhat Hanh the Buddhist monk teaches;
"we inter are."
and the Druids...
All beings are made of the same stuff and are "alive" but just imbued with a different vibration.
The Amazon rain forest is far more important than the possibility that it may carry in its growing beings the cure for cancer and that this alone is the reason to preserve it.
Also!
Divine intelligence runs through all our humanly conceived secular parts of it and its ignorant to think we can get rid of one thing without it having a ripple affect.
The Ancestors would agree that when it comes to the four beings of nature the others are just as important as we are; "we are all one though not the same." We coexist together.
As Thich Nhat Hanh the Buddhist monk teaches;
"we inter are."
and the Druids...
All beings are made of the same stuff and are "alive" but just imbued with a different vibration.
The Amazon rain forest is far more important than the possibility that it may carry in its growing beings the cure for cancer and that this alone is the reason to preserve it.
The Ancestors
Global warming or Climate change is overwhelmingly real. We have abused Gaia, ignored her consciousness and have been forgetful of her awesome powers which are now working against us. We may soon be rejected from our own planet by her "immune" defense mechanism because of our behavior. These effects are far more complex than we can imagine and may not be reversible - "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" - is manifesting more and more, day by day.
The Native Americans have warned against the "Red Skies" that are coming. The Mayan doomsday prediction for December 2012 did not manifest exactly then and people said it was another example of the many before predicting that the sky was going to fall when it wasn't. Maybe, however, it was the beginning of the manifestation of this "fall."
There are also the affects of global warring not only against the different factions of humanity but also wild life such as rhinos and elephants which are in danger of becoming extinct. Lions in South Africa are developing T.B. and also dying.
“If all the beasts were gone,
men would die
from a great loneliness of spirit..."
men would die
from a great loneliness of spirit..."
"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground they spit upon themselves. This we know. The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
Chief Seattle
The maxim think globally but act locally is wise. Also we need above all to attend to our spiritual lives and get our spiritual house in order. This will have a global "Maharishi" like affect. Moreover, we each have a unique gift to help heal the planet. For some it is for the Still Beings, for others the Growing, or the Wild or the Talking. Find one or more of the four that suits your talents to help in some small way.
The message in this first song from the Ancestors - We CANT do NOTHING, is a double negative so they insist we must do something
and RIGHT NOW!
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