Tuesday, October 21, 2008

The magic in the mundane

 We look at a world where the assmuption is that the world variables that affect our material existence is understood well enough to manage it in a way that will allow us to head off catastrophes. But do we? I mean do we really?

We have seen the narrow definitions of what is an what is not held by European societies prove themselves wrong and usher in a new orthodoxy. The latest shake up in the financial markets does not bring us new knowledge rather it subjects us to a chastening that is a recurring theme. The golbalization of the twenty-first century is no grander than that of the seventeenth century (or was it the eighteenth?). The most well remembered depression that occurred in the 1930s is considered by some to have been outshone by the one in the late 1800s. But neither the pattern of the past which incorporates the point of existence that we are currently experiences or the repeated repetitions within the various aspects of our life that demand reciprocity and create it in ways that are devastating enough to shake the desire for something for nothing.

Science is showing the limits of taking without giving, consuming without producing, and getting something while trying to give nothing. Global warming is an example of dumping product into the environment poisoning the air, water and body of living creatures.

Now the financial arena is wreaking its own havoc on those who would take and take without giving back. 

Human health is experiencing all kinds of problems with cancers of all kind on the rise, endocrine disruptors, precocious puberty, etc., etc., etc.

Then ther are all kinds of problems affecting animal health with disappearing bees, disappearing frogs, deformities and frailties that are evidence of threats to the non-human animal world.

Each of these situation are representative of the spiritual era many of us, not excluding myself, are experiencing.

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