Scenery from a life? How about scenery from all around? Be warned, folks. This one is not going to win Feel-Good Post of The Year.
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Is anything truly unnatural? Or are we talking about the unhealthy? The unhealthy outcome of an unhealthy mind is natural.
For example, some people claim that climate change is natural and so there’s nothing we can do about it, which means nothing we can do but die complacently. If that is true, you don’t have to be the one stuck on automatic pilot watching the world navigate her natural pattern. If great cycles end in great calamity, the way out isn’t shrugging it off or giving in to the patterns such cycles uncoil. We are not robots.
Unless we are.
The aiding and abetting of a global pattern of change and renewal via human pollution may also be a natural act. It’s perfectly natural when we’re acting unconsciously to fall under the spell of the intelligent environment we were born into. It could be that we’re just helping move things along at a clip. Since we refuse to understand what it means to live in our wholeness, we might as well die back. Dying back becomes our job.
If that feels cynical, it’s because you’re thinking about it. Selfishness wants us to remain as we are: “killing” the planet for our convenience, while demanding to live here unchanged. We want to immortalize this self, some of us, trying to find ways to beat death. We imagine those ways and try to invent them while concurrently polluting and aiding in our death. Weird, right?
So, yes, this is all natural because the consequences of being unhealthy are natural. Nothing is unnatural; however, that does not mean we want to be living unhealthily. And it certainly doesn’t mean Earth will bear us if we refuse to come to term.
We’re what a sentient fetus looks like when it believes it has already been born and individuated. We’ve got a big surprise coming, only it’s coming in slow motion so it’s no surprise at all. We know what we are. We turn our backs on ourselves every second of every day.
Naturally.