Song: Silent Spring, Massive Attack

Have you wondered why we haven’t given any thought to what happens to us if our planet get’s damaged?

Doesn’t it strike you as odd that we don’t push for a society that creates swarms of scientists dedicated to one job… monitoring and understanding our planet to make sure our species can continue living on it.

Considering that we are pumping chemicals, waste materials, and by-products of human life into our world that would never have been here naturally, I ask for a new urgency to make this change.  The entire purpose of human life needs to change.

It starts with your decisions.  Whether you choose education over entertainment. Whether you choose consideration over consumerism.  It all starts with our individual actions.

The video you just watched was taken by NASA’s GEOS-5 atmospheric analysis satellite at a 7-kilometer resolution with the general circulation model.  This is ACTUAL footage of the Earth from space.  Real pictures… put together to make a video.

The GEOS-5 atmospheric model was developed by NASA Goddard’s scientists. It’s based on the Earth System Modeling Framework, an open source project “for building climate, numerical weather prediction, data assimilation, and other Earth science software applications.”

When you loop together the raw data and make a video, and speed it up a little you realize something magnificient is going on.  The planet is breathing.

What I mean by that is if you look over all the forests on the globe, there is a creation of weather.  Water vapor from the expiration and inspiration of the trees.  We all know this, and learned this as children.  But our technology has given us the chance to do something very rare in nature.

The life span of an ant is about 90 days.  But ants don’t perceive these ninety days as how we perceive ninety days.  Indeed the perception of time is a discussion that still baffles quantum physicists.  Rather, appreciating the relativity in all of this harmony called nature is all you need.  If you understand that an ant perceives 90 days as an entire lifetime, then all you have to do is scale yourself as the ant like existence you really are in relation to this planet and you realize that the Earth is also a living being.  Living… on a different scale.

The discussion is not about whether CO2 is the culprit of climate change, or even if climate change even exists.  The discussion is about you looking around and seeing how we have become a society that worships monetary satisfaction over science.  We value entertainment and idolize celebrities.  Once again I am left thinking is this all that humanity is good for?

I think we owe our home a lot more than outlet stores in the deserts, massive air conditioned structures to store excess stuff, and an unrelenting appetite for greed, destruction, mass consumption and lambastic entertainment.

Just think about it… she’s breathing.

Look around you.  We live in an unprecedented era.  A time where our species has the ability to feed, cloth and shelter every one of its members, and live as the dominant species on the planet in peace.

Since the beginning of time, we have suffered.  Life it is basically a process of suffering to weed out the ineffective versions of a species.  We used to participate in that process.  Not that long ago, we too played on the same field as other species on this planet, and competed to feed, to pass on progeny and to claim stake to a piece of the experience of life on this rock we all share… Earth.

But today, we live in a era where we are on the verge of resolving almost every problem that survival could deal us.  Even the ones that haven’t been solved yet are no longer and issue since we have in place a system we call Science which studies and analyzes the nature and composure of the very world around us.  This allows us to rely on a steady pace forward because with loyalty to the universal imperative of logic, we will eventually understand every natural phenomenon, every natural process.

The key word in the sentence above is eventually.  Just as we had to understand the measurement of mass, the measurement of distance, mathematics and a whole bunch of other sciences to be able to send a member of our species to our moon; we have to give time for our science to build on itself with logic as it’s guide, to become masters of the understood universe.  Imagine a species that continued to revere science to progress and instead of destroying itself over imaginary stories of who’s God is better.  Imagine where we would be now?  Would we have travelled the Solar System?  Would we have understood how to preserve and create life?  Would we have served our Creator better by having respected and revered It’s creation so much so, that we would not allow our childish egos get in the way of fulfilling our role as custodians of Life?

This is exactly what we have become.  In a a world where we can live without suffering, where we understand how to extract natural resources, where we can educate every person to the same level of knowledge, we choose to value gossip, entertainment, consumerism, and the abyss of ignorance (I just can’t bring myself to literally say it).  We have made the choice that “which top is in season next fall”, or “who is going to be the next American Idol?” is more important than feeding every member of our species, and making sure that every generation is better equipped at understanding science so that it may evolve and progress to a higher state of respect for our universe and this miracle called Life.

Test explosion of the TSAR1 Russian Hydrogen Bomb. What you see is the initial explosion which at it's core behaves like and is the temperature of a little star.

Look around you, in every corner of the world, you see death, destruction, financial issues, corruption, and someone saying that they are different or special compared to another human being.  We still haven’t evolved out of the level of animalism that doesn’t require the ego to be massaged with the expression of “dominance” to justify it’s importance?  Doesn’t that make you sad?  That without knowing it, we all participate in a game which is basically that we are all trying constantly to delineate our dominance over each other?  We buy clothes that identify us as separate individuals and care that we define our “image” to make sure we are perceived as individuals.  We use the material world that we have become masters at manipulating (i.e. Making clothing, machines that move us around, and buildings that condition our air, and boxes that preserve our food, and pills that kill infection, and on and on…) to prove that we are better than each other.  How you dress, what you drive, where you live and how you eat.  I am better than you.  And he is better than me.  Oh, and look, she is better than him.  Our simple animal minds still can’t expel this primitive notion of exertion of dominance in order to pass on our genes.

I say we have that opportunity.  But those who ask you to just believe, and not question.  They are the ones who are stopping us.  They are the ones who are asking of you to stop your rightful place amongst the stars, and become a stellar species.  One that serves to spread the gift that it’s Creator gave it… Life.  The “faith-pushers” are the ones who as you to remain ignorant of how it all works.  That has been the battle since the beginning.

Whether history takes a turn to the right direction before it is too late for this species to surpass this primitive and final step to the next level of “being” is to be decided.

The problem is that I regret to inform you, but that decision is actually in your hands.

Religion Gone Bad...

You see.  You, me and everyone around us, is a member of this modern era of the story of Homo Sapien Sapien.  Put your Bibles, Torahs, and Korans down and listen carefully.  Every generation has had this chance.  But obviously, none have heeded to the task.  This generation can.  Imagine if every one us tried to elevate each other. Imagine a world where we learned from our atrocious past and didn’t kill each other over ignorance of each other?

We live in this world this way, because we choose to.  Thus our choices create the story.  If you bought piece of clothing in a store in America, you have voted and stated that it is okay to have another human being paid the equivalent of 10 cents to work a whole day in a factory so that you can conveniently “choose” your “style” without effort or suffering.

The Social Contract

We enslave each other friends.  We all do it, and we all silently agree that it is okay.  It is as Jean-Jacques Rousseau stated, “The Social Contract”.

As I said, I would like to make it to your attention that we, are choosing to sign this contract.  Thus our world today.  Our economies, our religious debates, our racist positions, and every one of our problems.  That is because as science has done up to now, if we take the time to understand something with the humility of respecting that fact with logical analysis only, we are rewarded with the ability to solve that problem.  The fact that we still have these simple problems, and more, shows how we have turned back, and decided to look the other way from science.
So we head down the splendid path of the species that could, but never did.  Everyone has head of stories of the theoretical people of Atlantis, a long lost civilization what was far more advanced than we are?  We all live with theories of the end of the world, and 2012.  We have been accustomed to the idea that the end is coming?  Why is that?  Why isn’t it possible for us to learn, and evolve.  Use our science to figure out interplanetary travel, and spreading life to the corners of our galaxy?  We did this when we chose to leave our countries on a boat made of wood to discover what’s out there across the ocean.  Why did we stop?  So once we explored and occupied every corner of the planet, we could build as many Gaps, Star-Bucks and McDonald’s we could on it?  I think not?  Something is stopping us.  Our social contract is broken and needs to be replaced.

We’ve had 10,000 years of civilization to figure this out, and we still fight and bicker and conquer each other to prove our dominance.  Don’t you feel it’s time we grew up?

Could it be possible that we wind up like the characters of the stories we hear about Atlantis?  I mean even if the outlandish idea of Atlantis doesn’t resonate with you, you have 6 sets of rule of most of the planet by different “Mini-Civilizations” (i.e. The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Mongols) to prove that this needs to change.

We are doing the same thing people.  Over and over.

I makes me sad when I meet people and I talk about these things, that they look at me with bewilderment and amazement at the same time, and ask… “Wow… it is nice to see people who think this way are out there”.  I wonder, it’s in every one of us.  If we only took the time to come outside at night, and look up at the stars and wonder what goes on out there, we would contemplate these things.  I’m not different than the others, I only choose to open my eyes now, and learn.

Maybe if we all thought of our species, Life, and our planet with a different level of respect, there would be more people having this conversation and things would be different on our planet right now.

Night shows the truth.  Look up.  What you see is reality.  During the “illusion” of the day, the light from the sun takes away your ability to see the reality of what exists outside our world.  Night is a gift.  When you turn off the light bulb of our solar system, you get to see what it looks like out there.  How of us get how important that is?

I never thought it would be easy to undertake the steps I chose to evolve and understand what it means to live a simpler, cleaner life, and incorporate “consumption ethics” into my life.  I knew that once I ventured down this rabbit hole, what would come out in the end might not resemble what went in.  I also know it would take sacrifice.  Sometimes a lot of it.

The thing that bothers me most on this journey, is when I look around at the so called leaders of the revolution, and observe their lack of honesty, integrity, and their unfortunate inability in actually really getting anything done for our future.  Take TreeHugger for example.  This web site is the resource for many environmental readers.  It’s articles do more than just educate readers on the “news” of the growing green movement, they give perspective.

But the lack of integrity shows itself when it comes to reporting on what really matters most.  The problem is that often what really matters and can change the world most, is the most powerful and threatening adversary.  Take the meat industry for example.  It saddens me that no one has the guts to put their necks on the line, and call out the meat industry on their unacceptable behavior causing damage to our planet… environmentally and ethically.  This is evidenced in numerous articles that talk about how bad factory farming is, but they never mention specific companies or link letters of protest for their readers.  Even when TreeHugger has a chance to take a strange act of protest (President of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk’s Will) and shed light on the purpose of this extreme act, thus using this as a platform to call out the meat industry and their obscene abuse of your planet and it’s earthlings; they mock the gesture and participate in the childish rhetoric that every other journalist used when the story hit.

TreeHugger is becoming a fraud.  You don’t believe me?  Check out this ad on their web site for Domino’s Pizza.

Now, you have to realize, the purpose of this essay is not to bash on TreeHugger alone.  I have linked to them, and referred to many of the excellent articles they have published many times in the past.  My issue is that as these sites, companies and movements get bigger and more “corporate”, they begin to lose focus and become machines that careen out of control.  This behavior is the seen when small companies go public.  Regardless of their original intent, the fact that every shareholder has their fingers in the “profit cookie jar”, the corporation is destined to drift to a less ethical, more profit driven philosophy.  Ethics costs money, and profits are about saving money.

I wrote an article a long time ago called “Let’s get a new microwave” (LINK) that talked about how large corporate business ultimately leads to using cheap labor off shore, which then leads to cheaper goods, which drives repair businesses out of business.  Oh, which then leads to junk in the land fills, and one more step towards the doom of your planet. Why?  Because you’d rather get a replacement that is cheaper, than make an ethical decision to spend more and repair your unit?  Yes.  It happens every day in America.

Growth based economy.  This is what is driving Homo Sapien to it’s resting place in history as “The responsible party for the end of an era on Earth”.  The ads in TreeHugger are there because TreeHugger uses advertising money (and I’m sure other sources) to support it’s site.  Now, I ask you readers, how many of you clicked on a side bar ad, on a blog to order pizza?  Right. Probably none of you.

The fact that TreeHugger even supports advertising is a contradiction to their mission.  You cannot create a sustainable future if you support advertising.  Advertising promotes consumption.  And we all know now that consumption is what is causing all of this.  One rock.  6 Billion Homo Sapiens.  Limited Resources.  And a growing appetite for STUFF.  Not a good equation.  Advertising fuels this fire.

The next knife I need to stick in TreeHuggers side is that by advertising Domino’s THEY ARE SUPPORTING factory farming, the dairy industry, the meat industry, GMO foods, Monsanto, and the continued laziness of Americans.  Not to mention the fattening up of already fat America, and the diseases that result as this unnatural version of Homo Sapien becomes the norm.

I wrote TreeHugger and asked if they would consider my articles for posting.  You know what they answered?  They are not accepting applications for writers at this time.  Now, last I checked… there were never any applications for any of the revolutions in the past?  Are they admitting that what needs to happen (the shift in human consciousness) is trivial and not revolutionary?  I write truth.  Maybe this is too revolutionary for TreeHugger to sell ads?  Most people get upset when they read it, but that doesn’t change the fact that you are consuming too much.  If you live in America, you consume too much.  Even if you are an environmentalist… your way of life IS NOT sustainable.  If you: drive a car, eat meat, buy clothes and replace them when fashion changes, watch TV, shop at a grocery store, or any one of hundreds of things that I see your every day “environmentalist” doing… you are part of the problem.  So am I.  But I acknowledge this and keeping trying my best EVERY day to change it.  I would hope you do to.

But it’s not your fault completely.  Your sources are flawed.  If you care, want to do good, read The Ultimate Spaceship and decide, “I’m gonna start reading TreeHugger and start to change my ways”; you will be presented with confirmation that eating Domino’s Pizza is good for your environment.  Now I’m not even going to begin with the one of 500 ways I can prove that to be wrong.

Stupid is, as stupid does.  I looked it up and found this interesting description of the phrase made popular by the well known character Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump’s “Stupid is as stupid does” is a variant of an old adage, “Handsome is as handsome does.” This saying appears in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and in Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd,” and can be traced as far back as the 14th Century.

“Handsome is as handsome does” basically means that true handsomeness has to do with a person’s behavior, not just a handsome face. The saying is also phrased in the forms “Pretty is as pretty does” and “Beauty is as beauty does.”

Forrest’s version of the saying means that stupidity is not just a surface thing derived from a person’s appearance. Stupidity is a matter of deeds, not looks. Like the other versions, it comes down to this: judge people by what they do, not by how they appear.

“HANDSOME (PRETTY) IS AS HANDSOME (PRETTY) DOES – Good deeds are more important than good looks. The proverb was first recorded by Chaucer in ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’ (c. 1387). In 1766, in the preface to ‘The Vicar of Wakefield,’ Oliver Goldsmith wrote: ‘Handsome is that handsome does.’ First attested in the United States in ‘Journal of a Lady of Quality’ (1774). The saying is found in varying forms, including ‘Beauty is as beauty does’.” From the ‘Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings’ by Gregory Y. Titelman
(Random House, New York, 1996).”

Actions.  Not words.

There was a time when all the shadows of these tall buildings
Would throw their cape around each corner of the grassy fields
And one by one, each new shade, would cover the green way back;
Allowing changes that we could not have foreseen

Everybody let us gaze upon the world, we created
And must rest our eyes upon the great machine, as we wave goodbye
Feel the evening breeze caress your smile, the cities are dying
As we watch it fall to a modern state, a modern time

Remember when we hear the distant sound of human life?
A zillion noises whip our eyes that travel through the sky
And one by one, each little sound, has faded away with time,
Allowing changes that we could not have foreseen

Everybody let us say goodbye to all, our notions.
‘Cause there’s nothing left to say that we’re humane, when we’re left
behind
It’s to late to think that we can worship you, not emotions
‘Cause we’ve already evolved into machines, in our minds

Vision One by Röyksopp

I wanted you to read the lyrics to the soundtrack I placed on the film above because are very relevant to our world today.  With the inception of Spaceship 2.0, things have taken a different direction, the medium is more refined, but the message is the same.  People have to understand that this is not a little blip on the radar.  There is a movement across the world, and people are waking up rapidly.  I want you to be part of it.  That is why I will never stop writing.  I rewrote and updated what I consider to be my most important essay.  It’s somewhat a manifesto for my life and our future as homo technologicus (if we make it that far).

Things have changed.  Technologic advancement is exponential.  Two generations ago, we discovered how to harness electricity; one generation ago we built tubes that emit light and deliver pictures into our living rooms; now we have ½ inch thick pocket sized devices that not only allow us to communicate via radio waves, but allow us to view moving pictures wherever we want on the planet, and access the masterpiece of human communal connectivity (the internet) and at the same time carry the computing power more than that of servers a decade ago in our pockets… we call them iPhones.

Our world is a becoming a different place faster and faster.  Our consciousness is changing to adapt with these new times.  Most of what a 7 year old child that lived 3 generations ago learned, was comprised of 90% of what most of the generations before it learned.  Now, a first grade child learns to interact with devices and machines that the adults of it’s generation have a hard time catching up to and utilizing efficiently (if you wonder about this, just visit the genius bar at any local Apple store and listen in on the conversations).

The speed of our conscious development when we are children in the new world matches that of our technologic development.  When you lay out the entire modern human existence on this planet in a graph, and plot the advancements of technology in relation to time, we would observe a logarithmic curve.  As time goes by, our knowledge adds to itself exponentially.  Like ants working together, we compound our knowledge and scurry along the superhighway of technologic advancement.  We build ideas on top of ideas and merge technologies to advance our state of being in this world to a level where no other organism has.  Humans in such a short time of evolutionary development have developed the ability to (physically) travel off of their home planet and to see beyond their own star system (the solar system).  We have the ability to heal and protect ourselves from infection and virus.  We have developed the ability to mechanically do what other life forms on the planet can do naturally, i.e. fly, see in the dark, swim underwater.  We have even technologically beat the limits of travel and speed.  We have the ability to harness energy from natural resources, and to harness one of the greatest of natural forces (electricity).

Our brain; the unique gift that nature has given us, gives us the ability to dream and create things that other organisms cannot.  But how does this compare to the natural gifts that our fellow earthlings have inherited?  Are we that much better?

As a scientist, an artist and a philosopher, I marvel at the achievements of humanity.  I have been fortunate to have access to an education in many of these topics.  Like most of you in the modern world and in America, I am fortunate that destiny placed me in such circumstances where I had the opportunity to read, understand, and learn about these topics.  Learning about the inner workings of the human body, the inner workings of atoms, and chemicals.  Learning physics, astronomy, philosophy, sociology, and biology… and of course the universal language of the universe, mathematics.  These opportunities have given us the ability to appreciate the intricacies of the workings of the world we live in, and the technologic contributions we created for our lives, and their context in relation to this world.

Almost like a connoisseur, trained to appreciate the subtleties of a fine wine; once this knowledge has been passed onto you, the way you see the world, and what it means, changes forever.

So I look into the workings of all the facets of science, and its relevance and context in how this relates to our physical world.  How are we better than other earthlings?  How have we beat them in the game of survival, and evolutionary advancement?

With every model I observe, we have intrinsically lost one very important component that other earthlings still possess… balance.  We lack balance.

Like a viral process that cares nothing of what happens to it’s host, we replicate and lean on the crutch of our technology to save us from the disease process we manifest in our host.  We have an idea.  We develop it.  We advance because of it, and remove ourselves from one of the hardships of what is called “Life”. Every idea we develop removes one more hardship, but it creates 3 more difficulties in the future.

Living is hard.  As philosopher Thomas Hobbes discussed, to live in the natural world is a brutish and dangerous proposition.  Any person who has lived in nature for an extended period of time without any technologic assistance knows, living as a part of the food chain, “within” the food chain, is hard.  None of my writing has ever implied that we should live without technology.  Rather, acknowledge how absolutely helpless we are without it, yet how absolutely dead we will be without nature. But as we advance, we remove the stressors on our existence, allowing us to replicate further.  Like a virus that mutates, we develop “work-arounds” for life’s inconveniences.

Disease, we’re working on it.
Life span, we’ve doubled it.
Geographic limitation, we’ve engineered around it.
Genetic deformities, we cracked it’s code and are now putting the pieces together.

This all adds up to more humans, living longer, and in more places than ever before in the entire history of the planet.  No other animal can do this in such short a time.  To be able to populate the entire planet, and organism needs to pass through their natural evolutionary rites of passage for each selective factor. This process can take generations if not more.  But we, because of technology, have access to a shortcut.

The result is your life.  Look around you.  Look at all the things you see and use, but don’t truly acknowledge.  Think of the engineering and scientific advancements that went into your car.  Or your cellphone?  How about the vaccines that you have on board?  Imagine for one minute, having to depend on the sun, the land, the weather and your learned skill, to grow food?  In today’s world , if you are hungry, you get into a moving box (a car), which at the flick of a key, burns the remains of decomposed life-forms from millions of years ago (oil), which moves you to your food source without any effort from you (minus the effort to steer the thing).  Then you give the clerk a piece of paper (money) and in return, you are given food.

Some of the that food is grown from the earth, and unfortunately some of it, is another earthling (Cows, Pigs, Sheep,and Chickens).
Another sentient being.
Another being that has been living, and competing in the game of life, for millions of years, just as we have.

But now, instead of having to earn the right (i.e. hunt) to consume this life, we have the technology to “grow” or raise them in captivity for our own ends.  So eating is now easy, compared to what humans would have to know and do just 100 years ago; this has significant philosophic and sociologic implications.

So we consume and adopt technology without giving any thought to how it effects our world, how it effects our sociology, or our relationship to our home.  Technology has the answer, if things go bad, we can fix it.  Consumers no longer are required to think.  Just keep buying.  You need it.  It will make your life better.  Never mind what it takes to make, let alone get it over to you.  The disconnect between resources and consumption is the major issue of the 21st century.  Consumers no longer see or have access to the resource pool that makes what they consume.  This creates a delayed reaction to over consumption that can be 2 or 3 generations delayed.

We are at a pivotal moment in history.  I have given some thought to our course in time.  Thinking about the major forks in the road for human development, for my own understanding, I have organized our time in this world into four general stages of evolution.  I also call these revolutions since each of these steps revolutionized the state of our lives in our world.

Regardless of your religious or scientific beliefs, humanity first underwent a physical evolution.  This movement from our primate ancestors to human (if your an evolutionist), or spirit form to human (if your are a creationist), signified the first appearance of the human being on the stage of life.  It didn’t take long for us to undergo the second, and very important intellectual evolution.  This stage happened a few hundred years ago, and humanity developed a place for education, and the reverence of art (universities and museums).  We began to proliferate our knowledge and technology in an institutionalized form, schools and colleges.  This then led to the third evolutionary stage of human advancement, the industrial evolution.  This important stage is where we combined our technologic and intellectual products and our physical abilities to create machines, that world carry the burden of work for us.  No longer did we depend on the sun for light, or the ox to move the earth.  Humanity was freeing itself from the chains of physical labor.  But the fourth and most important stage is yet to come.  We have yet to experience the spiritual evolution.

Although we have the ability to send tons of steel into the air and carry a payload of humans safely from one side of our world to another with an airplane, we still cannot agree on a 2% difference of opinion in our religious views, in our political views or our economics views.  Despite this immense history of advancement, we are still primitive primates bashing each other in the head for possession of material goods, natural resources, or the right to pass on our genes.  You don’t believe me, just open any paper and read what’s happening in Israel?  Look at what are doing in Iraq.

We are still no better than our fellow earthlings.  Competing on a simple level, waging war against each other, and arguing over ideas that are figments of our imagination.  Ideas that ultimately have no real bearing on the actual world we live in.  As we fight and bicker, we forget about the damage we are doing to our host, our home, our earth.

Despite our now complete acknowledgement of shortages of oil and the potential to run out of oil in the next generation, we justify using millions of gallons of it to power our fighter planes, our tanks, and our machinery to get our soldiers to where we need to be, to fight the wars we need to fight.  Human beings have lost balance.

Leo Tolstoy said, “As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields”.  We have lost the connection with the very spirit that connects each and every one of us.  We have lost the ability to understand and relate to each other as a unit.  Hence our inability to see why it is not okay for us to live in a society where we spend more money on fighting each other, than we do on educating each other.

This is not limited to our nation, but all nations.  This discussion is about the human nation.  Our beautiful, expansive, but primitive brains, cannot contain these two ideals together: technologic advancement and love each other and our world.  So we advance, we evolve, and we harm each other, and rape our world.

I find it fascinating that not only does our disconnect from nature manifest itself in our apparent way of life, but it permeates into our death.  We do not allow for our bodies, our final, and only contribution to nature, to go back to nature.  We bury ourselves in boxes and separate our physical being from nature indefinitely.  So if you were solve the human vs. Nature equation, the solution would be one that yields a net negative for every human that was born.  Since every human that is born now, does not go back into  the natural order of things.  So our consciousness now believes this lie that we are separate from nature so deeply, that we do not question our idea of death and what happens to our bodies (exclusive of those who might want to be cremated and put back into nature).

My intention behind writing this essay is not to degrade humanity or insult our marvelous ability to create and shape tools.  Rather, it is to put into perspective the derailment that we are undergoing from our fourth and very important revolutionary stage.  To achieve our spiritual evolution, we need to cling onto the idea that despite our ideologic differences, we are one living organism.  Harming each other only harms ourselves.  We need to realize that we were given these amazing brains to observe, and to learn.  My grandfather used to tell me that we are given 2 ears and 1 mouth (although I still talk more than I should).  Our awareness of each other, not just human, but of all earthlings, needs to elevate so we an evolve past this brutal and primitive notion of fighting at every opportunity we differ.

Our fellow earthlings may lack the ability to develop technology like we do, but they understand the importance of “not extending their feet, beyond their blankets”.  Will we learn this in our generation?  Are we; YOU and I, the ones who will be responsible for giving this final stage of evolution to humankind?  Is it going to be us, that delivers humanity from it’s twisted history of fighting and bickering?
The next time you open your eyes, and use anything that you bought, anything that was made in a factory, anything that was prepared for you, or eat anything YOU didn’t grow or kill, think about this?  Are you doing justice to the thousands of years before you that built up to having these things?  Are you acting every day in a way to spread the ideas of spiritual evolution to your fellow human beings?  Do you effect other people in a way that opens their eyes and let’s them effect other people?  Or do you live a life of a consumer… buying what is needed to sustain your life (and lifestyle), until you expire?  I ask every person who is reading this essay:

do you sincerely believe that you were created, only to grow up, get educated, get a job, get married, have kids, consume stuff and die?  Is that the only purpose your life has in this world?

I say no.

We live in a wonderful world, and I urge you to take an exit once in a while, let the beauty of this world enter into your life.  I know that every person is capable of connecting with their neighbor and reprogramming their own minds from the conditioned ideas of the past.  Remember that if we ignore each other, each individual is a target.  And target an individual is much easier than the whole population.  Consumerism wants you to think of yourself as an island, because if you thought of yourself as a member of the human race, you assume a lot more responsibility, and your choices as a consumer would be much more prudent.

I think living on the verge of 7 Billion human beings in the world, we don’t have a choice.

We need to wake up and wake up fast.

The name of the web site came from an interesting discussion I was having with a friend, the discussion escalated to him saying that none of this matters anyways because in the end it will be the haves, and the have nots, and if the Earth falls apart, the haves will move to space.  Now, since I was a little boy, I was fascinated by astronomy, space travel and science fiction.  My knowledge in astronomy and space is extensive.  I rebutted… “dude, do you now what it would take to make a spaceship that could continue in space and give humans a home indefinitely?  It would be close to impossible.  We are on are already on a spaceship that is self sustaining and almost perfect, Earth IS the Ultimate Spaceship.”

This stuck as the name of the site… and here we are today.

Wednesday is Earth day.  Although most people plant a tree, or recycle or do something close to “earthly” on that day (and sometimes that day only), I think it is crucial we take every day of our lives, and consider our home as THE single most important part of life.

This is not too much to ask.  Before the inception of modern religion Judeo-Christian and Islam, we were all basically Pagans.  We worshiped nature… we valued the Earth and what she offered.  But things changed as we shifted our worship away from nature and into religious ideologies.  Now we put God before nature… not realizing that God IS nature.  Controversial… yes.  But you cannot prove this is not true.

It’s even harder for modern man to realize this, because we are so removed from this reality.  So it takes modern techniques to bring nature back to homo sapiens in the comfort of an air conditioned space with being threatened by the wild life.  Movies are a good medium.

So despite the carbon foot print of a movie theater and getting there, I think the effect seeing the movie that opens on Wednesday far out weighs its costs.  It might change your mind on how you treat our home.  I hope every one of you make the time to go and see Earth.  Remember, you are ALL stuck here… so you need to take care of it.