There is no single Truth

Life is a little like a diamond, many faceted; in that when we begin to describe it, we have then to turn around and say - but we also need to look at it like this. So I ended the last post by saying that global warming by human action is significant but not as significant as our position in our solar system's precession around the heavens. Then I went on to say that that which is on the surface is also a reflection perhaps of the inner state of humanity. These two things are both rather large statements even on their own but together they may seem provocative and unlikely to the rational mind. Yet we can understand each one in our own world. Memory tells me that when the world relied on sailing ships to ply their trade that at one time they went around the Cape of Good Hope, but when the route through the Suez Canal was built this became a preferable route. The reason was that sailing around the southernmost tip of Africa apart from being longer was very dangerous. It was originally known as the Cape of Tempests. Anyway think about this for a moment. As a sailor things were fine until you reached the Cape. Then the level of 'Care' had to be increased because the tempestuousness of that part of the journey was so much greater. So on a much larger scale seems to be the case with our journey through the heavens. The movement of our solar system in its cyclic progress through the heavens is different at different times. At those times of greater galactic activity we have to take more care. That is one thing. There is a correspondence between the inner and the outer worlds and there is a correspondence between the individual and the world we live in. THink! What is the difference between a pimple and a volcano? Both are nodes to the surface allowing an unusual activity causing eruption to reach the surface. The earth needs the expression of a volcano. A person needs the eruption which is a pimple to take part in the cleansing of the system. The winds that howl around the earth these days, the tornadoes that blow are not any different than many human phenomena. An explosion of laughter to an ant is cataclysmic. Equally so is an explosion of anger. A fart, a sneeze, a belch all of these we can comprehend as movements of earth. The thing is that 'we' and by 'we', I mean, those of us who belong to the progressive people on earth, know, as the less fortunate that belong to 'backward' 'aboriginal races don't, that the earth is an object. It does not have emotions, thought, sensation... The thing is that the indigenous do know. That is why they treat earth as a Goddess, the winds, the Sun are not just explosions of dead air, the burning of a neutered planet but Gods and Goddesses, Spirits to be propitiated that we share earth with. The indigenous laugh at us far harder than we them. And our relationship is symbiotic. We need earth to be alive and well to feed and shelter us not to blister us with a harsh sun, chastise us with great vents of air. Drown us in water. Scorch the earth and denude it of food. Strip it naked so that she is bare and we are left starving. We have become arrogant. Knowing as much as we do yet we know so little!