Introduction
Let me introduce myself. You encounter me on a daily basis, but I find it necessary at this time that you get to know me deeply and respectfully. Not all of me at once, but just on a larger and more relatable scale than you have been willing to in general attempt. Your survival depends upon it. Hopefully I have now engaged your full attention.
I am very old, ancient. My age is about 4 billion years and since your age is less than about 100,000 years, you must admit that I have incurred wisdom far greater and deeper than yours. Your scientists who study me at great depth for understanding and to know the Truth of me are the greatest allies of the human family. The dedicated scientists as opposed to those digging for recognition and dollars to promote their projects and therefore themselves are not particularly your friend or mine. The hallmark of my being is change, and I will decide whether to move towards another ice age or grow warmer, not your pseudo-scientists and celebrity promotors and politicians. But just a hint: your numbers are growing and crowding out other species, you have wars and out of control commerce and technology, so common sense and a slight bit of introspection can put two and two together.
My history is vast, interesting and dynamic. I have evolved slowly over the eons of time since I was known as “primordial soup”. The one important lesson for the human mind to grasp is that change is the only constant. You can learn from me alone, as I hold all the answers you may seek, though few get beyond ego to truly seek. As yourself, an ordinary person, where would you be without the few extraordinary who seek, discover, contribute, and invent? Most of you are ordinary. Don’t take it personally.
The cataclysm of events that was the start of me, you can compare in your smaller mind to the egg and sperm that joined up and started you..though complex as you are, especially the marvel of your mostly unused brain, I am more complex, storied and ancient. As you learn about your own beginnings, don’t leave me out as I am the true Mother of your being. My mysteries and wisdom go far deeper and beyond what any human, even the most dedicated among you can uncover in a lifetime. I hold the answers. You hold the questions. Don’t take it personally.
If my age can be compared to one year, your age can be compared to a minute before midnight on December 31st. Humility is my essence. I do what I do. am what I am, for what reason I am not sure; whether it be random or of Divine cause is not my discipline. The discipline of inquiry is your challenge, a challenge that even if you as an individual do not take seriously, a few do, and will generously pass on the information; much of which smaller minds will dispute in ignorance and ego, then finally following along accept as the machine of True knowledge grinds forward.
And knowledge does grind forward in the human mind, though not as a glacier would, shaping and controlling all in its path, but moving ahead and then backward through ignorance of forgetting history and repeating it. I never do that. I move forward with the Universe and atmosphere and a sense of the Infinite, creating as I go and learning from my mistakes quickly, fomenting miracles as I progress. I don’t fall in despair at my error or challenges. My essence is working toward solutions. This is a great lesson. I am brave, conservative, truthful, vibrant, beautiful in my cause. You can learn so much from me, and as a race of humans, you have. But in your midst, you have allowed tyranny, cruelty, sloth, greed, among the many misfortunes that your brain gets lost in. I don’t do this. I have no ego, just a rule book instructing blind progress and vast determination according to a seeming mysterious plan. I don’t do drugs, lie, blame, exploit, murder, gossip or deceive for my own singular purpose and aggrandizement. I am Earth. Get to know me and don’t take your own shortcomings personally. Just use me as an example and work through them. Grow and know that I offer lessons for you to gain from.
TIMELESS CHEMISTRY
I started out like you, in simple form. I have vast patience and fortitude. I worked through elements and molecules to formulate simple life forms. What was before me is part of the mystery. Where the elements formed and how are contained in the Universal Secret is always waiting for illumination. It seems to me I am being propelled by some inexplicable force, though I cannot identify it by name, I trust it as it molds me.
The living creatures evolved through and with my constant transformations. They also are moving with the force, though unconsciously and live according to instinct and DNA. One celled bacteria, fungi, crustaceans, reptiles, mammals and humans; all are forms the mysterious, dynamic, ever changing system. Your brain is my most complex master piece and you are capable of much more than you allow yourselves. The reason for that is you associate and listen too much to other small minds, ignoring me and the Greater Mystery.
Understand that I will do what I will do and you haven’t the power over me that you in this present day think you have. I will have my way. If you dishonor your home, and make life unlivable, I will survive after you have destroyed yourselves. You listen to those who say they are interested in “loving the planet”, but your ego transcends other species while you focus on yourselves decreasing biodiversity as your numbers grow. Your solutions tend towards one note and you listen to those who talk without knowing me. The True agenda is greater than finite man and a finite earth. I too have a limited life as does my energy star, the Sun. When it dwarfs as all stars do, my existence will cease.
My letter here to you is to get your brain to thinking with inquiry and logic, rather than with the small voices you hear all around. Look into a child’s eyes, walk on my unpaved nakedness, look up at the stars. If you start to inquire, you will start on the larger journey of Wonder. Then you will look for deeper answers and you must keep digging though you will never know all. Just learn to be humble and know your smaller place in the Great Mystery. You will then know vibrant life IS, just as I do.
(C) P A Hall 11-9-16
