Article: Changing the World One Meme at a Time: Reflections on an Interview With Daniel Quinn

WE build this planet in symbiosis with plants, atmosphere, rocks, animals and shrubs. Our breathing is a process inherent in the Earth's respiratory system. In our decay at death, we are food for the other creatures, microscopic and macroscopic, that allow the Earth to maintain itself. In this fashion, we are all Christ; our lives and deaths are for the sake of the whole. Everything exists and dies for the sake of everything else.

Could this become our guiding meme? Is it truly wise that we believe we live only for ourselves and our consumerist hedonism? Is it true that our technology will grow and grow and grow without end? Is Star Trek really going to happen? In contrast, perhaps we can travel further than any spaceship Enterprise by going deep within the Psyche, our own Soul.

Perhaps the infinity of worlds "out there" are one with the infinity of worlds "in here." This too is a meme being explored and expounded by more and more people. A new/old meme is "What we see in Nature is a mirror to what we are within ourselves." This meme is an option to the meme that we are here to control Nature and are separate from Her.

For the fun of it, let's create a new myth containing some of the memes I just mentioned. Let's create a myth that allows us to be less alienated. To do this, lets add a chapter to Genesis of the Bible. Perhaps it could go something like this:

Thus, Sophia, the Wisdom of God, came upon Adam and Eve and said unto them, "Why in the world are you ashamed of how I have made you? Why do you fight so? Do you not see that in your opposition you are mirrors of one another?

Look at the world. You make war on the Natives, and you make war on the planet. You have left battling right, man battling woman, and technology battling Nature. Through this battling you are creating a wasteland. This is because you do not see your own beauty and instead see yourself as a wasteland. You are not fallen. You only think you are fallen.

How dare you think that you are fallen! You are conceived by the marriage of myself and the Father. Thus, you are born of my Womb. And you see a wasteland!? How dare you! Through arrogance you turn the Earth into your mistaken image. You make the world into a desolated and deserted Hell. That desolation is nothing less than a projection of your shallow ego. What is your ego but a series of thoughts, of lies that you tell yourself. Your people live in poverty because your Psyches are impoverished.

Yes, you make this world in your mechanized image. In this Zombie state, you destroy all those beautiful creatures that see the world as wonder-full, organic and alive, in their image. The world is not just according to your egotistical thoughts. It is about the thoughts of all creatures. All is sacred. Change your Meme now and evolve!

The resurrection from the dead does not pertain to an external God. It pertains to you here and now. The consequences of your actions are Natural. I am Mother Nature. I am not external to anything. I am within all and relate to all. I am the Essence of everything, including you and your God.