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The Earth Has Cancer And The Cancer Is Us

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Burl Hall
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Our cancerous greed even used different countries that it conquered: Britain, France, Spain and Wall Street to name a few. But as anyone who has experience with loved ones with cancer, the cancer in destroying its host's body ultimately destroys itself.   Anybody who has been in the Maine North Woods where clear cutting of forests reigns as the epitome of progress knows, we are laying waste to our Mother's body and robbing our future generations of life-giving oxygen that trees produce.   We could be close to creating a planet as void of life as the moon.

 

Of course, it's questionable if indeed the moon is dead for it has been a major determinate to how life has evolved on this planet.   As the Christian mystic Meister Eckhart states, "God creates everything with everything else in mind."   Perhaps what even looks like a lifeless pile of rocks is an aspect of Life's process.   Perhaps the lifelessness we see in the moon and outer space is but a projection of our own lifelessness caused by enslavement to a sociopathic corporate system?

 

And perhaps our cancerous actions are just an aspect of major change on our planet.   Before evolution takes place, we have to die to what we are.   Perhaps this is the question each of us needs to answer for ourselves.   What are we willing to die to?   Are we willing to die to an economy that destroys the planet and enslaves a majority of people on our planet?   Are we also willing to let go of our intellectual, philosophical and religious self-righteousness and literally see the entire human race and, indeed, the population of plants and animals as extensions of a body of which we too are cells?   Can we also let go of our intellectual snobbery in saying we are the greatest species on this planet?

 

Can we also gaze into each other's eyes and see the entire universe, including ourselves mirrored?   Can we, indeed, know the true meaning of Nature as being our Essence and not some commodity to be bought and sold into slavery?

 

Can we change this scenereo through our Occupy movements?   Or, do we settle for a "meet the new boss same as the old" scenario? Deciding to cease being a cancer cell involves a death to a way of thinking, living and being in this world.   Is the resurrection from this death worth it?    This is the question we all must face.   I hope its "yes, I'm willing to face this death to being a cancer in order to conceive new life."    The potential is within you.  Your great-great-grandchildren will love you for bringing it forth.          

       

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Burl Hall is a retired counselor who is living in a Senior Citizen Housing apartment. Burl has one book to his credit, titled "Sophia's Web: A Passionate Call to Heal our Wounded Nature." For more information, search the book on Amazon. (more...)
 
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