In a vast universe containing billions of galaxies, and billions upon billions of stars, can be found one pretty ordinary spiral galaxy, the Milky Way. In the outer reaches of one of the galaxy’s spiral arms there resides a singularly beautiful, but deeply-troubled world orbiting the main sequence star known as Sol.
Earth’s troubles arise from the actions of just one of its species, a decidedly self-centered life form, sick with its fixation on its own mortality. The individuals within this population generally act as if they care for their own offspring, much like their fellow species, but there the similarities end.
These creatures, men, are not the only self-aware lifeforms on planet Earth, but they generally disregard their fellow species as if they were. Collectively, they generally show little interest in the welfare of other living things–-in it’s place burns a passion for using other organisms as god-given resources, raw material for what suits man’s selfish purposes today.
And man’s purposes amount to getting what can be gotten while the getting is good–-because men (so goes their creed) will not pass this way again. And it is this concept, this accepted frailty, that underpins all of man’s culture. It is the fundamental circumstance around which all human actions, decisions, plans, and dreams are built.
Too many of these self-appointed “sentient” creatures care little or nothing even for the welfare of their brothers or sisters–-especially if they happen to reside outside the same self-assigned class, politics, race, or philosophy. Only among humans are brazen individuals driven to accumulate more than they need, to exterminate, enslave or subjugate their fellows purely for the sake of greed and power–-to ultimately corrupt a once-pristine planet into a wasteland incapable of supporting even their own living grandchildren. And all in an insane effort in denial of their own avowed mortality, as if by vast ownership (and scrawling their brash trademarks on every rock) they can negate the inevitable as they rush the world headlong into ruin.
It was the short-sighted fanaticism of those blinded to the needs of the future, by their own imminent mortality, that created the Earth we know today. An Earth where terrorism is fueled by a specious hereafter where wholesale slaughter is to be rewarded. Where greed is fed by opportunity, not necessity, in pursuit of wholly unearned wealth. Where no opportunity to extract wealth from the ground is overlooked. In the end, fundamentally altering the very climate and environment of man’s only home without a thought for others, let alone for their own generations yet to come.
In a more perfect world, what would it be like if humans knew they were immortal and acted so? Would they be undertaking truly great works, works that spanned generations in their creation? Would the concepts of hunger and poverty even exist? Would Man have long since reached the stars, not having expended countless generations of young lives and untold resources in his never-ending history of violence? Might he be behaving as the proper steward of a world whose welfare was acknowledged as being linked inextricably to his own?
Would men still be killing their fellows to silence witnesses to their crimes? Or taking responsibility for their destinies–banking for their futures, rather than greedily picking the bones of their departed? Would the dead still be taxed. Would the followers of another faith still be killed when the perpetrator’s particular Almighty would not be rewarding him in a gilded end that would never come? Would insane cowards still be drugging and otherwise manipulating the gullible, including women and children, into carrying out crimes they themselves are too timid to commit? Or might The Golden Rule one day become the usual way of life for planet Earth?
Sadly, only Man, of myriad species, behaves as if he believes in his own mortality.
A monarch butterfly knows how to begin and finish a migration that takes five generations to complete–a migration it has never personally experienced. A songbird, hand-raised from an egg by humans, still goes out and builds its characteristic nest, sings its characteristic song. An orb-weaver spider, displaying spectacular feats of engineering, spins marvelous creations often many meters across–-that it has never personally witnessed in the making.
Man’s best friend, the dog, descended from the same Pleistocene ancestor as today’s grey wolf, is at birth habituated to humans beyond all explanation. It reads Man’s gestures, expressions, and intentions without being taught. A standard poodle will go on point (raised paw and all) in the presence of prey—not a wolf behavior, but training as a pointer instilled in a former life. Dogs turn and look where humans point–while a chimpanzee, reputedly Man’s closest genetic relative, instead advances and smells the pointing finger. None of these are examples of heredity, or instinct, or evolution. No biological hereditary mechanism has yet been isolated that otherwise explains these examples of understanding without this-life training or experience.
Earth science is rigged to negate any reality beyond pure mortality. The mere suggestion of the possibility of a spiritual component in behavior, from within the scientific community, would meet with instant and utter ostracism. The scientific method itself negates anything but objective evidence, even when the act of communication between its adherents is based solely on subjective understanding, not chemistry.
All nonhuman creatures are functionally immortal. Even Ockham’s razor cuts to a truth religiously ignored in the sciences. The simplest explanation being that innate understanding in an organism’s behavior is what it appears to be–-something they’ve done before–not some convoluted chemistry born of a necessity to negate the spiritual, immortal behaviors of living things.
The fact is, non-human creatures come back. They reorient and pick up where they left off. They arrive with experience that they obviously remember. What is it about humans that we do not?
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