BP Oil Spill

“Land is a gift to us. Our extension, or rather we are an extension of land. It is not possible for us to treat the Earth better than we treat ourselves, as we are of each other. When we begin to treat ourselves with respect and love through higher understanding so will we treat this planet”
- Zaccai Curtis

The ailes of the human being are a self inflicted symptom of our collective psychic illness. We tend to think of ourselves as individuals at the expense of any community, but observation of our physical reality clearly shows that we are absolutely a collective of individual expressions. What I’m saying is that we are not just a person with a name and a family - who is born then lives then has babies, a job, and then dies so that their child grows up to do the same - but an extension of an entire living race that lives together on a living organism that is a planet within a living universe that is creation itself. To say that you are not connected to your neighbor is like saying your finger is not connected to your hand. We our OF each other.

It is not productive to blame our government or corporations for our problems. This fixes nothing.
It is not productive to blame ourselves for our problems. This just lowers our self worth and makes it easier for our psyche to be used and abused.

Our solution is in realizing that we are one. That our ego is not necessary anymore. That we are not naturally hateful, pathological, or destructive beings but beings of creativity and community. That each of us was born with a purpose that serves the whole. That this purpose is achieved through knowledge of the self and NOT defined by external expectations. And that no other knowledge in life is as rewarding as knowing your place in this world. Purpose is what we were born for and our purpose will never be and never has been serving another’s greed or ambition. A job is not a job, it is who we are. We were not meant to make money, we were made to make our thoughts and ideas.

This is what we get when we choose profit over purpose. This is what we get when we live as undeserving self-serving and self-loathing slaves to the dollar bill:

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/07/you-are-not-authorized-to-see-these.html