Healing Tones

At the cellular level and below that at the atomic level, built into the fabric of Nature is the drive toward biodiversity and beauty.

NATURE IS SOVEREIGN

I AM EVER INSPIRED and fascinated by how well Nature thrives, and by her sheer beauty and harmony — in both the macro and micro worlds. She is a great teacher as well, as we shall see shortly.

Man was given dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the animals and all the creatures that creep upon the earth of the Garden of Paradise. In other words, we have the privilege and the responsibility to care for the Garden as lords and ladies: to exercise dominion over the forms of life on the planet . . . but not over the world of microorganisms, whose role is to provide the creative soup out of which the forms of life emerge and in which they evolve.

The elements of the Natural world — the bacteria and viruses, the amoebas and protozoa, the genomes of the DNA and the exosomes and other signaling molecules of the RNA messengers — all share the sovereignty of Mother Nature. They are not the domain of man, and cannot be tampered with — not even touched — with impunity. These are the fruits of the fabled “tree of the knowledge of good and evil”. . . the knowledge of evolution. We can do battle against these bacteria and viruses in our fear for our health and our lives, but we cannot exercise dominion over them — even the ones that we genetically alter and manufacture once they are released from the labs and into the world of humanity.

A caveat came with the Creator’s orders: “For in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.” And, we surely have been dying in our endeavors and efforts to “cure disease” by attacking the sovereign domain of the Natural World of “pathogens” . . . as we arrogantly call these blessed catalyst of change in the world of microorganisms . . . and we shall continue dying in our stubbornness and ignorance of the Natural Law, which they obey without question.

Now, some of you, probably a lot of you, are rearing your heads back in utter dismay and disagreement with what you just read, maybe even disappointment in me. How dare I create a narrative that utterly contradicts the sacred and well-guarded narrative of medical science?! Well, I just did. But I didn’t write it without first doing my homework — and in my research I came upon — thanks to one of my avid followers — a drummer to whom I feel in my bones I can listen to and heed.

Dr. Zach Bush, a medical doctor and tenacious critical thinker outside the box of modern science and orthodox medicine, writes a compelling narrative that makes so much common sense, some of which I’ve been sharing with you in my blog these last few posts. My homework recently has included listening to an interview of him on Chervin Jafarieh’s podcast “Wake The Fake Up”, entitled “Reawakening Humanity’s Role in the Dance of Nature,” and transcribing excerpts from it. This excerpt is especially informative and inspiring. I think you will resonate deeply with his thinking, and particularly with his simplicity of spirit and clarity of vision and insight. So, enjoy!

THE NATURAL LAW OF BIODIVERSITY

The Natural Law is very simple methodology — that the Declaration of Independence is based on. It’s not a new science, but it’s been really lost in recent decades and potentially centuries.  By recommitting ourselves to Natural Law and its application to all industries, all human behavior, and all human ingenuity, we will fundamentally change our relationship with Nature.  It’s recognizing that every life form, whether bacteria or human, is sovereign.  It has a distinct reason for being there and cannot be owned or destroyed without a system of collaboration governing that.  It’s deeper than rights. Rights are a palliation of broken value systems.

This is my concern around the conservation movement at large.  We’ve had to default to the “rights of nature.”  So we see Ecuador writing into its constitution the “rights of nature” in 2007, which was considered a radical jump forward.  And yet we’ve seen more rain forests destroyed since then.  So it really didn’t work, because it’s trying to palliate or give rights to something that is inherently threatened because there’s a mismatch in values. 

Nature has only one system, which I have discovered, and I think that everyone would agree on, and that’s BIODIVERSITY.  It’s been working toward increasing biodiversity on this planet since the moment there was a DNA strand here. Four-billion years ago we see the first slime molds and the first forms of life; and they had tiny little genomes with thirteen genes.  And those genes started misspelling themselves through enzyme mechanisms of poor proof reading. So suddenly there’s diversity of genes starting to emerge through a rough draft of what life could look like.  They’re reacting to things.  Injury occurs, or acidic pools turn more acidic, or a volcano goes off and the temperature shifts. So there’s stress put of those organisms and they misspell their genes; and in doing that there was a new adaptation to great resiliency.  New adaptation led to biodiversity. 

So we go from slime mold to bacteria in over a billion years. We start to see this real acceleration of the sharing of genetics. Initially it was through “horizontal gene transfer.” This is where one bacteria has to bump into another bacteria; and then they can envelope information back and forth with one another . . . and this happens to this day.

In the ICU, for example, when you get a drug-resistant bacteria, it’s because there was horizontal gene transfer within the individual, or within the hospital setting.  A bacteria has been exposed to lots of antibiotics and begins to misspell. In its movement toward death, it starts misspelling its genes. Then, suddenly, there’s a gene that actually eliminates that toxin, and so now that bacteria survives; and the beautiful thing about Nature is as soon as there’s a gain of function, the immediate methodology is to share that information with every gene in its environment.

At the cellular level and below that at the atomic level, built into the fabric of Nature is the drive toward beauty.  It’s beyond survival.  Forget survival. Go for more.  I would rather share out my whole genome and die under the stress of an acidic pool of water and pass on new information so that life goes on beyond me. It’s not so much Darwinian “survival of the fittest” as it is “my survival is based on your survival”. . . and there’s an African word for that: Abutu.

As soon as you develop a new capacity for life, you share it everywhere, because you want more community.  It’s an “Open Source Code.” There is no ownership of anything.  There’s only a sharing of an economy of abundance.  Can you imagine if humanity got that?! 

It’s actually happening. We are there. We are in the last throes of thinking that we are against everything; that we are separate from everything; that Nature is against us; that man is against us; that everything is war. If there’s separateness, then there is scarcity.

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KOYAANISQATSI – A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE

I love their positive mental attitude and optimism toward the end of this excerpt. However, we’re obviously not quite “there” yet. As long as money is the currency of exchange, the ticket to share in the abundance of Nature and of the world’s goods and services, we’re out of alignment with Natural Law.

There is a prevalent sense of scarcity in the world today, and it is a symptom of isolation. There always has been a sense of limitation and scarcity since we’ve relegated our social activities and livelihood to a system of monetary economics. Without money we do not have access to the world of commerce and healthcare, nor the super markets. My accountant used to say “Nothing happens until money says it happens.”

That’s the unfortunate fact of the matter, but it doesn’t have to remain that way. The truth is we can live on this planet and thrive without monetarizing everything — without money. Native cultures before us, and some hidden away in the wilds untouched by civilization, have proven that out. “Open source code” works because it’s in sync with Natural Law.

In some isolated parts of third-world countries there is extreme scarcity and abject poverty and starvation. Millions of our fellow human beings are dying from lack of food and medicine . . . while here in the Western parts of the same planetary home we are throwing away leftovers, excessive food preparations of restaurants and unsold produce in supermarkets.

The current story is that we do have the foods and other supplies to send to these draught-stricken and starving countries, and to those suffering from natural disasters, but it takes money to get it there. We do have social services and relief agencies, but they are empowered by the currency of the land in the form of donations. Money makes things happen in our world . . . and it can be a useful convenience were it not objectified and hoarded. Like life energy, which money represents, it’s put to best use circulating.

The Hopi have a word for the present state of our chaotic world: Koyaanisqatsi . . . a world of corruption and out of balance. If you haven’t watched the film by the same name, or watched it back when it first came out in 1982, then I highly recommend that you view it . . . again or for the first time. It’s a movie without characters and without words. The rhythm of the music, however, is most engaging.

As always, I appreciate your reading my blog and sharing it with your friends. I welcome any thoughts and insights you may have and wish to share, either in the comment section or with me personally by email. Until my next post then . . .

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

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