Healing Tones

“Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder”

WE ARE TRULY WITNESSES to the beauty of Nature, as Dr. Zach Bush shares in his interview on Chervin Jafarieh’s podcast “Wake The Fake Up”. As you will appreciate in the transcribed excerpt below, Dr. Bush’s perspective is from the viewpoint of microbiology and functional human anatomy and physiology. ln that sense, it is limited in its scope of the full multidimensional nature of Man, which includes the spiritual dimension of the divine nature of man as a sovereign incarnate being operating in and through a human form, bringing into the earth the Presence of the One whose Earth this is.

I do love his passion for Nature and his zeal for the unique design of our human capacities that allow us to witness and enjoy the beauty of the natural world. I think you will enjoy his presentation and perhaps learn something from his insights and perspectives. I’ll join you on the other side of this excerpt and share a few more words of commentary. Enjoy!

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WITTNESSES TO THE BEAUTY OF NATURE

What makes us so interesting and so creative as a species? One thing is our body’s capacity to hold an eco-diversity system within a single organism. Our internal diversity trumps anything out there; specifically the colon.

The human colon is now recognized to hold more biodiversity, more species of bacteria and fungi, more protozoa, etc. than any other system on the planet. More than the coral reefs; more than the jungles; more than the swamps in the Amazon. Cubit centimeter by cubit centimeter this is the largest density of biodiversity that the planet has ever invented.

The mechanism of the result is that our neurological system learns to listen to that biodiversity. We have billions of afferent nerve endings that actually poke through the intestinal membrane to communicate directly with the bacteria, fungi, and protozoa and all the rest. To find out that our brain is listening to all the data streams from thousands of species, and that our central processing unit (CPU) is making pattern recognition based on all the information coming from all of Nature, is to see that we are the CPU chip of this planet. We are the Central Processing Unit to be witness to the beauty of Nature . . . and we do that by having the most exquisite keyboard that Nature has developed.

What we find out in this beautiful dance with biology is that the keyboard is the neurologic system listening to the ecosystem, and the fingers on that keyboard are the bacteria, fungi and protozoa. Nature is writing on the keyboard of the human CPU. And for that we get to see more patterns of beauty and make more incredible discoveries and creative thought than any other species ever has . . . because we are the representation of the most diversity any species has ever held.

Why?  I think it has something to do with our five senses.  Why are we getting all this information?  Why are we able to create so much; to build a skyline like New York City?  Why are we so industrious? Why and how are we so ingenious and innovative? Why are we doing all that for beauty’s sake? 

ORIGIN OF THE SENSE OF SEPARATION?

Our five senses are the reason, I believe, we developed the first separation disorder. Our five senses are uniquely designed to give us the impression that we’re separate from Nature. The depth that we see with our field of vision, for example, is very unique to mammal biology. The mammals under the water, the mammals out in the jungles, see depth much differently; and so the umwelt (field of vision of one’s surrounding world and perceived reality) is very specific to the human eye, the human ears, the human nose, and the human tongue [and touch].  These five senses are specifically designed to give us the impression of separateness . . . to give us a sense of distance.  We are over here and everything else is over there.

Ultimately, that sense of separateness requires that we develop an ego. “By God, if I am separate from everything else, then I need some fences to protect myself.” And so we put up the ego and suddenly we have eliminated 99.99 percent of all the resources of the universe. So we do become isolated with an ego mind and we experience scarcity. So that ego shield has to become more dense in order to block any possibility that we’re wrong, or that maybe we aren’t the strongest. 

So, maybe it is “survival of the fittest.” We’ve got to be stronger. We’ve got to be mean. We’ve got to kill everything so that we don’t get killed. So, why would we be given five senses . . . because it’s obvious we’ve perverted the five-sense experience with an ego of fear and separateness?

We have lots of mythology and religious beliefs around that: the “Garden” (of Eden), and the eating of the “forbidden fruit,” which was the tree of knowledge [of good and evil]. Then, suddenly, we have this sense that we’re separate from Nature. So now we’re ashamed of ourselves and have to cover up. In that sense of separateness we develop fear, shame, guilt . . . and an ego.

The alternative would have been to maintain our understanding that all things are connected, despite our senses . . . and this is where we are now at the end of a epoch. Can we wake up to this reality as humanity?

We’ve been given a special role within Nature, not only to be the most incredibly connected CPU chip to see the most beauty, but also to be a witness, through our five senses, to Nature herself. If we realize that these were given to us, not to believe in separateness, but so that we could stand far enough from Nature to see her beauty. That’s what makes us unique as a species.

IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

I have seen many sunsets, but I have never seen a tree of monkeys turn to watch the sun set.  I have never seen a bird flying in that sunset stop to watch the sun set.  We’re the only species that will travel to a coast to watch the sun set. When I lived on the coast of Southern California, everyone would come flowing out of their houses every evening to line up on Beacon’s Cliff to look out at that ocean and watch that orange globe drop into that ocean body.  And we were all in community, and people would bring out wine and have a party to watch the sunset, not realizing that we’re the only species doing that.  Why are we the only species doing that?  Because we’re the only ones given the five senses to see the beauty. 

I truly believe that we are here to witness Nature and in our witnessing Nature become creative with her and not be against her. She’s not against us. She is our bride. We are the bride of God — and we were told so through religious texts dating back tens-of-thousands of years. What does that mean? It means that we can be witness to the beauty of the other.

We are here so we can rediscover our senses as our own super power within all the complexity and beauty of Nature.  We have the super power to see the beauty. And when we realize that, we can relax; because the parasympathetic nervous system, when seeing beauty, does relax.  And we come to see that the five senses were misinterpreted as a signal of separateness and are only there to give us the capacity to witness the beauty.  We will then be welcomed back into our rightful relationship with Nature; and in that become curious of what we could design within her and what she is trying to express through us. The wealth of the future is community.

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WE ARE ALSO BENEFACTORS TO NATURE

As I mentioned in my preface, Dr. Bush’s perspective, being a physician, is appropriately from the viewpoint of microbiology and functional human anatomy and physiology. ln that sense, it is rightly limited in its scope of the full multidimensional nature of Man, which includes the spiritual dimension of the divine nature of man as an incarnate being operating in and through a human form . . . created out of the building blocks of the microcosm . . . present on Earth to represent the Creator to Creation — and, above all other purposes, to love that Creation and bless it with our spirit of gratitude.

From a spiritual and heavenly perspective, the sense of separateness arises out of man’s separation in consciousness from Source, which is as well the basis of his sense of scarcity, fear, shame, and guilt. The creating capacity of human consciousness, out of which man’s world emerges, is rightly informed and seeded from the spiritual or heavenly planes of Being, out of which the New Earth emerges . . . and the qualities of Spirit spring as well.

It is the qualities of Spirit . . . love, joy, thankfulness, patience, blessing, etc. . . . that are the generative frequencies that create the spiritual substance (pneumaplasm) by which are conveyed the perfect patterns of design that shape the New Earth from out of the New Heaven. This is Man’s primary purpose for being on Earth.

In his polarity shift from centering in Divine Cause to centering in the creative field of effects, man has descended down to the physical plane of being to live and labor by the sweat of the brow — to “live by bread alone.” We’ve been taking our que from the external world, duplicating the old, rather than from Spirit and the Heaven within, out of which something new can be created: a New Earth.

The micro-organisms in the microcosmic world are doing their parts to further life on the planet through biodiversity, continually creating new species to carry on the Creators’ work of regeneration. We can support them with our love and sovereign blessing.

NATURE’S SANCTUARY

Mother Nature’s creations are beautiful because they are truthful: their perfect design is made in the sanctuary of heaven where they are imbued with perfect control by the life current flowing through them: the River of Life. They emerge from that sanctuary whole and holy.

The natural world is a safe place to visit and in which to find rest and peace for the soul. Bonnie and I frequently sit together on the swing in our backyard patio sanctuary among the flowers, bushes and trees, and the green vegetation of garden, presently bearing okra on towering stalks. There we rest in the quiet solitude that Nature and our haven provide — that is until we start looking around the yard and noticing the care needed here and there. But then, that’s our role, isn’t it: to care for the Garden . . . and exercise dominion over the weeds while caring for the plants. Harvesting the okra and other vegetables is always a thankful chore. The huge full moon is telling us it’s time to plant sweet peas and winter greens in our Fall garden.

WINDOWS OF HEAVEN

It is written somewhere that the eyes are the windows of heaven, to which I would add: “through which the Creators enjoy and bless their Creations.” We’re in good company, then, as we enjoy a beautiful sunset or gaze in awe at a snow-capped mountain range or a vast ocean. While we gaze with appreciation upon the beauty of Nature, let our eyes and all our senses send forth a current of love. They are designed for that purpose as well . . . chiefly for that purpose: to let love radiate through them in blessing to the Earth — “and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.”

I will close by sharing the lyrics of a Christmas song I wrote back in my song-writing days. I’ll also include here a link to another song that I wrote entitled “The Fullness Thereof.” Enjoy!

This Angel’s Tree
Adorned with light this tree so bright a temple ever living,
with arms as boughs its God endows his blessings to be giving.
A head put he atop this tree to guide its steps in flight.
Swift feet gave he this graceful tree to dance with love’s delight.
A heart to sing, a voice to ring his music’s joyous tone,
Gave eyes to see what majesty surrounds this royal throne.
But best of all this tree so tall gave he a spirit wise,
that it would know when winds do blow to bend and when to rise.
Our God made he a giving tree when man he did adorn.
For life made he this angel’s tree his spirit to be born.
Our God made he a dwelling tree when man he did adorn.
For love made he this angel’s tree,
His spirit I am born.

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I welcome any thoughts or insights and inspirations you may have and wish to share, either in the comment feature or by email. Until my next post . . .

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

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Credits: Featured picture of Autumn Leaves posted on Facebook by Mountain Bob Edwards. Thank you Bob.