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Over the Primordial Rainbow Bridge

October 8, 2023

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“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?“

* * *

IT’S TIME FOR MY BOOK, SACRED ANATOMY, to go further out and into the hands of more people who are awake and burdened with religious scruples of shame and guilt about their bodies, and especially about their sexuality. Having been brought up in a typically large Catholic family and attended seminary in my youthful years of priestly aspirations—and having experienced sexual assault myself by clerics of the Church—I write from the substance of personal experience in that area. Having also been awakened to my authentic divine Self and lived a full life in service to others as a wholistic health practitioner, my writing carries the authority of my personal journey and life of service.

Written in an uplifting tone of love for the truth and beauty of the body and its design and function as a temple of the Living God, the book sheds light on the path out of darkness and confusion and toward enlightenment and freedom of expression of one’s “fully human” living—to borrow a phrase from the profound writings of Episcopal prelate Cynthia Bourgeault, who sheds insightful light on the life and ministry of the Master Jesus as one who lived an exemplary “fully human” life of love.

The featured excerpt is from the final chapter, which conveys the passion that filled my soul when the inspiration arose thirty-five years ago to write and publish the book and send it out to find its own reception . . . echoing these tone-setting words from the Foreword:

* * *

What if we could actually travel through all the dimensions of the seven planes of being in our Father’s House of many mansions; if there were no veil between heaven and earth and we could ascend back up into the invisible Realms of Light from whence we came and then just as naturally descend back down into the visible realm of form and materialize anywhere at will? And what if the biotechnology and chemistry necessary to enable this process were already fully present with us and available to us in our anatomical and physiological makeup and all that was required was for us to learn the secrets of their activation and operation?

What if we were to stop experiencing death and our bodies would always be light and ageless, and we could incarnate and disincarnate as our duration of service here required?

* * *

I was unsure about the timing of its release at first. But with the assurance and encouragement of friends and family, as well as financial help, the book was written and self-published in 2005 by a local publisher, Wise Publications. As it found fertile ground, seeds of inspiration and insight began to sprout in many whose lives were changed reading it.

It is my prayer that in putting it “out there” again, someone will catch fire and see it published abroad. So, I cast my bread, so-to-speak, upon the waters in this final series of posts on my Healing Tones blog. May all who read my book be blessed and lifted up out of all the depth of confusion and delusion of their soul’s dark night. Now to the feature excerpt from my book . . . .

* * *

PATTERNS OF ASCESION ESTABLISHED

According to the Biblical record handed down to us—and there have been other accounts that tell a different story—the Master Jesus lifted his own body temple up out of the tomb of decay and death and into the Garden state of eternal life.

If this did in fact occur, and if he truly is, as the scriptures proclaim, the Supreme Focus of Deity for the body of Mankind, then by his own crucifixion, resurrection and ascension into a glorified state he established the patterns of crucifixion, resurrection and ascension for men and women of all times. What we human beings did to him—and to his physical body particularly—we did to ourselves as a collective body.

As a model of a totally new paradigm for the healing of the gap between God and man, he opened a door in heaven and then proceeded to invite all those who so desire to come and be with him, “that where I am there ye may be also,” not only after death but now while we yet have life and breath.

Obviously humanity has not taken the Lord up on his invitation. There has been no one, to my knowledge anyway, who has ascended up into heaven in a glorified, spiritualized body as the Lord himself did two thousand years ago. We have two accounts in the Old Testament of first Enoch, who “walked with God and God took him,” and then Elijah who “went in a whirlwind to heaven” in a “fiery chariot.”

Whether these incidents were physical ascensions into the Realms of Light, or a figurative way of describing a transformation process by which their human consciousness merged with divine consciousness and they were no longer merely human in their identity and form, as we have explored in considerable depth, the way to that experience is open and available to all of mankind. It is available now and has been for two thousand years—not only to enter into the kingdom of heaven but to inhabit and function in all the levels of being that make up the “many mansions” of the Father’s House. All that is required is that we walk with God along the path that leads thereto.

Jesus walked with God and was about his Father’s business of restoring humanity to the Garden State and not of setting up yet another religion to replace the old ones.  In the Garden of Eden, Man, “naked and unashamed,” walked and talked with the LORD God, and the LORD God with man. Death had not yet been introduced into the creative process by man’s failure to remain in the Garden of Eden.  The cycle of incarnation had to have taken us from some form of birth—no doubt different from what we now know—through life, whatever that entailed and in whatever nature of form we had then, and on to ascension through the various levels of consciousness.  It has even been gleaned from legendary writings, as we considered at the start of this section, that we were once able to travel back and forth between heaven and earth to refresh ourselves with rarefied spiritual nourishment. 

In his haunting book, Memories and Visions of Paradise, a book that always engenders in me a deep sense of deja vu reading it, Richard Heinberg, who devoted a decade to studying Paradise Myths from around the world, explores universal myths of a “Lost Golden Age” when the human spirit was not as earth-bound as it is today.  He writes:

Originally, according to myths of every continent, all humanity was perpetually in the divine presence and continually in harmony with divine will.  The Africans’ insistence that at first God lived on Earth with the people, and the Australians’ memory of the Dreamtime, when the Creator-Heroes walked the land, echo the biblical image of Adam and Eve strolling naked and unashamed in the Garden with God.

Few things in Nature seem more axiomatic than the inevitability of death.  It is remarkable, therefore, that one of the most consistently encountered themes in Paradise myths is that of the original immortality of human beings.  The myths tell us that death is in some sense not natural at all, but rather the result of sin or sorcery . . . a mistake or misdeed on the part of ancestors in the First Age. . . .

According to universal tradition, the original earthly Paradise and the still-existent otherworldly Paradise were at first united, or in any case were in close proximity and communication.  The means of connection is described variously in different cultures—most vividly, perhaps, as a rainbow.  In the traditions of Japan, Australia, and Mesopotamia, the rainbow was seen as a reminder of a bridge that once existed between Heaven and Earth and was accessible to all people.  The seven colors of the rainbow were the seven heavens of Hindu, Mesopotamian, and Judaic religion.  Among the central Asians, shamanic drums were decorated with rainbows symbolizing the shaman’s journey to the Otherworld.   Similarly, the seven levels of the Babylonian ziggurat (stepped pyramid) were painted with the seven colors of the rainbow, and the priest, in climbing its stories, symbolically mounted to the cosmic world of the gods. . . .

The primordial world-bridge is elsewhere remembered as a ladder or a rope.  According to pre-Buddhist traditions, called Bon, there originally existed a rope that bound Earth to Heaven and that was used by the gods to come down to meet human beings.  The first king of Tibet was said to have come down from Heaven by a rope—[a “silver cord” of pneumaplasm?],—and the first Tibetan kings did not die but mounted again into Heaven.  After the Fall and the coming of death, the link between Heaven and Earth was broken.  Once the rope was cut, only spirits could ascend to Heaven; their bodies remained on Earth. . . .

The Polynesians knew the Otherworld as Pulotu, a magical realm in the midst of which grew an immense tree whose leaves supplied all wants.  Following physical death, according to tradition, a stream floated the spirit away to Pulotu.

All floated away together, well and ill-favored, young and old, sound and sick, chiefs and commoners; they must look neither to the right nor left, nor attempt to reach the other side, nor must they look back. Little more than half alive, they floated on until they reached Pulotu, where they bathed in the waters of Vaiola, when all become lively, bright and vigorous, every infirmity vanishing, and even the aged becoming young again.   Everything went on in Pulotu much as in the world of life, except that here their bodies were singularly volatile, so that they were able to ascend at night, becoming luminous sparks, or vapors, revisiting their former homes, but retiring again in early dawn to the bush or to Pulotu. 

We are haunted by ancient memories of Paradise and in our dreams we have visions of that Golden Age when we crossed over the rainbow between heaven and earth.  Song writers have written numerous lyrics to these memories and visions.   From the Wizard of Oz we have that memorable song telling of the longing in the heart to return to a land “somewhere over the rainbow” where “troubles melt like lemon drops” and “dreams really do come true.”

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby . . . . Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly, birds fly over the rainbow, why then, oh why can’t I?  If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?

* * *

Why indeed? I believe we will some day. For now, what’s needed are feet on the ground blessing the Earth and the fulness thereof with unconditional love and lasting peace. I welcome your thoughts. Until my next post, “The Rainbow Body,” an intriguing consideration of documented phenomena, I exhort you to . . .

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony Palombo, DC

tpal70@gmail.com

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Over the Primordial Rainbow Bridge

* * *

“If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?“

* * *

IT’S TIME FOR MY BOOK, SACRED ANATOMY, to go further out and into the hands of more people who are awake and burdened with religious scruples of shame and guilt about their bodies, and especially about their sexuality. Having been brought up in a typically large Catholic family and attended seminary in my youthful years of priestly aspirations—and having experienced sexual assault myself by clerics of the Church—I write from the substance of personal experience in that area. Having also been awakened to my authentic divine Self and lived a full life in service to others as a wholistic health practitioner, my writing carries the authority of my personal journey and life of service.

Written in an uplifting tone of love for the truth and beauty of the body and its design and function as a temple of the Living God, the book sheds light on the path out of darkness and confusion and toward enlightenment and freedom of expression of one’s “fully human” living—to borrow a phrase from the profound writings of Episcopal prelate Cynthia Bourgeault, who sheds insightful light on the life and ministry of the Master Jesus as one who lived an exemplary “fully human” life of love.

The featured excerpt is from the final chapter, which conveys the passion that filled my soul when the inspiration arose thirty-five years ago to write and publish the book and send it out to find its own reception . . . echoing these tone-setting words from the Foreword:

* * *

What if we could actually travel through all the dimensions of the seven planes of being in our Father’s House of many mansions; if there were no veil between heaven and earth and we could ascend back up into the invisible Realms of Light from whence we came and then just as naturally descend back down into the visible realm of form and materialize anywhere at will? And what if the biotechnology and chemistry necessary to enable this process were already fully present with us and available to us in our anatomical and physiological makeup and all that was required was for us to learn the secrets of their activation and operation?

What if we were to stop experiencing death and our bodies would always be light and ageless, and we could incarnate and disincarnate as our duration of service here required?

* * *

I was unsure about the timing of its release at first. But with the assurance and encouragement of friends and family, as well as financial help, the book was written and self-published in 2005 by a local publisher, Wise Publications. As it found fertile ground, seeds of inspiration and insight began to sprout in many whose lives were changed reading it.

It is my prayer that in putting it “out there” again, someone will catch fire and see it published abroad. So, I cast my bread, so-to-speak, upon the waters in this final series of posts on my Healing Tones blog. May all who read my book be blessed and lifted up out of all the depth of confusion and delusion of their soul’s dark night. Now to the feature excerpt from my book . . . .

* * *

PATTERNS OF ASCESION ESTABLISHED

According to the Biblical record handed down to us—and there have been other accounts that tell a different story—the Master Jesus lifted his own body temple up out of the tomb of decay and death and into the Garden state of eternal life.

If this did in fact occur, and if he truly is, as the scriptures proclaim, the Supreme Focus of Deity for the body of Mankind, then by his own crucifixion, resurrection and ascension into a glorified state he established the patterns of crucifixion, resurrection and ascension for men and women of all times. What we human beings did to him—and to his physical body particularly—we did to ourselves as a collective body.

As a model of a totally new paradigm for the healing of the gap between God and man, he opened a door in heaven and then proceeded to invite all those who so desire to come and be with him, “that where I am there ye may be also,” not only after death but now while we yet have life and breath.

Obviously humanity has not taken the Lord up on his invitation. There has been no one, to my knowledge anyway, who has ascended up into heaven in a glorified, spiritualized body as the Lord himself did two thousand years ago. We have two accounts in the Old Testament of first Enoch, who “walked with God and God took him,” and then Elijah who “went in a whirlwind to heaven” in a “fiery chariot.”

Whether these incidents were physical ascensions into the Realms of Light, or a figurative way of describing a transformation process by which their human consciousness merged with divine consciousness and they were no longer merely human in their identity and form, as we have explored in considerable depth, the way to that experience is open and available to all of mankind. It is available now and has been for two thousand years—not only to enter into the kingdom of heaven but to inhabit and function in all the levels of being that make up the “many mansions” of the Father’s House. All that is required is that we walk with God along the path that leads thereto.

Jesus walked with God and was about his Father’s business of restoring humanity to the Garden State and not of setting up yet another religion to replace the old ones.  In the Garden of Eden, Man, “naked and unashamed,” walked and talked with the LORD God, and the LORD God with man. Death had not yet been introduced into the creative process by man’s failure to remain in the Garden of Eden.  The cycle of incarnation had to have taken us from some form of birth—no doubt different from what we now know—through life, whatever that entailed and in whatever nature of form we had then, and on to ascension through the various levels of consciousness.  It has even been gleaned from legendary writings, as we considered at the start of this section, that we were once able to travel back and forth between heaven and earth to refresh ourselves with rarefied spiritual nourishment. 

In his haunting book, Memories and Visions of Paradise, a book that always engenders in me a deep sense of deja vu reading it, Richard Heinberg, who devoted a decade to studying Paradise Myths from around the world, explores universal myths of a “Lost Golden Age” when the human spirit was not as earth-bound as it is today.  He writes:

Originally, according to myths of every continent, all humanity was perpetually in the divine presence and continually in harmony with divine will.  The Africans’ insistence that at first God lived on Earth with the people, and the Australians’ memory of the Dreamtime, when the Creator-Heroes walked the land, echo the biblical image of Adam and Eve strolling naked and unashamed in the Garden with God.

Few things in Nature seem more axiomatic than the inevitability of death.  It is remarkable, therefore, that one of the most consistently encountered themes in Paradise myths is that of the original immortality of human beings.  The myths tell us that death is in some sense not natural at all, but rather the result of sin or sorcery . . . a mistake or misdeed on the part of ancestors in the First Age. . . .

According to universal tradition, the original earthly Paradise and the still-existent otherworldly Paradise were at first united, or in any case were in close proximity and communication.  The means of connection is described variously in different cultures—most vividly, perhaps, as a rainbow.  In the traditions of Japan, Australia, and Mesopotamia, the rainbow was seen as a reminder of a bridge that once existed between Heaven and Earth and was accessible to all people.  The seven colors of the rainbow were the seven heavens of Hindu, Mesopotamian, and Judaic religion.  Among the central Asians, shamanic drums were decorated with rainbows symbolizing the shaman’s journey to the Otherworld.   Similarly, the seven levels of the Babylonian ziggurat (stepped pyramid) were painted with the seven colors of the rainbow, and the priest, in climbing its stories, symbolically mounted to the cosmic world of the gods. . . .

The primordial world-bridge is elsewhere remembered as a ladder or a rope.  According to pre-Buddhist traditions, called Bon, there originally existed a rope that bound Earth to Heaven and that was used by the gods to come down to meet human beings.  The first king of Tibet was said to have come down from Heaven by a rope—[a “silver cord” of pneumaplasm?],—and the first Tibetan kings did not die but mounted again into Heaven.  After the Fall and the coming of death, the link between Heaven and Earth was broken.  Once the rope was cut, only spirits could ascend to Heaven; their bodies remained on Earth. . . .

The Polynesians knew the Otherworld as Pulotu, a magical realm in the midst of which grew an immense tree whose leaves supplied all wants.  Following physical death, according to tradition, a stream floated the spirit away to Pulotu.

All floated away together, well and ill-favored, young and old, sound and sick, chiefs and commoners; they must look neither to the right nor left, nor attempt to reach the other side, nor must they look back. Little more than half alive, they floated on until they reached Pulotu, where they bathed in the waters of Vaiola, when all become lively, bright and vigorous, every infirmity vanishing, and even the aged becoming young again.   Everything went on in Pulotu much as in the world of life, except that here their bodies were singularly volatile, so that they were able to ascend at night, becoming luminous sparks, or vapors, revisiting their former homes, but retiring again in early dawn to the bush or to Pulotu. 

We are haunted by ancient memories of Paradise and in our dreams we have visions of that Golden Age when we crossed over the rainbow between heaven and earth.  Song writers have written numerous lyrics to these memories and visions.   From the Wizard of Oz we have that memorable song telling of the longing in the heart to return to a land “somewhere over the rainbow” where “troubles melt like lemon drops” and “dreams really do come true.”

Somewhere over the rainbow way up high, there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby . . . . Somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly, birds fly over the rainbow, why then, oh why can’t I?  If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can’t I?

* * *

Why indeed? I believe we will some day. For now, what’s needed are feet on the ground blessing the Earth and the fulness thereof with unconditional love and lasting peace. I welcome your thoughts. Until my next post, “The Rainbow Body,” an intriguing consideration of documented phenomena, I exhort you to . . .

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony Palombo, DC

tpal70@gmail.com

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Witnesses and Benefactors to the Beauty of Nature

October 3, 2023

“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

Dr. Zack Bush

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

tpal70@gmail.com

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

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The Natural Law of Biodiversity

September 22, 2023

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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Earth’s Atmospheric and Mineral Boundaries

September 16, 2023

Behold the vast Pacific and Atlantic Oceans stretching as far as the eye can see. Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, stand out in brilliant detail. And there, in the distant backdrop, the mysterious silhouette of the moon adds an extra layer of cosmic wonder!

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Earth’s Atmospheric Boundary*

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I spoke of boundaries, putting out a call through a song that I wrote years ago in celebration of Earth Day:  “Who will stand with me in the midst of the fullness thereof and put a hand of care on the boundaries of the fullness thereof. The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” How can anyone look upon this picture and behold the relatively thin atmosphere of our planet Earth and not feel a deep sense of care for Her boundary of connection with the Universe, particularly with Her origin Star and solar system? (Learn about the five layers of the atmosphere here.)

Boundaries both separate and connect.  Their purpose is to contain and protect what’s on the inside from being adulterated and confused with what’s on the outside. All things are connected, but not without boundaries. This seems a contradiction, but it’s the way of oneness and coherence . . . so that energy can flow between the parts that make up the whole and through the whole.

BIOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES

To elucidate, all the cells of our bodies have skin, as do our bodies themselves. Skin provides a boundary between what is on the inside of our bodies and what is on the outside.  That skin includes the membrane that lines the inside of our intestines, keeping the food we eat separate from the body as it is processed and broken down then assimilated.  During assimilation, selective nutrients are allowed through the membrane boundary and into the bloodstream to be distributed throughout the body with the assistance of the lymphatic system.  What is not used is simply eliminated from the body, again with the assistance of the lymphatic system and the organs of elimination. 

With the introduction of the systemic herbicide glyphosate (used in the herbicide Round Up) into our foods via commercial agriculture, we are destroying the tight junction between the cells that comprise this lining, creating what has come to be known as “leaky gut syndrome.”  With the widening of the gaps between the cells of the lining in the intestinal wall, larger particles, such as undigested proteins, pass through the wall and make their way into the bloodstream, where they are immediately attacked by the body’s immune system and tagged for elimination.  The elimination process involves, among other things, the production of mucous, lots of mucous, especially in the lungs.  Sometimes hives break out in the skin, which is an organ of elimination itself. This is known as anaphylaxis syndrome, aka allergic reaction.  Thus, the prevalence today of food sensitivities and allergies.  The boundary between inside and outside, between what is “self” and what is “non-self” is breached.  The solution is to consume only organically grown fruits and vegetables.  Obviously, the ultimate solution is to discontinue the use of herbicides and pesticides in commercial farming altogether.

THE MINERAL BOUNDARIES

One of the boundaries that connects us with the planet and protects it from isolation is the mineral kingdom . . . a boundary that human industrial enterprise is disrupting and destroying at an increasingly fast rate.  The “veins” of mineral deposits that run through the surface of the earth — along with the ley lines that run between and connect “sacred sites” — make up the electric grid of the planet as well as its communication network with the solar system.  Earth is a “Sacred City” and living being. To breach that circuitry and boundary is to compromise the connection of our planet with the solar system and thereby isolate it from its cosmic context.

Here’s how Dr. Zach Bush describes and explains this disruption and its consequences in an interview on Chervin Jafarieh’s podcast Wake The Fake Up entitled “Reawakening Humanity’s Role in the Dance of Nature:

“How did we cut ourselves off so fast and accelerate our extractive destructive activity? And I think that we’ve actually not only disrupted human biology [referencing the damaging effects of glyphosate to our intestines) . . . on the planetary side we started extracting minerals critical to the information stream around the planet . . . . You start mining all the lithium out of all the strands running around the planet — as though it were wired to carry electricity — and the strands of gold and copper, along with the cobalt mines in Africa, you will disrupt the electrical potential of the planet.

We use cobalt in cell phones because it’s a potent organizer of electromagnetic fields that allows us to create an enormous amount of consolidated information streams. The cobalt was at that exact point in the earth because it was a critical acupuncture point within a meridian system that allowed electricity to flow at a global level . . . and allowed earth to become a womb that would birth all life. [He is referring to Africa as the cradle of all life on earth.]  And, ironically, the vaginal canal or the uterus, if you will, or the womb of this planet seems to run in a single electrical strip right up Africa. So it streams from Durbin, South Africa, up to Egypt . . . where the Sinai deserts are . . . but also extends up to the next continent, all the way up to Northern Europe, England . . . all the way up to the Celts, and before that the Vikings.

And so you have this history of human ingenuity, human behavior. And then you start to dig down and find that . . . archeologists and anthropologists are showing us that all of life arose out of that one line. All biodiversity burst out of this meridian, and the famous Rift Valley in Ethiopia.  Trees, plants, everything we’ve talked about — bacteria, fungi, viruses — all came springing out of this one meridian.

The planet has a generative source of life because it’s an electrical being, and it can organize energy in a constructive, centropic way. [I think he means negentropic, or orderly]. Entropy is the measure of chaos, and centropy (negentropy) is the measure of order. So, the measure of order out of chaos is really a description of a witnessed universe — [A quantum physics term that alludes to reality as observer-dependent].

The second law of Thermodynamics is: any system left in isolation increases its entropy.  It’s the most proven law in physics.  Any human left in isolation increases its chaos. Any culture left in isolation increases its chaos.  If you isolate an atom you will increase its chaos.  All the way down to the very fabric of nature, isolation increases chaos.

A planet that is bringing stardust into the beauty of life is centropic.  If we have a centropic system on this planet that’s increasing biodiversity and intelligent life every eon that goes by, then we’re not alone. So, if we’re not alone, what does that say about the connectivity of the planet?

This planet was uniquely designed to cycle carbon and water, and in so doing capture energy at an enormous rate.  And so our planet, with all its cobalt, lithium and all its deep ore systems, are like hot spots on a line that runs all the way around the earth.  We have this electrical grid — basically an intelligent computer system — that we’re tearing apart through mining, through [hydraulic] fracking, through all this methodology, we’re disrupting the very communication network of our planet . . . and we’re seeing instability of our planet now at the ecological level that we’ve never witnessed before.  We are destroying the intelligence communication of our planet through the disruption of her circuitry.

There are all these young Silicon Valley billionaires and millionaires working together to solve the problems of the planet; and the solution that one of these young guys was telling me about over drinks by the pool, in his own words was, “I’m so excited because I’ve just developed a company and we’re going into the jungles to discover the next lithium mines.”  So here are some of the most educated, most intelligent people within a country who have said: “The planet’s dying and we should all drive electric cars because carbon is the demon. Well, in that construct, the obvious solution is to go find lithium so we can all drive electric cars.

So, there is this kid running around destroying the Rain Forest to find the next lithium mine . . . so we can all have electric cars . . . so that we don’t let carbon, which is a currency for life, into the atmosphere.

So it’s by the demonization of CO2, the very matrix of life on earth, that we have come to accelerate our demise.  Our conservation message over the last three decades is that CO2 in the atmosphere is the enemy that’s causing “climate warming.”  From the beginning CO2 is the generative force of life.  Every cell breathes CO2 for energy.

There’s an old adage that humans breathe in oxygen and exhale CO2 as waste, and that plants breathe in CO2 and give off oxygen. We now know — and have known for over a hundred years — that human cells have to breathe CO2 to function, and that is proven in every cell-biology lab in the world. Everyone that wants to grow a cell of any species or multi-cellular species — dog, cat, earthworm, human — in a petri dish, knows that you have to put it in an incubator at body temperature, sealed away from the atmosphere we breathe . . . and the only gas that you have to pump into that sealed environment so that the cells can live is CO2. If you pump in oxygen, you kill the cells immediately.

Human cells do not breathe oxygen.  Human cells breathe CO2.  Oxygen’s role is to be the accelerator of the speed at which we use up the carbon; but it’s not the fuel – and it’s certainly not the driver of energy.  We need just a little bit of oxygen in our atmosphere – about 20%, which is what our current oxygen level is.  If it were 80% we would die instantly.

And this is what was happening in ICU’s.  If you put somebody on 80% oxygen through a respirator or a breathing device, you will kill them in hours. You completely run them out of CO2, and now they just die from a lack of energy.  We reached 88% mortality in the recent pandemic in ICU’s because we gave them 80% oxygen because they showed up blue . . . not from a lack of oxygen, but for a lack of their ability to cycle carbon and oxygen.  The carbon cycle was broken, so they showed up blue, and we slammed the accelerator down with oxygen and they were dead within hours; and we did that to millions of people globally. This is not new science.  It’s as old as cell biology.

None of this is revolutionary information I’m giving out to the world.  I’m just asking us to take a pause as scientists — whether biologists in the lab or planetary existentialists — we need to re-evaluate how this planet runs . . . and the answer is the same as the single human cell.  It runs on carbon and water cycles; not carbon and water, but carbon and water cycles. It’s the movement of the currency of energy on the planet that allows life to occur.

The whole idea of carbon offsets, abstract economy which is now more than 40 trillion dollars pledged in carbon offsets, is a completely abstract market that has absolutely nothing to do with how biology works.  Tragically, those trillions of dollars are being funneled into pumping CO2 out of the atmosphere and deep into the earth, where it can’t be breathed by plant or human cells.

We will set the planet’s recovery from this extinction event back millions of years [more like thousands] if we start pumping all of the CO2 out of the atmosphere and into the earth’s core where it becomes unavailable to biology. We would starve out the carbon-water cycle of all plant and animal life on earth. 

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HIS POINT is well taken. However, we will never pump all of the CO2 out of the atmosphere.  Even if we could, over a considerable number of millennia, the oceans would fill the atmosphere with its balanced quota of CO2 after an extinction event. 

Just for accuracy and perspective, although oxygen is crucial for life on Earth, it is not the primary component of our atmosphere. According to education site Vision Learning Earth’s atmosphere is composed of approximately 78 percent nitrogen, 21 percent oxygen, 0.93 percent Argon, 0.04 percent carbon dioxide as well as trace amounts of neon, helium, methane, krypton, ozone and hydrogen and water vapor. The dominant gas Nitrogen gives us a blue sky.

The balance and ratios of atmospheric gases is, of course, vital to life on earth. Carbon dioxide plays an integral part in the greenhouse effect, the carbon cycle, photosynthesis and the oceanic carbon cycle.  The current global average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is 421 ppm as of May 2022 (0.04%). This is an increase of 50% since the start of the Industrial Revolution, up from 280 ppm during the 10,000 years prior to the mid-18th Century. The increase is due to human activity — which includes fossil fuel and biomass burning, cement production and deforestation.  (Wikipedia)

ELECTRIC CARS NOT THE ANSWER

To the point of electric vehicles as a solution to climate warming: automobiles contribute less than 30% of the CO2 atmospheric burden.  The major contributors are air and rail travel, as well as shipping. Then there’s Industry’s considerable contribution.  An editorial in our local newspaper recently put things in perspective: “Electric vehicles should be considered a nice, promising addition to the variety of the car market not a quasi-holy obligation to be pursued at all costs.”

Again, to the issue of electric vehicles and other battery operated equipment like computers and cell phones: the mining of lithium, copper, and cobalt uses a lot of energy and water and creates a highly toxic spillover into the environment, and especially onto the sacred soil, poisoning rivers and lakes with cancer-causing chemicals. So, let’s get realistic in our thinking about solutions to climate change. The mining of lithium and cobalt along with the amount of coal-generated energy just in manufacturing the batteries for wind turbines, and Tesla and a host of other electric cars, is counterproductive in reducing atmospheric pollution and warming. Let’s get real and “Wake the Fake up!”

We may take some comfort in the awareness that the Creator is in touch with and in charge of His/Her Creation, and say glibly “All is well.” But the bottom line is WE NEED TO CHANGE the way we live on this planet.

The psalmist was right: “The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein. For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods”— and it awaits our caring hands, and our loving and conscious stewardship.

Until my next post . . .

Be love. Be loved

Anthony

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Credits: Picture of Earth’s atmosphere was taken by the International Space Station and posted on Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Facebook page.

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Our Solar Entity: A Place of Habitation

September 4, 2023

“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” —Jesus, John 16:12

Our Solar Entity

WE ARE HARDLY AN ISOLATED “tiny oasis of life surrounded by an immensity of death,” as our ageing Star Trek Captain Kurk (William Shatner) described his impression of Earth during his recent venture out into the dark deep of space, featured in my previous post. As I mentioned in that article, light is everywhere but only visible to us as a reflection off of substances, such as water vapor. Except for substance to reflect off of, we could not see light. So the darkness of space is filled with invisible light, and where there’s light there’s life and love.

I received this comment on my previous post from a dear friend and colleague:

I think you allude to something here Tony, and that is: That our Holy Earth is not so tiny as we might think, and it is not an oasis, because it is not located in a desert, and it is not a mirage in the desert of the fallen human consciousness that sees everything in its own likeness, in this case the likeness interpreted as an oasis in a universal desert wilderness. But in Divine Imagination, as we are made in the Image and Likeness of the Divine Elohim, it might well be that our Earth Home is vast, and embedded in what we call a solar system that is akin to an amazon forest teeming with multiplicity of life, all this within a Cosmic Ocean of unblemished Cosmo-Diversity. And, as a wise man once suggested, could it not be that our heavenly earth system is itself one Holy City created to thrive, one City among many, all embedded within a Bright and Morning Star, within a vast Cosmic Field of such cities and such stars. I think so.

David Barnes, Great Cosmic Story

OUR SOLAR ENTITY

I love this perspective of our Earth as “one Holy City created to thrive, one City among many, all embedded within a Bright and Morning Star….”

In astronomy we refer to the planets orbiting the sun as a “solar system,” as though it was a lifeless grouping of cosmic bodies adrift in empty galactic space. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Earth and all her eight sister planets are living, breathing entities, as is their origin star, the central solar orb around which they orbit. It’s all part of a vast cosmic fabric of stars and galaxies that is “but a cloak” to the living God of Creation, to borrow a phrase from the lyrics of a colleague’s baritone song of praise.

AND THEN THERE WERE TEN

(The following words speak my own thoughts and implications about what I see, read and hear. I do not expect anyone to believe me. In fact, I discourage it. I do invite you to read it, however, and to do your own critical thinking about it.)

There is a tenth planet, according to ancient Sumerian cuneiform texts, recorded on stone tablets and recently translated by Zacharia Sitchin (1920-2010), author of a number of books proposing an explanation for human origins involving ancient astronauts. Our solar system, or entity, is a massive colonization of planets, one of which is inhabited by the human race along with a vast variety of animal, insect and plant species . . . and another, a planet named “Niburu“— also known as “Planet X”— which is believed to be inhabited by rogue creator beings who came to Earth and genetically engineered the human species.

In his book THE 12TH PLANET, Zacharia Sitchin “attributed the creation of the ancient Sumerian culture to the Anunnaki, which he stated was a race of extraterrestrials from a planet beyond Neptune called Niburu. He asserted that Sumerian mythology suggests that this hypothetical planet of Niburu is in an elongated, 3,600-year-long elliptical orbit around the Sun.” You are welcome to explore for yourself this ancient story of the origins of humanity.

I mention all this because in the Sumerian cuneiform text Earth is spoken of as the “seventh planet,” and the only possible explanation for this placement of the earth as the seventh planet is if one is counting from the outer planetary orbit, presumably that of Pluto, (which has been counted and excluded as a planet a number of times), and traveling toward the inner planets, which would be Mars (6th), Earth (7th), Venus (8th) and Mercury (9th). Also, in counting and numbering the planets from the outer reaches of the solar system, for earth to be numbered as the seventh planet, there would have to have been ten planets counting the asteroid belt, which is a debris field of a planet that was destroyed in a collision with another planet, or possibly a moon of one of the other planets, or even with a comet.

William Shatner describes planet Earth as an oasis surrounded by a vast dark wilderness of death, as in a desert. When I read this in his account of his space venture, I was reminded of a reference in the Sumerian text to the inhabitants of Niburu (the Anunnaki) seeing the planet Earth as a place to stop off, like an oasis, and exploring for possible deposits of gold on what we now call the African continent, the cradle of civilization and of all life on earth.

According to the story, the Anunnaki needed gold to build a solar shield for their planet. They found gold deposits and began excavating it and shipping it to their planet via space cargo ships. The work became too arduous for the “creator beings” so they created man to “till the ground,” as slave laborers to do the dirty and strenuous work. According to the story, the Anunnaki started with strong and able-bodied apian creatures and genetically altered them using their own DNA, thereby creating man in their own image and likeness. Evolution followed that transformed man through various stages of development.

The notable point for me is that the earth was seen as an oasis and source of minerals in the dark wilderness of the solar system. It is still being mined for its minerals, including gold and silver, lithium, copper, cobalt and uranium, not to mention the coal mines of China and the oil wells of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico; all being done by the powers that control the global economy and manage the industrial complexes.

One may well suspect that the Anunnaki rogue creator beings have incarnated in modern times to finish their pillage of the planet’s riches and energy resources and enslave human beings to do their bidding. Perhaps they never really left Earth as incarnate rogue creator beings, even possessing the Scribes and Pharisees in order to do away with God’s “only begotten Son” once and for all. But they failed to get rid of Him, and that victory over death by Jesus the Christ altered the course of history . . . as far as the Anunnaki are concerned and as far as humanity is concerned. They may have been able to enslave Adam and Eve and their descendants, but they could not enslave the human spirit. Jesus threw the fire of love on the world and initiated once again a cycle of purification and restoration of man to his ordained state of co-creator with the Father of Creation, the third and final opportunity for man, male and female, to return to the Creator and restore the Earth to its Paradise state as “a womb where beauty might be born.”

Returning to the tonal words of my friend David Barnes for upliftment to a higher point of view and authentic context:

. . . could it not be that our heavenly earth system is itself one Holy City created to thrive, one City among many, all embedded within a Bright and Morning Star, within a vast Cosmic Field of such cities and such stars. I think so.

I think so as well. “The Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.” The Earth is a Holy City of habitation for the sons and daughters of God. It was created by Elohim for this very purpose in the deep dark of space.

HIDDEN THINGS BEING UNCLOAKED

I will conclude this post by saying that Zacharia Sitchin’s scenario of our origins reads like a very possible way in which the events mythologized by Moses in the Book of Genesis manifested and unfolded. I can appreciate the challenge Moses must have faced in writing the Book of Genesis and some of the other books in the Old Testament, especially taking into account the level of consciousness of the relatively primitive “Children of Israel” who had just been delivered from bondage in Egypt. It is said that he had access to ancient Sumerian and Sanskrit scriptures, legends and oral traditions as well. His congregation were truly children who could only relate to mythical stories and parables.

A similar event occurs in the New Testament Gospels when Jesus said to his simple-minded disciples, “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.” (John 16:12). There are many things being revealed that even we have a hard time bearing today . . . and this Nibiru story may just be one of them. It may also be one of the things that are best left in the past and forgotten. But then there’s the danger of repeating our past unless we remember it . . . If we are not already doing so.

I will address this in my next post, “Earth as an Electrical Being.” So, stay tuned. Until then,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

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Earth, Our “Tiny Oasis of Life”

September 1, 2023

“Our God did make the Earth a womb where beauty might be born.”

This earth is a fluid and tangible condensation of the ethereal and holy substance of Love. Heaven is its origin; Hell is what man has created on its surface. We live and have our being in heaven on earth. We come down out of heaven to make a heaven here on earth and to gather the substance of the kingdoms of this world and transmute it to a higher vibrational level. Ultimately to lift it up to provide spiritual substance for the “silver cord” connecting Heaven with Earth, the Creator with Creation. Specifically, to provide spiritualized flesh for the Body of the Archangel responsible for this Whole Holy World.

I penned this inspirational during a meditation several months ago. Since then I’ve dwelt a lot on the beauty of the Earth and enjoyed many sunsets with my wife at the lake here in Lake Charles, Louisiana. They never fail to impress and delight. Like this one:

And this one:

“Our God did make the earth a place of beauty, love and light, Where skies and seas and all of life reveal Him with delight. For God did make the earth a womb where beauty might be born.

“The flowers drink the rain and sun above the good brown earth, And do not seem to have to try to fill their life with worth. For God did make the earth a womb where beauty might be born.

“And man He made with crowning care to share His majesty, To let the gifts of life appear, His glory ever be. For God did make the earth a womb where beauty might be born.” *

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OUR HOME PLANET: “A TINY OASIS OF LIFE“

The Earth and the Moon captured from Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, over 900 million miles away.

Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet. **

This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.” — William Shatner, actor

Godfrey Desh

TRANSLUCENT REFRACTORS OF LOVE’S LIGHT

What impressed me when I first saw the image of the earth and moon as seen from 900 million miles out in space is the utter darkness of space, as was William Shatner’s impression. I am reminded of a line from a poem I once wrote for high school English Literature class: “Nay, what seemed lost by darkest night’s cruel stealth Doth shine against that darkness thrice august.”

Light is invisible to our eyes. Except for the presence of reflecting substance, we wouldn’t be aware of light’s presence. It’s sort of like love. Except for a heart to feel it, we would not be aware of love’s eternal presence . . . nor of our own. Much like our Home among the stars, our triune human capacities are so perfectly and wondrously fashioned so as to let us actually experience the life, the truth and the love of the triune nature of God, of Divine Spirit, with our bodies, our minds and our hearts.

However, we are more than reflectors of invisible Divine Light. We are translucent prisms that refocus the Light of invisible Divine Spirit and shine its beautiful and colorful radiance out into our worlds. We are translucent refractors of Light Divine . . . and we have no greater purpose for being on this tiny planet adrift in deep dark space . . . and it does “shine against that darkness thrice august.” Earth shines just like a star in the picture.

PERSPECTIVE

As I look at this starlike image of Earth sitting here at my desk typing out a blog post on my laptop, I am aware that all of this world around me and more lives on that tiny oasis of life — on the surface of which are some 1,187,049 mountains 1000 feet high or more, 6 major mountain ranges, over 50 seas or bodies of water, 5 oceans, 7 continents inhabited by somewhat over seven billion people, and about 900,000 islands globally of which 16,000 are inhabited by 730 million people, about 11 percent of the world’s population . . . and, sadly, upon which some 32 wars and conflicts are being fought even as I write.

What also fascinates me is that we can each one take all of this universe into our consciousness and appreciate it in wonderment — which leads me to believe that we don’t have individual and separate capacities of consciousness but rather share and have access to one gigantic and universal Field of Consciousness. Perhaps this is what we call “God” the “Creator” of the heavens and the earths. Consciousness is, after all, the Creator of the worlds.

It all seems so large and problematic to us here . . . yet so small and insignificant in the picture. How large and seemingly unsurmountable are our problems to us. How small and insignificant to the Creator of the Universe. They are as nothing to the Great Spirit . . . Who loves us each one more than we will ever know. How thankful am I to be filled with such awe and praise to the Creator of heaven and earth for this tiny, little, magnificent and beautiful planet, our Home among the stars of the heavens.

Peace and love,

Anthony

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* Lyrics of a hymn from SONGS OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING, Emissaries of Divine Light

**(Picture: Japan’s iSpace HAKUTO-R lander captured this stunning photo in orbit around our Moon while a solar eclipse was occurring on Earth last week. You can see the Moon’s dark shadow passing above Australia as a dark smudge. SPACE NEWS)

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Love Our Mother Earth

August 22, 2023

“Honor thy father and thy mother . . . that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. — Deuteronomy 5:16.

IT ISN’T GOING SO WELL WITH US these days. This fourth of the Ten Commandments given to the children of Israel through Moses in the desert thousands of years ago has been narrowly applied to familial and parental relationships. I would broaden its application to encompass our relationship with our Heavenly Father and our beloved Earth Mother, particularly with our Earth Mother.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., referring to the “climate crisis,” recently offered a larger perspective: “The carbon orthodoxy has focused our love of the environment on one target: reducing carbon, and carbon sequestration. But there are better ways to protect the environment.” Essentially he counsels that we do what is right for our planet “out of love not out of fear.”

There is fear in the hearts of human beings. But what are we afraid of? In my previous post, “Are We Guilty . . . or Have We Been Swindled?”, I asked another question: Why do you think we’re so ready to accept blame for climate change? The changes in temperature of the climate of the earth are largely driven by the sun, our Star. Human activity does drive some of those changes, contributing to the “greenhouse effect” with our release of gases and carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere that trap in the heat generated by the sunrays, as well as preventing the radiant heat of the planet from escaping its surface.

We are guilty, however, of ignoring the Natural Laws by which our Earth Mother is joyfully governed. We are royally guilty of poisoning our water before we use and drink it, polluting our air before we breath it, and depleting our earth’s soil before we plant and harvest our food . . . which we poison as well. Are we insane, or what?!

FIRE IS A CREATIVE FORCE

What we can’t poison or pollute, however, is the fourth Creative Force, FIRE, although we use fire to burn off our industrial waste that poisons our air with toxic chemicals . . . and the fire has returned to bite us and burn our mind-made world . . . in order to make room for a new world governed by love and generosity, not by fear and greed.

CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT ENTIRELY OUR DOING

But that is exactly what we’re being told and have been led to believe . . . and we go right along with what we’re told without question it. I’ll restate my questions: Why do you think that is so? Why do you think we’re so ready to accept blame for climate change? I’m no psychologist, but neither am I without a critically thinking and reasoning intellect. I know that there’s a hidden reason underneath it all, perhaps a karmic burden buried deep in the collective race memory of past cataclysmic trauma, cemented there by our Judeo-Christian mythology that has taught us to believe that we are guilty of some “Original Sin” and are born with its mark on our souls . . . which even Baptism apparently doesn’t dissolve. We’re still ridden with guilt and see natural disasters as punitive events for our sinful ways, past and present.

But I suspect it goes deeper than that to the biblical myth that we are responsible for the loss of Paradise — and we desperately want and need to be forgiven . . . by a wrathful god whom we’ve created in our own image and likeness. More than that, we want to return to our original state of innocence in the presence of the LORD God “walking in the Garden in the cool of the day.” And we expect to be punished for our “Original Sin”— the sin of separation from our Creator. After all, we are burdened with the loss of the original Paradise and are bent on destroying this one.

But I will not go down that rabbit hole in this post. Perhaps in the next one. What I wish to share with you my readers at this time is something most enlightening and beautiful that came into my awareness via one of my beloved sons up in Ashland, Oregon. Leo has been following Dr. Zach Bush for some time and resonates with his spirit-frequency to the point of ecstatic gratitude and joy. But, that’s just the way Leo lives twenty-four-seven in exuberant gratitude for life and for his creative journey on the planet. Here is what he sent me a few days ago.

“Wake the Fake Up! — Reawakening Humanity’s Role in the Dance of Nature “

If you’re looking for hope and inspiration in this world of seeming hopelessness and discouragement, then listen to this interview, especially the last thirty minutes where Dr. Bush demonstrates how the CO2 and water cycle is essential to all forms of life on earth, and by sequestering CO2 out of the climate and pumping it into the ground, we will shut down a vital ingredient of life in the Natural World, and it will die . . . with us.

As Dr. Bush points out in the interview, humans breathe CO2 along with a little oxygen (about 20 percent). Every cell in the body breathes CO2. The amount of oxygen determines how fast carbon is used up in generating energy. This showed up in the Covid-19 epidemic when patients were given lots of oxygen via respirators and they died within hours. The oxygen exhausted their CO2 and their cells’ mitochondria could not produce enough energy to keep them alive. Listen to the interview and learn from this brilliant doctor.

When you have an hour and some to spend in quiet space, view this interview of Dr. Zach Bush . . . and be informed, enlightened and motivated. (View the video here.)

“I CHOOSE LOVE OVER FEAR”

I’ll leave you with this beautiful poem by my dear friend and attunement colleague Tricia Heriz-Smith.

“I choose Love over fear”

I choose to expand 

my heart and awareness 

beyond the bounds 

of my small self. 

I feel the unrest in the storms

that rage across the lands,

flooding and fires, 

anger in the cyclones.

I feel the chasmic divide 

that grows between peoples, 

religious and political,

self-righteous indignations.

I feel the pains of starvation 

as children scratch in the dirt, 

covered in sores, 

neath a burning sun. 

I feel the rumble of tanks, 

the whistle of bombs, 

as the walls crumble 

and there’s nowhere to hide. 

I feel all this and more, 

as the cancers grow, 

the pandemics spread, 

and fear poisons the river. 

Yet, I choose Love over fear, 

for I have but one purpose, 

to put aside my judgements 

and the shackles of ego. 

For I am not my ego, but love,

Love that can transform 

all that fear has warped 

if I will only let it 

flow out from me.

For I am called to let 

a clear stream of Love flow

from the sanctuary of my heart .

By Tricia Heriz-Smith 

Our Mother Earth continually provides sanctuary for all Her inhabitants, not the least Her ordained lords and ladies . . . who were given dominion over Her Creation. She will continue to nourish us with her bounty . . . and she needs us to honor her Natural Laws and care for her — not out of fear but out of love.

I welcome any thoughts and insights you wish to share, either in the “Comment” feature or by email. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

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Are We Guilty . . . or Have We Been Swindled ?

August 14, 2023

Galveston Gulf Shore, Texas

A man living outside the circle of delusion, which imprisons most men, has a question of everyone he meets, usually asked silently: “Can you get outside of yourself for even a split second to hear something you have never heard before?” Those who learn to hear will enter a new world. —Khalil Gibran

CONSCIOUSNESS, THAT CAPACITY WE USE to view and interact with our worlds, is being shaped by the news media—our planet being presented as a world in the throes of a climate crisis escalated recently to the level of emergency due to human activity. I’ve been thinking critically about this and researching it for a few weeks now, and, as with other global issues, I have found several different opinions, scientific and otherwise, as to what’s actually happening with our planet and its climate. Those labeled “conspiracists” say it’s all devious manipulation on the part of the powers that control the global economy, aka the globalists. I can see the possibility of that scenario, given the political, economic and social climate of suspicion and mistrust, fear and blame, in human consciousness today.

Some who read this post will write me off as a “conspiracist”—and I would agree that I am one who conspires—breathes together—with others of like mind and interests in uncovering the truth about “facts” reported by the news media. However, these excerpts by scientists I’m sharing below ring true to me as undeniable facts and self-evident truths. But don’t take my word for it. Read the post and think for yourself.

“THE GREAT GLOBAL WARMING SWINDLE”

There’s a old adage that reasons, “Where there’s smoke there’s fire.” Say it often enough and long enough and it begins to sound as though the smoke is causing the fire. But we know it’s the other way around. Where there’s fire there will be smoke (in most cases). By the same token of interpretation and viewpoint, is it not possible that where there’s an increase of CO2 (smoke) in the atmosphere, there is an increase of heat (fire) in the climate? That the CO2 is not the cause of the warming but is rather an effect of it?

The following articles and reports show clearly that this is the reality: CO2 is not the cause of an increase in climate temperatures. It’s apparently the other way around. Listen up and get it straight.

Here is what appears to actually be occurring on our planet with regard to its climate . . . and has been for thousands of years:

THEN THERE’S THIS:

THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING, THERE IS ONLY REGIONAL WARMING (AND IT’S A GOOD THING!): “The change that’s now going on is very strongly concentrated in the Arctic. In fact in three respects, it’s not global, which I think is very important. First of all, it is mainly in the Arctic. Secondly, it’s mainly in the winter rather than summer. And thirdly, it’s mainly in the night rather than at the daytime. In all three respects, the warming is happening where it is cold, not where it is hot. The people in Greenland love it. They tell you it’s made their lives a lot easier. They hope it continues.

I am not saying none of these consequences are happening. I am just questioning whether they are harmful. There’s a lot made out of the people who died in heat waves. And there is no doubt that we have heat waves and people die. What they don’t say is actually five times as many people die of cold in winters as die of heat in summer. And it is also true that more of the warming happens in winter than in summer. So, if anything, it’s heavily favorable as far as that goes. It certainly saves more lives in winter than it costs in summer. So that kind of argument is never made. And I see a systematic bias in the way things are reported. Anything that looks bad is reported, and anything that looks good is not reported.

A lot of these things are not anything to do with human activities. Take the shrinking of glaciers, which certainly has been going on for 300 years and has been well documented. So it certainly wasn’t due to human activities, most of the time. There’s been a very strong warming, in fact, ever since the Little Ice Age, which was most intense in the 17th century. That certainly was not due to human activity. And the most serious of almost all the problems is the rising sea level. But there again, we have no evidence that this is due to climate change. A good deal of evidence says it’s not. I mean, we know that that’s been going on for 12,000 years, and there’s very doubtful arguments as to what’s been happening in the last 50 years and (whether) human activities have been important. It’s not clear whether it’s been accelerating or not. But certainly, most of it is not due to human activities.

So it would be a shame if we’ve made huge efforts to stop global warming and the sea continued to rise. That would be a tragedy. Sea level is a real problem, but we should be attacking it directly and not attacking the wrong problem.” (all emphasis added)

THE LARGER PICTURE FROM A COSMIC VIEW

[The documentary below is only one-and-a-quarter-hours long . . . and well worth the time to set the record straight and your consciousness at ease with the truth about the facts of climate warming.]

Watch the full documentary here: https://wide-awake-media.com/great-global-warming-swindle…

IT’S NOT OUR FAULT

But that is exactly what we’re being told and have been led to believe . . . and we go right along with what we’re told. Why do you think that is so? Why do you think we’re so gullible and ready to accept blame for climate change? I’m no psychologist, but neither am I without a critically thinking and reasoning intellect. I know that there’s a hidden reason underneath it all—and I have my intuitive suspicions. I will meditate on it and seek insight from my inner spirit guide and share my thoughts in my next blog post. Until then,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

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Respect for Earth’s Boundaries: A Return to True Stewardship

August 13, 2023
Our Beautiful Planet Earth and Her Moon

“Who will stand with me in the midst of the Fullness thereof, And put a hand of care on the boundaries of the fullness thereof? The Earth is the Lord’s, and the boundaries thereof.”

THE VERSE ABOVE is from a song that I composed years ago and sang during an Earth Day celebration entitled “The Fullness Thereof.” (Click here to listen to a recording of my song). As you recognize, the lyrics are from Psalm 24:

“The Earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein; for He hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.”

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IN THIS POST I AM GOING TO DIVE INTO the vast and complex topic of planetary boundaries within the context of very current conversations and articles about Climate Change—aka Climate Warming, Climate Crisis, and Climate Emergency.  Many of the conversations center around survival of our species. I would like to have a conversation around honoring and respecting the ecological boundaries of our Earth Mother—in a word, returning to true stewardship of our planet.  The wording in Genesis is “replenish the earth and subdue it.” (Genesis 1:28), and later on, “dress and keep the Garden of Eden.” (Genesis 2:15).

Please bear in mind as you read this article that what it contains is not intended to arouse fear in the heart but rather shed some light on the issue. We might even consider it in the context of Joseph Campbell’s mythical story of “The Hero’s Journey” involving a search for the Elixir of Immortality and the nemesis one faces along one’s path, ideally overcoming and conquering it. Our planet’s climate—in which we breathe and endeavor to “be fruitful and multiply” and flourish as a species—is seen as our nemesis in human consciousness. We were instructed by the Creator on Day 6 in Genesis to “subdue” the earth. Apparently the planet was a vast wilderness, not to mention still in the wake of violent evolutionary upheavals with volcanic eruptions and floods still in progress as oceans and seas settled into their appointed places. “Subdue” implies a struggle or a battle. The actual nemesis, however, is not the climate but self-serving human beings. It is said that we are our own worst enemy. We are our own nemesis.

Well, we’ve obeyed the command to “multiply” our species, grossly over doing it actually, but we have been very lazy and neglectful in obeying our orders to “replenish the earth.”  Quite the contrary, we have abused her and raped her of its natural resources—her very flesh, blood and bones—giving little if any consideration as to how we might go about repairing the damage we’ve done to Her and replenishing Her soil—one of the “nine boundaries” Bill Isaacs references in his article “Healing the Fever,” which I featured in my previous post.  We would do well to look out at the damage we’ve done to our Earth Mother . . . and to her atmosphere and our climate . . . and pray: “Father forgive us, for we knew well what we’ve been doing but didn’t care enough to give thought to the consequences of our actions.”  Seeing and experiencing those consequences today, we can only forgive ourselves . . . and stop doing the same things we’ve been doing that have brought us to this impasse. 

We have heretofore looked to Mother Nature for our sustenance, to take care of us, forgetting that we have had the responsibility from the Beginning to take care of Mother Nature. To “dress and keep” her. But Mother Nature has her boundaries—with signs and symptoms that say: “Thus far and no further. Beyond this point you’re on your own.”

GAIA’S BOUNDARIES

What exactly are her boundaries?  The pie-shaped graphic below provided by Johan Rockstrom shows the nine boundaries and where we are in proximity to them. The planetary boundaries concept presents a set of nine planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come.

In 2009, former centre director Johan Rockström led a group of 28 internationally renowned scientists to identify the nine processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth system.

The scientists proposed quantitative planetary boundaries within which humanity can continue to develop and thrive for generations to come. Crossing these boundaries increases the risk of generating large-scale abrupt or irreversible environmental changes. Since then the planetary boundaries framework has generated enormous interest within science, policy, and practice.

In January 2022, 14 scientists concluded in the scientific journal Environmental Science and Technology that humanity has exceeded a planetary boundary related to environmental pollutants and other “novel entities” including plastics.

NINE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES

OUT OF CONTROL

For the first time, an international team of researchers has assessed the impact on the stability of the Earth system of the cocktail of synthetic chemicals and other “novel entities” flooding the environment.

 “There has been a 50-fold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950. This is projected to triple again by 2050,” says co-author Patricia Villarubia-Gómez from the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Plastic production alone increased 79% between 2000 and 2015 the team reports.

The pace that societies are producing and releasing new chemicals and other novel entities into the environment is not consistent with staying within a safe operating space for humanity. Patricia Villarubia-Gómez

In April 2022, a reassessment of the planetary boundary for freshwater indicates that it has now been transgressed. This conclusion is due to the inclusion of “green water” – the water available to plants – into the boundary assessment for the first time.

The assessment, published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, is based on evidence of widespread changes in soil moisture relative to mid-Holocene and pre-industrial conditions and green-water driven destabilization of ecological, atmospheric, and biogeochemical processes.

SUMMARY

Several safe boundaries of critical Earth system processes have already been crossed due to human perturbations; not accounting for their interactions may further narrow the safe operating space for humanity. Using expert knowledge elicitation, we explored interactions among seven variables representing Earth system processes relevant to food production, identifying many interactions little explored in Earth system literature.

We found that green water and land system change affect other Earth system processes strongly, while land, freshwater and ocean components of biosphere integrity are the most impacted by other Earth system processes, most notably blue water and biogeochemical flows. We also mapped a complex network of mechanisms mediating these interactions and created a future research prioritization scheme based on interaction strengths and existing knowledge gaps.

Our study improves the understanding of Earth system interactions, with sustainability implications including improved Earth system modeling and more explicit biophysical limits for future food production.

FILLS IMPORTANT GAP IN RESEARCH

There are an estimated 350,000 different types of manufactured chemicals on the global market. These include plastics, pesticides, industrial chemicals, chemicals in consumer products, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals. These are all wholly novel entities, created by human activities with largely unknown effects on the Earth system. Significant volumes of these novel entities enter the environment each year.

“The rate at which these pollutants are appearing in the environment far exceeds the capacity of governments to assess global and regional risks, let alone control any potential problems,” says co-author Bethanie Carney Almroth from the University of Gothenburg. The research fills an important gap in analysis of “planetary boundaries.”

In 2009, an international team of researchers identified nine planetary boundaries that demarcate the remarkably stable state Earth has remained within for 10,000 years – since the dawn of civilization. These boundaries include greenhouse gas emissions, the ozone layer, forests, freshwater and biodiversity. The researchers quantified the boundaries that influence Earth’s stability, and concluded in 2015 that four boundaries have been breached. But the boundary for novel entities was one of two boundaries that remained unquantified. This new research takes this a step further.

OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE

The researchers say there are many ways that chemicals and plastics have negative effects on planetary health, from mining, fracking and drilling to extract raw materials to production and waste management.

“Some of these pollutants can be found globally, from the Arctic to Antarctica, and can be extremely persistent. We have overwhelming evidence of negative impacts on Earth systems, including biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles,” says Carney Almroth.

Global production and consumption of novel entities is set to continue to grow. The total mass of plastics on the planet is now over twice the mass of all living mammals, and roughly 80% of all plastics ever produced remain in the environment.

Plastics contain over 10,000 other chemicals, so their environmental degradation creates new combinations of materials – and unprecedented environmental hazards. Production of plastics is set to increase and predictions indicate that the release of plastic pollution to the environment will rise too, despite huge efforts in many countries to reduce waste.

SHIFTING TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY

The researchers conclude that current increasing trends of chemical production and release put the health of the Earth system at risk. The authors call for actions to reduce the production and release of pollutants.

“We need to be working towards implementing a fixed cap on chemical production and release,” says Carney Almroth. “And shifting to a circular economy is really important. That means changing materials and products so they can be reused not wasted, designing chemicals and products for recycling, and much better screening of chemicals for their safety and sustainability along their whole impact pathway in the Earth system”, adds Sarah Cornell from the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Credit: Graphic design by Azote for Stockholm Resilience Centre, based on analysis in Persson et al 2022 and Steffen et al 2015.

WHAT CAN I DO?

So, there you have it from reliable scientific sources.  What we do with this information is up to us individually and collectively. The most obvious thing we can do as individuals is to stop buying detergents and beverages in plastic containers, and use cloth bags at the super market to carry our groceries home. There are efforts being put forth by individuals who have designed methods for cleaning up the waters of plastics and other trash.  I commend them on their efforts.  If we each one take as much responsibility by refusing to buy plastic items, that would take a huge load off of the environment.

The most important thing we can all do is nurture a deep sense of care for our Earth Mother and a connection with her by visiting her often in the sanctuaries of her woods and riversides, beaches and gardens.  Take some of her soil in your hands and connect with it deeply. Give her seeds and water to grow her bounty. A friend and colleague recently wrote:

What matters is that in the bedrock of our psyche we already KNOW that we are living in the House of Nature, which is the House of God. We already KNOW we’re supposed to be good and wise stewards of the living earth, and of the balance of nature. The only question to be answered — by each human being, but first by those of us privileged to live in the first world — “Do I care enough to change?”

That’s big for most of us, I imagine.  It is for me in my “golden years.”  To the youth of this now generation, my counsel is taken from the book of Ecclesiastes Ch 12:

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.”

We may remember that our own house of being is the temple of God, and to do unto our planetary House as we would have our planetary House do unto us. We can be kind to it and thankful to the Father for the care and generosity, the grace and forgiveness, the nurturing and constancy of our Earth Mother.

READY FOR SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE . . . OUTSIDE THE BOX OF THE MEDIA’S NARRATIVE ?!

Humans’ view of the earth is through the consciousness of a species in danger of extinction. The above reports are all about us and our surviving amid devastating fire, floods and earthquakes as atmospheric temperatures soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit as we push the planet’s natural boundaries beyond their life-supporting thresholds. The rest of the story is all about the planet, which appears to be thriving. As we strive to avert a calamitous climate crisis, Gaia undergoes a facelift and a renewal of her luscious green wardrobe. Enjoy the good news in this four-minute video.

The Earth is thriving, greening and flourishing . . . DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE

Gaia is moving on and leaving us to our own devices. Let’s make an about face and assist her with her new wardrobe. I’m certain she would welcome our help . . . and our return to true stewardship.

I welcome your comments. Feel free to share this post with friends and family. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

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