Pollution as a state of consciousness
| April 9, 2011 | Posted by dan under Environment, philosophy & spirituality |
To this day humanity has seen itself at odds with nature, and that it is a force opposing us that we must subdue. Our inability to be in harmony with nature stems from the underlying belief that we are separate from it and thus our survival is based on our ability to control it.
Everything we experience in outer material conditions is the out-picturing of our inner state of consciousness on the individual level in your personal life and on a collective level on a global scale.
We will never change outer conditions on the earth such as pollution if we do not first clean up the pollution in our own consciousness, the pollution in the sea and air is the pollution in your mental and emotion body’s.
Once again I am trying to point to the root cause of an issue as always when observing the human collective they address issues on a surface level, like in healthcare for example you will be diagnosed by identification of external symptoms and then given medication only to address external symptoms with no questions asked as to what actually causes the symptoms? Why am I suscept
ible to asthma, diabetes, heart attack, arthritis and someone else is not? Why do I have these allergy’s and they do not when the physical environment of two people is identical? Well it is because of course the cause is not physical but is within consciousness. And likewise as physical illness within people has its root cause in the individual consciousness of those people the physical illness of the planet has its root cause in the consciousness of the collective of humanity. There is a symbiotic relationship between human being and planet earth, planet earth has no purpose without human beings and vise versa.
Therefore if we are to heal the planet you must start first by looking at yourself. What states of consciousness are the primary culprits of environmental issues? Lets look at one example as we cannot look at all the numerous states of consciousness but by looking at one you can yourself extrapolate from that the effects of the others and those which have no label but are only felt as an emotion. So lets take a look at greed as our example. Greed is a state of consciousness that as previously mentioned is the result of the belief that you are separate from nature. Because of this illusion of separation your life is at stake within this world and therefore you must attempt to secure yourself your body from the forces of this world be it other people or nature. Because of this a false sense of security can be had by accumulating “stuff” for the separate self. The more you have in the bank account the more secure you feel, the more insurance policy’s you have the more secure you feel, the second house, the pension, the second car and so on. A recent example of this pollution in the minds of people I saw on a program about the Mekong river and how dam projects are being planned which will destroy the migration of the fish and thus potentially the entire ecosystem of the river and of course the livelihood of the local people who fish the river. In their debating they mention how it will likely destroy much, but at the same time it is worth billions to the Chinese and Laos economy and can also provide cheap electricity and so “we must weigh up the costs” I think were their words. And so the greed overrides the common sense that you are one with this planet and no amount of money printed from nothing is worth destroying the platform that sustains you and so the conclusion that “we have to
weigh up the costs” is borderline insane. So I hope you can see how the greed which is within the consciousness of humans eventually becomes expressed in matter by the planet and likewise all pollutions in our minds will be reflected to us by the planet. Stop looking at conditions as wholly material phenomena that can only be fixed by material phenomena such as population control, carbon credits, tax’s or reduced spending or some government scheme or some charity or green peace or whatever material thing it may be because it is a lie, you are looking at your right hand and you do not see what your left hand is doing, you must look at the beam in your own eye first and then you will see clearly what do about the environmental debate.
Hatred, anger, pride, jealousy, fear, apathy, ignorance and on and on are all the causes for flooding, lack, disease, virus’s, toxins, destruction of resources, earthquakes(ignorance), Fires/volcanos(anger), Tornadoes/Hurricanes(Pride).
Once these vices loosen their grip on our consciousness the planet will begin to naturally out-picture a more perfect state, not magically but by our actions now being taken with the knowledge that we dont have to force nature we can work with the laws of nature to get everything we need and have it in abundance.
