- Commiserations John! It IS now an unavoidable trajectory, I fear. But, but, but - Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym
on October 1, 2019, 12:48 pm, in reply to "Bed time and I'm thinking of not bothering to wake up tomorrow morning...."
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Oddly enough, palaeontology and re-incarnation are two salutary nostra for the depression you're suffering; distress made all the worse for the utterly maddening knowledge that - even at this late juncture - we could still do genuinely effective things to ease the worse destructiveness of this global change that's now on us - but, as a species, we just refuse to be arsed; not until things are so bad that denial and indifference are no longer even minimally credible responses. The point about the palaeontology is that - studied deeply enough - it becomes clear that the life of the Earth has faced - literally - MUCH worse, potentially 100% lethal crises, yet has weathered every one, and recovered fulsomely - over time, of course. But then, once you realise that your personal Individuated Unit Of Consciousness (IUOC - Tom Cambell's carefully-scientific term for the soul) is immortal, and has many lifetimes ahead of it, as long as it behaves in just the most minimal life-affirming way, then your IUOC will see this crisis pass, and will see Mam Gaia re-fecundating her planet, yet again. In our situation, John, I reckon we only have this long perspective to fall back on, for easement of soul-distress, such as you express so eloquently in your post. As an added bonus, you can discover if you care to look that there's a big paradigmatic shift going on in the world of science - particularly in theoretical physics of all places! - which supports more and more the neo-idealist notions that I sketch in briefly above. (Amongst other things, it's the only effective way to deal properly with the 'impossible' - but constantly re-confirmed - results of the double-slit experiment, which have been a constant thorn in the side of the hyper-materialist theoreticians for near on a century now.) Patience, endurance - and a dogged continuing promotion of sanity in the midst of all the current insanity - is the best salve for our existential angst. Seems that this extra-long view is the only one that helps the soul at the moment. Solidarity, John! Don't crack, bro!  PS: Being of a like age to you, John, I find myself contemplating my approaching dissolution - as Rhisiart G, at least - quite a lot lately, perforce. And the ideas outlined above prove to be a great comfort for the thought of the mortality of the transient individual ego; especially the thought of soon getting re-born again as a fresh, vital youngster just like my great-grandchildren, the latest being just a few weeks old. Nothing banishes the tragic thoughts of old-age as thoroughly as these children's irrepressible youthful vitality and - yes, excellently enough - their equally-irrepressible optimism. Some of us will survive. Some will take part in the next re-fecundation of the Earth, when the Sixth Extinction has run it's course (notice that 'Sixth'! Life has survived all the previous five!). Losing tigers, for example, may be an acute pain to my spirit; but I know, from the cornucopian past record, that Mam will be creating new wonders to fill the gap left by these glorious cats. Besides, it seems that all that has ever lived is remembered in the Akashic Records; what Tom calls 'the Main Data Base of the Larger Consciousness System'; nothing is ever lost, once it has existed at all. Personal direct experience of paranormal materialisations persuades me that - once the record is there - anything can come again... PPS: Remember too: Mam Gaia's global-homoeostasis systems are multiple, complex and subtle. Which means that none of us at all can be absolutely certain just what path this crisis will take, in detail. What palaeontology demonstrates beyond question is that Mam constantly produces re-balancing processes which we hadn't thought of, until we discover them in the palaeontological record. Ergo, there will be surprises as we pass through this Valley of the Shadow; and, in the nature of things, not all of them will be nasty; some will be a huge relief, as we see Mam take matters in hand seriously. Note that you can take the idea of Mam G literally, as a goddess-like figure; or you can regard it as a metaphor for the complex, conclusively-non-deterministic life-systems on this globe. |