Spiritual enlightenment is essential to sustain and protect life
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By: Father Shay Cullen
What could be more important than to protect and nurture our lives and the lives of others? - The protection of the source of life itself. Yet human kind is damaging and destroying so much of the planet at such a phenomenal rate that many species are extinct and others are on the edge of extinction.
The health and well being of billions of people are not only under threat but are already deteriorating with such rapidity that whole nations are in crises. Their people's behavior, their environment, rivers, seas, forests and climate are in severe process of change.
Natural species are being exterminated day by day and human are in a health crises that they have never faced before. We are into a new and dangerous era of mankind. Is there any one common factor behind all of this doom and gloom or is it a complex series of events interwoven in history that has caused such catastrophes?
The evidence is mounting that contradicts of the widely held belief that we humans are the superior intelligent creatures on the planet. An alien looking at the earth would conclude our primitive intelligence has failed to evolve and develop. Humankind, they would see is more driven by animal instinct than intelligent decision making. Despite enormous brains and a sophisticated technological age that boggles the imagination, two thirds of all humans live in abject poverty and ignorance, while billions of humans are illiterate, destitute and starving. Those with the developed resources, vast knowledge, unsurpassed technological skills, immense possessions and an abundance of food are still killing each other with such sustained and premeditated ferocity that the most savage dinosaurs and beast could never match.
That's us! The species with big brains have evolved as killing machines par excellence and very territorial. We rule with rockets and bombs where Tyrannosaurus Rex once roamed with claw and tooth. Our big brains changed little of the primitive urge to dominate others, eliminate rivals, and kill all intruders on our territory.
We humans are destroying the self sustaining harmony of the planet. We are refusing our own evolutionary destiny and step up the ladder a higher spiritual experience and an enlightened way-of-life. Humankind is mired in apathy and stagnation resisting the spiritual values and energy of love of others that might empower mind and spirit to enable it to survive beyond death.
The animal instincts that lurk in the base of the brain below the cortex are powerful drives that dominate human behavior and shape our world. Our instincts propel us to satisfy those primitive drives for food, sleep, sex, territorial control and to send our genes down the river of time to the next generation, just as we see in the animal kingdom.
It is only the hermits and the monks of all religions that strive to conquer these drives by denying them in order to free their spirit and allow it to evolve to the higher plane and open a new age of spiritual experience for human kind. They are but few.
The drive to have power and security through food dominance has led some nations to take control of vast lands, deprive others, destroy forests and environments and overproduce in a way that causes others to starve. The animal drive for sex has spawned a worldwide sex tourist industry without boundaries. It makes reproduction of the species secondary and physical sexual satisfaction an end in itself. The result of this is the exploitation of the hungry, plummeting populations, labor shortages and weak economies. This is then followed by mass migration and bloody internal conflict.
The drive for territorial control and power can be savage, primitive, and bloody. It is pursued with tooth and claw, destructive and devastating. The pursuit of power by economic war is now global and results in the subjugation of the weak by the powerful.
This pursuit for economic dominance has a price - the reversible damage to the earth, its systems and climate. We are at war with ourselves, with each other and with the planet.
The human species is devolving, heading for extinction and bringing every other species with it. [End]
