Creating Loving Ecosystems
~ lesson three: three basic elements ~
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Every ecosystem, and every individual organism within an ecosystem, needs three basic things for survival and abundance: water, food, and shelter.
Every living thing has three basic requirements for survival, and these are things that we can change—that humans have control over. Humans have direct control over the water that is supplied to the organism or system, the food that is supplied to the organism or system, and the shelter that is supplied to the organism or system.
Many other things are needed for survival, of course, but most of these are naturally provided through the atmosphere and are not directly under the control of the individual human, while water, food, and shelter are under the direct control of any person in the system.
These three basic things that are required for survival—which even humans need for survival—have to be given to every single organism in a system, in order for the system to have abundance, or even to survive.
If one of the three elements is missing, abundance is not possible.
Living organisms generally go into hibernation waiting for times of abundance. They go into places of stagnation, and some living organisms can survive for many years in this state. When we’re talking about seeds, they can survive for even thousands of years in a state similar to hibernation. They can survive in a state where they’re pregnant with life, but life is only a possibility when abundance arrives.
If one of the three basic elements of food, water, or shelter is missing, it will be very difficult for a living organism to grow, survive, reproduce, and exist in abundance.
When there is abundance, living things will multiply in harmony.
When there is abundance of the three basic elements, almost every living thing multiplies. The proximity of food, water, and shelter to each other cause abundance in the system. Every organism will be prolific and healthy in the living system, if it is easier to access the three basic things for survival.
To illustrate, humanity has chosen to create homes, bring water into the homes, and bring food storage into the homes through the refrigerator and the pantry—so we have learnt this naturally. We automatically have shelter that we create for ourselves that is insulation from the environment. We then place inside of this shelter food storage for us to live on, and we then also have water supply, which is usually pumped into the home. Because of this, we can multiply, we can enjoy life to a large degree, and much of our life, will be very enjoyable, because we’re not spending all of our time trying to obtain the three basic necessary things for survival.
In a state of abundance, living things exist in complete balance and harmony with each other.
Every living thing operates in the same manner. If we provide the three basic things for survival, and we do it so that it’s easier for each organism to access these particular things, then they will automatically reproduce, they will automatically survive, but they will also be in a state of calm and peace. In other words, they will not swarm or attack, but rather they will be in complete balance and harmony with each other.
In a state of lack of abundance, anarchy and violence result.
You can see in a human system that when you take away one of the three basic things for survival, all of a sudden it creates much anarchy or violence in the system. Humans even start to attack other humans in order to obtain a balance in terms of the distribution of the three basic things.
And the response of other living things in the system are exactly the same. They often go into exactly the same kind of violence and attack in order to get their share of the thing that is now no longer abundant.
Almost every living thing struggles with scarcity.
Any living thing that doesn’t have sufficient amounts of water, food, or shelter will struggle to survive. Much more work is required for it to obtain the three basic necessities. With more work comes less free time, less time for pleasure, and with more work comes a higher propensity towards violence. So if food, water, and shelter are far away from each other, there is now a struggle to survive. If we remove just a single requirement, the organism will struggle to survive.
When some organisms struggle to survive, they reproduce more rapidly; when other organisms struggle to survive, they reproduce more slowly. It depends on whether the organism is aggressive or not. In the case of a human, most humans are aggressive in their nature, so when there is a struggle to survive, there are often many more children being born into a family; when there is safety, security, and abundance, often there are only a few children born into the family. This is a direct result of the struggle with scarcity.
The system we currently have is not what God created.
When we look at the current system, what God created is not what we currently have. Huge amounts of destruction have occurred to the Earth over thousands of years. We cannot say that what we have now is normal.
Very few humans in the past four thousand years have actually personally seen a normal environment, a normal system. And this is because very few humans and very few organisms in our current system have an abundance of water, food, and shelter. As a result of that, large amounts of the system become very unbalanced.
For us to create a loving ecosystem, we need to understand that ecosystems need the three basic things for survival and abundance, and if we take just one of those things away, violence in the system will automatically be created.
Continue to Lesson Four: Intelligent Organisms
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