Creating Loving Ecosystems
~ lesson two: the human soul connects with the entire system ~
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Humans desperately need to understand that everything around us is connected to us. This is very important to understand.
How organisms respond in the system is completely dependent upon our own personal condition.
Our own personal condition is the sum total of our beliefs, our emotions, our desires, passions, longings, assumptions, intentions, reasoning, et cetera. This sum total, which I call the soul condition, determines the effectiveness of our efforts to restore ecosystems.
If our condition is selfish in any way, lacks love in any way, and is fear based or based in anger or rage, then the effectiveness of our effort to restore ecosystems will be very much reduced. Organisms will work against us if our soul condition is not adjusted.
Organisms have an inbuilt instinct to expose and correct unloving behavior within us as humanity. Any unloving behavior that the organism is feeling from us will be exposed and corrected through the organism’s response. Thus, our condition will affect any organism connected to us for any reason.
Now, the organism connected to us could be even on the other side of the world. For example, plants that supply my coffee will be connected to me if I drink coffee. Plants that supply my sugar will be connected to me if I consume sugar. What happens in those particular systems that supply my coffee or supply my sugar are now going to have a direct connection with my own unloving behavior, and anything that happens in those systems that causes a poor supply to those particular systems is connected with my own belief system.
I need to understand the direct correspondence between my own condition — my own beliefs, emotions, desires, intentions, and so forth — and the particular things that I desire and what is happening with those particular systems.
I am often creating systems around the world that are unloving because of my addiction to specific products. We will cover this later in this lesson.
Our soul condition has a huge bearing on how the systems actually respond.
Even our observation of a system changes how the system responds. Just us looking at the system has an effect on the system. Organisms within the system can feel us studying and looking at them, just like you can feel other humans studying and looking at you. This obviously will have an effect on the organisms.
Our environmental choices and decisions are caused by our own condition. Our beliefs, assumptions, intentions, passions, longings will determine our choices and decisions. If our beliefs and passions and emotions are driven by addictive desires that we want to feel no matter what the cost, then of course the choices and decisions that we make toward the system will not consider the rest of the system, they will have only a selfish consideration of our own needs. Our addictions, therefore, create unloving actions that we perpetrate toward the environment.
Every time we have an addiction that is not met, we generally have a strong desire to meet this addiction. This desire causes us to be inconsiderate of the systems that are already present, and as a result of this, causes us to perpetrate unloving actions toward the environment in our state of lack of consideration.
Now of course, the environment has been constructed by God to respond to the lack of love or the lack of loving actions and the unloving actions that are perpetrated toward the environment. So the environment responds to these addictions and actions, in order to correct them if they are unloving or to support them if they are loving. We need to understand how the environment will continually respond to us, whether our actions are loving or unloving.
We need to become aware of how we are destroying ecosystems around the world through our condition.
The choices we make to satisfy our own addictions through food and other materials result in the destruction of ecosystems all around the world.
For example, my desire for eating meat, for example a McDonald’s hamburger, results in the destruction of Amazonian rain forest in Brazil. This is because the desire for hamburger meat, which mostly is produced in South American countries, causes the people in those countries to respond to that desire through the law of supply and demand. As a result they finish up destroying more of the forest in preference for grazing land for cattle. So my desire for eating meat automatically results in the destruction of an ecosystem somewhere else in the world.
Now, it is pointless fixing an ecosystem in our direct neighborhood while at the same time destroying ecosystems all around the world. We need to examine more honestly how our demands are satisfied. We need to see the laws of supply and demand in operation and see how our desire drives the demand, which then drives the desire from somebody else to supply what we demand.
If we want to avoid or avert destruction that is occurring in ecosystems around the world, we need to change what we demand. If we change what we demand, then the people will change what they supply. This is something that we need to understand.
While I have demands coming out of my soul toward the world around me, I am not aware of how I am destroying ecosystems all around the world. If I understand the interconnectedness between the human soul and the entire system, then I will become more aware of that.
What systems we currently have around us are not indicative of the actual system that God created, nor are they indicative of the normal operation of the organisms within the system.
We cannot assume that how organisms currently work is how they would normally work. We cannot assume that how organisms currently act is how they would normally act. We can’t assume that how organisms currently respond is how they would normally respond.
All of these things are occurring in response to our condition. If our condition is damaged in love in any way, then it will change how every organism around us responds. We need to understand, therefore, that what we see around us is not what would normally happen, but what we have caused to happen, or what we have forced to happen, through our own condition.
So we can assume that our interaction with an organism will change how the organism responds. If I attack the organism, it will respond differently than if I treat the organism in a different manner. For example, if I attack a snake, and if I were afraid, which would be the main cause of my attacking the snake, the snake will respond to that attack. In fact, they have found here in Australia that most snake bites actually are caused by humans who are already attacking the snake and the snake responds.
We can assume that the organism will change its own response depending on how it is treated.
Our actions have a direct bearing on the evolution of an organism. If we take away an organism’s primary source of food, the organism will go into a survival mode. It will adjust what it will eat and therefore start eating something different. It will change in its evolution. It will start eating something completely different than what it would normally eat just as a direct result of our removing what it would normally eat.
If we understand that each organism has inbuilt intelligence (instinct), then we can assume that this intelligence is always loving. And if we are getting a negative response from the organism, then we must assume that is being caused by our own condition.
We can assume that the entire system will respond to our desires, beliefs, and actions.
We cannot assume that what is currently present in the system is what is normal or what would normally exist if we were not present. For example, when we look at some land that has been farmed, we cannot assume that what is currently on the land is what will be there in the future, or what was there in the past, or what would normally be there right now. If we understand that our very actions toward this land have modified every single organism’s response to us, then we will start to understand that what is happening on that piece of land is not normal but rather something that has been modified by the human condition.
We also cannot assume that the current methods of farming are the only way to farm. This is because, again, the current methods of farming have been greatly dictated by our condition, by our addictions — to specific foods, to specific requirements, to wealth, to material demands that we have, and to having a good economic future. These particular addictions, of which many are based on fear, have modified methods of farming over many hundreds and sometimes thousands of years, and as a result they have modified how each organism responds.
It is very important for us to understand that the human soul interconnects with the entire system, and whatever is in the human condition will affect the entire system.
Whatever are our beliefs, our emotions, our desires, our passions, our longings, our intentions, our reasoning, all of these things will cause us to act in a certain way toward the entire system, and every single intelligent living organism in the system can feel these feelings from us and will have a specific response to those particular emotions. This is the way that the entire system is interconnected with our own soul.
Continue to Lesson Three: Three Basic Elements
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