4. The Globe
What do you believe
sums up the 20th
century?
Why not email me
and tell me
what you think at
matt@interconnected.org
We have carved it up, allocated land blocks, fought and squabbled over forests, oceans, cities. We've moved across it like little counters across a board game, and from so close to the surface we've never had true perspective. Even when intellectually we knew that the world was one, we could never quite divorce ourselves from what we saw to be self-evident: that the world was divided into territories almost inevitably.
This century, all this has changed. From those first pictures from space of the lump of rock we call home; from those lucky astronauts who perceived that all our loves, hopes and fears were played out just on the surface of an incredibly precious blue-green marble; from the growing global consciousness...
We understand now. We see this Spaceship Earth to be a united entirity, with no political divisions drawn on by a cosmic brush.
From greater height we see that this world is different, special, tiny, and we, it's sons and daughters, must live as one.
We can look and finally understand that the global consciousness is a physical reality: that the humanity on this planet are clustered together in beautious surroundings and that against the vast backdrop of the cosmos we are just one object.
No longer can we argue or fight or make war on one another. No longer can we tear up the rainforests and pollute the seas - because we can feel what the Earth feels when we, her children, destroy one another. We find empathy with her anguish. From this enlightened perspective, this true vision of the globe as not a map but as a hive of bountious life in all it's glory, from this we learn to work and love together.
From this basic, fundamental, simple picture of an Earth undivided springs forth your love for me, and my unlimited love for you.
Next week: LSD and the wonderful, wonderful things it lets you see.