Every so often I get into a Visioning space. That Bombastic, Pie-in-the-Sky Visioning space. Do your mental wanderings ever bring you there? Over the coming months and years I’ll periodically share some of my musings with you. Enjoy.
We need Earth Fanboys, and Fangirls. We need people who truly cherish our earth and who giggle with glee over new experiences and understandings of it.
It might be too impersonal to ask someone to feel love for and cherish the entire earth, so let’s just connect people in with the part of earth where they are right now. Right where they live. Their backyards, front yards, nearby parks, school grounds, etc. Let’s develop our sense of love and excitement for what is right around us everywhere we go…or at least for one single place. Sitting at our sit spot in the same place, visited each week, of every month, for several years … we naturally develop a relationship with that place. And from that relationship comes a deeper understanding, a respect, a love for that space. And this love for one space can easily be transferred to a love for more spaces. And that can bridge into a love for our entire earth…for all of it’s creatures and plants, etc. Ultimately a love for all things is the natural course of development.
Through this love for even one space, one corner of our yard, we see ourselves as an integral part of nature. An integral part of nature. We understand how we are one of the caretakers of nature, and how caretaking of nature supports our own selves and our own needs as well.
And through loving nature, and exploring nature, and caretaking nature, we come to know ourselves as deeply connected with this earth.
And from this place it is natural that we come to a knowing deep inside our core that we are nature. That last wall of differentiation will fall away at times and we’ll find ourselves as nature. We and the earth are truly one. We and all things that are a part of this earth are not only connected, we are one and the same.*
Using a macro lens on a videocamera to scan my fingertips it is quite interesting and exotic to discover the mountains and valleys that are my fingerprints. Every peak looks to be part of new mountain ranges, and every valley looks like it could contain its own river. Yet as we pull the camera out we see that it is all just a small part of my finger, and pulling the camera out further we see that there are several fingers, and each separate finger is really a part of one hand, and in fact there are two hands which while looking quite distant from each other at this camera angle–are really both a part of the same organism. We are human.
So with focus on what’s right in front of us and around us every day we can reconnect ourselves with a part of this earth, and we can be guided to explore it in ways that open up that sense of wonder and excitement and love of it. And as we pull back our “camera viewpoint” to show what else is connected to this local earth that we love–we see more earth! More to explore and wonder about, and get excited about, and love. And we can shift the camera viewpoint to include ourselves in the “image frame” and discover that we too are part of this earth. We are a part of nature. And beyond looking at parts…we can just say, “We are nature.” And we can share this sense of wonder and excitement and love for ourselves as well.
This deeply rooted sense of ourselves as nature is what we have left behind in recent history, and is where we have to return to. Since it is true that we are not only a part of nature but we are nature, then the only place we have to get to is rediscovering this truth. You can only walk so far on this globe away from something before you end up walking around back toward it again. There is no where else to go.
And there is an urgent need for us people in the developed or developing nations who have a big influence on this planet to really gain this deeply rooted sense of ourselves as nature. For having this sense enables us to make the choices that truly support this earth. (And we have been making choices that do not truly support this earth for long enough that we have begun to damage it in ways that do not support many aspects of life on this earth, including our own lives.)
Some would put it differently. Some would say it is the deeply rooted sense of ourselves as part of God, or as God, that we’ve been walking away from and blinding ourselves to, and that now we have the opportunity to rediscover and come back to again. Consistantly coming into awareness of ourselves as part of the “spirit who moves through all things” (as others have called it), us as one part of the great spirit…this causes us to live our lives in a way that supports all things. And when we’re in this space of understanding our connection and feeling our connection to all 
things, all of our actions are in line with this feeling sense and understanding.
We are Nature.
It all begins with who we are. This is the ultimate focus, since all of our input into this world naturally begins with this. We are, we make choices from our understanding of who we are, we create results from our choices which are based on who we are.
So our job is to support ourselves, our families, and our communities in recognizing our deeply rooted connection with nature. We can do this now, or later, but it is an inevitability that we will return to this understanding of truth. The sooner we come to this understanding, the sooner we can reap the excitement and wonder that comes from loving this earth and all that is a part of it.
And who, truly, wouldn’t want this?
* It might be too big of a scope for now to make that next leap into a cognitive and physical and emotional and spiritual understanding that this earth that we are a part of is itself a part of something greater. For now it is enough for us to move into a feeling-sense of our oneness with this earth.
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