Edited to include survivors of the New Zealand earthquake:Today, I’m doing a quick edit to add that, sadly, I’m once again feeling quite unspiritual because I still don’t get why being alive for so many victims and survivors [this time it’s of the massive earthquake that, yesterday, crumpled the city of Christchurch, in neighboring New Zealand,] is a simple matter of ‘luck’ or ‘miracle’ – subtext: “i’ve got no f -ing clue why I was spared.’
Tag Archive for volcanic eruptions
Natural Disaster_Floods and Warm hearts
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At the moment, Nature is still not that interested in destroying lives, only livelihood, savings, personal plans – horded billions of taxpayers’ money = the Economy.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part5/5]
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I never intended for this series to grow beyond the original 3 blogs, which is why the first one was labelled part1/3, but whenever I hear of yet another blatant example of our ‘herd blindness’, my keyboard jumps up and down, demanding words on paper – and who am I to refuse, huh?
Natural Disasters_And Then WHAT? [part 4/5]
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Scholarly theories and precautionary principles get bandied around. They generate nods and accolades from peers as well as a few variations on, ‘Uh, yeah … OK,’ from us laypersons but they can never, never define the original catalyst that created the very first instance of their very first observable piece of data – the X factor that caused the first domino to wobble before falling – the data from which scientists create theories after observation and calculations of their evidence, their empirical evidence.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part 3/4]
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Though clearly our culture is well past the point of no return, as individuals, we need to stop pointing the finger as readily as the child who, caught red-handed, blurts in a blatant attempt to shift blame, “It wasn’t me. I had nothing to do with it.”
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part2/5]
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It is far easier to pop pills than trying to earnestly understand what lurks at the low end of our ego. It is also much easier than to begin sorting out from within the fears and insecurities that lead us by the nose moment by moment, one impulse, one knee-jerk at a time.
Volcanic ashes_Natural disasters_who is in charge? [part 1/5]
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At the moment, Nature is not that interested in destroying lives, only livelihood – and horded billions of taxpayers’ money.
At the moment, Nature seems very interesting in cleansing the planet.
Old post but Ongoing concern
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You see, I am convinced that Nature – the Cosmos – has not yet given up on us as a species.
where to from here?
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Whatever the need or the vacuum, the brain welcomes the opportunity to create something new. The brain then creates a fix to rectify the complications that have inevitably arisen. Most often, and always in the fullness of time, the brain also creates fixes for the fixes.
Natural Disasters_purse strings tied around the heart part 5/5
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The forces of nature along with personal as well as separate/collective karma are going about the business of teaching us, mankind, essential lessons in spiritual survival with the single-minded energy of the one who, stranded on an island, must break open coconuts with bare hands to get to the sweet flesh within.