our relationship with the universe
"The planet is some kind of organized intelligence. It's very different from us. It's had 5- or 6-billion years to create a slow moving mind that is made of oceans, and rivers, and rainforests, and glaciers. It's becoming aware of us, as we are becoming aware of it, strangely enough.
"Two less likely members of a relationship can hardly be imagined -- the technological apes and the dreaming planet. And yet, because the life of each depends on the other, [we have] a feeling towards this immense, strange, wise, old, neutral, weird thing, and it is trying to figure out why its dreams are so tormented and why everything is out of balance."
Terence McKenna
from Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter April 22, 2009 http://FreeWillAstrology.com
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About Vicki
I grew up in a farm in Iowa. In the summer I would lay in the green grass looking at the sky and daydream about the people in the jets that passed overhead. I traveled about the U.S. in my old beat up car, managed to get a couple of degrees in science and...
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beautiful universe
what beautiful words to describe our universe -- makes me stop and think about this different perspective
beautiful universe
yes, we, me too! it really stopped my in my tracks. I'm thinking it would be good to hang in nik's office for his students and coworkers who work with solving the man made problems of the environment. maybe it would give them some inspiration. what do you think?