We celebrate Earth Day because we are completely and totally interconnected with this beautiful planet on which we live and thrive. And this is so very healthy for us to have a deep regard and respect for our increasing understanding of how we are connected on a much higher level in symbiosis as science reveals these deeper realities.
Just as you were carried safely within the womb of your own mother, you were nurtured and protected while in that space and every molecule in your body somehow came from your mother directly. We spent this time in the womb growing and developing until such time as we could be born onto this beautiful planet.
Our Mother Earth is very much a living being like our own mother in that there is a beautiful symbiosis between ourselves and the Earth upon which we live and grow. The air that we breathe is a perfect mixture of oxygen and nitrogen and other gases that are completely suitable to sustain us. The plants and the animals that grow on our beloved planet sustain us too and they also are sustained by the planet upon which they thrive.
To go from an everyday life where we just take things for granted and we assume that fresh water and fresh air will always be available to us has taken a little bit of awakening! Increasing amounts of pollution, whether it’s the air we breathe, the water we drink or even the pollution from electromagnetic frequencies that completely interpenetrate our towns and cities has caused us to sober up to the realities of caring for our Mother Earth.
There was a wise shaman, I think out of Guatemala who was talking about how Mother Earth feels like she will simply just shake us off and continue to flourish and be the paradise that she is, without any humans on the planet, if we continue to disrespect her. That we as human beings are really not as superior custodians of this planet that we thought we were. And that it’s incumbent upon us to realize that we’re not superior that we are in fact a vital part of the organism that is our planet herself.
Ancient cultures were very superior to us in the way that they knew their inseparable union with the essence of this planet and they celebrated the changes of the seasons and celestial events because they knew the rhythms and the harmonies of all of nature and they knew how to live within those cycles of being and harmony with all things.
They taught through ceremony and ritual that reverence for this inseparability was crucial to be able to truly live in harmony with all creation.
Today, we have that opportunity to intentionally engage in this great measure of respect for our mother earth and for her embrace of our very being that nurtures our bodies and our lives. Let us celebrate Earth Day every day by living in accord with the natural cycle of all things avoid being inured in an artificial environment only.
Blessings,
Dr. Richard Jelusich, Ph.D.
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