Consider this... - Published February 2023
Consider This...
Series from the Energy Syndicate - February / March 2023
Seeds of Life
Consider the acorn that is growing and turning into a sapling...
The acorn exists and then passes as the emerging plant develops. The acorn, in a sense, is determined to be what it is yet in its perfection it is destined to not be as it is. This is an example easy for most of us to see; one bit connects to the next.
The acorn, alive and with a balance in existence should not go to battle to maintain itself as an acorn or look to the future to see a tree and be angry that its wonderful acorn self has been lost – to attempt to fight such a battle is to have lost the essence of its existence. At what point is there an inner understanding, a satisfaction, a completeness, of a life that has achieved its goal? Has the acorn ceased to be part of the life once the sapling has emerged or does it remain very much part of the life after it ceases to be?
Do you consider, when you look at your own lives, that there will be, or has been, a moment of “job done”, goal achieved? Does a developing person in the womb become aware and sit in quiet contemplation of the adventures to come? As the parts that make a human emerge, a miracle of life, is there a sense of a “job done” when all are in place; is that a satisfaction of goal achieved? When did the miracle of that life begin? Conception? Conception of the parents maybe or is that journey a lot more – out of the realm of biologists and even geologists?
As a baby turns into an adult, like the acorn turning into an oak tree, the connections and journey seem clear; adults make babies, oak trees make acorns. The physical aspects of all the living things we know in the world generally have similar stories. Pick an example however, lets say the Oak tree – a tree that has had a journey from which it emerged as an oak tree but previously had never existed. Or at least not existed as a tree we would call an oak tree. Go back even further and these changes are more pronounced. Keep going back and the tree of life brings the myriad of branches back to an original source. A source that can be seen as a seed. A seed that has, in the same way that we understand the acorn to have, a destiny. The connections here are less obvious. Darwin saw a process of evolution, crafted by the environment. Consider this however; that original seed is like a seed that if planted again would be producing the same thing that is being produced now.
The same thing that is being produced now?
What has grown in the World is life. A life that is the sum of all the parts but not specific to the minutia that emerged along the path. Emerging since its dawn in a way that will become what it was always going to be; a life that is the life of the world. Brought about by, what to us, look like unique evolutionary developments but are as certain as the acorn becoming an oak tree and a baby becoming an adult. Like an empty land that sees a forest grow. The growth results in a forest but the stages within are many and varied.
The true origins of that seed of life, ultimately, are and will remain part of the holy mystery. However, embracing a view of life and the life of the world in this way, will help to nurture a richness in living that in turn will counteract a lot of the issues that have caused the concerns for the health of the World.
