Whenever I see some picture of what Christians dream heaven would be like, it seems so silly and sad. As part of the ego dream, the need to escape to some other place is evident in all such thinking. If we are good little sheep, we will get to go sit near god while holding the hand of Jesus. There will be angels flying around and this great throne of god made to look like early Greek buildings. We won't have sex, we won't have to work, and we will just sit around drinking in god's love for his offspring. What a drag that life would be! Hell would be more dynamic and interesting. However, of course, we are just talking about a dream of people who are asleep.
We now, right this moment, live in Heaven, but we are raping it. The wonders of this magical home called Earth are so beyond any silly dream of heaven. If one can go for a walk in virgin Nature and not feel they are truly in Heaven, then they must be brain-dead and have a heart that is shriveled from lack of use and being lost in the dream of separation.
Most religions seem to be more interested in the afterlife than this present moment. By doing so, they lose sight of reality. One of the few things I have read in the Christian bible worth repeating is when Jesus said; "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you." If they believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and that he was not lying, then why such drive to get to an afterlife?
I don't want you to think I believe all religious people are anti-life and don't care about the Natural world, far from it. In the U.S., probably most religious environmentalist think of themselves as Christians, but rarely Fundamentalist.
If you read what Bill Moyers has to say about the Fundamentalist views on life, it is scary for all thinking people. Please do read what he has to say.
Everywhere we look on this wonder planet, we see signs of the destruction humankind have caused and is still causing. We are killing the planet and for what? So we can drive new cars, have large homes, be entertained out of our minds and worst of all, make a profit. There are billions of people going without the basic needs of life, while in the Western societies we use up most of the natural resources of this Earth. We go on mindlessly destroying our forest, rivers, lakes, the oceans and the air we need to breathe. We allow big and small businesses to continue to pollute this Earthly Heaven and don't see how insane it is. No meaningful change can take place as long as the governments of the world can be bought off by big corporations. Most of the so-called developed countries, which mean, they have been raped more by mankind, care little about the people of the Third World countries other than seeing them as cheap labor and more resources. Of course, I know there are always exceptions and that there are some very caring people doing good things to help.
If we don't see ourselves as part of Nature, but just as users of what it can give, then we will not change our ways and we will all pay a huge price for that ignorance. We are already paying for it in many ways. Our bodies have all kinds of toxic chemicals in them. Even newborn babies do, by way of their mothers and the toxic environment we live in day after day. There is nowhere on Earth where you can be toxic free. We see all over South East Asia suffering and illness because of the Agent Orange the U.S. used during the Vietnam War. There is nowhere safe any longer. All this caused by people thinking we are having a higher quality of life. What a joke that is.
We may have gone too far already and someday, in the not too distant future, we will most likely see major health problems that may well kill off millions of us. Humans may well become sterile because of what we are doing to make the rich richer. We are such fools!
I live in one of the most beautiful areas of the world, in the redwoods of Northern California. People new to the area are so happy to be here and see clear blue skies and are mislead into thinking this area is pollution free. We have one of the highest cancer rates in the country, in spite of the blue sky. We are breathing dioxin, formaldehyde, and benzene, among other toxic chemicals. We have a cloud of toxins coming over this area that came from China. We are told our water is safe, yet the local water quality board won't test the water for the chemicals we know it must have in it. And this is not some backwoods hillbilly area. We have a University and a local College that teach classes in environmental sciences and there are a large number of caring environmentalists living here. Yet we still suffer toxic pollution because our local government sees the tax dollars from the polluters as more important than the people they serve. It really does seem hopeless.
I can walk outside of my house right now and walk in the forest and along the creek and see what seems to be a healthy ecosystem, but that is very deceiving. We dare not drink the water and the soil has been polluted from logging. The air I breathe has formaldehyde in it and all sorts of who knows what, not only from local sources, but also from China. The cancer rate among the elderly is 5 times higher than the next county to the north. I have already paid a high price for living here with the cancer I had some years back.
A truly sane society would never do what we are doing to ourselves, and all generations to come. A caring people would not sit by seeing so many species dying because of our greed and lack of care for the environment. We are clearly insane, and the ego process causes that insanity. Yet, few know anything about that problem. Few ever question their own reality and never come to any insight into the process of mind that is causing such great suffering. I feel very blessed to have awakened to see reality clearly. However, it has also been painful when I see I can rarely get anyone to listen to what I know has great value. We are not going to survive. Not if we go on as we have been and let our so-called leaders make laws to protect those who are killing us. It is not that our governments don't know we have major problems, they just chose to disregard the facts when those facts may cost their backers money. What incredible stupidity!
Don't let the rape of Mother Earth go on. Speak up, watch what you are doing that may be adding to the problems, don't let our governments and corporations get away with their neglect of our Home, and most of all, Awaken. You don't have to be Enlightened to see what is going on, but you do have to pay attention and get informed.
It has taken billions of years of evolution to reach this level of life on this wonder-full Earth. It was perfect before we humans even existed. The Earth doesn't need us, but we are a part of this wonder and to spoil our own being so a few can make more money than they could ever spend is just plain stupid.
If you think Jesus is coming back and is going to make it all well again, think again. It isn't going to happen, ever. What utter nonsense that dream is. It is up to us, not some savior, to save this wonder of wonders called Earth. Stop raping our Mother Earth! Without her we are nothing.
