Solar Being

There is little doubt in anyone's mind that all life on Earth is dependent on our Sun-Star and that our planet depends on the sun for its orbital stability within this solar system.


When you look at the work of art that I chose to illustrate our blog today, I invite you recall other images of human beings staring towards the heaven. There are many such depictions. They can be found in the art of just about every culture that has ever existed all the way back to prehistoric rock art (petroglyphs).


The interpretations as to why our species has had such a long infatuation with the heavens are as many as they are visible stars to the naked eye. But, all have one thing in common. They bring into mind the intrinsic mystery regarding all things above in the heavens.


"Solar Being" as presented in my illustration breaks that pattern forever because it adds something vital to the ancient mystery. I will try very briefly to share with you what that is and the implication it has for us as we move forward to sustain life in our little corner of the Milky Way.


The reconciled human being in my last posting, "Reconciliation IV," is one who has broken through the thin cultural membrane (human nature) that has kept us separate from Nature-at-large. As I dramatized in the text, it is this new type of human who will engender Planet Earth 2.0.


It happens that the reconciliation with Nature that is celebrated in a new partnership between us and the process of life in our world becomes a sensory experience. When it is coupled to our understanding of the cosmos and the rare but wonderful circumstance of life in this solar system, and as we grow in our respect, care and sustenance of Nature, this reconciliation becomes a conscious landscape. Standing in such landscape, we look to the heavens no longer wondering what is there. Instead, we now see the enhanced and augmented realization of who we are in this vast context, where we live, why and to what purpose.


A solar being of that sort may be thought of as the Universe's way of experiencing itself through the evolutionary outcome and the realization of a life form as exquisite as we are to be.


The implications of this are mind-boggling at every level of human discourse. Essentially, we are talking about the realization of an ancient desire to know and understand the mystery of the heavens. But, now we can finally discover what to do with this knowledge and why. And, we can discover this precisely at a point in time when such realization can become the difference between life and extinction for us.


Our ancient attraction to the heavens has come full circle after thousands of years. Now for the first time in the history of our kind, we can see for ourselves the idea of "home" radiate from our head out to the edge of the universe just as the light from the sun does. All the while, the light of our reason and the light of the sun are busily entwined to sustain life in the part of our solar system that we call "home."


When we set a prerogative like that at the foundations of a new world, I dare say that aspirations of this scale dwarf the petty aspirations of wealth and power that are at the foundations of the 1.0 world that we now inhabit.


On a side note, (and you may have noticed the same thing) isn't it peculiar that for the most part the arts have had such a poor reputation as contributors to the dialog pertaining to issues like these that we are tackling here? And yet, here is before you one illustration that encompasses the entire history of human fascination with the heavens and delivers a two-fold result --a conclusion to an old mystery and the beginning of a new greater one.


I said that we will begin to get into the tool box in this blog. And, here we are. I hope that you are still with me because the story gets better. The reason I wanted to show you a larger picture of "home" is because our solar system operates the way it does because of a number of physical laws that work together to produce a fairly uniform result. Even if these may vary a little here and there, this is a very typical scenario throughout the entire Universe.


Hold on a minute.
Since the whole thing works together as one single Universe, our solar system and everything within it (including you and me) are also a byproduct or result of how those same laws expressed themselves according to conditions and events unique to our location in the cosmos. Remember that old chestnut "location-location-location"?


My point is that, down here on Earth where we live, we are still influenced by those same laws and organizing principles. Their value to us today is that we now have a good idea of how they operate and why that knowledge can be used on our behalf as we go forward.


Therefore, as we venture outside of our cocoon (human nature) and into the world as a creature of this Universe, we do so in possession of a knowledge that no other being on Earth can express in ways like we do. It is as if one single cell living on your toe has come to realize who you are and why both it and you constitute one single being.


Add to that realization a spirit of reconciliation with the Nature of the entire system and a resolution to partner with Nature to create a new tier of sustainable continuity for life on Earth and "Presto!" we are transitioning to Planet Earth 2.0.


It follows that it is worth remembering that we (humanity) organized Planet Earth 1.0 (not knowing it at the time thousands of years ago) based upon our own experience and a very primitive interpretation of a natural organizing principle of survival. Over time this became a number of separate organizing agencies. Most are still very popular and with us today but, even now, not fully understood. I'm talking about the components of human society that we know as government, science, religion (the mystical realm really), industry and media.


It is possible that, early on, the fragmentation of these components was ushered by convenience in the distribution of power and resources. In time, these agencies drifted into an odd mutual relationship that, in a peculiar way, pretended to work separately. They (government, science, mysticism, industry and media) were never really able to work together or separately in actual practice, as we can easily see today. I will try to further explain why I think this is so in a future posting here. But, for now, please bear with me.


In Planet Earth 2.0, however, the first effect of our reconciliation with Nature is to notice that this organizational dislocation that took place so long ago was probably responsible for our eventual separation from the natural process. It caused us to create our own "human nature" to make up for the deficit. But this never quite worked out because, with nature out of the picture, all that was left was mindless competition for the control of the shares of power and resources. Fast forward to today's Planet Earth 1.0 and we arrive at the most recent incarnation of that ancient mess.


Happily as we enter an age of transition with our new partnership with Nature, the first thing that we gain is access to Nature's own organizational framework. As part of it, we begin to understand how the integral clockwork of survival operates. We can now choose the right combination that allows those organizing principles to finally work together. And, they can do so without losing their identities, their importance and their natural roles in Planet Earth 2.0.


To kind of sum things up and close today's blog, allow me to suggest that Planet Earth 2.0 is simply the logical landscape for a species that has come of age. Granted, this new transition for our species came through a difficult history. But, the dedication of thousands of individuals to solve the question of who we are has finally resulted in, not the end of the mystery, but the beginning of a new one with a new role for us to play and a new world to build.


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