Listen to a reading of this article: It can be hard to feel your roots as a westerner. Many of us live in countries built on relatively recent colonization by Europeans, so our ancestral connection to the land only goes back a few generations. Our spirituality is generally expressed in religions which originated thousands of years ago in a geographical and historical context that we have no real relationship with, or in the borrowing from other traditions we're even more distant from. And all of us are continually slammed in the face every day with a
Exactly what I have always believed, even as a very small child, and so well-expressed. Before I had any knowledge of religion, I thought religious objects cruel, ugly, barbaric. It's as though I had come from a beautiful place - into something totally foreign. This reminds me of what I felt then, and so glad someone else feels the same way.
What a powerful explanation of our oneness. It might not be too farfetched to go one little step further, without losing grounding in the already established and evidenced science of current days on Earth. We have already some rudimentary sense regarding energies which are for the time being still escaping measurement with current devices and technology. Some studies show us for example that, let us call it swinging waves, from one person thinking intensively and lovingly about another one can trigger positive effects. This may happen between persons like parent and child; it may also happen as expression of empathy for an animal, for a plant. In other words, we are not just living next to each other with all of nature, no we are in reality connected to everyone and everything on this planet and in the home universe.
I love love love this and all your amazing gifted generous profound and deeply compassionate (and so many more adjectives) writingl Thank you so much for doing what you do.
But I guess it's not exciting and interesting enough for some so we have to make up all sorts of B.S. so as to have more whatever and manipulate others.
Planet Earth is basically a ship of fools going round and round a big, life giving orb working feverishly on their own destruction.
Thank you for this Caitlin, I have always felt we are all one and part of something much bigger, we live and die but are always a part of the whole. Which is so beautiful, nature is never ending.
Beautiful. Powerful. Thank you so much Caitlin. Your writing has this ability to deepening my feelings of gratitude, love and connection, to the cosmos, nature and humanity as a whole. I cannot express my gratitude enough. You’re my favorite writer. I tend to start my days with your texts
A few remarks: nearly the entire planet and most of history is covered with colonialism. Bantu Africa was mostly a recent colony. Societies with aversion to colonisation and immigration, tend to go the way of Sparta: demographic implosion... in the best case. Open society Athens did much better...
Slavery was also ubiquitous in the past before Frankish empress (and saint!), the ferocious Bathilde outlawed it in 656 CE.
African slaves were sold to European slave traders by African potentates. Earlier on, the human excedent was simply killed, often in elaborate rituals reminiscent of the Aztecs. When Africa was finally conquered in the Nineteenth Century, one of the main argument to do it was "mission civilisatrice"... Including putting an end to... African slavery (not quite finished to this day...)
In other news, we are Quantum entanglements, thus everywhere home...
I don't know why everybody cramps all over colonialism. The impression I get is that everyone was an angel and all was holy in the land before those blasted Europeans showed up! Never mind the good things that came from westernization.
Exactly what I have always believed, even as a very small child, and so well-expressed. Before I had any knowledge of religion, I thought religious objects cruel, ugly, barbaric. It's as though I had come from a beautiful place - into something totally foreign. This reminds me of what I felt then, and so glad someone else feels the same way.
What a powerful explanation of our oneness. It might not be too farfetched to go one little step further, without losing grounding in the already established and evidenced science of current days on Earth. We have already some rudimentary sense regarding energies which are for the time being still escaping measurement with current devices and technology. Some studies show us for example that, let us call it swinging waves, from one person thinking intensively and lovingly about another one can trigger positive effects. This may happen between persons like parent and child; it may also happen as expression of empathy for an animal, for a plant. In other words, we are not just living next to each other with all of nature, no we are in reality connected to everyone and everything on this planet and in the home universe.
“Nature is not matter only. She is also spirit.” ~Carl Jung
Excellent piece, totally grounded in the materialism of our universe and stripped bare of 'false narrative'. Congratulations Caitlin.
I love love love this and all your amazing gifted generous profound and deeply compassionate (and so many more adjectives) writingl Thank you so much for doing what you do.
It's that simple really.
But I guess it's not exciting and interesting enough for some so we have to make up all sorts of B.S. so as to have more whatever and manipulate others.
Planet Earth is basically a ship of fools going round and round a big, life giving orb working feverishly on their own destruction.
It's a comedy and tragedy all rolled into one.
Thank you for this Caitlin, I have always felt we are all one and part of something much bigger, we live and die but are always a part of the whole. Which is so beautiful, nature is never ending.
You are not separate from the universe. How could you be?
I love you.
Caitlin you are such a gift to this world. Thank you from the bottom of my new and ancient heart. 🙏
Beautiful Caitlin. Thank you ❤️
Beautiful. Powerful. Thank you so much Caitlin. Your writing has this ability to deepening my feelings of gratitude, love and connection, to the cosmos, nature and humanity as a whole. I cannot express my gratitude enough. You’re my favorite writer. I tend to start my days with your texts
Yes, absolutely. Nature is my only religion.
Nice essay...
A few remarks: nearly the entire planet and most of history is covered with colonialism. Bantu Africa was mostly a recent colony. Societies with aversion to colonisation and immigration, tend to go the way of Sparta: demographic implosion... in the best case. Open society Athens did much better...
Slavery was also ubiquitous in the past before Frankish empress (and saint!), the ferocious Bathilde outlawed it in 656 CE.
African slaves were sold to European slave traders by African potentates. Earlier on, the human excedent was simply killed, often in elaborate rituals reminiscent of the Aztecs. When Africa was finally conquered in the Nineteenth Century, one of the main argument to do it was "mission civilisatrice"... Including putting an end to... African slavery (not quite finished to this day...)
In other news, we are Quantum entanglements, thus everywhere home...
I don't know why everybody cramps all over colonialism. The impression I get is that everyone was an angel and all was holy in the land before those blasted Europeans showed up! Never mind the good things that came from westernization.
"We are star-stuff." -- Carl Sagan
Welcome home, everyone! You belong here--no matter what anyone else says.