FINDING OUR PURPOSE - PART 7 - PITFALLS

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What then, is to be our collective purpose? We have seen that the desire of our Universal Source is for unity in multiplicity, to return to that sense of Oneness, but retain diversity in viewpoint. Just as we live best when we align our individual purpose with the source of Life within us, why should we be surprised if collectively we create the most harmonious world by doing the same?

Both individually and collectively, to live in harmony and peace with not only others but with our surroundings, allowing for countless creative ways of doing things, would seem most in alignment with the natural order.

Nature adores feedback, and whether quickly or slowly, it always comes. Stresses in nature are always equalized in the end. A surplus of rabbits leads to growth in the predator population, and soon there will be more wolves. Too many wolves, and they will fall prey to starvation, disease, or hunting by people. We tend to see this as successive imbalance, but Nature operates on a different time scale than we do. We tend to see ourselves as outside of the process, but we are a part of it.

If we cannot align our purpose with harmony, sustainability, and peaceful co-existence, we will be decimated, by whatever means. We will see it as human failure, but it will just be Nature, doing what she does best. We are not exempt from the cycle, any more than the rabbit. The only difference is that we ought to know better. We have the capability to choose, which the rabbit and the wolf do not.

If we decline to choose, and follow our basic desires unconsciously, we will be subject to the random effects of the natural world, and Nature will follow her course, taking us up to and including extinction. Many species before us have gone that route – we should not think we are better, only potentially more able to escape from the bonds of probability. In this, Einstein was partly wrong – God does indeed play dice with the world, to the extent that randomness applies where conscious purpose is absent. We have been unconscious in our living for far too long.

We are only subject to the probabilistic nature of the physical world if we choose to proceed unconsciously, to follow personal desires into an unsustainable realm of collective desire. If we fail to plan for the big picture, we will erode our chance to create a grander and more vibrant world. It is said that Nature abhors a vacuum. We create a vacuum of sorts through unconscious thought and action. Nature responds to us, and fills the world with the garbage and ugliness created by our thoughtlessness.