*War, Semen and Grooviness presents our newest contributor, LLB - He is a liver, a giver, and a true Psychedelic Conservative!*
~The Hawaiian creation myth relates that the present cosmos is only the last of a series, having arisen in stages from the wreck of the previous universe. In this account, the octopus is the lone survivor of the previous, alien universe.~
Self reflexivity in consciousness is a perspective that Cosmologist Brain Swimme uses synonymously with the ability of the planet to become self referencing via the development of human consciousness by the earth itself. In this respect the Planet has become self reflexive as has the cosmos through the development of life forms such as us.
What I find interesting as well is that Swimme points out that in order for the earth to do so it had to wound her self...
What other animals in nature wound themselves to procreate? What animals die so that they can carry on life?
These animals die after birthing their young...
Salmon
Octopus
Squid
& May Flies
Gaia, this planet, may be our mother - but if she’s intelligent at all she knows that she will be devoured by her Sun, Sol, one day and all life on this planet will end... is it possible that like the mother octopus the planet is self sacrificing so that life can evolve in some way that will allow it to leave the planet?
Could it be possible that Gaia is the type of organism that gave birth to an offspring that has the ability to reproduce another earth eventually? People have been speculating and researching the possibility of terra-forming other planets for a long time now. If our mind is the self reflexivity of the earth/cosmos itself, then these ideas to terraform other planets are the earth’s idea itself. How else would a planet, if it is a living organism, reproduce?
The idea that the planet and its consciousness is separate from ours needs to end - especially now. Mothers around the world have given their lives for their young and for life itself since the beginning of time and in each of these sacrifices of self, it was the earth mother’s sacrifice. Nothing is separate at all, the salmon is the earth mother, the octopus, my mother... my grandmother and their grandmothers... all the earth mother. Their mind all the earth mother’s mind. The only separation is our own misperception of separation.
I do not wish to lessen the impact of the trauma of the ecological horrors we are experiencing today, the oil spills and the species extinction... but maybe - just maybe - the earth herself is behind this, and standing behind her mask is the mask of the universe and behind that mask the true self of us all... and perhaps this true self wishes for life to spread throughout the universe, maybe there is no other choice then for the planet to mate spawn and die like the salmon. Perhaps the ecological horrors and our reactions to them, to technology and spiritual advancement and our own evolution is all intertwined and is the beginning of our attempt to spread through the vast cosmic sea spreading life throughout the universe.
This planet will someday die... it is inevitable... I think it knows this... and I think it has been preparing for this for a very long time.
Pictures of a terraformed mars
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/MarsTransitionV.jpg
- LLB
Source: http://vinceynzunza-thisweekinwar.blogspot.com/2010/08/mother-earth-and-mother-octopus.html
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