We have gone through great efforts to separate ourselves from nature. I can see this clearly when I travel to different places and am among different groups of people.
The typical Western culture strives for wealth, but what they are working towards is separation and isolation. Tall, expensive buildings with carefully controlled temperatures are seen a progress. I see a prison. The air is recycled, the lights are artificial.
To mask the stress the mind and body experience, we move some of the outside inside. Paintings and pictures to remind us of what’s missing. Live plants, also struggling with malnourishment, lack of sun, and fresh air, struggle to reconnect us with what we crave.
We go through all this trouble to shelter ourselves from the outside elements, only to recreate them inside. We think we can do it better than nature herself, only to fail miserably.
The increasingly high rates of anxiety, depression, and other dis-eases are evidence of our failures.
To think, all we have to do is step outside, charge with the sun, align with the earth, eat living food, and sit with the village. Sometimes it really is that simple.
I think our ancestors would be disappointed with our so-called progress. They would see how we have imprisoned ourselves. They would know that we have forgotten who we really are. But some of us know.
We’ve glimpsed what our lives could, should be. And we do the work to bring that to this current reality.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not anti-progress. But some of the progress is meant to solve a problem that was unnecessarily created in the first place.
We all know someone taking pills to counteract the side effects of another pill. Eventually more pills be will needed to counteract the ones to counteract the original. And so it goes until the body can no longer tolerate the toxicity and side effects.
Progress can be just as toxic.
Do you also see society through a different lens?
Let’s talk about it.