Heroes Not Zombies

Nature is a term which we humans have, for many years, used to describe what is not us, somewhere “out there”, in the countryside or in “the wilds”. We’ve adopted a view that nature is a resource to be exploited and a force to be controlled. We seem to have an idea that we are separate from Nature, that we appeared on this Earth alongside “it”, and that we can live and survive in the future without “it”.

How wrong are all those beliefs and attitudes.

At the beginning of this post I’ve divided up a single paragraph in Iain McGilchrist’s magnificent “The Matter with Things”. That one paragraph captures a much healthier and much more realistic perspective on Nature than the dominant, materialistic, mechanistic, capitalist one.

I think we’d all be much better off if we reconnected to Nature as a feminine goddess. If we saw her as “becoming not being” (always about to be born).

I think we’d live differently if we understood that Nature never produces waste, that instead of being seen as a potential destructive force we saw her as a great alchemist, transforming one being into another.

What choices would we make if we saw Nature as our mother and healer? As our home and our fate? Have we really forgotten that bodies are self healing and that the best we humans can do is to assist and support those processes?

We need to reconnect to a sense of the divine, to understand that we are an integral part of the greater whole, to know that we are indivisibly bound to each other, and, to what is greater than us.

Nature, our home, our fate, our Mother, our Healer, the vast potential within which we can co-create a healthier, more abundant way of living.