The Need to Evolve

[Leonardo17]

I remember back in 1992 there was this movie with Sean Connery called “The Medicine Man”. Two American doctors are in the amazon rain forest trying to understand why one indigenous tribe has absolutely no record of cancer. Just when they understand it’s the ants living in one of the trees the road building company arrives and destroys everything.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine_Man_(film)
 
This is an issue that goes back to the 1970’s. The Amazon rain forest used to be the second major carbon sink after the Oceans. In other words, it’s our lungs. It’s the source of the oxygen we all breathe.
 
And this is just today:
 



 
When I see this private security company members who are shooting on (white) people in Brazil in order to take their lands. And all of the soy production model described here that is designed for one thing and one thing only I start to become philosophical and I really start wondering what’s going to happen to us as intelligent beings who are basically trying to survive on this little planet.
 
One of the possibility is that we have reached a point in which we can’t afford to live like our forefathers did. It might simply be that the old way of doing things is going to end one way or another. So all of these thugs who think they can just destroy anything and everything for money are simply wrong and it might be that we need to show them that they are wrong.
 
How this inner change is going to occur is another issue. There are atheists who get there through observation, basic reason, scientific data and/or other philosophical material.
 
Some other (like me). Get there through more spiritual means. “Karma Yoga” for instance means action. It means that if we want a planet (for instance) we need to fight (take action) in order to protect this planet from being completely annihilated.
 
Also: Western Religions are a little backward on these issues. But eastern religions have very clear schemes that explain this human need of ever wanting more stuff even at the price of destroying its own living space. So if you know where to look, there are countless resources there that are in fact designed to free ourselves from these consumerism habits that are gradually taking all of us to the abyss.
 
So on a personal level, I’m not a promoter of any mythology and or dogmatic way of seeing life. But I believe in different forms of inner transformation which can also come in the form of spiritual work or understanding.