I often think that if cancer was a sentient being how clever it would feel as it outwitted it’s host. How it would smugly laugh as it spread from one organ to the next, little realising the very nature of it’s success would in turn sow the seeds of it’s death.

The parallels to humanity here are unsettling...a man I have immense respect for, was once talking about the modern mentality of "getting away with something!". Like oh yeah, aren't we clever?? Look what we were able to get away with! He says it's like tiptoing your way straight to hell...OOO00h yeah, look I DID IT!!! I got away with it!!!

but you're still in hell

I'm not much for believing in hell in the literal sense, but Anastasia (of the ringing cedars) talks about how hell is actually when your true self or soul sheds the trappings of your earthly consciousness and when YOU realize how you've affected the world, that the HELL is not something someone subjects you to, but rather something that YOU subject you to, the pain of seeing things from a bigger perspective.

I always appreciated that thought. Rather then thinking, what will the powers that be think of my actions, then you must ask...what will I think of my actions?

Born out of an ignorance regarding the very nature of time itself humanity has constructed a calendar whose very implementation was one of the first steps in our disconnection to natural law, this is sometimes referred to as the error in time.

AHHHH!!!!! it's sooooo true PF!!! Calendars, and perhaps writing itself have drastically changed our perceptions in DEEP ways, that we may not even understand. There's a completely fabulous book called The Spell of the Sensuous, that just completely blew my mind left, right and sideways as a young adult. The effect that our 'tools of the mind' have had on us are absolutely insane!! I think it's trickier too because we have a strong pre-disposition to seeing past human cultures from inside of the framework of how we view people now.

I think we grossly under-appreciate the vast possible differences in people's basic perceptions, in the past, and right here in today

I love your thoughts here PF, they are resonating with me very strongly =) Is it little wonder that spending a day walking in the woods can bring one back to life? The depression as a systemic symptomatic disease is far too real. And it does seem to be tied into many aspects of our culture.

Have you read any Charles Eisenstein or Martin Prechtel? Two authors that have have offered me a bit hope about all this.

Thankyou for this Perceptual, it's such an important thing to be discussing. I also appreciate what Eisenstein says about finally leaving behind our 'old story' for a new one..in that the beautiful radiance of a new story's possibility may of itself be terrifying.

It is quite normal to fear what ones desires most. We desire to transcend the story that has come to enslave us, that is killing our planet. We fear what the end of the story will bring; the demise of much that is familiar
-Charles Eisenstein