The world of cement and a deteriorating planet is due to our creating a mirror image of our own minds. In order to heal the planet and create a healthy world for future generations, we need to heal ourselves. This means tackling all layers of our world, our educational systems, our internal ways of looking at life (i.e., dualism), and how we intereact with our loved ones.

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Originally Published on OpEdNews

Why is the process of healing the planet also the healing of ourselves?   It is because the sickness of the Planet, its miles and miles of woods made barren by logging and its mountains laid bare by strip mining are mirrors of our sick and barren minds.   In essence, we have made the planet into an image of ourselves.   Perhaps we are mirrors of a dying planet that is moving towards a rebirth?   Or, perhaps we are simply the walking dead as the Native American Kogis saw us when we first set foot upon the soils of their ecosystem several centuries ago.  

Look around at the city streets you live upon, the miles and miles of cement where trees are often lined up as soldiers alongside a meandering road.   Go into a classroom and see children sitting in lined up desks learning from standardized textbooks and a standardized teaching syllabus.   It's all about robotic control.   As a programmer gets a computer to do marvelous things based on the instructions given by its user, our children are being programmed into being good little slavers for low benefits and wages.   Yet they are also being trained by the media into being good little consumers lining the pockets of those for whom they work and slave.   Yes, we work we slave and then we pay the enslaver by buying his goods!   What a wonderful system for the slavers!   How long do we keep this up?

This scene, as well as our stripping the Earth's of Her resources, is a mirror to our own mind.   As any woman or man that has been raped knows, a rape is not about love, it is about power over.   It is this same cognition, "power over" that is destroying our planet.   Nature is being raped in just about all facets of our world.   For example, even in science, the idea is to "control" variables in getting at truth.   In psychology, it is told to aspiring students that the primary purpose of psychology is to "control behavior."   Control over others is the primary desire of a rapist.   Rape is not about joining with another person.   It is about control and domination.  

Domination may as well be reframed as damnation.

The term psychology emerged from the term Psyche.   In ancient times, Psyche was identified as the Soul.   Psyche is us. She is our Nature; our Essence.   Yet, She has been knocked unconscious of Her power.   She has been knocked unconscious by Her surface level fears of being independent of "The Man", i.e., the corporate/government structure that enslaves Her.   To reclaim Her power, She must taste the lips of Love (Eros) Himself, who is often seen as the first born Son of Sophia-Marie meaning the Oceanic (Marie) Wisdom (Sophia) from which all are born, sustained and dissolved, including this moment.   Yes, even as you read this line, you have engaged in the process of absorbing the light of these words and conceiving them in your mind.   You then ponder them and eventually allow them to sink into the depths of your mind".where they exist as a future potential, much like an egg exists as a potential person.  

Unfortunately, we have been willing slaves who listened to the literalized lies of "The Man" who took the creation myths from throughout the world and either (a) said they were literally true; or (b) said they were a lie.   The fact is, when one reads the creation myths, one is going into the beginning of this moment.   So, when Genesis 1:2 of the Bible states "And the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the Deep," it is speaking to this moment.   Tehom, the original Hebrew term for the Deep, is Marie because the term Marie means Ocean.   Thus the "Word made flesh" of John 1:14 of the Bible is simply a repeat of Genesis.   Is Genesis 1:2 any different than the theory of physicist David Bohm who states the universe is grounded in the Unmanifest Implicate Order which exists like an infinite Sea filled with an infinite array of possibilities interacting with the now manifest world.  

Perhaps physics is just now catching up to the wisdom of the ancients?   The story is told throughout the world.   For example, the Keres Pueblo have Spider Grandmother who is sometimes identified as Thinking Woman.     It is Thinking Woman's thoughts that become the world at the same time the Bible's John 1:14 Word is made flesh.   What are thoughts but vibratory waves within the Psyche which then become solidified upon our perception?

What is within Marie or Thinking Woman?   As a woman's ovaries contains eggs that are potential human beings, in the Unmanifest are an infinite array of possibilities that can come into manifestation by the actions of the external world, i.e., the Man.   As Sleeping Beauty is kissed awake by the kiss of Her beloved, we too must allow the kiss of Love to awaken us to our true Nature.  

Just as an egg released by the ovaries is a potential person if it meets with sperm, it is only by the kiss of Love that we can awaken and give birth to the new World that exists within us, in potential.

There is no accident that the term Nature has two basic definitions:   (1) The Creature (i.e., the birds, bees, atmosphere, mountains, land, dirt, etc) and (2) Essence.   Psyche is our Nature, our Essence.   She is even the Nature of God.   By God I'm not speaking of the externalized Patriarch.   I am speaking of God as the Way, the Process, or the Divine Essence.   Psyche is our Nature and is the Way.   In all creatures we see Her.   But, we do not necessarily see Her in isolation.   For as the Christian Meister Eckhart said, "all creatures are created with everything else in mind."   As such, the creation of a bird chirping outside my window is in coordination with the atmosphere, cats, fertilizer for plant growth and my meandering mind in writing this article.  

This "all creatures are created with everything else in mind" does not mean that we evolved at the beckoning of some external agent.   Rather, it means we all arise from the inside out, from center to periphery, in relationship to everything else.   It is like our being a jig-saw puzzle putting itself together.   There is no external agent".just higher levels of mind that exist within us.   Becoming aware of these higher levels of mind is the purpose of meditation and prayer.

The kiss of Love that Psyche experiences is neither less nor more than the bird chirping outside my window.   By understanding the bird, I experience the cosmic dance of all life.   Indeed, as I follow the chirp from birth to apex to dissolution, the entire universe appears to dance.   We all sing that Universal Song born of the bird outside my window. Where is the sound of that bird if not within me?   Or, is it that my Mind is everywhere?   Perhaps there is no within or without.   Perhaps there are no boundaries of "us and them?"      

The world, including our manifestation, is Psyche's mirror.   It is by us and the world around us that She sees Herself.   Is it any wonder that our eyes are constructed in such a way that they need a mirror to see themselves? What is at the center of the eye if not a black hole swallowing all light and conceiving an image?   Why use a high powered telescope to see a black hole where all light is swallowed?   Gaze into a mirror and look into your eyes!

Where is the world really?   Isn't it being conceived in you?   Is reality really concrete as science would have you believe?   Or is it how you perceive it?   Is objectivity ultimately a farce?

We and the world are one.   As we dive into ourselves, we ultimately realize ourselves as infinite.   As we dive into a blade of grass and really look hard at it, we also see infinity.   William Blake beautifully puts it thus: "to see the world in a grain of sand and eternity in an hour."   How do the two exist side-by-side?   They can't.   Infinity exists side-by-side with nothing.   Thus we create an illusion of limitation and separateness.   To "know" is to "objectify" and "divide."   Yet, objectivity is illusion, what the Hindus call Maya. There is no world "out there" with you "in here."   Indeed, the screen you are reading this upon is not outside you, nor are your typing fingers, they are inside being conceived within your Psyche.   Knowing this, She (i.e., you) will begin to awaken from Her dream.   Thus the first kiss of the Prince begins to awaken you.

Be careful, though.   There is a point in this kind of meditation where you will know you have the power to drop your body at will.

What we are defining as reality is not something we are locked into.   We can change the dream.   Begin to envision a new world, and behave in accordance to your vision.   How would that world look to you?   I seriously doubt you would see a world being ruled by a sociopathic projection of yourself within a government and corporate world.   This world is nothing more than a reflection of our being dead.   The world is dying because we are dead and our death is reflected in our destruction of the planet.

In truth, then, there is no external God that needs resurrection.   Nor is there any external God that will kiss us awake.   It is we that will be resurrection.   But, the kiss will not come from without.   It will come from within us.   That kiss, as we will discover, is nothing less or more than our own desire, or Eros.   Thus, we are what we've all been waiting for.   The power is within us"not the corporation or the government.   It is time we lived up to that fact.  

Authors Bio:

Burl is an avid writer and publishes to OpEd News. He is author of "Sophia's Web: A Passionate Call to Heal Our Wounded Nature." As of this writing, Burl is planning to self-publish the book. Alongside his wife, Burl co-hosts an on line radio show that seeks to give voice to visionaries of a just, sustainable and equitable future. The show is called "Envision This!". Burl's primary passion is in the unity of world religions to science and the holographic nature of the universe in which the part mirrors the whole.

Burl has a master's degree in counseling psychology. He is currently retired from work that involved helping families with problem behaviors in their adolescents. From a larger systems issue perspective, this work helped to save the state money by keeping kids in the home.

The work Burl did with these kids helped him to consolidate a long felt intuition that the sociopathic behaviors of criminals, both adults and children, mirror the criminality of the primary system.

This helped to reinforce Burl's interest in the holographic theory of physicist David Bohm as well as the neurologist Karl Pribram. Both of these men came up with the holographic theory independent of each other (yes, the did meet).

IN essence, the theory states the part mirrors the whole. As such, Burl will often say that how a fetus builds itself in the womb via the interactions of the parts, then so does the Earth. Indeed, as far as the Earth is concerned, this is the primary thesis of James Lovelock.

Burl's job in writing is to try and flesh out this holographic pattern.

In addition to writing Sophia's Web, Burl has written fiction. He has a fictional book titled "Mermaiden's Tale" which is about a love affair between a man and a woman who wind up being on a different planet because the the Earth was being destroyed by the actions of the corporations and the government.

Burl also writes poetry. He is torn about publishing because poetry to him is highly organic and evolves constantly. Thus, Burl's best works are those written several years ago which have been changed over the years.

This brings us to Burl's basic message: Consistency is change. Everything in the universe is evolving in relationship to everything else. More than that, each one of us sparks an evolution on this planet in our being. Perhaps the best way to put this is that everything is in relationship to everything.

To use a simple example, as I type, I breathe out carbon dioxide, which the trees breathe in. The trees then breathe out oxygen which we breathe in.

The planet specifically and the universe in general is one system that is maintained in diversity. Could this be why the universe is comprised of "uni" or oneness and "verse" signifying versatile?

Or, as the saying goes, "all for one and one for all."