You are natural beings, you are spiritual beings

Now, you are natural beings, you are spiritual beings, the two statements mean the same thing. Each consciousness, from the least to the greatest, as you understand them, has a built-in recognition of the requirement to cooperate with all other beings in the gestalt or gestalts to which it belongs. The Earth is one such gestalt, (composed of many others) and all the consciousnesses which form it have that built-in recognition with regards to their earthly existence. Atoms and molecules and all other such particles have it expressed as their natural attraction/repulsion behaviours. Plants have it very much as a mass consciousness with some individuality sitting as it were on the top; for a plant, what happens to another plant or indeed any other lifeform, is experienced as happening to itself so of course it "wants" to do what is best for all. Animals have it as instinct, that natural guideline to proper behaviour for each species and each individual. And my lovely human friends have it as two guidelines, compassion and guilt, and these are as natural as instinct, or the other recognitions of the requirement to cooperate.

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Copyright © Z Smith 1993

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