Like a grotesque monster, civilization has become a being in its own right. It survives by feeding off the natural world in a way that is alien to all other life and indeed even stones themselves, the bones of the earth.
It has gained an identity above and beyond those who dwell as trapped humans in the bowels of its atrocities and mostly wallow with glee through the sickness of its heart and the tangibility of its retched productions. The love and connection to the old ways, the ways of the spirits and the way of the Universal spirit are gone or at least subdued in the world of self exaltation.
Where has the God of the wild places gone? Is it hiding in the darkness of the forest waiting to be rediscovered by a humanity who has cast it afar and embraced the deluded and frozen poisonous mist of themselves as God and their magical frolics with glowing screens and malicious dreams of progress? Where does the mystery hide in their cold world of sterility and a bankrupt consciousness.
The music of the Universe has left their souls and the darkness has filled their sensibilities with superfluous musings and exhibitions of arrogance. It has been a long time that a soft whisper of wind has graced their skin and awoken a deep connection to the Universal spirit. The shadows have grown deep and despairing over these final days of human folly and the earth has grown tired of a species that considers itself above its winged, swimming, slithering, crawling or hopping kin.
In so many mystical places I’ve stood and let the thoughts consume me of humanities great forgetting, the shallow husks walking as lost beings, abandoned wraiths devoid of the angelic mysteries and sublime splendour of the universe about them. The hysterical howls emanating from the hollows of their hearts and the vacuous hallucinations of their pillared pride assailing the natural world with greed and apathy. The cold hearts abound in the end days building ever more glass palaces, icons of arrogant meditations, castles of conceit.
Why shouldn’t they in their eyes?
They have conquered the earth and look with greedy hearts to the Universe. They have slain the truth that is buried deep within their hearts and now their demented poisoned souls make desirous yearnings for universal plunder and destruction. They have chained the natural world to the rack of their own warped justice and forced it to jump through hoops as they sit as grinning clowns in a circus freak show of their own making, eating popcorn and gorging their bloated guts and egos on natures rapidly diminishing bounty.
The single species asylum is here and it’s filled with the lies of progress, heralded by flashing lights, fireworks and selfies whilst nature is locked safely away in a cage where the truth is shackled in bloody chains, stricken and dying. This culture of insanity is here to proclaim the delusions of its fearlessness, its prominence and its superiority before an earth that doesn’t speak its tongue. It’s culture forgets nature doesn’t speak its language and doesn’t subscribe to one species erroneous notions of its own magnificence nor its churlish pomposity.
It may have forgotten or torn asunder the sacredness and sanctity of nature but it has brought upon itself the dark clouds of reckoning. For the spirits elemental manifestations are firing back in the war this lost culture of deception unleashed upon it thousands of years ago.
Look about you and tell me if you think this culture can win…………………………………………….
Its bones will be bleached under the sun and in moons glow and the crumbling towers of the final empire will shortly become nests for whatever creatures can call earth home after the maelstrom of civilization has vanished.
Ego has no place in a Universe that demands humility.
Few people in the world live truly free lives. There are pockets of hunter-gatherers scattered about the planet in ever decreasing numbers but the majority of the exploding mass of humanity are caged by the insane monster of industrial civilization. Shackled by psychological manipulation to live lives divorced from their animal bodies and instincts they are bound by societal demands to live in total domestication. It’s a culture bound by thousands of years of indoctrination that cannot be reformed. By its very nature it can’t. The infrastructure that sustains it also informs it, a cultural disease in both psychological and tangible manifestations. The notion of human superiority is too ingrained in the collective psyche to be challenged. We are led to believe that humanity is the pinnacle of species evolution, the crown of all life that has ever existed. We believe the Universe is here for humanities exclusive use and we have gone about our lives exactly as if that is the truth. A Universe to be conquered, pillaged, raped and poisoned.
To the few souls who see through these societal enforced lies a most confronting horror exists. Its seeing the Emperor has no clothes, it’s coming to terms with the reality that the majority of humanity is living in a bubble of beeping machines and glowing gadgets as the biosphere is being turned into a hazy mess of human squander and arrogance. The blanket of civilization has smothered humanity so thickly that one can see it almost everywhere one steps. It’s on the vacant zombies faces of aimless shoppers spending their precious lives surrounded by neon lit signs designed to catch them as a Venus flytrap would catch a fly.
It’s the words of the vacuous incantations of the politicians begging to the equally exasperating public who themselves are enveloped in a cocooned comatose stupor to vote for them. It’s on the faces and billboards of slimy advertising agencies and their spokespeople begging the deluded public to buy the latest round of tedious trinkets to quell the vivacious appetites of a brainwashed society. It’s there every time a television is turned on. A feast of celebrity narcissists performing like Gods and Goddesses to the self loathing and stupefied masses only too eager to lap it up and post it on social media along with the previous nights dinner so they can feel wanted in a society cold and indifferent to them and their lives.
Even in the age of information, available at the click of a switch which warns them of impending misery, hardship and collapse humanity is drunk on the so called glory of the industrial holocaust even though all the evidence is around them to the contrary and available on the very screens of their phones telling them that all is not well.
Technology has always divorced humanity from the realty of their existence and as we dive headlong ever more quickly into it we become convinced that the only solution to any ails or ills confronting us is more technology which only exacerbates the situation by divorcing us further from reality and the continuing destruction of the planet and ultimately the Universe. I say Universe because if this insane culture ever manages to colonize another planet for any length of time it will plunder it for all the reasons I’ve mentioned above.
The arrogance of this culture cannot be reformed due to the very nature of it being one of conquest and narcissism at its very core. Civilization is a deformed societal situation based on coercion, dominance and greed. It cooperates with no other species and acts as an alien upon the earth and from the perspectives of free humans and all other life that is unfortunate enough to live along side it, it is indeed alien.
Until this culture passes and a reconnected one rises, to the masses, the Spirit is silent.
By Brendon Crook
Panthevita
Panthevita 