By L. S. Heatherly
We shall know the truth--
That truth is known far less
In pursuit of happiness!
Far more in paths through maze
That lead us to our children's joys.
No more to gun's false fate deploys!
Away from greed, wealth and power;
Into childhood's endless showers
Of growth upon all family ways.
This, down through ancient, human hours;
This human spring comes, still, again.
As long as this may, still, remain
Our true, highest, human power.
Copyright 2016 L.S. Heatherly
Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label childhood. Show all posts
Feb 13, 2016
Jan 10, 2012
Children Born Free: Natural Culture
American Youth of the 1960's and 70's counterculture were told: "Get your act
together!" More recently, the acts on the stages of the Human Circus-Zoo--
called "modern civilization"-- are more automatically programmed via an
artificialization of childhood. But, a deeper pondering asks: of what kind, and
of what merit, are these un-natural, unecological choices! These fabricated
choices made on such slippery, mechanical, digital, virtual slopes!
These choices are provided to our children throughout youth's long, dietary,
spirit-being-culture-mind salad of scientific 'certainty', spiritual-ontological confusion, high-technicized senses and perception, digitalized, cyberized
language and relationships, spiritual-ontological frustration, commercial adulteration, and the ego's inflation.
An inflated ego that eclipses the whole human self -- human self as organismic union of family, community, mind, consciousness, being, spirit and culture; all within Earth-life!
Is this chaos of exploding, fragmenting, naturally evolved, human being and
socioculture merely stuff for social theories, and engineered, corporate,
cultural empires! Merely stuff for humanity as egocentric careers and
comodities! Have not our pesonal selves, our families, our communities, our
cultures and our particular ancestors emerged from, with and by means of,
our long-running, natural humanness; carried through, and around, written
historical time; carried through and around history's enslaved, subjugated,
human being! Carried primarily, by our innate, evolved, organismic, naturalistic,
Earth-folk Society and Culture! By the Earth-life-Humanity relationship!
Dare we evoke, through deepest human restorations, a deep soul-rebellion!
Shall we proclaim that our very humanness cannot be perpetuated, be
socioculturally reproduced, be sustained, for human posterity without sufficiently
preserving our root human being, nature, spirit and culture, all resprouting
from our, original, Paleolithic being! That we must and we shall, excavate our
200,000 year-old ecovillages as birthrights of our human species!
Shall we abandon achaeology of things for archaeology of our soul! Shall we
replace excavations for career's passion with excavations for lost, wide, deep,
manifold, human loves. Loves, once, innate and free.
(adapted from pg 38, 6, of The Last Human Spring, L.S. Heatherly 2002)
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together!" More recently, the acts on the stages of the Human Circus-Zoo--
called "modern civilization"-- are more automatically programmed via an
artificialization of childhood. But, a deeper pondering asks: of what kind, and
of what merit, are these un-natural, unecological choices! These fabricated
choices made on such slippery, mechanical, digital, virtual slopes!
These choices are provided to our children throughout youth's long, dietary,
spirit-being-culture-mind salad of scientific 'certainty', spiritual-ontological confusion, high-technicized senses and perception, digitalized, cyberized
language and relationships, spiritual-ontological frustration, commercial adulteration, and the ego's inflation.
An inflated ego that eclipses the whole human self -- human self as organismic union of family, community, mind, consciousness, being, spirit and culture; all within Earth-life!
Is this chaos of exploding, fragmenting, naturally evolved, human being and
socioculture merely stuff for social theories, and engineered, corporate,
cultural empires! Merely stuff for humanity as egocentric careers and
comodities! Have not our pesonal selves, our families, our communities, our
cultures and our particular ancestors emerged from, with and by means of,
our long-running, natural humanness; carried through, and around, written
historical time; carried through and around history's enslaved, subjugated,
human being! Carried primarily, by our innate, evolved, organismic, naturalistic,
Earth-folk Society and Culture! By the Earth-life-Humanity relationship!
Dare we evoke, through deepest human restorations, a deep soul-rebellion!
Shall we proclaim that our very humanness cannot be perpetuated, be
socioculturally reproduced, be sustained, for human posterity without sufficiently
preserving our root human being, nature, spirit and culture, all resprouting
from our, original, Paleolithic being! That we must and we shall, excavate our
200,000 year-old ecovillages as birthrights of our human species!
Shall we abandon achaeology of things for archaeology of our soul! Shall we
replace excavations for career's passion with excavations for lost, wide, deep,
manifold, human loves. Loves, once, innate and free.
(adapted from pg 38, 6, of The Last Human Spring, L.S. Heatherly 2002)
Copyright 2011-2013 All rights reserved
Oct 11, 2010
The Origin and Nature of Environmental Crisis
By L. S. Heatherly
I.
We, through the pollution-debilitation of natural, human will and
purpose, are de-naturing all life and being on Earth. This
de-naturing and de-nurturing originates and springs from the pollution
and de-naturing of what, how and why we are, originally (before
civilization), as Earth's human beings created by her evolutionary Life.
Cleansed human vision beholds the source of all human-
caused disasters to be the pollution of our human hearts,
minds, and souls; the pollution of our self-consciousness
of our Earth-Humanity's spirit and soul-self.
I.
Connecting Childhood and Sociocultural Dots
Our Global Eco-crisis is falsely perceived and
defined as a disaster happening "out there"-- in the oceans,
forests, rivers, air, plants, animals and lands; and
spreading into the lives of the diverse peoples of Earth.
In deeper fact and reality, the true origin of this and all such
disasters lies within us: within our hearts, values, upbringing,
spirit, consciousness, being, culture and lifeway.
The great bulk of developmental psychologists correctly
cite childhood as the medium, or crucible, in which these
human attributes grow to their constitutional form, nature,
and quality.
Developmental psychology most of the dots: the stages and events
of childhood development giving rise to adult enterprises.
But it refuses to recognize and connect those childhood dots
to the disastrous, bad dots found in adult sociocultural behavior.
Our Global Eco-crisis is falsely perceived and
defined as a disaster happening "out there"-- in the oceans,
forests, rivers, air, plants, animals and lands; and
spreading into the lives of the diverse peoples of Earth.
In deeper fact and reality, the true origin of this and all such
disasters lies within us: within our hearts, values, upbringing,
spirit, consciousness, being, culture and lifeway.
The great bulk of developmental psychologists correctly
cite childhood as the medium, or crucible, in which these
human attributes grow to their constitutional form, nature,
and quality.
Developmental psychology most of the dots: the stages and events
of childhood development giving rise to adult enterprises.
But it refuses to recognize and connect those childhood dots
to the disastrous, bad dots found in adult sociocultural behavior.
.
To avoid career blockage, scientists and their enterprises
enter into denial: deny that profits trump truth of human development.
Science, and media, afterall, are funded by, in the same house with,
sharing vested interests with, for-profit corporations.
Science, and media, afterall, are funded by, in the same house with,
sharing vested interests with, for-profit corporations.
.
Education, serving science, corporations, media and governments,
is bought-off, unable to find and bring the primary truths home --
Education, serving science, corporations, media and governments,
is bought-off, unable to find and bring the primary truths home --
to restore and conserve ecologic family and community.
* * * * * * * *
The Gift to Children
Give our children a cleaned-up, unpolluted childhood;
and they will, generation by generation, return
all Humanity and Earth to sustainable Life.
* * * * * * * *
II.
The Gift to Children
Give our children a cleaned-up, unpolluted childhood;
and they will, generation by generation, return
all Humanity and Earth to sustainable Life.
* * * * * * * *
II.
Restoring Natural Childhood to Socioculture
The human-caused disasters all about us spring from the
ongoing, disasterous destruction of our natural, human
condition, our naturality, on this natural Earth, home of multitudes
of treasured forms of life including human life,being and soul.
The human-caused disasters all about us spring from the
ongoing, disasterous destruction of our natural, human
condition, our naturality, on this natural Earth, home of multitudes
of treasured forms of life including human life,being and soul.
We, through the pollution-debilitation of natural, human will and
purpose, are de-naturing all life and being on Earth. This
de-naturing and de-nurturing originates and springs from the pollution
and de-naturing of what, how and why we are, originally (before
civilization), as Earth's human beings created by her evolutionary Life.
Cleansed human vision beholds the source of all human-
caused disasters to be the pollution of our human hearts,
minds, and souls; the pollution of our self-consciousness
of our Earth-Humanity's spirit and soul-self.
.
If we cannot grasp and embrace this underestanding,
cannot receive this light, cannot re-purify and restore
this pure, human flame of spirit andconsciousness in its unity
with all life on Earth; then we willcontinue to point fingers at
each other's activities in that de-natured environment
"out there" in human society and Earth's environment.
Lacking this human revelation, we will continue to be
blind to the de-naturing and de-nurturing from pollution of
the environment of our hearts, minds, and souls.
Clean up and restore our children's natural childhood;
and we clean up and restore all of Humanity and Earth.
cannot receive this light, cannot re-purify and restore
this pure, human flame of spirit andconsciousness in its unity
with all life on Earth; then we willcontinue to point fingers at
each other's activities in that de-natured environment
"out there" in human society and Earth's environment.
Lacking this human revelation, we will continue to be
blind to the de-naturing and de-nurturing from pollution of
the environment of our hearts, minds, and souls.
Clean up and restore our children's natural childhood;
and we clean up and restore all of Humanity and Earth.
2010 All rights reserved
Jun 19, 2010
Ecocrisis: Earth, Humanity and Childhood Dreams,
...........................................................Dave Martin/Guardian
Prologue:
Beyond Despair
Whence the child that Comes to Be?
Born to live in Land once Free!
There's more in our oceans than oily fish and birds: we float there.
Beyond despair over lost wildlife, occupations and tourism;
Look deep: our violated waters bemoan the Human Condition:
I.
Born to live in Land once Free!
There's more in our oceans than oily fish and birds: we float there.
Beyond despair over lost wildlife, occupations and tourism;
Look deep: our violated waters bemoan the Human Condition:
I.
All our pollutions of Earth
Enter our Human being's,
Gestational, amniotic fluid
Before they enter
The salty, amniotic fluid of Earth,
The origin of all Life.
.
II.
More debilitating than blindness of the eyes
Is blindness of the soul.
III.
More endangering than mind become blind
Is human culture, blind to sacred water, sky and land;
Blind to birthrights and dreams the human child.
IV.
If we cannot see Humanity, cannot see ourselves
As a threatened species, in oil-spill scenes;
We, first and foremost, are blinded by the oil in the water:
More debilitating than blindness of the eyes
Is blindness of the soul.
III.
More endangering than mind become blind
Is human culture, blind to sacred water, sky and land;
Blind to birthrights and dreams the human child.
IV.
If we cannot see Humanity, cannot see ourselves
As a threatened species, in oil-spill scenes;
We, first and foremost, are blinded by the oil in the water:
Blind to our Earth-place, our Humanity,
To child's becoming Earthly human being.
To child's bonding to source of Earthly Human Life
V.
To child's becoming Earthly human being.
To child's bonding to source of Earthly Human Life
V.
Beyond the decimation of Coast and Marine species;
Our humanity within us is becoming decimated.
Before the photos, before our Eco-disasters,
We have become the blind species upon the Earth.
Only Humanity is blinded, in heart and soul, by civilization.
VI.
Having created an anti-Nature culture, gradually for millennia;
We, then, disown its Sociocultural excretions, blaming entities,
supposedly "out there in industry and technology"-- outside
Human Will, Being and Soul.
Look within; only we, are the infidels of Earth-life, and, our Humanity.
Only we, are emergent aliens, invading Earth-Human natural treasures.
Epilogue:
Human Reality in Polluted Waters
Midst the oil and other debris in polluted waters,
If we cannot discern our grandchildren,
Even our very humanity, in that flotsam and jetsam;
We do not know what Humanity is, nor how and why it is.
Our humanity within us is becoming decimated.
Before the photos, before our Eco-disasters,
We have become the blind species upon the Earth.
Only Humanity is blinded, in heart and soul, by civilization.
VI.
Having created an anti-Nature culture, gradually for millennia;
We, then, disown its Sociocultural excretions, blaming entities,
supposedly "out there in industry and technology"-- outside
Human Will, Being and Soul.
Look within; only we, are the infidels of Earth-life, and, our Humanity.
Only we, are emergent aliens, invading Earth-Human natural treasures.
Epilogue:
Human Reality in Polluted Waters
Midst the oil and other debris in polluted waters,
If we cannot discern our grandchildren,
Even our very humanity, in that flotsam and jetsam;
We do not know what Humanity is, nor how and why it is.
L.S. Heatherly All Rights Reserved
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