This brilliant universe...more resiliant than polymers
(Formerly called: The lights are on but nobody's home..earth without humans would recover)
"I no longer believe in the anthropocentric myth of the end of the world. There is every likelihood that we humans will destroy ourselves, but not creation. Creations has an infinite capacity to co-create." --Diarmuid O'Murchu in Evolutionary Faith
Author Alan Weisman traveled the world talking to experts and visiting key sites, to explore how the earth would respond and hopefully recover, devoid of humans and their activity. The NPR interview in written form includes the entire Chapter 9 titled "Polymers are Forever".
Where's the everyday spirituality of this topic? Acknowledging that we've made quite a mess, and we need to clean up after ourselves...that's standard stuff. Really imagining the planet without humans on it...ah, now there is a real spiritual practice, one that can lead us to interesting, and possibly enlightening, places in our psyches and souls.
How does this story affect you?
Beth, VTH Host
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
One of my favorite hats, among several is: initiated firekeeper in the Sacred Fire Community. Hosting a monthly community fire circle, I'm being taught that the simple act of sitting around a fire with the intent of holding open-hearted space makes for some soulful community!
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.