Life After Earth

It was put to me recently that the people who plunder the earth for their own gain are precisely the ones who have no instinct for the aferlife. They have no connection to that realm at all and therefore they devote all their considerable energies to taking in this one. They congratulate themselves for doing so and ensure that no laws are passed to prevent their activities. Another way of putting this is that they know their consciousness is going to be extinguished.

But is it the same thing to say that there is no life after earth and to say that there will be no continued consciousness? Not really, because there may be life after earth (is it not just as valid to put it that way as to say 'life after death'?) but without consciousness. Could it be possible that at a deeper level of our being we know there is a connection between the way we behave on earth and the conditions of our consciousness afterwards? In fact it seems very justifiable to me to talk about 'life after earth' as it is precisely our relationship to life on earth that characterizes our immortality or lack of it. In the long run we are talking about a time when the earth will not exist at all. What will be the state of humanity then? Will the universe tolerate a hierarchy of beings who only cared about the here-and-now and who took from the world that was given them with no thought of care or posterity? It seems to me quite possible to make a purely philosophical (non-spiritualistic) argument that the consciousness people of this nature will have 'after earth' will be analogous to the consciousness they have now: that is characterized by nihilism, greed and darkness. In other words by no consciousness (or at least a diminution of it). I suggest therefore that the people who rape the earth in this life do in fact have a submerged instinct for the fact that they will be plunged into darkness later - and for that reason they take, take, take while they can.

This raises the question - why do they start off this way and not break the dark cycle? It seems to me the answer is: because they have ranged themselves with another hierarchy of beings - one which is devoted to turning the earth into a desert unfit for humanity.

What are the fruits of the earth really? Beauty, taste, scent, touch - the senses are only tools for working with the world. Beauty is nothing without a soul to perceive and portray it. We are here as hosts for each other - to see, to welcome, to care for, to honor and uphold. To do these things is to create a beauty of soul: a consciousness which sustains and is sustainable. Is it unreasonable to think that this consciousness - composed of light - is the one that will remain 'after earth'? That is in both senses: after our life on earth has ended and after the earth itself has ceased to exist. And is it unreasonable to think that this attitude of soul is communicated to us by hierarchies of beings who exist in the light in a non-physical way?

Therefore I suggest that we should not allow the earth herself to be like the Lucrece of ancient legend who heard the dark footsteps of Tarquin coming down the passageway. Lucrece who was welcoming, honorable, beautiful and doing her duty in greeting the king. Tarquin who barely even wrestled with himself before giving in to the darkness in his breast. Look again at Shakespeare's version of the legend. It tells precisely of the way our earth is being treated today. And it shows that the only fruit we have for the future is the pure light of consciousness.

Jay

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