Ea

Have you ever hit a point where everything you’re doing, reading, seeing, thinking, practising, all come from the same place? And it makes perfect sense because everything you’re learning about lately is about how everything is a part of something, all interconnected, and so everything is everything and something. Clear? No, I suppose not.

              Well, time is meaningless but still let me try at a beginning if not the beginning.

              For the spiritual who aren’t faithful, trying to sort out your existential feelings is tricky. Many find themselves drawn to pure atheism or to some sort of traditional religion but with several asterixis attached. My own walk has always seen me drawn to nature, to the Gaia concept but free from a particular deity’s involvement and certainly free of all church dogma. I don’t believe there is nothing because I cannot look at a river or a lovely tree and not feel something. I once famously quoted to myself that “You can’t be an atheist on the side of a mountain.”

              The good thing about religions is they offer answers. However, the bad thing about religions is the same thing. Those of us who don’t need answers but need to feel like we know why we do what we do and how to follow our own moral compass.

              Alright, so rocks and trees are good. Don’t pollute. Be nice to birdies. All fairly granola. Yes, I believe in renewable energy, I’m anti-tarsands, and I do think humans are spoiling the planet for everyone else. But I’m also a meat-eater, and I don’t think the universe hands me stuff, has a plane for me, or is the reason my battery died.

              I believe in an interconnectivity in our world, that all things and all people have some kind of a connection. And I believe what will be will be. I call it Eä. I stole this concept from the Tolkien creation story in The Silmarillion.