NATURE IS A MANIFESTATION OF TRUTH
Time is a judge of reality. Nature has been around for billions of years. Thus we know that nature is a manifestation of truth. People in their current form have been around for at most 200,000 years, and things are not going very well right now for people.
PROBLEMS WITH THE CURRENT WORLD ORDER
In the last 200 years, you had an increase in what human beings brag about as "civilization," and there have been a lot of good things that have happened. We're not going to say there haven't been a lot of good things that have happened. Nature was a severe world. So it's not like there hasn't been some genuine progress in a lot of areas.
The problem is that the way the human world order is set up right now is basically suicidal and that humans are already doing a great deal of damage to all other lifeforms. Unless things are changed, we mean changed soon, like in 50 years, the possibility of humans becoming extinct is very high. On top of that, human beings have gotten into a nuclear arms race with each other and are now building an unprecedented number of nuclear weapons. In theUnited States, they have been junking nuclear arms treaties, which raises the possibility that humans could quickly exterminate themselves via a nuclear war. So this doesn't look good. It doesn't look very good and it means that there's reason for change.
AWARENESS OF REALITY
GETTING IN TOUCH WITH NATURE
BECOMING INSPIRED
We are going to talk about being aware of reality. How do you become an aware person? How you become a spiritual person? Lots of people talk about getting back to nature, which is good. I mean going and walking in the woods, visiting spectacular natural wonders, is a good thing. That can inspire you and can clear your head. However, for a large part of the world population, it's not a realistic goal. It's not. If you're living in the slums of Karachi in Pakistan or wherever, you don't have an immediate chance to go out and experience a great forest and mountains and so on. So what to do?
Nature can be sensed. It can be felt. We have put stuff on our website of spectacular videos of nature and paintings and so on. So every age has its pluses and minuses. If you were living 100 years ago, you could not see these great videos. You could not see beautiful landscape paintings and nature photography. But now you have the chance to see this and be inspired. You can see a plant growing in your room. So these are realities of how you can be inspired.
THOSE WHO WANT TO DEFEND LIFE
VERSUS THOSE WHO DON'T
Ultimately, we are going to be in the middle of a conflict on this planet. There is going to be a conflict between those who want to defend the biological foundations of life and those who wish to destroy the biological foundations of life. Now it is very important to understand that a good part of those who wish to destroy the biological foundations of life deny that they are doing so. This is particularly true of members of the liberal establishment in the United States. After all, it was Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama who launched the disastrous fracking boom and other horrors as well, such as imperialist wars that slaughtered innocent people. And it was Obama who restarted the Cold War with Russia, threatening the nuclear survival of humanity.
THE LIVING VERSUS THE LIVING DEAD
So it's a question of being aware, being awake, and being a member of the living and not the living dead. There are a lot of people who are alive that might as well be dead in terms of their spirituality. So if you want to be a member of the living, you can focus your life and get guidance. We don't pretend to know exactly what you should do in your life. We do know that becoming aware will help you clarify things.
There is a spirit of Dharma, of God, whatever your religion is to give you a sense of purpose. There's karma, whether you act on that, do not act on that, or whether you get lost in the corporate world of profits and rewards. That is a system that is headed for oblivion. It is a system that makes you lose your spirituality and makes you lose your ability to focus.
Ultimately, spirituality is the ability to focus. That is essential. Make decisions and your ability to connect with nature is a part of that.
That's why we set up our website. That's why we encourage you to visit the links on our website. This is the end of this lecture.