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There was a mother who had devoted her life to the children of her womb. She had done her best to give them everything they needed. After surviving a brutal attack where she was raped, stabbed, and horribly disfigured, the generous matriarch was in the medical intensive care unit barely clinging to life. Her children were all clever medical professionals  who worked at the very same hospital.

The children had a lengthy discussion about what they could do to help. They used their familial and professional status to get authorization to perform a variety of different medical procedures on her.

When the mother awoke, her survival was still in question. The clever children were so happy about what they had been able to accomplish. As they smiled at each other, they presented her with a tiny model of her childhood home that was accurate in every detail.

The building materials had been taken from their mother’s own body during the medical procedures. Parts of the house were reconstituted from her bodily fluids, tissues, organs, and membranes. The framing of the structure was made from fragments of the mother’s bone. The walls were made from excised pieces of her facia. The roof shingles were made from thinly sliced sections of her liver. The windows were made of the thinnest and most translucent membranes in her body. And the house was painted red with her blood. 

The children were so proud of what they’d done for the woman who had given birth to them and nurtured them their entire lives. Tears flowed over the deep wrinkles on the pantiet parent’s cheeks for her beloved but depraved spawn. The selfless mother of humanity breathed her last. The electrocardiogram connected to her fragile body flatlined as her children smiled, laughed, and celebrated their resourcefulness. 

The highly educated and technically proficient children didn’t understand that they could only live as long as their mother survived. They were unable to see the invisible, tenuous, energetic umbilical cords that had allowed them to live only as long as their mother lived. They collapsed to the floor. Their bodies and limbs formed a tangled mass on the tiled floor. The children’s open, yet lifeless eyes stared into space. Countless beings throughout the cosmos mourned.

Secrets of the Story

I’ve been sitting on this story for several years. It’s horrific and gruesome. It’s unbelievable that children would do this to their mother. I thought I’d never publish this brief tale of terror because it’s so disturbing to me, but I realize that it’s past time for me to share it.

I used to think that humanity might not survive our mistakes, but that the Earth and life on the Earth would continue without us. I thought we could kill ourselves, but never the Earth and all life on the Earth. I’ve come to see this as an overly-simplistic and naive view of our situation.

We take life on Earth as a given. It’s been here for billions of years and will continue for billions more, with or without us. But what if a species multiplied to levels that the planet could not sustain? What if those billions of souls considered it appropriate to take resources from the Earth without any concern for the impact of their actions? What if the activities of those beings also produced toxic byproducts that poisoned the planet’s biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, and even spread garbage throughout the space beyond the planet’s gaseous atmosphere? What if those billions of souls also expressed harmful thoughts, emotions, and actions that put incredible stress upon the subtle energetic aspects of the planet that are not yet recognized by scientists? What if a species had the technological means to amplify in a continuous feedback loop all of these activities to incredibly violent and destructive levels? I propose that our species is accomplishing all of these things at this time and that the unabated continuance of these trends will lead to the death not only of humankind, but of the Earth. In this scenario that is playing out at this very moment, we do not realize it, but we are raping, disfiguring, and murdering our Mother Earth who gave birth to every one of us.

It’s a very real possibility that if left unchecked, humanity has the ability to turn the Earth into a place devoid of life. Our desire for power, wealth, and control has brought us to the edge of destruction. We have the means to destroy the planet in our hands, and we are on track to not just killing ourselves, but to destroying this beautiful world. 

I am confident that the onslaught of human degradation will come to an end, not because humanity chooses a new course, but because we will be forced to do so. Our creator will not allow our world to be destroyed. We will not change willingly, but we will be forced to correct our trajectory as the errors of our ways become clearer and more obvious to us as humanity and the world continue to change in surprising and dramatic ways.

Let us begin to prioritize life and love above all other goods and values. May we cease our relentless march of death and destruction and choose to love life sooner rather than later. May we choose life for all and partner with all who desire to restore vitality and harmony to our beautiful mother.