According to Ilchi Lee book our intellectual and deepest spiritual wisdom tells us that this is not so. Our joy and my joy, our soul and my soul, our destiny and my destiny are not mutually exclusive but inherently interdependent. We can all revolve around the sun as one united entity while rotating within our own world of joy and satisfaction. One need not be exclusive of the other. We must find a central standard of value that can overcome the differences among the scattered systems of values that drive the world’s human societies into conflict with one another. We need a central and comprehensive system of ‘living’ values that can unite humanity under one umbrella, while preserving and even celebrating our diversity. That will allow us to rotate individually while we revolve collectively. Where can we find such a standard?
The Earth is the common, central value around which we can rally, the root of our existence, the actual reality of our lives. No truth we seek, nor values we live by. can exist without the Earth. No gods can exist without the Earth. In Neil Caiman’s exquisite novel. American Gods, a buffalo-man, symbolizing the land, speaks thus when referring to both humans and gods: ” …they never understood that they were here, and that the people who worshipped them were here … because it suited us that they be here. But we can change our minds. And perhaps we will.” Only Earth can act as the standard bearer that can gather and lead our collective human consciousness to the next plane.
Our souls are clamoring, not for the ‘peace of sepa-rateness’ belonging to a particular religion, nation, or people, and separating us into losers and winners, but for the ‘peace on Earth’, that can be celebrated by all life on Earth. We will know true peace when we all realize that the Earth is the final arbitrator of life and that the ‘Earth-Human’ is our highest common identity as human beings.
