Post by asiaticdarkperson on Aug 15, 2013 9:38:21 GMT -5
In the desert steppes of Iran there exist countless plants whose seeds come equipped with certain external appendages that once completely dry, tend to claw and stick onto human clothes and also to the hair of animals. Plants that have evolved this reproductive tactic exist all over the world.
Based on modern academic ideas of evolution, in some very distant past there existed a population of plants with smooth seed-husks. Their seeds practically always dropped in the immediate vicinity of the mother plant, and so their population was limited to a specific area on the earth. But then one day a random mutation occurred in an individual plant - random mutations have a potentially inexhaustible, practically infinite scope and they happen all the time - but this mutation was special because it resulted in claws that grabbed onto hairy animals. So, the beasts of the land carried away the children of this one plant, eventually leading them to the four corners of the earth.
Based on archaic theology, the plant-seed that sticks to clothes is no random accident, but a product of deliberate awareness and intelligent design. The fruit of the peach tree turns red because it _wants_ to attract the attention of birds and beasts. And while the tree surely does not know that the red color sticks out among a canopy of green, attracting the eyes of animals, but the gods do know. For they have created this world and everything in it. They chose to make the world the way it is, and though we think there is logic behind the workings of the universe, we are merely noting how things are and calling that logical. So essentially, if the peach is red it's because that is how it was designed, and if the wild boar is attracted by red that is also by design and not accident. (If we find a dinosaur fossil and carbon date it to 65 million years ago, it only means the gods put it there to trick us into believing that the world existed before 6000 years ago.)
Based on the way of the ayahuasquero, there is no plant seed with claws and there is also no animal that carries it away. There are only interlocking patterns like gears in a giant clockwork, except that they don't just move together in a static motion as gears are wont to do, but they flow and transform over time. The plant and the animal are one, they are not separate, they are the interactive minute-details of one thing. We are also part of that oneness, but we've been separated and isolated from it as "individuals" and we perceive the world also in terms of individual objects, like our conception of the atom. But there are no atoms, there are only fields of energy deep down at the very core of things. And these countless trillions of fields are all embedded in an enormous flow of energy, like an avalanche that stretches to infinity on both sides. The fields move and merge and morph so much that nothing ever remains the same, and yet nothing ever really changes either.
Based on modern academic ideas of evolution, in some very distant past there existed a population of plants with smooth seed-husks. Their seeds practically always dropped in the immediate vicinity of the mother plant, and so their population was limited to a specific area on the earth. But then one day a random mutation occurred in an individual plant - random mutations have a potentially inexhaustible, practically infinite scope and they happen all the time - but this mutation was special because it resulted in claws that grabbed onto hairy animals. So, the beasts of the land carried away the children of this one plant, eventually leading them to the four corners of the earth.
Based on archaic theology, the plant-seed that sticks to clothes is no random accident, but a product of deliberate awareness and intelligent design. The fruit of the peach tree turns red because it _wants_ to attract the attention of birds and beasts. And while the tree surely does not know that the red color sticks out among a canopy of green, attracting the eyes of animals, but the gods do know. For they have created this world and everything in it. They chose to make the world the way it is, and though we think there is logic behind the workings of the universe, we are merely noting how things are and calling that logical. So essentially, if the peach is red it's because that is how it was designed, and if the wild boar is attracted by red that is also by design and not accident. (If we find a dinosaur fossil and carbon date it to 65 million years ago, it only means the gods put it there to trick us into believing that the world existed before 6000 years ago.)
Based on the way of the ayahuasquero, there is no plant seed with claws and there is also no animal that carries it away. There are only interlocking patterns like gears in a giant clockwork, except that they don't just move together in a static motion as gears are wont to do, but they flow and transform over time. The plant and the animal are one, they are not separate, they are the interactive minute-details of one thing. We are also part of that oneness, but we've been separated and isolated from it as "individuals" and we perceive the world also in terms of individual objects, like our conception of the atom. But there are no atoms, there are only fields of energy deep down at the very core of things. And these countless trillions of fields are all embedded in an enormous flow of energy, like an avalanche that stretches to infinity on both sides. The fields move and merge and morph so much that nothing ever remains the same, and yet nothing ever really changes either.