12/22/2022
“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor
The point here is not about how or why he went to the edge of space, if he’s wealthy or his life story but how we all ignore the great loss of species and habitats, how we consume and destroy this beautiful earth and resources in our endless rampaging desire to fulfil sone crazy idea that we find happiness in things.
If we look deeply and closely at our own true nature, we are both the deep emptiness and the vivid alive appearance of this incredible life.
We are nature, we are from this earth.
To really see this is to feel deep grief for what is being lost, which is 70% of all wild animals in the last 30 years alone, never mind what we have lost for ever through our greed and ignorance.
If you read about the slaughter of the great herds of buffalo, of the genocide of the great Whales, of the dolphin massacres in the Faroes or the extinction of Wolves and bear in Scotland, how would we not feel immense grief?
If we truly faced it then we would dedicate our lives to saving the wild animals, birds, ocean beings, the oceans, mountains, rivers and great forests that we destroy at our own peril.
We won’t find salvation on other planets, the very miracle is right here, right now!
It is up to us.
If you care and understand then find out more.
Join the Wild revolution!
www.wildrevolution.com
If you miss the point then move on, there’s plenty of celebrity news to focus on 🙂
