Chapter Six "Different Points of View: Universal Consciousness and Separate Consciousness" continued... 

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They know that saving whales and forests, or seemingly insignificant things, such as tiny birds, fish, or ferns, can seriously alter life in ways that most people don’t even suspect.  Many of those who are truly environmentally conscious, have transcended some of their separate consciousness, and thus some of their self-centeredness, and self-ishness. Thus preserving the integrity of the environment is more important to them than many of the conveniences or inconveniences (recycling, power usage, etc., etc.) involved.  There is a story about a ‘mountain man’ from the United States named ‘Grizzly Adams’ that relates to this.  When a beaver dammed the creek next to his cabin, threatening to flood his cabin, he moved and built a new cabin rather than disturb the beaver dam.  Talk about inconvenience!  And believe it or not, this was still limited consciousness - but what a wonderful expansion of consciousness. To have reverence for all life, and also be able to see the importance and potential affect of the lives of whales, and tiny fish, and a seemingly insignificant fern, is higher consciousness. But it still falls far short of Universal Consciousness, and the efforts of such people can be a total waste of time, or even harmful, without it.”

He looked down solemnly, and paused for a moment. He looked sad, and his feelings of sadness brought to mind my own consciousness, and something that had shocked my sensibilities a few years earlier.  So I shared it with him. 

         “The human race barely cares about people let alone plants and animals.  I remember once seeing a breaking news story about 600,000 people who died in an Earthquake.  It was in the L.A. Times.  You would expect such a disaster to be on the front page.  And be a long article. But it was only one small paragraph, about 40 words, buried on page 9.  And the only reason why was because the quake was in China. Even then, I was shocked.  Can you imagine how this article would have been treated if 600,000 French people had died? English? American?” (Of course, this was during a time when the U.S. was an enemy of China.  The story now, would be bigger news at least, if for no other reason than because there would be 600,000 less Chinese consumers of American products).

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