Mother Earth
What a Wonderful World
Paul J. Dejillas, Ph.D.
August 23, 2023
"I see trees of green. Red roses too. I see them bloom. For me and for you. And I think to myself.
"What a wonderful world. I see skies of blue. And clouds of white. The bright blessed day. The dark sacred night. And I think to myself. What a wonderful world
"The colors of the rainbow. So pretty in the sky. Are also on the faces Of people going by.
"I see friends shaking hands. Saying, "How do you do?" They're really saying: "I love you"
"I hear babies cry. I watch them grow. They'll learn much more. Than I'll ever know. And I think to myself: What a wonderful world.
"Yes, I think to myself. What a wonderful world. Ooh yeah."
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It was Louis Armstrong who composed those lyrics. But, more than anybody else, it was Charles Darwin (1809-1882) who, through his more than five-year adventure in the tropics, was able to gain rich experiences of the stunning beauty and wondrous landscape of the world, home to glaciers, towering mountains, volcanic rocks, lush forests, gushing waterfalls, turquoise lakes, and blue-green waters mirroring the clear blue skies.
His adventure brought him face-to-face with nature. Entranced by the song of strange birds and the vast array of flora and fauna, he spent long hours collecting hundreds of living species and fossil specimens from their habitat, examining, labeling, recording, and preserving them in his laboratory aboard the naval ship. He concluded the last hours of the day, by writing about the beauty of wildlife and nature.
Its gorgeous, most beautiful vistas, and awe-inspiring natural wonders stretch for miles in every direction and have easily captured today the hearts of tourists, honeymooners, adventurers, sightseers, avid hikers, vacationers, causal nature lovers, artists, and photographers alike, with plenty of selections and opportunities to explore luxurious and relaxing getaways.
Darwin arrived at his fascination with nature from both reading materials about travels abroad, attendance in universities, interaction with great scientists of the time, and from his family background that was heavily into science.
He became a student of a Unitarian Minister G. Case and entered the School of Edinburgh at the age of 16 to study medicine at Christ’s College and at the University of Cambridge to become a clergy.
Becoming bored because of what he called low quality of education, he instead joined his fellow classmates in a hunting expedition outside in the woods. Yet, he graduated with a degree in Theology and Classics, his highest degree of formal academic learning.
Upon the invitation of the great scientists who took notice of his writings on evolution, he was able to join a long expedition in the tropics as a naturalist. aboard the Royal Navy HMS Beagle.
To make a long story short, it was through his deep immersion to the natural world that he developed a theory and method of evolution, geology, meteorology, mathematics, and biology. He became more celebrated with his theory of random variation of species, natural selection, and natural adaptation.
I would consider Charles Darwin, the Albert Einstein of Biology, even if he did not earn any Ph.D. degree.
Our Beleaguered Mother Earth
Paul J. Dejillas - July 24, 2022
Let’s continue exploring the hidden and still unknown side of our Cosmos. Our Mother Earth has already been saddled with so many problems over the past few years that she may no longer be able to nourish and sustain us any longer, all because also of our own doing.
Unless we behave ourselves, our only alternative is to start packing up and buy a one-way ticket to Mars. Science has been frenziedly working overtime preparing to bring humanity (at least, those able and willing) to Mars and beyond.
Scientists are confident this will be realized within a 100 years. But in the meantime, let’s behave.
Pantheism and Panentheism
Paul J. Dejillas, Ph.D. – May 2, 2022
The Google dictionary defines
(1) Pantheism as a doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
Its doctrine declares that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and, conversely, there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are manifested in the existing universe.
(2) Panentheism as the belief or doctrine that God is greater than the universe and Nature. It includes and interpenetrates the entire Cosmos.
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My take:
God manifests itself through Nature. Nature has become a replica of the image and power of God. It partakes all the attributes of God. Nature is God. This is pantheism.
I go beyond. Nature’s Godhead stems from the world beyond, in the 5th dimension. Giving rituals, songs, dances, agape, and other liturgical services to Nature is a way of adoring God.
It’s similar and parallel to celebrating the Holy Mass, which consists of the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
I can worship God through the Holy Mass. I can also do the same act of worship through Nature, a more pragmatic and convenient way to do, in fact, especially for those who have not been reached by the religious services of clergies.
Salvation can be achieved not only through the Holy Masses. The Holy Eucharist is enacted daily merely for purposes of commemorating the passion, crucifixion, death, resurrection, and ascension of our Master and Lord Jesus, the Christ.
Salvation is inclusive and encompassing. Its path covers all the breadth and depth of the entirety of all creation. Even my favorite pets as well as the stones, insects, earthworms, honeybees, butterflies, plants, and trees in my little garden can lead me to salvation and to God.
This does not mean, of course, that I’m already saved. I still have to work for it every moment of my life, not in the pantheist, but in the panentheist way.
Care to join me? I’m inviting everybody.
Grounding and Earthing
Paul J. Dejillas, Ph.D. - April 29, 2022
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." —Albert Einstein
Being grounded with Nature allows us to be connected with each other. We all came from her womb and she very well knows all our ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving.
We are all her children after all. She gave us life and continues to nourish, sustain, and protect us, even in times when we are unaware of her presence. We can always invoke for her guidance and assistance. As a mother, she considers it her duty and responsibility to always look after her children.
What a great love Nature has showed on us. In return, let’s acknowledge our corresponding love and respect to our Mother Nature by:
(1) Loving the minerals, stones, rocks, mountains, and other objects as thyself for we all came from them; it was from them that all creatures, including us humans, came from. Their imprint is already in us, in our genes and DNA. They continue to influence our ways of thinking , feeling, and behaving, whether for better or for worse.
(2) Loving the plants, trees, for they too are alive like us. Deprive them of food—air, water, sunshine, fire, and soil—and they grow weak and even die.
They have feelings too like us. They can be sad and happy too. Let them listen to music and they become animated and lively. Chop their trunk or branches and they shed tears. Being unable to move from one place to another, they are most vulnerable to external aggression. And their primary aggressors are human beings.
(3) Loving the insects and the animals. For they too have life. Killing them is no different from killing a human being. Science says life is made of the same ingredients consisting of atoms and molecules while religion says that we all—including minerals, plants, trees—originated from the same spirit of God.
(4) Loving the spirits that dwell in the trees, forests, streams, rivers, oceans, caves for they too form an essential part of creation. In particular, love the enchanted spirits (engkantos), dwarves, gnomes, and fairies. They deserve our respect. They’re all creatures of our Lord God Almighty. Protect their homes and shelters.
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They must have known that we were coming so they prepared a smorgasbord of abundance and wealth for us that can last for all the generations to come. They are our hosts and hostesses.
Our subhuman kindred are all our sources of life. Let’s take good care of them for they will continue to nourish and sustain us despite the destruction and damage we have inflicted on them.
Let’s be one and in communion with them for society depends on them.
The Third Greatest Commandment: Love Mother Earth - Part 2
Paul J. Dejillas, Ph.D. - November 6, 2020
The Third Greatest Commandment: Next to God and Humanity, Love Mother Earth
Our ecosystem is a balanced system
We are all interconnected and interrelated. We depend on each other for our life. Our existence depends on its food chain.
Humanity cannot be realized without creating Mother Earth. While it may be plausibly possible, Mother Earth is an inevitable consequence. So, the Lord designed this Planet for us to live. The Lord of Creation instructed the Cosmos to prepare for our coming.
In turn, the Cosmos produced everything we need to protect and sustain us for as long as we want. Yet, when we arrived, we plundered Mother Earth as if there's no tomorrow that the world today has become rarely a fair place to live in.
Before our coming, everything was beautiful and good. But we shattered everything into pieces. We degraded the entire creation. We destroyed the world. We desecrated Mother Nature. We polluted the air, water, soil, and we burn almost everything alive.
What was once paradise has become a violent and hellish place. We are today Nature's greatest enemy and predator.
People responsible for all this, and we all are in varying degrees and forms, are an untrustworthy creature. We don't deserve to live forever. How many innocent lives have been lost because of our wanton desire to conquer our surroundings solely for our misguided self interests.
Now that our barbaric acts have turned against us, we, all the more, despoiled Nature by looking for remedies to prevent and cure the lingering deadly pandemic disease.
In search of a cure, irresponsible scientists have unleashed a deadly virus somewhere in the world that immediately attacked our environment and endangered our lives, while disturbing the hornet nests of everything alive, including our own little rabbit hole that used-to- be a comfortable tiny world.
Every ounce of pain and suffering that all of us have endured to this day has been the result of a tragic abuse of power and manipulation of Mother Nature by humanity.
Mother Earth is dying, no question about it. It has been for a long time now that we have excavated its abundant resources. We have created a large hole underneath us that is gradually tilting the earth's axis.
We plundered the Earth. We became greedy. And now the oceans and the weather system have changed. Our core is getting unstable. It is no longer safe for our children and the next generations.
Sooner than later, the Cosmos we call home will come to an abrupt end. The signs are clear: extreme climate changes, the deadly 5-G technologies, shifting axis of the Earth, ozone-layer depletion, worsening pollution, and the highly infectious pandemic.
Deadlier than the Damocles sword, all of these are around and within us, afflicting many, and explaining the thousands of death since January 2020.
Religion says there will be a day of reckoning. When that time comes, localized disasters across the globe will become more widespread and frequent. They will be more dreadful and horrifying than the Great Flood during Noah's time.
Our fate is doomed. Many religious beliefs await for a second coming. Science speaks of establishing self-sustaining eco-ville and self-governed communities.
We are challenged by the cosmic forces to decide and take action as we reach the point of no return before it's too late.
On our part, let's continue our role as the guardian and protector of Mother Earth. Let's keep it green and clean starting from our homes and neighborhoods.
The synergistic effect of our individual efforts is more than enough to prevent the world's eventual collapse. It will likewise encourage our children and the next generations to do the same.
Long live Mother Earth! This is our lifetime commitment and tribute to Mother Earth.
Communing with Nature
October 23, 2021
Going back to Nature with the rivers, forests, and trees as well as the birds, butterflies, and the bees is not going backwards in time. It's not going away from a civilized to an uncivilized world. It's not leaving the glamorous city life just to live a hermetic life in a quiet, lush, greenery. It's not escaping life.
But the luscious and serene place I used to live in has now become a haven for smoke belchers, reckless chauffeurs, carriers of deadly corona variants. Living has become stressful, uglier, and deadlier as days go by. I want to have a wider breathing space, unrestricted by lockdowns and quarantines. But the show must go on.
1. Classes as usual.
2. My 5th cosmic book (2021), "Surviving Two Years of Global Pandemic", is now being processed for publication in the States.
3. I'm now starting to write my 6th cosmic book for the year 2022, temporarily bearing the title, "One With the Light".
4. Then, "Quantitative Approaches to Phenomenology" where I'll discuss factor analysis, cluster analysis, correlation analysis, multiple linear regression, and other multivariate tools and techniques that could reinforce the qualitative approach to ASI's Phenomenology.
Let's keep ourselves busy for humanity.
The Third Greatest Commandment: Love Mother Earth - Part 1
Paul J. Dejillas, Ph.D. - November 5, 2020
After God and humanity, the third greatest commandment is love Mother Earth. God's love overflows that it doesn't want the world to perish. For the world is needed for our coming. We owe it to God and humanity then to protect and preserve Mother Earth. Say no to mining, logging, dynamiting, use of chemicals and pesticides, trolling, and environmental degradation. Make this world a better place to live in. This is our home.
Gaia: The Goddess of Mother Earth
Paul J. Dejillas, Ph.D.
August 8, 2018
1. I have been narrating a new understanding and story of the Universe from the cosmic perspective.
2. In my past posts, I presented the story from the view of the Pleiadians, who live in Pleiades, a six-dimensional (6-D) realm of life and existence.
3. I will continue to do so by following the journey of the Pleiadian who has been visiting us for millions of years now, starting from the formation of our Planet Earth to the time we appeared on this universe.
4. This Pleiadian intergalactic visitor has been visiting other planets in their neighboring constellations since then and his journey has now brought us to the constellations of Taurus and Orion.
A. Our Multidimensional Cosmos
5. We are living in a 4-D world. The 4-D stands for the three for space and one for the time dimension.
6. Immediately higher than our 4-D world is a 5-D realm. According to scientists, it is that realm that is quite impossible for us to see, much less, understand because we are severely restricted and imprisoned by space, time, and matter.
7. The 5th dimension is already far beyond what we can imagine. But, according to scientists, it is possible that somebody from the 5th dimension or higher goes down to our 4-D world and explains to us what and how life is in the 5th dimension.
8. This is what our Pleiadian visitor has been doing to us. Our Pleiadian visitor has told us already many things about the formation of our planet.
9. But our scientists have also formed a picture of our Earth’s beginnings and developments. What have we known so far?
B. Science View of Planet Earth (Gaia)
10. The term "earth" comes from the Greek term Gaia which parallels the form of “ge”, meaning "Earth".
11. The term was used by Chemist James Lovelock and Microbiologist Lynn Margulis in the 1970s. As originally conceived, it refers to such subjects as the biosphere and the evolution of organisms that affect our atmosphere.
12. Then, they developed Gaia as a theory.
13. Lovelock and Margulis conceived of Planet Earth as inhabited by living entities who, in different degrees and levels, are conscious of themselves and their surroundings.
14. These living organisms interact with the inorganic surroundings of Earth. Their interaction with inorganic materials is dynamic, which produces a synergy and self-regulating mechanism that is able to shape the Earth’s biosphere.
15. Their interaction regulates and maintains conditions such as the temperature of the ocean or composition of the atmosphere to make Earth habitable for everything and everybody;
16. The ideas of the Gaia hypothesis were heavily criticized because it deviated from the theory of natural selection. However, its ideas underwent several refinements from other sciences like Earth system science, bio-geo-chemistry, systems ecology, and spiritual ecology.
17. Nonetheless, its creationist view makes it very attractive to the Cosmic Age environmentalists who are making use of it as part of their effort to deepen and broaden the Consciousness of humanity on environmental concerns.
C. Myths and Legends About Gaia
18. Gaia has its origins in myths and legends which have been adapted by several beliefs, cultures, and races over the millennia.
19. All of these beliefs declare that Gaia is the ancestral or primordial deity that gives life to everything.
20. There are as many deities as there are elements of Nature. Each of these deities is assigned their own stations and jurisdictions on Earth.
21. The following are the gods and goddesses that evolved through the millennia:
In Greek Mythology:
22. Gaia, the primordial goddess who personified and presided over the Earth and also the goddess of the material world.
23. From her springs forth the following gods and goddesses:
- Olympus, the Lord of the Above;
- Uranus, the god of Heaven and Sky;
- Ourea, the god of the Hills;
- Pontus, the god of the Sea;
- Cyclopes, the god of the one-eyed Giant;
- Brontes, the god the Thunder;
- Steropes, the god of Lightning;
- Arges the god of Light or Bright;
- Aphrodite, the goddess of the Sea; and
- Zeus, the god of the Sky and Thunder who rules the
King of the gods of Mount Olympus;
- Jupiter is the equivalent of Zeus.
D. Planet Earth (Gaia) is Sacred
24. In ancient Eastern and Western cultures, Gaia is referred to as "world soul", or “anima mundi”. The soul is conceived as a "formative force" at work in the material world to guide and guard the course of planetary evolution.
25. It is this spirit that permeates everything on Earth--stones, rocks, caves, rivers, bacteria, plants, trees, forests, mountains, oceans, animals, and human beings.
26. Earth and everything in it, therefore, is sacred because it is alive and possesses a spirit.
E. Gaia Theory and Its Influence on Us
27. The interpretation of Planet Earth as Gaia heightens our awareness of ecological and environmental necessities and responsibilities.
28. We are not living alone on Planet Earth. There are other species, visible and invisible to us, above, around, and under our feet that have been taking care of us. Without them, life on Planet Earth would not have been possible.
29. We, in turn, are materially and spiritually obliged to protect, respect, and take care of them for they are the ones responsible for our daily nourishment and sustenance.
30. Gaia inspires us to translate its theory and concerns into programs and practical strategies to preserve our environment by avoiding or immediately responding to ecological crises. ###
The Great Flood
July 21, 2016
Sumerian scientists were closely monitoring the weather patterns that led to the Great Flood. As the bible also declared the people were promptly alerted triggering the building of the Ark that saved not only humanity but also subhuman species.
Today's meteorologists could be doing what the Sumerian meteorologists did thousands of years ago, that is, forewarning humanity of an impending deluge and its imminent total destruction.
Indeed, scientists are now preparing for a massive evacuation of humanity from Planet Earth to Mars with temporary stop overs in the Moon, to prepare us for our eventually settlement in the Red Planet.
ON ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Aug 12, 2016
WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN TALKING OF OUR PROBLEMS FOR THE PAST SIX DECADES NOW. WE KNOW THE PROBLEMS PRETTY WELL. WE HAVE EVEN OVER-DIAGNOSED THEM ALREADY.
WE HAVE ALSO PRESENTED A LOT OF SOLUTIONS. HERE'S ONE THAT CAN BE DONE BY EACH AND EVERYONE OF US. LET'S NOT WAIT FOR OTHERS TO START IT FIRST. THEY ARE ALSO WAITING FOR YOU TO START IT FIRST.