How do we transform the current state of the planet?

Last week we addressed the fact that our planet is facing what scientists are calling the Sixth Great Mass Extinction (click here).  The previous five were apparently caused by objects from outer space, such as comets or asteroids, hitting the Earth. This time, the cause comes from “inner space,” our own invisible beliefs that have spun us outside the web of life.  Beginning with monotheistic religion telling us that we humans are superior and apart from other creatures on the planet, exacerbated by scientific materialism insisting human technology has the power to “conquer” nature, we have focused so heavily on our fitness as individuals, we have failed to recognize that our fitness as a species is up for examination.

However, the most transformational tool in our human toolkit, and the one we’ve largely ignored for the past two millennia, is love.  This love we are talking about is not some mushy-gushy sentiment, but the glue that holds our world together.  According to Dr. Leonard Laskow, a surgeon who discovered his own innate ability to heal with love and wrote a book with the same name, “Love is a universal pattern of resonant energy.”  In this sense, two or more tuning forks vibrating together are in love with each other, just as two or more humans can resonate in a palpable field of connectedness, joy, and even ecstasy.  Love, he said, “is the universal harmonic.”