AHIMSA – In a culture that believes only humans matter

When I walked this morning there was a snail squashed on the foot path –it really upset me especially as there was nothing I could do to help

When I was younger I thought that I was insane because I cared about other life forms

Probably because my mother threatened to have me put in a mental hospital because I didn’t want to eat meat

I tried my best to practice ahimsa before I was aware of this word/concept

Impossible in a culture that believes only humans have a soul and only money matters

As a child I got a bashing for not wanting to eat meat:

The same meal served to me for breakfast lunch and tea until I ate it:

And my mother threatened to have me put in a mental institution

I fed the local birds for 25 years when i lived at Goolwa –not accptable now that I am in a retirement village

When i lived in Goolwa mindless automatons told me

“Do not to feed the birds -they are meant  to find their own food”

It doesn’t occur to them that the human plague  (of 8.2 Billion) has destroyed the homes and food sources of all other life – making so many extinct.

The larger birds (carnivores) kill the smaller birds for food because thanks to homo sapiens there are not enough mice worms  or small reptiles for them to eat

A couple of years back in Australia they started culling the kookaburras to stop them killing the smaller birds

I feed the crows too –one neighbour complained about their noise

The other told me that she likes the Ibis but not the crow.

Crows like many other life forms are disliked because of cultural programming

The crow I fed, fed the baby before she? fed  herself

I wasn’t able to take a photo because the baby flew away when I walk outside – came back when I went in.

Humans have this effect on me — have said I am anthrophobic for decades – don’t think it is an actual word)

It upsets me that people use poisons and insecticides

And label rats and mice vermin

And then there are kangaroos which most farmers consider vermin and kill them

In the 1970s I was a member of  the original Greenpeace

We were labelled dangerous radicals

I was ridiculed and abused for being  in Animal Liberation and a vegetarian

This has changed

These days I am abused for caring about insects moths and spiders

And told that insects are vermin and dangerous to my health

Humans are dangerous–

Considering all the positive changes in my life time I am optimistic that

the caring, intelligent people will prevail and stop all life from becoming extinct.

Enjoy your day

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago when the human population was only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now mor than 8 billion.

Our cultural norms and the Protestant Ethic are causing the extinction of all life.

I wrote this as social satire and sympathetic magic

I wanted to put my idea that humans are not indigenous to the planet

The idea that we were genetically engineered is from Mayan writings plus my belief that humans are not indigenous to the planet

The concept of translocation was once a practice pre Roman Empire and apparently still is in some so called primitive cultures

The idea that humans were livestock for the gods is mine but am sure others have thought this

I chose Ophiuchus because I was I was drawn to this constellation

I chose Kunapipi because I respect and admire the wisdom and spirituality of indigenous Australians

The clairvoyant Experiences of a Sceptic is not a literary masterpiece

but a true story.

I don’t know the meaning of life:

nor understand the nature of reality:

I do know physical death is not the end.

And there are so many amazing stories omitted so as not to break client confidentiality.