The Crust And The Rest Of The Earth

There are people who say such things as that they are “Earth people” and that “we must live on Earth.” They have an inadequate understanding of what the Earth means. The Earth is not just the crust. It is also such things as the oceans and the atmosphere. And equating the Earth with the crust, these people do ignorant and destructive things, such as poisoning the atmosphere and throwing garbage into the ocean.

The same people see their mentality as “reality.” It is nothing of the sort. It is a mentality. Now certainly the technology and business is real enough, but to claim that it is reality and that nothing else is is ridiculous. There is also the reality of the Sun. There is also the reality of the rest of the planet. There is also the reality of other societies. To equate a mentality with reality proper is completely wrong.

The same people say such things as that spirituality or philosophy is something that people do when they can't deal with reality. This, again, is ridiculous. Their own system is based on a philosophy and it owes vastly to many people with religious and spiritual beliefs. Most people believe in something spiritual or another. Many of them have very good reasons for believing what they believe. To them – and in my own experience – such forces are completely real. And it is complete ignorance and foolishness to claim that these people are fools and lunatics for believing what they believe. Once again, they have very good reasons for believing such things. And many of them are actually far brighter – as well as far better people – than the ignorant and abusive bullies who like to attack them.

Do we deny the crust? Not at all. We also remember the sun, the atmosphere and the oceans. More importantly we pay attention to such things and calculate their benefit in our computations. We care about such things and look after them wisely. And we arrange our activities one earth in such a way as to make possible the most beautiful blossoming of life.

The crust is real enough, but it is no way the whole of reality. When one looks at the sky or the ocean, one sees a lot more. It is vitally important that such things be computed and seen rightfully as part of reality. And it is only then that people's concept of what is reality will be informed by actual reality, and what they see to be sanity will be based on what actually exists.