Free online book: Nature-Study Meditation
The One Thing
A Nature-Study/ Spirituality Flowchart
An image on which to meditate on the evolution of the Universe. Image produced by Pablo Carlos Budassi. Click on small image for a larger-than-screen, 6MB version.
Except for the First Miracle, each Miracle arises from a preceding one, like footsteps along a path. The resulting path indicates a direction taken by evolution on Earth. By meditating on that path and its direction, we gain a feeling for how we can harmonize our lives with it.
And what better definition of "enlightenment" can there be for a human than "living in harmony with the general flow of the evolving Earth?"
For example, in Nature here on Earth we see that recycling is practiced, and that evolution generally leads to ever greater diversity. Therefore, we can say that Nature teaches that we humans should recycle, and revere the Earth's diversity.
Many such instructive patterns exist in Nature, but at a certain point interpretation becomes tricky. What are we to think about the Earth's species having been created to assume such roles as predator or prey; as parasite or parasitized; as disease organism or diseased organism?
When we start wondering about such things, it seems that mentality alone no longer offers adequate guidance. We must feel and intuit our way forward. The wisest guidance when dealing with those feelings and intuitions is provided by Mother Nature.
The concept of the Six Miracles of Nature is simply one of many mental tools some of us may find useful as we spiritually refine ourselves, maturing to higher levels of thinking and feeling.
At this writing, at age 77, this writer feels as if the Six Miracle concept led him to a final insight, which was the One Thing concept. However, experience teaches that always there's a higher level of understanding, no matter how final the current revelation feels.
Whatever the case, a good next step for you may be to take a look at the FIRST MIRACLE OF NATURE.