THE TEACHERS
by DG Wilson April 4 2009
The class sat in a semi circle around the teacher. She had been teaching all day long for months. The students enjoyed the lessons and sought to have more. About to graduate they neared the end of the vital lessons; however.
"When you are hungry what do you do now?" The teacher at the blackboard asked.
One pupil instantly knew the answer but the teacher chose another student. He answered roughly, "Do not kill everything to raise what you desire."
"Excellent!" The teacher exclaimed. "And why is that? Anyone?"
The star answered aloud, "Because if we try to raise only the feed we desire all other animals will suffer. Even us."
"Very good. Now can you tell us why it is important to feed off the Earth, but NOT to make the Earth feed you?"
The star pupil thought and realized the answer was the same. "We can't try to raise our favorite over the Earths' desire to make it for us...because that throws everything out of balance."
Teacher wrote on the blackboard the word "Balance" next to the word already written: "Food." Then she spoke, "We have learned that we can't grow too much of what we eat because that only makes an unbalance in Nature. Nature is perfect. We can't expect or Expand Nature to provide more than we desire because other animals, insects, plants, etc. suffer. You have to resist the urge to make or grow more than you need on average. There has to be a balance. Nature provides it."
One student, a quiet one usually, asked, "Is that where religion states, ‘God provides'?"
"Exactly." The teacher beamed with pride. "Now you are getting it.
"We thought," she continued, "That God made us the leaders or rulers of the world. This actually put us at odds with the Planet because we started to battle it to provide for ourselves." The teacher thought for a moment and then tried from a different angle to explain twenty thousand years of evolution and error.
"God," she continued, "Said that He made the Earth perfect for all. Humanity decided that God made the Earth for MAN. Therefore humanity decided that they needed to battle God to grow and raise their God made plants and creatures so that humanity could eat whatever it wanted WHEN ever it desired. That was the start or our problems with the Planet.
"Let me ask this," the Teacher said. "What happens if you go out into the jungle and there is no food?"
"We eat something else."
"But if there was NO more food at all what would happen to you and your families?"
"We would die."
"Yes. Humans didn't want that. They didn't want it so much that they killed all other families around them to make enough for them to feed other humans. THAT seemed ok for thousands of years but Nature won out. We didn't want God to choose who would live and eat and who would die. We didn't understand how PERFECT God was to create Mother Nature and all of her balances! We forgot the first rule of nature, that GOD PROVIDES for all if we share. So we tried to take control of our fate. And took much more than our share of the Earth."
She said. "More and more land was separated to make more and more crops. Billions of chickens were raised so hundreds of millions could be slaughtered daily as was cows, and swine. We produced so much food that more and more people were born. This required more food. So much of the planet was set aside to raise these food animals for humans that ALL plants and animals suffered.
"People stopped growing and raising their own food. They started to work to earn paper so they could buy it instead. There were many, many people working too much for too little just so they could buy a can of peas. This caused a strain on the people. Some took care of others, grew more food, raised more animals so they could eat too."
The Teacher continued, "But then we realized that we were not growing enough to feed everyone. So people also tried to eliminate all the other competing animals and insects so we could get more crops harvested at the end of each season year after year. This meant insecticides to spray on the planets so insects would die. Also this meant poison for mice and rats and all other similar Rodentia. All that poison went into the air, food, ground and water. This created an unbalance between grain, some animals that humanity favored... and the rest of the planet.
"We needed more and more of the Planet to grow our food. It got so bad that Dams were built so that land in some areas had water for their crops and animals but starved other areas of the same water; insecticides and pesticides eliminated thousands of species! Sickened and mutated the others. Humans chose what would live and what would die...trying to steal the power of God. But eventually when it was too late, we realized that it was not in OUR power to battle God.
"Mother Nature or The Hand of God kept us back. For millions of years humans thrived on this planet but it was the Hand of God that kept us in check."
One student thoughtfully asked, "Was that the ‘Brink'?"
"The Brink of Mankind? Yes it was. Remember our history. For three million years humans lived with the Earth. All lived peacefully and in balance. Then for some reason they began to feel like they were gods of the Planet. Instead of feeling that the Earth would feed all some people began to take more than their share to feed themselves. For the next ten thousand years they began agriculture and the industrial revolution. That nearly destroyed the entire Earth. God and the Planet did fight back...there was Global Warming which melted the ice caps and they flooded out. This rose the sea level which killed hundreds of millions of people. Hurricanes, tornados and Earth Quakes killed millions more. Then the vermin, insects and thus the diseases. Billions more were wiped out. The Earth was water, the skies black, nearly no plants or food remained. We all but starved and died out from disease. We conquered as much of the planet as we could, killed off many, many entire species of animals, plants, insects, amphibians and reptiles...yet it was The Hand that slapped us in the face.
"Few humans remained. We were weak and scared but then we started it all over again. And we nearly exterminated our species for a second time.
"Eventually humanity learned that we are not alone on this planet. We learned that we are not above any of Gods' creatures but one with them all. We were a part of God, a part of the planet and a part of this beautifully perfect eco system. But we learned it almost too late."
The students all nodded. They understood the power of the lesson.
She continued, "It is up to you as you continue to evolve and arrive at a humans' level of ‘Self Awareness' to understand what we did and why we did it so you NEVER do it yourselves!
"There IS temptation to never go hungry, to take more than your share so that the ones you love will thrive BUT it is at a cost to all. It will also be your ultimate demise...as we humans found out."
The class erupted in applause. The clapping of paws, flippers, and feet were muffled but nonetheless sincere.
At the end of the session the animals talked amongst themselves.
Gorilla said to the Lion, "It is no wonder that humans tried to kill us all to feed themselves...they are so weak."
Lion spoke back, "True, I have often wondered what it would have been like if we achieved ‘Self Awareness' first!"
Chimp chimed in, "We would have them as our slaves!"
But it was the Whales and Dolphins that set them straight. "We are not above them and they are not above us. That is the real lesson. We are all together on this planet and we need the others to survive ourselves. We need to care for the weak humans because they provide services yes, but we can't enslave them. Their service is their experience. We must treat their kind better than they treated us."
Elephant blew a trumpet from his trunk. "I think it would be best for the planet if the humans were exterminated. Otherwise there is this risk that they will rise up again like so many vermin and eat all our food! They need to be wiped out in my opinion."
"That would solve nothing." Dolphin said.
The shy Kangaroo spoke for the first time, "If the humans were destroyed then we would not have this lesson taught to us. We would have to stumble along as they did and discover the truth for ourselves. As we grow in awareness of ourselves, our place in the world and Universe, we can contemplate the wonders of the MEANING behind the balance of Nature. But we would still be subject to the laws. The humans must me allowed to live so that they can continue to teach us their horrible lessons. So we can be smarter than they.
Everyone nodded in agreement as they cast a sorrowful eye at the teacher. She packed to leave the jungle with her back turned. All animals now knew that it was humans, the weakest of all the creatures that caused the most sorrow.
Gorilla understood. He spoke to Chimp and Elephant, "They are right. To react would be wrong. We must be smarter and better...and all we have to do is live the way we have for Billions of years!"
All the animals laughed and passed on the lessons to their children.
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