You paint a sad picture my friend. I listened to a podcast last year from a leading environmental scientist. His take is that the earth will suffer major catastrophes because of the way we are living but he had a great optimism to temper this. He pointed out that the worst of times brings out the best in people. We come together and join forces to find solutions. Whether that may be as your doing in contributing to picking up the mess, or whether that be people pulling together and pulling live bodies out of the rubble after an earthquake, a bomb blast or a tsunami, our hidden divinity seems to jump out in these moments. I think it's important not to give into a doomsday mindset, there's enough of that in some fundamental christian thought and I think only encourages learnt helplessness as an outcome.
Although I agree for some people it is true that the worst of times brings out the best in people, I look at it differently Web; I would say that if it takes ‘the worst of times to bring out the best in people’ …. This in fact ‘paints a sad picture’. It makes the human race a people who have to be treated badly to make effort at change.
We do not have to wait for disaster to occur to incite us for change. We can be the change we want to see in others. We can actually visualize a better world today. That is why Amma gave us the ‘flower meditation’ ive talked about under the section on Amma under ‘Masters’.
I understand the ‘doomsday’ mentality of some fundamentalist Christian thought but generally speaking that mindset is inundated with the view to increase and multiply rather than being stewards of the earth.
