Comment: Judging by the number of natural disasters lately, we see that humans bring disorder into nature. But it is commonly accepted to treat nature like an inanimate system, and think that we only cause it “mechanical” damage.

Yet you say the root is on a higher level, in the incorrect relationships between people.

My Response: The main problem is learning to see ourselves inside nature, not outside of it as we usually think. We are responsible for nature, for the house that we live in. We have been placed in a house full of buttons, but we do not know what they do. We press one button and a hurricane hits us; we press another and there is a tsunami or a fire. Press a third one and everything is wonderful.

So what are we to do? Humanity is like a helpless child who sits in a small house in the middle of the forest, and does not know how to behave. This means that we must grow correctly in order to become truly free.

When a person leaves their home to go into the forest or mountains, they think they are “going into nature,” but that is a false perspective. It is as if they are stepping out of their house into the house of animals. But nature is also their house! We must stop viewing nature’s integral system as something external to us.

We need to feel that we are inside nature, that we influence it and it influences us, and that this mutual connection is currently incorrect. Therefore it is the person who must change.

The still, vegetative, and animate levels of nature are in instinctive harmony with the system of nature. A human being must also be in full harmony with it, despite having a nature that is completely opposite.

If we want to rise above the animate level, we must consciously develop a correct attitude toward nature to feel that we are within an integral system and to learn how to be integrally connected to the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels of nature.

We are obligated to build the human system based on the same principles by which the rest of nature operates. That means that we must learn from nature how to structure the human system since we have completed our development at the animate level, and are now beginning to evolve further. And here, on an inner human level, we are now required to complete ourselves.

A person’s task is to learn from nature how to be connected with it. Nature shows us that all its elements are in mutual connection. This interconnectedness is evident on all levels.

So the question arises about how a person can become integrated in this system in a way that allows them to feel their environment correctly and engage in mutual exchange, to receive and to give in balance with nature, just as all other parts of nature behave? The still, vegetative, and animate levels instinctively maintain mutual balance.

To us it may seem that they destroy and kill one another, but this is only how it appears from our egoistic viewpoint. In reality, they instinctively preserve the correct balance that the general law of nature obligates them to keep.

But that law does not compel a human being because we must observe it consciously.

Animals are guided by instinct, but humans must apply their own effort to reach balance with nature.
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From the Conversation 9/6/17, “Climate Cataclysms”

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