LET’S CARE FOR PEOPLE ON EARTH AS WELL AS WE CARE FOR THOSE ABOVE IT
Peter Bromley
YOU ARE FAR GREATER THAN YOU KNOW. We are illumined by consciousness and eclipsed by unconsciousness. We dissolve the eclipse. The results? You know what it means to be fully human. Hence, high performance, peace
A sleepless night yielded opportunities to meet harsh realities confronting us.
Overnight NASA broadcast preparations for the launch of another, amazing vessel destined for the International Space Station (ISS). That rocket and ship are also recycled!
As I write “Dragon,” the spaceship carrying four humans, just achieved orbit at 17,000 miles per hour and 200 miles above earth.
The broadcast revealed the extraordinary preparation and care to ensure the safety of the four astronauts representing United States, Japan and France.
Of course years of planning, testing and thousands of hours of training preceded this morning’s launch.
The TV hosts repeated the main theme throughout: “Safety first,” and listed many scenarios available should the unexpected happen during the launch.
Thousands are committed to ensure a successful mission guided by “safety first.”
The value on human life seemed to be the first priority without question.
Experts in science, engineering, medicine and more were guided by this value, akin to “do no harm.”
As it must be. But why do we seem to value some human life and others not so much?
What is that characteristic that we are committed to the safety of some but not all lives?
I marvel at our capacity for goodness, caring, daring and wonder why a gap exists at all as I witness long line ups at food banks and COVID vaccines in some of Canada’s poorest areas, for example.
We are good people all, but can be disturbed - unconsciously - when inherited and unexamined values in childhood compete cruelly with our real nature. When unaware, lives are harmed even though we may claim the number one universal value:
“Do no harm.”
That conflict causes stress and worse-illness and death: within and without.
We all are better than this: just look up and beyond the horizon.
Peter Bromley
Applied wisdom to flourish in life
Clearlight Evolution
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