Lightening ripples across the afternoon sky like bottled up electricity attempting to break free from heavenly shackles. Flames cavort and philander in the air; poetic when controlled yet this is unabashed calamity. The meager cries of tiny cubs separated from their mother’s warmth gounheard as pandemonium can be quite ostentatious. For the uninitiated observer this situation triggers emotions saturated with melancholy and poignancy. But we are the initiated, the enlightened, perhaps not every one of us, but may the masses reach critical point at the end of this dissertation of divinity.
It’s dry season in the Serengeti and fires are a natural rhythmic occurrence here. Therefore, a dualistic view of the aforementioned may be faulty. Why would destruction be imprinted in nature’s circadian rhythm? A faulty perspective indeed! – to look upon anything in God’s kingdom with abhorrence. So then, must destruction be a good thing? “Truly! For what can be taken away if nothing can be truly destroyed?”, says the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Simply expressed, The Law of Conservation of Energy (a term in physics) states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only be transferred. Here’s an example: the sun sends photons (light units of energy) to the earth. Plants make glucose with photons. Animals eat the plants and receive energy. Animal life dies, decomposes, and the components of the body breakdown into nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon, potassium, and magnesium. Plants use these elements for sustainability and growth.
Remember back to my hint at the virtuosity of the fires in regard to the dry season of the Serengeti; there is a connection between God and everything here…
After deep contemplation in a meditative state of self-reflection, I must admit with a vulnerable apprehension that we are in fact, all of us, born in sin. Although indubitability analogical, an unpresumptuous bite of a verboten fruit damned us all but we are not bad apples. Adam and Eve’s original blunder was seeing the world through the veil of duality, and we are born into a world where our perception makes things appear to be over here or over there. We see fire and what it destroys but we have forgotten the inclusive nature of our reality.
What appears to the eyes of the benighted as destruction in the form of fire in our regard, heals and rejuvenates to the eyes of the sagacious. The resulting smoke from the fires in the Serengeti are transferred via wind currents to the Amazon rainforest, the Earth’s biggest producer of carbon-dioxide. This smoke contains high concentrations of phosphorus. As the Earth’s largest store house of carbon-dioxide, the Amazon rainforest’s health and well-being depend greatly on the fires from Africa and the wind currents that carry the nutrient rich smoke. Humans and animals alike depend greatly on the rainforest (and all other trees) because of the exchange of carbon-dioxide and oxygen. What may seem to destroy is in actuality transferred and made to foster.
To further illustrate my theory on the inclusive nature of reality, I would like to introduce you to viruses, DNA, RNA, and Horizontal Gene Transfer.
The simplest way to explain DNA, genes, chromosomes, and the genome comes from reddit user [deleted] 12 years ago, “DNA: alphabet. Gene: recipe. Chromosome: cookbook. Genome: cuisine (like “French cuisine”: all the recipes that make up French food.)” So basically, in human terms, we’re discussing the recipe book on how to make a “you.” What is of particular interest is that eight percent of human DNA is derived from primordial viruses and another 40% is composed of repeating sequences of genetic letters also believed to be of viral derivation.
I’m sure you are aware of Vertical Gene Transfer: you get your hair color from your mom and nose from your dad, but Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) occurs when genetic information is shared between two unrelated species. For example, centipedes have obtained the ability to immobilize prey due to genes procured from bacterium. Many viruses like influenzas are comprised of RNA. RNA is different from DNA in that RNA is single stranded and it is more chemically reactive. RNA also has a high level of plasticity which means that it is exemplary at adapting to both internal and external stimuli. This is why the COVID virus was so troublesome to eliminate; the high level of RNA plasticity allowed the virus to mutate as a result of changing external factors – i.e., a vaccine.
The Law of Conservation of Energy, DNA, RNA, and Horizontal Gene Transfer are all important aspects of life to be familiarized with, just in case you are fearful with the current state of politics in the United States or with some other aspect of your life.
The thing about viruses is that they make up a substantial part of who we are. Viruses are impeccable at reinventing themselves, innovating and adapting in order to survive. Due to the inclusive nature of our reality, viruses have been transferring those proficiencies of viability to us on a microscopic level for eons through HGT. Again, we see, what may seem to destroy is in actuality transferred and made to foster as the energy of pliability is not being created or destroyed but rather it is being relocated from one place to the next. This energy is quite simply God – the underlying code embedded within all creation. Therefore, even the devil knows not for whom he works.
Although it may seem like people, administrations, organizations, or groups lack those key descriptive features of empathy, compassion, love, trust, understanding, and forgiveness, that make us human, while seeming to more accurately portray attributes of a virus, know that what appears on the surface to be “evil,” or darkness, is in actuality present in order for you to display your high levels of plasticity and innovation.
These seeming catastrophes are not meant to immobilize you, they are meant to empower you. These fires are not meant to burn you, they are meant to feed you. These illnesses are not meant to weaken you, they are meant to make you more resistant. Hatred and divisiveness are not meant to make you cower and close up, they are meant to make you embody love and unanimity.
