All pictures taken during the last week in Sarajevo.

Part two — about the Field of Nature and the Field of Humanity.

Well, lets look at the other side, everyone who are identified with the Field of Humanity, not as a conscious choice but just as the way we are. Our viewpoint is from inside of Humanity. We see our selfs as a part of Humanity and humans are more worth than animals and plants. Who would you save from a burning house?

Of course we have to take care of nature, so our kids and grandkids can live on this planet. We have to save the tigers because they are such beautiful animals.  The people in the developing countries also have the right to a good living standard.

We love hiking in nature and feeding the ducks in the park, we love our dogs and cats and gardens, they give us so much! Nature is really good! And we feel gratitude for all the things we get, from food, to cloths, to cars!

We learn from Nature, about stillness and beauty and generosity. We celebrate the Devine Mother Earth and we open to God in Everything.

This autumn I saw an add for a tree plating project in Africa — “Where trees grow, humans grow”. Interesting, I’ve always supported the tree planting projects for the sake of the trees them selfs. And for the birds and animals and the humans, approximately in that order. That was when I was identified with the Field of Nature.

From the perspective of the Field of Nature the add would go “Where humans grow, they plant trees”, or maybe just the pure “Plant trees!” that would be enough, no need to motivate it with something else, trees have a value in and by them self’s.

How would you formulate the add, to motivate your self, to give money to the tree planing project?

When I’m identified with the Field of Humanity, I can get overwhelmed with all the suffering — wars and conflicts, diseases and starvation, natural catastrophes and economy collapses. All this mixed with billion personal heart brakes …

How can I care about a tree when all this is going on???

And the struggle inside the Field of Humanity and between the two Fields of identification will become more sharp in the near future. More humans, less resources, less space for non humans.

I believe that we can solve this dilemma and make this a wonderful place for Everyone and Everything — the keys are Awareness, Responsibility and Love in all directions. Will write more …

So, what field of identification do you belong to? The Field of Humanity or the Field of Nature?
You have to choose. And you may switch!

It is soon a year ago since I was moved into the Field of Humanity. When it happened it was a profound experience and as time passes, the more significant and important I see it. In a way it’s the foundation of Big Heart of Humanity.

I’ve written about it on the About page here on the blog, but now it’s time to turn it into a blog post and do some reflections.

In marsch 2011 I was sitting meditating in my sofa in my flat in Sweden and suddenly I was moved into the Field of Humanity. It was a strong energetically feeling and I intuitivly knew what happened.

The next day when I met people, I belonged in a new way. I was a human among humans — at home. Later the day I met a bird, a pheasant, and we had a totally new relation. I, as a Human, met him as Nature. It was a lot of love between us, but in a new way, we were from different spheres. Before when I met animals, it had been more of a love among siblings, a we-love. That we-love I now feel along with other humans.

Before I saw Nature as We and Humans as Them. They are destroying Nature and I’m not a part of that. They are hurting Us, me and Nature.

Before this shift I had no idea about my position and I thought that everyone perceived things the way I did. After the shift I started to see this two very different positions, or fields of identity and how we unconsciously has chosen one or the other.

Many  of us who are involved in the environmental movement, identify our selfs with the Field of Nature. We really feel the pain Humanity cause Nature. When the trees falls and the fish dies, we feel the pain as if we were hurt. And we feel the helplessness of the forests and the oceans, the lack of compassion and care from a Humanity that only think of her self and her own needs. And we just can’t be a part of that Humanity, we can’t identify our selfs with those destroyers. And we refuse to see our own part in it — It’s Them!

So we work for Nature against Humans and not so few wishes that Humanity just would disappear form the Planet. We see Humanity as an evolutionary mistake. If there would be no Humans, everything would be nice and the way it should be and all the plants and the animals could live happily ever after.

Maybe you recognize your self in this, maybe you think of a friend? Or maybe this is totally strange in your opinion. It might seem strange, but it’s very rational. If you see and deeply feel what is going  on with Nature on this Planet and you know that it’s one species that causes it and you belong to that species, you have a problem. How shall you handle your relation to your self and your fellow humans? Of course the mature way is to be fully responsible as a part of Humanity and open heartily deal with all our collective shadows. But that is a tuff one that takes a lot of insight and hard work …

In my next blog post I’ll explore the view from The Filed of Humanity  and make some conclusions.

Some days ago I went for a walk in the sunshine in northern Italy and suddenly it struck me that Big Heart of Humanity is not about creating or changing or building or doing anything. It’s about a recognition, about becoming aware of what is already here.

I sat down in the old, yellow grass and looked at the trees and hills around.
Yes, I’m a Representative of Big Heart of Humanity.
We all are.
Some of us are aware that we are representatives, others are not.
But we all are.
We represent Humanity in all our relations to Everything.

In the eye of other humans I represent myself, my family, my town, my group, my country, my continent …
In the eye of a swan, a frog or a tree I represent Humanity.
Just as I relate to them as representatives of swans, frogs or trees.

If I’ve had a bad or good experience with a swan before, that swan I’m facing will represent that, just as the swan will see me in the light of its experience of other humans.

When I start to feel into this way of relating to animals and plants, it’s a profound difference. Before I saw myself as a single person in relation to nature. Mostly I saw the plants and animals as representatives, sometimes I got to know one in a more individual and personal way.

Now I have to stand up for all of Humanity, with all its ups and downs, in all my relations to everything that is not Humanity.

To consciously represent Humanity makes me both feel deeply connected to all of Humanity and to feel responsible for how we treat other species on Earth. And at the same time I feel really open and loving towards our fellow beings on this wonderful planet. I can sense the great potential in Humanity and in our relation to Everything.

Try you too! Just face what ever plant or animal you have around and say:
— Hello, I represent Humanity.
And then listen inwards and outwards and see what occur …

There is much to explore here, this post is just a first step and I appreciate every comment on it!

I’ve taken the photos in Sweden in different locations the last years.

The Golden Rule — Love your neighbor as you love yourself — has popped up in different ways the last month. I can see the beauty in it, but what I also see is a very individualistic and anthropocentric rule. It’s one persons relation to other persons.

Yesterday I started to think about how The Golden Rule would look like in the context of Big Heart of Humanity. How to formulate a collective Golden Role? A Golden Rule about the relation between all of Humanity and Everything else?

Love Everything as you love Humanity?

Looks nice … but when I start to think about it … how many humans loves Humanity? We love parts of humanity; our friends, people doing good things, poor people in foreign countries … How does your list looks like? And who is on your list of “non neighbors”? Can we become One Humanity as long as we have those two lists? Or is it enough if the first one is a bit longer than the second one? When does Big Heart of Humanity comes alive?

So I guess it would be a good idea to include the personal Golden Rule into the collective one. A Humanity at war with it self will always be at war with Everything around it. Just as a single human at war with her self can’t love others, as the Golden Rule points out — Love your neighbor as you love yourself.

If we’re not at peace with each other as Humanity, loving nature only becomes a personal escapism. I know, I’ve been there.

If the relation between Humanity and Everything is not based on love it won’t be sustainable.

Love your self, so You can love Everyone, so We can love Everything

PS I know there are many ways to formulate The Golden Rule. I’ve chosen the one that makes most sense to me. 

Seven months on the road.
No endpoint, no home to get back to.

Start to sense into living on Planet Earth.
Not my place, my village, my country, my continent …
… only Our Planet.

Start to sense into living as a part of Humanity.
Not my family, my group, my tribe, my culture …
…  only One Humanity.

Loving and embracing Everyone
So we can love and embrace Everything

A wonderful thing to spend 2012 doing!

I took the photos in July in the glacier cave in Rosenlaui, Berner Oberland, Switzerland. No flash light, only sun light coming in from above.

I killed a little plant today
Did it suffer?
I don’t know

But I suffer
from knowing that I took a life

–

Struggling with the question of pain and suffering in Nature. Does Nature suffer? What are my my projections?  So many layers. Physical, emotional, subtile, causal. Born and unborn. Single entities and collective fields. Conscious and unconscious.

What is Big Heart of Humanity?

Some light from Humanity and from Nature.

Woke up this morning and saw this!
So I give Nature an extra visual score for its constant change;
— weather, day and night, seasons, growing plants and long term geological changes …

And all those shifts are beautiful and takes place on stage.
No rehearsal or signs with “Closed for reconstruction ” …

This afternoon we went to a chamber orchestra concert in the church at the monastery here in Vico. Some of the best musicians in Corsica where playing well known pieces from Mozart, Händel, Beethoven and others. It was just breathtaking and I was swept away into an acoustic heaven.

After the concert we drove to the next village and it started to hail and the sky was shifting. The landscape is so wild, beautiful and impressive. It’s impossible to catch more than a small taste of it with the camera.

Back in the house with a cup of tea and a chocolate cake in front of the fireplace — thinking about Nature and Humanity.

Music is really something special that we have invented. Birds can sing, but they can’t give a concert like that, and they can’t play together and express beauty in that way. On the other hand, nothing we can paint or sculpture can in any way compete with nature in visual impact and beauty. So the score is one-one :-)

We often think of time as a river passing by, or we talk about time as an ocean. I think those metaphors are totally wrong!

There is such a huge difference between past, present and future, for me they are more like ice, water and steam.

Some years ago I turned these thoughts into a photo exhibition and a performance. Today the concept came up in a conversation and I got the idea to go back and see how I look at the pictures and thoughts today. So here we go — a mixture of ice and water!

Past — Frozen into the Ice

Can’t put my hand trough the ice and change it
Therefore
— it’s a solid ground to stand on

Thirteen billion years of ice
And I’m here now
What a wonder!

With open eyes
— all the cracks in the ice of the past are beautiful

Only Now can I change how I see what’s there in the ice

The cracks and stones, the golden light …
What do I see?

Dead and gone
The image remains

Water and Steam to follow …