People COULD be fruitarians (fruit, seeds and nuts) with global food forests. I personally include eggs and milk as fruit from the animals we COULD have personal relationships among? I imagine a kind of civilization that is like the one before the die off of the people in the Amazon. There were so many people at one time who had high civilization in the area that is now jungle and (mismanaged) farmland. This people had small communities linked by sophisticated roads. They managed the jungle plants and also CREATED the perfect reproducing soil Terra Preta. Alive and reproducing yet created when ingredients were put together is Technology. TECHNOLOGY of the sacred is man's potential to utilize.Posted by Journeyman (here)
It's interesting that the foundational story of the dominant abrahamic religions centres around the harm of eating the forbidden fruit, the act that precedes the fall and the onset of mortality.Posted by Delight (here)
I have grappled with this picture.. beautiful but dangerous and everything eating one another. However, I am sure that to just eat fruit harms no body. Also, I do believe we can be emanating complete harmlessness and the "beasts" would leave us alone? I would mostly say I consider what is natural to include what we might call a supernatural element. I am seeing MY nature evolving...everything is changing to incorporate our change of mind IMO.
May not be relevant here but occurred to me reading your post
I am POSITIVE the religions have been control systems as are the politics of the city. The free-est people have always been primarily nomadic or minimally agrarian. The PERSONAL relationship with the land and the companions like cows, sheep, buffalo, deer, and all the animals we live near is close in and full of mutual respect. I look forward to the new earth vision I hold... CREATION evolving organically including us.
One of the tidbits I recall from Genesis... Adam seems to have been given the role of "naming" God's creation. What does naming mean? For example, to observe and understand what is being observed is a naming. So, I believe that the highest form of human life would be as observers and understanders of nature. Humans could have a realization that we are not even NEEDING to have a science of control. We each RIGHT now could have rlelationship with OUR spirit, our connection to the Supreme Creator. The Abrahamic religions IMO have done what every other system does, insert itself between the human being and the SOURCE.
I believe there is a Divine Kingdom to become on earth for each being to thrive. It may be that we each must change our POV INDEPENDENTALLY and manage our OWN energy to participate... and that is all that stops us?
I see EVERY system splintering and this is amazing. I know more and more people are grasping the role of being in relationship to God. FIRST GOD, then the Kingdom revealed. I love God and know that loving God is very much BEING LOVED. That is my religion "Beloved Being Being Loved". That is actually a real religion I am the only minister in. I become official at one time when I took a healing initiation by way of "Divine Intervention" Curanderas of Mexico (and the ancestors before). Each of us are part of a lineage of ministers and so far its just a religion of my own. The weird part is that all around me more and more people are joining.