Gaia Dominion, Quake-Sensitives

As memes go, "dominion over all living things" has had a long run--a sanctified gang-bang of mother earth and her fruitfulness, her wealth.

Feelings of divine specialness led to--Crusades in land "holy" to many peoples, to blunderbusses in the New World, and Los Alamos ueber alles.

Ancient peoples and wisdom have fallen to zealotry and greed. A wasteland out of various Eden-scapes.

Now, that's one version of history, imposed by the victors--lesser peoples subdued, destroyed by superior mandate. Resources made available to plunder.

It may not be the whole story--predators unleash a never-enough-vortex, eventually devouring everything in their path. And yet the predator, I've-got-mine, wasteland ultimately cannot sustain any living things.

The supposed prey may then rise up and breathe life into a new/old meme, more land- and people-friendly. We are "occupied" with that transition now.

Meanwhile we have Monsanto and sustainable farmers, jackboots and "oath keepers" for whom oaths to uphold the Constitution, hold true. We are in the business of resolving opposites.

We have real people stepping free of media-hypnotics and embracing simpler choices--neighbors, family and community.

We also have earth, moon and sun, rippling perturbations through same-old, same-old. Some of us experience this cosmological uproar on a cognitive level, cycles and so forth. Some us feel it:

Have you ever paddled a kayak or canoe on calm waters, till a big boat passes--lobster, shrimp, or God forbid a cruise ship?

The sharp prow of the big boat cleaves a bow wave, which V's a sloshing wake of wave after wave. If the waves catch a small boat broadside, it's over she goes. Paddlers sloshed by big waves try to turn their small crafts into the oncoming swell.

Earth, she be rumbling, and for earthquake-sensitives level ground can suddenly feel like a boat blindsided by waves. It's an altogether uncanny disequilibrium. Eerie, infra-sonic ringing may stun one ear or both.

The human body may ache. (And for any quake-sensitives reading this, homeopathic Arnica may help.)

Animals respond to these precursor sensations, by fleeing to higher ground, or taking wing.

Earthquake-sensitives all over the world are turning the bows of their small boats into the waves of the big sea.