Whose is the responsibility?

This morning, when I read the newspapers, I was introduced to a terrible new: an earthquake in the border of India-Pakistan, which killed about 20 thousands of people. In just few weeks after the hurricanes Katrina and Rita, who devastated coastal areas of the United States, a new like that is at least scary. I believe that we never feel ourselves so vulnerable in front of nature and its power of devastation. Later, surfing on internet in search of more informations and opinions, I've found some intrigued and scared people; many of them believe in the Apocalypse, others affirm that the current facts are nothing more than a punishment of God.

But God doesn't punish. We punish ourselves, with our ignorance about the laws the rule the universe. Laws that were created just to maintain order and balance. Breaking these laws, we promote unbalance, and unbalance always lead to suffering in a minor ou major degree.

Lots of things could be said about the natural catastrophes and the collective deincarnations. But I'd like, so far, to stop on the question of the harmony of the world and the universe. As part of the creation, and gifted with intelligence and free will, we're direct agents of this harmony. We are supposed to use what was given to us with justice and wisdom. But unfortunately, it's not what we have done. We reached an incredible degree of intelectual evolution, but, in what concerns to moral, we are still far from any signal of perfection.

What most people ignore is that we are part of a bigger organism: the planet Earth. It’s not just the place we live, the soil we step on and the atmosphere in which planes cross through. Earth is like a living body. A body in which we have introduced toxic substances for decades. We’ve been acting like microorganisms that, far from working to keep the balance of the big body we belong to, use their intelligence to prejudice it, like cancerous cells or lethal viruses. And the Earth is only using mechanisms to defend itself from our action, like our body uses to defend itself from illnesses - the response to our devastation throughout the decades.

Humanhood has been committing many crimes against life. Not only crimes against the environment, but against every living being. If you think that all the things are linked together in an extense web of magnetism, working like a huge energy station, it's easy to think that every action, good or bad, will result in a similar reaction. This is a golden rule we have to keep in mind in every acts of our daily life. From love acts, you'll be creating love. From destruction, all you can expect is destruction. Hope it's not too late for us to assume our responsibility in front of the harmony of the planet.