Bet On It! Food For Thought - 12 - Natural Knowledge, The Tao of Physics, The Oldest Civilized Lie

"The Pursuit Of Natural Knowledge, The Investigation Of The World -- Mental & Material -- In Which We Live, Is Not A Dull And Spiritless Affair: Rather Is It A Voyage Of Adventure Of The Human Mind, A Holiday For Reckless & Imaginative Souls."
---- Archibald Hill

The Extensive Explorations Of The Relationships Between Science & Spirituality Over The Past Four Decades Have Made It Evident That The Sense Of Oneness, Which Is The Key Characteristic Of Spiritual Experience, Is Fully Confirmed By The Understanding Of Reality In Contemporary Science.
Hence, There Are Numerous Similarities Between The Worldviews Of Mystics And Spiritual Teachers - Both Eastern And Western - & The Systemic Conception Of Nature That Is Now Being Developed In Several Scientific Disciplines.
The Awareness Of Being Connected With All Of Nature Is Particularly Strong In Ecology. Connectedness, Relationship, & Interdependence Are Fundamental Concepts Of Ecology; & Connectedness, Relationship, & Belonging Are Also The Essence Of Spiritual Experience.
---- Fritjof Capra Author "The Tao of Physics"

“In All Our Searching, The Only Thing We've Found That Makes The Emptiness Bearable Is Each Other.”
---- Carl Sagan

The oldest civilized lie is the notion that you are not born as inherently valuable as you are, & as you ever will be. That you are required to justify your existence as a being & individual. Through a means of facilitated artificial remedial labor in order to survive. That you were not born as inherently worthy of living ethically within society by the sole reason of being alive.

Take into consideration the arguments posed in support of modern wage labor as a means of building discipline, & a natural outcome of survival.

Nature does not require any of the artificial means or incentives for work in order to receive its benefit. This is a completely artificially devised concept of outsourced labor. It goes against every natural cause & benefit to actual productive work within a society or community. Creating more issues & problems out of the absence of holistic natural work practices than implementing artificial means ever will.

Every form of natural work is composed holistically of every beneficial aspect for the individual themselves, & their community directly.

The work is comprised of both the physical exertion & exercise beneficial to the body, & socialization & bonding within the community creating purposeful connections & intentions towards collective goals & psychological well-being.
The rewards of natural work are the fruits of the labor themselves, & are not arbitrary exhaustions through personally meaningless endeavors.

Wage labor is not an inclusive system of but an exclusive system. That devises several destructive fragmenting ideologies & practices within society. Primarily class structure & financial privilege, which based on the same ideological systems of work & labor, encourages & perpetuates the direct & indirect abuses of individuals, time, health, & opportunity, in the face of further financial prosperity. Which has no means of circulating to any greater collective, but is drained into deep wells into pockets into systems which horde & collect the monetary gains from the exploitations of individuals who are deemed of less value.

What does it say of society if everyone is valueless, until they prove some form of function?

It is the oldest civilized lie ... & is a deplorably irresponsible incentive & gamble of servitude, to place on the life of a being brought into this world.