GUIDELINES

There are natural laws of the universe but there are no rules and regulations. All moral laws are man made, and they are, at best, pretty shaky. It wasn't too long ago that torture was legally used by both church and state to elicit a confession. That is as one-sided as dunking a suspected witch under water for several minutes. If she drowns, she's innocent.

Because there is no separation of consciousness once we withdraw from the illusion of the physical world and it becomes horribly apparent that what we do to another living being we are doing to ourselves, there are two guidelines to the universe that we would do well to follow. They are perfectly simple: DO NOT VIOLATE! DO NOT DEBASE LOVE! Do not violate life other than for sustenance, so do not violate nature, and do not violate the earth. These are the three violations most common among us. If it were a violation to kill for sustenance then we would condemn the Eskimo to starvation, for he cannot grow food on ice. Killing for sustenance is allowed within nature. There are very few vegetarian lions or tigers! It's okay to fish if your catch is for eating but it its not okay to fish to have your catch stuffed and put above your fire-place because you think it looks beautiful there. It looked beautiful in the water!

It takes about thirty dumb animals to provide skins for a fur coat. It only takes one to wear it.

Do not violate nature. All things have a right to live. They also have a right to die. The choice must be personal. No one has the right to decide for another. We have such stranger notions of what is natural and what is not that it might be better that we understand this guideline as DO NOT VIOLATE ANOTHER BEING PHYSICALLY OR PSYCHOLOGICALLY. Your intent is all important.

You do not need any dissertation on violating the earth, if you feel you do, you need go no further than Chief Seattle's letter to the American government which is printed earlier.

Let me tell you that I love the hole in the ozone layer. If common sense and verbal warnings have no effect on us then maybe we deserve a short, sharp smack on the butt. The 'hole' is doing just that.

I have every confidence that, knowing man's unlimited potential he will eventually get it right and it is not that far off.

Till then, travel wisely.

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