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Chapter: Perseverance Preservation
As a person ages and physical strength declines, he can affec t
less change on his environment, though the lessons o f
experience can make the process easier. As a result, the range
of visual scanning, or devoted attention to the sounds our mind
processes are diminished. No need to respond to everything and
it's possible to close one's eyelids to filter details and see only
patterns of move ment. One may see the motion of branches o r
rustling of leaves but remain unaware of the form of the tree; be
a participant in an event but not p articipate, ignored as though
his presence a mongst people is inconsequential. Society
inculcates a spirit of inclusivity in the realms of perception suc h
that people grow up feeling phased into the significance of the
general flow of life.
We recognize the eye of a cow as though mournful, the buzz
of a fly as annoying, the slime of a worm as disgusting, but it is
only Ho mo sapiens that connive a syste m to persevere in a n
environment that is able to preserve better without him. Th e
animal nature of humankind is to lazy one's way through life
until there is something that must be done, and to think as little
as possible; like the elderly sit around in a trance state. The cow
is not mourning but blissful, but the spirit of pure harmony ca n
exist within the soul of man only as far as he acts conscionably .
Most of our highfalutin directives to harm and destroy hardly
ever consider the consequences of what will happen when our
supporting environment has ceased to function.
The molecular center of the pupil in our eye has a che mica l
electronic radiator that is received in the Pineal organis m. Our
mind's eye constructs the language of balance that informs us o f
the approaching seasons (weather patterns), and tactics o f
survival (winter defense summer offense); thoughts may be
heard only whe n the mind achieves silence. This precious value
is achieved through the process of aging; we filter the redundant
sensations that confound the thinking of the young. In maturing
through life, we need the perspective of old age as a vanishing
point of physical interrelationships.
The electronic current of the smile is trans mitted along the
nervous syste m into the Pineal organ where the charge elicits a
che mical response causing the feeling of pleasure to envelop the
mind. It is this state the cow and elderly wish to achieve b y
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