There is a new study soon to be published titled "Dynamical origin of Theia, the last giant impactor on Earth1" which is available for a while on arXiv preprint server, and will appear (received 2 July, 2025) in a while in the journal Icarus which specializes in Solar System studies.
The earth is not a planet or a ball spinning in space. All NASA fakery, as is everything the government. NASA is a production company and a government laundering facility. A little research is all it takes. They lied about moon landings, so everything they say or do is suspect. Eyes to see and ears to hear.
Of course! And the Sun rotates around the Earth, you can see it come up every morning, but why it shines all night onto that flat underneath of Earth I can't imagine.
Not long ago the general assumption was we are the only planet with life on it. That consensus seems to have changed in realization of the incomprehensible enormity of the universe. Regardless, life on other planets is likely exceedingly rare. The idea of humanity finding another inhabitable world is hubris with even a basic understanding of the distances and energy involved to find such a place, it could NEVER happen even if we lived peacefully and focused on the task which obviously we don't. Your article points to factors that add to the humility we should feel in existing at all. Each day should bring gratitude and respect for our good fortune.
We live within an infinite mystery. An ancient way of putting this is that we are here in the middle of forever.
I trust the universe - all of which I believe to be one sentient beloved communion of beings - to fold us in.
I’m grateful to be invited into existence with all of the joys and sorrows. I’ve come to believe - after nearly 67 years of empathetic inquiry - that we are here to love and to be loved. When we choose to be loving in each moment, we participate in the generativity that feels to me like the eternal “Kin-dom of Heaven.”
We all belong and are beloved. Our identities are not determined by narcissistic necropolitics or by sociopathic criminal leaders and organized crime masquerading as government and corporate “legal persons”.
We are star stuff configured in a unique way for a little while. We are not the only manifestation of sentience or life - that flows through all things. We are simply one beautiful species of beings in the garden - consider the wildflowers - not toiling or worrying, but resplendent and then gone away. Or consider the tiniest birds - busy flitting about and too often unnoticed and uncherished by us. But the universe cherishes each one, and catches them and folds them in again when they fall.
Do not be afraid.
These roaring empires will fall of their own corrupt weight. The eternal Kin-dom of Heaven has been here forever, is here now, and will always be…. Most people cannot see it, because they expect it to be something other than what it is, which is Love…
I know. I’m a mystic. I’m guessing I will soon be arrested for it. And so it goes….
And so it goes. Channeling Vonnegut? Maybe not, but a phrase more appropriate than ever for those who know where it came from.
Everything about our zombie system crushes imagination and possibility. It was Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" that made me realize how wondrous everything truly is. That feeling comes from lying under the stars in a place without artificial light as well. For me that was a dock on Lake Sacandaga in upstate NY. The loss of seeing the heavens and living with such dissociation from nature is surely the source of much of our madness.
Some things can never be measured. Thinking everything can, robs us of spirituality and perhaps makes us cruel. Being a mystic feeds a deeper part of our soul. Finding that requires shedding layers and years of wrong-headed teaching for conformity and commerce. Yes, empires always fall. In these times, I wonder if anything will be left because we have undermined the planet so thoroughly. If we have, something will rise again in millions of years. We just won't be here, a waste of an incredible opportunity. That's how it goes in an incomprehensibly large and ancient universe.
My experience of the divine was running through forest in the Willamette Valley of Oregon with a big black dog named SuzyQ when I was 4 or 5 years old.
The forests o knew were clear cut.
I walk be a tree now nearly every day that I call “the dancing tree” because of the graceful ways the limbs twist and turn…. A sacred being and place for me.
I appreciate your sharing. These days curiosity, wonder, and empathy are hard to come by.
I feel like deep connection with earth is essential for spirituality and for mental health. I also am increasingly aware that deep connection with sky is as important for me….
The image of Jupiter shepherding material around in the solar system resonates with me!
Yes, that's it - "a waste of an incredible opportunity." And as well as undermining the planet, have a look at Annie Jacobson's "Nuclear War - A Scenario" (400 pages)
Thank you, guys, for a great comment string! Yes, read the Potsdam papers, but really, the planetary boundaries regarding air and land are really a side show if the oceans fail, and that endpoint is in the pipeline unless immediate correction occurs.
Yes, it's remarkable luck we haven't had a nuclear war. As long as the weapons persist, the odds grow that they will be used from sheer statistical chance, never mind madness. Although there have been and will continue to be exceptional people, war, slavery, and cruelty define us from the child that pulls the wings off of an insect, to the open genocide we are witnessing in Gaza. Other ongoing genocides get no coverage at all.
I have never felt more demoralized at the state of the world. The dumbest and most evil are determined to take us over the cliff.
The Universe has no sentience. “Heaven” as per myth is non-existent. I have seen the one true living Being in all Her glory, as shown in the NASA photo. THAT is all there is. We are ALONE and may choose a better path, or the default is destruction.
We are in the heavens now. Have you read Carl Sagan? He was a wonderful atheistic (maybe more truly agnostic) mystic.
I’ve suffered a fair amount. I grew up in a very religious right family - misogynist, homophobic, racist, nationalist, Zionist…. Spent the first half of my life digging out from under all that I was told is absolutely true about myself and the universe.
Now, nearly 67, I find myself integrating around a mysticism that is out there in the field beyond reliable or secular dogma.
A Native teacher whom I respect greatly - Vine Deloria - said that religion is for people who are afraid of Hell, while spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Coming from someone whose people have recently been genocided, he knew what he was talking about.
I’m glad we are becoming a little bit acquainted here online, and I really appreciate your careful thought and writing.
Seeing earth in the NASA photo as one living Being - that’s something I can relate to. How we treat Mother Earth is how we treat ourselves and one another. How we live and move and have our bring within the day of the one Universe is our choice. I struggle greatly in life, but I choose to move as lovingly as possible until I tip over.
I get mocked for my agreement with what you say, that “Each day should bring gratitude and respect for our good fortune.” Here we are, in a shockingly unthinkable situation that in the larger scheme of things, in an expanding, evolving universe, has humanity evolving, moving from the self interest that has the rich getting richer to where we become a caring, cooperative species, grateful for having capacities to create that no other species has. Being up against the possibility of apocalypse, humanity coming to its senses is the way to the best future we could have, and, in this grand cosmic drama we are in, rather than mocking such radical ideas, I see it being life-saving to embrace them.
Your sentiment should be a grounding principle, and you shouldn't be mocked. We needed to live to a higher ideal. Even the death throes of an inhabitable planet don't impress the worst among us. Hell, the rapture people wish to speed it along. If there is a god, they will burn for their destruction of the planet and human experiment.
Exactly, thank you. As things are these days, every day without a nuclear winter is a Good Day, enjoy them while they last. And your themes of empathy and cooperation can be the outcome when people, operating as if gut microbes in the belly of the Empire, regain moral agency.
The earth is not a planet or a ball spinning in space. All NASA fakery, as is everything the government. NASA is a production company and a government laundering facility. A little research is all it takes. They lied about moon landings, so everything they say or do is suspect. Eyes to see and ears to hear.
John 14:6
Of course! And the Sun rotates around the Earth, you can see it come up every morning, but why it shines all night onto that flat underneath of Earth I can't imagine.
Not long ago the general assumption was we are the only planet with life on it. That consensus seems to have changed in realization of the incomprehensible enormity of the universe. Regardless, life on other planets is likely exceedingly rare. The idea of humanity finding another inhabitable world is hubris with even a basic understanding of the distances and energy involved to find such a place, it could NEVER happen even if we lived peacefully and focused on the task which obviously we don't. Your article points to factors that add to the humility we should feel in existing at all. Each day should bring gratitude and respect for our good fortune.
We live within an infinite mystery. An ancient way of putting this is that we are here in the middle of forever.
I trust the universe - all of which I believe to be one sentient beloved communion of beings - to fold us in.
I’m grateful to be invited into existence with all of the joys and sorrows. I’ve come to believe - after nearly 67 years of empathetic inquiry - that we are here to love and to be loved. When we choose to be loving in each moment, we participate in the generativity that feels to me like the eternal “Kin-dom of Heaven.”
We all belong and are beloved. Our identities are not determined by narcissistic necropolitics or by sociopathic criminal leaders and organized crime masquerading as government and corporate “legal persons”.
We are star stuff configured in a unique way for a little while. We are not the only manifestation of sentience or life - that flows through all things. We are simply one beautiful species of beings in the garden - consider the wildflowers - not toiling or worrying, but resplendent and then gone away. Or consider the tiniest birds - busy flitting about and too often unnoticed and uncherished by us. But the universe cherishes each one, and catches them and folds them in again when they fall.
Do not be afraid.
These roaring empires will fall of their own corrupt weight. The eternal Kin-dom of Heaven has been here forever, is here now, and will always be…. Most people cannot see it, because they expect it to be something other than what it is, which is Love…
I know. I’m a mystic. I’m guessing I will soon be arrested for it. And so it goes….
And so it goes. Channeling Vonnegut? Maybe not, but a phrase more appropriate than ever for those who know where it came from.
Everything about our zombie system crushes imagination and possibility. It was Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" that made me realize how wondrous everything truly is. That feeling comes from lying under the stars in a place without artificial light as well. For me that was a dock on Lake Sacandaga in upstate NY. The loss of seeing the heavens and living with such dissociation from nature is surely the source of much of our madness.
Some things can never be measured. Thinking everything can, robs us of spirituality and perhaps makes us cruel. Being a mystic feeds a deeper part of our soul. Finding that requires shedding layers and years of wrong-headed teaching for conformity and commerce. Yes, empires always fall. In these times, I wonder if anything will be left because we have undermined the planet so thoroughly. If we have, something will rise again in millions of years. We just won't be here, a waste of an incredible opportunity. That's how it goes in an incomprehensibly large and ancient universe.
You caught the Vonnegut reference - cool!
My experience of the divine was running through forest in the Willamette Valley of Oregon with a big black dog named SuzyQ when I was 4 or 5 years old.
The forests o knew were clear cut.
I walk be a tree now nearly every day that I call “the dancing tree” because of the graceful ways the limbs twist and turn…. A sacred being and place for me.
I appreciate your sharing. These days curiosity, wonder, and empathy are hard to come by.
I feel like deep connection with earth is essential for spirituality and for mental health. I also am increasingly aware that deep connection with sky is as important for me….
The image of Jupiter shepherding material around in the solar system resonates with me!
Yes, that's it - "a waste of an incredible opportunity." And as well as undermining the planet, have a look at Annie Jacobson's "Nuclear War - A Scenario" (400 pages)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/748264/nuclear-war-by-annie-jacobsen/ March 26, 2024
two quotes:
"The Story of the human race is War.
Except for brief and precarious interludes,
there has never been peace in the world;
and before history began, murderous strife
was universal and unending."
- Winston Churchill
"The world could end in the next couple of hours," warns General Robert Kehler, the former commander of the United States Strategic Command.
I love Annie Jacobson’s book!
I appreciate the quote from Churchill - he oughta know….
E. O. Wilson saw this coming back in the 1990’s - we have been shredding our habitat in multiple ways…
Have you looked into the work of J. Rockström et al over at the Potsdam Institute? Terrific work on planetary boundaries.
Rockström has said that if the earth were a human body it would be in the emergency room on life support, very close to death.
More later…
Thank you, guys, for a great comment string! Yes, read the Potsdam papers, but really, the planetary boundaries regarding air and land are really a side show if the oceans fail, and that endpoint is in the pipeline unless immediate correction occurs.
Yes, it's remarkable luck we haven't had a nuclear war. As long as the weapons persist, the odds grow that they will be used from sheer statistical chance, never mind madness. Although there have been and will continue to be exceptional people, war, slavery, and cruelty define us from the child that pulls the wings off of an insect, to the open genocide we are witnessing in Gaza. Other ongoing genocides get no coverage at all.
I have never felt more demoralized at the state of the world. The dumbest and most evil are determined to take us over the cliff.
The Universe has no sentience. “Heaven” as per myth is non-existent. I have seen the one true living Being in all Her glory, as shown in the NASA photo. THAT is all there is. We are ALONE and may choose a better path, or the default is destruction.
We are in the heavens now. Have you read Carl Sagan? He was a wonderful atheistic (maybe more truly agnostic) mystic.
I’ve suffered a fair amount. I grew up in a very religious right family - misogynist, homophobic, racist, nationalist, Zionist…. Spent the first half of my life digging out from under all that I was told is absolutely true about myself and the universe.
Now, nearly 67, I find myself integrating around a mysticism that is out there in the field beyond reliable or secular dogma.
A Native teacher whom I respect greatly - Vine Deloria - said that religion is for people who are afraid of Hell, while spirituality is for people who have already been there.
Coming from someone whose people have recently been genocided, he knew what he was talking about.
I’m glad we are becoming a little bit acquainted here online, and I really appreciate your careful thought and writing.
Seeing earth in the NASA photo as one living Being - that’s something I can relate to. How we treat Mother Earth is how we treat ourselves and one another. How we live and move and have our bring within the day of the one Universe is our choice. I struggle greatly in life, but I choose to move as lovingly as possible until I tip over.
I get mocked for my agreement with what you say, that “Each day should bring gratitude and respect for our good fortune.” Here we are, in a shockingly unthinkable situation that in the larger scheme of things, in an expanding, evolving universe, has humanity evolving, moving from the self interest that has the rich getting richer to where we become a caring, cooperative species, grateful for having capacities to create that no other species has. Being up against the possibility of apocalypse, humanity coming to its senses is the way to the best future we could have, and, in this grand cosmic drama we are in, rather than mocking such radical ideas, I see it being life-saving to embrace them.
Your sentiment should be a grounding principle, and you shouldn't be mocked. We needed to live to a higher ideal. Even the death throes of an inhabitable planet don't impress the worst among us. Hell, the rapture people wish to speed it along. If there is a god, they will burn for their destruction of the planet and human experiment.
Exactly, thank you. As things are these days, every day without a nuclear winter is a Good Day, enjoy them while they last. And your themes of empathy and cooperation can be the outcome when people, operating as if gut microbes in the belly of the Empire, regain moral agency.