3 years ago I started the hungarian Wanderer on the Planet (name: Bolygón Bolyongó, aka BoBó: HERE) website. I want to share those articles, some thought on a worldlanguage, to reach much more people.
Knowledge is Power, not a Privilage.
One of the greatest pioneering scientists, Carl Sagan /SETI, VOYAGERS/( November 9, 1934, Brooklyn, New York, U.S. — December 20, 1996, Seattle, Washington ), has a short, but all the more romantic – sounding and at the same time scientifically supported sentence as an example of the question of what Wandering on the Planet is about:
“We are made of star – stuff”
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Psychology is the science of knowing ourselves. We could let the ego toss around with the words “quackery, humbug, unnecessary”, but a good part of our behavior patterns can be traced in the brain (also). Scientifically. This is neurology. However, our brain is affected by the aforementioned numerous learned behavior patterns that have been fixed for generations, the environment, even the purity of oxygen, and the way our body functions and reacts to the world around us.
Another thousand and one questions arise from these:
What create us? What is good for us, what is harming us? What do we need in order for our physical temple to function most effectively? And to feel good about it? What we learnt? Whitch of these can be taken off? Where does the “no frills me” begin? What do we have influence in relation to ourselves and the world, or our Pale Little Blue, the Earth?
How does all this affect us?
One part of the site is about finding our place in the world. Our task, joy, peace of mind. This requires knowledge of ourselves – and thus of our fellow humans – for which we have to examine again and again how deep is the Rabbit Hole.
Mine, yours, ours.
We need to know our limits, our abilities not only as independent individuals, but also as a unit. Because humanity collectively has a low conscious presence. We love to hug Ego, and he loves to hug us. Tight, suffocating tight, because no one is paying attention to us anymore. But we have to wake up to realize that only together, only collectively, are we able to make a long-term change in the world, in the Present that surrounds us.
In this Present, which created by us.
And, if we could shape it like that, then why wouldn’t we be able to create a less problematic, better one Future?
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And here, I return to that certain Carl Sagan sentence: some of the elements that make up not only us were indeed born and are born in the stars. Moreover, with the death of certain types of stars. Did you know that the age of stars is already decide at the moment of their birth?
The our life – giving Sun is 4.6 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star, halfway through its life. We can thank to it, for example, for the Polar Lights (auroras), which is not only to our planet’s unique. At the same time, its light is cell-destroying and DNA – damaging, and it also penetrates the clouds. Yes, that sunscreen is also useful in winter…
However, it will die and our Earth will become unfit for life when our Sun is still alive. In less than 4.6 billion years. For us, of course, this time is inconceivable.
But our species will still exist then? And our mother planet?
Earth’s supplies are finite. Even if the Earth would be a bottomless, all-absorbing magic bag, we would still only be able to extract from it what is already in it… In addition, since the beginning of industrialization, we rapidly reduced the lifespan and supply of our planet. Today, despite the abundance of tools and knowledge – for example the using of green energy -, the pursuit of material well-being is authoritative.
A layer of the atmosphere that protects us, the ozone layer in the stratosphere, does not let certain substances in, nor does it let them out. Materials and gases stuck there need time to the decompose. The decomposition time of the harmful gases that have entered the atmosphere so far is thousands of years. And these gases also increase the greenhouse effect, which in turn causes drought and extreme weather.
Did you know that, for example, a single chlorine molecule can break down 100,000 ozone molecules? And that, among other things, you also scent of the ozone when the weather is about to rain or it’s rain?
And do you know that 3 essential foods supply the world? For everything, inlcuding the meat on our table, we need that 3 essential foods. These 3 staple foods are wheat, rice and corn. There are 5 large agricultural areas in the world, which serve approximately 60% of humanity. If we lose only two of them due to drought, for example, that means the end of us.
And du you know that we can understand much, much more of the world through science than we think?
Science shows how miracles are born, pass away, and transform: Polar Lights, nebulas, celestial bodies, materials. Life. It teaches us that we are part of a beautiful process, not its the pinnacle. The process of a chain reaction, not the result.
Do you know, for example, that if anyone from the closest galaxy to us, Andromeda, looked towards us, they would see: our galaxy is inhuman? For them, we do not yet exist in our present form. They see a state 2,5 million years ago, when the ape-men lived, the so-called early homininis/humans (australopithecus), which are the ancestors of the ancient humans.
2.5 million years… That’s how long it takes for light to reach there from our galaxy and vice versa. Yes, what we see when we look up the Andromeda galaxy is the past from 2.5 million years ago. And for galaxies further away, even our solar system doesn’t exist.
Scary, right?
Actually, it’s not. It’s a miracle. It’s a wonder that we are the only species on this planet to can understand the significance of everything. We can understand our responsibility and we can do things for ourselves, for the planet, for the Future.
And me?
I still can’t find my place in the world of the Present, but I’m turning an increasingly stable and larger slice of it into my own. =) I striving for symbiosis, since one does not exist without the other world. It’s good to remember this in all areas of life.
Old role player, a bit of a geek, pet and telescope owner, WWF and UNICEF member, SPACEJUNKIE patron and member of THE PLANETARY SOCIETY. A lover of mountains – valleys, outer space – daytime – night sky – rain, lover of coffee and books, worthless without music, appreciative of the silence. Standing with two feet on the ground, but sometimes I dream of myself horribly far away from everything. Finder. Wanderer. I wants to know everything. =)
If I had to describe myself with one of the seven deadly sins, it would be Gluttony. And if with a poem, it would be Mihály Babits – The Epilogue of the Lyric Poet.
And my aims with this?
To slow down the Train of Humanity, which is moving towards the abyss, so that the next time – if there is one – we do not have to learn this lesson collectively at the cost of many species, lives and a planet.
I’m glad you’re here! Trust me, you’ll find something you like before you go any further. Even if no one tells you. =)
Wait for you back anytime:
Éva Őzse
