“One step that must be taken in this process is recognizing that we have only partly written our own history. The planet itself has given and taken, applied pressure, suffered, not as mute matter but as another actor on this stage. In our zeal, we have raped her with drills, torn at her skin, and guzzled the black blood that issued forth. It is in her pain as much as our own that we find ourselves today. Crude oil and other fossil fuels have given us the illusory impression of dominance, supposedly marking our full emergence from the restrictive grasp of natural cycles. But both we and the planet have been irrevocably transformed and we are together confronted with an unprecedented and delicate alchemical task: to, at the critical moment, when the heat is just right, find the unifying spirit among all our dark and putrefying ingredients and extract it. To rescue the light from the impurity.”
— Medium.com @CosmicConsciousness