During meditation, I thought about the eternal conflict between human beings. When and how did this begin? A response came that we were created as equals and lived in harmony for some time. Our connection with the Eternal was natural; however, the longer we existed in the material body, the more we began to believe in our individual independence, our individual abilities, and our individual power.
The more we affirmed the belief in separateness from Spirit, the further we drifted away from our knowledge of Oneness. We began to see ourselves and others as different (analogized in the Adam and Eve story where they became aware of and ashamed of their nakedness and left the harmony of the Garden of Eden).
When we lose our connection to that which is Eternal, we cannot see the Eternal in another and, then, cannot see our connection to each other in any respect. This divide gets deeper and deeper over time. We separate from God. We separate from the God in each other. We separate from the other because of appearance, then village, then tribe, region, religion, country and so on until we become so isolated in our minds that we want to separate from ourselves.
Humans have devolved from being wards of land belonging to all to perpetuators of war and death in order to claim and cling to land. What has been gained by polarization? How have we benefited by beliefs that we are different from the other and that we are not interrelated and interconnected?
We are organic beings. We have an innate ability to exist and flourish unimpeded like a plant or mighty tree, fully nourished by the soil, the sun, water, and wind. This organic part of us knows how to survive, what to eat, when and how to move, and when to sleep. When we do not listen to our innate selves, when we push through instead of intuitively listen, we create an imbalance within that proliferates like polluted air.
I learned through yoga that when weak muscles stop functioning, other muscles take over. These eventually become exhausted because they are doing their jobs and that of the weak muscles. Eventually, a particular body part breaks down. When a cell becomes diseased, other healthy cells may be able to neutralize it; but, as with the weak/strong muscles, if the disease persists, the strong cells become weakened.