Nature as a Living Entity

If there is some quiet wisdom being whispered by the ethers, mustn’t there be a whisperer of sorts, some type of cosmic intelligence behind this esoterism? We see our world through the mental schemata we construct. In the process of anthropomorphizing physical, seemingly non-sentient, matter with the animal quality of gender, are we not insinuating that matter itself is alive? Humans have given the same such attributes to conceptualizations, as well. Nations, cars, necessity, even nature itself are all female, while time, Christmas, God are male.

Of course, particulars may be unique, but the mental constructs through which we label the physical world do, in fact, influence our thoughts of them. Even in modern physics, we are being faced with paradoxes that confound our most advanced scientific minds. This is precisely what science is not capable of accommodating comfortably, paradox.

Is it possible that in the process analyzing nature, we have come to disregard one of its most basic elements, the element of surprise? Of course, it’s not as though we will not modify our theories, which were, perhaps, flawed or incomplete, but is there a possibility that what we expect to find could influence what we find? This seems to be a key part of esoterism. As important as it is in science to not bias a test with a heavy-handed expectation that an event will occur, it is possibly even more important that we be open to the possibility that something unexpected or inconsistent might occur. As we view our world on smaller and smaller levels, we are coming to see what looks like a connectedness of objects that previously seemed distinct- almost as if the universe itself were a single organism. Carl Jung's model of a collective-unconscious might even go so far as to say that increased harmony on individual levels might improve the whole of humanity.