It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature…

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And we don’t fool her. Ever. There are 20,000 dead in China after a 7.9 Earthquake, but that news is 4 days old. The interesting thing is that before the quake, a pond became completey dry, and thousands of frogs were evacuating their aquatic homes. The question on the table now is “do we get signs from nature prior to a natural disaster”? Despite the fact that behaviors like this are common in animals (elephants were said to be acting strangely prior to the cyclone in Myanmar) scientists continue to ignore these signs. I guess I don’t understand why scientists refuse to acknowledge the natural instincts of creatures that predate us. Is it arrogance, or simply disbelief in things that can not be proven to their satisfaction? I find it interesting that Einstein understood that we are all connected (quantum theory), that his contemporaries agreed with him (Bohm), and yet the idea of cosmic connection is still viewed as mystical . Perhaps if we paid more attention to the subtle clues we receive from mother nature and tuned in to our natural intuitions, we would be have a slight advantage over these catastrophic events.  Certainly, we can’t stop natural disasters no matter what we do, but would it have been possible to detect the epicenter of the quake with enough time to evacuate some of the areas if the behavior of the frogs been taken more seriously?  Would the citizens of Myanmar have had more time to evacuate if the intelligence and wisdom of elephants would have made meteorologists suspicious? There is no way to know for sure, but maybe we should have some respect for the things we do not fully understand, instead of looking down our nose at them.  Sometimes, we can be too smart for our good.

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