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earthfuture.com by Guy Dauncey
We live in her. We co-exist with her. We cannot breathe, think, love,
or do anything without her. And yet for someone so familiar, so ever
present, why do we understand her so little?
I’m talking about time; the lake along which all consciousness
skates; the sky within which all spirits fly.
We know that time was. We know that many years ago, a huge explosion
sent gazillions of thinglings and thoughtlings soaring through space,
when God became pregnant and gave birth to the universe. We know that
once there were dinosaurs. We know that yesterday we had scones and
butter for tea, and that somewhere in the field of memories we once
had a lover who opened all our senses, turning ordinary touch into
the very music of God.
But what of tomorrow? Does tomorrow’s time already exist, waiting
for us to enter it? Is it empty, like a bowl, until existence comes
along and fills it? Is the emptiness of tomorrow’s time on Earth
the same as the emptiness of tomorrow’s time on the other side
of some far distant galaxy, where desolate moons await some touch?
For surely, there is only one time, here and throughout the universe.
Let us enter a thought experiment, and lift for a moment the veil
that hides time’s face. Let us imagine that far from being a
silent presence, time is in fact the greatest power in the universe;
not just a measure of the past, or an eternal present, but a love
that comes from the future.
Let us imagine that the whole universe is governed not by the present,
but by the future. If you think about your daily life, leaving aside
the things you do purely from habit, is it not true that everything
you do is guided by the future, by the outcomes you seek to achieve?
The tiniest egg, released into the womb, welcomes its lover. Through
its cell division, the becoming child moves towards the moment of
birth.
So now let us turn to the bigger stage, on which our world unfolds.
When we discovered how to read the stars, to plant the seeds, to print
the spoken word, were we not in some sense teasing out of the future
a truth, which already existed, and was just awaiting our touch?
When we dream of a world powered by solar energy, of sewage that through
solar aquatic treatment becomes the food and song of a myriad plants
and creatures, of schools where children of all races explore their
inner potentials in harmony with nature, are we not drawing out a
reality which already exists?
Yes, when two tribal leaders dream of the same piece of land and reach
to pluck it out of the future at the same time, the result has often
been war. And when men in suits sit in the tallest buildings and reach
into the future to pull the very rainforests out of the Earth, the
result is often dust, death, and misery. But behind these selfishnesses,
does not time sing a more constant note, calling us to reach into
the future and draw out a world in which hope, love and beauty become
the daily foundation from which we live?
In 1942, the Italian mathematician Luigi Fantappie proposed a unified
theory, linking the physical and biological worlds. He suggested that
while entropy follows the laws of a mechanical world, causing the
components of reality to diverge and fall apart, pushing the past
into the future, there is a balancing principle called syntropy which
works from the future, drawing the present towards wholeness. Information
comes from the future, inspiring consciousness and thought to reach
towards it.
Throughout the universe, the future pulls the present towards it.
We feel it in our hopes and dreams, and assign it space in our poetry,
but here I am suggesting this is not a whim, but the most powerful
force in the universe. The chaos of the present moment on Earth is
just a mirror of the confusion that exists in our minds, as we are
overwhelmed by the power of the technologies we have created.
The future is calling to us; time is her song. If we listen, we can
create harmony. If we listen together, we can create harmony on Earth.
Guy Dauncey is an author and futurist who lives in Victoria.
His website is www.earthfuture.com.
He is also president of the new BC Sustainable Energy Association
www.bcsea.org Please see the website for further information.
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