Multi Earthers Continue 12,000 Years of Secession from Earth's Community of Life

But Ishmael taught his student a different story. He told about a great separation that had happened in the storyline. Some of our human species became so sure that there was a better way than what had sustained us in Earth’s community of life for a couple hundred thousand years or longer, that we seceded from our union with that community. We began a different storyline. But that did not, therefore, end the lineage of all who continued to creatively live in the succession of Earth’s community.

What happened was that now two macro-stories were underway, each shaping differently what would follow. A more accurate diagram, Ishmael said, looks like this, with the Multi-Earth secession happening in the centuries as the Holocene Era began, around 10,000 B.C.E., ushering in a relatively stable, post-glacial age. It’s the only age that the story of western civilization has known.

 One-Earth Story _________________________________________________

                                                    \__Multi-Earths Story__________

According to Ishmael’s correction, what has been called prehistory in the schools of civilization, and commonly treated as inferior, is actually a long period when One Earth living was working for all species. It was Eden. 

Because of Ishmael and other teachers, what Eden means has changed for me. As I’ve come to see how healthy bioregions are the organic units comprising larger, life sustaining ecosystems, Eden has come to represent for me a planet that is a massive interplay of healthy ecosystems. The garden story of Genesis 3 portrays Eden, not as a perfect utopia, but as an evolved creational order of interdependence. Multi Earth living is hellbent on making the secession from it as complete as possible.

Please comment: Isn’t it stunning that Multi Earth living insists we can’t get away from our greed and selfishness so we need The Market to managae it? Yet, such thinking is a recent mutation of thought about our species given that we lived as One Earthers for nearly 200,000 years.