U.S. Decline Brings a New Moment for Faith in One Earth Mythology

The failing infrastructure in U.S. education, roads, mass transit, soil and biodiversity protection, drinking water quality, and waterways all indicate a superpower in decline. So do our lagging behind in green energy and rapid rail. As has happened throughout the Multi Earth story’s history, empires lose resiliency as their interior weakens.

The Jews in Babylon way back in 587 B.C.E. give us one such historical example. They knew that their own Multi Earth experiment in the monarchies of David, Solomon, and their successors, ended horribly. Plus, when they heard their conquerors’ stories, these conquered Jews knew beyond a doubt that they needed stories to help them understand how humans were being repeatedly tricked into believing the shining lie of Multi Earth living. Like them, I too want stories that expose Multi Earth ways and speak truthfully about the possibility of One Earth living. With the great U.S. superpower in decline, those stories have a new moment to be embraced.

My search for such stories and practices has been all the more challenging because of the many voices I’ve heard over my lifetime who’ve taught me to think of Eden more as history. As a story of the past, it tells how we humans fell into sin and that ever after we’ve been in a weakened state. In our fallen condition, human greed and Multi Earth ways become too mighty to be mastered. Capitalism is partly based on this idea. Since greed cannot be fully mastered, markets must be designed to make the best of greedy urges. But as myth, the choice of Eve and Adam in the Garden was for Multi Earth views, a terrible choice with sinful consequences, but not some psychological taint that has forever been passed along in historical succession. It’s just that too many humans have continued to choose Multi Earth views. Whenever we do so, we take our own bite from the forbidden fruit.

Over decades many teachers and authors have invited me to look through different lenses. As a result, I’ve been led to unbelief regarding Multi Earth stories and any reinterpretation of Eden or other One Earth myths that make them support the Multi Earth system. Instead, I’m putting faith in the One Earth paradigm and now seek the stories and interpretations that express it.