"According to scientists, we're currently in the geological epoch knows as the Holocene, which has lasted for the last 12,000 years. The Holocene encompasses the rise of humanity since the last ice age. But some scientists think we have actually entered a new ear, called the Anthropocene - an era in which the world no longer shapes humanity, but in which humanity shapes the world to its own purpose and does so to an extent that will have permanent effects of the geological record of our planet. " 

We live here.

On this infinitely layered, infinitely complex, infinitely mysterious, flying rock that hovers in this infinitely expanding thing called space.
 
So, now, here I am.

Looking a picture that shows me - Mr ordinary human being - all the vast interdependent systems that we all part of , all through the wonders of data visualisation. Wow, right?

The obvious strikes me once again.

Through this global neuro network, I can sit here and share with people all across the planet, this insignificantly significant thought that is on my mind, which a mere 10 years ago was probably not possible in the same way it is now.

Its fucking amazing. Magic. Real Magic.

In my own life experience, the most profound truths have tended to be the most obvious. Incredibly subtle. For me, when I moved from a pure intellectual understanding of what Earth is - and began to feel all this, my world opened up just that little bit more.

Thich thanh Than has long talked about interdependence and the inter-being ( as opposed to human being). Technology is allowing us to see this process in action.

I read somewhere online, where this Buddhist scholar suggested that the next Buddha will be a sangha. ( Sangha meaning community/collective). Yep, sounds pretty correct to me, given the evidence.

The Human race is now shaping this planet and all of its interdependent systems on this scale that we have never seen before.

Changing and morphing the state of this little flying rock in a way that our ancestors probably could have never imagine.

When I began understand the profoundness of all this, then began to feel this, Earth almost felt different.

And what was once unbeknownst to me, suddenly came into light.

More?
Anthropocene

http://www.anthropocene.info/

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