Nature as Teacher: New Principles in the Working of Nature

At the time of writing the world is being engulfed by increasingly cataclysmic manifestations of the disturbance and disruption of Nature's otherwise orderly processes. From reports received almost daily, both nationally and from around the world, we are increasingly forced to become aware of certain life-threatening irregularities in the functioning of Nature's household. Record catastrophes of increasing violence and extent are being reported in almost every country; tornadoes, deluges, widespread flooding, searing drought, earthquakes, unseasonable snowfalls and extremes of temperature, all of which are associated with huge loss and suffering. Strife and starvation are on the increase, coupled with a seemingly endless emergence of hitherto unheard of diseases. The majority of these existence-threatening events, these so-called 'natural disasters', are not of Nature's making. On the contrary, they are directly attributable to the misdemeanors of humanity, the result of its arrogant repudiation or even total ignorance of Nature's sublime laws and the subtle interactions between the all-permeating interdependencies upon which all life is founded.