This show’s questions are inspired by the writings of America’s Longshoreman Philosopher, Eric Hoffer, whose book, The True Believer, is considered a literary classic. Hoffer wrote this intriguing passage on nature and compassion: “Nature has no compassion. It is, in the words of William Blake, ‘a creation that groans, living on death; where the fish and bird and beast and tree and metal and stone live by devouring.’ Nature accepts no excuses, and the only punishment it knows is death.” What is Creator’s perspective?

This is certainly a cold and somewhat harsh assessment of nature, but we understand where this comes from. To the casual observer, particularly one who has suffered and been witness to much human suffering, it is easy to extrapolate that expectation onto all of nature and it certainly is the case there is a hierarchy of relative power and individual autonomy and length of survival, given the many pressures on life forms who are competing with one another, and there are many predator-prey interactions that can seem quite grisly to the observer. So we acknowledge all of this as being true, but beauty, as always, is in the eye of the beholder and we would only wish to temper that perspective to draw your attention to the great beauty inherent in nature and the existence of many quite gentle creatures who harm no one and nothing and only wish to survive and have their experience. What Hoffer is pointing to is a degradation, a corruption of the Earth that has taken place subsequent to the creation. We made the world to be a beautiful and loving nest for the divine human to occupy and enjoy, and to thrive in a glorious setting that would be endlessly fascinating and greatly rewarding as well, with human being the top of the food chain, so to speak, and having dominion over all life on the planet. This is only fitting given the intention for humanity and its purpose, to be a force for good, to heal the darkness, and rebalance the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy, which contains not only the planet Earth and its solar system but many, many star systems and worlds teeming with life of all kinds, all of which is at risk currently because evil is holding sway in your galaxy. So we would say, "Look beyond nature for the true cause. It is not nature itself; it is the negative karma of the interlopers present on the Earth behind the scenes and controlling things who have brought evil to your planet, and with that, many, many degradative influences, including many, many life forms from the microbial scale to the large carnivores." The world was not designed to have predators at all. Those predatory species were created as a karmic payback, as an object lesson to the interlopers, who have ravaged many worlds as predators, to give them a karmic lesson about such activity and its consequences. The fact they have bested that negative influence is not surprising as they were superior beings in their creation, as with human who has similarly found ready means, especially through technology, to cope with predators in your midst. What the interlopers failed to see was the larger karmic lesson in all of that—essentially that a predatory lifestyle is not in divine alignment and will always have a negative consequence in the end.