THE POWER OF NATURE
Today, science, though vast and remarkable, often takes a view based on preconceptions. Courses are plotted to focus on solutions as temporary fixes to problems. What is missing is the intuitive advances, an ideology of truth that goes beyond logic, and a structure that promotes the understanding that all things are interconnected. Nature provides important information, revealed by the numerous fields of science, that deserves merit. In nature, all things abide by natural cycles that are kept it in check and naturally balanced, yet, much of this wisdom has been dismissed, destroyed and deemed useless by ignorance and those in power. Today, the external environment is suffering because of the dismissal of the internal, causing us to become fractured.
As did Socrates and Plato before him (as well as a myriad of others), William Butler Yeats remarked that nature has memory, a memory that reveals events and symbols of distant centuries; a strong and wild energy that can evoke and awaken understanding.
Teachings of nature expressed by Jesus can be found in the Dialogue of the Savior, Codex III of the Nag Hammadi codices*. It reveals that learning about the elements of the universe, and of oneself, is an invitation to preservation: . . ."If one does not understand how the fire came to be, he will burn with it, because he does not know his root. If one does not first understand the water, he does not know anything. . . If one does not understand how the wind [air] that blows came to be, he will run with it. If one does not understand how the body [earth] that he wears came to be, he will perish with it . . . whoever does not understand how he came will not understand how he will go. . ."
Yeats wrote about the caution one must have when learning of these mysteries, "It is perhaps well that so few believe in it, for if many did many would go out of parliaments and universities and libraries and run into the wilderness to so waste the body, and to so hush the unquiet mind that, still living, they might pass the doors the dead pass daily; for who among the wise would trouble himself with making of laws or in writing history or in weighing the earth if the things of eternity seemed ready to hand?"

*In 1945 an arab peasant digging for a certain soil to fertilize crops near the town of Nag Hammadi, found an earthenware jar filled with 13 papyrus books bound in leather. These books are known as the Gnostic Gospels or the missing books of the new testament, that were ordered to be destroyed in the early Christian Era, the same time that the library of Alexandria was burned.