Ecology and Humanism

Author: Dr. James R. Castle

It turns out that a parrot, whose name Lorita, came to our ecological center in San Carlos. It was part of a group of peers who had seized, in good time, rangers Monteverde League. They cared, and were prepared for release, a goal that was achieved. But Lorita come without its tail, which is the rudder of the birds, why was awkward to fly.

She was with her friends discouraged, do all sorts of aerial acrobatics and fly increasingly longer distances from one tree to another and circling above the forest canopy with loud cries. His clumsiness allowed costs to fly a few yards and apenitas hold of a branch. As a consolation, was associated with Periquín, young parakeet then abandoned, as they also took the road to heaven.

To be without company, began leaning on our house, with many costs are passed from one bush to one of the windows in the kitchen, which is on the second floor. All this to seek partnerships with other living things, need gregarious instinct in animals, as happens to be human. The spoken Chinese began offering home-cooked food and to not feel alone, ate something and flew to a nearby tree. That was several months and had concerns that the character we saw off, awkward to fly and with a very limited life.

Suddenly, a metamorphosis began to manifest in Lorita, the rectrices he began to grow and its ability to maneuver in flight as well, but the most amazing, his personality changed dramatically, showing more strength and fullness of their temperament, dignity and joy. Of course, now comes the passive scrubbed the kitchen, now asks, demands, not like before, with sad eyes and a plaintive cries punctuated and expect to be fed.

In the morning, from the guava tree in sleeping, out to do their morning exercise routines, flying between and above the trees, making several turns into the forest. The problem is that a few surprise from the kitchen past at full speed (something like the Blue Angels ), entering through a window and out the other, and take off because he gets out. Of course, their shrill cries of joy will leave you half deaf. At the end, landing a ration of food demand and properly low to terminate a tortilla or cheese, then with the full crop stays a while disposing of what is chuncho.

How wonderful it is to see a being that evolved from the disability to utilize their training in psychosomatic and developing autonomy. Lorita developments was the work of their desires and need to fly, to be a parrot in its full expression. In life there are examples of natural impulses, misunderstood by us, to regain the physical and vital to fulfilling the mission for which it was born, within each species. These impulses and anxieties for expressing individual potential are also in every human being, but you need to have a rudder (but not in the tail and less than silicon) and a personal flight plan to achieve it.

Author: Dr. James R. Castle

The thrushes, which have always been present in this area since before the conquest, independence, the founding of the first and second republic, the issue of social guarantees, etc. have been on a mission, which has allowed these lands, to become what they are today and continue to give a tough fight for them to continue keeping its identity within the context of life on the planet. This bird's mission is to distribute various types of plant seeds, to maintain the survival of plant and animal species, so that the thin gear moving nature take eternal destinies.

But what sense has put care and try to understand what they are for these feathered when it comes to caring for the cholesterol, the good and the bad, triglycerides, uric acid, high blood pressure, depression and stress, of course, that unless we suffer is not modern, allergy, asthma, lack of appetite in children, bills payable, check your mailbox on the phone, playing videogames. It is also important to develop, either consciously or unconsciously, control mechanisms, coodependencia, attachment and manipulation within the circles of family, friends or work.

Nothing to spend time thinking about those stupid, sometimes even above the car troubles and should not be very important because they are not taken into account in the churches, in moles and in public and residential gardens where plants are grown that nothing in their favor. In ornamental plant nurseries, foreign and alien are dominating sales and planted without taking into account that will increase the degradation of the environment breaking the cycles of nature.

The immediacy born of a disturbed and anxious instinct of distractions and pleasures, took by assault the intelligence, which is at your service, disrupting the demands of conscience that requires transcendence.

The important thing is that everything is made or occurs on the planet, should be directly useful in the short term for man and society that forms. The medium-and short-term are not expected and not care is not taken into account the real benefit for the person, seeing it as a being like the yigüirro has a role to play in the concert life.

But if utilitarianism is concerned, is the song of the thrushes especially if you listen to relaxing to be as good or better than taking vitamins, melatonin, sleeping pills, antidepressants, relaxants, etc.. The song is full of energy vibration of life, the surrounding environment and we are part of that environment. Her singing is the health and welfare. It is a way to recontact our ancestral home, is to accommodate a little to the dynamics of nature and recognize the validity of its laws in our own humanity. It is away from the disease. It is recognized that where our house was their territory which was stripped, that our table, bed, wood and other items were part of the tree from which to fulfill its magnificent singing task.

It is possible that when we hear its song recontact with our conscience and we want to nobility, kindness and justice to plant a tree, or put a bird feeder allow them to continue the work entrusted by the Creator and is reborn in us the sense of mission for the life.

Author: Dr. James R. Castle

As they are made known to the world the great natural beauty and the protection given to nature in Costa Rica, its citizens own human viciously lash out and abuse a helpless puma kick and help take it to death. Sana, who is undoubtedly the anti-value that permeates every day and moves more into Costa Rican society, where the mob has taken control of the life and destiny of the country. This, like other facts, are signs of degradation in the quality of life when he must have evolved in the opposite direction, towards excellence.

The Church, which has been the representative of God in the world, he prefers not to notice that the mistreatment of animals and nature is an affront against God. If it were channeled in his preaching to his flock has a commitment to fraternal Creation. Abuse and death of animal in question may not have occurred and the attitude of man towards nature would not be so destructive that the principles of tenderness, solidarity and responsibility would be in effect.

On the other hand, the field of ethics and values has been replaced by people crowded regulations deriving from the tangle of decrees and laws, often upstart. The reference is legal or illegal, with respect to the personal, social or environment, but not the dynamics of the values arising from a state of consciousness that focuses on respect, beauty, harmony and the well where legal right and are implicit, but are overtaken by the personal desire to contribute has to make this a better world. These regulations dotted with sentimentality and moods have given shape to a moral circumstantial, accommodating and egoist, where some negative values are present and are tolerated. Populism where the riffraff abound, and unfortunately today is the substrate that influences our society is governed by this system.

It seems that people with ideas and principles altruistic and good, have left populism contaminate and affect their own lives and civility. Dancing the dissonance is that the mob wants to sound. It seems that confused and afraid to deviate from the known cling to ideas, prejudices and ways of life, hiding behind excuses lined morality, wisdom and sanity to hide their cowardice and lack of commitment to the highest values society, country and Creation. The ability to revitalize the life of the nation is lost. So we can never reconsider our values in relation to ourselves and to respect other creatures and the natural world where we live together with these lands.

Surely continue to issue regulations of all kinds, from the shelter of the institutions, to try to curb the irresponsible and the fury with which human bodies move in every way, but always with the fear that such disclosure, for all that does not like mass could be considered an affront to democratic freedoms and paralyzes the most painted of public officials. Mechanism and permissive attitude and cowardly, while convenient exit rather than face the mob, under what dignifies to humans and facilitates its evolution towards a more fulfilling life in communion with nature. There is no democracy without human livelihoods.

This state of affairs is also reflected in education, which can transfer a lot of intellectual knowledge to learners, but where those who do not have liberal education resulting in a citizen who fits the above populism.

That mob confusing legalities human values and has no ethical guidance and no transcendental destiny has destroyed a beautiful work of God in the form of Puma. It is not legal crime to kill a defenseless animal, not a mortal sin to kill a defenseless animal. Neither the State nor the Church recognize the dignity and the right to life of an animal.

Ethics and human values are universal and transcend the boundaries of the human being, it is an anthropocentric, for his own good and dignity must be also of all forms of life present at the Creation.