Ecology and Humanism

Author: Dr. James R. Castle

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

She saw with dismay their partners, 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 grab onto a branch. As consolation was associated with Periquín, young parakeet then left, then also took the road to heaven.

When left without company, began to cuddle up to our house, with many costs are passed from one bush to one of the kitchen windows, which is on the second floor. All this is to seek partnerships with other living beings, instinctual need in gregarious animals, as happens to humans. The spoken Chinese and started offering home cooked meals to not feel alone, ate something and flew to a neighboring tree. That was several months and there was concern that the character we saw off, awkward to fly and with a very limited life.

Suddenly a metamorphosis began to move Lorita, the wheelhouse he began to grow and its ability to maneuver in flight too, but the most amazing, his personality changed dramatically, showing more strength and fullness his temper, dignity and joy. Of course, now comes the passive scrubbed the kitchen, now asks, demands, not as before with sad eyes and a plaintive cries punctuated and waiting to be fed.

In the morning, from the hangover you sleep, goes to his morning workouts, racing through and over the trees, giving several turns into the woods. What is problematic is that it makes a surprising past the kitchen going 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 leave one half deaf. At the end, landing a ration of food demand and properly take one down to the tortilla or cheese, then with the full crop stays a while disposing of what is Chunche.

How wonderful is to see a being that evolved from the disability to utilize their training to develop psychosomatic autonomy. Lorita developments was the work of his 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 space and vital to fulfilling the mission for which it was born, within species. These impulses and express anxieties about individual potential are also in every human being, but you need to have a rudder (but not in the tail and less of 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 playing 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 their identity within the context of life on the planet. This bird has the task, distribute various types of plant seeds, to maintain the survival of different plant and animal species, so that the thin nature gear keeps moving toward eternal destiny.

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 of children, bills payable, check the mailbox of the mobile, video games. It is also important to develop, either consciously or unconsciously, control mechanisms, coodependencia, attachment and manipulation within family circles, friendships or work.

Nothing to spend time to think about these odious vermin that 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 parks and housing 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 instinctive distractions and pleasures, taken 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 in the world, should be directly useful in the short term for man and society that forms. The medium-and short-term do not foresee and do not mind not taking into account the real benefit to the person, regarding it as a being like the yigüirro has a role to play in the concert of life.

But if utilitarianism is concerned, is the song of the thrushes especially if you listen to him will be relaxed as good or better to take vitamins, melatonin, sleeping pills, antidepressants, relaxants, etc.. The song is energetic vibration that the living environment around him and we are part of that environment. Her singing is the health and welfare. It's a way of re-contacting our ancestral origin, is a bit to accommodate the dynamics of nature and recognize the validity of its laws in our own humanity. It is away from the disease. It is acknowledged that where our house was their territory which was stripped, that our table, bed, wood and other supplies were part of the tree from where he sang serving his magnificent work.

It is possible that when you hear its song Recontact with our conscience and we want to nobility, gentleness and justice planting a tree, or put a bird feeder allow them to continue the work entrusted by the Creator and 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 protection that is given to nature in Costa Rica, its own citizens human viciously lash out and abuse a helpless puma kick and help put to death. Sana, who is undoubtedly the anti-values 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, prefers not to notice that the mistreatment of animals and nature is an affront against God. If it were channeled his preaching to his flock has a commitment to fraternal Creation. The mistreatment and death of the animal in question may not have been given and the attitude of man towards nature would not be so destructive that the principles of tenderness, solidarity and responsibility would be in effect.

Moreover, the field of ethics and values has been replaced by people crowded regulations deriving from the tangle of decrees and laws, often adventitious. The reference is legal or illegal, in regard to the personal, social or nature, but not the dynamics of the values emanating from a state of consciousness that is focused on respect, beauty, harmony and the well where legal right and are implied but are overcome 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 situational morality, accommodating and egoist, where some negative values are present and are tolerated. The populist rabble-abundant, and unfortunately today is the substrate that conditions our society is governed by this system.

It seems that people with ideas and principles of altruism 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 of the society, country and Creation. The ability to revitalize the life of the country is lost. So we can never reconsider our values about ourselves and about other creatures and the natural world with which cohabit the land.

Surely it will continue to issue regulations of all kinds, from the shelter of the institutions, to try to suppress the irresponsibility and brutality with which human bodies move in every way, but always with the fear that such disclosure, for whatever that the mass does not like it could be considered an affront to democratic freedoms and painted paralyzes most public officials. Mechanism and permissive attitude and cowardly, while convenient outlet for dealing with the mob not to assert that dignifies to humans and facilitates its evolution towards a more fulfilling life in communion with nature. 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 are lack the humanistic approach resulting in a citizen who sits above populism.

The populace that confuses human values with legalities and ethical orientation has no destination and no transcendental has destroyed a beautiful work of God in the form of Puma. It is not legal offense to kill a defenseless animal, not a mortal sin to kill a defenseless animal. Neither the State nor the Church recognize the dignity and right to life of an animal.

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