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, the guards of the League of Monteverde. 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 watched with dismay their partners, do all sorts of aerial acrobatics and fly longer distances each time from one tree to another and tumble over the forest canopy with great fanfare. His clumsiness allowed costs to fly a few yards and apenitas grab onto a branch. As a consolation, was associated with Periquín, young budgie then abandoned, as they also took the road to heaven.

To be without company, began to pull up to 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 is to seek partnerships with other living beings, instinctual need in social animals like human beings is wrong. The spoken Chinese and began offering home-cooked food to not feel alone, ate something and flew to a nearby tree. That was several months and was concerned that the character we saw off, awkward to fly and with a very limited life.

Suddenly, a metamorphosis began to appear in Lorita, the rectrices he began to grow and its ability to maneuver in flight too, but most amazingly, his personality changed dramatically, showing more strength and fullness of his temper, 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 past makes a surprise in 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 will leave you half deaf. At the end, lands requiring a food ration and properly low to terminate a tortilla or cheese, then with the full crop stays a while disposing of what is Chunche.

How wonderful to see a being that evolved from the disabled to utilize their training in psychosomatic and developing autonomy. Lorita developments was the work of their desire 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 to express one's 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 region 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 are struggling hard 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 different plant and animal species, so that the thin nature take gear 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 if you have not is 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 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 whatever is done or happens on the planet, should be directly useful in the short term for man and society that forms. The medium-and short-term not foresee and do not care is not taken into account the real benefit to the person, seeing 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 thrushes especially if you listen to relaxing to be as good or better than taking vitamins, melatonin, sleeping pills, antidepressants, sedatives, etc. The song is energetic vibration of life, the surrounding environment and we are part of that environment. Her singing brings health and wellness. It is a way to re-contact with our ancestral home, is to accommodate a little to the dynamics of nature and recognize the validity of its laws in our own humanity. Is away from the disease. It is recognized that where our house was their territory which was stripped, that our table, bed and other items of wood were part of the tree from where he sang his wonderful fulfilling job.

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 feeder to 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 protection that is given to nature in Costa Rica, its citizens own human viciously lash out and abuse a helpless puma kicks and help take it to death. Sana, who is undoubtedly the anti-value that permeates every day and moves more to the Costa Rican society, where the mob has taken over the lives and destinies 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 to God. If it were channeled in his preaching to his flock has a commitment to fraternal Creation. Abuse and death of the animal in question may not have occurred and the man's attitude toward 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 laws and decrees, often upstart. The reference is legal or illegal, with respect 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 implicit, but they are overwhelmed by the personal desire to help is to make this a better world. These regulations dotted sentimentality and moods have given shape to a moral circumstantial, accommodating and egoist, where some negative values are present and are tolerated. Populism abounding the mob, which unfortunately today is the substrate that affects 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. Gives the impression that confused and frightened away from the known to 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 will never reconsider our values about ourselves and about other creatures and the natural world we live together with the land.

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 they will reveal, for all mass that does not like it 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 dignified human beings 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 city that fits the above populism.

That mob confusing legalities and human values have 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 right to life of an animal.

Ethics and human values are universal and transcend the boundaries of the human being, there is no anthropocentrism, because his own good and dignity must be also of all forms of life present at the Creation.