Coerced Normality ( Part 2) When Gaia Pierced the Illusion!

By Charles Snelleksz-Mathelot

An environmental disaster is an event of catastrophic proportions inflicted upon the natural environment through human activity. The most known environmental disaster of our time, is the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986. This disaster was rated at seven, the maximum severity on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Another environmental impact was the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

I want to focus on the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown of No. 4 reactor which caused an open-air reactor core fire that burnt until May 4, 1986. The fire released radioactive contaminants into the air and deposited them to the surrounding parts of the USSR and Europe.

A total of 350,000 people were evacuated from the region and in the absence of humans, Mother Nature has reclaimed the region for herself. Chernobyl’s exclusion zone which spans over 2,800 square kilometres is one of the world’s most radioactively contaminated areas. It was estimated that 400 hectares of pine trees died in the wake of the disaster along with most of the region’s flora and fauna, and water sources were highly contaminated.

Governments proclaimed nothing could live within the exclusive zone, yet as years came and went, humanity witnessed a miracle. The exclusion zone began to re-wild itself by rebuilding with biodiversity. Endangered animals like the Przewalski’s horses, the lynx, and the European bison are thriving and the populations of elk, boar, and roe deer are booming. With the increase in prey animals and the reduction of hunting pressure, predatory animals like the wolves also increased in population.

Thirty five years since the nuclear disaster, researchers are seeing a boom in animal and plant species in the exclusion zone in spite of the illegal levels of radioactive contamination found in plants. This has led scientists to believe that nature is thriving in the zone due to the lack of human presence in the area.

“The burden brought by radiation at Chernobyl is less severe than the benefits reaped from humans leaving the area,” explains plant biochemistry expert Stuart Thompson, who adds that the zone “supports more life than before.” Mathe de Ferrer, Chernobyl: Why the nuclear disaster was an accidental environmental success, Euronews.green.

For me, the Chernobyl disaster is a fractal of the many ways in which human arrogance has created the illusion that humans can out smart nature and do whatever we like within her ecosystems. Before the disaster, the ecosystems of the region were heavily dominated by pine trees, less diversity and animal species had been hunted into extinction. The disaster doesn’t appear to be an environmental disaster, it actually looks like an environmental success. Nature seems to be adapting to the poisonous environment and correcting human ignorance. That is, ignoring the truth about living on this planet; we need thriving ecosystems in order for humans to thrive.

“The pine plantations that were there in 1986 have given way to more biodiverse primary forests, which are more resilient to climate change and wildfires and better able to sequester carbon.” Sergiy Zibtsev, Forestry expert, National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, UN environment programme.

I wonder, were the 350,000 people living in the region educated on the risks that were involved in having a nuclear plant in their backyard and did they consent to its construction? Was the destruction of the environment considered? The answer to both questions is, no. As our lives and the life of Mother Earth stands at the brink of what can only be a disastrous nuclear war, the majority of humanity remains blind to the truth - the controllers are playing chess and we are the chess pieces, the planet is the chess board.

They set up this game and mind controlled us into believing that they are fighting to protect us by protecting our nations, and the majority of people believe this to be true. This is coerced normality. People are trained into nationalism; seeing ourselves as different to each other and fiercely up holding and defending our countries and cultures. Our manipulated perceptions on what is acceptable, thoughts and behaviours have us believing that diversity is bad. We are programmed to be simpletons when we have the ability to accept and understand complex ideas, knowledge and realities.

It is so easy to argue with each other, to blame another for our unwanted life experiences, to alienate someone based on their appearances, religious beliefs, health status, life choices, educational status, sexuality, sexual preference, gender identity, and the list goes on. Life is complex, and we strive to simplify it by polarising it to fit our programmed reductionist minds - conditioned to dismiss anything that does not fit into our coerced normality. We don’t even know that we are living out someone else’s script because we are written into the script through the conditioning of our minds via the numerous institutions and devices created to perpetrate the grand illusion.

“Like an air control system mistaking a flock of birds for a fleet of bombers, software is unable to distinguish between its model of the world and reality – and, once conditioned, neither are we.” James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future.

I began this article with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster because I was guided to do so by my ultimate guide on this planet, Mother Gaia. The way this article has been written has also been influenced by Gaia and, at first, I didn’t understand how I was going to create a coherent piece of writing - I was asked to trust. I realised my mind was having trouble with accepting the concept that life is complex and it is our programming that keeps us seeking to simplify it, to reduce it to disconnected parts much like governments with their disconnected network of chaotic departments.

Complexity is intricately interwoven with nuances that cannot be seen and understood in a simple reductionist world view. Let’s revisit the Chernobyl story with our eyes and minds wide open and see the true normal. It is normal, that when humans leave the Earth alone, she heals and her complex ecosystems rebuild because every element in that ecosystem though different, perceives its place in the grand truth of what makes a healthy and thriving living system.

There are no game players manipulating a thriving ecosystem and nature always seeks to balance herself. The re-wilding of the exclusion zone in Chernobyl was seen as a miracle. It was not a miracle, it was not extraordinary, it was ordinary and normal.

That is what nature does, it seeks balanced regeneration which humans disturb in order to satisfy our need for the accumulation of things to alleviate our imported fear of all things that are different to us.

We have been manipulated into making nature our enemy so that we can be divided from, and live in a constant war with it. This way, the controllers of this reality can carve up nature, impose their will upon her and profit from her, while we watch and don’t take action; because nature is different and different needs to be controlled so that we are safe.

How many of us ever think about Chernobyl and see what Mother Earth is showing us? Not many! Because most of us are still trapped in the false matrix, believing the perceptions projected onto our inner screens. We swallow the blue pill and go back to the coerced normality of our programmed existence in a created toxic culture. We play small, not wanting to rock the boat we are in, as we are stranded out at sea. Again, an illusion to control us, because we are not lost and nature is not our enemy.

The wisdom of Gaia is the way forward and we need to feel just how central she is in freeing ourselves from the enslavement we were programmed into. We must allow ourselves to be guided by the Earth in her regenerative processes and not try to bend her to our will. It is time to form a collaborative relationship with our Mother Earth and weave a future together, because she, and we, will no longer tolerate enslavement!

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