A worm

I am doing quite a bit of gardening this year.  There is nothing like it.  Standing barefoot in the dirt, destroying life and creating life; the circle of life at your finger tips.  One of the fortunate things that happens when digging up a garden is cutting worms in half.  Fortunate?  Yes sometimes it is.  Cutting one worm in half sometimes creates two worms and worms are good for the dirt.  And most worms who take a shovel to the body regrow their missing half even the half without the brain dies.  Being that worms are so good for the dirt they are also good for the plants growing in the garden.  Kids love to catch sight of the big ones.  It always makes the younger ones squeal with either terror or delight and it could change between the two any second. 

I was explaining  to the kids helping me turn the garden over all of the interesting facts I know about earth worms.  I don't like to use a tiller for something I can do by hand.  Our country is raping other countries for their resources in the name of oil so I find it immoral to use gasoline in order to grow my food.  A spade shovel and a hoe are all I need.  I appreciate the calluses and workout far more than sending my money to corrupt corporations who are destroying the planet.  And besides, the kids do not learn much watching one person run a tiller.  But anyways the kids were listening to me explain why we don't want to kill any worms by smashing or pulverizing them into the ground.  You know the younger boys were all about killing them as most boys around here would be.  I couldn't let this happen though, so I stopped the senseless murder of innocent earth worms.  But, as I was doing this I asked the boys one last question.

How does the side of the worm, that no longer has a head, know to crawl back into the ground?  How is it doing that?  They did not know the answer.  Most do not know the answer.  I say this because it is really true that most of the adults I know, who are considered adults, do not know.  It is something they do not teach in public schools.  It is something not taught anywhere that I know of. 

The truth is all matter has consciousness.  A lot of people prefer to turn to religious terms here, but I do not.  It has nothing to do with metaphysics and everything to do with physics.  All matter emits electromagnetic waves.  All matter responds to electromagnetic waves.  Which means all matter communicates with all other matter; perpetually.  Living matter has much more consciousness than non-living.  In degrees of course.  The less alive the matter, the less consciousness it has.  Consciousness does not mean thinking, or thought; it means awareness.  The half of the worm that no longer has a brain is still "aware."  It cannot think, or make decisions, it is simply "aware" or conscious that it needs to get back into the ground as quickly as possible. It's not just the worm either.  If one pays attention to nature closely examples of this consciousness can be seen everywhere.  Plants display it too. 

As I said already, consciousness is in degrees.  Humans are quite alive, thus humans are quite conscious, whether they know it or not.  So much of what any given human does on any given day is completely thoughtless, simply running on consciousness.  Our powers of awareness can be overwhelming if one is sensitive to it.  But that is the issue.  No one is really aware that they have awareness.  Religions give it different names.  Public schools do not talk about it at all.  But all living matter is aware, and as human beings we too are aware even though it never crosses our actual thoughts.  As a matter of fact, in order to become mentally aware of this consciousness I am talking about one must learn to stop thinking. 

You are not ever going to learn about this in school.  Yet we have all these adults walking around like they are educated and yet they know absolutely nothing of consciousness.  Sad, because that means they know nothing of themselves.