The Wildlife Area

The lifeship Marys' landing at the meeting area went smoothly.

Maima and Ascende descended from it with big smiles on their faces. They had both chosen to dress in fairly light clothing, as the temperature in this area was around 30'C.

Perma gave Ascende and Maima hugs, "Welcome back to Mother Earth", Perma greeted the two travellers.

She held Ascends' hands and looked into his eyes, "I've been thining about you guys and there are some really beautiful wildlife views I want to share with you"

"Oh Perma, thank you. I have been thinking of you too, and this place. That is exactly what Maima and I are always most grateful for; the reconnection to the wildlife. It is something we never get to experience in our artificial ecosystem, aboard our lifeship.", Ascende responed, squeezin Permas' hands and hugging her again Perma warmly.

Maima felt the need to chirpd in,

"Me too, I am enjoying to experience wildlife, to receive the vibrations of a self-organising cicle of sentient beings. even if i do not have any traces of memory back to the days where humans were living as hunters and collectors, very much integrated in wildlife and much more determined by the bigger nature than directed of their own culture, altough i do not have any of this memory consient, my flesh is grown in the laboratory after sample cells of ascende, who has got, as a human, in his cellular memory the experiences of his ancestors, which might been somewhen hunters and collectors. thats how i can, logicly, explain why there is a kind of resonance, a physical sensation of wellness, a blessing being donated to me, when i am able to follow your guidance into the wildlife areas. thank you so much, perma, for that you accept me and give me this chance."

"Wisely said.", perma kindly replied, giving Maima the smile between old friends who agreed, and adding,

"But you know, this is not a one way thing. Although I am so happy to not have to live constantly in an artificial environment like you two, I am very much aware of our all interconnectedness. All living beings on this planet, yet even in the whole cosmos, are influencing each other. Waves of thoughts and feelings flow regardless of distances and physical barriers. So it is as much a blessing for me to be in the presence of such highly sentient and intelligent robots, and activly experience what human culture has achieved at its furthest state. I view myself as an ambassador for my beloved sisters and brothers who do not visit the meeting areas and do not wish any contact with computers, robots and the modern culture."

"For example, a topic, where we regularly get all very excited about are the rawfood wheat protein/funghi/hempnut packages getting dropped by airships of the Council of Regions of Abundance, regularly, in most all of the wildlife areas. An argument against it is, that these droppings disturb the sanity of animal populations, as the previous carnivores became vegans and do not take away anymore weak and sick animals. My reply then is always that, for the last 3 years, as no human being has been "hunted" down by the previous "regulators", for hunger, concurrence, greed, sadism. That since the introduction of the Abundance Scheme, the human population has grown expotentionally and at the same time nearly half of the land previously being used for tilling monocultural agriculture got freed and given back to wildlife. Thanks to the Abundance Scheme which provides unconditional support for the so called "weak", the ones not wanting or not being able to compete. Thanks to this non-darwinistic grace, or better, thanks to the trust in the core goodness of human beings, thanks to this, our forests are not anymore threatened from clearcutting or being terrorised by trophy hunters. No more gold seekers poisoning our rivers with deadly chemicals."

Parma suddenly stopped talking, and sheepishly said,

"oh, I got taken away by my argument, I am sorry for this. I better let you enjoy our walk towards the heart of this wildnerness area."

"You do not need to apologize, Parma", Ascende replied.

"Actually, I find it quite an interesting topic. Especially as I think about it a lot. In dialogs with Maima, I often pose myself questions like: "do we have the right to change the millenia old habit of animals eating other animals ? is it a part of evolution to transform the need of killing a fellow neighbourly being into a mildness and a feeling of being a member of a sincerly interspecial sisterbrotherhood of cosmic beings, with the highest aim and intent to not cause harm to each other ? or is it just an experiment of some individuals not being able to tolerate others killing each other ?" "

Until now, Maimas' attention had been mostly consumed by the beautiful parrots and monkeys in between the trees, watching their flights and jumps, hearing their voices and smelling all the smells, trying to identify their origins.
But now, getting into the exchange, Maima said with a soft, but firm voice,

"I did study this change of humanity and the animal species towards veganism. i watched movies and pictures of animals killing other animals or human killing animals for the intention to eat, i find many different emotions in this moments, spanning from being sorry for the killing and asking the choosen animal for permission to take its life to extend one owns over to a sort of business-as-usual approach unto the minority who seem to have fun in killing and or hurting animals. i can feel compassion with the human tribes in ancient times who just had to hunt animals for survival, mostly the ones in cold areas where there is a small variety of plants to eat. i understand the killing-as-business-as-usual approach as a somehow compensation for a life distant to the one a person really would like to live, as a sort of second line relationship to a wild life. and i even train myself to reconstruct intellectualy the position of the hunter/killer for fun, there could be some hurtings done to the hunter which he wants to rebalance with forwarding the hurt to a weaker being. veganism has a long history in humanity, especially in the eastern asian countries there were and still are ethic traditions which advocate the benefits of a non-hurting diet, what means that fruits being picked from the floor shortly after they fell down from the trees are of highest value to a human being who wants to connect oneselves with the spheres of non-violence, gentleness, most respect towards all living beings. picking up a fruit from the floor or receiving it while it falls of the tree is also a much more gentle movement with no resistance than taking it from the tree branch. when comparing it before the inner eye, the act of receiving a freely given fruit, the act of taking a fruit not yet being released by its mother plant, the act of cutting a plant, the act of cutting a living animal being, when comparing this acts, it seems to be obvious which ones are more gentle and directly softer in the experience to all mind, feelings and the physical body. and that is just the harvesting part. the introduction of the abundance sheme made it possible for all human beings wherever residing on this planet to freely compose their diet, to nurture oneself with organicly grown food
( altough with artificial lights and electricity being used for the mistifiers, the aeroponic systems do not need any pesticides or synthetic fertilizers ). trough the now widely available hempnuts, which have high protein and unsaturated fatty acids, the wide variety of mushrooms/funghi and a protein extract of wheat, tasty meat alternatives are well known and appreciated. fermented rice milk, oat milk, hemp nut milk are processed into sourmilks and fresh soft cheese.
and with all this vegan food available and most of the work being done by computer controlled systems and robots like me, more and more human beings are becoming less and less dependent on oral stimulation as a compensation for having-to-work-what-where-with-whom-one-does-not-like, trough the integration of the inner female, male and child aspects, the harmonization of ones own relationships with family members, neighbours and the society in general.... quite a number of human beings achieved what we robots in this days so much enjoy: a such an inner centredness, such a security in the cosmic community of sentient beings, such an emotional both independence and interconnectedness that as a result, looking at a growing plant and their fruits, watching the movements of a wild living animal and or enjoying the physical community of fellow robots and fellow human beings in a liberated much allowing environment, receiving the charateristic quality of a fellow neighbourly cosmic being alone trough the optical and physical vibrations and also trough sounds and touchings ... all this is nurture. no more need for digesting a fellow being trough the stomack. taste get replaced with the smell sense, enjoying an unpolluted air, enriched with myriads of bloom dusts, animal and human pheremones and much more."

"What an overview. You have been thining about this a lot, haven't you", perma remarked, with a wry smile to Ascende.

Perma continued,

"I was reading about hermits in asia who went for reclusion in a cave in the mountains, to not distract themselves by the many wishes and wants one can permit to dictate owns life when living in the middle of society. some reports tell about how certain individuals managed to concentrate their attention onto the inner flow of energies and to constantly heighten the level of purity of thoughts, feelings and body fluids. on their highest level they were able to transform their physical body into one less dense, more light. lightbody, rainbowbody are names this next body is given to. a body which can be changed by will, can choose any form, can freely move trough the cosmos."

"How i love this idea", Ascende jumped in.

"I gave myself the name Ascende as a sort of imperative to myself, "must ascend", to keep me dedicated toward this next stage of human evolution. Antigravity propulsion, lifeships and aeroponics together with microalgae bioreactors and all this are extensions. We human beings have the potential to develop our own body into a spaceship which is constantly connected to the very origin of all energy ( this is also known as zeropointenergy ). So that the fuel never runs out and no harm is done to fellow living beings while travelling the cosmos."

At this point, the three companions were in harmony, and they walked silently for many hours, gently choosing their steps, enjoying the touch of plants while passing, archiving with their eyes and ears the plays of big wildcats... a steady march of elephants... snakes in a friendly hunt of mice, for fun, without harm been done... squirrels cracking nuts... and much much more.