The world is seemingly drifting from intellectual activity and common sense while filling with a disorder affecting the listeners' minds. Constantly, we are being asked by someone with a flimsy proclaimed leadership to follow them into an uncertain future. We are no longer aligned with our external world. There is no matching with this delusion, yet we are being led into the belief that there is. We have become over-civilized.

The great naturalist John Muir worried that one day, when too much of the population had shifted to the cities, Americans would become stressed out and over-civilized. It has happened.

Living here in Sublette County, Wyoming, we are slightly protected from becoming over-civilized, but look into the massive metropolitan areas that are merging together. With algorithms monitoring our movements, wants and thoughts are bunching us together with what is known and accepted as the same.

If you are spending all your time in the world with the device you’re holding in your hand you are surely over-civilized. Perhaps it’s time to ask yourself if you are becoming over-civilized. Have you not traveled on a gravel road in the last year?

You might be over-civilized if you have not felt a perfect cast and watched your fly float into an eddy in a mountain stream. When was the last time you heard a chorus of coyotes or took a knee to drink from a cold spring? You might be over-civilized if a campfire is an unacceptable cooking source.

In 1957, at the age of 81, Carl Jung wrote, “We rush impetuously into novelty, driven by a mounting sense of insufficiency, dissatisfaction and restlessness. We no longer live on what we have, but on promises no longer in the light of the present day, but in the darkness of the future, which we expect will at least bring a proper sunrise. We refuse to recognize that everything better is purchased at the price of something worse.”

Carl Jung’s words have more of an impact now than what could have possibly been felt in the 1950s. Now, with what is now, the volume of his writing is at the highest decimals.

To be over-civilized means to be civilized to an excessive degree, which allegedly results in a feared frenzy. When, in fact, to be over-civilized is to be less civilized because genuine civilization includes the willingness to enforce its order and truths on anarchy, violence, murder and superstition.

As long as we remain over-civilized, anarchy, violence, murder and superstition will continue their evil reclamation. Think of the day when your obsession with mainstream media is not being reported from another city but from your own living room rug.

Over-civilized is a phrase that people use, feeling that they are expressing something fundamental and radical, such as anarchy, violence, murder and superstition. However, now they are only thinking with the masses, which have been programmed with acceptance. Seldom will they take the pains to inquire and seek the real truth.

We can combat the phrase of being over-civilized with the phrase, “close to nature” and living it to the highest degree. In the most obvious sense, being close to nature is to prefer the country to the city, out-of-doors to the indoors, sunshine to smog and wandering alone in the woods.

Being close to nature is also dealing with natural forces and objects first-hand, such as building your own place of being in the country. It also contains raising your own crops, milking your own cow and gathering your own eggs from your own chickens.

City people hire others to do all these things and many more similar things for them, but country people know how to care for themselves. When you can tell the time of day by the sun is a closer degree to nature than looking at a watch made by somebody else. When you can see natural signs, such as moss on the trees to know the points of the compass rather than a GPS on your phone, you are acclimated to nature.

Closeness to nature, in this sense, is wholesome and important to mankind. It is so important that without it the human race could not exist. The city, as we often see but hush to speak of, must continually be recruited from the country.

Jonas Salk, who devised and implemented a safe vaccine against polio, wrote, “If all the insects were to disappear from the earth, within 50 years all of life on earth would end. If all humans were to disappear from earth, within 50 years all forms of life on earth would flourish.”

With these words of Dr. Salk, it only makes sense to not be over-civilized. It behooves us to be with nature instead of against it.

As we strip away what we have been taught to learn we become our own engineer of design. With each thought we own, with each emotion felt and occurrence experienced, we are the engineers modifying the information of our own cells. We are in complete control of our own energy and who we truly are.

With every thought that is performed leading to an ultimate reality or perceptual illusion remains calm. With the ever-changing moment of each sacred space, there is no need to rush and present for the interest or benefit of the future.

Perhaps if we stay close to nature we will never see, find, or feel the numbing and debilitating plague of being over-civilized. - dbA

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