Views Eyes wide open (2) Once again, I will speak about the conscience, the mind, the sub-conscience, but I we will also try, together, to come to the very essence of living. Let me remind you: as early as in primary school, they teach you in the biology classes that the living organisms are divided into plants, animals and the human being. And, on the scale of evolution, although, according to their anatomic, biochemical and physiological characteristics, the human beings belongs to the animals, their MIND was the thing that distinguished them from the rest of the animals. I learnt biology and I have been working in the field of environmental protection for fifteen years now. I design development programs for improving the quality of the environment, for better managing of the nature that surrounds us (for the authorities and the civil society organizations), and I have continually been giving my life energy to other people in the numerous workshops, lectures, meetings. … However, I have not found an answer to one question yet: if the human beings are universal creatures for their wonderful MINDS which have evidently created so many genial things throughout their existence, then, WHAT is the thing that makes those very human beings destroy? If the MIND creates, can it also destroy? I walk outside, talk to the trees that hide great wisdom; I ask the wild flowers which are wise enough to create an incredible palette of colors to answer my question. I ask the nightingale whose wonderful mind creates a tranquilizing melody for my ears only, it seems. The whole life in the nature is incredibly and magically designed and created. SOMETHING that biologists call “the chain of food”, with all its amazing techniques of survival. I come across an inextinguishable and powerful source where I find the following message from the Teacher: “Brothers and sisters, Parents and children, Mothers and fathers, Teachers and students, Masters and servants, Open your heart to the Good, And become like this Source”. Top world scientists are slowly but surely approaching the answer that has been hidden for centuries by the Mind (the human being). By means of ultra-modern machines (and, let us not forget that those were also created by the Mind), it reached the tiniest particles, thinking at first that those were the nucleus and the electron, to discover later that the neutron can be gotten into; now, it is standing in front of the incredible discovery that there is SOMETHING in the neutron as well. So, very soon, we will know that that SOMETHING is all around us, inside us, in our arms, legs, heads, tissues, cells, the cytoplasm, the organelles, the DNA, the molecules, DNA atoms….Jesus called that SOMETHING the Father God Creator; Mohamed called that SOMETHING Allah Master and Creator, Vivekananda called that SOMETHING Antar Mona (Internal Witness), Satya Sai Baba tells us we are the incarnation of God… But, when I come to that “terminal” point (if we can say at all that there is “the end”), I wonder again: where do you see the Mind there? If the Creator can be found in all those trees, flowers and birds who directed me to this notion, if it can be found in the whole of my being (myself), if it is in the whole of your being, and in the being of the people all over the world, in the whole universe (which, by the way, we can all experience with eyes and hearts wide open), than can it be found in the human Mind? Since, if that SOMETHING is found in the human Mind, then it brings me back to the “dead point” and my personal unresolved conflict: I cannot, and that is for certain(or my Mind cannot understand), WHO kills the fish in the rivers with a dynamite, WHO burns the woods in order to make pastures (the sheep will find ways to get to the best grass themselves), WHO sprays the fruit trees 16 times so that he/she poisons every living thing that stands in the way (not realizing that he/she is poisoning him/herself at the same time)… WHO simply destroys what has been wisely and brilliantly created?   Katarina Stojkovska (The author is Director of the Macedonian Office of the Regional Environmental Centre for Central and Eastern Europe - REC)