It’s Spring again and the time for resurrection, well at least for those of us who reside in the Northern Hemisphere of this world. Usually at this time of year the major religious denominations will pontificate on the act of resurrection and remind their followers of a specific instance of this occurrence happening to a young man a couple of thousand years ago. And it will be imagined by many as a one-time thing, but Nature reminds us that it goes on all the time repeatedly, and that humans either ignore it or try to suppress it.

Take the Ukraine for instance. A sizable majority of them want to rise up and shake off the winter of their discontent, to break off their dead and withered entanglements from the old mother tree, but the hardened branches refuse to let go. Several years ago, the Arab Spring was another example of souls attempting to resurrect, to create something anew where nothing had grown for decades, and yet unnatural forces continue to fight steadfastly to prevent this new growth. Even in the U.S we saw isolated and sporadic attempts to plant new seeds of political and spiritual growth with the Tea Party and Occupy Movements and then witnessed their subsequent subjection to ridicule and rejection.

But Nature is patient and those of us who desire to see change and new growth must be as well. For now we must be like the fallow ground. We must allow the nutrients necessary for such future uprooting to store inside ourselves by taking in new ideas, discussing them among ourselves, building underground connections that will be impervious to the contaminants from above and finally refusing to be plowed prematurely back into the old tired ways of doing the same thing over and over again.

If you haven’t read Jerzy Kosinski’s book, Being There (1971) then I strongly suggest you do so. The allusions to Nature that the central character, Chance (the gardener), makes in the story are as relevant now than at any time in history. Kosinski even back then showed us how the media, established political and religious institutions and multi-national conglomerates constantly block any sprouting forth of new growth on our part and eventually coopt the attempt itself. And that’s why nothing has changed for us in over forty years.

Humanity needs to be planting new ideas all the time by nurturing the dreams and idealism that springs up whenever the right conditions allow it. Growth should be encouraged for these political offshoots whenever possible if only to see where it goes. We must respect the natural order of all things in life; otherwise, we will eventually wither away and die without any chance of resurrection.