Nature Is Still OURS
Echoes of Mythology: Embracing Nature's Presence
Lyrics
What happens is that
Introduction to the concept of change or transformation.
The old fascination
Refers to the fading of an old fascination.
Disappears an echo remains
An echo remains from the disappearing fascination.
And you
Addressing the listener or a person connected to the fascination.
The old fascination
Repetition of the disappearing fascination and the lingering echo.
Disappears an echo remains
-The old fascination
-Disappears an echo remains
-And you have, as it were the
Reference to the vestige of mythology in the present age.
Vestige of mythology
-The problem of our present
Highlighting the contemporary challenge of recreating mythology.
Age is to
-Recreate the mythology
-For today on which people
-Will live on which the society
-Will grow it is being done
-It is being done well
-People aren’t always looking in the
People may not be looking in the right place for mythology.
Right place for it but it is
-Taking shape our
Mention of great artists, poets, and scientists contributing to the vision.
Great artists our great poets
-Our great scientists erwin Schrodinger’s
-Little book ‘My View of the World’
-This is a vision of a poet
Reference to Schrodinger's book and the commonality with ancient texts.
And of a first rate physical scientist
-And it has the same song in it
-That one reads and hears in the old
-Upanishads
-And in the sayings of the great prophets
-Nature is still ours it’s still ours
Affirmation that nature is still within us and the universe.
It is in us it is in the universe
-Nature is still ours it’s still ours
-It is in us it is in the universe
-Secondary to that is the social
Shift to the social situation, involving police and Congress.
Situation now in our society
-The social problem is turned over
-Largely to the police and to
-Congress as a purely
-Practical matter however
-The creatures that constitute the society
Recognition of society as creatures and the absence of an external God.
These are today the neighbor
-They really are the idea of a personal God
-Living somehow
-Somewhere else
-Out there - there is no "out there" anymore
-There is no "up there"
Challenging the traditional notions of God's location.
It’s awfully difficult to
-Validate but it seems to me if one’s
-Looking for the personality of God
-It’s right here
God's personality found in the multitude of personalities around us.
In the multitudinous personalities of those
-Around us
-Nature is still ours it’s still ours
Reiteration that nature is still within us and the universe.
It is in us it is in the universe
-Nature is still ours it’s still ours
-It is in us it is in the universe
-Everything I find in the poets
Recognition in poets and scientists pointing to the mystery of 'otherness.'
In the scientists who push through
-To this mystery
-Points not to the animals
-As our neighbors not to the plant
-Not to the planet but to that
-Other one that "thou"
-Whom you face
Emphasis on recognizing the 'other' with reverence and respect.
Who’s not the thou you would want him to be
-He’s other
-And it’s that recognition of otherness
-That is absolutely basic and necessary
-Now this doesn’t mean that you have to
-Give up your otherness in recognition of him
Acknowledgment that collision with 'otherness' may occur but with reverence.
It may darn well be collision
-But it has to be collision with reverence
-And respect
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