The eye of the cosmos

Uncle Bob asked me, the voice of the nonviolent worm, to write the posting tonight. We were at a conference on the new cosmology, bringing science and spirituality together, at Marquette University today, and Bob’s mind is still processing and digesting all the information and images he received. As Bob has told you before, we worms, his livestock, can digest things much more quickly than humans. We worms eat, digest and cast off our own weight each day. Being cold-blooded creatures we keep only a little of what we eat for ourselves but give back almost all of it as organically enriched soil. Since we’re tiny creatures that might not seem like much, but just think if human cast off their own weight each day. Well you probably do not want to think about that.

Here are some of my impression of the conference. In the ongoing story of creation we worms have been around since the day of the dinosaurs, so we know a lot about evolution. We need to encourage Bob to learn more about the role of worms in the evolutionary process. Although worms were not mentioned much today, as usually is the case with lowly creatures like us, Bob understands our role in the creation evolutionary story, so we are sure he will write more about our background and significance. Bob should start with Darwin’s, the father of evolution, work on us. Darwin understood our role in evolution.

Bob knows something about our nature, since when Father John Dear S.J. asked today about the meaning of nonviolence Bob used worms as an example. We worms take in all kinds of stuff, food scraps, coffee grounds, wood chips, and cast it out as rich soil for growing. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day and other examples of nonviolent persons used by Father Dear, did the same thing with insults, injury, discriminations and other waste, taking it in and turning it into good stuff.

As a worm I enjoyed the main speaker, Mr. Michael Dowd, using the example of “Compost Happens” as an exclamation. The audience laughed knowing what other word, not compost, he meant to use. But since compost is what we eat and make into something worthwhile, I took a deeper meaning from the phrase. His wife, Connie, a scientist, did mention worms in her workshop on explaining the creation story to children. She also talked in child-like language, using stories, something we worms can really appreciate.

If you stop to think about it we worms, especially since we are ancient creatures and nonviolent, would make a good symbol for a conference on cosmology. I better stop now. I do not want to run on as Bob often does. I am sure, after he digests what he heard today, Bob will write more and maybe even create another web page on the creation story. Or maybe he will just link you to some pages Michael and Connie already have on the subject since he has a number of web pages on www.nonviolentworm.org that need finishing and updating. For myself I will go back to eating, digesting, procreating and casting. If you are still around we will see you later.

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