Pain as fatherly love

Peter van der Werff: Pain as fatherly love: When the pain is stored In your unconscious Or in your body And becomes too much Your mind will deny And your body faints...

Pain as fatherly love

Peter van der Werff: Pain as fatherly love: When the pain is stored In your unconscious Or in your body And becomes too much Your mind will deny And your body faints...

Pain as fatherly love

When the pain is stored

In your unconscious

Or in your body

And becomes too much

Your mind will deny

And your body faints

The pain protects you

From more you can take

Like a kind father

Leading you outwards

But protecting you

From too much hardship

Embracing your fear

While wiping your tears

Preparing next step

Deforestation, stars and straight lines

Peter van der Werff: Deforestation, stars and straight lines: Peter van der Werff: Deforestation, stars and straight lines : It’s not easy to find straight lines in wild nature. If we see straight l...

Deforestation, stars and straight lines

Peter van der Werff: Deforestation, stars and straight lines: It’s not easy to find straight lines in wild nature. If we see straight lines they may be added to wild nature by humans. They do so, a...

Deforestation, stars and straight lines

It’s not easy to find straight lines in wild nature.

If we see straight lines they may be added to wild nature by humans. They do so, as is commonly thought,  since they started with agriculture and made irrigation canals, stone houses and storage buildings about 14,000 years ago.

But before they added their stone constructions with straight lines, to provide for more food and shelter, they started to make, it seems, stone buildings out of spiritual motivations.

Instead of just experiencing spirits or energies in natural objects such as trees, mountains, rivers, they built a temple on top of a hill, perhaps to get closer to spirits they felt in the moon, the sun and stars. This shift may be related to widespread deforestation that occurred in West Asia at the time and made the sky more visible during the days and nights.

The oldest human construction found so far shows little proof that people had agriculture or stone houses to live in. At the pillars they did not carve out wheat plants or farmer tools but wild animals that they encountered in the open landscape.

Likely, these humans were gathering and hunting in the local area, while building a sanctuary on the hill to express their felt connection the now everywhere visible stars high up in the air.

Their place is in present-day Turkey and called Göbekli Tepe.