聽神談【「維續性」和「所有權」之間的關聯】
尼爾：你曾說「所有權」是人類的思維結構之一，它是人類試圖要表達「維繫性」(sustainability 或稱生命的「永續性」)之生命運作基本法則」的一種曲解。我無法確切地了解這一點。
生命永遠會尋求維續(sustain)它本身。這是生命運作的基本法則之一。你們人類，做為生命的一種表達，也會尋求做相同的事。為此，你們建構出一種思維模式，並演繹出一個你們稱爲「所有權」的社會習俗。
因此，凡是你們希望見到維續性的，便主張你們的「所有權」。
為尋求表達維續性的生命運作法則，你們聲稱對自己身體的所有權，然後是對伴侶身體的所有權，接著是對孩子的所有權。你們說孩子是「你們的」；而當提及配偶時，你們也這麼說。你們對待這些人就好像是你們「擁有」了他們。
你們對土地、其它物品與財産也是這樣。你們也說擁有所居住的地球。這顆星球環繞著太陽運轉，每二十四小時壯麗地自轉一圈，它也是你們認爲實際「擁有」的某個東西，至少你們以爲自己擁有其中一小部分。
你們判定此天體，這一個天上的物體，並不屬生命本身，而是人類個別所擁有的。或是在某些情況下，屬於個別的代表們——即他們的政府。因而，你們擅自將原無分界的地球劃分出許多想像的界限，還進一步聲稱所有權還包括土地之下的礦物資源，以及上方的天空——如此，當然，永遠沒完沒了……導致陰謀詭計的國際「領空」與「領空權有多高」等政治問題。
你們視「所有權」爲如此重大事件，以致爲此引發戰爭，帶來殺戮和死亡——真相卻是，你們無法「擁有」太陽系任何星球的任何部分，即使是人類在其上進化的地方也一樣。
摘自《與神對話之新啟示》第22章
Neale: You said that "ownership" was a human mental construction, and that it was a distorted attempt to express the life principle of Sustainability. I don't understand that, exactly.
Life seeks always to sustain itself. That is a Basic Life Principle. You, as an expression of life, will seek to do the same thing. You have built a mental construct around how to do this that plays itself out as a social convention that you call ownership.
You claim ownership over all those things that you wish to see sustained.
Seeking to express the Life Principle of Sustainability, you claim ownership of your own body, then of the body of your mate, then of your children. You say that your children are "yours," and you say the same thing about your spouse, and you treat these people as if you "own" them.
So, too, with land, and other articles and property. You have it that the very planet on which you live, this sphere that revolves around the Sun and spins in its majesty one complete cycle every 24 hours, is something that you actually "own," at least in parcels.
You have decided that this heavenly body, this celestial element, does not belong to Life Itself, but rather, to individual human beings. Or, in some cases, to their representatives—that is, their governments. And so, you have divvied up the very Earth itself, placing imaginary boundaries on that which has no boundaries, and claiming personal ownership not only of the land itself, but of the ground as far down as it goes and the minerals and resources within it, and of the sky as far up as it goes—which is, of course, forever…leading to intriguing international political questions aboutfly- over rights and "how high is up"?
You take these "ownership rights" so seriously that you start wars over them and kill and die over them—when the truth is, you cannot ever "own" any part of a planet in the solar system, even if it is a planet on which your species evolved.
