The best way to predict the future

In recent months, natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, floods, and man-made fires have occurred with unsettling frequency. Many view these events as signs that the end of the world is drawing near.

- THROUGH UNTRUE FR. ROLANDO Y. DELA ROSA, O.P.

But these disasters and calamities may be nature's way of urging us to rethink how we live, how we care for one another, and how we safeguard our planet. Our collective apathy, greed, selfishness, and indifference pose a far greater threat to the world than any storm or earthquake. The earth groans under the weight of human neglect.

This sad reality reminds me of the 1975 book, “The Invisible Landscape,” The authors, Terence and Dennis McKenna, predict “the end of the world” not as a literal apocalypse but as a point in time when human consciousness undergoes a radical transformation.

Drawing on fractal mathematics, time-wave theory, and emerging models of cognition, the McKenna brothers suggest that human history is accelerating toward a new “temporal zone” where current modes of understanding become obsolete, giving way to an undreamed-of experience of reality.

Good deeds done today are better than great things planned for tomorrow.