Carl Hawkins

“And yet I deem that there are powers
Which of themselves our minds impress
That we can feed this mind of ours
In a wise passiveness.” Wordsworth

The religious tend to cling to the apparent solidity of our three dimensional, physical world, despite proclaiming fervently that it was created ex-nihilo, into time by a creator who is timeless.
The atheist clings to the apparent solidity of our three dimensional world, believing fervently that this is all there is, and that it evolved in time from random simplicity to complex order, until consciousness appeared leaving man in charge of his own destiny.

Yet under an electron microscope, the apparent solidity of our three dimensional universe dissolves – and what seems solid reveals itself to be a timeless dance of waves of interference patterns vibrating on different frequencies in inter-reacting dimensions.

In contemporary, techno- dominant societies we have divorced ourselves from this underlying timeless and transcending reality; we cling to what is solid and sensible, believing we can discover it’s secrets by studying it objectively. In so doing, we are like timid invitees to a great dance, sitting at the side, watching the intricate, unfolding movements on the dance floor, whilst seeking to photograph a single frame of a moment’s movement – and then trying to create a crude, mechanistic imitation of it.
We ignore our own deepest scientific and mystical insights, namely that, though we sit at the side of the dance floor watching, that very timeless, vibrating light energy holds our own physical bodies together. We are not separate entities – disembodied fixed points. We are made up of waves of energy expressed in three dimensions. .

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South West Water (or should that be South West Sewage – after all, the greater majority of our bills are for sewage rather than water) discharge sewage in such quantities that this summer, the Environment Agency and Torridge District Council banned bathing at Westward Ho!.

The reason is that the Cornborough Sewage Treatment plant cannot cope. Why not?

In 1974 , after the most detailed research ‘ever conducted in British Maritime waters’, a report was produced that concluded that only a long outfall pipe through the pebble ridge would prevent sewage flowing back on to Westward Ho and Instow beaches. Over the 2 year study marker buoys and dyes were put in the water to scientifically measure where the sewage would end up. An outfall at Cornborough was rejected on the grounds of expense because of the rocky sea bed.

So they built the new sewage plant at Cornborough, and they said, ‘ we will treat the sewage with ultra violet radiation and only in exceptional rainy conditions discharge from the old sewage outfall at Rock Nose.’

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The terrifying effects of the Japaneese earthquake and tsunami should be a further reminder to us that the earth, just like the oceans, can be beautiful and placid as well as tempestuous and indescriminantly destructive-and not just ‘over there’.

In the early 17th century an earth quake off ireland caused a tsunami that roared up the bristol channel and killed between two and three thousand people. In North Devon we can already see the effects of rising sea levels (go and look at the pebbleridge at Westward Ho!) and extreme weather is becoming more frequent.

What ever man builds, however well planned, constructed and protected, nature can destroy it it a sudden cataclysm or more slowly. When that construction is a nuclear power station, the potential devastation is almost unimaginable. Too many forget there are still three hundred hill farms in North wales where the sheep cannot be sold for human consumption because the land is still contaminated by caesium 137 blown in from Chernobyl.
Nuclear power stations are usually constructed on low lying land by the sea for cooling purposes. Yet the coalition government, like the labour government before it, is planning a new series of nuclear power stations at Hinkley point, Dungerness and Sizewell in Suffolk.

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