Anthroposophical medicine observes that many childhood fevers help strengthen the immune system and facilitate growth. If you have kids, you may have noticed how much more grown up and capable they would be after a day or two of fever.
Well, the Washington Post is running a story under the link, "Earth May Be Running a Fever." Here's the lede: "It has been 2,000 years and possibly much longer since the Earth has run such a fever. The National Academy of Sciences, reaching that conclusion in a broad review of scientific work requested by Congress, reported Thursday that the `recent warmth is unprecedented for at least the last 400 years and potentially the last several millennia.'" (Read the whole story here: http://tinyurl.com/me7y5) I think of global warming as a bad thing, but the fever metaphor makes me wonder if it's a crucial passage in our growth, just as fevers so often are for children. Interesting that the last period of such warmth is 2,000 years ago or more, corresponding roughly with Christ's era and the Axial Age the period from 800 BCE to 200 BCE when "the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently". (Visit http://tinyurl.com/f93k2.) Could this period of warming presage breakthroughs similar to those of the Axial Age? Just a thought. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
