The Galactic Neighborhood

Weather having slowed hot springs visitations and posting to the Forum, I offer for your (skeptical?) perusal answers to questions posed to a Teacher in 2001.

It offers an expanded perspective of Wizard's "Storm Coming" threads. I have taken liberty to excerpt in the interest of brevity and also to replace the galactic name for this planet with "Earth".

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"The question arises, "How can you be investing your energies in speculation of what may be going on in outer space when you understand the tremendous needs of (Earth)?" I am amused by such an approach for the fact is the perspective of a galactic neighborhood is the perspective that will give you the vantage point that will enable you to be sufficiently motivated in a social sense, in a political sense, in a scientific sense, that will help apply the spiritual pressure that will bring about the realization that we are all about life.
When you have been isolated, as is the case on (Earth) and these other neighboring worlds which have been separated by the quarantine, there is what we might call a very ‘‘provincial' attitude about the, what we might call ‘‘metropolis' of the cosmos at large. I'm reminded of some of your quaint attitudes of limiting your perspectives by your own reasoning, such as, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Well, it may not be broken from your vantage point but if you take the farther view, you may see that while you are moving along at a merry clip, your neighbors are hobbling and even crippled, but if you don't care about your neighbors, what difference does it make? Don't bother with it. "It ain't broke; don't try to fix it."