{I believe we exist:}
To live, to learn, to share, to play;
To grow, to serve, to BE each day.
We're lookin' through a glass onion ... and the physical, like the astral, like the mental - is just a layer. These are outer layers of being (more like layers of skin) with respect to "the One within Whom
we live, and move, and have
our being."
Hmmm ...
the ONE! 
The following quote, attributed to Chief Seattle, seems to say it all relative to our existence here upon this planet:
"The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life, we are merely strands in it. Whatever we do to the web we do to ourselves."
If studying environmental science helps us to understand this, then good!
If Christ's words (
"As ye sow, so shall ye reap", "Do unto others ...", etc.) make this clear, then good!
If the same teaching in Buddhism (
Karma, Rebirth, Cause and Effect) appeals, then good!
If a more modern expression of the same Law seems to fit (
`What goes around, comes around!'), then good!
And if, even through much suffering, we come to realize the same Truths ... then GOOD!
I am convinced that our Earth is a great experiment, certainly, but also much more. It is a nursery, a schoolroom, a beautiful Lotus (or
chakra) in the Heavenly body of our Solar Lord. We are tiny strands in the web of Life, as the quote indicates. We may seem insignificant, and we may even be so, relative to the bigger picture. After all, of the many TRILLIONS of cells in the average human body, how much do you miss a few (hundred, or thousand) which you might lose on any given day?
How foolish we are with our vainglory imaginings at times. How ridiculously presumptuous! Yet - whether we miss the majesty and utter such words as Pilate did, or perhaps use this expression with wonder, awe and innocent appreciation - can we not, should we not exclaim,
"Ecce homo!"
Beauty abounds within our world - both natural and manmade. Is this not part of our Purpose here? Surely it is not merely superfluous, or an idle distraction. Surely Beauty Itself is related to, close to the very heart of, our innermost being - and thus also our purpose here. Beauty, which is also not unrelated to
pride and
vanity (correlating, perhaps, to lower - maybe
intellectual - expressions of this spiritual
Quality).
Hmmm ...
As well we might ponder the PURPOSE for the existence of the vegetable kingdom, for this kingdom is supposed to have certain parallels to the human.
The dream, GK, sounds wonderful. Maybe it indicates in symbolic or allegorical form our true, spiritual relationship(s) to our Heavenly predecessors, to our Parent Source, etc. Could it be that our
Fall from `Grace' is the descent into form, into incarnation, into this IMperfect world ... and that part of our very charge here - our spiritual DUTY, our God-assigned Responsibility - is to help transform this planet, step by step, little by little, into a better representation of that IDEAL which we (mostly all) can acknowledge, recognize, visualize and desire?
That's what I've been assuming, and this is why I feel such chagrin at times when I look around and see what we're doing to the place, how little respect we show to the home which our Predecessors (our Heavenly Antecedents) have provided for us. What poor care we are taking of it. And what excuse shall we have when we are asked to answer for the catastrophes which
we ourselves have caused ... and are causing!
I would make a safe bet, that our purpose here extends MILLIONS of years into the future. Why, I would even say billions. And that, for the moment, I would have to argue, applies to each and every one of us!
Maybe time we all started acting like it ...
