Introduction

Earth has immensely changed through the ages and these changes seem to gain more speed as the planet grows older. The age of industrialization has ignited our consciousness and creativity, which cultivated an evolution that could either usher in a new dawning era of a highly advanced civilization or destroy an existing paradigm of a knowledge-based, technological world.

Modernity and scientific sophistication have brought in many benefits as well as challenges. Our bid to improve the world has realigned our consciousness to the material reality that wheedled us to get more than what we need. 

Edison, Tesla, Bell, Einstein and all the other Great Minds of our time have had a benevolent vision in bringing about their contribution to expediting our industrial processes that simplified our day to day living. 

But the capitalist mind that came after these nobles have had the unquenchable thirst for advancements and breakthroughs that disabled our capacity to feel intuitively and comprehend the natural laws of the universe. 

The same thirst disabled us to heed and utilize the favorable solutions nature has in store for us. In effect, the vicious cycle of "produce and reduce" amounted to the creation of destruction. Industrialization and modern science has failed to do one thing - to abide to the natural law and to custom-fit our technology to the natural order of the universe.

Therefore, it is but fitting now more than ever to slow down and re-inspect what we have done to ourselves and to our planet that would resonate all throughout the cosmos.

This blog is a collection of stories, facts, factoids, theories, studies, testaments, experiments, findings, analyses and revelations relative to the plight of the homo sapiens in dealing with environmental consciousness, spiritual rebirth and the natural order of the universe contrary to the scientific dogma passed on to us for generations.

Titled “The Lark’s Ken”, this blog is likened to that of a Lark as it journeys through a life dependent on what the environment could offer. Ken (a word of Scottish origin meaning – one’s range of knowledge or sight) and Lark (a ground-dwelling bird that sings in flight) are two symbolic words that descriptively represent both the spiritual and physical realms that must coexist in order for us to thrive for more millennia to come.

As much as we were born to create, we were also born to comprehend.