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Breaking news--Atlantic Ocean
boat attacks by orcas on the rise. 
believed led by a single female, known as 
White Gladis, traumatized, perhaps,
by one too many high-seas encounters
with encroachers from the forbidden land.
Gladis sunk their boat and word got around:
YES WE CAN and because 
retribution is in style these days
catching on world-wide 
through some collective consciousness
(God help us) we learn it can go both ways,
uplift all life or drag us under.

Orca Attacks on Boats May Be Fueled by Revenge (msn.com)

What an incredible write -- I had no idea.  How amazing that someone is seeing and hypothesizing on the matter.  The historic rule has been that humankind is far to stupid to see these things, or to  stupid to listen to those who do.  Wonderful eye-opener.

T

Cool write, smoothly told. I had seen something on YT about this phenomenon. It's the stuff of a Hollywood horror movie but apparently real enough. Enjoyed the poem.

Thank you both, Tracy and Mark. Seems shark attacks are also on the rise--our local beaches have been closed. It's easy for me (being an alarmist as I am) to imagine it's something in the water, aether, cosmic consciousness causing a rise in just plain meanness---the sea strikes back and who can blame it/them?

Caryl Churchill wrote a play on exactly this idea - that of nature going to war on humans

Far Away review – dystopian drama takes close look at a world at war | Theatre | The Guardian

Would love to see a production of this! Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Dave. Might not be as far-fetched as it sounds--well, at least as a very apt metaphor.

Manifestations of collective consciousness/unconsciousness seem to be evident enough in a pliable reality, so why not consider Gaia as a complex entity?    

Ah -- the why-not ontological argument.  But to me, if Gaia constituted a conceptual acceptance, then she would, by definition, already be a complex entity.  If am catching your drift correctly.