The Earth is a great physical as also a tangible spiritual entity encompassing all life. You may, therefore, call it a corporeal manifestation, or material body, endowed with spiritual intelligence, or quotient, too. Our planet, from which we have all emerged, is also not just a resource. It is neither simply a warehouse of minerals, raw materials, inert, or emotive, matter we need, or use, to foster our physical existence, health, or material needs, nor is it a derisory garbage plonk, or the mere creator of food.
What’s more, most of us do not think of our living planet as ‘our’ larger body. To pick a paradigm. Modern science, nay quantum physics, reveals that even subatomic particles are not things, but links between things. You may call this ‘consilience,’ or the interconnectedness of all things, based on the ancient Greek concept of orderliness and the relatedness of all things—big and small. This idea also celebrates a sense of elevated spiritual union, or a multihued synthesis. Call it cosmic ballet, or the Earth’s own nritya (dance), and you have a whole new dimension of the living planet being more than a divine entity—a veritable summit for our harmonious (co)existence.
Let’s now delve into the scientific nritya, or mosaic of what makes our planet flip-flop, as it were, in its dance of shadows with the cosmos, or the universe, as we know it. Geologists have known, for long, like the palm of their hand, that the Earth’s magnetic field turns topsy-turvy, while magnetised objects are attracted to the South Pole—not the North. Although over 300 such reversals have taken place, causing the living planet to flip, during the last 170 million years, research has ironically not been able to solve the mystery and explain with conviction why the unusually usual phenomenon occurs in that precise, time-honoured fashion.
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