The Devil Wears Prada Sunglasses
Do sunglasses cause cancer? I saw this interview with Andreas Moritz a while ago and found it interesting. Driving home yesterday on a rare day when there were no clouds to be seen I noticed 90% of the other drivers were wearing sunglasses. (As usual I found myself in the minority, but at least there are some certainties in life.)
Regardless of the validity of the argument it struck me how sunglasses were another example of how detached we have become from nature. When did sunlight become another threat to the human race? Thank goodness we survived long enough as a race to finally invent Raybans and factor 50.
I know the sunglasses theory isn't a new suggestion and having done a cursory trail around the net there seems to be divided opinion. As ever common sense seems to support the argument and science doesn't.
Science or common sense?
Common sense dictates that you enjoy the sun until you feel you have had enough, don't look directly at the sun and perhaps wear a cap in conditions which are so bright it is uncomfortable. In fact, maybe when it is so bright that it hurts our eyes nature is telling us we are in the wrong place. Just a thought.
It also seems to make sense that the sun provides us with many health benefits. The obvious one being vitamin D production. Unfortunately not a lot of money to be made in common sense, although, encouraged by the Water Companies legal ownership of the rain in some US states, the energy companies are looking to declare ownership of sunlight. Watch out Breatharians, your bill is in the post!
Science suggests the sun is dangerous and to be avoided. Sun glasses should be worn, our skin should be covered in chemicals and we should then take vitamin D supplements to compensate for our lack of exposure to the sun. If that doesn't work science will heal you by exposing you to radiation, our version of the sun. Science appears to be the commercially more viable reasoning and more popular with advertisers and so gets a little more press.
Sunglasses and the Illuminati
It's easy to join the conspiracy dots too.
Sunglasses reduce the light and frequency ranges reaching the pineal gland, causing disruption to melatonin production, in turn reducing the skins' ability to adapt to sunlight and resulting in the need for chemical protection in the form of sun cream. The pineal gland is also closely related to spiritual awakening and so reducing its exposure to the light is to distance ourselves from heaven. Matthew 6:22 states that "if your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light". The single eye is, of course, the Pineal Gland. It seems pretty obvious that the Devil invented sunglasses to prevent our God realisation and to give us cancer. Ever noticed how those Illuminati types are always wearing cool shades? It all seems pretty obvious to me.
Benign universe or living hell?
Whatever your take on all this, I guess my point is that once again we view our environment, our home in fact, as a hostile place. A place we need protection from. A place we see ourselves as separate from. Living life with an underlying belief that it is a hostile universe is exhausting and creates systems born of fear and becomes the perceptual reality. I suggest you watch the News to get an idea of the result of this viewpoint.
What if the universe were benign? What if we didn't need sunglasses? Can you imagine a world without sun-cream? The possibilities are endless. Lets lose the fear (please read the disclaimer in the post script), embrace common sense and reconnect with the world,
Go easy, tread lightly, free,
Love
Bill
p.s. Limited exposure
Years ago on hoilday in Kenya I made friends with an Aussie guy. On the penultimate day of the holiday he appeared after breakfast in a yellow thong explaining in a typically brash Australian way "it was a present from me Mum, and I thought it about time to get some colour on me cheeks".
A couple of hours of African sun on a pair of pearly white buttocks certainly gave him plenty of colour and unable to sit at dinner that night he was extremely uncomfortable at the thought of the following days journey back to the UK. It started with a three hours in a Jeep on unmade roads.
I can't remember if he wore sunglasses or not, but I am sure he wore sun cream. What was lacking was common sense and this lead to the wrong body part being exposed in the wrong place and certainly for the wrong length of time. The journey home was much more fun for me due to his obvious discomfort.
What I learned was embrace the universe with love and RESPECT.
Bill