Of Nature to Inspire

 

 

The fundamentals of nature inspire the means of advancement in human consciousness to successfully imagine and implement direct manipulation of natural forces. Wind’s relationship with mankind is to produce desirable systems and aid in the comfort within survival. Past civilizations perceived wind as divine. Persistent worship of wind manifested observed properties, and introduced the engineering of utilitarian purposes directly influencing the natural phenomenon. As civilizations consciously improve mobility, communication, and natural observation, knowledgeable theories and practices regarding wind continue to sprout in the scientific research and personal recreational fields. The conception of wind, human subjectivity to lawful natural forces, and evolutionary human consciousness continually redefines society’s relationship with nature, and inevitably wind.

Ancient civilized Greeks, Japanese, Indians, Egyptians and numerous other geographic regions adopted wind’s universal influence in their divine, supernatural, and religious beliefs and worshipping. Wind was either classified in its divinity as a god, or situational as a gift from god. Glorifying the properties of wind to personify the divine lead to in depth observational studies. Ancient Persia harnessed wind power in windmills to grind grain, therefore allowing increased time spent in analysis for further improvements. As seen in ancient Egypt over 5,000 years ago, their understanding of wind’s influence on physical matter leant them a creative bent in utilizing wind for sailboat transportation on the Nile River. The employment of wind in engineering transportation has exponentially advanced to incorporate various motives of transportation. The properties of wind, as part of the natural order, inspire evolving creativity of human potential.

More recently, after thousands of years surviving, learning, expanding, and manipulating within the laws of nature, the conscious human can decode wind. Scientists discovered wind as the flow of air, and conclude two air masses of different densities form wind. Research shows that differential heating between the poles and the equator leads to various wind formations such as the jet stream, westerlies, polar easterlies, and the trade winds. The comprehensive attributes wind yields forgo modern research of fundamentals further understanding in the classification, measurement, as well as its implementation in serviceable, recreational, and environmental fields. The 1970s rolled in oil shortages that continue affecting modern civilization’s civilians and business. Nature, consisting of healing chemicals for the body, mind, and spirit, many now lost in knowledge, thankfully came to the rescue with wind power. Wind power and other natural phenomena shaping reality hit consciousness smack in the face, providing answers for problematic situations such as the current environmental and renewable energy crisis.

The power of human consciousness combined with the observed properties of wind creatively stem beyond what science and windmills offer. The understanding fulfills comfort these days through an advancing meteorology field. As a creature with a long history in the desire for adventure and recreation, wind is now chased after for thrills such as sailing, windsurfing, kite boarding, paragliding, hang gliding, and kite flying. Understanding wind’s past in conjunction with human civilization, what more can wind provide for the imagination, and potentially reality?

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