School of the Elemental Beings

Is the world around us alive or is it dead?

In your hands rests
The life of the earth.
In your souls
Give it the right to live
As is fitting for it.
Then it cannot fall
Which falls so easily,
For it is old,
But young
It remains through you.

If the widely held belief were true--that matter is the basis of all we know as reality--then life would make no sense. The world would essentially be dead--an absurd notion! What we know as life would be an unexplainable pheno...