"From the burning core of our earth to those expanses where we could never go, and if we did, never survive. Do we share the burning to the point where everything disintegrates? What is the fever pitch of a person in love; or the maniacal excess of a creative act; or the blind onslaught of a killer. What has it to do with the torrents within a galaxy? It is the extreme and the excess. It is the burning to the point threatened by disollution. Disollution does not take place - any more than the galaxy dissolves - despite its white heat. That is what unites us with the beyond: The capacity to reach a core, burning, endangered, exposed. And to go on. To go through the furnace, remember the Bible Story, go through the galaxy and emerge intact. Destruction and destructivity are inextricably entwined in the nature that we know; fire does not make moral judgements. Inasfar that we are nature, that nature suffuses us, we are inescapably entrapped within it. The murderer hits out like the branch falls off the tree. We do not need visual reminders to conjure up the destructivity ongoing in humanity. We need merely to repeat a mantra of atrocities: The hordes of Ghenghis Khan, the Thirty Years War, The Sacking of Rome. The Gates of Jericho. Sabra and Shatilla. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Massacre on the Temple Mount. The First World War. The Second World War.TheThird World War. Zaire. Rwanda. Yugoslavia. My Lai Nature and natural - Natural Born Killers".