Walk Through Earth's Timeline

The app through earth's timeline.

Take a walk back to the beginning, into deep time, when the earth first formed. Follow along as earth developed, and into bacteria, earth's first living organism. Walk along and more complex organisms develop, plants, trees, animals, mammals, then human. Think about the patterns and processes that had to occur in order to give earth its form and its creatures.

As human beings populated earth, follow along in your walk as your perspective changes. View through your mind and walk having to deal with the crisis of climate change, nature degrading, and social disruption. Shift your own perspective and see earth as more than food pantry for its humans and animals, more as a self-regulating entity of its own, striving to keep its processes in balance, a place where life first emerged. It's a place that with some thinking together could work through its crises, and where humans can have tomorrows where the human spirit has grown.



And that walk, that process is real, could become real. It's a DEEP TIME WALK, an auditory treat, a walk from the beginning, through many eras, up to the present. It's an app timed to a walk of 4.6 kilometers (4.6 km), or almost three miles. As you walk, you contemplate Mother Earth from the beginning to the present. You're on a mindset of pattern discovery and appreciation of the splendidness of earthly home. As Richard Cambridge of the University of Cambridge noted, "Deep time is not purely an abstraction to be calculated, but a phenomenal experience to be encountered in the field."

Download this app onto your smartphone; it's accompanied by visuals, music, and the spoken word. The audio is based on the most recent science, so that the words are not just inspirational, but accurate. Dr. Stephan Harding, a well-known ecologist from Schumaker college does the narration and has based the timing, poetic quality, and length on walks that he has been leading since 2007. The app was created so that more individuals could participate in this walk and develop an appreciation for the rhythms of the earth. John McPhee has stated, "Numbers do not seem to work well with regard to deep time, any number above a couple of thousand years - fifty thousand, fifty million - will with nearly equal effect awe the imagination to the point of paralysis." The act of walking, instead, makes the contemplation more concrete, with numbers taken in steps as earth formed in steps.

Some of the participants in the Schumaker College walk.

So, download the app, take the deep time walk, share your impressions through Facebook with others who have done the same. Realize and appreciate the awesomeness of earth, and, maybe, think of solutions to the quandaries we face, and perhaps, together, solutions will be presented. For, each little step forward in the present can keep this planet functional well into the future.

Just as in film-making, the creation of the app involved utilizing a storyboard, with words and timing blocked out.

Thanks for information from this article on Charter For Compassion: https://www.charterforcompassion.org/deep-time-walk-cic; this discussion on Deep Time Walk: http://www.deeptimewalk.org/; and the above link.

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