Disclosure and the Alien: Be Careful What You Wish For Today I was replacing patio blocks outside the pool when I lifted two of them and exposed an ant nest. Beneath the blocks were hundreds of small white eggs, suddenly open to the sun, the air, and the danger of my hands and tools. For a brief moment I expected panic, because that is what human beings often assume creatures do when danger arrives. We imagine the first law of life is escape. But that is not what happened. The ants did not run for their own lives. They immediately began moving the eggs, and in less than a minute the exposed brood had almost disappeared from sight. The ants did not debate ownership. They did not calculate personal advantage. They did not decide that some eggs belonged to richer ants and some to poorer ants. They acted as if the future of the colony was the responsibility of the colony. That scene under the patio stones is a perfect doorway into the idea of oneness. In biological terms, ants are doing wh...
