There is always an order to things, whether we want there to be or not. Everything we do is in and for order, much as we may dislike it, not realise it and even knowingly accept it. The universe likes order, likes things to be As They Should Be and not a particle otherwise. Humans, on the other hand, have a tendency to disrupt this which leads to consequences we never seem to link to our chaos at the time.
For instance, a tree that has been in the middle of a grassy field, standing utterly alone for several thousand years and not growing a single inch. Human see - human remove and begin to plough the field. As a direct result of this, the accumulated energies within the tree are released and spread as blight throughout the planted crops. The humans relying on the crops die off and their energy is drawn to the centre if the field where a tree begins to sprout again.
This time it has a "curse" to keep it there, untouched for as many years as human memory lasts for.
Another instance- a cave whose stalagmites and stalactites bear a striking resemblance to teeth as they end not with graceful spires but flat like a molar tooth. Every year since the cave was discovered somebody chipped away a chunk of stalagmite or stalactite, every year a different one and slowly creating a mouth of fangs where a herbivore's once was. It shouldn't have been so surprising when the cave set out for blood, whispering to people about treasure further inside and crushing them like overripe pears.
If it couldn't go back to How It Should Be then it must go forward and become something new.
Our final example is the house that has always been there and always had an old woman living there. Even when she was hanged as a witch over 150 years ago someone almost exactly like her moved in "from across the county". "A dear old friend" come to mourn or celebrate the passing of the former old woman who lived there. Though the house and the old woman may have changed, they have always been.
The best way to keep something in one place is to adapt it enough that the rest of us don't notice it.
For instance, a tree that has been in the middle of a grassy field, standing utterly alone for several thousand years and not growing a single inch. Human see - human remove and begin to plough the field. As a direct result of this, the accumulated energies within the tree are released and spread as blight throughout the planted crops. The humans relying on the crops die off and their energy is drawn to the centre if the field where a tree begins to sprout again.
This time it has a "curse" to keep it there, untouched for as many years as human memory lasts for.
Another instance- a cave whose stalagmites and stalactites bear a striking resemblance to teeth as they end not with graceful spires but flat like a molar tooth. Every year since the cave was discovered somebody chipped away a chunk of stalagmite or stalactite, every year a different one and slowly creating a mouth of fangs where a herbivore's once was. It shouldn't have been so surprising when the cave set out for blood, whispering to people about treasure further inside and crushing them like overripe pears.
If it couldn't go back to How It Should Be then it must go forward and become something new.
Our final example is the house that has always been there and always had an old woman living there. Even when she was hanged as a witch over 150 years ago someone almost exactly like her moved in "from across the county". "A dear old friend" come to mourn or celebrate the passing of the former old woman who lived there. Though the house and the old woman may have changed, they have always been.
The best way to keep something in one place is to adapt it enough that the rest of us don't notice it.
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