It is well known that oxygen inhaled in pure form is an intoxicant. In fact, pure oxygen in excess can cause brain damage. And that is the irony, for although we need oxygen to live, it is oxygen itself that can kill us. Oxygen — clean and pure — is a poison.
In the name of God, country, religion, ethnicity, community, what-have-you, people have always echoed the cry for purity. Individuals of different ethnic origins have been hunted down. Marriages between different races have been denounced. Even ideas borne of a different perspective are eradicated. All on a mission for purity.
But purity is neither the way of nature nor the way of God. Indeed the inherent yearning of all life is towards impurity. Children bred of small gene pools have a smaller survival rate. We all come from dust and return to dust. Our very bodies, in fact, are inhabited by millions of bacteria that we rely on to live. No, mixing is the way or nature, mixing is the admonition of God. We are meant to mix.
So when people cry for purity, I think of oxygen. A little bit of pure oxygen creates euphoria, blurs your vision of reality, makes you think and behave in irrational ways. And so it is with purity itself. It intoxicates. And those intoxicated by it see the world not as it is, but as their delusions demand it to be. And this is how prejudice breeds, crimes are perpetrated, and wars are begun — out of the insanity of purity.
But purity is a poison. It is unnatural. It snubs its nose at the world. And it is misunderstood. Pure white light is not pure at all. White light — pure and natural — is actually a mixture of all the colors of the spectrum.
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