The Conclusion to Ant Oneness

By Roger Joyeux

            So whatever happened to the Ants?

            Ant Oneness it is!

            As we left our communication with the ants in the previous article, I had apologized to them for creating an ant-trap with sugar-water syrup.  The number that died in the sticky goop was not severe enough to affect their colony.  Their response to my apology was that a few dead ants were the same as construction-site injury statistics.  The loss was built-in as an expectation.  Apology accepted, yet they really were not concerned.

            The ants then went about their business.

            Well, I am not an ant, so what was their business?  I really cannot say.  That is, I had hoped to have the follow up article before this, yet I was not clear on what was going on.  I reorganized the sugar feeders by filling bottle caps with granulated white sugar and placing them under a glass jar to keep them dry when it rained.  Would they appreciate my innovation?

            The holes they had been making in the yard reduced in number, yet did not disappear entirely.  As summer passed, I noticed that the location of these “aerating” holes concentrated in the driest parts of the yard.  When I thought about it, dry soil would harden more than moist soil and be in need of aeration more than moist soil.  Maybe they knew something I did not know.

            One of the nice things about being on friendly terms with the ants was that they moved their housing project away from our house.  Previously, they established their colony under the concrete sidewalk pads that run beside the foundation.  The fine grains of soil that accumulated between the sidewalk pads disappeared altogether.  I have yet to see an ant inside the house.

            I had placed a statue of a golden Buddha on a stone pad in an unused part of the yard hoping they might relocate there. And they did!  I moved the stone pad enough to look beneath twice in the past two months because I was not sure they were in residence there.  No doubt, Ant Oneness was thriving under Buddha’s gaze.

            After a time, I also noticed a second colony located on the other side of the yard.  Their colony was right beside the grass but in the gravel, that borders our landscaped trees.  How polite!  The ants were immediate to the yard, but not in it.  The gravel was only a thin layer covering the topsoil, so they had lots of room to develop without creating a noticeable anthill.

            We have not spoken with the ants lately, but we are living in harmony.  They are no longer pests, but our ‘friends’; and they contribute to the well-being of the yard without creating a mess.

            We have decided to call our current relationship with the ants the ‘nirvana’ of Ant Oneness.  ‘Relief’ is another fitting description.  Our biggest lesson from this new relationship is that, indeed, all life forms are energies that have a place in God’s creation.  Because we can consciously facilitate the well-being of creatures that inhabit our space, doing so is our imperative.

            As other species thrive, so do we.

S. Roger Joyeux is the author of The Story of Light, volumes one and two, and is in the process of writing a third volume devoted to crystals.