Q: Is there validity to predictions of catastrophic changes to the Earth?
A: My earthly body is born of the same elements as the Earth and comprised of the same percentages of water and minerals as the Earth. My insight on this matter of Earth changes has as much to do with what my body tells me as with what my Universal knowledge affords me.
In this life experience on Earth I am a woman. I know the body of the Earth through my womanhood. I cycle with her moons and tides. I bear her future generations, in her rhythms, by her design. I am not in a position superior to a man for this knowledge; I am in a different position. Both genders are indigenous to the Earth and wholly include her nature. As a man in current civilization I would know the Earth through her forces; as a woman, through her capacities. As a man I would better know the strength of Earth's will; as a woman, her strength of willingness. The more I become aligned with my Soul resources, the more the qualities associated with each gender become embodied by the other.
When I look at the sensual curves of rolling hills and shaded valleys I see my body there, stretched out on my side like the elongated mounds and crevices of the horizon. In the outline of a single mountain I see the crook of my elbow and in another, the jutting angle of my hipbone. When the sun slips down into a sliver against the ocean I feel my breath leave my body in a slow sweet sigh. When it is gone I stand breathless, my reality merging with the invisible octaves its warmth has joined. In the morning, new life is breathed into me with an irrepressible gasp at the glory of sunrise. Surely I am the Earth changing. Surely it does not – cannot – change without me. We are one body, the Earth and I, its changes are mine.
Does this planet Earth erupt, quake and drown its chaos any more or less than her people do? Can a multitude of people generate deep work at their core of origin, undergoing great upheaval and rumbling and shaking to spew out its dross and resettle in true identity, its unmanipulated state of integrity? Of course the Earth is changing with intensity – you are changing with intensity. Collectively you have come to the end of your capacity for denial and avoidance of your internal disruption. You can no longer maintain the schism between your Being and your behaviour. You have all but consumed yourselves in trying to maintain this separation. You are ready for a new ground of being, one that unifies your heartfelt values with your actions.
Will the Earth break into pieces, condemning cities to destruction and sending countries tumbling into the sea? Will the economy collapse, returning you to a simpler life? If you cannot make changes personally you may bring them upon yourselves collectively, forcing the transformations you could not personally allow. That which you allow has the integrity and the grace of inclusion.
Rather than die, the old can transform into the new. Transformation would be better for everyone, but transforming is much harder than dying. Death takes over even where there is resistance. You can deny and fight all the way to the finish line, never having to confront yourself, never having to meet the challenge to transform. It takes far greater courage, trust, love and intelligence to reincarnate without a death. You are being asked to do this. Your cities and nations, whose disruptions of integrity and of community are reflected in the Earth's breaks and upheavals, are being called upon to do this. Your economic systems and the values they derive from are being called upon to do this. Their challenge is to regenerate without death. The opportunity at hand is more than a call for transformation. It is a Universe-empowered opportunity for transmutation, a phenomenon of grace that will swell from the transformational movement.
Who will be the first to break the momentum of the old ways? Those coveting power and manipulating the economy to their ends? Those professing to hold spiritual or intellectual domain, implicitly limiting direct knowledge and exploration? Those counselling others in the many therapies that teach people to negotiate, compromise, and adapt for success, rather than to seek and follow their own inner direction? Those selling toxic products? Who will break the momentum by jumping off the wheel of convention? How many will it take? Only one person can break the momentum – only you.
Only you can free yourself from vested interests and learned positions, to live as you feel. Only you can invent your future integrity. In changing yourself you create a fertile environment within which others can grow and change. Those who succeed in aligning their heartfelt values with their actions are way-makers, bridge builders to an integral way of life. Everyone who crosses the bridge adds to the magnetism of love, hope and courage that draws the next sojourner across.
You know what needs to be done: Create new systems for sustaining your lives, founding these systems on fairness, honesty, compassion and dedication to Universal values. Develop highly functional sources and systems for securing clean, healthy, biodynamically produced food. Develop resources for educating children and all people to the knowledge within them, facilitating the unification of their being and their behaviour. Replace dogma with discovery. Raise your infants with personal attention and without grooming them for societal dysfunctions of competition and the manipulation of nature. Spend more time and have more pleasure with the ones you love, at the same time being independent from them in your thinking, action and exploration. Cultivate multidimensional resources for healing yourselves, so that you can proceed with personal health and well-being.
You can do all these things. They will establish an environment for transmutation and enable your transformational process to occur with the least amount of social chaos and personal pain. These things have not been done before because too few people had come to realize that the governing paradigm, with its competitive social systems and mechanistic conceptual systems, is arbitrary and self-limiting. You did not yet have the collective momentum to tap the powerhouse of energy that becomes available when you are a Universally aligned collective. Now that the time is right, a network of effective visionary cooperatives can form and activate a huge unorganized population that is ready and waiting for new models. Ask yourself how many people you know who would leap to higher ground, even at personal cost, given an effective working model? Seeing the energy amassed toward this end, we in the Greater Universe know it is already coming to pass.
From Letter to Earth, copyright 2000 by Elia Wise, published by Gill and Macmillan Ltd.
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