EARTH CHANGES CYCLE began mid-November, 2004. I capitalized those words because
this is the big one, the one predicted, expected, sung about in pop tunes,
dreaded or looked forward to – depending on your persuasion – for
a century or more. The Great Shifting is here now, a time when energy accelerates
and we move as a people and as a world into the next phase of our growth in
consciousness, of our existence within evolution's spiral on this wonderful
blue marble called Earth.
There is no turning back. What has begun will conclude itself, maybe
in thirty years or a couple hundred or longer. No one knows when,
but what I do know is
that whatever occurs between now and the ending of the Mayan Calendar December
21, 2012, is just a drop in the bucket for what will follow, especially between
2013 and 2029. I discuss this at length in my book, Beyond the Indigo Children:
The New Children and the Coming of the Fifth World (Bear & Co./Inner Traditions,
Rochester, VT, Sept. 2005).
You could term this timespan an "apocalypse," or you could call it
a cycle of "stirring and stupendous achievement" where the human family
frees itself from the crushing burden of fixed polarities and politics and discovers
the power of intention – what we can really accomplish once we set our
mind to it and cooperate with each other. I rather suspect, though, that both
extremes will be simultaneous or nearly so, throughout. The Great Shifting shifts
us, all of us, on every level.
I've hesitated mentioning this. After hurricanes Katrina and Rita,
no one wants to know about earth changes. Enough is enough. Yet
the pressure I feel to open
up refuses silence. So I step forward another voice, another view.
All things in the natural world have a "voice" that those sensitive
enough to can hear, feel, or sense. I often engage with these voices, depending
on the moment and where I am and what may or may not be appropriate.
With hurricane Katrina, I made contact two days before landfall.
The voice I heard was neither female nor male, mid-range, almost
robotic. My goal in prayer
was to request protection for the Gulf States and New Orleans. The hurricane
interrupted, saying: "Do not interfere with me. I have a job to do." Taken
aback, I asked instead for the impact to be lessened. "Somewhat," it
replied.
When I spoke to Katrina it was a class five hurricane; at landfall
it dropped to a four. Damage assessments, although severe, jumped
to catastrophic
once the levees broke. I told several friends New Orleans would be hit by another
hurricane in about a month, not directly, but as if so. And there will be others,
this year and next year. I have no sense of how severe any will be. I just
know that the city cannot be rebuilt as before. Radical adjustments
must be made in
reconstruction, like raising street levels as they did in Seattle after the
big fire, plus wet lands need to be restored, else money spent to
rebuild will be
lost.
About a month later hurricane Rita came, so monstrous and huge the
storm was beyond belief, even beyond what categorizes a five. Try
as I may, I could
not make contact. It was as if the storm had no voice, no soul.
There is
no doubt in my mind that the combined prayers of millions of people
reduced hurricane
Rita's strength to a three, still a killer but survivable. Levees were topped
throughout the Texas/Louisiana region, flooding again parts of New Orleans
even though the city was east of landfall. There is also no doubt
in my mind that
a portion of Rita's fury came from the combined prayers of Muslim extremists
who, after Katrina, decided that storms could do more damage to the United
States than terrorists could. This twisted manipulation of prayer's
power is black magic,
and I saw the presence of black magic in Rita. The hurricane had no voice,
no soul, because it wasn't entirely nature's design – a hurricane, yes, yet
partly contrived.
Allow me to explain.
Those who pray for the harm or ill of others are practicing black
magic whether or not they realize that is what they are doing. Black
magic is of the ego, energized
by a desire to control or manipulate or force one's will over another. Rituals
are used to accomplish this, a deity of some type is invoked, prayers are said.
Satanists are not the only ones who do this; religionists do, too, especially
those who are more fundamental – be they Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jew,
or whatever. In fact, those "of faith" do this more often than those
with no religious preference. And it's getting worse. I am appalled at the number
of people today who obey the commands of their religious leadership without inquiry
or question or hesitation. Religious leadership is not infalliable, contrary
to claims.
There is a catch, though, when one prays, and it is the "boomerang
effect:" whatever you pray for another, returns to you. If your prayer is
negative, that is to say affirms the suffering or defeat of others, guess what's
coming back to you? Suffering and defeat. If you pray that others be helped or
healed in some manner, especially if you invoke Divine Order, you also will be
blessed and uplifted. Whatever we give, we receive. That is universal law and
it supplants the doctrine of any religious or spiritual tradition or teaching.
Feigning ignorance of this does not exempt anyone from the "backlash."
In the United States, "mass mind," or that etheric collection of all
our many thoughts, feelings, emotions, and desires, is turning toward fear of
unknown "disasters." Notice the synchronicity of all three major television
networks featuring a fall lineup in 2005 of monster/invasion shows: programs
like "Invasion" on ABC, "Threshold" on CBS, and "Surface" on
NBC. Also note the prevalence of water in each of these and/or storms and a sense
of helplessness, even hopelessness. Script writers are responding to our nation's
fear of loss – some without realizing it.
And we have reason for concern. Regardless of how you feel about
President Bush, he will go down in history as the most fiscally
irresponsible chief executive
in American history. Under his leadership, we have become the world's number
one debtor nation, owing so much money, that to countries like China, as a comparison,
our debt would amount to 40% of each and everyone's mortage. And that's just
to China.
It has already been established that terrorism is not our nation's
biggest threat: earth changes and storms of biblical proportions
are. Forecasters warn the situation
will get worse. Apparently, previous satellite data about the lower level of
the atmosphere (troposphere) not registering a rise in temperature, were misread.
Recently, two teams of scientists, independent of each other, recalibrated weather
data and discovered that the troposphere was indeed warmer – just as the
theory of global warming predicted.
In tandem with this, long-overdue earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
on a large scale are now occurring; the "river" current that flows beneath the
waves of the Atlantic Ocean (called the "great conveyor belt") is losing
its salt which would slow or stop the flow of warmth it carries; the volcanic
ridge at La Palma in the Canary Islands may soon fall into the sea which would
create a tsunami that could wipe out the entire Atlantic coastline. Too outlandish?
Not in our lifetime, you say? After the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Katrina
and Rita, the huge quake in Pakistan, and the northeast of our country being
almost flooded off the map, all since the earth changes cycle started, well,
excuses won't work anymore.
"Chicken Little," the one who repeatedly
warns of danger yet nothing occurs, then when real danger lurks no one listens
to him, that Chicken Little of legend and lore is now a feature Disney film – appearing
in our theaters this fall as if "willed" there by mass mind, as if
a "signal." It's not that earth changes cycles are anything unique.
It's that our planet now has greater populations than before, people living where
they shouldn't – especially along rivers, in coastal areas, or on fault
lines.
The financial blow to our country is already substantial, and the
cycle has just begun. If nothing else occurs and we make the adjustments
we need to reset our
economy, we could still be headed for a depression between 2007 2009, regardless
of what political party wins the next Presidential election. This scenario can
be avoided if the legislation to cut taxes is canceled and we begin the process
now of cutting back on spending and switch to sustainable measures in construction,
environmental management, job growth, consumerism, and lifestyles.
There is no reason for our country to go broke or to be broken apart.
We can
fix what needs fixing – and that begins in our minds and hearts. A can-do
attitude and enthusiam for the job can accomplish anything. It has in the past
and it will in the future. But it is our thoughts and what we feel in our hearts
that makes the biggest difference. Praying about deliverance, wishing for "life
as always," won't cut it. We must see ourselves making the transition from
global greed to community need, from selfish concerns to shared responsibility
as well as success.
More than anything, our call now is to vision our future as meeting
the challenges of new technologies and new opportunities for growth
and for caring. We must
SEE OUR FUTURE through the lens of positive will and inspired intention. We must
create holons to take the place of conflict (a holon is where opposing forces
come together in cooperation for the mutual benefit of the greater whole). It
is time for the spiritual to be primary, that knowingness and awareness of the
sacred that honors and affirms – not as a "Pollyanna" blind to
the world as it is, nor as the "Righteous" whose war-like campaigns
assert that "mine" is better than "yours."
The time has come
to awaken to that which is true and authentic, and realize that like energy
follows like energy. If you want change, FIRST YOU MUST BECOME
THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO
SEE HAPPEN Our world doesn't change for the better until we do.
It only takes 4 out of 100, or 4% to transform the world. Make
it five. That jumps the odds in favor of . . . miracles.
