A HUGE CHANGE ON OUR PLANET IS IMMANENT!

That statement is the source of a range of emotions–Fear being the greatest of these. How many times have you heard someone say:  “Look at how the world is deteriorating, and how rapidly”, “a huge upheaval, an apocalypse, is approaching and not many will survive”?

Truly, if we could hover above the surface of the Earth and examine it from a distance and consider the condition of the civilization populating its surface, things don’t look all that promising.   The situation in the Middle East, the so-called Holy Land is a perpetual un-holy war zone.  Mayhem by the strong upon the weak is being perpetuated throughout the planet.  We consider ourselves an advanced society, but from this aerial perspective we can see that we are still like primitive bands of warrior states, clustered into opposing groups and forces.   With advances in technology, mankind’s immaturity as evidenced by avarice and greed, have managed to negatively affect the financial health of every single country, not to mention the overall ecology of our planet.  A recent television documentary indicated that if we continue to fish commercially in the ways we have done in the past, within 40 years fish will be extinct and the oceans will die.

I recently looked up the definition of the word apocalypse and found:  “lifting of the veil”, “revelation”,  “a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of mankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception”.  I do believe that our civilization’s eyes have been covered by a veil of ignorance, preventing us from seeing the bigger picture as it relates to our very survival and enjoyment of balanced life of health and happiness.

However, not everyone is consumed by a “me me me” attitude.  Far from it!  Every day, new information and more stories surface that reveal a wide-spread awakening is occurring.  It represents a shift in the consciousness of man and womankind.  I believe that we are ready to see through lies we have too easily believed and followed (throughout history) and whose effect is the condition of the world we see today.  I believe we are ready to transcend the falsehoods about each other that have created mistrust and have divided us from our fellow passengers on our planet.

Most importantly, I believe that we are ready to think in terms of “WE”, rather than “me”.  We are ready to open ourselves to ways of living our lives that consider the world as a whole, as a community.  I believe that we are recognizing (on numerous levels at once) that this is ALL ONE interconnected organism in which we are an integral element.

Change is imminent.  But, then, perpetual change is the very nature of action in/of time-space.  It doesn’t have to be a “bad” thing.  To this mind and heart the process to bring about a more positive outcome, a better future—or, to actually HAVE a future at all!—has already begun.  It has begun in your mind and heart and is expanding throughout our shared existence.  If you have chosen to read these words, you know what I am talking about.

A few years ago a friend sent me a copy of something called The Hopi Elders’ Statement.  I don’t know its author nor the date it was written, but it is a beautiful contemplation of the situation at hand and offers pertinent questions for us to search within to answer:

“You have been telling the people that this is the eleventh hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is the hour.

And there are things to be considered:

Where are you living?  What are you doing?  What are your relationships?  Are you in right relation?                                                                                                                          Where is your water?  Know your garden.  It is time to speak your truth.
Create your community.  Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!

There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid,
They will try to hold onto the shore.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      They will feel they are being torn apart And they will suffer greatly.
Know that the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore,
Push off into the river, Keep our eyes open, And our heads above water.
Look around, see who is in there with you and celebrate.

At this time in history we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.  Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!”

The emergence of these kinds of documents, the healing presence of a Braco, or the marvelous enlightening presentations of physicist Nassim Haramein support us in our conscious awakening and in taking the right actions on each others’ behalves.

This could very well be a good time, a time we will look back at and say: “WE pulled together, and saved our world”.

WE ARE THE MIRACLE WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!

Painting “ALL ONE” 8″ x 24″ on canvas  :  by Sherry Remez

I was sitting at the kitchen table in a house in British Columbia that I had once called my home.   Since the moment I decided to ‘do the right thing’ and stay on to help my ex-partner, Donna, and her daughter make ends meet, it has felt more like a prison, or a trap.  I had been feeling great responsibility toward them due to the fact that they were there for me during many hardships in my life.  But, it has been two years of what has felt like atonement.  I was now at my wits end.

I was doodling on a piece of paper.  I had drawn a wide crack from one corner to the other. I blackened in the crack with the pencil and in that I drew the Ying and Yang symbol and on each side of that I wrote “Life/Death”.

When Donna showed up I borrowed her car and ran downtown to do some errands and to visit a friend.  At about eleven thirty, I was coming back up the hill to where I lived.  It was a dark night without a moon to light the way.  I was driving the usual fifty-five kilometers per hour and was complacent in my knowledge of the road.

All of a sudden in my head lights I saw a large male deer in the on-coming lane about thirty feet in front of me.  Time seemed to slow down at this point.   I remember thinking that where there’s a male there should be a female.   As I thought that, out of the corner of my eye, to my right, a deer leaped in front of my vehicle.  (I should tell you that I’ve had a lot of experience as a driver, having driven taxi in the city. You learn to respond quickly to potential accidents.) This moment was different.  That split second where I would usually swerve out of danger was gone.  The deer looked right into my eyes.  For a second I felt compelled to continue my course.  It was as if she was saying “No, it is my time and yours.”

Bang, I hit her!  She bounced off the car and spun her hind quarters under the rear tire.  I traveled another fifty feet before I realized that there was severe damage to the vehicle.   I pulled over and investigated the damage.   The front end of the car was smashed up and I had blown the rear tire.  I couldn’t see the deer behind me, and so proceeded to try to change the tire.   I didn’t think to walk back to the deer.   I was sure that she was dead.

There was no way to get the car back to the house, so I took a ride from a passing motorist who informed me that the deer was still alive and on the side of the road, injured. When I got home, I told Donna what had happened to her car and the deer.    She took the news better than I thought and suggested that we call the police to come and help with the deer and report the accident.

We then drove my van to her vehicle.   She stayed with the car as I walked down to where the deer was and found her leaning her head against the cement barrier.   Her body was a mess, her whole back end was crushed.   Her intestines were hanging out a large hole in her stomach.

I was in shock.  I felt like I couldn’t breathe.   It was as if I felt her suffering.  I slowly walked up to her, trying not to scare her more.   I spoke to her softly, saying over and over, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry I’ve killed you.”   I began to cry.   I climbed over the barrier and leaned down to put my hands on her.  All of a sudden she turned her broken body to face me.   It amazed me that she could move, the damage was so severe.

She put her face close to mine and looked right into my eyes, as she had done when I hit her. I cupped her face in my hands and began to soothe her as I cried.    Many times I apologized to her.  Many times I told her that I didn’t mean to kill her, for I knew that she would soon die.

Her tongue was hanging out and her eyes were wide open, by all rights she should already be dead.  She should have been scared of me, but I felt that she was trying to tell me something.  The look in her eyes was not of fear, it was not even of pain. It was as if Divine guidance was at work through her.  “We were done.”   Those words kept going through my head.  She was done in life and I was done in the sentence that I had given myself.

A police officer showed up and put the deer out of her misery and I drove home saddened by the pain that I had caused–but exhilarated at the same time.   Something inside of me had changed.   I knew would make a change and soon after I moved out and began a new life.

I met a beautiful lady on Maui and am now enjoying a miracle life with her.

That deer will forever be in my memory as my guide to changes that have saved my life and given new meaning to it.   I thank her always for that and still shed a tear from time to time, but do feel so blessed by our encounter.

God Bless you, my Deer

Colin–Hope, British Columbia

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