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One Heart, One Mind, One Planet

Shoppers stop in their tracks in shock as a moose wanders into a shopping mall. A bear attacks several campers at a popular national park. A six foot shark swims up on a Jersey beach just long enough to scare a few hundred people, then turns around and swims back to sea. What is going on? Are the animals trying to tell us something? Maybe they sense that a great number of humans understand the inter-connectedness of the planet, and are trying to communicate to us their dis-ease with the current state of the environment. Maybe they innately know that we humans are the ones with the power to change things for the better.

If all of nature could speak with one voice, would it pose a question to us asking, "How much worse does it have to get before you do something about it?" At this point, all of humanity cannot speak with one voice. Several major factions would attempt a response, however. The Christians would say "Just hold on a little longer because Jesus is coming back soon, and He will wave His hands and instantly everything will be perfect." The scientific community and environmentalists would say "It took nearly three hundred years for things to get this bad, starting with the Industrial Revolution, so it will take at least another three hundred years for us to turn the situation around."

We don't have another three hundred years. So, how do we save the planet and ourselves from environmental destruction and possible annihilation? I've always believed in killing two birds with one stone. Please forgive my use of a very bad pun, but in this case a little irony is called for. First thing we humans need to do is to stop asking "The Almighty" to come to our rescue. We need to move on from our adolescence and realize that "Our Father" has placed in us all the wherewithal to co-create a better world for ourselves. If we are the children of divinity, then we must be divine. Then, we need to stop fighting like children competing for "Our Father's" attention. The three major religious groups on this planet are especially bad about thinking they are the Father's favorite and everyone else is on the outside looking in.

As soon as we realize that we are all one family, we can stop fighting, hug each other, and say we're sorry. Then, we will look around and see what a mess we've created. At that point, we will grow up, or move into the evolutionary status of "One mind, One heart, One planet." The Evangelicals have coined a phrase from a scripture in Deuteronomy, "If one can put a thousand to flight, two can put ten thousand to flight," expressing the power of agreement. In light of that, another question arises. If every adult on the planet were of one mind, with a unified intention to clean up the planet, do you think it would take three hundred years? I don't think so. I think it could happen very quickly. I believe it is a matter of our moving out of our evolutionary status as adolescents. We are about to grow up and our planet is about to make a quantum leap in conscious awareness that may very well bring us all back from the brink of annihilation. 

Out of the Cocoon

In two weeks it will be one year since I posted the blog entry “Thoughts of a Caterpillar” At the time I wrote it, it was just another wonderful burst of creativity leaping from the depths of my being onto the paper. Now, a year later, the true meaning of that piece of writing has visited me with such a clarity and resonance that it takes my breath away. “Thoughts of a Caterpillar” is my own story. I was the caterpillar. Now I am a butterfly, ready to spread my wings and fly. The process by which a caterpillar undergoes a complete body change to become a butterfly is an amazing one that I won't expound on this post. However, it is a story that we humans are drawn to because of the tremendous hope that it offers. Our lives sometimes appear to be insignificant and small, but somewhere within our soul we hear soft whispers of “there's more to you than meets the eye.” We feel the urge to look within and discover our full potential and our true identity. Then, just like the caterpillar, we grow too large for our former paradigm and, shedding our past, we build a new context in which to live, where we continue to grow some more.

The caterpillar sheds it's skin five times before moving into the cocoon for the final metamorphosis. Somewhere in the genes of the caterpillar is the built-in time schedule for it's process. How do we humans know when it's time to “get serious”, “get a life”, or “dance the dance”? We too have a divine time piece hidden deep in our psyches that lets us know. I like to think of it as the “Divine Urge” The divine urge is a result of knowing our divinity and remembering who we really are. If you think of yourself as a lowly creature of the dust, you will never expect anything of yourself more than crawling around in the dirt. But if you're aware of your divine heritage as a child of God, then you will hold yourself erect, walking proudly as royalty. The most telling clue, however, is you will have those divine urges; the urge to love more deeply, to give more generously, to act, well, more divine. And it's not something we try to do. If you try to act divine, you are not responding to your innate knowing of who you are, but who you would like to be.

 I'm going to ask you to take a big leap in imagination with me and try to envision something. What if the whole planet were a caterpillar? What if mankind has gone through about the same amount of skin shedding as the caterpillar (evolutionary processes), and is in the final stage of cocoon life? What if all the wars, killings,natural disasters, starvation, genocides, pestulances, and discontent, is merely the violent shaking of the cocoon? When mankind finally emerges from the cocoon, and sees himself as the brilliant, magnificent creature that had the markings of divinity all along, the very expression of God, then the world will be as it was meant to be, a place of wholeness, love, peace, joy and abundance for all. If this scenario were true, what should our actions be? What should our responsibility be? I believe the answer is to envision the final outcome. Without a vision, the people perish.