Tsunami - 12/29/04
Dear Friends,
I received this email some days ago...
”I’m totally freaked out... could someone please tell me why nature, with all
it’s power, would instantly wipe out 23,000* lives? What the hell is happening?”
I want to share my reply for your consideration: (*of course we know
the numbers continued to rise and rise...)
First of all, Freak out freely...it’s important...sit with it, or dance
with it or cry with it, draw with it, talk, sing, yell...trust your feelings,
there’s wisdom and liberation there...allow yourself to feel what you feel and
like anything else, it will evolve and change and instruct you...and at the same
time as your friend said, you can help or send help to the survivors...
Nature doesn’t wipe out...not exactly...she transforms...she takes back to
herself...energy can’t die but it is always dancing...changing from one form to
another, and all matter, even us, is always pulsing on and off between form and
formlessness...we exist in the dimension of form and we also exist beyond it...I
know this doesn’t change the deeply human feeling/experience of loss, nor is it
meant to...but it’s as central to our evolution to let this piece of truth sink
into or surface from our deep places of knowing as it is to let the truth of
human grieving and the experience of loss break our hearts open...we need all
the open hearts we can get...and this doesn’t mean we will be less reverent for
life, on the contrary, less fearful of loss and death, we can be most reverent
of life...
Re: your question...We are nature... So, what are we doing with all our
power??? The latest statistic I read is that 27,000 children under five years
old die every day from starvation and preventable and treatable diseases. On the
most fundamental level nature’s weathers including earthquakes and hurricanes
and floods, etc. etc. etc. reflects our emotions our energies...our
relationships, our distribution of resources, our use of power... as well as all
our physical “contributions” - pharmaceutical/medical/agricultural/military
chemicals and radioactive substances, and manufactured genes...our building up
and changing the coastlines, nuclear bombing under the ground and sonic bombing
under the oceans...all these effect nature and effect what the hell is
happening...
I remember being very clear when Mt. St. Helens erupted in Oregon (I lived
in Santa Cruz California at the time and it affected us immediately and our
weather for a long while after)...that there was an energetic connection between
the timing of the explosion and the riots going on in Miami at the same
time...visually they were linked on a direct diagonal line across the U.S.
...and when there was an awful earthquake in...Afghanistan, I believe it was, it
was within a week of underground nuclear testing in Pakistan/India...I knew
clearly that these events were connected and was surprised no one was raising
the question. This is a long way to say, whatever nature is doing...is connected
to what we’re doing, too.
It seems to me that our overwhelming lack of owning our own power,
including our power to effect change, is a far more pressing issue to wrestle
with...than why nature is doing what she does...Life is happening...let’s live
it!!!! Be grateful for your life and opportunity and freedom to choose what you
do with your energy and your time...and follow through and trust that who you
are and what you do is enough.
Peace and Blessings, Robin
