Wake Up!

 

This Moment

“This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. The decision to fall into the hole or walk through the door is up to you.”

White Eagle (Hopi Indian Chief, July 9, 2021)

          This moment that we are in is a wake-up moment—a do or die moment—a moment when we will make a decision that will either take us on a survival course or seal our fate. And it’s entirely up to us.

          There is an article on the Biodiversity website titled: “The Sixth Great Extinction” (also called the Holocene extinction). Apparently, it began 100,000 years ago and coincided with the beginning of human migration out of Africa into the rest of the world. As humans moved into other areas, the animals did not know to fear us, so hunting was easy, and as we progressed across the globe, entire species disappeared. This extinction is worse than the previous five—we are losing 17,000 to 100,00 species per year, 100 times faster than species were lost in the past. Agriculture and animal husbandry are detrimental to biodiversity, which is the life blood of species survival, be it plant, animal, or human. In this article, it says that “biologists used conservative new estimates to prove that vertebrate species on Earth are disappearing faster than at any time since the extinction of the dinosaurs, and humans are now at risk of being wiped out.”

          I am writing this knowing that it will simply create more anxiety in those who read it. I am sorry for that, but it is time for not just anxiety, but action. In the last 18 months, in the US alone, 631,612+ people have died from Covid-19. Globally, that number is 4,354,961+ and counting. So far this year, 103 large fires and complexes have burned almost 2-million acres in 14 states—only one has been contained. Across the world, fires are burning out of control in the Mediterranean, in Southeast Asia, in Russia, in Siberia, in Africa and elsewhere. These fires are often human caused and are worsening the suffering of people with covid.

          We must rise above our differences and come together as a human species to address the crisis we are in today. I was so glad to read the words of White Eagle: “If you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, you will walk through this portal” rather than fall in the hole of pessimism and division. He suggests that we seek serenity for our health and well-being, that we keep calm and pray every day, and that we find a way to meet the sacred every day. Set aside time for this. As White Eagle says, “Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis.” It is more dangerous than anything we have ever faced.

                                                  In the Spirit,

                                                  Jane