“The elders have sent me to tell you that now is like a rushing river, and this will be experienced in many different ways. There are those who would hold onto the shore… there is no shore. The shore is crumbling. Push off into the middle of the river. Keep your head above the water, look around to see who else is in the river with you, and celebrate.” Choquash - a Native American storyteller
Changes and tensions seem to be multiplying all over the world now. People everywhere see media and glimpse the possibilities and strive for freedom and success in the world. The forces of repression and backlash have passed the stages of ignoring and ridiculing, as a full scale attack against freedom and goodwill rages in many places.
All this against a ticking time bomb of deadly pollution and all of the pressures of more and more billions of people consuming and building in a pressure cooker of a finite planet shrinking before our very eyes.
Even animals have been shown to have an innate sense of fairness. The huge inequality gap between the haves and have nots guarantees strife and struggle. The pressure of fear and uncertainty pushes us toward ever increasing control, but there is another way.
The choice before us now is endless control, that is, losing our newfound freedom in exchange for feeling more safe, or opening up to one another and attempting to empower people at the grassroots level, trusting that we will do the loving thing. Which kind of world would you rather live in?
(From the Flower Child's Garden Planet)
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