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I was watching a PBS show on killer whales and their amazing similarity to humans. They live in matriarchical communities and have amazing communal and communication skills. The show also talked about their endangerment in surviving environmental changes created by humans.
The unenlightened, unempowered parts of me saw a depressing, fearful story. It made me sad. But then I thought about how to turn it around.
The first way (well aside from physically doing what we can for the environment, if we are going to accept/choose the environmentalist view of things) is to pray and do energywork. Just as Reiki and energywork can transmute chemical toxins into light for a client, the energies can do so for the Mother Earth. It’s not too unlike the situation where a tidal wave was heading to Hawaii and a group of shaman got together and prayed it away.
So we can pray for the health and survival of the Killer Whales, as well as the salmon, as well as the ocean as a whole.
From an enlightenment point of view, does any of this matter? I wonder what Ram Das’ guru would do/think? He ate a sheet of LSD with no effect to show Ram Das the silliness of taking LSD.
And so I wonder about our stories of pollution and environmental change/collapse? They are just as much an illusion as the story that DDT is perfectly safe and effective! The Truth… the Reality is beyond all that and yet our perception of and co-creation of what we experience is also based on our stories.
And finally, in empowerment thinking we would say that no species dies unless it somehow chooses to die. And so perhaps if Killer Whales die out, there is something better coming? Perhaps, just as when we are some place that we are not enjoying, there is another place better for us to be? In Empowerment thinking we remove the victimhood. This can be a difficult process for those of us with attachments. One of my friends claims to have been a deer killed by a lion in his past life. As the lion tore into his deer flesh, he felt the lions great love and enjoyment of him. In empowerment thinking we would say the deer gave it’s life to the lion. When we see that Spirit is eternal, and that only the physical is impermanent, we can easier understand this way of seeing the world. We can easier find compassion for our apparent enemies.
Now I have to admit I tend to fall into the patterns of an “environmentalist” feeling that our chemical way of life is unsustainable. At the same time I realize that that is a myth and that everything is impermanent. The solution for all of us is to do what is in our heart, from a place of love, and attempt to refrain from shackling others to our judgments about the way the world works. By this I mean that I have found life always works best for me when I operate out of love rather than right and wrong. When I loved horse farming and living an off-grid life, even though in part that love was based on my beliefs, it worked well. But when I turned that into judgments about how I and others ought to live, I became stuck, unpresent, and miserable.
So How to put this into a prayer?
Let’s pray/set the intention that the Killer Whale survive and flourish according to Highest Good, even though we don’t know how and things may seem dismal. at times. Let the pollutants in the ocean turn instantly into light and life instantly healed.
May we all remain grounded in Enlightment, Unconditional Love, Joy, Empowerment, and Abundance… and all life flourish and enjoy the physical realm regardless.
May Impermanence flow according to the Highest Good of All. May the Killer Whales and Salmon survive or something better.
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