| The Earth Speaks Out on War with
Iraq by Kaär Thompson It was the summer of 1998 when I made contact with the Earth for the first time. A friend and lover was guiding me through a nine-day medicine wheel ritual meant to help me open channels to higher energies. I was going through struggles with physical and emotional health at the time and undergoing a work-up for multiple sclerosis. I wasn't sure how this nine-day ritual could be of help, but I was open to trying it. Each evening I received an assignment for the following day, and my assignment for Day 1 was to contact the Earth. I was to be up at sunrise, outside, in a quiet spot where I was unlikely to be disturbed. I was to sit on the ground after having searched out and selected a stick that was solid enough to drum against the ground without breaking. I was to continue drumming until the Earth responded. I was skeptical of the entirety of the proposition, but had agreed to make an effort to suspend disbelief while opening to a new experience. With doubt in my mind and heart, I sat down in a secluded, terraced area of the backyard of a small home in Roseville, Minn., under a small, wizened tree and tapped my chosen stick against the Earth. I had no idea how long I could continue before giving up on the exercise, but the morning was warm, the sky blue and the air calm, so it didn't seem, all in all, to be a bad place to be or thing to do. To my wonder and sheer amazement, I had tapped only a few times when a sudden rush of energy shot from beneath my seat, entered me, and seemed to travel the length of my spine and into my awareness while simultaneously within the area of my heart a powerful, yet inaudible, voice spoke the words, "I know you. I am aware." The Earth does speak. The Earth is aware. Her energy signature is that of a mother, but she is not female in the way that we understand gender. She fertilizes just as well as she incubates. She is a Being. Humanity and Earth coexist to facilitate each other in evolution. We evolve as she evolves as we evolve. We are inseparable. Our actions and interactions influence each other. Our successes lift each other. Our illnesses reflect in each other. The Earth is happy to be called Mother, and so I shall refer to her for the rest of this discussion. Mother speaks at this time to express her opposition to war with Iraq. Mother is charged with supporting and sustaining all life upon and within her, and to drink the blood of her children spilled in violence is distasteful to her. She cannot take sides in a conflict -- this is no longer in her nature. When Mother was a younger planet with a less-evolved soul, she was much less stable and more apt to respond to offenses with upheavals, and to favor those who showed her respect. Her personality is now much calmer, however, as her higher nature manifests itself with accelerating presence. Mother speaks with love and concern emanating from her core. She reveals that oil, so sought after and valuable to us as an energy source, is valuable to her for another reason. The vast oil fields of the Earth are part of her immune system. They help to stabilize her and maintain her equilibrium. They function as repositories of energy requiring diversion so that it can be calmed before it becomes disruptive. The northern part of the African continent is a major center of energy diversion and reprocessing for Mother. It is vital to her overall health. She speaks now in order to bring this into our awareness. Mother's vitality is being depleted faster than she can restore it. As her immunity weakens, the weakness is projected throughout her field. It manifests in us because we draw much of our energy from her, just as we also are an energy source for her. AIDS is a direct field reflection of Mother's condition. The field disturbance also manifests as drought, famine, and relational dissonance on small and large scales, and contributes to weather changes and atmospheric imbalances. The most acute symptoms show up near the source of the weakness. Mother works to correct the weakness, to heal herself, but this takes time and cooperation. It means we must allow her to rest by reducing our demands upon her and finding creative new ways to work in synergy with her. Mother is happy to share herself with us, but she asks that we recognize when enough is enough before it becomes too much. She communicates this in a variety of ways and is now able to communicate quite directly with more individuals among the human population than at any other time. She brings to mind an image of a volunteer blood donor who gives of his life-sustaining fluid to facilitate the survival of another, but clearly can only afford to give so much at one time without compromising his own vital functions. It is something that should be neither asked nor expected, yet something we ask and expect of Mother every day. In her infinite patience, she attempts to oblige, to shift resources within herself to maintain health and stability. She reminds us that she, like us, lives because she is animated by a soul, and that when her soul departs, her physical body will die. In that we are equal. Mother hopes to remain and facilitate our evolution for as long as we need her, as long as we mutually elevate each other. In caring for us and for all life that draws nourishment from her, she fulfills her purpose and personally evolves. But, as with our own physical bodies, the possibility exists for Mother that trauma or illness may overwhelm her self-healing powers and create a disconnect between her soul and body, requiring that she move on, leaving physicality behind. Mother asks that we take care of ourselves, and that we take thought for her. She promises to continue caring for us and to stay strong so that we may depend upon her. She asks those of us who hear to speak on her behalf and to communicate clearly the need to conserve her resources as the population grows and its demands increase. She promises that if we listen, she will teach us new ways to receive all that we need through methods of energy production that are safe, efficient and abundant, and that tax her very little by comparison to our present practices. As her health stabilizes, so will our own. Lastly, Mother reminds us that we and she and all that is are intricately interconnected, inextricably interwoven and inseparably intertwined. We cannot elevate ourselves without elevating each other, nor can we attack Iraq or any other nation, group or individual without assaulting ourselves in the process. In saying these things, Mother does not pretend to be God, for she emanates from the All That Is just as we do; the ultimate Source of our being is the same. But Mother is charged with maintaining our physicality through atmosphere and nourishment, and she was involved in the creation of humanity and the bodies that carry us through life. She asks that we use the voices with which she has provided us for right purposes -- the communication of light, life, knowledge, peace and Oneness. (P.S. Mother suggests there may be someone out there possessed of a pioneering soul who may find interest in taking up the field of Geophysiology. She has much to teach you about her living systems, how they interact, how one affects another for health or ill. Geology and Geophysics, she says, require augmentation.) Kaär Thompson is person who resides in Minneapolis and who seeks spiritual understanding and advancement. Call (612) 296-5409 or e-mail kevrthom@msn.com Copyright (c) 2003 |
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