MASS EXTINCTION - A SHAMANIC PERSPECTIVE

As we know, this world - this universe - is dreamed into being. It is unknowable. That is why 86% of it has recently revealed itself to be dark energy - it is the dream saying the more you try to know me by your puny rational means, the more I will elude you. Evolution is the same: as a theory, it provides a tiny slice of explanation in a vast and unknowable creation.

These dream universes, they come and they go. In the deepest sense, they are illusion. The mass extinction we are seeing on this planet is painful. Life has such beauty and mystery to it. And it is unbearable if this is the only planet and when you die that is it.

Shamanism offers not just a deeper connection to life, but perspective. The eagle who sees a much bigger picture from way above. The therapy rooms are full of people grieving at what is happening to the planet. That grief is not something to be 'cured', because it is a necessary first step for anything to happen. But the planetary situation is something that the individual can do very little about. It is one of things that, to all intents and purposes, you cannot change. And cannot fully know about - who knows the full spirit reason behind the mass extinction, why these species are, in a sense, choosing to leave, and what is the longer-term process that humans are going through? 

Species have been coming and going by the trillion in different dream universes since forever, and it is all illusion - yet it is a dream we are passionately embedded in, incarnated in, we rightly care enormously about it. What we do know is that prayer works. A constant, heartfelt connection to the dreaming, a wish for its health and flourishing. A traditionally trained Native American once told me that some elders, all they do is pray. By prayer I do not mean supplicating a god, but a heartfelt and ongoing conversation with the natural world.

Perspective and prayer - these are 2 things that can, I think, make what is happening to the planet bearable.

PRAYER

Recently I used my new Pipe for the first time. I was beginning what will hopefully be a long and fruitful relationship with this Being who has come my way. Well, I came its way, to be more accurate. But I also had something specific and important to converse about, a money issue that really needed to move on. And I had a particular outcome in mind that I had been working on for months. And I asked for help with the issue, and with the particular outcome, with the proviso that only if that was the right way for things to go. Because you never know. You know you need some help, but we limited humans can find it hard to see the bigger picture. 

And some days later I got my help. The particular outcome I wanted was being blocked by a solicitor, and for a few hours I was so angry; but the more radical outcome which I had been avoiding, and which will make me very unpopular, but with which I will be a lot happier, had re-presented itself. 

So there it is. I prayed for something, and got the opposite in no uncertain terms, and it seems to be the right thing. But I had left room for that in my prayers, because even when an outcome seems self-evident we can be wrong. We can't assume we know as much as Spirit. And thank you to my new Pipe. We're getting along just fine.

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