We need a quantum shift of consciousness on our beautiful planet. I imagine most of the consciousness is aligned with nature; however, the force of some of the human consciousness against nature breaks my heart every day.
When I say most of the consciousness is aligned, I think of young people not yet indoctrinated into our various systems, and all the other species. These know their place within the web of life. They don't think about it the way adult humans do, because they think the way they think. They are aware and awake in their own ways, each individual sentient and alive.
Being sentient and alive underpins our ability to think at all, and yet we take it for granted. We often don't know what we have until we lose it and then we are in grief and shock. Losing someone or something or aspect of our own health can cause that.
In my lifetime one of the biggest losses I feel is loss of the natural soundscape. Lots more birds sang in the spring when I was young. And I miss the dandelions and the other little flowers like violets that used to be in the lawn, and the autumn leaves swirling around in the fall. Chemicals and leaf blowers keep all that under strict control.
The loss of being able to look up at a night sky full of stars is another huge deficit to my soul. Now there is much more light pollution, and what is so sad for me, is actual death to many individuals of other species who need a natural lightscape.
Having spent my career in the arts and healing professions, I'm highly aware that the deepest reasoning and the most profound creative and spiritual awakenings I've experienced came when I felt safe. When the soundscape and surroundings didn't feel like warnings.
I wrote THE GOOD GOOSE AND THE GUN and am making this website, because I believe that Mother Earth needs us to love her back. She needs us to appreciate and learn from everything she gives us right now.
Mother Earth needs us to use our compassionate intelligence to help each other, and guide our young, enabling us to move forward as adventurous, creative and sentient beings capable of exploring new frontiers while protecting all our ecosystems, species, beauty, peace and all the elements she gives so freely.
Quite possibly one way to make the shift inside of ourselves to awaken to nature, is to be astounded by the fact that we are of her, alive in physical sensing bodies.
