The Great Awakening 

                                   

"The Great Awakening" © 2020

On the darkest of nights with only a hint of light from the crescent moon, Earth Mother began to feel her labor pains, signaling the time of great change. With each new contraction, the birth portal, filled with ancient symbols, opened further splitting the cosmos and causing all beings everywhere to cease their activity in suspense  of what was to come. Some people predicted doom and the end of everything. 

Others, panicked by their belief in scarcity, were ruled by their greed as they desperately grabbed more than their share of goodness. Still others, sadly feeling dire hopelessness, chose to just lay down and die. 

But there was also a group of people who rejected that fear and instead chose to believe in the benevolence of creation. They made a choice to find the knowledge, lost long ago to humanity, that showed us how to live in harmony. Those awakened ones  sought out the ancients for wisdom which had been long forgotten. They talked with the indigenous for their knowledge of our vital connection to the natural world. They looked up to the stars for the promise of a peaceful new world - one that nurtured everyone and everything.

As the awakened ones began to learn and practice different ways of living, a portal, similar to that mysterious birth portal in the cosmos, formed also in their hearts and slowly started to open. Their unfailing courage and demonstration gave Earth Mother strength in bearing her difficult labor in the birthing this new paradigm, even in the midst of so many who continued to make it more painful with their ignorance and fear. 

As Earth Mother gave one last heave, the huge portal, filling up most of the night sky, violently opened allowing for the birth that was destined and most certainly inevitable. Crying and falling to their knees, all people sensed that their worst fears surely would follow. They shook with emotion as they heard a loud roar of an animal from the portal and watched in horror as a large-toothed beast emerged from the opening. Everyone nodded in agreement that surely the presence of this ancient beast confirmed their worst fears of demise, and that its purpose was to devour all life on earth.  Everyone agreed, that is, except for those who were practicing new ways of being and living, even in the adversity of such terror and pain. 

Just at the moment of greatest suffering, a pure white barn owl, who could see better in the darkness than any living thing, flew silently across the sky looking down at this chaos. As the bird flew peacefully over the portal, it seemed to be foretelling an outcome more beneficial than this grave vision of destruction that everyone was screaming about. The owl seemed to be announcing Earth Mother's birthing, as she finally brought forth a new hope for the world - a vision of such loveliness and beauty that it rivaled all of her previous creations. Out of that portal, framed with ancient symbols, a magnificent woman emerged who personified power and strength. But her power was not the old paradigm of domination and control; rather it was the original plan of oneness and balance which ultimately empowers all. 

As this beautiful woman, named Gaia, started repairing the broken links in the web of life on earth, the large-toothed beast roared and moved beside her becoming her companion and protector. Together they created a vision of a heart-centered way of life, as the bondage of violence and oppression, which had imprisoned so many for so long, fell away like leaves on an autumn tree.

As the newly reborn Gaia and her beast companion nurtured the new life-giving growth, a darkness that had shrouded the earth with its destructive lies was finally illumined.  People got up off of their knees and looked into each other’s eyes seeing for the first time a reflection of themselves. A healing portal then opened in all hearts allowing Gaia’s light to reveal the Truth that had always been there. Celebrating the paradox of oneness and great diversity, all people joined hands encircling the globe and danced to the music of the cosmos, not heard for many millennia. The fear in everyone’s heart was replaced with new ways of imaging and thinking and feeling. It was the morning of creation again with its promise of goodness and hope. It was the dawning of all that everyone dreamed of and prayed for. We were back in the garden of blessing and plenty, but this time with the wisdom of the heart.

So it was. And so it is. And so it shall always be!