Have you ever wondered what would happen if people only consumed what their bodies needed? In Western societies where food is abundant, people would dramatically decrease their consumption of food, leading to less freighters on the oceans, less airplanes in the sky, less trucks on the freeways, less heavy machinery in the fields, less pesticides and chemical fertilizers in the soil, and more fresh water in your lakes and streams. The earth would finally have the opportunity to breathe.
Dominance lies at the heart of over-consumption. Dominance puts the needs of the individual before the needs of the collective. More accurately, those who dominate are largely unaware of the needs of the collective. Dominance perpetrates a conditioned forgetting where habitual self-driven behaviors supplant compassion. Dominance is the tendency to take care of “me and mine”, while pretending that those self-driven behaviors have no impact on others or on the planet. Dominance is a form of self-deceit.
From the beginning of human existence, peace centered around sharing food and other resources. Not only did sharing promote peace between individuals and communities, it elicited peace within each person’s heart.
Indigenous people from nature-based traditions understand that synergistic relationships, where labor is divided and food is shared, create strong, healthy, moral human beings. Each member of the tribe feels a sense of pride in his or her contribution to the collective.
Your planet has forgotten how to share. You’ve traded synergy for commerce. And that trade comes at the expense of your peace – at a global level and within each human heart.
As global systems destabilize, they become increasingly dysfunctional. The systems of dominance will ultimately collapse and hierarchical global power structures will fail. This will necessarily create great turbulence.
Though this transition may sound frightening, great loss of life can be prevented if cool heads prevail. Turn off the news. Give no mental airtime to fear-mongers. Deepen into your relationship with nature and choose leaders who most closely embody the values of your indigenous ancestors.
In time, the society that emerges will be one of communion where community lies at the heart of its organizational infrastructure. In communion, resources of time, energy, food and shelter are shared and a spirit of equanimity will replace hierarchical structures based on dominance.
Note: These messages are received through daily meditation and are meant to be shared. I offer them here in love. If a particular message resonates with you, it’s because it was meant for you as much as it was meant for me.
