Good Morning Everyone!

As if the 8.9 earthquake last week in Japan wasn’t enough. Then they suffer the tsunami that followed. Today health concerns take the forefront with the third explosion at a nuclear power plant. What are we to make of this size calamity? How is Well Being at play, because it is. But where? Natural events that have devastated human civilizations have been occurring since the beginning. Just recently there appeared the news story on Reuters that as a result of the tsunami, they believe the lost city of Atlantis may be  found as a result.  Most probably Atlantis was lost due to a similar natural event long ago. Most probably the inhabitants of Atlantis were similarly dismayed as we are today.

Yellowstone Fire 1988

I believe perspective is desperately called for here to understand the Flow of Life. Modern man has forgotten or perhaps never quite understood in the first place that we are natural creatures living on the planet just as the critters in the forest and the creatures of the seas. Similarly, were the dinosaurs natural creatures, too. What lies beneath our fears as watch events unfold in Japan, Haiti, Chile, and the Southern California fires is our fear of death. Modern medicine has devoted itself to thwarting death, as if it were the enemy. But death is part and parcel, integral to Life in this Universe. Destruction precedes rebirth. I recall the devastating Yellowstone fire of 1988. It raged for days seemingly destroying everything. Yet, in 1995 I had the opportunity to go on a pack trip into this forest and witnessed a carpet of lodge pole pine seedlings becoming the new forest. In 2002 the Cedar Fire raced through the back country of San Diego County, which I experienced first hand. Nearly 3000 homes were lost and over 300,000 acres burnt. Everywhere one looked it was a moonscape. Yet the neighborhoods and natural forests are thriving now. In the spring that followed the fire, new wildflowers were seen as a result, such as wild peonies.

This world, our planet Earth is an integral part of a Natural Universe which is elegant in both design and operation. Things come and go; it is a giant recycling system. Death and birth, extinction and new species, here today and gone tomorrow are two sides of the same coin. Yet, nothing is lost because everything has its base in nonphysical Source Energy Awareness, Consciousness – God if you will. We delight in the variety and the game, as Consciousness; because we know there is no death. Just new actors, new props on a new stage of infinite variety of forms.

New Growth Lodge Pole Pines Yellowstone 1996

With each event creatures on earth, human, animal, vegetable and mineral send out rockets of desire for the very opposite of what they are experiencing in the physical moment. These rockets of desire are the expansion and evolution of Life. They are the eternalness of All That Is. This results in evolution on earth. We choose again for something we want that feels better. Perhaps with this event we move away from nuclear energy and get crackin’ on sound technology or wind? These contrasts spur us to a new direction, better, safer, cleaner, easier.Nothing is lost; we are perfectly contained in, based in, and indeed are Well Being Itself. Perhaps an event of this proportion assists us in realizing beyond our body/minds by assisting us to awakening to Who We Really Are – Source Energy all of it – all of us- in physical form having a physical adventure in the eternity.  Ask and it is answered; be still and receive the answer. The rebirth has already begun. All is well. This is Applied Spirituality.