The first step is to identify the offending agent. Once seen, it’s impossible to ignore as if everything were going to remain status quo. In fact, what remains is the lesson, and it’s a lesson worth repeating until one masters the lesson. It must be worth repeating…because one continues to repeat the lesson over and over until it is mastered.
One night, I had a dream come to me. I was in an upper-middle-class home with many bay windows giving a full view of the courtyard. My children were in the house with me, and laser beams were shooting from the sky outside the home. The destruction was tremendous. We ducked for cover. I closed my eyes while struggling to protect my children with my body and willed the dream to stop.
In the concurrent dream, I found myself in the same home. All was quiet outside when the doorbell rang. I opened the door to find a delivery person in a brown suit. He smiled and handed me a box about the size of a child's board game. I closed the door and read the box cover. The box cover pictured an alien invasion scene, with laser beams shooting from the sky. What appeared to be the same lesson from my previous dream was neatly contained within a colorful box like a child’s toy.
My children took the box from me, opened it, and began playing the game on the floor. I peeked outside, where the sun shone brightly, revealing tiny dust particles in the air. All was eerily peaceful. The dream ended.
Repeating the lesson doesn’t always mean things worsen, but it can. For instance, we know climate change is happening. How long will it take before humanity masters this lesson?
Yesterday, I spoke with the Environmentalist and Documentary filmmaker John Liu from China. He spoke at length about the problems of Colonialization, genocide, poverty, inequality, and the despicable measures that have been taken historically to ensure the status quo of California. These same forces also contribute to droughts, floods, and extreme fire conditions due to an imbalance. I agreed with him as we continued to talk about the large-scale land destruction in Paradise, CA, from the recent Camp Fire…and the potential for land regeneration. Watch his documentary Green Gold - How Can we Regenerate Large-scale Damaged Ecosystems?
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