I read with interest today a news article about the 7.0 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the capital and largest city in Haiti. Although struck by the devastation and sadness that this catastrophic event holds, what really grabbed my attention was the universal metaphor that this large scale situation holds for the entire world. It is a giant world wake up call! Are we paying attention?
Many will view this ordeal as a compassionate need to send aid and to rebuild; however, I see this as a massive energetic consciousness that, over time, ultimately manifested this situation. I also recognize that only through a shift in our energetic consciousness will there ever be a lasting transformation for this or any other human catastrophic situation.
What was interesting to me was the list of structures that were destroyed including: the Presidential Palace, the finance ministry, the public works ministry, the Palace of Justice, the parliament building, and the Cathedral-de-Port-au-Prince as well as schools and hospitals. One of the news articles wrote: “Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed.” I would add that churches have collapsed and that the economy (with both rich and poor homes) has collapsed. Therefore, in the midst of this politically unstable city, all of the external culturally conditioned institutions on which this community was built have now collapsed.
Although this is happening to Haiti, this situation cries out to all of us to pay attention to our own structures on which we are creating our world and know that they are ALL collapsing since the foundation on which they are built is not stable enough for them to withstand a chaotic event. This is not just about Haiti, it is about all of us! Every city and nation must look at its own unstable structures which are collapsing around them. When everything has finally collapsed, what will we be left with?
What has also struck me about this situation is the energetic pull that is now beginning for us to have one UNI-verse, which in this case is many nations all pulling together to aid this country. Without the institutions on which we base our world, it becomes about one person helping another, one community working with another, one nation supporting another, one universe of humanity all inter-connecting with each other. This reflects the shift that is happening in our world from a consciousness of separatism, based on separate individual humans, to one universal organism or consciousness called humanity. What affects the people of Haiti, affects us all, since we are all connected to each other and to one consciousness. The veil is lifting yet are we opening our eyes?
And, finally, Gaia, fiery mother earth, like a dog shaking off thousands of irritating fleas, will also continue to create these environmental disasters to shake us from our slumber as a way to save herself from the harm that humans are creating for her. So if we want to survive, we will start to do whatever it takes to help her to thrive!
