SOUND THE NOTE OF LOVE,
INVOKE THE SOUL RAY,
PERMIT THE CHRIST SPIRIT ENTRANCE
DISTANCE GROUP MEDITATION
– EVERY SUNDAY AT 20.30 –
for invoking Soul Ray of Greece, Nations and One Humanity
Janouary 23, 2023
Text read by A.K. & D.Hr.
Climate Change, Traditional Knowledge
and the Transition into the Aquarian Age
It is surely significant that climate change is one
of, if not the primary existential issue driving national and international
conversations and shaping and determining the collective sense of the future.
From an esoteric perspective the current crisis of
global warming and extreme weather events reflects a crisis in the climate of
thought. The culture of materialism has produced a dangerous over-heating of
the desire nature. Deeply inherited thoughtforms of humanity’s separation from
and sovereignty over the natural world make it difficult for nations and
peoples to act for the good of all life. In this sense, the climate crisis
reflects a spiritual crisis. Widespread recognition that global warming is
creating life-threatening disasters, particularly for vulnerable communities,
is coalescing with a growing thirst for insights on wholeness and
interdependence from ancient wisdom traditions and interdisciplinary thinkers.
And so it is that individually, as communities and nations, and as a species,
more and more human beings are considering choices to regulate desires in ways
that will eventually manifest in cultures of balanced thinking and living[1].
Yet without fresh revelations and new scientific discoveries, this all takes
time, generations, to work through!
World Goodwill, looks to profound changes in the
subtle energies of the planetary life as key causal factors in the current
climate crisis. These changes are described as drivers of evolutionary momentum
(a working out of a Grand Design or Plan in the Mind of God), derived in part
from a rebalancing of planetary energy centres and in part from the Earth’s
relationship with other celestial bodies[2].
Yet, more than anything else, World Goodwill seeks
to highlight the impact these changes are having on human consciousness leading
to the many ways in which human intelligence and creativity is responding to
crises like the climate crisis. In response to climate change the will to
cooperate for the good of the whole is slowly awakening amongst peoples,
institutions, and national and global governments. In this sense, the scientific
consensus that greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are driving climate
change would seem to reflect a clear recognition by humanity of its duty to
clean up and transform the polluted and outmoded economic, social and legal
frameworks based on ideas of separation.
One sign of the intersection of climate change
policies and a metaphysics affirming the sacredness of life is to be found in
local and national government policies that draw on the Traditional
Knowledge of indigenous and local rural communities. In a paper in the
International Journal of Modern Anthropology, Professor Mokua Ombati writes of
the African tradition of prayers, and accompanying rituals to invoke rain,
citing a seminal text on African Religions and Philosophy which states that in
the mindset of the peoples of the continent “only God can make or produce rain”.
Drawing on this tradition, a hybrid weather intelligence system has been
developed in Kenya where research institutes, universities and the government
meteorological department are partnering with widely-respected rainmakers in a
tribal community in the western region of the country.
“The
Nganyi rainmakers have perfected the science of rainmaking that they have long
used in advising local communities about when and what to plant based on
weather patterns. In the collaboration, modern scientists and the Nganyi
rainmakers blend indigenous and conventional weather prediction in a model that
combines each other’s knowledge”[3].
Another clear sign that insights from sacred
traditions preserved by indigenous peoples are contributing to climate
discussions and to a more balanced response to the growth of extreme weather
events can be found in biodiversity conservation. An increasing number of
scholars, practitioners and policy-makers are involved, and this is reflected
in the Task Force on Indigenous and Local Knowledge Systems at the
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services (IPBES). Fikret Berkes of the Natural Resources Institute at the
University of Manitoba, Canada notes that Indigenous and Local Knowledge “is
not in competition with science. Rather the challenge is to build linkages
between the two kinds of knowledge and [through the co-production of knowledge]
to produce better understandings than either could alone”[4].
The challenges of climate change are stirring human
thought and planning, becoming a central issue in national and international
politics, and reaching into every field of activity. They provide something of
a stress-test, measuring the quality of our response as a species to incoming
Aquarian energies—namely, the principles of sharing, brotherhood and
cooperation. §
- Hindu Declaration on
Climate Change
- Lucis
Trust, ‘The Heavens' and 'Electric Climate’
- Mokua
Ombati, ‘Rainmaking
rituals: Song and dance for climate change in the making of livelihoods in
Africa’, International Journal of Modern Anthropology,
(2017) 10: 74-96
- Fikret
Berkes, ‘Co-Production of Knowledge’,
in Learning from indigenous Populations and local Communities One Earth 1,
September 20, 2019
Climate and Goodwill
In February 2021 the UN Climate Change Executive
Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, designated the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn as the
first UN Climate Change Goodwill Ambassador[1].
UN Climate Change is the largest of more than 20
United Nations organizations in Bonn. This designation emphasizes the need to
motivate people to positive action to restore climate balance.The climate has
changed, it is changing, and will continue to change. Even if we could stop all
man-made carbon emissions right now, the climate would continue to change, as
the anthropogenic carbon emissions have distorted the earth’s carbon cycle in a
way that creates cumulative consequences over time. To simplify, if a person
has been smoking for years, their lungs are full of tar, which doesn’t stop
creating negative effects for their health, even if that person stops smoking
today.
As the earth’s climate changes, its biodiversity and
ecosystems become distorted, and both chronic and acute physical and transition
risks occur. This affects all life forms, particularly humanity with its
complex social structures and interdependent economies.
It is a change for the worse; but it brings about opportunities for the better.
It is a systemic change, a domino effect; this requires systemic mitigation and
adaptation from mankind. Systemic change requires understanding of the system,
but most importantly it requires systemic goodwill.
Climate change is a global issue with local
implications. Similar to the recent pandemic, it brings about a feeling of
belonging. Belonging to something bigger than ourselves, our family members,
our social network, our neighborhood or our local community. During the
pandemic, no matter where someone was located, they could empathize with what
all of humanity went through. With climate change, humankind faces a
similar and more severe global problem. This requires us all to come together
in goodwill to resolve it.
Goodwill on the personal level is more or less
familiar to all of us. It involves trust or the willingness to go the extra
mile to help someone or to resolve an issue, without additional gain
necessarily. Systemic goodwill is similar but on a larger scale. In finance,
goodwill is an intangible asset that raises a business’ value. It depends on
elements that cannot be quantified easily like a company’s good customer
relationships, good name, and brand.
When a person or organization chooses a sustainable,
ethical option and decides to cover the extra cost or make the extra effort to
support it, they are giving an example of systemic goodwill. The choice creates
a chain reaction that influences many lives and builds a new culture. The
difference is that in this new culture there is the necessary room to
appreciate the value of intangible assets, like goodwill, and how important
they are to rebalance our world. §
- UN
Climate Change, ‘Beethoven
Orchestra Bonn Designated First UN Climate Change Goodwill Ambassador’
Sore Throat – Sore World!
There are several causes for the Global warming and
climate change that we see happening in the world around us now. There are the
obvious external reasons such as as greenhouse gas emissions, but there are
more interior causes, which also need to be acknowledged.
One of these can be seen by drawing an interesting
analogy from the ecology of the human throat. In a healthy state, the throat is
populated by a mixture of bacteria, fungi and viruses which live in a state of
balance and ensure the smooth and healthy functioning of this major organ of
the human body. One of the more important of these is the streptococcus
bacteria. But when the colonies of this bacteria multiply uncontrollably, we
develop some sort of infection like a sore throat or tonsillitis. The toxins
released in this condition lead the body to generate a higher temperature than
usual which reduces the streptococci to the correct level, and this leads to
the recovery of health.
Now let us imagine that humanity is occupying an
analogous global position as the planetary streptococcal colony. Here we are,
multiplying out of control, and our toxic emissions of greenhouse gases and the
general pollution of the global biosphere are helping the earth to warm up, for
it is this rising temperature which will inevitably – and tragically – reduce
human numbers to a size that is in harmony with the earth’s needs. That is, if
we don’t do it first by some catastrophic 3rd world war on the physical plane.
Does it have to be like this? Most emphatically not,
if – and this is a very big IF – humanity as a whole collectively takes
remedial action. Much is already beginning to happen with, for example, the
major switch over to electric cars now taking place and parallel moves towards
decarbonising electricity generation, and also to a more biologically benign
system of agriculture. These two sectors of the world economy, transport and
industrial food production, together directly generate about 34% of the worlds
greenhouse gas emissions, and indirectly a lot more.
But behind this need for radical change in our
physical use of the planet and in our demands on its resources lies another
need – a much more spiritual, and therefore primary one. And this is the need
to foster within humanity as a whole a deep spirit of cooperative
responsibility. Many millions of people around the world are already replacing
selfishness with the values of the soul – generosity, kindness, love. But
nations and governments are lagging far behind. We need to transmute national
selfishness into world service. We need to transform national borders – those
great symbols of fear and the sense of separateness – and replace them with
bridges of understanding and hope. Then the ground is ready for us all to work
together with a common vision and bring renewed life and healing to the
planetary biosphere of which we, as physical beings, are in integral part.
Worldwide a great many people and groups recognise
the seriousness and urgency of the present situation. A significant number of
politicians and government officials also realise its gravity, but most of
them appear to be content with kicking the issue into the long grass because
economic, employment and electoral interests take a priority over this problem.
But we need to remember that we are not just a pesky
bacterial colony. Humanity is also the planetary energy centre of creativity.
We are collectively the interlinking cells that make up the planetary brain which
in reality anchors the consciousness of our planetary life onto the physical
plane and throughout the plant, animal, and mineral kingdoms in nature.
Collectively we can choose to respond to the promptings of the planetary Soul,
the ideas and ideals for which It, like each of us on our infinitely small
scale, came into incarnation.
Climate changes, however we may understand these,
hold before the eyes of the world the need for major changes and they are
producing multiple visions of a possible way out of our current cul de sac of
difficulties. In this sense the warming climate can also be seen as an image of
higher fires of creativity fuelling multiple approaches to sustainable and
regenerative ways of living on the earth.
Systemic goodwill, demanding the “best for everyone” is arising in humanity, producing the understanding that happiness comes from good human relationships, not from the idolatry and possession of things. In so many different spheres (UN agencies, civil society, business, national and local governments), a vision is emerging of viable political and economic systems based on ‘living simply that others may simply live’, yet at the same time giving full rein to the spirit of enquiry and creativity.
Lucis Trust – World Goodwill Newsletter 2022 #2, Towards Climate Balance
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