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Changing weather
Let's talk about the weather. Scary subject, I'll admit. Used to be, back in the (good?) old days, the weather was what you talked about when you were afraid to talk about anything else with a person. Weather was a guaranteed safe subject. You could agree on it. And nobody could do anything about it. Well, that's all changed, hasn't it? Now it's like instant argument over global warming. And is some group (or groups) messing with our weather with secret advanced technology? And is all this climate change God trying to tell us something? And how are we going to cope with it?
There's always the temptation to tell yourself that we're not really at a fateful moment in Earth's history, that everything is going to pretty much stay the same. A terrible mistake.
People like to say weather is one thing you can't do anything about, so just accept it. I'm sorry, that's not true. Technological weather modification has a history going at least as far back as the U.S. military making rain in the Vietnam War. There are some (self included) who believe spiritual leaders such as indigenous American Indian medicine shamans are able to affect the weather. Seven billion humans have been accidentally changing the weather, for instance by cutting down trees.
And the wisest throughout human history have always recognized what quantum physics is now showing - that science is somehow inextricably integrated with spirituality - so what's in our hearts literally and directly helps create what is. Like a radio or tv or cordless or cell phone or wireless computer carries information, we are affecting our world more than we realize. And we can make the world much better much faster than most realize, whether by prayer or meditation or doing whatever our part is. Science is proving there is reason for faith. We don't have to have this hell on Earth our fears are helping to create. We may go extinct along with all the other species we've been killing off at an ever-increasing rate. But there is MUCH more to reality than this particular time and space. Our whole world can get better in a heartbeat once homo sapiens gets on the same page with the rest of life.
The planet is in a moment of evolution. You can say the Messiah is coming, or Christ is returning, or the Millennium thousand years peace is coming, or the life/death cycle is being transcended, or the Singularity is near, or world revolution is upon us, but it's All/One. We not only can modify the weather now, we can (and do) make earthquakes. It's time we harness our knowledge to do something a little less destructive than cause earthquakes and pollution. Let's harmonize (through prayer and meditation, but also action) peace on Earth. We've been fighting nature so long we don't realize that, just like old stories that seem like myths tell us, total harmony amongst nature has happened and can happen again. The older you get the more you realize that no matter how rotten or good things are, things'll change. We CAN stop fighting each other, nature, and ourselves.
Things ARE changing. It used to be, fall and winter around here came on slowly and stayed, then gradually gave way to spring. No more. I'm writing this January 14th. Up until yesterday's snow I have been harvesting collards and kale and French sorrel and parsley and arugula and chard (and planting garlic when the ground wasn't frozen). Everyone on Earth with their eyes open can see business as usual is over, but the economic system, by making sacred the status quo, continues to make progressive change unprofitable. We're crashing along with the rest of the ecosystem, we see we're crashing, and most of us make the mistake of thinking we're helpless. Do whatever YOUR part is.
I do my food-growing with the assumption that climate change is going into overdrive. Garlic stops growing when frozen, but continues with any warm spell. And garlic doesn't have wildlife eating it before you can. The whole plant is a wonderful medicine (especially uncooked). So, even though the normal time to plant garlic in this part of the world is October or November, I'm sticking cloves in the ground of our community gardens whenever the ground isn't frozen. With average temperature increasing (maybe rapidly) we'll maybe have garlic earlier than the former normal harvest time of May or June. So crisis is opportunity when you don't let the changes scare you. You have to make decisions and act. Garlic doesn't like too much heat.
