Persephone Arbour

My friend Marie-Elise wrote this passionate piece as a comment on the video.  I thought it worthy to post as a full article.  Although not necessarily of her persuasion, I do think she has asked some very interesting questions.          Persephone

I have just watched the video clip entitled ‘The Girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes’. Everything she said rang with truth and I respect her viewpoint. Nothing right or wrong here, she has formed a unique perspective through her young eyes, based on what she has seen, learned and picked up from those around her and has reached out and spoken from her heart. A very spirited and frank discourse. . . .

Here in Australia we sample much of what she speaks – and there are other places in the world that experience so much more. There is no doubt about it. We who live on this planet are in for a ride and it is going to last a while. We are in the process of an Earth shift. I wonder if the time factor of geology itself is fast tracking? Cycles are coming at us and completing faster than we ever thought possible. In spite of it all, a part of me fervently believes the planet is not broken and does not need fixing.

That is NOT to say that we ignore the changes occurring on the planet, I agree that we each need to take responsibility for our own actions. We can make a difference, every individual one of us. It starts at home, from the most simple of things such as monitoring electricity and water use, recycling of clothing and waste as well as the food we eat. We can choose to walk or bicycle somewhere instead of taking the car. One of the problems with ‘saving’ the environment is it is often difficult to see tangible benefits. Yet one small step is all it takes, it contributes to the whole.

I was thinking about bees this morning as I walked past the reserve smelling the damp earth. I pondered the fact that the Queen Bee does not stand up in front of all the bees telling them what to do and what not to do, or which flower they must go to and gather honey. Each flies many miles a day and gathers the honey, flitting from one tree to another, one flower to another, back to the hive and off again. Each one intuitively taking responsibility, and its own small step, for being part of the whole. They are all working towards a common good and the honey comb is the result.

If only us humans were more like that. We have been to school and learned about evolution, about the Ice Age, we have learned how animals disappear, how they become extinct. It is all cyclical. Wild life and trees will disappear from the face of the earth. New species are discovered. Why does it have to be this way? It is constant evolution, the constant expansion of life and indeed the Universe. Yet we cry for all of it. All appears to be lost, with the pollution, cutting of trees and certain plants that no longer exist. Also there are the animals and birds that have come and are now gone, the hole in the ozone, the drying up of our waterways on and on it goes.

What if there are certain reasons (beyond our current thinking) as to why they all come, exist, then disappear. What if this is all just another cycle of life which is part of holding the energy for the planet. What if they fill a gap and hold the void for us humans. What if this all sets a stage for us, for our very own expansion. What if the animals are no longer here because they have played their part. What if sections of the land has played its part. Then shouldn’t we celebrate it?

There is an awakening happening – this little girl from Canada is also part of it as are you and I. The land I have chosen to live upon is known as Australia. The attributes of this country are unique to the planet. Here, we have never been ravaged by wars. Few humans have been here. Very few wars have been fought here. There is no human drama layered upon its earth, over thousands and thousands of years, no mass death, no dictators slaying us. No craters, cavities and holes left upon our land from machinations of war. There are no battles fought, yet we are consistently ravaged by drought and fires and floods, where entire communities disappear along with the animals.

Gaia shifts and changes, vibration and energy raises, some of us understand that, some of us do not. There is a shift happening worldwide, everything is in its place and is now all part of that shift. Whether it is our animals, our forests, our plants, our ozone layer, our economy, change is happening. The human mind cannot conceive that all is well, it is it seems beyond our thought process. Most of us can’t even connect and get in touch or stay in touch with our own sense of wellbeing, let alone our own divinity.

It took a video to trigger this outpouring – a young lass who has one perspective and I who having lived another 47 years more, have another, neither more right or more wrong than the other. The only difference that I can see, is that my perspective makes me feel happy not sad. Some of us may not dare to believe that this planet, our earth, is expanding and changing of its own accord, as well as being influenced by our human occupation. You know, there just may be a lot more to it than what we see with our eyes and share with our conversations and transmit through our televisions. Yes I weep. I weep tears of joy, for in my heart, somewhere deep inside, I really do know, all is well.

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