Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The Spirits and Chernobyl


It was twenty years ago today, a Soviet Communist nuclear reactor at Chernobyl went into meltdown in the worst nuclear power accident in history. Madison based Friends of Chernobyl Centers, U.S., Inc. has a remembrance this evening. Now two decades later as global demand pushes oil prices ever higher, it is good to remember the potential downside risks to fission technology. Abbreviated FOCCUS, the organization is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) on a mission “to foster education regarding psychosocial and community recovery from technological disasters”.

Psychosocial and community recovery sounds like a worthwhile cause so searching for more detail I discover the event co-sponsor, Pathways Foundation for Peace and Healing which is also a Madison area tax exempt 501(c)(3) on a mission. Not wanting to be constrained by a specific tragedy, the Pathways Foundation has a more universal quest to support “shamanic and other spiritual traditions to bring peacemaking and healing to the problems we face in the current world.”

The shamanic movement has numerous activities and projects and there is still time to become involved when the peace clans gather at the end of December. Healing for the Birds is an effort to restore the imbalances of the world as they are adversely effecting avian populations, especially those serving as animal guides. The call is put forth from a vision which I have edited down but deserves a complete reading for complete understanding.
I journeyed to the question: What do the birds want to tell the peace clans?

I was taken above the earth out into the stars. As I looked down on the earth, you could see where the energy of the earth wasn't spinning right any more. The plates deep inside the earth were shifting and cracking and crumbling. Because of this shift, the birds were being "thrown" off the planet. Their bodies couldn't hold the shift in the energy. ...

When I awoke, all the birds of the planet were gathering in council. They were different than our birds, although you could make out some similar characteristics. The leader was a bird that resembled our eagle. It began to tell me that the people of earth needed to learn to live in the stillness. That the earth's shifting and wobbling wasn't going to stop anytime soon and we had to learn to change our energy to that of stillness.
This is Madison all right. Pools of non-taxed money interspersed with the flood of tax dollars pouring into Capital City, funding thousands of individuals who in one way or another are waiting and hoping for America to run out of energy.