Restoring Eden

Today, our once beautiful world is broken, shattered like an antique Chinese vase and scattered into a million little pieces across the planet. Yet, like puzzle pieces, these separated fragments point to a profoundly intelligent and sophisticated civilization from a time when our world was a paradise. 

It was a high civilization, an enlightened age with contact with other civilizations among the constellations in the cosmos, with direct communication and relationship with our divine creator, astounding healing and creation abilities of which we can barely imagine. It was a time when illness, war, poverty, and crime were rare, when there was one global language, and a sophisticated educational system that trained children in advanced astrology, sacred geography, herbal medicine, cultural arts in music, and art. In meditation, they opened windows and doorways into extraordinary multidimensional realms, built and supported loving communities, and developed interrelational skills that supported an advanced spiritual life. 

They created whatever they needed through visualization and chanting, and so much more that anthropologists are still discovering as they translate ancient writings and uncover  ancient sites. Then, the people knew how to tap into universal frequency for energy sources rather than exploit the planet's natural resources. They honored the earth as their mother, lovingly nurtured the land, water, air, planet, and animal life. There are reports in ancient writings indicating people actually spoke to and understood the animals, plants, and especially flowers. They lived in an almost perfect communion with the earth and cosmos in ways we are only now realizing.

But, despite our advances in technology, science, psychology, medicine, political science, economics, and even spirituality, our world has lost its way.  That beautiful time may have been before the Great Cataclysm that archeologists and geologists suggest was about 11,800 BC.  It was "the great flood" we hear of in the Biblical story of Noah, of the Babylonian Gilgamesh, and other flood myths around the world. The Hindu flood story in the Mahabharata (Book 3, the Vana Parva) tells the story of Vishnu as the Matsys avatar. In this epic text, a divine fish warns the righteous Manu of an impending deluge and instructs him to build a great boat to save humanity, a role that in the Puranas is more clearly attributed to Vishnu.  

There is also an ancient story of the Mayans that also rode out the global deluge. In small boats they found their way to Central America from North America where it is reported the thinning ice shield from the Ice Age was broken by a series of comets, plunging coastlines 450 feet below water, sinking temples, pyramids, whole city states, and almost completely destroying an entire civilization until, like saplings after a raging forest fire, life slowly began to return over the following1000 years.  Graham Hancock (https://grahamhancock.com) says the trauma of that global catastrophe remains buried in the deep collective psyche of the human race, and, in my opinion, is the very unhealed trauma that has poisoned and broken our collective life on this once beautiful planet.

We need to heal that trauma, but I'd like to explore more clearly what it is and how we might  rebuild our world. Among the clues that point to the once flourishing civilization are those that might help us now.

 . . . more coming soon