Consciousness Known by Rhonda O'Brien

We have yet to decide

Chapter taken from Light, channeled by Rhonda O'Brien.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, please just take this as a warning and not an absolute prophecy, as our present and future is constantly changing depending on the attitudes that we adapt in our day to-day lives. In fact, we are not victims of these prophecies or gloom and doom predictions unless we believe them to be true and do nothing to change the outlook of our future. In other words, what I am about to say will not necessarily happen unless we believe it to be true and do nothing from this day forward to change the future.

What I see happening here on Earth, in the future, if nothing is done today to change this pattern of dissemination, is destruction. I see rivers overflowing killing all in its path. I see rainstorms of tremendous weight nearly knocking out whole civilizations. I see people running and screaming for help hindering and hurting those around him/her just for his/her mere survival. I see that those that survive are destined for a more hellish existence than those that die instantly. I see mass destruction, first at the hands of nature, and then at the hands of those that remain on Earth. Imagine all of the horrible stories shared about people traveling the Oregon Trail and surviving off of the tragedies of others, imagine this multiplying itself and one story becomes millions of stories of cannibalism, rape and pillaging. In this instance, this life here on Earth will become hell, a raging and singeing fire encompassing all.

I do not know how to make this any clearer. I don’t want to scare people, but maybe that is what it will take. Maybe Mother Nature will pump out one more scare that will really make us think seriously about how we are treating ourselves and each other. Maybe Mother Nature will convince us of her awesome power and humble us into feeling some reverence for her strengths. She is awesome and beautiful and powerful and she could just as easily be something that we feared and hated. For instance, fire is an awesome tool of destruction wreaking havoc on many beings, beasts and living things. At the same time, it also breeds life by rejuvenating fields, foliage and grasses and it brings heat and light by which we cook, keep warm and read. Fortunately for us, many of us have a deep reverence for the incredible force called fire. Let’s start having the same reverence for all of life.

So enough of the gloom and doom prophesies. I am done with that. It is certainly not something that I like to mention or talk about or even think about, but let’s face it denial has never done much to remedy the problem. And, unfortunately, we do not have much time before us, before things get to the point that they will start looking grim and then grimmer and then before you know it there is not much that we can do except for survive our impending future. But let me assert this one last time, this WILL happen UNLESS something is done now, right now, to prevent it.

Let’s move on now to how feasible it is to make change and the fact that all change must happen on a personal, relatively small basis rather than on a grand scale in order for true and lasting change to prevail. We are all responsible, in one way or another, for what has happened and will happen to the wonderful planet that we call Earth. We are all responsible because we all part of the Earth. Some people may care more or less than others, but the fact remains that if this ship goes down we are all sinking. Some may not like that analogy, but let’s face it we are all dependent on our mother Earth and no matter what scientists say we are not going to create the technology to convince mother nature that she is in good health. She knows better and we all know better as we gaze across our pollution-laden sky; drink our chemically pregnant waters and our processed, toxic foods. We are hurting.

Perhaps it is too hard for us to see, but please just see what is before you and know that you can change the future for the better and you can start to make these changes today and this does not entail some grand gesture on your part. It merely takes the effort. So what I ask you to do is to ask yourself what it is that you can do today to make this Earth a better place to live in tomorrow. Many of us might start with, “Well I can join the Peace Corps and help the starving nations,” or, “I can chain myself to trees or I can start a recycling group at work or I can do this or that.” I ask you one thing, “Can you for sure do this the next day and the next?” If you answer, “No,” then reconsider your solution.

I want you to think of something that you can do today and tomorrow and the next day and then I want to ask you if you are willing to do this same thing, day after day after day. Only when you answer, “Yes,” will I say then this is the answer, because we do not need some sort of grand gesture or quick fix, we need concrete, long-term change.

So, many of you might find that you can turn off the faucet more than you turn it on or you might find that you are able to recycle and make an effort to collect recyclable goods at work (if they aren’t already being collected), or you might find that composting the piles of natural matter is not so difficult after all, or you might find that you enjoy commuting by public transportation better than bearing the rush hour traffic. You might find that making a change is not so difficult and you might find that your small effort begins to make a great big difference in the long run. For instance, if you could just collect all of the unnecessary water coming from the faucet you might find that you have a whole bathtub full of saved water in just one day. You might find that after a month your whole car would be filled up with recycled matter and you might find that a year of composting adds up to 5 refrigerators full of food that is now processed into precious, life-giving matter. Who says that a little change doesn’t go a long way? In fact, lasting and permanent change, no matter how small on the onset, adds up and it adds up quickly. By your one small act, multiplied over and over you might make as much of an impact as a millionaire donor who makes a platinum contribution to a well-known environmentalist group. Unfortunately, you might not get the “thank you” letters or gifts, but you will know that you are making a difference and changing the Earth for the better and that eventually this will pay off.

The scary part is that if we don’t act soon these relatively small gestures will not be enough no matter how many of us act. We are running short on time and we cannot borrow time or money to remedy the problems that we are about to face. Wake up! It is time to act NOW not later. I do not tease when I talk of such matters and yet I apologize because it seems that I say the same thing over and over again. If I did not persist you might ignore me, but you still might ignore me and I realize this, but you will probably get my point in some way or another even if it means that you put down this book for good.

I am willing to take this risk because there are many who will listen and take heed from this day forward and know that each day that we have here on Earth is sort of borrowed time. Time is precious and it could some day run out. This is not a threat just a reality and, unfortunately, not many of us see it this way. We are fortunate to be here, lucky to be thriving as we are and lucky that our resources have not run out up to this point. However, we are also forewarned that all of these blessings may some day run out and that this is the time to make some serious and conscientious changes for the future of our country, our nation, our people, our beings and all of life here on Earth.

Now this is not to say that we are all going to perish some terribly awful way. Some will die, some will remain, but existence will certainly be a lot more challenging for all. There is good and bad in all, of course. Life will remain and people will learn to live and survive under these dire circumstances and, eventually, all will be forced to respect all life. This being a necessary lesson in order for all to live in peace and prosperity. By the same token, death is not such a terrible end, as it is quite inevitable for all. Death is quite a natural process in all of life. When it comes down to the final, Earthly moments many of us will find that death is quite a beautiful thing, something to rejoice about rather than mourn and that up to this moment there are few experiences quite as nice. Of course, that is for us all to see in our own time and manner. But please just note that death, no matter how atrocious we see it to be, is quite necessary and natural phase of life.

So if we do all suffer because of our abuses on nature, all will still be okay. It is not as if we have angered the Gods and will forever be punished at the hands of vengeful spirits. No, rather, it is that there is a cause and effect relationship at hand: we have not taken care of our gentle Earth mother and now she can no longer take care of us as well as she once had.

I must promptly point out, however, that there is no negative without the positive, ever. And note that no matter what happens all is well. Through our experiences, no matter what they may be, we always, or hopefully always, learn from our experiences. From these experiences we have a good grasp on the next step that we may take and so we are constantly working, with the past in mind, in the present to create the future. And so know that no matter how bad things may get all is okay.

There is a reason for every and all challenges in life; therefore, the impact on us, personally, is not as grave as it is on this beautiful planet. It will take years upon years upon years for this wonderful place to host as many inhabitants as comfortably, as it once had. It will go through some very dry, lean years, in which the fruits of the Earth will be few and far between. Also, the soils will be ravaged by the tremendous strength of the storm systems that will be moving through its ground at record-breaking strength. Still she will prevail.

There will be people, many different beings from many, different places who will survive. These will be the more transient, earth-friendly peoples who already live directly off of the land or have not lost their ability or knowledge to do so. These people will survive and grow in population, although, very slowly, for peoples and land need to be in balance and when you are living directly off of the land, as they will be, you must maintain this balance else famine and illness prevail. Nature has its own monitoring system: death eliminates all imbalance(s).

So we shall not worry about the earth or the survival of all peoples; what we must worry about is ourselves. We will survive in one way or another. Either we will physically survive this great travesty or we will perish only to be reborn into a new life form. What we must worry about is that we will learn, as learning is a major part of this lifetime. However, will we learn what is necessary so that we will not have to endure such torment over and over again? Or are we going to learn before the learning gets tough or tougher?

Basically are we going to get it? Are we going to see the innate structure to all that is? Are we going to see that we are all intricately connected beings who cannot as much as think without moving this liquid thing called life and all others involved?

OK, enough said. I hope that we get it before the price of the message is too, too costly.

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