Are we simply creatures of denial?  The country of Japan is disintegrating before our eyes, our oceans are being destroyed, the glaciers are melting and we are at war with not one country but three, four, five countries?  Who knows at this point…I have lost count. Some people believe that our Earth has cancer and is fighting back against us, the cancer cells, while others believe that the end of the world is near.  Regardless of what you believe- the Earth is warming.  We have an energy crisis but what are we doing collectively to address this state of affairs?  Driving smaller and more efficient cars? Developing better public transportation?

Radiation is being poured into our world- a poison that could take us all.   This tragedy in Japan could be the US in the future. We have our own nuclear plants located on our coasts as well as on fault lines.  Like a cancer cell I am being irradiated from the air that travels across the ocean.  I want to duck and cover. Retreat to the center, to the heart, to the nucleus.  I see the need in taking control of our exposure to toxins, of the general misuse of our fossil fuels, bringing a positive vibration to a world full of mistrust, disharmony and mass destruction.  So our reactors in Japan are failing and people are exposed to levels of radiation that our government won’t even acknowledge exist.  It went from “nothing to worry about” to “higher than expected” to “radiation is good for you”.  Small amounts of radiation will reduce cancer risks and increase health longevity.  HMMMM… well what are we supposed to believe? Isn’t it time to slough off the denial of our reality and take action?  Shouldn’t we feed positive energy into our environment?

Lets be real here and examine the state of affairs.  We have politicians that tell us that there is no radiation coming our way yet bolt for Brazil with their family in tow.  We were told that we could get out of war and only the other day we bombed another mid-eastern country?  We were told that there was not going to be any economic troubles and look at us today!  We are America, the invincible.  We have the American lifestyle full of riches and opportunity. Today we suffer from obesity and diabetes, we score low on the international standards in math and science and we import most of our products and export barely anything….  well go ahead and just keep on believing.  Radiation is good of you.

I recently watched the Battlestar Gallactica TV series and was left pondering after hearing one of the main characters, Kara Thrace’s imploring question ” Well what am i?  What am I then?”  I beg you to ask the same thing.  What are you to the world?  What good do you bring to the world? As a species, how are we viewed by the world?  The Earth- a living entity that supports us and keeps us safe and protected from harm. Imagine if you had a billion parasites living on you waging war, excavating minerals and fossil fuels, building highways and skyscrapers all over your body.

One way of treating a cancer is to bring attention to the malignant cells through meditation.  Often times pre-cancerous cells are found in areas of the body we don’t pay attention to or breathe into all that often allowing toxins to accumulate and set up shop. In my opinion the world is like a human body. If we start paying attention to our world from a macro to a micro level and honor and celebrate the Earth’s bounty we can bring about peace and greatness.  Like a human body;  we can bring the nervous system’s-the collective people’s-attention to a problem and the brain will start working on the problem.  Sometimes we have to bring it down to the micro level in order to instigate change while other times beginning on the macro level is the appropriate starting point. Regardless, the problem solving begins and new possibilities arise.  If we all could do this…who knows what would come about.  I can only see good from this mindset.