Miracles
do not happen in contradiction to nature,
but
only in contradiction to that which is known in nature.
St.
Augustine
In
1998, at the end of a three-month drought in the Amazonian jungle of
Brazil, devastating fires broke out 1500 miles northwest of Brasilia.
The normally humid rain forest had turned bone-dry after months of no
rain as a result of the influence of El Niño. Destruction was so
widespread that the United Nations declared the fire a disaster
without precedent on the planet. After three months of firefighters
from all over South America battling the fire to no avail, two Caiapo
Indian shamans were flown in to say a few prayers and dance around a
bit as a last ditch effort to combat mother nature. After two days
the heavens opened up and buckets of rain poured in the jungle enough
to extinguish 90% of the fire immediately.
With
the recent devastating fires in California, maybe what we need is a
bit of shamanic prayer and dancing to restore balance. Bring in some
experienced weather-modification experts. Or, with the increasing
patterns of
critical climate change so evident across our planet these days,
perhaps it is time for each of us to raise our own awareness of the
world we live in, individually and collectively, to find a state of
peace, balance, and harmony within each of us first and foremost. As
within, so without. Perhaps it is time we become our own shamans,
and create miracles to solve our own self-made crises.
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