The pervasive denial of the situation on Gaia creeps me out, while, at the same time, I understand it: because the awareness of what is happening is traumatic, and a way of coping with it is to establish routines, go about your day, fulfill your commitments, feel grief only in defined blocks of time and not let it overwhelm you.

It is also interesting that our historic ways of meeting challenges — identifying the enemy, blaming one enemy, combating that enemy — can not help us with the changes on earth now. Quite the opposite strategy is needed: we are all in the same boat. We must work as a team now, and before that is possible, make those we come in contact with arrive at the same conclusion — that the old ways have become ineffective, that only a shift in consciousness (towards team building, that indeed all life is affected, that all waters are connecting us with each other, that unity consciousness is not just a cute idea but an answer) has the power to clean up, perhaps bit by bit, region by region, a body that we all live on that has been polluted, lost its ability to take in nutrients, and nurse it back to health.

Of course, we don’t know how that body will repair itself, how long it will take to show signs of the old vitality, only that the correct attitude is to give it a try. Now.

Thank you for your essay, Cristyl.