Permanence

You are such funny creatures Earthlings, always making plans about the future. Mapping your life, sometimes years in advance. Living for today, yet assuming you and all who you love and "what you know" (living conditions, location, employment) will be there tomorrow.

You plan for what you want your life to become, to be, yet you forget a key element on life on Earth: change and the circle of life. Yes, on some level you do know that every being (human or animal) dies, so do plants and trees, that companies or industries fail, that natural disasters occur.

Still, every morning when you wake up, so many of you make the assumption that you will get to see the sunset, like you did the night before. You expect the world to be a certain way when you rise, you expect certain people to be there, just like they have always been.

In a way, you take the permance of life for granted. A lot of you see life quite nonchalantly and forget what a great gift it is. You tend to postpone things, putting things off until later - when the timing is right when you have more money, when you have someone in your life, when the planets align (or some other reason). What you forget is that you - or someone you love - may not be there when later comes.

The trouble with your planning is not the plan itself, it is the premise of permanence you often carry with you as you plan. The way your society works, plans are necessary, they are a part of life. Without plans, well, you do not know what to do. Plans are important. So is bearing in mind that everything can change in a split second, destroying all your best-laid plans.

Big things or small things. Sometimes you turn down an invitation for really good reasons - you have to work, you feel ill, you are away that day. But many times you pass things up not because the person/event is not worth it, but because you expect, you assume there always will be another time to visit that museum, to see that person.

The same thing applies for a couple who, all their life, planned all great, exciting trips and activities for their retirement. They are scheduling a big chunk of their future lives based on the assumption that they will both be there when retirement comes. Maybe even passing up exciting experiences along the way. Thinking that it can be done later.

Now we are not saying that you should accept every invitation that you receive or that you should stop making plans. What we want you to recognize is that life is a fleeting gift, and to take that fact into consideration when you plan, for the things that you do need to plan for. And for all the simple things in life, that sometime seem trivial, yet mean so much. When you remember that, you think differently, you plan differently.

So many of you want to leave a huge legacy, designing your life so you can make a big splash down the line. That is all fine and good, but how about planting a couple of tiny seeds every day, leaving a beautiful garden when you pass, a lasting imprint of your time here on Earth. Visiting that friend. Sending that card. Walking your dog. Thanking the cashier for the wonderful service you received. You life does take on a different, more meaningful turn when you realize this day could be your last.

In that, animals have an advantage over you. Or maybe they have something to show you. You see animals mainly think about day-to-day living, survival. And they do have some planning - for instance squirrel who gather nuts for the winter or bears who fatten up so they have enough fuel for winter hibernation. If it has been a dry summer, and nuts are harder to come by, the squirrel may fret and search more frantically for supplies. If it finds a great source, it will take advantage of it right away, for somehow it know that just because it is there now does not mean it always will be. Animals have a greater sense of the precarity of life, of the changes or dangers. They seize the day, adapt to nature, follow it, and not try to outsmart it.

Your man-made world skews your perspective sometimes. The way your cities are built, you often forget that there is nature beneath the concrete. You think falsely that you have everything under control, that you make all the rules. Somehow it is ingrained in most of society to think that humans are the boss of the place, to block out the fact that there is a force greater than you at play here.

So proud you are of your great feats of architecture. Your nature defying constructions. Thinking you can outdo nature and disregards its laws - building high-rises where you should not, building housing developments where it is unwise to do so. And when disaster strikes, as it does, you experience greater grief. Grief for everything and everyone you have lost and grief for what "I" have done to you. It is the same type of grief you experience when you lose a loved one. Even if you know you live in a flood or hurricane zone, you always seem to be surprised when something happens. Especially if things have been quiet for many years. Even knowing you live in a danger zone, just as you know you will die one day, when things are calm, you get complacent.

And we could go on about the Great Civilizations that have fallen long, long ago. Or more recently the financial crisis where institutions believed to be infallible, crumbled. You can spare yourself of a lot of grief, make very disastrous situations less shocking if you remember that the belief of permance is only in your head. When you suffer a loss or disaster strikes, it will still hurt, but the initial shock will be easier to bear, and you will recover faster.

Because part of you was aware that something could happen.

We want to honour the great losses that have occurred on this planet since the beginning of your Earthly year. The collective grief is still very much present. It will take a long time to heal, and for the shocks endured to leave the body.

As the Earth and your world is transitioning, shifting, it is more important than ever to remember the impermanent nature of life and all man-made creations. The world works differently than the way you perceive it to work, than the way you want it to work. The assumptions of the past must be released, to remember what is.

Your made-made societies, cities and technologies have sheltered, disconnected you from nature and the cycle of life. Permance is an illusion. In both life and "states" (continental shifts, ice age, economy, regimes...) change is ever present.

We simply want you to remember that life is a gift. That your life, that everything can change in an instant. When you know that, really know that, priorities become clearer, choices become easier somehow. For when you see just how precious life is Earthlings, you just want to go out there and life it to the fullest, now.

That is all.

Much Light and Love to Everyone