Hello Dear Readers,
This past month has been challenging at best, calling for most of my energies to be physically focused on protecting the garden from multiple invasive species attacks on the plants in the retreat garden.
You might remember that I recently posted about the newly moved to the area neighbors who have been cutting down their trees in this woodland area, seemingly, to enhance how much sun comes onto their properties. This behaviour in itself effects climate in woodland areas, it also effects species habitat. Since that posting, the deer have lost habitat and wild grazing areas. Speaking with other neighbors, the destruction of flower life has also been devastating this year.Across species in both humans and non-humans, loss of habitat characterizes the effect of neglect and a false sense of security that allows many to believe that life can just go on without major intervention. What ‘loss of habitat’ means is that the places or environments that one had been living in and are most suited to are no longer available as supportive of life. Within the plant and animal kingdoms, this phenomenon is clear. Insect species, for example, are disappearing from where they had lived in great number, and some are becoming extinct because the environment can no longer support them. Others adapt and are being found in climate zones where they were never seen before.
Earth Out of Balance: The Pervasive Loss of Habitathttps://lightomega.org/writing/loss-of- ... f-nations/ At the retreat gardens, there has been one particular deer, which has relentlessly broken fences, leapt over high fencing, and found ways to get in, for the last thirty days. Each morning, a new entrance would be discovered, (the ferns are usually mashed down where they walk around the fencing perimeter) and need to be repaired, heightened, supports added, Each morning during this time period, more flowers and the growing pumpkin plants were being eaten.
Now some might question why the destruction of flowers is such a big deal. Crops in this garden are pollinated mostly by hummingbirds, bees, butterflies and other insects. With a loss of fluted flowers which hummingbirds especially prefer, which then draws them to the flowers on the crops, the devastation of the fluted flowers will lower crop yields. It was an intention this year to offset a lack of greens and other fresh vegetables available due to inflation by growing them in the retreat gardens.
Energetically, for those of you Dear Readers who are aware of how animals may be influenced by the energies of both darkness and light, the levels of chaos, the sounds coming from the garden from under the bedroom window would send shivers of fear throughout my body as I was in deep early morning REM sleep. As soon as the dog perceived its presence, it would begin barking. The relentless encroachments, invasions, for the last thirty days,, especially during the heat wave, with the associated multi-dimensional energies adding levels of energetic chaos, was exhausting.
The other reason I felt heart pain in regards to the devastation of that which is beautiful and life nourishing, is that the way I grounded myself in the presence of the energies of darkness unfolding in the holy lands of Palestine, was to create beauty in the gardens. To take the energies coursing through my body of pain and horrors and transform them with the assistance of the energies of the Earth and the Sun’s Light, into lifeforms of beauty and peace.
Witnessing the daily relentless destruction of these sacred co-creations would bring forth in my heart simultaneously, the insignificance of this small retreat garden’s destruction and a greater perception as to the unimaginable sorrows the Palestinian peoples are experiencing, loss of ones home, neighborhood, area, gardens, schools, hospitals, universities, farms, green houses, olive groves, everything verdant and precious destroyed.
Across species in both humans and non-humans, loss of habitat characterizes the effect of neglect and a false sense of security that allows many to believe that life can just go on without major intervention. What ‘loss of habitat’ means is that the places or environments that one had been living in and are most suited to are no longer available as supportive of life. Within the plant and animal kingdoms, this phenomenon is clear. Insect species, for example, are disappearing from where they had lived in great number, and some are becoming extinct because the environment can no longer support them. Others adapt and are being found in climate zones where they were never seen before.Earth Out of Balance: The Pervasive Loss of Habitathttps://lightomega.org/writing/loss-of- ... f-nations/ A special friend of the woods, who is very skilled with a chain saw came over to the retreat with his chain saw recently. He the cut fallen hardwood trees (three to five inch diameter) which we have been keeping an eye on as they were being debarked in the woods, and we turned these natural resources into posts to secure the fencing. Deterrent wise, I have rearranged chime placements and hung smelly sachets, garlic powder is quite helpful and am spraying plants with Neem oil, soap, hot pepper and garlic to stave off their destruction. The most vulnerable plants are being covered nightly until there are no more signs of new destruction witnessed.
Just a note, we do create habitats here at the retreat for wildlife, most especially for the deer. We have created a wildflower meadow full of clover and grasses in two areas, which are not in the fenced in garden area. Unfortunately, most of the flowers have been eaten, flowers which I see growing wild along the roads and in gardens untouched, have been chewed to stems.
On another level, the increasing problem of homeless populations within towns and cities across America is caused by the same ‘loss of habitat.’ It has caused a number of cities and towns to begin to create something analogous to ‘closing their borders,’ namely, making illegal the act of sleeping outdoors. This action, where taken, makes it a criminal offense to not have a home, shelter, or place of refuge, causing the homeless in such situations to essentially be refugees. In relation to the homeless, loss of habitat has to do with not being able to remain where they lived, and not having an alternative place to go.
Loss of habitat across species is a sign and signal of the Earth being out of balance, not only the physical body of the Earth and the health of species who were adapted to specific environments. It also affects the human population and engenders human crises such as large-scale migrations based on conditions of desperation.
‘Loss of habitat’ is a sign to waking consciousness that the Earth which is meant to shelter all of her children can no longer do so. This is because human intervention in her natural processes has now reached a critical point, so that upheavals of populations and species must now take place.Earth Out of Balance: The Pervasive Loss of Habitathttps://lightomega.org/writing/loss-of- ... f-nations/ When it comes to the deer, there are deer such as the mother deer who was standing outside the retreat’s front door two Sunday morning’s ago, licking the birth off of her baby. This mother deer was bringing her baby here to imprint this space as a safe place to eat. She never comes into the fenced off area and I see her and her baby often. The deer also shared with me one of their herd which was white which was a pretty amazing sacred experience. So I recognize that we are meant to live in harmony with each other, I recognize deer need wild habitat to safely roam which we provide, and am seeking to balance the loss of habitat in the area as well as my needs for growing food, and flowers for myself, the birds and insect life.
We must see this pattern in order to change it, and beyond seeing it, we must take responsibility for it. If we treat the Earth’s species with indifference or are unwilling to see the effect that are agricultural and other practices are having upon it, the effect of loss of habitat will continue, producing increasing levels of desperation among humans, and increasing loss of biodiversity among non-humans. If we are not willing to address the conditions that lead to desperation within countries from which refugees are fleeing, we will continue to see nations being overwhelmed by mass migrations, and many responding with increasing measures of severity in order to control the situation and keep their own inhabitants safe.
What can we do?
The world must assume collective responsibility for the phenomenon of ‘loss of habitat’ because it is not localized. It is everywhere. Within the United States and among nations, an overseeing body of those committed to restoring the Earth to balance must be formed in order to reverse the trend that has increasingly been the cause of dislocation. A ‘World Council of Nations’ must come into being to oversee the problem of imbalance, seeking aid from the wealthier nations to restore viable living conditions to those countries from which refugees are fleeing. This World Council of Nations would be infused by one primary principle that all subscribing nations would hold, namely, that we are all responsible for each other, and there can no longer be an idea maintained that what concerns one nation whose residents cannot survive does not concern us all.
We are responsible for each other is the mandate of the World Council of Nations, and out of this mandate new ways shall be found to address the economic, social, political, and ethnic problems that human beings within these countries face. The issue of migration would not be faced individually but collectively. The issue of homelessness would also not be faced individually within a city, but collectively as a nation. And the loss of species habitats would not be set to a lower priority of subjects needing to be addressed, but would be accorded the highest priority.
This World Council of Nations cannot come into being yet because the world is not ready. Yet, the world can prepare itself to become ready by registering that the loss of habitat is a signal that the Earth is out of balance, and that in order for us to restore the planet and ourselves to greater health, and to find a resolution for present day crises, such a movement must take place. It is the path to the future for ourselves and for the millions of species that constitute the Earth’s body in harmony and balance.Earth Out of Balance: The Pervasive Loss of Habitathttps://lightomega.org/writing/loss-of- ... f-nations/
I will return in two weeks.
Prayers for the suffering.
All blessings and love,
JohannaRead the entire Teaching here:Earth Out of Balance: The Pervasive Loss of Habitathttps://lightomega.org/writing/loss-of- ... f-nations/What is less apparent is that the same phenomenon of ‘loss of habitat’ is happening to the human species. ‘Loss of habitat’ is affecting the migration crisis that is causing many countries, worldwide, to be inundated with refugees, requiring a solution to this problem, one that many feel must be the closing of their borders or the transporting of refugees elsewhere. Migration of human populations is not new, but the deluge, today, has reached crisis proportions so that extreme measures to counteract it are being contemplated.
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