Back to the future
So for several days all aircraft have been grounded across the UK and much of Europe because of what? Well insurance company small print has got it in one...an act of 'God'. Or put more accurately, an act of Gaia. A volcano in Iceland grounds all air traffic across Europe costing business billions. It all feels kind of surreal doesn't it? Kind of biblical even. It's almost as if by one freak act of nature, humanity has been momentarily shunted all the way back to the stone age; the times where we walked everywhere and flew in our hearts instead. The clock is well and truly ticking. And where is it taking us? Back to the future of course...

Volcano disrupts
Let me ask you a question: do you remember which country in the world was hardest hit by the credit crunch in 2008? By some strange 'coincidence' it was Iceland. The banking system there imploded swallowing up billions of foreign financial investment. Many of Britain's local councils had invested taxpayers money in Icelandic banks - it's a peculiar world sometimes!

When the commercial dust settled, the International Monetary Fund took Iceland to the industrial cleaners. Billions of dollars were loaned to reinflate the economy. Loans that will take decades to pay back, if they ever are. Indeed history will show that European governments did not learn their lesson. Instead of realising we need less global business and more local, they simply printed more paper money and returned to 'business as usual'. So Benevolent Consciousness had to come up with another way of delivering the same message, except this time, a good deal more dramatically.

Enter Gaia and a 'freak' act of nature, or an act of 'God' as the insurance companies want to classify it. A volcano spews dust across Europe and grounds all air traffic. Gosh, it even grounded the Formula 1 Grand Prix! The rich-track for the fast and furious was momentarily blocked.

Business unusual
So is this just all a coincidence... the economy of Iceland is dumped on due to excess global consumption and Gaia dumps the fallout right back? I've seen enough in my awakened life not to believe in such 'coincidence'. These things simply do not happen by chance. We, as a group consciousness, together with Gaia create these spectacular events to present a mirror, just as when the Titanic hit an Ice Berg back at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Society didn't listen then, is it really listening now? I predict in the coming years an increasing number of such coincidental seismic events.

Of course I'm not the only one to predict this. I know many of you are feeling the same way. Have you heard of James Lovelock and his ground breaking book "The Revenge of Gaia?" He's an independent scientist who dared to fly in the face of the establishment and suggest that Gaia is a living being in her own right; one that regulates her climate through the interrelation of her global eco-systems. He was ridiculed when he suggested it, but now even the establishment is beginning to take note.

He speaks of an increase in global temperatures of around 6 centigrade. He postulates this is going to mean devastation for society during the course of the next few decades and we're going to have to find ways of becoming more at one with Gaia if we are to survive. Recently, the BBC has filmed a wonderful feature about the man and his work. You can watch the sixty minute documentary at the link at the bottom of this post. Here's a short taster of his Gaia "Eureka Moment"...

The compassion of Gaia
Although I resonate with a good deal of what James says, I know in my heart that Gaia is not exacting revenge. A being as highly evolved as she would simply not act on such motive. She is simply speaking as clearly and loudly as possible in her own entirely natural way, through the synchronicity from which the weave of all life is woven. Humanity is still heading towards a commercial precipice; the one of interdependency and hyper-inflation. We need to slow business right down not accelerate it and if we don't do it by choice, the decision will be taken from our hands. We can either have the soft landing or the hard one.

Fortunately there's a growing, off-the-radar minority who ARE heeding the warnings. Increasingly, we're rejecting this globalised madness and returning more to our roots. Here at Openhand, in the work that we do, we're encountering waves of people who are saying "Hell no, these lemmings won't go." People who are giving up the commercial exploitation and forming local micro-communities again. They're learning to live off the land in a way that humanity did in the earliest civilisations. We're learning once more how to be as one with the compassionate face of Gaia.

Homo Divinicus cometh
It's just like we're going back to the future. We're connecting more with the land, feeling the full beauty and vibrancy of the Unity Consciousness pervading all things. We're connecting in a way very reminiscent of the times before all this Industrial madness began. However this time, the future will be different from the past. It will have reflections of it, but we will use our expanded awareness and our knowledge gleaned through countless generations to help unfold a better place - a Renewed Earth.

And how do we get there? We have to go inwards of course and unravel the restrictions that still bind. We have to transcend the inner Gateways of consciousness and literally allow our souls to expand into the new paradigm. That's why here at Openhand, we're conducting our Five Gateways Workshops to help people transcend these inner Gateways and travel back to the future (here are details about our next course in May...Five Gateways Workshop).

Yes, it is indeed time to return to our roots. To go backwards in order to progress. However, let us be crystal clear, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning. The time of Homo Sapiens is drawing to a close. The time of Homo Divinicus is about to begin.

Chris

And here's that James Lovelock interview... Beautiful Minds