I contacted some of the people I know out in Australia over the weekend. The situation sounds simply surreal out there. Biblical. It's the gut wrenching impact on the eco system that is most moving. And I would say, well, what we're witnessing is the underlying movement and stress in the field that is unravelling itself and now made manifest. We can't go on living the way we do in society and pretend that 'everything is okay'. It's plainly not.

Half a billion creatures will have been lost in the fires. And that's deeply saddening. And we'll all have been moved for sure by the sight of Koala's desperate for water, being replenished from the hand. What a mirror - what about the 65 billion grazing creatures that are blindly slaughtered year on year in the Industrial Food chain? Are they worthy of compassion too? And how might that be contributing to the effects we're now witnessing? One of the things I've consistently said in the Openhand work about the shift, is that we're going to witness in the times ahead, mirror upon mirror upon mirror, to what we're being, with an invitation to step out of the untruth.

I was sent this tremendous mirror by Katie in South East Australia, not too far from Victoria - a picture of the skies that reflect the Aborignal Flag. It's time to return to our origins and compassionate alignment with Gaia.

The last few days a small group of us have congregated up on the Glastonbury Tor at sundown, playing didge and drum for the people and creatures of Australia. We are with you