A Night Under the Stars

By chance I was watching a news programme on Saturday and there was a report based on the recent review of our UK National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is the 70th anniversary of our first National Park, but what interested me most was the encouragement being given, particularly to young people, to get out into the beauty of our countryside and `spend a night under the stars`! 

(The report was following straight on from a feature about the amazing teenager, Greta Thunberg, who is doing such a great job campaigning at top level for more awareness and actual action about global warming.)

The new generation of young people, many of whom I am sure are very wise old souls, who are reincarnating with a purpose at this time of great opportunity to advance on the path of brotherhood, are certainly leading the way.

The idea of spending more time outside in nature and under the stars, of course made me think immediately of White Eagle and some of the beautiful teaching he has given us from his American Indian lifetime.

I have his book EARTH HEALER open now, and I read these words on page 67,  in the New Lands Temple on Sunday during our Peace Day:

'Let us worship God in silence under the heavenly canopy of stars; let us commune with the spirits of the air and the fire and the water and the beautiful earth. The peace of the eternal love and harmony fills our being. We receive God`s blessing with humble thankfulness.`

Vision for our Planet

When I was shown this Cree Indian saying recently it had a profound effect on me:

'Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat  money.'

As our beautiful planet faces yet more physical challenges with the terrible Amazon fires and the hurricane in the Bahamas and North America, we seem to be being shown in truly dramatic ways that material aims and gains have severe consequences which have to be faced. A positive thing which is happening is that the media is showing us all with greater clairty than ever before what is going on. Just the other day, I watched a news report about what the pursuit of gain from palm oil is also doing to our forests. What was positive and brought hope was the story, alongside the pictures of what a company only seeking material gain was doing, of another enterprise which had its workers and careful, sustainable use of the forest resources at its heart.

All that is going on in our natural world has made me even more aware of why White Eagle chose to use his North American Indian personality for his teaching through Grace Cooke. The Indians knew how to work in harmony with the elements and angels; they knew how to work in harmony with the earth and the consequences if they did not. White Eagle is helping us work at a deep inner level in a way which is effective. Our work with the Star to 'uplift the consciousness' of all people is working - I am sure of this. Things are changing, people are realising 'we cannot eat money'!

At the beginning of White Eagle's book Earth Healer, this vision by Grace Cooke is given, and encourages us to believe in a healthy future for our planet which we can work towards by radiating the light of that sun/star:

'I saw a great golden sun in the heavens, and it seemed to shine down upon a city, and all the buildings in the city appeared to be made of ice. They seemed to flash all colours in the sunlight and it all looked very hard and frozen. Then suddenly, when it was least expected, the whole thing collapsed - simply melted away and there was a fresh new earth. There were men and women on the earth ploughing and sowing, and it was a lovely day. The birds were singing and there was a feeling of healthfulness and simplicity and cleanliness. A new day had begun with the promise of a new life.'