Save the environment? How about trying to understand it first?

Life is a mystery with intelligence and power far beyond human comprehension ...

Some time back, a friend wrote me saying: "I have dedicated my life and been driven to help those without a voice—the wild animals of this planet. Each morning, I wake up and take on a new battle and pick up my sword.

"I am so absolutely tired and I look around and feel like I've gotten nowhere. Nature is still being destroyed at a rapid rate, and everyone has told me that this is a losing battle. I realize that it is not up to me to save the animals. But also, with that thought, it makes me cry because I realize I don't even know why I am here on this planet. So much beautiful wildlife all over the world is on the endangered species list and dying that I just want to go with them and leave this earth."

There are many people on this planet who feel this way. Who feel the world is lost and that we are destined to live out the grim dystopian future being pushed down our throats in countless films, books, and TV shows, where there is no green, few living things, and Earth is a desolate polluted wasteland.

Until recently, I greatly feared this nightmare would come true as well.

Now? I'm beginning to think believing in this fate reveals two things: 1) How overblown humanity's sense of self-importance is and 2) how very little we understand about the nature of nature.

Infinite and eternal

Most of my friends have heard me marvel at the resilience and tenacity of life. I've watched little flowers push up towards the light between cracks in cement. Seen human bodies keep going long after I thought it was possible for them to sustain another breath.

Frankly, given the horrific levels of chemical and biological pollutants in the air, water, and food supply—the poisonous pharmaceutical load, the destructive electromagnetic fields, the vicious psychological programming—it stuns me that a human being can stay alive past age 20.

Seriously! The fact that we do goes to prove my point that life is obviously vastly more intelligent, complex, and resilient than humans tend to realize or even want to admit.

The truth of the matter is:

Life is infinite and eternal.

To this incomprehensible infinitude we bring our grasshopper-like perspective. We dissect things under microscopes and peer through telescopes, do dangerous gain-of-function experiments on bat corona viruses in leaky laboratories, and make up wonderful theories to explain different aspects of life. But we're still very much the proverbial blind men, feeling up an elephant.

An elephant the size of the multiverse.

Unfortunately, instead of wisely expending our energies expanding our consciousness in an effort to approach understanding the gob-smacking magnificence we're part of, in our pridefulness, humanity has taken the exact opposite tack.

In our minds, we’ve reduced the magnitude and magnificence of the world that confronts us. Made life small and predictable. Controlled by Darwinian Theory and hydroelectric dams, Newtonian physics and pharmaceuticals.

Lost in a delusional bubble of intellectual reductionist thinking, we believe we've got a handle on the nature of the elephant. And yet, truth be told, we haven't got a clue how—or why—life works.

Let me give a couple examples that show what I mean.

The boy, the fish, and the eagle

I was listening to an excellent interview the other day with the brilliant holistic doctor Zach Bush. In the middle of his talk he told a story about Viktor Schauberger, a naturalist and forester's son who lived in early 20th century Austria.

I've read a great deal of Schauberger's translated works over the years, especially his writings and observations on the nature of water. But Bush went on to tell a tale I'd never heard before.

It seems as a young man, Schauberger was sitting by a lake one day, watching an eagle circle over the water in an ever-tighter spiral.

As he tracked the bird's shadow on the water, he realized there was a huge fish following the eagle's shadow, spiraling towards the surface of the lake as the eagle circled ever lower. It was, he observed, as if the fish were hypnotized by the bird's flight, tracking it exactly, until the final moment when the fish swam right up to the surface and the eagle grabbed it in its talons.

Marveling at what he'd just witnessed, the young Schauberger watched in admiration as the eagle flew off with its tasty prize,

I thought that was a telling tale about the interconnectedness of nature, but the story wasn't finished. Years later, Schauberger found himself sitting by yet another pristine alpine lake watching yet another large fish swim in an ever-tightening circle. Looking up, he expected to see an eagle doing its hypnotist thing in the air above the lake. But there wasn't a bird in sight.

Puzzled, he continued to watch the fish circle. Eventually ... an eagle appeared on the horizon.

The dance repeated itself. Except this time, Schauberger realized the roles were reversed from his original assumption. The fish had obviously called the eagle to it. Moving closer to the water, he watched the dance's denouement closely. At the last moment the fish launched itself out of the water up into the extended talons of the eagle.

Keystone species

After long contemplation, the best explanation Schauberger could come up with regarding the fish's astonishing display was: The fish was ready to evolve. The fish was ready to take on a new life expression. And the eagle was its key to that next higher experience.

Which completely rearranges our human perception of nature as this scary predatory environment, "red in tooth and claw," solely based on survival of the fittest.

In this new view of species relationship, bloodthirsty predators aren't out randomly savaging and killing other animals. They are consuming out of the need to maintain life, while simultaneously ascending their prey into a higher order of things.

Keystone species open the door to higher-level expressions in more ways than through predation. By their very nature, the world around a keystone species improves with its presence. For example, wolves are a keystone species. They offer their prey the same "upwardly mobile" services as eagles. AND … their reintroduction into an appropriate ecosystem results in an almost shockingly swift improvement in local species' overall health and variation—animals, plants, trees—right down to microorganism levels improving soil fertility and water quality.

Our lost role

Once upon a time, when humans served as stewards of the Earth rather than rapacious land barons and abusers, we were a keystone species as well. Today, that ancient role is hardly known about, let alone enacted. But there are exceptions and some tribal communities still consciously maintain the role.

I have been blessed to directly know about one.

Back in 1999 I worked as the NW editor and bureau chief for the national Native American newspaper Indian Country Today. During my time at the paper, the Makah Indian tribe of NW Washington State attempted to reintroduce its ancient whale hunting tradition after a 70-year ban—where one canoe with ten young male tribal members would set out into the rough seas of winter to take the life of one migrating grey whale, bringing back food and whale bone and oil to the tribe.

The world was outraged by the Makah tribe's decision and obvious lack of environmental ethics.

Never mind Japan commercially slaughters hundreds of whales each year—environmental protestors attacked the tribe. Greenpeace boats patrolled Pacific waters off the Washington coast, determined to ward off the canoe if it came anywhere near a whale. Hundreds of people gathered outside the reservation borders, waving signs. Death threats were made against the young hunters and their family members.

It was a zoo, and no news crews or reporters were allowed onto the res ... except me. Working for a Native paper, I was granted an exclusive interview with Keith Johnson, head of the Makah Whaling Commission. And instead of bothering him with newsy questions about the death threats and legal rights to hunt, I asked him about the tribe's whaling tradition.

Turns out Keith's son was the captain of the whaling canoe that, despite the furor, was daily plying the terrifying winter seas in search of a whale. Keith himself had been trained to perform this task ... as had his father before him in a long line of ancestors.

As Keith talked, it became clear that the hunt was not just a "hunt." It was a sacred ritual and the enactment of an ages-old pact between the tribe and the grey whales.

He explained that the captain of the canoe was trained to hear the call and connect with the spirit of a grey whale willing and ready to give its body for the tribe's sustenance. In return for its body, the spirit of the whale would be escorted by the captain of the canoe to a "new shore" where it would be welcomed and born into the tribe in a human body.

Hello?

It was a deliberate act by a keystone species (humans of the Makah tribe) enabling a member of another species to elevate itself into a new life—nothing less than the transubstantiation of a whale's spirit that was ready to become human—just like the fish was ready to become an eagle and fly.

Endless magic, endless life

We think we know everything there is to know about life. We think "God" put us here to do with the Earth what we will. We think we can manage and control nature. We think we have the power to destroy it. We think the environment is on the verge of collapse and that we have the power to save it.

I used to think that.

But stories like those above have jolted me into the realization that we know diddly-squat about "the environment" and our place within it. Even if planet Earth were vaporized tomorrow, life/nature would go on and on and on ... just elsewhere and without you and me.

Nature will never be destroyed.

Yes, species come and go. And yes, life, in its vast intelligence, breadth, and resilience, is patient. Even long-suffering. But life's mandate is life. At a certain point life—nature—will stand up for itself.

Nature will take the current situation in hand, and humanity will have to wake up and go where nature takes us.

Does that mean we don't have to do anything? That we can stop recycling and invest in coal futures? No.

I think the whole point is to align with life's energies and flow as best we can, learning, once again, to commune with nature. To become nature’s ally, friend, and steward once again.

Maybe that means walking barefoot in a meadow, or quietly sitting under your favorite tree in the backyard a few times a week. Maybe it means starting an organic garden. Or refusing an experimental vaccine. Or joining in a class action suit against Big Ag and Big Pharma. Or starting an organic clothing line.

Whatever the act of aligning with life feels like for you.

I also believe it helps not to be so depressed and debilitated over what's happening. We seriously don't understand the forces, agreements, inter-species pacts, and potentials involved in what’s currently happening on this planet. We don’t know what’s waiting for us on the other side of our current low-consciousness creation.

But pride goeth before fall. And the greater the pride the greater the fall.

How ancient is that truism?

Considering the current level of humanity’s pride and ignorance, it’s likely the fall is going to be one hell of a ride. But if we individually keep turning away from engaging in self-destructive acts, exploitation and more control ... if we align with life and treat all living beings with the honor and respect they deserve … we'll be on the right side of things.

Love and much aloha ~

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About Cate Montana

A professional journalist specializing in alternative medicine and health, Cate is the author of several other books, including Unearthing Venus: My Search for the Woman Within [Watkins 2013], and The E Word, Ego Enlightenment & Other Essentials [Atria 2017], and a spiritual novel titled Apollo & Me. She has a master’s degree in psychology, and is a highly informative and compelling speaker and guest on radio and TV shows and podcasts. She is very grateful to be able to say she lives in Hawaii.

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