talk2momz November 5 2013
For many years I have held in my heart the question of ‘why’. Why do people do what they do… why is there such great suffering… why are we unable to see ourselves… why do the words not match the deeds… why does life not feel like life… why does love not feel like love.
Of course we all hold why questions, and sometimes we encounter a person who seems to know a bit of an answer. It’s wonderful when words or voices resonate within us, as the sound of truth… yes, I am here with you, all is well, we are in the right place, we met on purpose.
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Also some years ago, I took in the question of ‘what is’. What is our lesson of this time, what is our task, what is available to us that we cannot yet see? What is in the spiritual realms, what is our best method of expanding and experiencing the pure information of the divine, and what is Grace?
So, while those questions remain open to new input, I recently added an additional one… ‘how’. If we can get into why, and get into what is, then how do we manifest a change… a brave world born in wisdom and respect for life?
I’m guessing that quite a few of you may be familiar with Professor Mitsuhei Murata, the former Japanese Ambassador to Switzerland who is an anti-nuclear activist. I recently came across a video of his on the subject of Fukushima, and rather than thinking “This is too heavy, this darkness is too great for me to handle right now; this is so grievous… so unsolvable…” I decided to listen.
By the time I got halfway through the video I was taken with this man’s mind… and his fighting spirit! Toward the end he called on President Obama… and we know that’s a hopeless dream, but the rest of it was very insightful. What impressed me most was his call for ‘Mobilizing Human Wisdom’. It fit with my desire to know the answer to ‘how’.
Regarding Fukushima and the push for nuclear power in Japan, he said, “This is immoral. It shows no sense of international or intergenerational responsibility.”
Then he went on to say something that really strengthened my heart: “Originally Japan had a maternal culture characterized by harmony and solidarity. After the Miji Restoration characterized by competition and confrontation, in May ‘34… history shows that paternal cultures end in catastrophe. Fukushima is the result of the supremacy of economy; another form of paternal culture introduced after WWII. The maternal culture of harmony is the remedy for the paternal culture of power.”
Sometimes people are immobilized by the enormity of such an event. There are many leaders, many voices on the front lines with this issue. This gentlemen is appealing to us, in our humanity the global public. We have the engineering experts and the doctors and scientists on the front line. We can act right from where we each are. Here is another expert perspective addressing what you will see is the human thinking, incorrect at most, by some of the questions and comments she receives with regard to this issue. This is well known activist and pioneer, Dr. Calldicot latest interview. She is justifiably righteous. Some readers may not agree with her, and yet until we supplant ourselves on the front lines, she and many others we may be in conflict with are representing us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Of-3VontE