Blog entry April 10th, 2015
Ever since I posted on facebook on my birthday that I feel inspired to start a pilgrimage for Earth Healing…it has been interesting to say the least.
People have reached out with offers right away… house sitting and all kinds of possibilities surfaced to support the project as a conceptual art project. I feel so grateful and blessed:)
I’ve finally shared ‘Conversations with Mother Earth’ on my website. I’ve had a conversation or two with a couple of family members who were mostly silent about my project, other than the comment that you will now live in a car or the comment that you will be homeless.
I talked to a musician who lives a minimalist lifestyle. People have pinged me and asked me to travel to their homes and live with them for a while—those offers have come from people who know me from childhood and in whose cultures long term visitors is normal…. Pakistani friends and friends of the family, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am so glad that despite moving to a different part of the world, the whole idea of gifting what you have to someone else is alive and well
When I suggested I’d pay $600/- for a room several people contacted me—who had an extra room and wanted a room mate or some extra money (the going rate for a shared room is $600/).
I guess money isn’t losing any value any time soon. As long as people believe in it—that’s what we will have to use…never mind that this currency is controlled by a few people who have absolutely no sense of responsibility towards anyone except a few corporations.
Then there are my long term friends who live in a forest—they’d be happy to give us a space to live—though leaky and cold, their hospitality is warm.
One friend was specially generous and gave several thousand dollars to me as my back up support as I carry out this pilgrimage.
I wonder if I am now, ‘un-bankable’. Un-bankable is someone who is now no longer part of the system of money and exchange—the normal system that is also fast killing the planet and our food. I guess not. I still have some money.
I ask myself is it too late to be an activist? I am in my forties—isn’t this the time you get serious about work and ‘save-up’ for a sickness ridden retirement stemming from the frustration of never really having lived your life?
How long can I do this pilgrimage?
Someone asked me, will you now live in a car?
Even though I planned to set off–I haven’t honestly thought about how I will live. That question seems like a great solution to me. I do wonder about hobos or some such bugging me in parking lots. I have definitely got enough socks and blankets to wrap myself up well.
My son will have a place to live—thank goodness—I was more worried about him then myself. He is pretty talented and I don’t think he will ever lack for food.
Why am I putting myself through this?
For an answer to this you will have to read my book , ‘Conversations with Mother Earth.” I am an empath and psychic medium. Unlike a lot of people, I can’t seem to shut out the knowledge that the earth is dying. ‘Hello, don’t u see it? That’s our food, air, water and livelihood dying because we can’t seem to balance our relationship with Mother Earth?’
For the last several years I’ve lived an unusual life. Instead of a nice job, I’ve opted to be self-employed…and live a fairly minimalist life for many reasons, but the most important reason was the knowing that I would be better served healing and helping people cope with the great shift that is happening right now.
On the surface things seem just the same as 10 years ago when climate change became apparent, but have you ever lived in a forest? Then you’d know that things get very quiet—just before they become very crazy. So, as a society we are in the quiet denial phase…we’ve been there for a while…apart from celebrities who can ‘afford to’ make statements about climate change or young activists who need to position their resumes, the rest of the world lives in denial.
Even though people say how much they care, their actions are the opposite.
“As long as I get whatever I want, I am an environmentalist…..’’ “First I’ll get rich, then when I retire I’ll have enough.”
Is there no way to tone down the madness of consumerism? Is there no way to rethink the current banking and monetary system and come up with an alternative system of exchange?
Is there no way to stop using plastic and just ban it?
Is there no to stop the construction of huge mansion like houses where only 2 people live? Is there no way to stop importing plastic junk from China?
Is there no way to clean up the oceans? Is there no way to stop living this lethargic life stuck in front of a computer all day and night in service of the rape of the planet?
Surely, there is another way.
Behind The Veil 