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anymore blinds us to our common need to preserve the earth for survival
reasons. Even though we no longer serve and worship the earth mother does
not mean we still are not absolutely dependent on her, or "it"
as we call her now.

This is not to say that our lives today are not
meaningful. Before we made this change we had two "participation’s"
in life. One was to our collective, we participated in the care and
nurturing of our collective survival through our earth mother. The other
was our individual lives, which were not individual in the way they are
now, but suffice to say there was an existence outside of the collective.
This was generally thought of as family life. We participated in
relationships with our spouses, children, parents, grandparents and so on.
Life in this way had a very similar look to it as it does today. We lived
together in homes, we laughed and cried together, we worked together for
our survival and so on. These things definitely have meaning. In this way,
life has not changed, but while we used to do all the same functions in
family life as we do now, back then, we as families did these same
functions with the collective, and the collective did the same functions
with our families. This is what is no longer with us and is essentially
the only difference, though it is a massive change to our basic ways
living.

So we do live meaningful lives today. We still have our
families; we still love and care for each other at least at the family
level. And of course there is even still quite a bit of involvement with
the community (though it would be wrong to even hint that there is an
active collective consciousness). Yet, it is well known that we are in
grave danger of destroying ourselves. This can or will happen through a
number of causes: war, atomic catastrophes, environmental decay,
starvation and so on.

What many of us these days portend is that this
severance with the earth is the root cause of our demise, that today’s
lifeways are lived in a bubble. We see, feel, experience and live as
though we have meaning, but it is in a bubble. And our family lives are
bubbles living within this larger bubble. The big bubble is the collective
no longer knowing it is even a collective and we as individuals are inside
that bubble severed from ourselves as a collective and not knowing that we
are part of a collective. We have lost connection as a collective mind and
as individuals. We no longer know who we are, but we think we do, because
we don’t know what happened to us in the first place. We do not know
that we, by choice thousands of years ago, severed our relationship with
the earth mother and our collective consciousness, which she held
together.

I don’t know about you, but for me, this energy
crisis has seemed questionable from its beginning. How could it be
possible for power to be flowing on one day and then, without an increase
in demand, suddenly a state of emergency exists the next day? The darker
side of me suspected that the fossil fuel powered utility companies had
somehow manufactured the crisis in order to achieve two very important
aims: to raise prices and to reduce or eliminate environmental controls.
As it turns out, both have been achieved.

The front page of the Seattle Times on Sunday reported
that I am not alone in my suspicions and the attorneys general of
Washington State and Oregon, as well as a number of federal commissions
and legislators, are calling for an investigation into what is now
suspected as being the willful manipulation of energy supplies to
artificially raise prices.

I discussed part of the story in my commentary
"Energy Crisis or Greed Crisis" in my Healing Our World series
on the Environment News Service last week http://www.ens.lycos.com/ens/feb

2001/2001L-02-09g.html  I have written a second part to this
story, "Energy Crisis or Energy Hoax," that discusses these new
developments and the suspicion of unlawful business practices by the
fossil fuel utility companies. You can view it at my website at http://www.jps.net/jackieg/articles/jagfeb

12-2001.html 

Be well and I wish you success in trying to figure out
what is going on. Whatever the truth turns out to be, reducing energy
demand, switching to alternative energy sources as soon as you can, and
not buying into the alarmist rhetoric from Washington will help immensely.

So, we are out of balance and we do not realize it, and
if some of us do realize we are out of balance, in most cases we do not
know why. Some of us do know why, but we are few in comparisons to those
that don’t.

Living without this essential collective experience is why we are
destroying our selves. We would have never allowed ourselves to get in
this condition had we kept our relationship with the earth mother and our
collective mind. Because we would have been conscious of each other as one
being. There would have been no reason or circumstance to create
self-destruction because we could clearly see each other. Loosing the
collective relationship brought blindness to each other and therefore
blindness to our choices. And so here we are.