Reflections on Maui
I am overwhelmed with sadness as more information comes out about the Maui fires and the failures at all levels to protect life. Between the children who were let out of school to go home to unsupervised homes to the line of burned up cars on the road out of town, there is more tragedy to digest than seems bearable. What a horrible mess. It is hard to understand, but God is in the midst. God IS there. Good will arise from this like the phoenix who rises from the ashes. In this case, literal ashes. My heart goes out to the people of Maui as they find and grieve their lost loved ones and do what they can to rebuild.
I believe every soul chooses its path on this plane and that when tragedy strikes, there is a growth experience for the soul. That said, perhaps those times when tragedy strikes so deeply, it is because we didn’t grow in the face of challenge and instead took the path of least resistance. We follow the head and not the heart. Humanity is suffering from a mass dislocation from intuition. Our souls are disconnected from our bodies. When our souls are grounded in our bodies, divine wisdom pulses through us. We know the right thing to do. We hear the still, small voice within, and respond accordingly. We don’t let outer voices or the voice in our heads direct or dissuade us.
In Lahaina, people knew in their hearts and guts that fleeing from the blazing fire was the right thing to do. Those who could, got in their cars to get out of town. But the head responds to external voices of authority. We’ve been conditioned that way since early childhood. Authority in the form of a single police officer stopped the mass exodus of cars filled with living beings – children, parents, grandparents and companion animals. Soon thereafter, the cars were all engulfed in flames. The officer later defended his actions, saying he was just following orders — another conditioned response to authority, likely associated with fear of losing his job. But how many times have we heard that ‘reasoning’ before? Did he hear the voice of his inner knowing? What was it telling him? With fire literally on their heels, the vast majority of people in the cars didn’t challenge the blockade. They let the voice of one man with a badge override their guts’ overwhelming drive to escape. It should be noted that the few who did dodge the barricade survived.
In Episode 224 - Exile and Rebirth of the Divine Mother, Maré Hieronimus and I share a metaphor of a kite set adrift, broken away from its grounding. The string is the guiding force, essential to its flight. When we are broken away from our own grounding, we too are set adrift, unable to feel the divine wisdom pulsing through us. We don’t trust our inner voice. We allow the winds of society to blow us where it wants. We follow orders and edicts that are contrary to our own health and safety. We fail to protect our divine bodies.
I pray for the people of Maui and I pray for all of humanity, that we restore the essential connection to our own divine selves. Divine wisdom is continuously pulsing through us as intuition and guidance. No one knows what is better for us than we do.
