Healing the planet

A few personal thoughts

Photo by Priyanuch Konkaew on Unsplash
(a tall wooden home on a gentle grassy slope is surrounded by tall trees)

Something I have always wanted to do - well before I knew I was one of Australia’s First Peoples - was to heal the planet and/or make the natural world stronger/better/healthier.

My ambitions on that certainly generally exceeded my capabilities, but some of my ideas have included:

• laws requiring all private land to preserve the land’s - as I termed it then - “agricultural potential”.
  What I wanted was for all houseowners and business owners to make sure their land wasn’t polluted, and that it could be returned to the flora and fauna of this world, which would be to the benefit of the plant’s two-legged fauna.
  I always knew this would get nowhere, so I never did anything about it, but it came out my annoyance at things like discovering land developers had deliberately converted “highly productive land” from orchards to suburbs because they could use the few square metres of land around the square brick blockhouse of a house to grow a few more roses than other suburbs could as a selling feature to squeeze more money out of the willingly gullible.
  Even then (I found this - which had happened decades earlier - out in the 1980s) we knew about climate change, and I knew protecting our planet’s green clothing was crucial.
  And for contrast, when I was working in central Queensland, the local Council had protected the most productive agricultural land and directed urban development into bands between that land - although that was aimed at maintaining the agricultural economy, which at that time, in that locality, had not yet developed techniques such as “no ploughing” and mixed crops.
  It is the arrogant disdain for the natural world that I thought was contemptible;

• one of my few successes was, when a wastewater treatment plant was sited somewhere that would require a few hectares of bushland to be cleared, persuade the client to plant out a replacement area of bushland - which was a frustrating experience with people weighing in with commentary outside their qualified and paid for experience, but the area was replaced with something that would eventually be about 80% as good as the original; and

• in almost every single house I have lived, working out better gardens.
  In one case, I was able to get some of that done, and I want to mention that, in that urban area, I kept the trees I planted:
  (a) less than 2 m high - which minimised their exposure to hot summer winds and thus their thirst at a time when water resource were under high demand, and meant that if they were blown over, they would do little if any damage to neighbouring/passing by people property;
  (b) in pots with holes drilled into the base and lower sides so their roots could extend out and form a mycelial network, but the main root mass was less likely to get flooded - and the trees were potentially relocatable.
  This was along the side of that house, and formed a mini rainforest that was always cooler and helped to cool the house - and was extremely healing after a day in a corporate city office.

I also dreamed of houses where, for example, the upper floor was an indoor garden with retractable roof, and admired the earth covered domes used by at least one person after the Ash Wednesday fires - and similar construction such as earthships.

But, as a Pagan, I also care about the energy of the land - which is something I have written about on my main blog.

There are a wide range of rituals for that - and keep in mind that healing the people on an area of land will also help that land, as will political advocacy for a government which is genuinely committed to sustainability and caring for the environment.

But the one ritual I wish to draw your attention, Dear Reader, to, is the Hope, Peace, Love and Prosperity Ritual (or spell), which was developed by the Correllian Tradition in around the year 2005, and has been adapted to help recharge and maintain a network of healing crystals that Tradition has started establishing decades earlier.

I have a copy of the ritual at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2011/09/hope-peace-love-and-prosperity-ritual.html, and the Correllian Tradition does a monthly online version of this ritual - the most recent is at https://www.youtube.com/live/omJw0F6Kc14.

I try to make sure I at least read the words of the the Hope, Peace, Love and Prosperity Ritual as a spell each month at 11am on the 11th day, but I will also join in the Correllian online ritual when I can (which, owing to time zone differences, is the next day where I live) or do the ritual myself.

This is only one of the actions I undertake to try to heal our home planet, and I consider the political advocacy to be one of the major actions, but this action is part of a group effort, one that has built up momentum over decades, and, as Lynne McTaggart reported in “The Power of Eight: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life, and the World” (pub. Atria Books [an imprint of Simon & Schuster Inc], 2017, ISBN 9781501115561; Kobo, Simon & Schuster, Apple Books, Barnes and Noble, Amazon), groups can have a measurably stronger effect than individuals working on their own.

That applies in the psychic & spiritual worlds as well as the political and mundane.