TERRA 12, Part II
What do we expect to find when we venture into the uncharted expanses of space? Perhaps our best hope is a planet that is marginally suitable for human habitation, some rocky orb with an atmosphere that can sustain human life and won’t require extensive terraforming. At the very least, a planet more inviting than Mars, the only reasonable alternative in our own solar system.
While a Mars-like planet may be the reality, if we are allowed to dream, that dream would be to find a world that represents paradise, some untouched expanse of green and blue, the air and water sweet and fragrant, where people could do more than just survive. A place where people could thrive. A place where we could start over and avoid the mistakes we have made on our own Mother Earth. Surely, if we were given a chance to live in paradise, we would treasure and protect that paradise.
Surely, we must have learned our lessons by now. Only… Mother Stella observed that people take themselves with themselves, wherever they go. Which means this inescapable reality: The underlying principles that appear to rule this planet—greed and ignorance—would travel with us and take root on our new home.
Greed and ignorance go hand in hand. But the ignorance that Mother Stella speaks of isn’t ignorance as people normally define it. Ignorance is not so much a lack of knowledge as a lack of awareness. In this case, the awareness of your true self. When you have lost touch with your true self, you act very differently in the world. Your focus becomes survival. You grab and grasp, in an effort to ensure that survival. Greed is a by-product of survival, a bid to exert control over your external circumstances to guarantee that very survival. But are greed and ignorance universally applicable? Is this the way humans (or presumably any intelligent species) are predetermined to behave regardless of their apparent origins?
When we travel the twelve light-years to Terra, we find a very different reality. When Zach wakes up on the surface of Terra, he discovers a world where beauty is everywhere. And something more, something indefinable, yet present in every breath. While Terra is a world of no evident technology, the planet provides the humans who live there with food in abundance: food so luscious and satisfying that it is a blessing, free for the picking.
When Zach first encounters Mother Stella on Terra, he is mesmerized. Her role is the village healer, but from the moment he meets her, he knows that she is something more. She is a… mystery. From that first encounter, Zach is brought closer and closer to the heart of this mystery. This becomes his journey, to embrace and merge with the mystery of Terra.
If you are like me, you have read your share of books and watched endless movies that have attempted to define this mystery. Certainly one of the more popular efforts has been the Star Wars saga, complete with the oh so mysterious Force. The Force was a wonderful and captivating concept that fueled the popularity of the initial episodes. It remained this marvelous mystery that delighted and uplifted us—until the unfortunate and misguided attempts to explain the Force through science. The midi-chlorian debacle reduced the Force to a cell count. In doing so it undermined the very foundation of this particular creation. Any attempt to explain a mystery only succeeds in destroying the mystery. Life cannot be known by standing on the outside and looking in. In this case Science appears to have triumphed, but at what a cost: The magic has bled out of the Star Wars Universe.
It’s disappointing that most movies and books of this genre settle for some pat answer to explain the reason for your existence. When it is time for the big reveal, the climax involves some magical artifact or book of wisdom or technology that has been created by some unknown intelligence. Despite these endless disappointments, we still seem willing to travel to the ends of the universe to find that answer. We are ready to chase down every clue, turn over every stone. Only… Would it surprise you to learn that you don’t have to travel far from yourself. The answer you seek is right here. Right under your nose.
What did Mother Stella do for Zach (and by extension for each of us)? She opened the door to the truth so that we could walk through. She invited us to participate in the mystery itself. She showed us not only how to heal ourselves, but how to heal our world in the process. I know. It sounds incredibly simplistic and naive—especially if you are a product of worldly conditioning. What… Let’s all hug a tree? The mind scoffs at the notion. Have we not embraced the Age of Science where we worship reason and logic? Has not Science promised to save the world? Just give it sufficient time and resources.
To embrace a mystery without passing through the scrutiny of scientific methodology… It sounds crazy. Absurd. Positively ridiculous. Until you remember the words of Mother Stella. Listen closely as she offers this reminder of how Life works: “It is simplicity itself. When you love, everything is in harmony, everything is in balance, without any effort on your part. You can see it for yourself. If you shower your children with love, they will bloom and grow before your eyes. If you shower your world with love …” Your personal world will be transformed in ways you never imagined.
You can see it for yourself. You have seen it for yourself. You were shown how this worked on Terra. It can work just as well on Earth. Or any world, any universe. Only… Will people have the awareness to choose wisely? To transcend greed and ignorance? To embrace their humanness? Remember how Mother Stella explained paradise to Zach? “We have learned that it’s not so much that you are born in paradise. It’s that paradise is born within you.” What a gift this great soul has given us, straight from the Source.
Terra is a world that embraces a very different consciousness than the one we have known on Earth. To understand the mystery of Terra, you must start with the mystery that is your own heart. You will never understand Life by standing on the outside, analyzing and categorizing. This is the path of Science. You will only know Life in all its infinite glory by merging with Life. You will only understand paradise by finding paradise within yourself.
You are the key here. And your own personal world reflects your choices. You may be tempted to argue that humans are limited by design, that they cannot create new worlds, particularly human worlds. But you would be mistaken. Have you ever had neighbors who loved to garden? Have you watched as they transformed their patch of earth into a paradise? It can happen on a very small scale or a very large one. Life is infinitely vaster than you realize. And you… You are vaster than you ever imagined.
Could it happen? I honestly can’t say. Given our current situation, the realities of global warming alone threaten to overwhelm us. What I can say is that no one person can change the world. But if collectively we loved our own personal worlds – and those around us – we would be surprised to see how that change would ripple through the world.
Living things—including Mother Earth—respond to love because there are no barriers to love. This is one of Life’s most important open secrets. In the end, it is only through love that we can heal our world. And ourselves and our children. Something inside you knows this to be true. That something inside has watched as endless cycles of science and religion have come and gone. Only Love remains eternal. Because Love is at the heart of everything. This is the magic that arises from embracing the true human consciousness.
While a Mars-like planet may be the reality, if we are allowed to dream, that dream would be to find a world that represents paradise, some untouched expanse of green and blue, the air and water sweet and fragrant, where people could do more than just survive. A place where people could thrive. A place where we could start over and avoid the mistakes we have made on our own Mother Earth. Surely, if we were given a chance to live in paradise, we would treasure and protect that paradise.
Surely, we must have learned our lessons by now. Only… Mother Stella observed that people take themselves with themselves, wherever they go. Which means this inescapable reality: The underlying principles that appear to rule this planet—greed and ignorance—would travel with us and take root on our new home.
Greed and ignorance go hand in hand. But the ignorance that Mother Stella speaks of isn’t ignorance as people normally define it. Ignorance is not so much a lack of knowledge as a lack of awareness. In this case, the awareness of your true self. When you have lost touch with your true self, you act very differently in the world. Your focus becomes survival. You grab and grasp, in an effort to ensure that survival. Greed is a by-product of survival, a bid to exert control over your external circumstances to guarantee that very survival. But are greed and ignorance universally applicable? Is this the way humans (or presumably any intelligent species) are predetermined to behave regardless of their apparent origins?
When we travel the twelve light-years to Terra, we find a very different reality. When Zach wakes up on the surface of Terra, he discovers a world where beauty is everywhere. And something more, something indefinable, yet present in every breath. While Terra is a world of no evident technology, the planet provides the humans who live there with food in abundance: food so luscious and satisfying that it is a blessing, free for the picking.
When Zach first encounters Mother Stella on Terra, he is mesmerized. Her role is the village healer, but from the moment he meets her, he knows that she is something more. She is a… mystery. From that first encounter, Zach is brought closer and closer to the heart of this mystery. This becomes his journey, to embrace and merge with the mystery of Terra.
If you are like me, you have read your share of books and watched endless movies that have attempted to define this mystery. Certainly one of the more popular efforts has been the Star Wars saga, complete with the oh so mysterious Force. The Force was a wonderful and captivating concept that fueled the popularity of the initial episodes. It remained this marvelous mystery that delighted and uplifted us—until the unfortunate and misguided attempts to explain the Force through science. The midi-chlorian debacle reduced the Force to a cell count. In doing so it undermined the very foundation of this particular creation. Any attempt to explain a mystery only succeeds in destroying the mystery. Life cannot be known by standing on the outside and looking in. In this case Science appears to have triumphed, but at what a cost: The magic has bled out of the Star Wars Universe.
It’s disappointing that most movies and books of this genre settle for some pat answer to explain the reason for your existence. When it is time for the big reveal, the climax involves some magical artifact or book of wisdom or technology that has been created by some unknown intelligence. Despite these endless disappointments, we still seem willing to travel to the ends of the universe to find that answer. We are ready to chase down every clue, turn over every stone. Only… Would it surprise you to learn that you don’t have to travel far from yourself. The answer you seek is right here. Right under your nose.
What did Mother Stella do for Zach (and by extension for each of us)? She opened the door to the truth so that we could walk through. She invited us to participate in the mystery itself. She showed us not only how to heal ourselves, but how to heal our world in the process. I know. It sounds incredibly simplistic and naive—especially if you are a product of worldly conditioning. What… Let’s all hug a tree? The mind scoffs at the notion. Have we not embraced the Age of Science where we worship reason and logic? Has not Science promised to save the world? Just give it sufficient time and resources.
To embrace a mystery without passing through the scrutiny of scientific methodology… It sounds crazy. Absurd. Positively ridiculous. Until you remember the words of Mother Stella. Listen closely as she offers this reminder of how Life works: “It is simplicity itself. When you love, everything is in harmony, everything is in balance, without any effort on your part. You can see it for yourself. If you shower your children with love, they will bloom and grow before your eyes. If you shower your world with love …” Your personal world will be transformed in ways you never imagined.
You can see it for yourself. You have seen it for yourself. You were shown how this worked on Terra. It can work just as well on Earth. Or any world, any universe. Only… Will people have the awareness to choose wisely? To transcend greed and ignorance? To embrace their humanness? Remember how Mother Stella explained paradise to Zach? “We have learned that it’s not so much that you are born in paradise. It’s that paradise is born within you.” What a gift this great soul has given us, straight from the Source.
Terra is a world that embraces a very different consciousness than the one we have known on Earth. To understand the mystery of Terra, you must start with the mystery that is your own heart. You will never understand Life by standing on the outside, analyzing and categorizing. This is the path of Science. You will only know Life in all its infinite glory by merging with Life. You will only understand paradise by finding paradise within yourself.
You are the key here. And your own personal world reflects your choices. You may be tempted to argue that humans are limited by design, that they cannot create new worlds, particularly human worlds. But you would be mistaken. Have you ever had neighbors who loved to garden? Have you watched as they transformed their patch of earth into a paradise? It can happen on a very small scale or a very large one. Life is infinitely vaster than you realize. And you… You are vaster than you ever imagined.
Could it happen? I honestly can’t say. Given our current situation, the realities of global warming alone threaten to overwhelm us. What I can say is that no one person can change the world. But if collectively we loved our own personal worlds – and those around us – we would be surprised to see how that change would ripple through the world.
Living things—including Mother Earth—respond to love because there are no barriers to love. This is one of Life’s most important open secrets. In the end, it is only through love that we can heal our world. And ourselves and our children. Something inside you knows this to be true. That something inside has watched as endless cycles of science and religion have come and gone. Only Love remains eternal. Because Love is at the heart of everything. This is the magic that arises from embracing the true human consciousness.
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