Updated: May 2022
What You Can Do For Your Environment Right Now
Advice from Machaelle
In 2019, deadly wildfires caught across southeastern Australia — fire that sparked after two years of record-breaking drought and killed an estimated three billion animals. At that time, a customer wrote to Machaelle during a question forum. She was looking for direction and courage.
This was Barbara's question: I've lost my way a bit working in Perelandra. We are devastated in Oz. Running out of water in townships. Fires everywhere and little water to fight with. Trees dead or dying. I've lost my courage in communication with nature after 20 years. Do you have any insight on this world-wide situation of drying and fires? I'm using ETS and EoP. Sorry this is long and feels like a futile desperate question. It feels like change, evolution and human time is up. It's dawn now and birds are calling each other. It's quiet too with smoke everywhere. There has been a tiny bit of rain too. So grateful for that. Much love and respect.
Machaelle responded with the following:
First of all, I think more and more people around the globe will be feeling the kind of desperation and loss that you're feeling as things continue to blow up environmentally. I agree with you that a change is going on and I believe that nature and Perelandra can provide the pathway through this change so that we come out on the other side. Hopefully you have the current Perelandra Garden Workbook. Only now, instead of focusing on a garden, what you want to do is focus on your land as a whole, in light of the challenges and issues that are impacting it. Just as you work with nature in a garden, you are going to be asking (perhaps weekly or even daily), "Okay, what do I do now?" And let nature give you each step of the way through this. I caution you not to expect old patterns, variables and conditions that you have become used to, to apply.
You're in a new world. This is a whole new journey. What you want to do is remain very focused on just the step you're taking. Don't project ahead and don't project back. When that step is completed, you ask again, "Okay, what do I do next?" Understand that nature will be giving you each step along the way so that you will end up with a new, balanced land — and world.
What Perelandra has to offer for the devastating impact of climate change now and in the future is the path through to the other side. You want to travel along that path without acting in ways that continue to cause the problem. That's why you need to listen to nature very carefully. In a lot of ways — really in every way — you are addressing a situation and starting a journey that is identical to what I faced when I said, "I want to work with nature" back in 1976, and had no idea what the direction was. I never would have come up intellectually with the direction I was led. I just followed each step along the way. Here's a little hint from someone who's been down this path: Take good notes. You will never remember everything. All the way along the path, nature will provide little hints and clues that'll verify to you that it's working and you're going in the right direction. You just have to see it.
Now for something you can kick in right away: Be sure to join us for the Biodiversity Process. That will lay the foundation for this journey I'm talking about. Lastly, thank you for asking this question. I've been waiting for it. Keep up using ETS and EoP. That will help stabilize you.
If you are also looking for direction and courage, you now have your answer. You don't need to have land or a garden or even a houseplant to begin. Just take the first step. Your personal environment is where you start. That can be your house, apartment, room, trailer, office, shop, classroom . . .
It makes no difference if we're tired. Or overwhelmed. Or scared. Or angry. Or busy. The devastating effects of man-made climate change are real, and ramping up. Relying on the resilience of this planet we're lucky enough to live on has only gotten us so far. We're into the teamwork phase of our evolution here, folks. And we have got to let go of this idea that "mother nature" is going to bounce back and clean up our mess for us.
This U.N. Climate Report made it clear. We're out of time.
But we're not out of options.
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