The Many Spiritual Levels

Apparently mankind has known for some time the true nature of the spiritual world.  But as with many aspects of human nature there was doubt.

From what I understand there are several levels within the spiritual world.  The literature on this is readily available in public libraries.

The human race is currently on a collision course with self-destruction. This is also common knowledge.

What is remarkable is that the human race, or maybe I should be more specific and say the "civilized" segment of the human race is ignorant and/or in deliberate denial of this coming "apocalyptic Armageddon".

So basically we're on a dead-end train that's running out of control and we're in the dining car having a good old time.  Speaking euphemistically.

But...there's a potential reprieve.  That is if we choose to accept the responsibility for action.

Many in the Natural/Indigenous world have already begun to accept this responsibility and have chosen to become pro-active.

So what does it mean to be pro-active in a toxic world.  Well for me I've come to the conclusion that the spiritual way of life is the answer.

I didn't reach this answer on my own, but through the understanding of who I am, and where I come from I have had some advantages.  But on a worldly scale I'm sure that I am only one among many.

As to the spiritual levels there has always been one level that has been neglected by western/scientific thought and therefore western academia.  The spirit of nature.

There's a close connection between the spirit of the earth and the spirit of the animal world.

American Indians have always taken this connection as a given.  It became an incorporated segment of daily life.  It became a natural way of seeing and experiencing man's path.

As it states in many spiritual circles "as is in the physical, so it is in the spiritual."  Even the Lord's prayer includes this observation.

But to reach a solution one must realize that their in the midst of a problem.

Many years ago I told an audience that to every worldly question there was a corresponding spiritual answer in addition to the worldly answer.

And in this case we are being told that the solution to the international crisis has a spiritual path to the resolution.

But once again are we ignorant or aware.  Are we spiritually pro-active or arrogantly dismissive.

Well at some point it won't matter.  The choice having been made, the spiritually strong will have been given an insight and the arrogantly civilized will have their resources.

Or will it be that clear?.  There may be more to it.  There may be a corresponding responsibility to engage the un-engaged.

Yes, this is the tricky part.

The racist, the Jew, the Palestinian, the Somali, the poor white, the Asian, the black, the Gay, maybe even the homeless and the poor.

Engage the unclean, the destitute, the unwanted.

This is the true spiritual test, the spiritual work, which issues it's own rewards.

But we must become spiritual beings as only spiritual beings will have the strength to take on such challenges.

May God in all his Glory be with you.  Mitakuyeowasin.