Global Challenges and Opportunities
"During the past year, rapidly emerging global issues and opportunities for change have clearly been demonstrated to us. Increasing global environmental disintegration and natural disasters, unforeseen calamities to many who experienced them. Growing instability and signs of an inevitable collapse of a corrupt world economic system exemplified in the “Panama Papers and other financial scandals! Increasing extremes of wealth and poverty. The unraveling of humanity’s social and cultural fabric! Deepening ethnic and inter-religious strife.The growing impotence and gridlock of outworn political systems and governance structures. The debilitating behaviors associated with competing ideologies that are increasingly unable to meet humanity's basic physical, social, economic, environmental and spiritual needs.
On a positive side, we can clearly see dynamically increasing ecological and social movements for Protecting and Restoring the Sacred! A growing recognition that market fundamentalism, an economic system which encourages massive consumption, has resulted in a global economy that is hostile to the health of the Mother Earth, our Human Family and all Life! The increasing fulfillment of the Prophecy of the Reunion of the Condor, Quetzal, and Eagle, including the global rise of Indigenous leadership in facing the growing threat of run-away climate change and the pollution and poisoning of our global freshwater supplies.
This was clearly demonstrated, beginning with a vision of a young Hunkpapa Lakota woman, that led to a Global Movement to Protect the Sacred, in less than seven months. This vision resulted in prayerful and peaceful actions to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline. This action to protect the waters of the Missouri River and Sacred Sites attracted global attention and support. The prayerful, peaceful, dedicated, unified and courageous stand of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, generated formal support of more than 300 First Nations, Water Protectors, Interfaith Movements and US Military Veterans, representing all Members of our Human Family.
The unprecedented, unified actions at Standing Rock and other similar transformational actions around Mother Earth, to Protect and Restore the Sacred, highlight the growing involvement of young people, who now represent more than 50% of the world’s population. Members of this young generation are increasingly stepping into the global dialogue centered around the need for fundamental change. This emerging global leadership of youth, in every dimension of human and community transformation, was long prophesied by Indigenous Peoples. We have now entered the long promised Spiritual Springtime. This is the time of the emergence of the 7th Generation and the Day that will not be followed by night!
For instance, in the United States and around Mother Earth, young people are resonating with a call for a political, social and spiritual evolution to address an ineffective political and economic system that has resulted in the extremes of wealth and poverty. A global society where 62 individual human beings have as much wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion. At the same, we have begun to accelerate the transition to 100% clean, renewable energy for all people and all purposes.
For the first time, all the Nation States of Mother Earth have finally recognized, through the Paris Climate Change Agreement, that there is human-caused climate change and that we must work cooperatively to address this global challenge. As well, new scientific discoveries, technological breakthroughs, digital communications and innovations are dynamically increasing everywhere.
For instance, the Internet is bringing dramatic change to cultures and peoples everywhere. The direction and harmony of these global changes depend on upon the values that are inspiring the change. When these values are life- preserving and life-enhancing, we will move forward to a new, just global civilization. If these values continue to be about short-term, materialistic gains solely, we will continue to experience a deepening cycle of death and destruction.
It is becoming clearer and clearer, with every passing day, that walking a prayerful, peaceful spiritual path is the only way forward to a just, sustainable, and harmonious world."
Excerpt from Prophecies, Unprecedented Change and the Emergence of a New Global Civilization, 2017-2020
