We are witnessing a growing Global Storm visibly sweeping the face of Mother Earth. Unless we awaken, this Global Storm will prove unprecedented in its violence, unpredictable in its course, and sometimes catastrophic in its immediate effects. No place on Mother Earth is protected from this Global Storm’s cleansing, healing, and unifying power.
This is due to a widespread “paralysis of will and action” to make the essential decisions and behavioral changes needed to move forward positively and constructively. The gridlock that supports this “paralysis” is the reluctance to entertain the possibility of subordinating national and personal self-interests to the needed requirements of concerted global actions. Moreover, a deep-seated conviction in the inevitability of humankind’s adversarial nature also reinforces it. As a result, we seem unwilling to articulate a desire and a need for a world in which we can live in peace, harmony, and prosperity with all members of our human family.
The primary question to be resolved is: How can we, in our entrenched systems, patterns of conflict, and resignation of will, make the change needed? How can we transform our world so that harmony and cooperation will prevail, healing our Human Family, Mother Earth, and establishing a peaceful global civilization?
A Turning Point
A vision of a young Hunkpapa Lakota woman from the Community of Wakpala, Standing Rock Reservation, led to prayerful, peaceful actions to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). This action inspired a global movement to Protect the Sacred.
The unprecedented, unified actions at Standing Rock and around Mother Earth to Protect and Restore the Sacred highlight the growing global involvement of young people. The prophecies refer to this ever-increasing number of young people as the 7th Generation. They now represent more than 50% of the world’s population.
This emerging leadership of young people in every dimension of human and community transformation, long prophesied by Indigenous elders, signals the global rise of Indigenous leadership. However, Indigenous leadership is facing the growing threat of runaway climate change, loss of biodiversity, and ecosystemic collapse, as well as unfolding a new Global Civilization.
We have now entered the long-promised Spiritual Springtime and the rapid emergence of the 7th Generation. This mobilization of young people from everywhere on Mother Earth is addressing these threats with unprecedented, unified action. One example is Our Children’s Trust, which filed a landmark U.S. federal climate lawsuit.
Across the Americas and around Mother Earth, the 7th Generation is resonating with a call for political, social, and spiritual transformation to address an ineffective and unacceptable political and economic system everywhere. Yet, no matter the challenges, we will eventually awaken to the spiritual and biological reality that we are all One Human Family, intimately related to all Life.
A New Global Civilization
The vision of a new global civilization is a promise found in spiritual and prophetic sources, including Indigenous prophecies such as Black Elk Speaks, the Major Prophets, the Call to the Nations, the Universal House of Justice, and many Elders, Spiritual Teachers, and Faith Traditions everywhere on Mother Earth.
This new global civilization, which Indigenous peoples and other related prophecies speak of, is not to be confused–even remotely–with the various new world orders fearfully alluded to by various contending sources. It is not a new world order where the extremely wealthy or a secret elite enslave most of humanity for their own selfish and greedy purposes, where everyone is forced to look, act, and think the same, or where any one nation-state dominates all others.
There are many ways and perspectives for viewing and understanding prophecies and spiritual teachings. From the standpoint of my Indigenous Circle, understanding the concept of the Honor of One is the Honor of All also reflects the view that our individual growth and development as individuals are mirrored in our collective growth and development as a Human Family.
It is my heartfelt conviction, experience, and conscious faith that we are approaching, after a process of many millennia, the manifestation of our Spiritual Maturity, the beginning of our Young Adulthood as a Human Family. We have journeyed from our Collective and Individual Infancy to the threshold of our Collective and Individual Maturity—an Epoch Stage that will witness the Unification of our Human Family and the Realization of Peace on Earth.
Consider how each of us, as individuals, passes through Infancy, Childhood, and then the challenging and dynamic Stage of Adolescence. In this profound period, unexpected potentialities and capacities are revealed and manifested. As a result, our Human Family as a whole is undergoing an unprecedented transformation and transition.
The turbulence and commotion of our lives today are simply the fits and starts of our Human Family struggling to come of age. In this dynamic process, widely accepted practices and conventions, beliefs, cherished attitudes, and habits are becoming obsolete as the imperatives of our spiritual maturity continue to manifest dynamically.
Our success in building this new way of life, leading to an equitable, balanced global civilization now unfolding is based on our complete commitment to the unfettered and independent investigation of the truth for ourselves. Each human being’s obligation to acquire knowledge and understanding through their “own eyes and not through the eyes of others” requires careful, in-depth reflection, consideration, and investigation of the sources from which we receive our “news.”
Once people know for themselves, they will change how they feel, speak, and act. This knowledge is rooted in gaining an ever-deepening spiritual understanding and purpose in our lives and requires changing how we live together as a Human Family.
This new global civilization, foretold by our Indigenous prophecies, including the Eighth Council Fire, the Return of the White Buffalo, The Peacemaker, Quetzalcoatl, Sweet Medicine, Black Elk, the Hopi, Vira Cocha, and many others, is founded on the unshakable consciousness of the Oneness of the Human Family and all Life. From this consciousness naturally unfolds the realization of:
The Equality of Men and Women
The Balancing of the Extremes of Wealth and Poverty
The Elimination of All Prejudices
The Unity of Science and Spirituality
Universal Education
The Independent Investigation of Truth, and
Unity in Diversity.
The practice of these unifying principles will bring about a new global civilization where the voices, wisdom, and vision of Indigenous peoples are justly and respectfully represented, and whose ancient wisdom is listened to and acted upon.
All the human sciences confirm there is only One Human Race, though infinitely varied in the secondary aspects of life. This is why the full recognition of this fundamental truth requires the abandonment of all prejudice–prejudice of every kind– race, class, sexual orientation, color, creed, nationality, gender, the degree of material wealth, everything that enables people to consider themselves superior or inferior to others. Abandoning all prejudice is a great spiritual challenge and requirement for all of us.
The full consciousness and acceptance of the Oneness of our Human Family is the fundamental prerequisite for reorganizing the world as One, the Home of Humankind and all Life. Universal acceptance and realization of this spiritual principle are essential to successfully establishing Peace on Earth.
The spiritual – as well as physical – reality of the Oneness of our Human Family should, therefore, be taught in every school and affirmed in every nation as preparation for fundamental changes in the systemic structures of our unfolding global society. World peace will only be fully achieved when this spiritual reality of the “Oneness” of all Life is realized.
As prophesied, organizations like the United Religions Initiative (URI), the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Unity Earth, and others promote interfaith and interspiritual understanding, awareness, and unprecedented, unified actions toward global harmony. The URI Preamble, Purpose and Principles, organizational framework, and integrative scheme of thought are critical to the global movements that clearly support the fulfillment of the prophecies.
In promoting enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, ending religiously motivated violence, and creating cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the Earth and all living beings, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, Unity Earth, and URI welcome Indigenous Faith Traditions as co-equals in uniting and moving us toward world peace and a new global civilization.
The recognition of Humankind’s oneness calls for no less than the reconstruction and demilitarization of the whole world. A world that is naturally unified in all the essential aspects of its life–its political machinery, spiritual aspiration, trade and finance, script and language–and yet infinite in the diversity of the unique characteristics of each culture and bioregion.
This promised future will take faith, vision, patience, time, and unprecedented, unified action well beyond 2030. It begins with ending the war and Beginning Peace on Earth by 2030.
The time will come when the imperative to hold a vast, all-embracing assembly to actualize world peace will be universally and undeniably realized. Then, elected representatives and cultural and spiritual leaders of our Human Family will consider the ways and means to lay the foundations for the Most Great Peace among all members of our Human Family.
Whether or not the current world leaders are prepared to consider these issues, they will eventually and inevitably be fully addressed by our Human Family. Indigenous women from every part of Mother Earth will be essential in leading this global council.
The prophecies, like Black Elk’s “Hoop of Many Hoops,” clearly outline a “Global Commons” in which all nations, races, creeds, and classes are closely and permanently united as One Human Family. This “Hoop of Many Hoops” will be manifested when there is a globally shared commitment to placing the common good of our Human Family ahead of any national, ethnic, religious, or selfish interests.
This global transformation will also require a new international governing system, rooted locally, organized and scaled bio-regionally, and synergized globally, whose members are elected in a non-partisan, principle-centered manner. Key among its responsibilities will be stewarding the sustainable and harmonious development of our global resources and cultures while ensuring the enactment of such laws that will regulate and satisfy the needs and relationships of all members of our Human Family, including balancing the extremes of wealth and poverty and upholding all fundamental human rights, such as equality, universal education, free expression, and individual sovereignty. Indeed, its primary function will be to safeguard the unity and harmony of the whole.
A world language will be invented or selected from our Human Family’s existing languages that will be taught and spoken in all the nations, in addition to our mother tongue. Science and spirituality, the two most potent forces in human life, will be reconciled, cooperate, and harmoniously develop together.
The world’s economic resources will be organized for the welfare of all members of our Human Family, ensuring the equitable distribution of their products and services. Racial amity, understanding, and cooperation will replace national rivalries and prejudice.
The freeing up of enormous resources, from the end of war, will be dedicated to research extending the range of scientific inventions and technological developments, increasing productivity, eliminating disease, raising the standard of human health, ecologically sustaining the resources of our Mother Earth, and furthering the intellectual, moral, cultural, artistic, and spiritual life of all members of our Human Family.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics will play a vital role in this global transformation process. Science and Spirituality, the two most potent influences in Human life, will be reconciled and harmonized.
In summary, these prophecies foretell a global oneness, a unity in diversity, embracing the entire Human Family in a respectful, sustainable, and harmonious relationship characterized by the understanding that “the Hurt of One is the Hurt of All, and the Honor of One is the Honor of All.”
This is the Day that shall not be followed by night!
Though our work will be long and arduous, the prize the Great Spirit has chosen to confer upon us is so precious that neither tongue nor pen can fittingly praise it. The fulfillment of this ultimate vision and the prophecies of our Indigenous Peoples and the Ancient of Days is assured!