The Wake Up Calls

July 4th brought horrific floods, fires, and loss throughout the United States. Flags in Texas and neighborhoods across the south have been flying at half mast honoring lives that were suddenly taken from us. Devastating events across the globe continue to challenge us to reconnect with our hearts and honor life above all things. 

Floods can symbolize overpowering emotions, or the repressed unconscious forcing itself to the surface for purification. While fires often symbolize impermanence, spiritual cleansing, destruction, and transformation. This episode explores how loss, chronicles a path of human amnesia for prioritizing love, safety, and life on our planet. Could these events be Mother Nature’s Wake Up Calls?

My intuition suggests they are warning signs. Signaling we are on the precipice of a huge awakening that will change the way we perceive our world and our role in it. It’s time to question the way we’re living, our priorities, responsibilities, and be accountable for what we’ve created.

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Music by Robin Miller
In The Company of Angels
Songs:  Oceans of Love  & Lullaby to Lois   
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Artist Catherine Stefanavage
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Transcript

Hello, I’m your host, Riverann. And this is Heart Sense. A podcast for aligning, strengthening, and opening our hearts, to a frequency of love that heals ourselves and our planet. Thank you for being here!

I’ve been in Texas for the last five weeks visiting my family. I had planned to drop a different episode. But as I began to witness the devastating loss of life from the flooding around me, the fire at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Mt. Rainer’s swarm of earthquake tremors, with all the other natural disasters occurring around the world. I began to wonder if these represent a wake up call for humanity.

These sudden unexpected events remind me of the 2023 fires in Maui and recently in LA that ravaged unsuspecting communities. Mother Nature speaks loudly to those listening. And people have been ignoring her.

Some may feel these catastrophic events represent the end of the world. My thoughts and intuition suggest they are warning signs. Signaling we are on the precipice of a huge awakening that will change the way we perceive our world and our role in it.  We have reached a point where we have to pay attention!

If the orchestration of war, the extinction of hundreds of species, and the collapse of ecosystems that support our survival hasn’t gotten your attention. The personal losses we’re experiencing may have you questioning our way of life. Because they’re impacting everyone. Regardless of what part of the world we live in.

This episode explores how loss chronicles a path of human amnesia for prioritizing love, safety, and life on our planet. We claim that life is sacred. So why does it always seem to take significant loss of life, to catalyst change? 

Perhaps the reality lies in the mass consciousness of humanity at this time. With the escalation of fear and despair creating great chaos. We’re witnessing people resist accountability for what’s been created.

It’s not like scientists, engineers, and our youth haven’t warned us of the existing dangers of ignoring facts. Mother Earth is unleashing catastrophic events at a magnitude we’ve never seen before. And when destructive forces become stronger than anticipated physically or energetically. They threaten to create fractured societies. 

It’s difficult to go against the current of any moving a force that gains momentum. A force that has been sanctioned by a climate of extreme anger, violence, intimidation, and a lack of accountability. And blame only strengthens the veil to truth. 

We have creative and spiritual tools to instill change, but we aren’t using them. Abandoning common sense, intuition, a moral compass, has led to compromising our role as guardians of the earth and one another. 

It appears we only begin evaluating things that were ignored or compromised after great loss. Our planet and animals have been desperately trying to get our attention about the direction we’re headed. But humans have become so focused on controlling everything that they ignore the signs. 

I know for myself that many things acceptable today, are against everything I was taught growing up, not to do. My parents instilled in us a sense of value for all life and every human being. They exposed us to foreign cultures and said Americans, were rich by the standards of other countries. 

This informal education instilled gratitude for my place in the world, with an appreciation for diversity. My upbringing taught me to observe people who are different than us with a passionate curiosity. It also inspired me to build relationships with a diverse group of people from all walks of life. This inadvertently created a sense of security instead of fear in relating to others and traveling the world. 

My father was a longshoreman and a fisherman. My mother, a housewife who later in life pursued a calling to embrace her faith, wisdom, and life purpose. She eventually became a minister of the Unity church. My parents couldn’t have been more different. Which perhaps gave me an inside motivation to embrace polarities.

What I know today, is that although there are movements to create separation. Inherently we are deeply connected with one another. Just as we are dependent on balanced ecosystems that support the earth and our animals. 

Claiming superiority over anything on this planet is a recipe for destruction. Could this be the spiritual lesson humanity is receiving from the catastrophic events unfolding before us?

Everything has a compassionate nature. Different species illustrate this to us everyday. It’s not only necessary, but imperative to consider how what we create, affects our environments. 

When governments, institutions, leaders, or cults begin consuming power over people or our planet. Our lives move toward reactivity and imbalance, instead love. 

Have you ever considered that catastrophic disasters might be directly related to human consciousness? I’ve often wondered if it’s possible that the weather may be created by us. In principle it’s quite possible. Because everything is energy responding to energy. 

Refusing to acknowledge our sacred connections to everything that comes into our reality, is a roadmap for chaos and disharmony. We do this when we compromise quality for quantity, reduce protections and exploit natural resources. Fail to prioritize safeguards, and ignore our wisdom and intuition. It happens both on a personal level as well as in our communities.

As a whole, I feel we are literally creating the frequencies of energy we need to survive. As well as those that may be our demise. But how many of us recognize a lack of vision in our decisions when bad things happen? Do we look for the lesson or enter the blame game?

I want to take a moment and read a few letters from children in an elementary school addressed to God. Pay particular attention to how they view God’s powers in the world, what their priorities are, and their ideas for resolving conflict. 

What changes when they begin to experience negative human behavior, become aware of human history, feel disconnected, and begin to see money and things as their most prized possessions? Because initially this was all of us. 

Nan wrote, “Dear God, I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world. There are only four people in our family and I can never do it.”

Robert asked, “Dear God, I am American. What are you?” 

“Dear God, in bible times did they really talk that fancy?” Jennifer

“Dead God, if you hadn’t let he dinosaur go extinct we would not have a country. You did the right thing.” Jonathan

“Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother. But what I prayed for was a puppy.” Joyce

“Dear God, Please put another Holiday between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in there now.” Ginny

“Dear God, If you give me genie lamp like Aladdin I will give you anything you want except my money or chess set.” Raphael

“Dear God, Maybe Cain and Able would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother.” Larry 

“Dear God, if we come back as something - please - don’t let-me-be Jennifer Horton because - I-hate her.” Denise

“ Dear God, Please send Dennis Clark to a different camp this year.” Peter

“We read that Edison made light. But in Sunday school they said you did it. So I bet he stole your idea.” Donna

And one of my favorites, “Dear God, I think about you sometimes even when I’m not praying.” Elliott

It’s imperative we return to our place of origin connected to Source. The consciousness that we as children were endowed with at birth. Before our hearts were not entrenched in identifying with things outside of us? A place where intuition, curiosity, compassion and love are valued more than anything else.

The truth is, we are all suffering from losses. Catastrophic events are consuming our attention with no end in site. And much of it is due a lack of awareness and personal accountability. 

Who decided giving up mediation and replacing it with violence would bring resolution? That giving personal power to another person would create outcomes we approved of.  Or that acquiescing to the majority would eliminate personal responsibility? 

Silence and apathy only increase the duration of our grief. The challenge is removing the toxic perceptions, attitudes, behaviors and people leading us to a misalignment with love. Because most of us can choose to be kind, generous, aware, and involved in our communities. As humans on this planet we have the freedom to change what isn’t working. Realizing this is in itself a wake up call!

People need not become victims of their life choices. Everything we experience is designed for growth. And there is always a gift if we look for it. The journey may be long, painful, and arduous. Especially when joy is buried in sorrow. We may grow thorns to guard the heart. But even a cactus blooms when the rain comes, if life isn’t abandoned.

What I often witness in the world are wounded hearts disconnecting from love, forgiveness, and creative solutions. Choosing instead to engage in an environment of blame or withdrawing completely. This doesn’t lead us to our heart space. It isolates us from opportunities to reconnect.

Love, compassion, forgiveness, and respect awaken us to find new paths for liberation and healing. These emotions assist in replacing lower frequencies of energy, with spiritual comfort. They call us home for soul nourishment, to enter the royal tent inside us and remember what’s important!

I believe there are angels among us. Attempting to release humans from the web of fear entangling our world. For we are all greater than what is happening now. Our personal power comes from a deep connection to our higher self that some refer to as God or Source. And our answers come from this place.

What we see outside of us, is what we give power to when we relinquish personal responsibility. If everyone was accountable for their thoughts and actions. The authority of our intuitive guidance would deliver an inner security that overrides the power of influence from the outside world.

Losses are part of the human journey. Grief can be complex in how we transform it into meaningful lessons and growth. If we commit to staying awake, to using our voices, and opening our hearts to respond in kind, gentle, and compassionate ways. We can make an impact that will eventually end the suffering and imbalances we are in the thralls of experiencing. 

What I’m suggesting we love without abandoning ourselves, others, or our highest ideals. That we reconnect with our dreams, embrace the heart as the master of our life’s interactions. Take a stand for something that will create change when we see these imbalances. Wake up the sleeping sage within us that embraces life with a knowledge of how love wins. The moment is now.

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I want to thank, Robin Miller for sharing his original music for this episode from his CD In The company of Angels. You can find Robin in the show notes  and online at robinmillermusic.com 

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It's my hope that these episodes bring more light to your heart, more vision to your life, and facilitate more healing in the world.

This is River Ann. Thank you for listening.