The Medicine For These Times

Logan Navar, 8th grader, offers us wisdom for these times

As it is said, a little child shall lead them. Not such a little child, but a young leader who offers us the essential wisdom and direction for this time as we try to heal the madness that has afflicted us while we don’t know what we do.

This young man confirms the truth of the wisdom of the natural world from his stated life experience even as we violate it on a daily basis, leading, inexorably toward extinction if we do not heed the seers, human and non-human when we are privileged to encounter them.

As Logan Navar speaks, the war mongers with their bombs vie with each other to create the largest bomb. These l14 bunker buster bombers, 30,000 pounds each, with which the US attacked Iran’s buried nuclear sites, bragging they are the only ones which could wreak sufficient violence, were designed to penetrate concrete and steel but also limestone, dolomite, our Earth, to 60 to 76 meters, 200 to 250 meters.

Imagine it, let yourself feel how She, the Mother, sentient in ways we do not understand, is assaulted in this way.

During the Healers’ Intensive, all the participants except the four elders who tended the central fire — candles because of the danger of having a fire, another sadness of this time — spent two nights and one day fasting in silence, on the land. I had asked them to put their bodies on Earth as a loving gesture of protection. As we would, instinctively, put our bodies between our loved one and a danger speeding toward them. As we would embrace our loved one who was injured so they might heal. As we might acquire the energy for healing that our landbased, earth based, spirit based ancestors once had, that energy and that wisdom. The profound transmission from Earth herself which he offers us from the poetry of his being. As you might receive such as you move to ease, to heal, to protect Her. The reciprocity that comes from interconnection and true and vibrant relationship.

I was going to post a closing photo of the trees here in Topanga where I live when this photo from Botswana appeared. This moment, I had the privilege of witnessing and recording — the ultimate peacemaking — the equivalent of the lion laying down with the lambs, only in this instance, the lion laying down among the giraffes. And Earth in all her beauty. May we protect her with our fierce love and courageous actions.