Positive Longterm Effects of Virus Lockdown

Hopi Prophecy: “When the Earth is sick and the wild animals are disappearing, a tribe made up of people from all cultures will come to say with deeds and not with words, that Love is the source of healing and will help restore life on the planet.”

To maintain calm within the eye of a storm, I envisioned the possible positive long term effects of a global lockdown on collective consciousness. Here’s what I came up with:

Maybe these are the times we’ve been waiting for: a breakthrough disguised as a breakdown. Is it coincidence that wildfires raged for months in Alaska, the Amazon, and Australia recently, making it difficult to breathe for many, a billion animals suffocated to death in Australia, mass amounts of salmon died in Alaska due to lack of oxygen in unprecedentedly warm waters, and now a virus is attacking the human lungs, making it difficult to breathe? Here is nature’s symmetry in action; an illustration of our connection to all other beings we share Earth with.

Mother Nature giving us a wake up call. What happens to the animals, will happen to us. It’s her way of saying: Wake up and take care of me, because taking care of me is taking care of you. A billion koalas burning to death wasn’t enough to stop the consumer industrial economy chugging along, but this virus is doing just that. This virus is clever. This virus, and its attendant global human response, has already changed the world overnight. It is creating the opportunity to change. If we look beyond the immediate fear…