Hummingbird Wisdom
Yesterday, I listened to a podcast interview with a professional psychic. Among other things, she described an ascension process in terms very similar to the description in Revelations. According to her, when our consciousness rises to a certain level, we go to a different planet where everything is perfect, there’s no pollution, there’s perfect peace, and we are radiant beings of light who can manifest anything we want.
What if we’re already there? What if we’re already living on that perfect planet? Okay, there’s pollution and other problems, big problems. But what if our problems exist to bring us together for solutions, to help us rise to the occasion? According to Yogic philosophy, every problem arises with solutions. If we’re not advanced enough to perceive the solutions right in front of us, how can we be advanced enough to ascend to anything? And if we can solve the problems right here, why would we want to go anywhere else?
As I wrote that last line, a hummingbird dropped by to breakfast on my fuschia plant, which is in a window box three feet away from me. She announced her presence with the characteristic hum of a tiny electric fan then plunged her beak into the corolla of one of the fuschia flowers. She visited a few more flowers then perched for a moment’s rest on a branch before repeating the same feeding pattern three more times. Then WHOOSH! She ascended almost vertically for fifteen feet before whirring off toward sunrise. It’s just after 7a.m.
That gorgeous iridescent green bird suckling on the vivid violet and pink flower is perfection—right here, right now. For all the doomsday rhetoric, that little bird is still here. In my yard, there are monarch caterpillars on the rose milkweed, giant swallowtails on the echinacea, and bees everywhere. How could another planet be better than this one? And how can a species that trashes and then abandons one planet be ready to maintain a healthy ecosystem on any other planet?
The tale of the Bhringaraja tells us that we can’t “get around” the physical body or material existence and that the material world IS our Creator made manifest. I believe that ascension means living as our best and most loving selves as we work together to create a healthy planet for all. Maybe ascension just means rising to the occasion, as heroes of our own story. As Bhringarajas.
Matter = mater = mother.
“Love the Nature and love one another.”
