Celebrating World Water Day 2010! here is a message about water from Scott Frazier, founder of "Project Indigenous"
"Earth, wind, fire, and water are the sacred family that we use in order to be called 'human being.' We are a combination of these sacred elements. In fact, all things on our planet are combinations of the sacred. Everything is a chemical balance of the sacred. The chemical reaction that occurs when we cause separation of the sacred is risky because what we don’t want pollutants as a result that may then be discarded into the chaos of time.
After a period of time, the items we do not want or need any longer become a disposal problem. Often times, these unwanted items tend to be carried away in streams and waterways. The adage, “Out of sight is out of mind” becomes our thought process. Unfortunately, this thinking is not only outdated it is totally thoughtless of our families down stream from us.
The phrase, “we are all related” means truly, that everything is in fact related. All things are made of cells, molecules, and movement. Everything is earth, wind, fire, and water. The compassion for these elements is love for the self. Once we understand the mixture of the sacred, we will begin to understand our relationship to everything.
Water: To understand water is to understand freedom. Waters' relationship to all things is accepting and transformative. If a cup of clear water has drops of red dye added to it, the water eventually it will become red. There is a moment called the 'tipping point' when the water changes. As a human being, seeing water at a critical tipping point condition alerts us of a coming change we may not survive and we say the water is 'sick.' In reality, the water is about to change away from us and we are afraid of the change because we may not be allowed to follow. The freedom of water is that water will leave us behind. In order to avoid the 'tipping point' of change, we must reverse the trend towards the 'tipping point.' That means we must do as much work as possible now, to return the water to a relationship to us that is sacred. We must understand that water will be here after we are gone and it was our lack of spiritual understanding that forced water to go a different way.
What to do: We must start by understanding our relationship to water. We can begin by not polluting what we have. We can begin by understanding that we are water and not that water is us. Water was here first. We came from the water. We need to reinitiate the relationship to the sacred and become part of the ceremony rather than standing back and witnessing the ceremony. If you want to learn about rain, then stand in the rain and get it on your head. Be part of the environment not apart from the environment.
Care for the water is care of the self,
best wishes,
Scott Frazier, Crow /Santee
Founder of "Project Indigenous"