From the last story of the book the Global Forest
by Diana Beresford-Kroeger , pages 163-166,
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http://www.stuartbernstein.com/beresford-kroeger.html
THE FOREST AND THE FIRE-KEEPER
"In every Ending There Is A New Beginning"
Unlike books, words are old. So are the oral traditions of global cultures. A collective memory was kept alive and passed on in the oral traditions of storytelling, songs, poetry, and family bloodlines. Occasionally within a culture a mystic would arise who could see a clear vision of the future from the patterns of the past. These mystics were prophets. They had the gift of prophecy and their words were remembered.
The oral tradition of any culture is its essence. It skims off wisdom and keeps these nuggets close from bosom to bosom down through the generations. This wisdom is collectively gathered and is committed to memory for use. Those who gather this wisdom have many names in many cultures. For the First Nations, the aboriginal peoples of North America, they are called the "Fire-keepers."
The fire-keeper is the keeper of legends. The fire-keeper is also charged with the memory of prophecy. Such items of future history are recorded according to a dateline of some event outside of the normal measurement of time. This clocks the event into the future in a timeline that nobody can dispute.
The forecasts of prophecy are fairly common phenomena that are often adopted universally and become embedded in the public's consciousness of the time. These, too, are remembered in common as an anchor for the prophecy itself.
At present there is a prophecy for the direct future of the times in which we all live. This prophecy concerns nature itself. Nature or Mother Nature, which is sometimes described as Gaia, is composed of a complex web of life in which all things live in an interdependent manner. The small is equal to the large in this network of life. And the small is codependent on the large for its life force. Every cog is placed in every wheel for a reason. There is a balance there too, a little play in this giant system so that it all works together hand in hand.
There is a timeline for this prophecy, too. The prophecy will happen around the time of the great dying of the North American maples, Acer saccharum, the sugar maples. These maples are the great feeding trees of the eastern seaboard of America. These trees will begin to decline from the tip. At first the tops of the trees will wither and die. Then the disease will spread downward through the trees until they lose all of their leaves. This dying is the beginning of the timeline of the destruction of nature.
The rape of nature has then begun. Other trees will succumb to various infestations. The loss of the forests will foreshadow a period of devastation. People will not realize what they have done, but they will continue in their path of demolition. From the peoples of today will arise another new generation of children. These children will be different from all those who came before. These children will have many gifts. They will be able to do extraordinary things.
Primarily these children will have the gift of telepathy. They will be able to communicate with one another across the globe, even though they do not know one another. Their recognition factor will be youth itself. These children too will have the gift of the dream. In the dream they will have clarity of vision. From this dream they will understand what has happened to nature. They will understand it and comprehend what their parents have done. Many of these children, too, will have the gift of prophecy. This will frighten them in the beginning until they gain an understanding.
Then the children of this generation will want to help the planet and nature in a collective way. They will hold hands across the planet in their minds. They will alter their parents' ways. They will encourage one another. In this circle of life the children will save their parents through a dream and through a prophecy. In saving their parents they will save the planet.
This is an old legend, told before the advent of the computer or the Internet. It was told before the advent of radio, television, mass media-even before electricity. It was told at a time when the sugar maples were healthy and producing copious quantities of sap for maple sugar.
Even as the words of the legend of the fire-keeper come together there is a truth to them. The media is filled with stories of nature's abuse. Those who should protect nature calmly put whole forests like the boreal forest on the chopping block without a moment's hesitation. Those who want more oil are busy with their killer sonar techniques in the krill-rich waters of the Tatarskiy Proliv (Strait of Tatar) between Sakhalin Island and mainland Russia, the birthing ground of the bowhead and the feeding grounds of the great whales. There seems no end to greed and no beginning to sustainable management of the planetary resource basis.
But the children exist. They have been taught a better mode of planetary management. The consumerism in their lives bores holes of unbearable solitude. They are already reaching for something else, something elusive, something that is color-blind to race. It is called dignity, the dignity of life, all life.
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Diana Beresford-Droeger is a botanist and medical biochemist who is an expert not he medicinal, environmental, and nutritional properties of trees. She lives in Ontario, Canada, surrounded by her sprawling research gardens filled with rare and endangered species.
From an Amazon.com review:
Perhaps because of the Irish ancestry she references at the outset, with its tradition of storytelling, the form of the essays is far from scientific but rather that of almost mystical, poetic appreciation. They even begin with a subtitle "refrain" that captures the essence of each piece. Yes, the book is full of the amazing facts I was hoping to find - such as the existence of warm-blooded plants and the complex chemistry that trees have evolved in order to survive. And there is a hopeful theme of the potential to reverse global ecologic devastation through reforestation. But most of all this is the sensually and lovingly written ode of a passionate scientist, harking back to writers of more enlightened ages."
From the cover of The Global Forest:
All of life as we know it hangs on trees in a matrix of complexity we call the living earth.
Her extraordinary bioplan shows how trees can be planted in rural and urban areas to promate health and counteract pollution and maintain biodiversity in the face of climate change.
Using the voice and style of her ancestors including, Irish Seanchai, the traditional story tellers who drifted through the landscape at night visiting farmsteads, she has crafted an original work of natural history. Her indisputable passion of life inspires people to see trees and their own connections with nature with awe.
http://www.stuartbernstein.com/beresford-kroeger.htm
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