Oil and Water

The British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the southern United States coast is filled with interesting Attunement vibrations. A well ‘kill’ solution has worked on the leaking well as of this writing; a permanent plug is expected in the next few weeks, barring severe weather.

This disastrous environmental situation is particularly ironic in that ‘oil’ in many ancient texts, like the Bible, was often used as a symbol of Love. “Putting the oil of love on troubled waters will calm the storm” is something my Bible toting grandmother told me more than once. The saying does not seem to apply in this egregious (conspicuously bad) circumstance where a growing oily, sticky, suffocating mess appeared along the southern shorelines, on the surface waters, and in the deeper undersea waters of the Gulf. Who could have imagined such a problem – obviously not the BP corporate world or anyone else in government, or science, or any environmental activist in this region. What was the ‘worst case scenario’ the petroleum engineers were prepared to handle? Whatever it was Life has brought something else to the scene. Why?

A few weeks ago I was watching the remote video (such technology) of the ongoing spill while sharing Attunement with the country’s (and my) feelings of sadness, disheartenment and deep frustration, when I was reminded of a blood test that I received several months ago. The practitioner inserts a needle to draw blood from one of your veins. After the initial prick of the needle you can witness your blood beginning to flow up the needle to a collecting point (tube). There is not a lot of pain, but you are bleeding and you can see it. I have thought to myself that perhaps that is what is transpiring with this catastrophic environmental mishap. Perhaps it is not just a mishap. Could it be Life taking a blood sample from a sick civilization?

Author Immanuel Velikovsky (now deceased) wrote about world-wide catastrophes and mankind’s amnesia of such events in his many works (which came from myth and stories of ancient peoples and geological facts). I have greatly enjoyed his particular view and wisdom. (see the web site http://www.varchive.org) One specific event was the close encounter with a comet which we now know as the planet Venus during the ancient time of the Exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt. To make a long story short, one aspect of this close encounter was ‘manna’ raining from the sky (a gift from the heavenly Father). The manna kept the Children of Israel from starving to death. Interestingly enough the manna had an oily taste. Velikovsky proposed that manna was petroleum based hydrocarbons. If so (and I tend to agree with his assertion), can you imagine thousands of pools of oily substance falling to earth? It would have been like having hundreds of Gulf oil spills. And in today’s world here is the substance (fossil fuel) that powers our civilization.

Colossal change is upon the surface of the planet which includes us all. Life is transforming the world right before our eyes. Are the changes good or bad? Who really knows? So let’s not judge the situation. Yesterday, researchers reporting in the journal Science say they have discovered a new species of oil-eating bacteria living half a mile down in the Gulf of Mexico. Terry Hazen, a microbiologist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California reported that there are encouraging signs that bacteria are consuming the underwater oil plume from the broken BP well. Now that is Attunement!

There are many people around the global sharing their form of Attunement to help the planet. It is not so much that there may be a ‘fix’ to various problems ailing our civilization, rather, that there may be someone(s) in Attunement with Life. Then whatever transformation unfolds in our world, the radiation of Love will be present and have its divine influence.

Like my car’s license plate holder says, ‘share Attunement and bless the world!’

— Chris Jorgensen