A couple of my clients lately have said they have "deja vu": "I dreamed that I was helping all these black people escape flood waters, and when I woke up, I heard about the earthquakes in Haiti." And this: "Before I close my eyes at night, I hold the intention that the universe can send my spirit wherever it most needed in the world, to assist while I sleep." Right now, the mass media is filled with talk of Haiti, Haiti, Haiti, but it almost doesn't matter
which culture, geographic zone, time or place this anguish is taking place. We've seen it many times before and recently (war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami, China's Sichuan earthquake, Victorian bushfires) and we'll continue to see it again, until we stand together as One.Not that long ago, the earth was a quieter, slower place; people were scattered in villages where mail arrived slowly (nine months across seas) and news came word-of-mouth via rugged horse and cart. Villagers didn't much know or care about wars or natural disasters being experienced elsewhere -- after all, the world had not yet become a 'global village'. Your grandfather might have had a wireless, but maybe not a telephone, as a boy; newspaper reports of far-off tragedies contained no photographs.
By the time World War Two rolled around, morse code was tapping merrily away, but do our history books contain almost any colour photographs from the entire 1939-1945 era?! You'd think the entire world was grainy, black and white. The Vietnam War was the first time that human suffering was truly experienced on a greater level of empathy than ever before. Every night, cosy family units sat down in their living rooms and watched bloody Vietnamese babies and poisonous Agent Orange dripping through rainforests. The result? Ordinary suburbanites shook themselves out of their stupors and woke up -- with over 500,000,000 protesting "the most unpopular war in history".
There has been many wars and natural disasters since 1975, but I believe they've started to take on a very different meaning. When soldiers fought in the Crimean War (1853-6), for example, they were probably acting out the karmic lessons of a large soul group. When fresh-faced lads flew to the Gulf in 1991, however, they might have been partaking in important soul contracts too -- but this time, they dragged the whole world's conscience along with them.
Technology has sped up: we can connect with anyone, anywhere, instantly (did anyone say 'telepathy'?!). Added to this, our planet is becoming increasingly spiritual en masse. So we have a connected global village who are beginning to experience deep, caring, concerned emotions together as One... and thus, 'necessary' tragedies like Haiti are the glue that are finally cementing us together.