Indigenous cultures mastered the art of persisting and growing while remaining sustainable. In this way they have mimicked the growth of various organ systems within a healthy body. They have retained the initial relationship that is important in maintaining the health of the body.

Most modern cultures have changed that relationship into the nature of metastatic malignant disease. Most have embarked on a linear consumptive process that belies a symbiotic relationship with the planet. Western culture has been the most powerful of these both in its effect on the planet and the speed with which it has spread.

Energetically this has the quality and flow of a black hole. In terms of the physics, as soon as material approaches the event horizon, it is drawn in and then consumed. In much the same way modern developed culture pulls in persons from less developed cultures as well as resources and then reproduces itself in the undeveloped culture down to the linear consumption.

This follows the pattern of the metastatic spread of a malignancy throughout the body, where each malignant cell is able to set up a colony in a new as yet unaffected area. Here an established colony quickly grows consuming local resources much beyond the capacity and rate at which they can be provided or replaced. The result is consumption and destruction of abnormal as well as normal tissue. It creates the same black hole energy flow or pattern as soon as resources enter the “event horizon” and they are consumed leading to an entity that attracts even more resources and so on.

This is a typically revealing recognition that energy patterns repeat themselves in the universe on small as well as large scales. It is only with the recognition of such patterns and when they shift from the typically sustainable cyclic pattern, as with the cyclic pattern of a solar system where there is balance between the forces pulling planetary bodies toward the sun and those moving them away, that there is an ability to maintain sustainability. In other words sustainability requires recognition of the underlying energy pattern that produces it and its subsequent creation.

In order for modern cultures to move through this transition, this has to be acknowledged on the individual level as these same energy patterns are present in our individual lives. This indeed is our task ahead. If we are able to recognize these in our lives and make the shift, this will follow on a larger scale.