Thursday, October 16, 2014

A Writer Finds Truth In Predictions Made Twenty-Five Years Ago

                             
 By Marlise Wabun Wind | Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - Off the Shelf

 In the past few months there have been serious earthquakes in Chile, the Solomon Islands, and Southern California; tornadoes in the middle of the United States; cyclones in the Pacific; mudslides in Washington state; and continuing unexpected severe weather in many parts of the world. According to Native prophecies, we are in the time of the earth cleansing, a time when the planet will rebalance itself to overcome the damage wrought by humans. 

In 1989,  I wrote Black Dawn, Bright Day: Indian Prophecies for the Millennium with the late Native teacher, Sun Bear. When I reread this book now, it is like a summary of the news of the intervening years. So many of the prophecies in it have been or are being fulfilled. Desertification continues. The seas continue to be polluted. Water tables keep dropping, and much of the earth’s water isn’t fit to drink. Poisons continue to be put into the land. Consequently, much of the food we now eat has few natural nutrients. This weakens the food chain, and then the immune systems of all humans and animals. This, in turn, makes us ever more vulnerable to both old and new diseases. “Natural disasters” are increasing in intensity to the point that they are happening somewhere every day. 

In Black Dawn, Bright Day, Sun Bear revealed, “A prophecy of my Native people speaks of a time when the earth would hold back her increase: one area would be too wet; another, too dry. One place would be too hot; another, too cold.” Sun Bear only lived to see the beginning of the climate changes that are now occurring. - More

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