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There once was a young and zealous missionary who was called to a remote jungle to serve and convert an isolated tribe of indigenous people. When he arrived at the village, the people showed him hospitality unlike anything he had ever experienced. They had also prepared a wonderful dwelling for him and made sure his every need was met.

As the people of the village learned about the young man’s unique gifts and talents, they asked for his help with various tasks and projects. He gained a lot of satisfaction from being able to contribute to the well-being of the community.

As the missionary spent more time with the people, he came to see that even the tiniest details of their lives were marked with purpose and meaning. The pace and flow of life in the village was very different from anything he had experienced. People did whatever occurred to them, and everyone’s needs were abundantly and easily met.

He became very curious about what was behind the purpose, ease, and peace that infused every aspect of life in the village. One day he approached the village healer to learn more. The healer was an ancient woman who asked the missionary many questions about his life. After getting to know him, she started to tell him stories about the history of her people going back many generations.

She told a fantastic tale of how her people had ruled a vast global empire that was even more technologically advanced than his own country. She disclosed that her ancestors had enslaved the people of many nations and severely damaged the natural world to fuel their desire for wealth and power. Eventually their empire collapsed from a confluence of powerful climatic events, geological disasters, epidemics, political degradation, and unsustainable economic activity. Her community was made up of the descendants of a small group of survivors from that doomed civilization. Their current way of life was based on what they had learned from millennia spent in communion with the Divine Source that they called, “The I.” The missionary found her myths ridiculous but told her he found it “interesting” and left.

The following morning the missionary rushed to the healer’s home after waking from a terrifyingly real nightmare. After learning the contents of his dream, the healer said that it was showing him what was going to happen to his home country in the near future. She also revealed that the elders of the village had allowed him to come so that he could better help people during and after the collapse of his own civilization.

“But my country is nothing like the evil empire you described from your history. My country is dedicated to bringing peace and prosperity to the world.” The healer looked at him with sadness and deep compassion, “My beloved brother, our ancestors said the very same thing right before their world ended.”

Secrets of the Story

Every empire has seen itself as a great light to a darkened world, bringing order out of chaos and peace out of war. The supposed light of empire is actually darkness, for what every empire achieves is paid for in the blood of our soul siblings and our beautiful Earth Mother. The steep costs associated with the establishment and sustenance of empire are assumed to be necessary. Those who suffer under or resist empire are blamed for undermining the safety and security of the domination system that justifies its own greed and violence as being necessary and righteous.

Every empire promotes images of material rewards, punitive justice, and illusory peace through indoctrination, violence, and denial. Every empire believes in its right to control and dominate to achieve so-called peace through violence against people and Life itself. Every empire that has told itself this story has been wrong. That includes the current powers of the fabricated word of human invention who have ample historical evidence of the ultimate failure of every system of domination that humans have yet devised. The human capacity for self-deception in the face of overwhelming evidence is truly remarkable. We tell ourselves that we are so much smarter and better than those who failed before us. We’re not. Our rule will not last forever either. It will come to an abrupt and certain end.

True peace is not gained through violence but through the Unconditional Love that flows from the Heart of Divinity to the heart of humanity in answer to prayerful longing. Every kingdom and empire established by people disconnected from the Divine Source has fallen or will fail. Only that which is built upon the foundation of the Incorruptible and Unconditional Divine Love of God will last. Everything else, no matter how substantial it may seem, is only a passing shadow. The Truth that flows from the Heart of Divinity will ultimately set us all free, regardless of our position in the fabricated world that we have invented.