Black Dawn, Bright Day by Sun Bear

Author:Sun Bear
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone

Creating Imbalance

In the fall of 1973 in northern California, 100 million mice invaded Tule Lake. The folks who lived there were asking for people to send cats. They were using every means possible to kill the mice — clubbing them, digging ditches, anything they could think of to get rid of them.

In 1984 in southern Idaho, more than a million jack rabbits were creating havoc with the crops. The farmers said the rabbits were doing $5 million in damage a year. Farmers were lining up rabbit drives to club the rabbits to death by the thousands. They killed 85,000 rabbits one weekend, and 90,000 another weekend. The killing went on like this, with clubbing and poison-laced alfalfa pellets, until the farmers had killed one million rabbits.

Why were there all those surplus rabbits? Why 100 million mice? The answer is because the same ranchers and farmers had killed every hawk, owl, skunk and coyote — all the wild, natural predators that keep the balance in nature. That’s why. We create imbalances in nature, and then we have to suffer the consequences. What will thrive next in the absence of all the mice and rabbits?

Because of humans, the cycles of many animals, in addition to mice and rabbits, are out of balance. I’ve seen many animals bear their young, then refuse to look after them and nurse them. This is happening with both farm and wild animals. Because the elements are so pushed out of balance, the animals are losing their ability to work in harmony.

So are the plants. We are seeing the trees bud in northern areas during unseasonably warm weather in the winter, sometimes as early as February. Then a heavy frost comes along and freezes them up again. This can mean the end of the fruit crop for that year.

The imbalance also extends to humans. Major illnesses heretofore unknown are one of the biggest dangers that I foresee. Some will be caused by the pollutants humans have put into the land. Combinations of pollutants bring new diseases. AIDS is just a forerunner of what will come. There will soon be other diseases over which we have no control.

The chemicals we have used in our food chain have weakened it. Much of the food we get now doesn’t have any natural nutrients. We’ve worn out the soil and haven’t put the proper nutrients back into it. Most of the food is harvested before it has had time to ripen, so it lacks the natural power it would otherwise have. I see the stamina of many humans weakening because of this food.

It is also true, in many parts of the world today, that people have gotten sucked into the fast foods, the processed foods, and they don’t have the stamina that they once had. A while back, I had two young men come out and cut wood with me. They were with me to learn spiritual things. I said, “Here’s the first spiritual thing that we are going to do. We are going to cut the wood here in this woodpile.

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