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        I remember when the tsunami hit Asia the day after Christmas. It was the largest natural disaster I have ever seen on TV.. It was hard to comprehend at first the magnitude of loss. A hundred thousand people dead in a day seemed unreal. I watch all the news footage on it, just to learn of the devastation

        I wondered why that half of the world was annihilated, and I was (thankfully) safe. Then I discussed it with a lot of people and found that the people I spoke with, all felt that the people of those countries devasted, somehow anger the gods and provoked their anger.

        Are the gods angry ? I read an article by Judith Goldberg stating something very errie. An aerial photograph of the wave that attacked the shore of Sri Lanka appeared in a Japanese newspaper the following day. A figure resembling a dragon can clearly be seen in the waves. An article entitled" Rampage of the Dragon God" accompanied the photo. In Japan, dragons have long been worshipped as the god for water. Similarly, in Chinese mythology, dragons are charged with controlling the rains. Since time immemorial, across all cultures, natural disasters have been ascribed to the anger of one or another of a whole host of gods. In fact, following the recent tragic hurricane that hit the Gulf States, callers to Christian talk radio stations in the area (remember its part of the bible Belt) were calling for residents of New Orleans and Biloxi, both havens for gambling, to repent. Clearly, the wrath of God was an operative cause of the disaster in their belief system.

And once again, Asia has been hit with the ferocious strength of a mad dragon taking 50,000 people.

So how can we explain our current tidal wave of destruction ( pardoned the pun). One scientist says, "obviously, something is in the water" and at least one scientific researcher thinks he has found the answer-consciousness!

Judith Goldberg states, that a Japanese scientist, Dr. Masaru Emoto has become a kind of New Age darling since his photographs showing the effects of human emotions on the crystalline structures of water appeared in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know". His book, "The Hidden Messages in Water" promotes an eye-opening theory showing how water is deeply connected to people's individual and collective consciousness. Using high-speed photography, he found that water crystals reveal changes when exposed to specific thoughts, music, visual images, written words and photographs. Emoto theorizes that since water has the ability to receive a wide range of frequencies, it can also reflect the universe in this manner. Emoto also believes that since people are 70 percent water, and the Earth is 75 percent water, we can heal our planet and ourselves by consciously expressing love and goodwill.

Wow! how simple a solution. However, how do we get people to express love and goodwill in such an angry human society.

In ancient times Proteus, also known as "The Old Man in the Sea" was known for shapeshifting. And in the picture of the tsunami we can see a dragon that could be Proteus in the form of a dragon, or is it just a coincidence. If an out pouring of love and goodwill can really change the course of raging waters as the Japanese scientist says, then it seems logical that prayer could also have the same effect. If everyone prayed at the same time for love and goodwill we could quiet the raging seas.

So how do we escape and fly away from all the meanness, in what seems like a world full of it? I think its time that as human beings we assume good stewardship of the environment. And for once try to think of someone else other than ourselves. We should pay homage to the gods and to each other because the old saying is true, "What goes around comes around"