Blog Action Day: Today is the first annual Blog Action Day, the day bloggers unite to help raise awareness for the environment. Here is The Panentheist's contribution:
Greenpeace, the environmental activist group of which I became a member way back in 1983, named its first anti-whaling ship The Rainbow Warrior. The name came about from a prophesy recorded by the Cree Indian people which, according to Greenpeace ‘foresaw a time when the white man's materialistic ways would strip the earth of its resources, but just before it was too late the Great Spirit of the Indians would return to resurrect the braves and teach the white man reverence for the earth. They would become known as the Warriors of the Rainbow.’
From a panentheistic point of view, the Great Spirit is another attempt by a particular culture to describe and name ‘God’ and is as valid as any other attempt.
The first part of the Cree prophesy certainly seems to be coming true; although the white man has been joined by others of many colours in the stripping and rape of the earth.
Panentheism by its nature endues people with an inherent respect, love and reverence for the earth and for nature. Our environment is holy ground and to see it abused is something that can only be viewed with abhorrence. When the Warriors of the Rainbow rise to reclaim the earth from the despoilers, the panentheists will be in the vanguard.
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