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Healing
To create peace, people's hearts and minds must change. The violence of war leaves injuries and injustice, including emotions of grief, pain, fear, and anger. These memories and feelings must be relieved. Earth's natural communities also need to recover from damage of centuries of war and industrialization.
The Peacemaker brought peace by awkening the desire in each person to live in peace with a good mind. Peace was not a military or political victory, but uplifting individuals to fulfill their highest potential. The three key people who brought peace—Jikohnsaseh, Hayehwentha and Tadodaho—were all transformed by The Peacemaker's message. His healing was a deep emotional, psychological change that allowed each to be a leader and advocate for peace.
Healing is not medicine. Healing does not dispense remedies to relieve trouble or cure disease. Healing restores the whole person to healthy relations and a way of life in balance with their world—family, community, nation, nature, and spirit. Healing understands that nature is health, while sickness and disease are signals warning we are out of balance. Healing helps us to hear our Original Instructions.
Today, after centuries of war, the land needs healing, people need healing, communities need healing, and nations need healing. Onondaga Lake—America's most polluted lake—is a tragic symbol of this urgent challenge.
Humans must reinvent how we live on Earth—how we share space and resources together, how we grow our food and what we eat, how we build our houses and landscape our communities. To do this, we must heal the wounds inflicted on our psyches and cultures by generations and centuries of war, oppression, racism, fear, and tyranny.
Stepping beyond shadows of personal and planetary history, we are ready to embrace the legacy of peace as Creator's greatest desire and hope for humanity.
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