Hopi Prophecy for Our Times

Could we follow the other path — to live from our hearts?

Aikya Param
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Image by Martin Winkler from Pixabay

Between 1970 and the present, Native American people began to make their prophecies public after nearly a century of silence. Since prophecy tells about the future, the message may not make sense when given. For many people, including me, not understanding something motivates research.

Coronavirus cases are filling our intensive care departments despite our high tech medical care. Individual choice is key to maintaining community health. Whether people follow the guidelines is each person’s choice without enforceable consequences for noncompliance. Since people can break the rules in their own homes where no one can see them, enforcement is nearly impossible.

We all need a greater understanding of how our character and behavior impacts community wellbeing. If we all had that, everyone would wear masks and physically distance from unrelated others. Our growth edge includes how personal qualities like respect, devotion, patience, generosity, fairness, kindness, etc. impact public health.

Can the Hopi prophesy help us understand what’s going on?

The increasingly widespread illness and death push me to look farther and deeper. Like me, many people looked up the Hopi

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Aikya Param
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Rev. Aikya Param is a minister at Oakland Center for Spiritual Living in Oakland, California, a published author and visual artist.