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We have entered a time of great change.  Over the centuries, in the name of "progress", we have grown further and further apart from the natural world on which we depend.
The natural world has ceased being an interrelated web of living beings that we honor and instead has become resources that must be exploited, developed, mass produced, and consumed.
We forget the most fundamental of all teachings: we are all connected, in a living web of life. Honoring and celebrating our sacred relationships with all life ensures a healthy and abundant world. These sacred relationships lie at the heart of all earth-based wisdom and are expressed through sacred places. We cannot survive without them. The results of our forgetfulness are all too easy to see. 
Because of human-caused global warming, icecaps on both poles are collapsing. Glaciers worldwide are melting. Sea levels are rising. Deserts, like the Sahara, are expanding. Historical weather patterns are being replaced by weather extremes. The lungs of the planet, the Amazon rainforest, is being parcled, cut and cleared. Animals and plant species are disappearing. Clean, drinkable water is becoming more scarce every day. Indigenous people are being exiled and exterminated so corporations can pilage the land unchallenged. Our most sacred places are being mined, cleared, and desecrated. The health of our Earth Mother is in peril from the changes we have brought to this planet. Great storms bring messages. Even the animals try to warn us in their own ways that we have gone too far.  We have reached a great Time of Change as described in the prophetic wisdom held sacred by knowledge keepers of many Indigenous nations including the Iladurarrak.
So we arrive at a crossroads. Our future depends on the path we choose. Do we return to the Old Ways of nurturing the sacred relationships? Or do we abandon this responsibiity for the destructive trappings of material wealth and instant gratification? For too long we have allowed this modern path to cloud our vision and destroy our spirits. Now, many people are feeling empty...depressed...disconnected. We know something essential is missing from our lives, but the desire for profound change is muted by the sorrow of our circumstances.  But we cannot afford to despair. There are reasons for hope.
For people of European heritage, two compelling healing forces are at work. The first, is the force that draws people of European heritage to the medicine ways of Native Americans and other earth-based cultures. But this is a very difficult and sensitive path to walk as this knowledge must always be freely given by other nations, never bought or taken. The second, and most powerful, is the force that draws us back to honoring our own ancient ancestors of Europe and rediscovering their living history and wisdom. The awakening of the European tribes has been predicted by many cultures for thousands of years.  The awakening of the Iladurarrak and other tribes of the european continent means immersing ourselves in the pool of knowledge that comes from honoring our relationship with the animals, plants and all nature, from prayers and rituals, and from infusing our Ancestor's unique culture into our daily lives. By doing this, our hearts may learn to hear the voices from the past that can guide us home.
We have reached the crossroads which is the Time of Change. How we respond will determine our future. May the Great Spirits and Ancestors guide us to the sacred path. Hoa!
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