Channeled at mass on 3.22.2025 by Frater Babylon

Do you know that there’s life that lives on the Chernobyl reactor? There’s a special type of mold that evolved to live off the energy that would be so destructive to anything else. A thing you can’t even look at without dying, and there’s life. And perhaps it is strange and unrecognizable, but it is life. 

And that doesn’t mean that we have to give up and give the world over to strange molds, and jellyfish, and algae that bloom in the heated waters. We are an adaptable species, if nothing else. Intensely adaptable, otherwise we would not be found on every continent of this planet. So very few things are. But we are adaptable and we can adapt.

I say we, because, well… my mother had been human. Both of my mothers had been human! 

In any case… there is still hope. There is always hope. 

The thing about Spring– much like the rising of the sun– is that in certain cultures, it used to be something where they believed they had to do something to make sure it happened. Hope is not just hoping for the best. Hope is making way for the best, as well as preparing for the worst. Make the best case scenario. 

And I don’t mean the simple acts of kindness to one another, sheltering one another… You need to learn the world. You need to learn the conditions you will be living in, how to navigate them, and how to improve them. 

This is a time not to look away, from science, from the climate, from the conditions. You can learn, you can understand, you could be the one with the idea that grants survival.

Learn. 

Do not be afraid, do not turn your face away from what is, because what it is, is always the starting place for hope. Hopelessness drifts off into fantasies of a world that is better than what we have.

Hope stands here and says “we can fix this.”

And after the flood, we can be here. We can repopulate the Earth. We are not gone. 

Do not fade into nostalgia. There’s no need to. There is a future if you make a future. 

The world is intensely complicated at this point in history. Systems of trade, interventions in all sorts of ways, complicated ways… systems of irrigation, systems of pest control… *laughs* for example, there is a type of insect that was formerly devastating in the Southern United States. A government program created a border which they cannot cross because, essentially they put a bunch of sterile insects there to encourage them to breed with the sexy sterile ones, and then there aren’t any more on the other side of that insect border. This is a world of immense connection. This is a world where things from every place on the planet are probably in your home right now. You need to understand those systems. Only by understanding, only by knowing where you are, can you get to where you’re going. 

Hope here. Hope in your body, in the world, as it is. Do not wish it were different, you cannot wish it away. You have to act, and you can. 

That is what is so magical about humanity. You have the fruit of knowledge. You consumed the capacity to know and understand vast amounts of information. You create systems complex beyond complexity, and yet together, if you talk, and you work together, and you understand, and you learn, you can master those systems. You can understand how they work, why they work, and what’s wrong with them. These are systems that are created, not by pure, simple, trial-and-error evolution, although there is some of that, but these systems of immense complexity are changeable because they are human designed and humans have the intellectual capacity to change systems. 

Understand the system, understand how it works, and why it works, and understand the places where there is a point of intervention, because there are. There are points of intervention. 

I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the anecdote about Germany’s single ball bearing manufacturing factory during World War II. Ball bearings are immensely important. They’re very useful and show up in all sorts of things. You can’t make– well, almost any machinery without them. And there was one place in Germany with the machinery to efficiently produce ball bearings. If you take out the ball bearing factory, tank factories, gun factories, etc, etc, fail in a cascade. 

Learn the setup of the dominos, and know which one to flick.