Are We Safe From Caldera Eruptions?

"The Earth is drastically out of balance now," Bennie LeBeau says. "This Medicine Wheel ceremony will strive to re-set the basic tone -- or vibrational pattern -- of the West, and by extension help to re-attune the whole of the earth." The scope of the Medicine Wheel ceremony was immense. The axis of the great medicine wheel is at the Four Grandmothers Standing Tall mountain range in the Grand Tetons, with spokes extending 300 miles to spiritual portals at places like Mt. Shasta, CA, Mt. Ranier, Washington, Lake Louise, AB, and Lake Sullivan, AB. This is why the Medicine Wheel ceremony took on such importance to me, because I knew that the area near Edmonton and Lake Louise had something very special about it and the land near it. The Earth is out of balance, these folks believe, and this ceremony was a last attempt at re-attenuating human focus on our impact on the environment. A man named Bennie LeBeau believes that the ceremony was meant to avert a potentially devastating eruption of a 600,000-year-old dormant super volcano in Yellowstone National Park, the Yellowstone Caldera (3). "According to Bennie, it is important to understand the relationship of the energy lines that link place to place on earth, and also the earth with the heavens. These energy pathways are like the nervous system of the human body and its wiring system, he said. The lines (ley lines) make up a matrix, or a network of energy for the body of the earth, and they can be adjusted the way a human body can be adjusted with acupuncture. Bennie said that right now bad vibrations have built up to massive levels, and are stressing out the Earth Mother as well as many of her people. One clear evidence of this distress that is of particular concern to him is seismic activity in and around Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, near the homeland of his Eastern Shoshone tribe. Geologists call Yellowstone a super volcano, because of the massive caldera of molten fire beneath the park. Over 10,000 geysers -- including "Old Faithful" -- rise from the depths of the earth. Yellowstone has more geothermal activity in one concentrated region than all the other sites on the planet put together. Bennie LeBeau says that recent eruptions, 200-degree ground temperatures, bulging magma, 84-degree water temperatures in the lake, and a massive, unexplained die-off of elk tell him that something big is happening at Yellowstone right now, that "the earth is profoundly disturbed." The Earth appears to be groaning and travailing, as we have seen horrifying earthquakes in Bam, Iran, in addition to the earthquake which caused the tsunami in Indonesia, and weather patterns do appear to be getting more extreme. The most mind-boggling aspect of the Indonesian Earthquake is that it did not set off the Toba Caldera, an even more ferocious Caldera on the Island of Sumatra. (4) The Toba Caldera erupted 75,000 years ago and spewed 2800 cubic kilometers of ash, whereas the Yellowstone Caldera's eruption spewed 2500. It lies in the northern region of Indonesia which has been pinpointed as the epicenter of December 26th's earthquake (5): "The death toll in Indonesia from Sunday's giant earthquake and tsunami has risen to almost 33,000. Great tracts of land in Aceh province are still under surging ocean and at the moment there is still no word from many isolated communities. However, officials have warned the casualty figures would jump even higher - once contact is finally made with the area emerging as the quake's ground zero." Perhaps our media have not realized that the crisis could have been much worse - the Toba Caldera could have erupted and killed many millions of people in South Asia. The crisis is indeed terrible in South Asia, but amidst the panic, we should be thankful that something far worse did not happen. (1) http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/articles/2004/12/08/news/bennie.txt (2) http://www.chiron-communications.com/communique%209-2.html (3) http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Yellowstone/framework.html (4) http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/southeast_asia/indonesia/toba.html (5) http://rsi.com.sg/english/newsline/view/20041229204048/1/.html