Earth calling mankind!

I am sitting at the CCP Main Theater watching a rehearsal when a dark figure approaches me. It is Roy Alvarez, film, television, and theater actor. "I want to talk to you about an article," he says excitedly. There is urgency in Roy. He tells me this not going to be about the UFOs he was closely associated with for a time. He wants to talk about the earth, our planet, which is in danger. His earnestness gives me the feeling that something is about to explode.

Soon enough, I am sitting in a café with him for the interview. Again, he gives the sensation of a coming blast. "Roy," I say, "is the world ending or something?" He laughs and says, "No, not really," but his revelation bares statistics that close in on doomsday. Right now I’m very scared.

Mind over malice? Roy reveals that humanity’s current consciousness is making the earth sink towards ruin. The planet is heating up, the sun is cooling down, our magnetic field is getting thinner, our minerals are getting depleted, the earth’s rotation is slowing down, the sun is losing its geo-magnetic field, icebergs are melting and sea levels are rising. But these are truths constantly exposed by media. I begin to wonder how I will write an article that many experts have written and talked about.

But wait. Did Roy say something about the consciousness of humanity having to do with all these? I could never really determine the boundaries of this connection but I have always felt it deep inside me. Roy put it in words succinctly. There is a particular trash, he says, that deposits waste on earth, filth in the water, and poison in the air. This trash ultimately ravages our physical bodies. What can be the premium trash, mother of all rubbish that is responsible for all of earth’s havoc? "It is the garbage within ourselves," says Roy. That makes sense. The garbage inside us is responsible for the garbage of the world.

I watch television, films, theater; I see faces urgently pushing for success on earth, inching their way towards power, fame, money. This excessive concern with material baggage, rather than spiritual values, deviates from the course of truth. Very few heed God. Imagine how you’d feel if you created these worms who do not acknowledge you. Won’t you simply spray insecticide on them and never look back?

According to Roy, mankind has turned so materialistic it has overlooked the spiritual aspect of life. In our entirety, we are embodied by the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. If we are able to answer three questions with virtue and honesty as human beings we will help heal the planet.

Who are we? What are we doing here? What is our relationship to God and creation? The third question is the most important but one that people forget to ask. "The answers will make us aware of natural laws and we become pro-life," says Roy.

"Ignorance brings fear and greed. When we don’t know who we are, what we are doing here and how we relate to God and creation, we cling to material things that give us security, making shortcuts to control our lives. We become truly human by removing these and we successfully remove the garbage of the earth."

According to scientific findings, our planet is in critical condition, strained to the limit and ready to heal itself. "That’s not very good news," says Roy. "The planet is going through a big change and man must heal it or catastrophic things will occur. When the subconsciousness of humanity is low, plus if the planet itself is not balanced, it will heal itself. We have earthquakes, floods, major climactic shifts … devastation."

Roy concludes that with positive thinking, love, responsibility, meditation, the use of the mind and feelings we can regenerate the earth. "The heart, that’s the most powerful," he says. "Attach feelings to thought and you empower them, manifesting the abstract to the physical. Quantum healing is what it’s called. It’s fast, it happens immediately.

If a human loses 1/3 of his skin, he dies. If 1/3 of the bark of a tree is removed, it dies. Experts are saying that 1/3 of the planet’s skin, the forest, is gone. Eighty percent of the forest cover in the Philippines has disappeared. We have denuded our forests to make room for our manmade jungles. The trees that get carbon dioxide and emit oxygen are disappearing, and the remaining trees are themselves poisoned. The water table has gone down. It’s impossible for man and creatures to live without water.

He discloses that the earth follows a cycle every 12 thousand years, at the end of which it should be balanced. If not, it proceeds to the next cycle of 90 thousand years … ice age. Right now, pollution has enveloped the earth so that the sun’s heat and energy cannot go back to space. This is global warming. Therefore, icebergs are melting and causing sea levels to rise. By the way, Manila is below sea level.

Man’s passion for convenience has created yet another dilemma: garbage and its disposal. Garbage must be disposed of according to the laws of nature or else it will create poison. What came from earth must return to earth. What is created by man should return to the factories. They shouldn’t produce what they can’t get back or recycle. Fact: Manila is the second most polluted city in the world next to Mexico.

In a US test they found a newspaper intact after 40 years in a landfill. It didn’t rot because there was no air, no moisture and so bacteria did not function. In effect, landfills preserve garbage rather than dispose of it. The layers of plastic and clay set beneath the trash cracks and poison seep through to the water table poisoning the soil. So it doesn’t work.

Mixing biodegradable with non-biodegradable waste creates a poison called methane. It poisons land, air and water. So we must disposeof our garbage in a manner helpful to nature. Two good ways are through composting and segregating.

Roy suggests one good way of disposing our kitchen garbage. "Dig a 1 x1 foot hole in your garden or prepare 10 empty plant pots if you have no garden. In the kitchen, have a covered plastic pail where you can put biodegradable chopped-up waste. At the end of each meal, put your waste in the hole or pot and cover with 1 to 2 inches of soil. By the time you reach the 10th pot, the 1st one has become compost which you can use as an organic fertilizer. In this way, you are feeding Mother Earth, returning to her what came from her. This is the basic rule of nature.

We must segregate other garbage by preparing box containers for paper, cans, bottles, etc. At the end of each week call your baranggay for the buying and selling. Here’s the catch. If your baranggay does not have provisions for these, go to work. You and your neighbors can help establish a system for one. The whole community can earn money with garbage instead of suffering its consequences.

Roy, who is affiliated with the Mother Earth Foundation, has gone all over the country to give what is called the Zero Basura Workshop. It is a three-day, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. comprehensive symposium where community leaders, teachers, parents and children are given invaluable information about ecological problems and solutions. "Segregation, composting and recycling cost nothing, yet people can earn from them," says Roy. Communities that have had his awareness lectures are now earning from garbage instead of spending for it. You will know how sincere your government officials are by the way they absorb this information.

If you want to reach him, call or text 0918-904-2596. He will be happy to give these workshops at any given place nationwide. These lectures are held two to four times a week reaching 800 to 1000 people each week in baranggays, civic clubs and organizations, parishes, schools, subdivisions, condominiums, government offices/LGUs, hospitals, military establishments, etc.

I can see how effective Roy is being who he is with his engaging and winning personality. He has so much more information to share with you. Like him, we can do community service starting from our own homes and kitchens and then spreading to our neighborhood, municipality, city, province, country and finally, to our dying planet. There is a child in the man throbbing with affection for the planet we call earth. He is tapping the child in all of us, the one we have left behind in our quest for worldly possessions.

Let’s all celebrate this month, being World Environment Month, with vigor and positive consciousness.

A prayer to the Holy Spirit includes, " … send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created and You shall renew the face of the earth." If we start with that we will help earth remain the sanctuary God meant it to be. He gave us a beautiful home full of resources by which we can live an extraordinary life. Earth is complete. Shall we use it or lose it?