The Story of Creation Is Not Finished — It Is Unfolding Now, and We Are the Authors.
The Story of Creation is not a finished thing. It is an active, present-time event, unfolding before our eyes — and we are its authors.
Every one of us is writing the story of the Creation of the Earth, here and now, into the future. Just as the actions of our ancestors wrote the story of the times before us, the actions we take today write the story of our present and our future. The Creation did not happen once, long ago. It is happening now, through us.
We Are the Custodians of the Web of Life
When we understand Creation this way, we can step fully into our responsibility as custodians of the Web of Life. Our collective actions, woven together, create our future and hold the balance of the living world. When one strand of the web falls out of balance, the whole web feels it. And when we take an action to heal and rebalance the web, that action reverberates outward through every strand in a positive way.
Songlines: Singing the Land Alive
I came to feel this more deeply while talking with some of the Aboriginal artists we met traveling through Central Australia. The depth of their connection to the land struck me — and I saw that it was rooted in an understanding that Creation is a continuing, present-time event.
In Aboriginal Australian tradition, a songline — also called a Dreaming track — is a route across the land, and sometimes the sky, laid down by the Creator-beings during the Dreaming, the time of the world's making. The path is carried in song, story, dance, and painting, and the people sing it continually to keep the land itself alive.
As Westerners born into modern society, most of us are cut off from the land and from the old songs that keep it alive. And so we must each find, for ourselves, the songlines we are meant to sing. When we find our song and sing the story of our life into being, we add a line to the great symphony of Creation. We take responsibility for what we create, and for our guardianship of the land we walk upon. To sing our song, in the end, is the very reason we are alive.
The Hidden Story That Disconnects Us
When I watch human behavior — on the global, political scale and the small, interpersonal one — I often wonder why a person would act to harm another. With so many people saying they want to "save the Earth," why is there so much division and infighting among those who claim to share the same goals?
In my journeywork, I have been shown that the root of this lies in a subversion of our Creation mythology: a programming, laid into the Western mind from birth, that Creation is a past event — something already finished, for which we bear no responsibility. It is a belief so old and so deeply rooted that it predates each of us by millennia.
Cut off in this way, we lose our sense of purpose and begin, unconsciously, to search for justification simply for being alive. That hidden search for validation is what drives so much self-sabotage — and it is what makes energetically sensitive people vulnerable to absorbing the negativity of others. But when we are rooted instead in the knowledge that Creation is ongoing and present, we understand that singing our own song, in connection with the land, is the purpose of life. We need no further validation for our existence.
Creation Is Still Happening
Whether you believe that "in the beginning, God created Heaven and Earth," or that it all began with a Big Bang, the same thing tends to get missed: the Creation is still happening. Our work is to continue it — in balance and in health, in present time. It doesn't matter whether your focus is the harmony of your own family or the larger balance of the Web of Life; either way, we are called to take up our role as custodians of the Creation, here and now.
The Global Agreement Beneath It All
In my own journey work, I was shown a negative, global agreement that has plagued humanity for thousands of years: "I am willing to sacrifice the health and survival of myself, others, and the planet in order to receive the acknowledgement, validation, and justification for being that I crave." It operates like the water in the fishbowl we swim in — invisible to us precisely because we have lived inside it since birth.
This larger agreement underlies the smaller, personal ones that justify greed: "I will do whatever is necessary to get what I want" — the kind of agreement that seems to run the operating systems of those who hold the levers of power. These hidden agreements — and how we consciously rewrite them — are the heart of my work.
In our Intermediate course, we learn to uproot agreements like these and replace them with new ones that let us live in a more balanced and grounded way. I encourage everyone who has completed our training to journey on this — to find the variations of this global agreement living in your own life, and to replace them with agreements that let you fully embrace your purpose and sing your own song. When I journeyed to replace this agreement myself, I received a new one from my power animal — and it has kept me rooted ever since in the truth that we are each part of a Creation unfolding now: responsible for singing our songlines and carrying our medicine in a way that nurtures the Web of Life, for ourselves and for the generations to come.
This is the heart of the Web of Life work: to remember that the story is still being written, and that we are the ones holding the pen. Sing your song. Tend your strand of the web. The Creation is not behind us — it is in our hands.
— Scott Silverston