Writing about truth seemed like a good idea – until I started.
BY MARGARETHA COLORED WINGS
Fall 2025
Suddenly the subject seemed too big, too slippery. But I said this was the topic I would write about, and well, here I am.
Of course, I’m not writing about truth because I’ve figured it out. I’m writing about truth because it has become the focus of my life. It has helped me to avoid some of the traps I have encountered and it keeps my intent to become the best version of myself, alive. Truth has become a lighthouse that guides me when things get crazy or wild.
I’ve applied many of the SMSD teachings over the years I have been an apprentice. And yes, I still find illusions to uncover, I sometimes misread situations, fall into blame, or find myself in victim mode. But I notice that I’m less stuck in false beliefs than before, I am less attached to ideas or missions that don’t serve. That’s something!
I am writing about truth because I see how easily we can lose it. How easily we can follow the seduction of narratives that blind us, lead us to false conclusions and pull us out of alignment. And when I’m out of alignment, I’m not one of the “ones we’ve been waiting for”. Instead, I am just waiting for the wrong train in the wrong train station, perhaps feeling nice and relaxed and drumming blissfully, but still: wrong train and wrong station!
I feel that every soul incarnated in these times has a responsibility. Nobody is here by chance. But we can’t be part of the solution if we are in sheep mode, believing blindly what is selling as truth.
This is a delicate time on Earth and much is at stake, so it’s worth asking: what is truth – personally, collectively, spiritually?
At my current level of understanding, truth is alignment with what is. It’s not just factual – although facts are important. It’s also existential. And ultimately spiritual.
A factual truth would be something like: “Water boils at 100°C” or “This car is red”. We need these facts, but they’re just the surface. Existential truth goes deeper. It’s the kind of truth that changes the way you live, the way you breathe. Like: “I need to live closer to nature”, or “What I do for a living is not in line with my values”. These truths don’t live in spreadsheets. They show up in your body. They land in your bones.
Spiritual truth is what happens when your inner knowing aligns with something timeless. It’s when the truth within you resonates with nature, with Sacred law. With the living field around you, let’s call it the Source. When that happens there’s no separation between the layers of truth.
All three levels feed into each other. Sometimes a factual truth awakens us to something deeper. Sometimes an existential rupture leads us to something sacred.
Every time I encounter the question of truth, something else appears: a problem. A problem isn’t just something to fix or escape. It’s something that wants to show us something. Something real. Something misaligned. Something that contains truth. I think of a problem as a symptom – and truth as the underlying cause.
If we avoid a problem, we fall into illusion. If we turn towards a problem, something shifts. The solution doesn’t magically appear – it’s found within the problem. The moment we stop pushing against reality and start asking deeper questions, the solution begins to unfold.
Problem → Truth → Solution. That’s the rhythm – at least as I experience it at the moment. And it is fantastic! I would like to share two stories where I have seen this in action:
About 10 years ago, during a leadership training, just 2 days before Earth Lodge was about to begin, we received the news of a fire ban. No fire? That meant no purification lodges. The whole team went into reaction mode. Some wanted to rebel. Others wanted to hide the fires in the morning fog or post look-outs with walkie-talkies. Some resigned. Some tried to negotiate compromises that didn’t feel right. All of this stemmed from a fear or habit of mediocrity as ‘normal’ and… surprisingly… a tendency to use a criminal mind!
Our teachers did something different than us: they read the documentation provided by the forest rangers as a “recipe for solution”. The official documentation said that fire was allowed if it was at least 200 meters from the forest – or in a certified stove.
So we didn’t fight, we didn’t go into mediocrity, we didn’t resort to something illegal. We decided to build a stove – although this seemed impossible! We asked the forest rangers to advise us, so it was built properly with expertise. The rangers came and inspected it and gave us the green light. Problem solved!
When we found the truth behind the issue, we leveled up as a collective because it showed us how to walk in beauty. That day I learned that the truth doesn’t always take me where I want to go – but it always takes me where I need to go, if I have the courage to look deep into the problem.
In 2003, I was introduced to a Hopi Prophecy. It said (paraphrasing):
“Know your garden, and your water. Let go of the shore. Push into the middle of the river. Keep your eyes open and your head above the water.”*
And I thought, “I’m on the safe side. I have my own well and garden. I’ve got my Path, a good partner, neighbors, community.
Then life happened. In 2016, I got lead poisoning from amalgam fillings and lost my voice. In 2018, I got a foggy brain and closed my school. In 2021, a seminar house was donated to a foundation I dreamed of for many years and had helped set up. I moved there, away from my land, my community, my rhythm, my garden, the closeness of my friends. All of this was happening in the middle of the pandemic. I wasn’t floating in the river with my head above water… I was drowning.
At first, I went into reaction, together with everyone else. There is a problem, the government will come up with a solution. OK. But then time stopped. My intuition was screaming that something was deeply wrong. I wanted to know what was going on. I wanted to know the truth. For me, this pandemic was clearly a part of the necessary transformation for humanity to adapt to the vibration of the fifth world and the Elders’ predictions.. It was a shift, a collective Rite of Passage, and HOW this shift happened was truly a masterpiece of creativity.
It was unexpected and did not come like a nice cake. Most governmental solutions were hard on its people, especially here in Italy. Freedom, that precious thing – gone. Just like that, overnight!
To understand what was happening. I followed the money, looked at who benefited, and who paid the cost. What were the stories on social media and what stories were not? I saw things I didn’t want to see. I know that elite groups of people exist, I saw how the media were manipulating and being manipulated, creating a “film” for the world to watch. This left me speechless and I tried to ignore the consequences, I wished I was wrong. The Italian authorities invented the “Green Pass” and things changed fast. I lost the position of a curious observer and was quickly and dramatically drawn into the storyline.
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Applying what I have learned in leadership training I asked myself: What are the facts? Not philosophy. The facts.
Fact: My freedom was blocked unless certain conditions were met. I needed a ‘Green Pass’ to go work, to go anywhere. To get the Green Pass, I had to be tested 3 times a week. The tests cost me 18 euros each time and it took long waiting hours to be tested. There are three of us in my family, so that was a cost of 600 euros a month and many hours of waiting outside the pharmacies, and the tests could have negative consequences for my health.
Just to clarify: My problem was not the virus, but the conditions of implementation of the Green Pass. There were other solutions for the virus. Yes, the virus was a real challenge, but I am not writing here about the virus. I am writing about my problem; the government’s way of forcing me (us) into a solution.
Existential: I couldn’t let fear or government authority decide what I put into my body!
Spiritual: No clue. Just the determination to follow the advice of the Hopi Elders and at least try to keep my head up out of the river.
I decided I wouldn’t rebel. I wouldn’t submit. I wouldn’t betray my body, but I wouldn’t go illegal either, I will walk in beauty!
I took the crisis rules for the Green Pass as a recipe and began to look for the solution within the problem. And the solution appeared. A German businessman created a platform that allowed people to become their own legal testing stations. It worked and the laws changed. We adapted, and they changed again. So we adapted again – always legal and always in line with our values.
Even when it became absurd, the truth was my lighthouse and I did whatever was necessary to not betray my values, and this experience brought up a core change for me. It humbled me.
For the first time in my life I was discriminated against. Excluded. Once I saw a sign in my favorite bar: “Dogs allowed”. But me, without a Green Pass? Not welcome. As an Austrian, this reminded me of other times in history. I had lived a life of privilege. Now I had skin in the game. My threshold? It changed me. I have become more human.
The following principles are real:
Final reflection
I am very grateful for the teachings I have received from our Path. And it may seem strange to some that in these times, it is truth that helps me move forward. It is truth that brings me love, freedom and hope. Before 2021 spirituality was like a hobby for me. Comforting, beautiful. Since 2021 I have given up this hobby and my connection to Everything has become a necessity.
I wish all of you a good time and keep your heads up in the middle of the river!
P.S. Here are a few lines to explain my vision of why the pandemic came:
Some years ago I was introduced to a concept that I find very interesting as a mirror for humanity – a Wetiko (or Wendigo), is a word that comes from indigenous North American cultures – especially the Cree and Algonquin to describe a cannibalistic spirit of greed and selfishness. In its mythical form, the Wetiko is a monster that consumes others but is never satisfied.
In a psychological or cultural sense, it’s often used to describe a collective psychosis, a mind virus of collective selfishness, found especially in modern consumer societies: a force that drives people or systems to exploit, dominate, and destroy others, nature, and even themselves for short-term gain.
Author Paul Levy popularized Wetiko in modern psychology, linking it to ego inflation, shadow denial and spiritual disconnection. It’s both a myth and a metaphor for the destructive aspects of the human psyche when cut off from empathy and balance.
A link to truth?
*We find no validated original source attributed to the prophecy cited in this article, and so we give credit, without knowing to whom.
We include a version of the full text here to provide context for our readers.
A Hopi Elder Speaks
“You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered . . .
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.”
Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time!”
“There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly.
“Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
“The time for the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”
— attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder, Hopi Nation, Oraibi, Arizona
Margaretha has been an SMSD apprentice since 2003. Born in Austria and now living in Italy, she currently works at a holistic center dedicated to restoring balance between the masculine and feminine. She is also the author of a fantasy series for readers aged 12 to 100 years called ‘The Seven Shields of Power’ – the story of a group of children who dream their way into a school for shamans and sorcerers and reshape reality through hope and courage.
Book 3 of this 7 part series will be available in Autumn 2025 (German language only at the moment). The English version is planned to be out in 2026.
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