Reflections on the Heart of Shamanism

9/11 articles:

Waking Up to Life

To all of Earth's People

Story of Giant Rock Split

 

 

The Shift Is Happening Now

With Gregg Braden
by Wynn Free
There are many quantifiable scientific indicators proving that the Earth and the Solar System are going through changes which have never previously occurred in recorded human history. Many psychics and channellers say that we have entered the beginning of a dimensional shift which is already deeply affecting all of our lives. And some predict that within the next decade we will enter into an Ascension process fulfilling the prophecies of Jesus.

Gregg Braden is probably the most recognized person who is evaluating and revealing the scientific phenomena pointing to this shift. He became intrigued with all this when he was working for Phillips Petroleum in the late 1970s and noticed that the magnetics of the earth were at their lowest point in 2000 years and decreasing at a rapid rate.

Eventually, Braden wrote a book - Awakening to Zero Point - that documented this and other indicators of our rapidly changing planet.

Wynn: Is it true that the magnetic poles of the earth are in the process of shifting right now?

Gregg: In May-June-July of 2002, it was very well acknowledged and esteemed scientific journals actually were saying for the first time that we are in the process of a polar reversal.

Back in the 1960s, geologists were certain that the earth periodically went through a reversal. They could tell from core samples, ice samples, and fossils, as well as magnetized particles that were locked into certain positions in the rock of the earth. Geologists were so certain about this phenomenon that they actually mapped out the last four-and-a-half-million years, and the resulting records suggested that the earth has gone through fourteen of these polar reversals.

At that time, back in 1961 and 1962, scientists felt that the last pole reversal occurred at about the time of the last Ice Age, ten to twelve thousand years ago. And they were certain it would happen again, but not for thousands of years, so it was nothing to worry about.

But through the 1990s, geologists continued to refine this kind of information. They had been saying it took thousands of years for this to happen. Then they began to say, "Well, it can happen in hundreds of years." But now, recent evidence from some of the ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica say that it could happen in as little as a decade.

But now, we know that the poles are actually moving. We're living it right now. We don't know exactly what that means, because even though it's happened fourteen times in the last four and a half million years, it's never happened with six billion people on the earth.

Wynn: Are you saying that it's common knowledge?

Gregg: It's common knowledge to people that need to know these things. For example, FAA regulations say that when the poles move beyond five or eight degrees, the runways at the airports have to be renumbered to correlate with the magnetic headings that the pilots are seeing. The first airport in the United States to comply with this mandate was Minneapolis/St. Paul, where they spent something on the order of eighty-five thousand dollars to go through and renumber the runway headings.

But what happened in the May-June-July time frame of 2002 is that journals such as Nature, Science, Scientific American, and New Scientist released reports saying that we are definitely in the process of a magnetic reversal, and the AP wires picked it up.

Scientists have no idea what the impact is going to be to electronic and electromagnetic power grids. But even more, they don't know what it means to human immune systems. Alternative healing modalities have shown a connection between magnetics and the immune system, which also would imply that our immune systems could very well be keyed into the magnetic fields of the earth.

We know that birds and animals migrate along the lines of these magnetic fields. So there is speculation that the changes taking place in the magnetic field are responsible for the changing migratory patterns in birds that have been recorded in Asia and North America.

The change in the fields also may explain why whales are beaching themselves. The lines of navigation that the whales have always followed have shifted and now lead them onto a beach. When we take them back out into the water and set them free, they continue to align themselves with the same magnetic lines, and in following them, they end up on the beach again.

So, yes, it's common knowledge now. The most respected scientific journals say that we're in this shift. And even though we don't know precisely what that means, it's significant that it is being acknowledged in peer-review kinds of literature, and not just in speculative or pseudo-scientific magazines.

Wynn: When was this magnetic shift first acknowledged?

Gregg: It would have been in the June/July time frame of 2002. People were sending me emails that they had seen it, and giving me references. I also found references in the magazines myself.

Wynn: Would we survive a complete pole shift?

Gregg: Any answer to that question must of necessity lie within the realm of speculation, because in traditional recorded human history it's never happened. On the other hand, there are Native traditions and ancient Hebrew biblical traditions suggesting that a magnetic shift may have happened even more recently than the last Ice Age. That was 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, but these traditions suggest that the last shift may have happened as recently as 3,600 years ago.

Native legends speak of a day 3,600 years ago when the sun rose from the west as it had always done, hovered in the sky for more than a full day, and set in the east - but the next day, it rose in the east and set in the west, as it does today. Hebrew traditions speak of this event, also, saying that it happened during a battle. The ancient Hebrews took it as a sign that one side was receiving celestial assistance, because it stayed light long enough for the battle to complete in their favour.

We can't verify this in the rock or fossil records, because 3,600 years is too short a period of time for such an event to be reflected there. All we have to go by are traditions, legends, and myths preserved in oral and written documents.

What the tradition tells us, however, is that if something like this were to happen, the people of the earth would live through it. It would have to be a really strange day to live through, but if the ancient legends are true, it happened and the people apparently survived. However, we don't know how it affected their lives.

Wynn: Do you have any idea how this magnetic shift might change consciousness?

Gregg: the operating system.

Similarly, by researchers and descendents of indigenous peoples believe that when the earth goes through what science sees as a magnetic reversal, it also will be a great shift and cleansing of the earth's consciousness. There will beThe speculation is that there is a correlation between consciousness and magnetics. In order to understand how this connection might work, it is useful to compare it to a computer's memory. The magnetic fields in the memory are held in place through an electrical charge - a trickle charge - within the computer itself. When the batteries in the computer die, the charge is gone, and the memory is lost. We have to reload  nothing holding all the magnetic patterns that have been put in place.
 
So when we awaken from this shift, what becomes consciousness will be our truest nature, our truest essence. And the memory of all of the evil or all the bad things or all of the grudges or the ego and we've held against one another as individuals and nations will not be part of that new consciousness, that new grid.

From that perspective, many traditions predict, sense, or speculate that we are nearing a time of what they call the Great Cleansing, and that this cleansing is happening at a level of core memory of consciousness.

Wynn: So is it possible to assume that in some way, our memory is connected to this magnetic field?

Gregg: I think so. I think that because of the strange accounts of the astronauts who left earth and went into space during the Apollo Program. In leaving the earth's atmosphere and circling the planet many miles above the surface, the affects of earth's magnetics were negligible. And the astronauts began to have experiences that they were not prepared or trained for, that were totally unanticipated.

When they were in space and looked back to earth, they began having insights and feelings, awakenings and awareness's that they had never had when they were on the earth. It meant something different to each one of them.

In much the same way, friends of mine who went to Viet Nam were all changed when they came home. It changed everyone. For some, the change was so painful that they could never speak about it, and for others, the change was a catalyst in their lives and they spoke of it incessantly.

And I believe there was actually a PBS special that documented this same phenomenon with the astronauts, that they were never the same afterward. When they came back, there were some who didn't know what to do with their outer space experience. Some turned to drugs and alcohol. Others channelled the change that occurred within them in very positive, life-affirming projects.

One of this latter group was Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who founded the Noetic Sciences Organization in an effort to validate the phenomenon of human consciousness. Another astronaut undertook the search for Noah's Ark, and actually found it embedded in the ice on Mt. Ararat, right where the Bible said it would be.

Wynn: So the implication here is that these astronauts, because they left the magnetic field of the earth, had some kind of spiritual awakening?

Gregg: They certainly went through a catharsis when they were no longer in the influence of the earth's magnetic field.

We also see something similar happening when we look at the magnetic fields of the earth. They are not constant over the surface of the earth, and contour maps, available through United States Geologic Survey, show the varying intensities of magnetic fields over the surface of the earth - where magnetic fields have a very high intensity and where the intensity if very low.

Those fields have shifted over time, and may actually account for why populations of humans have migrated to the places they've migrated to. They might have been following these magnetic contours.

What happens is that in the places where the magnetics are very low, where their effects are negligible, tremendous change and innovation appear to occur. Where the magnetics are traditionally high, those are the places of stagnation where changes, although they do happen, take a long time and change is very slow in coming.
If I were coming here from another world and didn't know anything about the people of the earth, and if I were looking for a place where the opportunity of change was the greatest, I would look for the zero contour lines. And if you look at a map of the magnetics on earth today, what you find is that there is a zero contour line that runs along the West Coast of North America - along the California coast and on up off the coast of Alaska. In other words, the magnetics along the West Coast are almost nil!

When we think of the West Coast, we think about wacky California. Well, the truth is California is a seed, one of several, and it's traditionally been very innovative in technology, science, fashion, finance, and the arts, because there is an opportunity for tremendous change there.

Within North American, the flip side of that would be an area of highest magnetics, where the magnetic fields are the most dense. And you find this down through some of the Southeastern states - the very states that are traditionally viewed as being conservative. This doesn't mean that change can't happen there. What is says, however, is that change takes a long time there, and people have to see a really good reason before they are going to budge from what they've always done.

Wynn: So where the magnetic field is less dense, people are more open to the moment?

Gregg: They're open to change, period. It doesn't mean that the change is good, bad, right, or wrong. It's important to be clear about this. The consciousness of the people will determine how that change comes about.

I'll give an ironic example. There is a zero contour line that runs right through the Middle East. It actually runs almost directly underneath the area we call the Suez Canal, right up into Israel, right along the coast of the Red Sea. Yes, right in that area is a zero contour line. This means that area is ripe for change. But again, how that change comes about - whether it's peaceful and constructive or angry and destructive - is determined by the consciousness of the people who live there.


Wynn: So it's not good or bad either way?

Gregg: Precisely. It simply is an opportunity for change. At the same time, the highest magnetic contour lines noted anywhere on the planet earth have traditionally been in portions of the former Soviet Union, Russia, and Siberia. We know that in that part of the world, there was a system that was in place, and while change came about, it was slow and painful, a long time coming, with a lot of suffering. But when that change happened, there was a cascade effect, and it happened almost overnight.

So the correlations are very interesting between human consciousness, the opportunities for innovation, change, doing things in a new way, and the magnetics of our world.

The Earth has many areas of high and low change.

Wynn: Our readers are going to want to know how they can best face the changes that are coming in our world as a whole.

Gregg: I'll be as concise as I can. I think that the answer to that is perhaps encapsulated best in the words of those who have come before us, the ancient Essenes, in a text that's more than 2,500 years old. It reminds us of our relationship to the world around us, and says simply that the world around us is nothing more and nothing less than a mirror of what we have become from within.

So when we see a world that appears angry, cruel, and thoughtless, that produces suffering for our brothers and sisters all over the world - from this perspective, that world is a mirror of what we have become as individuals, families, societies, and nations. It's not right, wrong, good or bad. It's simply a reflection of who we are. The condition of the planet is a feedback mechanism.

So if we want to see change in our world, we must become that change in our every day lives. If we want to see peace, tolerant understanding, compassion, and forgiveness at the global level, we must become that. At the dinner table. With our families. We must become that with our schools.

We must demand that we be entertained through peace, compassion, and understanding. It doesn't have to be dull and boring. It can still be very exciting, but it does not have to be ruthless, thoughtless, cruel, or heartless.

So in our daily lives, every moment of every day, we make a choice that either affirms or denies life in our bodies. Because we are linked through this grid. Our individual choices all pool into the collective answer to our future.

If we'd like to see a collective change, we must individually become that change.

Wynn: We have this date of 2012 that many people are saying is this time of global shift or Ascension. What do you think is going to happen?

Gregg The date 2012 is interesting because it comes up in Mayan traditions, Egyptian traditions, some of the Christian traditions, and even in the Bible Code - which is very controversial unto itself.

My sense is this date could be any date. If we focus on a date and live our lives preparing for a change on that date, we miss life. From my perspective, if we simply live each day of our lives to its fullest, we reconcile the experiences that cross our paths each day, we reconcile the opportunity to honour life, to honour our relationships with one another.

If we are honest, truthful, considerate, caring and compassionate, if we live this each day, we have already prepared for whatever could possibly come on 2012 or any other day, any other year, any time in our future.

I know people who are living their lives hoarding boxcars full of food and ammunition, preparing for the day when our world changes. I understand, and I think it's good to be self sufficient. I understand what they are saying. But also what I've seen is that so much of their lives is dedicated to preparing for that day, they've missed the beauty and the mystery of life that unfolds in every day. And it's in perceiving this beauty and mystery that we prepare for the greatest challenges!

Wynn: So basically, if one wants to approach this change with the maximum positive outcome for themselves, the key is to live each day with the maximum output of love, compassion, and caring?

Gregg: Yes, and to do this, we have to live each day consciously. Be aware of the opportunities. Recognize the opportunities that cross our paths. Every day, we're given the opportunity to be tolerant of another belief system, to forgive someone who has hurt or angered us, to reconcile our own judgments about what should or should not be in our world.

If we can reconcile these things as they cross our paths and consciously deal with them in the moment, then we know we're changing the chemistry of our bodies by changing the way we feel, and are thus preparing ourselves for whatever transitions the earth is going to go through.

If that makes sense.

Wynn: Yes, it does to me. Is there anything really important to close with for our readers that I might have missed?

Gregg: For the first time in our history, the fate of our species, our entire species, rests upon the choices of a single generation. And what we've just done is talked about what some of those choices are all about.

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Reflections on the Heart of Shamanism
 While walking through the hills this afternoon I heard my words return.... Commitment and service to all our relations and to Spirit, this is the heart of shamanism. And I realized that the word 'service' is much too abstract... I wish to be more specific.

Service means obeying the dictates of inner voice over personal desires. It means a deep commitment to helping alleviate suffering in whatever forms we may encounter it. It means doing simple, ordinary acts of kindness... like bringing food to our neighbor when he or she is ill or taking the time to listen to someone when they need to open their hearts. Service is thinking of the good of the collective whole as one with our own welfare. Service is going into the kitchen and making tortillas or washing dishes before ceremony. It is doing whatever needs to be done to make the whole work... It is surrender ! to the dictates of Spirit as She speaks within your own heart.... going the extra mile(s) when you are weary beyond all imagining... gathering up the wood in your arms and lighting the kindling on cold frosty mornings when your bones ache.... threading the loom.... soothing a tired child... walking down the road step by step day by day simply doing what needs to be done, listening, paying attention, praying, obeying Spirit, helping out weather it is by washing out the slop pail or making a pilgrimage.... getting the job done with balance, kindness and some generosity of heart.

I honestly believe that these things are more important than learning all kinds of mind altering techniques.... WE must learn to walk in balance and harmony with our feet upon the earth, close down to the earth, before we take off into flights of altered consciousness. We will see what Spirit wishes us to see as we walk o! ur path with respect for ! self, others, and The Great Spirit who l ives and breathes through all sentient beings. Of what use is it to ourselves or others to learn a technique which will get us 'high' if we have not learned how to extend our hand to one who is suffering (including to ourselves).... if we have not learned the basic ABC's of achieving balance, the middle way within ourselves? Service is caring for self and for others with respect and kindness.... it is made manifest through the smallest most mundane details of our daily lives.

Of course what I say is just a small piece of my truth brought forth, filtered through my tiny perception... I cannot speak for anyone else... these words spring forth from my limited experience on earth.... they are just my little words.. a tiny piece... so tiny... disappearing (they may) like my footprints with my passing. Still, perhaps there may be some merit in bringing forth these words.... though I am quite certain many have spoken them before me...still perhaps they may be helpful to someone who is seeking a way home.

--- Martha Elliott

(Martha Elliot is a wonderfully heartful and simply profound seeker who was married for many years to a Huichol shaman. She joins me in looking for a retreat and gardening place in Costa Rica! )

 

These are special pieces I have taken from some of the inspirational and informative writings that have been sent since the 9/11 incident. Brooke

 

Dan Millman Letter

Dear Friends,

When a catastrophic event like this happens, powerful feelings may arise.

So I offer this: Don't give any more power to a small group of people --

almost certainly zealots of some kind whose twisted psyches (along with

self-sacrificial devotion to their dark illusions).

If this had been a tornado or earthquake, it would have represented a

tragic blip in nature's enigmatic scheme. But this was personal; human

beings did this deliberately to other human beings. And some of us are

reacting exactly as they wished -- to bring the entire country to a halt,

and to create waves of paralysis much farther-reaching than the localized

damage caused, generating reactive shockwaves all over our country (and the

world).

This catastrophic series of events remind us that while we cannot control

circumstances in the world or in our personal lives, we can choose how we

will respond. None of us can (or should) stop or control our natural

emotional reactions, but we can help thwart their nefarious intent by

controlling our behavior -- by responding in our circle of friends with

compassion and calm. These people can only succeed in bringing our lives to

a halt with our cooperation. Let's not give them power over our psyches;

let's not serve their goals.

Let's remember to breathe deeply, to relax our bodies, and to focus on the

present moment, doing what needs to be done.

Historically, this attack may rank with Pearl Harbor -- and when our

country is roused, it becomes a giant, and some kind of justice will

prevail. What form that "justice" may take is difficult to predict. One

thing is certain; out of every adversity or challenge comes new lessons and

growth.

In the coming days and weeks, this event will become a topic of intense

conversation (and action in appropriate quarters); the dead will be buried

and grieved; the injured cared for; the FBI, CIA and other military

activated. You and I will go on with our lives.

Let's pray for those who need it; let's accept our emotions without letting

them disable our clarity; let's keep our hearts open, even to the waves of

pain; and let's resolve to do what we can, in our own humble ways, to help

create a world of understanding, compassion, courage, and love -- beginning

with ourselves.

In friendship, Dan

 

 

A Mystic Journey with Joseph Campbell
(As if he were here with us during this time of great change.)

"One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills are blotted by talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone. Where will the eagle be? Gone. And what is it to say good-bye to the swift pony and the hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.

"It's natural to life that life should be dangerous. And now it's dangerous to the planet. Formerly it was dangerous for this society, that society or another. Just think of it - the Spaniards arrived and wiped out all the people in the Caribbean Sea - within two generations there were no more natives there. Then they wipe out two civilizations, five hundred men wipe out two civilizations.

"The world has been experiencing absolute disaster. We've been so protected that we don't realize it. And now the fear of something blowing up.

"You see what I mean? Indras, Indras, Indras. Brahma's eyes opening and closing and, OK, I heard one man say, there's no necessity that the human race should survive.

"Chief Seattle in another of his words said, 'Why should I lament the disappearance of my people? All things die. The white race will find this out too.' So yield to what is coming. We're in a free fall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast and always when you're going through a long tunnel anxiety comes along.

"And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. I mean it's a very interesting shift of perspective, and that's all it is. Joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

"And this is the quest for the inner life that will enable you to float down the stream like a human being instead of just some babbit or robot in the hands of political institutions, and that's what I'm interested in bringing forward here. And I may not be changing the world, but I'm changing people, and that's what necessary, that's what's got to be done."

(Excerpted text with permission from SUKHAVATI: PLACE OF BLISS by MysticFire Video, the excellent producers of the videos of The Prophets Conference ~ New York City.)

Sheldan Nidle channeling...

 Most important is to live and be filled with Love. Maintain your

sense of compassion and examine the truth. If it quickly becomes clear

to you that this act was far beyond the capacities of a specific group

and you discern a high level of conspiracy, look to your inner feelings

and your truth. The media is simply a widely influential smokescreen,

whose sole task is to overwhelm you with 'facts'. It has done its job

well. The most crucial part of your evaluation is to see beyond it. Seek

peace and, above all, seek Love. Sudden events in your world can often

overwhelm you, simply by their intensity and scope. Remember that your

world is in transition. During this time of change, events will surround

you that seem like a movie. The key, dear Hearts, is to remain focused

upon the main stage. Do not be distracted, but know that these events

will affect you inevitably and deeply. That, after all, is their

purpose.

     A centered Being recognizes Truth and is able to manifest a

peaceful, sane reality. Those in power have maintained control by

keeping you off-center and totally distracted. That way, you lose

sovereignty and they gain it.

 

From leaders setting up 7 day world peace vigil...

Dear friends around the world:

The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily

lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger

questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but

the purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have

created it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate

ourselves anew as a human species, so that we will never treat each

other this way again.

The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most

extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.

There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first

comes from love, the second from fear.

If we come from fear we may panic and do things-as individuals and as

nations-that could only cause further damage. If we come from love we

will find refuge and strength, even as we provide it to others.

This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What

you teach at this time, through your every word and action right now,

will remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose

lives you touch, both now, and for years to come.

We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this

moment.

 

 

C. Nealson...

We're told on the news that about 40,000 people work in

the World Trade Center. That's also the number of

children who die every day of starvation. None of

this makes the attacks right, but it does put

things into a larger perspective. We are mostly

unmindful of the suffering in the world - even

our own. Being unmindful of it, most of us can't

even imagine the possibility of healing. But

healing is possible, through love. D. Chen

we must be awake to those who aim to protect us at the

cost of our freedom.

For several years, as many of you know, my greatest

concern for this country has been the growth of

fascist policies in the name of safety.

Remain awake.

Take a deep breath of crisp autumn air.

Cry for the pain of the world.

And become resolute in the name of freedom.

 

I take comfort in this prayer, written by King George V to the English people as a Christmas message of hope.

"I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year.

Give me a light so that I might go safely out into the darkness.

And he replied, Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God.

That shall be more to you than a light and safer that a known way."

We are all now in times of darkness and have to navigate through the unknown. Despite all the difficulties and the challenges we now face,

there is a grace in life that can be trusted. May we all be comforted and open to receiving that grace fully during this heart wrenching time.

blessings, Victoria

From: The Essene Book of Days...

This morning brings a different breeze, a breath of change and newness.

What do we sense, what blurry vision flickers, tempting us?

The winds of change blow in our lives, and we must now decide.

Do we unfurl our sails to catch them, or do we keep the sails furled?

Our choice this season will set the course of many seasons journeys.

Let meditation be our guide; let calmness lead the way.

 

Hope is the thing with feathers

that perches in the soul

and sings the tune

without the words

and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

 

Dr. Doreen Virtue...

As the time zones sweep the earth in rotation, so shall our prayers encircle the globe. We now call upon all God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mary, all of the ascended masters, all of the archangels, and every angel to intervene into this situation .... May this situation transmute into a blessing, that results in peace. May your fears be replaced with faith, and may your worries be transmuted into peace. God is Love, and Love is all there is. You are Love, you are eternal, and in truth, all is at peace now and forever. Let us cling to the knowledge of that truth today. If we succumb into fear, the illusion of war will grow. If we cling to the knowledge of God's eternal peace, we will reveal that truth as our reality.

 

 

from Gotham Chopra (Deepak's son):

I asked the Mullah a wide array of questions. "Did he hate the US? Why is

there such Anti-Americanism in this part of the world? Should Americans be afraid?"

He answered them all eloquently and without hostility. He talked about the

history of the US and Afghanistan, how during the Cold War, they were

allies, united fighting a war against the Soviets.

"You gave us weapons and trained our men. You built our roads, fed our

people. Do you realize young man that your government helps to create and

to fund the Taliban because it was their interest to use Guerilla warfare

and terrorist tactics against the Russians? You made us your friend."

"But then your Cold War ended and you deserted us." At this point, there

was a hint of animosity in his voice. " Because it was no longer in your

selfish interest to have us as your allies, you abandoned us, left our

people, hungry, and hateful. You turned your friends into foes because you

used us like whores."

Any misuse of power and authority at this time can have serious destructive consequences. I don‚t believe that fighting solves anything. By fighting back we are setting up a vibration that will come back to us, and in the fast moving frequency we are now experiencing, this energy will come back very fast. It‚s harvest time, and what we have put out in the past is what we will now harvest. MahalaGayle@webtv.net

Let's examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in.

Rather than reiterate some of this historical information, I will offer you what

Michael Moore reports. I think that an important part of healing the wounds of the world

is for Americans to look at our part in this and begin to take more responsibility for the

creation of a truly peaceful, harmonious world for all. Brooke

Subject: Michael Moore on the September 11 terrorism

condensed version:

...Safe. Secure. I'm an American, living in America. I like my illusions. I

walk through a metal detector, I put my carry-ons through an x-ray machine,

and I know all will be well.

------

Well, the pundits are in full diarrhea mode, gushing on about the

"terrorist threat" and today's scariest dude on planet earth -- Osama bin

Laden. Hey, who knows, maybe he did it. But, something just doesn't add up.

 

Am I being asked to believe that this guy who sleeps in a tent in a desert

has been training pilots to fly our most modern, sophisticated jumbo jets

with such pinpoint accuracy that they are able to hit these three targets

without anyone wondering why these planes were so far off path?

 

Or am I being asked to believe that there were four religious/political

fanatics who JUST HAPPENED to be skilled airline pilots who JUST HAPPENED

to want to kill themselves today?

 

Maybe you can find one jumbo jet pilot willing to die for the cause -- but

FOUR? Ok, maybe you can -- I don't know.

 

What I do know is that all day long I have heard everything about this bin

Laden guy except this one fact -- WE created the monster known as Osama bin

Laden!

Where did he go to terrorist school? At the CIA!

Don't take my word for it -- I saw a piece on MSNBC last year that laid it

all out. When the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, the CIA trained him

and his buddies in how to commits acts of terrorism against the Soviet

forces. It worked! The Soviets turned and ran. Bin Laden was grateful for

what we taught him and thought it might be fun to use those same techniques

against us.

 

We abhor terrorism -- unless we're the ones doing the terrorizing.

 

We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the

1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me.

Thirty thousand murdered civilians and who the hell even remembers!

 

We fund a lot of oppressive regimes that have killed a lot of innocent

people, and we never let the human suffering that causes to interrupt our

day one single bit.

 

We have orphaned so many children, tens of thousands around the world, with

our taxpayer-funded terrorism (in Chile, in Vietnam, in Gaza, in Salvador)

that I suppose we shouldn't be too surprised when those orphans grow up and

are a little whacked in the head from the horror we have helped cause.

 

Yet, our recent domestic terrorism bombings have not been conducted by a

guy from the desert but rather by our own citizens: a couple of ex-military

guys who hated the federal government.

 

From the first minutes of today's events, I never heard that possibility

suggested. Why is that?

 

Maybe it's because the A-rabs are much better foils. A key ingredient in

getting Americans whipped into a frenzy against a new enemy is the

all-important race card. It's much easier to get us to hate when the object

of our hatred doesn't look like us.

 

Congressmen and Senators spent the day calling for more money for the

military; one Senator on CNN even said he didn't want to hear any more talk

about more money for education or health care -- we should have only one

priority: our self-defense.

 

Will we ever get to the point that we realize we will be more secure when

the rest of the world isn't living in poverty so we can have nice running

shoes?

 

In just 8 months, Bush gets the whole world back to hating us again. He

withdraws from the Kyoto agreement, walks us out of the Durban conference

on racism, insists on restarting the arms race -- you name it, and Baby

Bush has blown it all.

 

The Senators and Congressmen tonight broke out in a spontaneous version of

"God Bless America." They're not a bad group of singers!

 

Yes, God, please do bless us.

 

Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They

did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they

did so by killing thousands of people who DID NOT VOTE for him! Boston, New

York, DC, and the planes‚ destination of California -- these were places

that voted AGAINST Bush!

 

Why kill them? Why kill anyone? Such insanity.

 

Let's mourn, let's grieve, and when it's appropriate let's examine our

contribution to the unsafe world we live in.

 

It doesn't have to be like this.

 

Yours,

 

Michael Moore

mmflint@aol.com

  

 

 

 

Waking Up to Life

Meeting the Deeper Challenge of Y2K

By Cathy Holt

Published in the Winter 98-99 edition of EarthLight Magazine
http://www.earthlight.org
'Brooke Medicine Eagle's "sacred ecology" has had a great influence on my thought and subsequently on EarthLight's orientation. The widespread learning of a practice of sacred ecology in everyday life is the key to the future.'
Lauren de Boer, Editor
EarthLight Magazine

 

Perhaps the Time is at hand for the Great Awakening to occur. It doesn't feel as if we're asleep, but the great sages and mystics of many traditions have assured us that we are, that we are dreaming this nightmare illusion we call reality. When a nightmare gets too intense, my usual response is to wake up, with great relief.

Y2K ("the millennium bug" in our computers which could lead to breakdowns throughout our society) just might be the alarm clock, the wake-up call to humanity that rouses us from our state of unconsciousness about the devastating effects of our unsustainable culture.

Our high degree of dependency on computers for everything from food to fuel, electricity, transportation, and medical care (to name a few) is not the only precarious aspect of our culture. Wendell Berry once said that the most preposterous idea for a society would be one based on a completely nonrenewable and highly polluting resource, which depends on that resource for heat, energy transportation, food, even clothing. Our society is based in this way on petroleum/natural gas; completely unsustainable. Too many wars are already fought for oil, and environmental standards are being undermined in the name of oil scarcity. "Oh, when we run out of oil, then we'll develop those renewable resources." Why not now?

Everywhere around me people are speeding up and getting busier and busier. There's no time to deal with these huge issues of environmental destruction, because we're so busy just trying to live our lives, make ends meet, take care of our children. It seems impossible, even foolish, to slow own and take time to just meditate or be quietly in nature. But Ghandi once said, "I have so much to do today, I need to meditate twice as long."

Who, in the history of humankind's life on Earth, had a sustainable lifestyle? Only the indigenous peoples. Some say that any type of agriculture at all is a non-sustainable system. But with today's population density there is no going back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Instead, let's ask ourselves what we can learn from indigenous peoples that has application to our current times. Some principles to consider

  1. Planning ahead with the seventh generation in mind.
  2. Living with respect for, and in harmony with, other species--instead of acting as if ours was the only one that mattered.
  3. Seeking fulfillment through connection rather than through acquisition.
  4. Living a balance of giving and receiving; offering thanks for what is received.
  5. Asking for spiritual guidance and support.
  6. Aligning with the natural cycles of the seasons, of night and day, growth, and decay.
  7. Performing rituals of honoring to the more-than-human forces, and rituals of atonement when we have done harm. The longer-lasting indigenous cultures dedicated much time to ritual activity.
  8. Taking action to restore what was damaged.

I believe that we are called upon, at this juncture in the late 20th century, to develop and start living a more sustainable lifestyle, one that is closer to the natural cycles, less dependent upon technology. Let's choose what is natural over things that are human-made and potentially hazardous to the environment: natural fibers over synthetic ones, paper over plastic, daylight over electric light, walking or bicycling over driving, solar energy over fossil fuels, herbs over pharmaceuticals, singing and storytelling instead of TV.

To live authentically and fully is to be awake. What comes after the awareness of Y2K?

How about Y2L? That's my shorthand for "Year to Live," after the title of Stephen Levine's book A Year to Live. I am challenging myself to live as if I knew this was my last year on Earth. What, at the end of life, would I regret not having experienced, accomplished, become, lived? Some are saying Y2K could signal "the end of the world as we know it." If this were so, what would we want to accomplish in this precious and precarious year, before all the rules change?

This is a time when we may finally realize that our best "rational" thinking has gotten us into this mess. What can get us out? Reverence, humility, prayer, listening for guidance and then acting upon it may be our greatest chance. That is why, in this time of great busy-ness, urgency, and stress it is so important to slow down, be mindful, and listen deeply. What is our highest calling, what will serve the whole Earth family? What prevents us from acting upon it?

Cathy Holt is dedicating 1999 as a Year to Live, a "give-back" year to help create a more sustainable culture. She is a volunteer with the North Californian Earth Institute. www.nwei.org She is author of the book The Circle of Healing: Deepening our Connections with Self, Others, and Nature.Visit her website at www.TalkingBirdsPress.com. Or contact her at cathyholt@juno.com

 

Where White Men Fear to Tread

"We Indians need allies, yet too often we reject non-Indians who support our right to follow traditional ways and who want to join us.... If we were as self-assured as our grandpas, we would say, 'What a compliment! They want to be part of us. Welcome. If we were confident in ourselves, we would know our forebears were attuned to the universe, that our ways are righteous and superior to eurocentrism. Instead most Indian people condemn and rebuff those who reject the Whiteman's path and embrace our values."

Russell Means

 

To All of Earth's People-

We Native People of America are People of Peace and Reconciliation.
by Hyemeyohsts Storm

Please do not be afraid or saddened by the words of religious hate mongers.

"Witch" hunts and Inquisitions, the spread of fear and hate is not the answer for my People. And I might quickly add that no few people -- with a violent chip on their shoulder -- represent the Sioux Nation.

People who ask for war are not people of peace. And a "Declaration of War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality" would have to be first leveled against the Sioux themselves -- because it is the Sioux Peace Makers, who have encouraged people to Respect Mother Earth.

It is the Sioux Peace Makers, who have encouraged people to Respect Sacred Mother Earth. It is, again, the Sioux who go out among the "white man" to speak of their traditions. Sioux Chiefs have taught people to pray in the "sweat lodge" and now that people pray in the "sweat lodge" they are condemned for it--very strange.

And why is there a Them among Us? "Divide and Conquer" methods are not all that fashionable in America. Fools Crow never preached that there was an Us and Them. He tried to bring Americans together with America.

While some serious questions have been posed -- the religious undertones of getting even remains in the shadowy realm of psychology -- not tradition. Some fingers have been pointed at some very "responsible authorities" and Social innovators who work everyday with Native children on every Reservation.

There are a lot of racist accusations that were spoken among those people who preach hate and violence. "White man's World" -- where is that? -- this is certainly not any America we all know. There are people of every Race and Color in America. Aren't we Black also, Asian too and aren't there a substantial number of mixed blood children on every Reservation?

No--I would advocate that there be Peace Chiefs involved here. The people who wrote that hate literature live in the past and use hate slogans and phrases from a bygone time. Modern Americans did not conquer the Indians -- all of we modern Americans are the Indians.

Americans and our World's people need to hear from our reservations. They need to learn of how Humane and kind our Native People are. We are Giving, we worship the Give Away. When this happens, other Americans will listen to our People's social and political Needs.

An Us and Them does not work in the N.B.A. and the W.N.B.A. (basketball teams). The Chicago Bulls were not an Us and Them. They played as a team and won. When all we American Indian People play as a Team we will win. And we cannot win when we separate ourselves from the remainder of America's People.

The Buddhists, Janists, Moslems, Christians, Hebrews, and the other many orthodox faiths do not rail at people because they are "using their traditional ways". In fact, they encourage it.

Of course there are people who misuse things and are ignorant. Teach the ignorant and praise those who wish to cherish life and Respect our Sacred Mother Earth -- and especially White Buffalo Woman, our Medicine Pipe. A lot of love and a whole bunch of Care are needed right now. Because this racist attitude about the separation of Us an Them has violently divided our youth on our Reservations -- and made them to feel alienated in their own time and their own America.

Let's take a look at many of the similarities -- and not the differences:

Not too long ago, Europeans too were tribal peoples -- from the British Isles all the way across the Continent -- East to the former lands of the Huns and Magyars. The Kelts (also known as the Celts) and the Germanic Tribes and others lived in great forests called the Vilde or wild.

Other Celts, or Kelts lived, fished and farmed along the rugged seacoasts of Europe and were very much Earth loving People. Their way of living was much like that of our Indian Families in America.

Our Earth Mother was worshipped and women had an equal voice in the Tribe and government. As an example: Thor and his wife Thora were the thunder and the rain. Odin and his wife Uddern led the Hunt. The people of Crete, Egypt, the Pagani of Italy, the Gauls and the Brightines of Avolans' England -- all loved Sacred Mother Earth.

Freiya (pronounced Fr-eye-ya) and her Brother Freya (pronounced Fra- yah) were respected and worshipped as Light and all growing things. We get the word Free and Freedom from the word Freiya. The people of Freiya were called Freiya's People -- or Free People.

Yes, the women were equal to the men, but this was lost when the propagandists arrived and brought their Feudalistic world of one god -- one ruling family and slavery.

The Sacred Tree of Life called The tree of The Great Middle World -- the Egg of Knowing -- was sometimes called Yggdrasil. This Tree of knowledge was the Great Wheel of the North where people could learn.

This same Great Medicine Wheel of learning was later known to be in the place of the Closed Way of the Holy Stone -- Schleswigholstein. This Magical place held the Nine Worlds in its embrace, and was the web of the Wyrd (or Sacred Word) that connected all things together.

Our ancestors still live in us and continue to speak to us in our Dreams -- telling all of us to be Respectful of our chance to have Life and to be with our Sacred Earth. Yes, they live in our very genes.

The way of the indigenous Europeans was very similar to our Native Families here in the Americas. They had the Vision Quest. And they prayed in Lodges of Fire and Stone. Our Norse Family called these the Utiseta -- or the "sitting out." Anthropologist gave these Utsieta's the unflattering name of "sweat lodge".

This Sauna or (of the Sun) was held to be very Sacred -- especially to the Goddess of the Trees, Willows and Birches.

Great Healers, The Pagani, meaning farmers, Teachers, Ships -- voyagers, warriors -- and especially all mothers -- would enter the lodge in Honoring of our Mother Earth, the Brooks, rocks, and trees -- giving Thanks to the Spirit of Life for all Healing and our very nourishment. This Bathing Lodge or Healing Lodge was also Sacred to the Goddess Hygiene.

In the far North, Uddern, the Mother of Lightning and Thunder and Odin her Husband were the Guides and Teachers for all Medicine People -- now conquering all the peoples of the North -- and everything drastically changed. Millions of our old teachers were destroyed, burned at the stake -- and were called "witches". These gentle teachers were both female and male.

They died because they clung on to the Garden Dances, Community Dances, Sun Dances, Moon Dances and their ability to Doctor the sick. They knew of Surgery.

But time passes, and now something new is happening, World-Wide. The way of old Europe, so long crushed and repressed, is once again accessible to its far-flung sons and daughters!

We must teach all people to respect the brave Medicine women and men, (Both Native and Keltic) who have persisted in telling People about Sacred Life and to Respect our holy Planet Mother, Earth. These teachers have reminded the world's People of this important duty toward Life.

But don't we all owe it to our Ancestors to once again choose to support Life and Honor our Creatress Mother, WahKahn? When women are held to be equal to men -- then our Creatress Mother and Father will once again live in Balance with Humans.

With Love,
Hyemeyohsts Storm

Hyemeyohsts Storm is the author of Seven Arrows, Lightningbolt, and Heyoehkah: A Novel.

 

Giant Rock
Two weeks ago, James Twyman, the author of "The Secret of the Beloved Disciple" & "Emissary of Light," distributed an e-mail regarding the amazing prophetic splitting of Giant Rock in Joshua Tree, California, considered to be the largest free standing boulder in the world as well as an ancient cite of great honor & pilgrimage. (2000)

http://www.emissaryoflight.com/

There has been a development in this story that impacts us all, in one way or another. The ancients believed that when Giant Rock split open it would signal the beginning of a New World, when the Mother would open Her arms to embrace humanity. Yet, as we enter this world of compassion & peace we find that there are some who would rather cling to the old fears, & even try to pollute the Brilliant Light that is now upon us.

A Letter From James Twyman

People from all over the world have read the amazing story about the splitting of Giant Rock here in Joshua Tree, & thousands of people have already come to witness the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. And yet, most were not prepared for what they found, for as soon as the legend was complete a different energy entered to throw a dark cloud over the miracle. Within two days of the split, the desecration of Giant Rock began. During the night people came to paint profanity across the face of the boulder & burn large objects atop the section that had separated from the original rock.

It is obviously a disturbing sight to come to such a sacred place & witness such insensitivity. The native people of this area held Giant Rock so sacred that only the chief was allowed to come within a mile of it. Now, sitting in the middle of the desert far from the reach of civil authorities, it is easy prey to anyone with the desire to blanket the amazing energy that emits from this sacred place. The question is why, & there is a very good answer. Most of you are aware of the critical importance of this moment in history, what the ancients called the time of the "Great Shift." We are also aware that there are forces in the world that would deny this era of peace, holding to the old world ruled by competition & fear. We will not call these evil forces, but rather energies that are afraid of surrendering to love. And these energies will do anything they can to stop this flow of grace, the flow many of us are feeling now, & hold to the fearful patterns that they have grown accustomed to.

If we are indeed ready for this New World, then it is up to us to shift these energies & welcome the era of peace & compassion. Many of the local residents of the Joshua Tree area are organizing a sacred "Giant Rock Watch" to help protect this ancient symbol of transformation. Each person is assigned a 24-hour watch where they pray & meditate at the boulder, dissuading anyone who would desecrate it during the night. Other locals have volunteered to pay for the rock to be sandblasted to remove the graffiti. This is not a vigilante movement, but a call to prayer & service. If one or more people are present then the likelihood of vandalism is greatly decreased. We need more people to help, & that is why this email is being sent out.

Would you like to have a desert retreat at Giant Rock & help preserve this sacred place? If so, please click here to email:giantrock@planet-mail.com

& we will send you information on how you can be involved. Also, please mention the dates you would like to come & we will schedule you in.

The Great Experiment II

The sandblasting should be finished by Easter, April 23rd when the "Great Experiment II" is held. To visit James Twyman's site click here: http://www.emissaryoflight.com/

Hundreds of people have already committed to come to Giant Rock & the Integratron (about two miles away) for the event, as well as for the workshop the day before with Doreen Virtue, Gregg Braden & myself on April 22nd. We envision thousands of people showing up to pray at Giant Rock that day, to drum and do ceremony, or to observe a modern day miracle.

We invite you to come along. We stand at the brink of an amazing opportunity. Giant Rock is just one small symbol of what is happening inside each and every one of us. We'll see you there.

In Peace,

James Twyman

 

 

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