Dear friends.. I forward this to you with love.
It is from my teachers RainbowHawk and WindEagle who hold the space for us all through the EHAMA Institute (Earth Wisdom Teachings). There is clearly much reflection here of the words that are being spoken on our list right now. we here at Roffey Park in England (Birgitt, Romy and our great group), join you in thoughts and prayers at this time with love Romy xxxxxxxxxx A Delicate Balance Dear Friends and Family, This morning I awoke after taking in the images our television coverage offered in the evening aftermath of this tragedy here in New York. We flew into New York a few days ago and have spent the last few days in ceremony about an hour and a half outside of the city. During the last two days, we have been in a healing ceremony and at the time of the airplane crashes into the World Trade Center, eight of us were dancing nine rounds of the Tslagi. We were offering prayers for peace, harmony, oneness and forgiveness. We called for the illusion of separateness to be dissolved. We called for deep listening among humans all over the planet. We needed those prayers then and need them even more now. A young man of twelve years shared his prayer for the vision of peace in the next seven years. This morning as I came into the forest to begin my morning practice I found myself still struggling with the sense of shock and unreality. My biggest fear is what our collective fear and reactive thought can create in this moment of our history. I asked myself, "What can we do?" "What can we offer?" "How can we help in this situation?" As I opened my eyes after completing my practice I looked upon a branch that had fallen and was hanging on a limb of the tree. There was a small extension of the fallen branch that held itself in place and a much longer piece touching the ground already. I saw it as a metaphor. There is a chance, albeit a small one, that we can find a way to change our past experience of attack, counterattack, war, escalation, evolving into tremendous hatred and incalculable loss of life. As human beings on this planet we have a responsibility to care for all peoples and this Mother Earth. We need to remember what it takes to hold the torch of freedom. True freedom comes with responsibility. We have esteened examples of those who fought for freedom using non violence- they had a vision. A vision of a world where all beings, regardless of race, color, or religion could live in peace and have the right to breathe clean air and have food to eat; a right to have a family and live in a sustainable world. We cannot forget it is all of us that want these basic human rights. In the past, as a collective we have forgotten these thoughts when we are threatened. We forget how to love, listen, understand and forgive. We resort to fear, hate and retalliation. We must find another way. We know the results to the old way. The hell of war consumes life and destroys the human spirit. This is a time for all of us to come together - to remember what kind of a world we want to live in. To recognize that everything we do and say and think is creating that world. We need to ask ourselves, do we choose a world of hate, fear and retalliation or will we find a way to love, understanding and listening. It is up to each of us. We can indeed change the consciousness of our time. Let us create the consciousness of peace. Together. It takes a discipline, a vigilance, that is equal to that which is called into being by war. In war we fight to stay alive. In peace, we must also fight, but the fight is to stay awake to our discipline of caring, listening, compassion, and understanding. We must call upon the deepest source of our wisdom to change our history. It is my belief that inside each human heart there is a dream. And within each heart, hope is still alive that our dreams can become reality. These are the seeds of what can come into being. We can build with these seeds. We must. And we must do it now. With healing prayers, WindEagle Dear All, These thoughts must be nourished by each of us. They are the foundation of a new and higher consciousness that can be built upon. Each of us can be a still and stable center in the middle of these moments of turmoil. We share this message from the voice of Mother Life in each of us. This Kachina of horror can be an awakening to build the new towers of a higher consciousness that we humans are being called to. During this time we ask to join together from where ever we are to send prayers for the afflicted and support for the grief stricken, and above all for calmness in the time ahead as thoughts are turned to what is needed in this time. The time is here for quiet and thoughtful council from the people among the understandable anger and frustration. Every center of calmness and balance is vital at this time. Let each of us be one of those as we send out our thoughts in this time to connect together. Hold firm the dream of peace. With love, RainbowHawk We ask that this letter be shared with others as you see appropriate. ----------------------- Internet Header -------------------------------- Sender: wind...@aol.com Received: from imo-d01.mx.aol.com (imo-d01.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.33]) by siaag1ae.compuserve.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/SUN-1.12) with ESMTP id PAA12893; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:54:14 -0400 (EDT) From: wind...@aol.com Received: from wind...@aol.com by imo-d01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31_r1.7.) id i.ff.c095bfb (3989); Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:50:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <ff.c095bfb.28d11...@aol.com> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:50:51 EDT Subject: A Delicate Balance To: a.par...@gmx.de, andreas.kai...@bigfoot.de, bernhard-schus...@t-online.de, david.rams...@net.ntl.com, da...@robertspartnership.co.uk, dieter.kahlm...@db.com, ftrusc...@trustall.demon.co.uk, h...@co-ventures.co.uk, iantown...@hotmail.com, jdickso...@cs.com, jenny...@netgates.co.uk, j...@bluecorn.co.uk, k...@emofit.de, kirkew...@compuserve.com, klaus.wissm...@t-online.de, max-str...@t-online.de, paula.chand...@aexp.com, reckhenr...@nextmove-berlin.de, ro...@compuserve.com, sabinaw...@aol.com, sabinewissm...@web.de, siegfriedw...@aol.com, tomrsch...@aol.com, veroleh...@web.de, wind...@aol.com, wtea...@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 7 * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html