Apparently there was another "open space" for middle east peace..anyone was involved in it? Filiz Telek Buğday Derneği www.bugday.org tel: +90 212 252 52 55 It's up to us to break the spell that steals the colors from the world and leaves it lifeless- it was our spell, we can break it. Will Ashe Bacon _____
Kimden: ring-of-po...@sabine-lichtenfels.de [mailto:ring-of-po...@sabine-lichtenfels.de] Tarih: Monday, July 10, 2006 19:48 Kime: Verborgene_Empfaenger: Konu: Ring of Power Monday, 10 July 2006 To all Peace Workers; the conference at the Lasalle-Institute "Jerusalem, City of Peace" has finished. For three long days about 120 people met, guided and accompanied by the method of "open space" in order to communicate about visions, possible projects, and new possibilities of cooperation. Considering the urgency of the current situation it is debatable whether the methods of "open space" can achieve satisfactory result. "Open space" is able to start the activity and the dialogue among the participants, but then I was missing the coordinating, co-guiding element, the person who keeps the overview and participates form there in a guiding way. For me the extraordinary quality of the conference consisted in the fact that people gathered who won't meet normally. It belongs to the consistent method of the representatives of the Lasalle-Institute that they want to initiate the change on government level as well as on the level of projects which are working at the very basis. A big thanks goes to Pater Niklaus Brantschen, Anna Gamma and Pia Gyger for their tireless and unconditional commitment for peace in the Middle East. Results of the conference: new contacts were made, architectural models for Jerusalem as a world city of peace were presented. The film "We Refuse to be Enemies" was presented and found good resonance. Letters to decisive representatives of governments and religions were worded in order to declare Jerusalem a weapon-free zone. My impression is that many peace workers do not yet see how much we must change structures and systems and to what extend we are challenged to develop new functioning models. Would the world evolve as much about peace as it just evolved about football, we were for sure on the winners' side. This is the focus for which we from the Healing Biotope I participated. With patience and persistence we direct our perseverance and our continual work to this point again and again. In me it causes the radicalisation to reinforce my commitment for the humanization of money and to set off for my way to motivate business people to invest their money in the development of models for peace villages. With the amount of money that one tank costs we could do powerful steps of manifestation in the global peace movement. The developing peace villages would be something like the points of crystallization and energy accelerators to make one perspective of the peace movement visible. I phrased a new pilgrim-text that I want to send out in the Ring of Power this time. May it be heard by the relevant forces. Power Text: (by Sabine Lichtenfels, GRACE - Pilgrimage for the "Humanising of Money", Part II, July 2006) GRACE I work and walk as a pilgrim for a future without war. The money which is being used to finance wars nowadays would suffice to beware the whole of humankind from hunger, misery and violence if it was invested into appropriate peace projects. We need a worldwide group of determined people who use their economic, political, publicist possibilities to support such projects - a global "Syndicate for Peace". It must be a very decided group in which every one is willing to subordinate one's personal interests to the interests of the whole in any given situation. I am on my way to contribute to the building up of such a global group. June 20, 2005 my pilgrimage for the "Humanising of Money" started. It began in the south of the Black Forest, Germany, and took me via Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovenia and Greece finally to Israel. In the name of GRACE a group between 40 and 50 people went on a pilgrimage through Israel/Palestine November 2005. The documentary "We Refuse to be Enemies", which was filmed on the pilgrimage is currently being presented at various locations of the peace movement. The first goal of my pilgrimage, the construction of the auditorium in the Peace Centre Tamera, Portugal, is already in the process of realization. The auditorium was inaugurated on May 1st 2006. It is planned to be finished in October this year. Momentarily, I am working on a book about the pilgrimage GRACE to make the essential insights available to a broader public. We want to communicate what we saw to the world. We want to tell them about the humaneness and the beauty we experienced in Israel and the West Bank but also about the injustice, the anger and the infinite mourning and the being abandoned of the people in the areas of crisis. What we saw and experienced shocked me in such a way that I cannot just go on with my "normal" life. Did you see the pictures of the war? The pictures shown in the news, every day? Chaos, assaults at weddings, blood on the street - day after day? Globalization of the Western world requires the decay of the old peoples and cultures and causes the death of innumerable people, every day. The opposition movements of these countries need support, not bombs and no tanks! I cannot become "grown up" in the traditional sense of the expression. I have friends in Israel/ Palestine, among the Bedouins, in Africa, in India and Columbia. The closer the world of the suppressed people comes to me the more irritated my scream and we are supposed to be unable to do anything against this? What a mass hypnosis! One reason for war lies in the wrongly channeled longings and life energies of the human being. Or do we really seriously believe that all the many young soldiers who are presently ready to go to war would really obey the orders if they had another perspective for their strength, their courage, their longing for adventure and community? If they were guided by other archetypical pictures of the soul than the hero idols of the patriarch cultures? Could there be a military world basing on order and obedience at all if people had learnt to follow their longing in love and to find their own source? It is the unfulfilled hunger for community, for love and religion, which drives us into the collective madness. Upon the questions "Do you want war or peace?" a huge part of the population, would answer: "We want peace, but what can we do all by ourselves? We do have the power to change something! And yet the question comes up again and again: What can we do against it? We are witnesses of a wrong civilization we ourselves belong to. We are contemporary witnesses of a continuum of violence. The same injustice is happening all over the globe; it happens in Israel/Palestine, in Chechnya, in the Balkans, in Latin America, in Africa, Indonesia, etc., just almost everywhere on earth. It is about stepping out of the madness of the contemporary civilization and about stepping into a new form of living on earth. The pilgrimage GRACE is not supposed to remain an individual activity, GRACE could be the beginning for a worldwide movement for peace. We can prevent war! The peace movement can stop wars if they act in a timely, intelligent, strategic, plentiful and decided way. Lets no longer follow the hypnosis of resignation, powerlessness and deception. We will make it on a global level if enough decided people take the decision to do nothing but go for an unconditional commitment for peace for the whole next year. I do no longer belong to those who believe that the world can be changed by major mass movements, by uprisings and revolts against the ones in government - as beautiful as this lively picture of power might be. A lively, powerful non-violent revolution on the streets - this may be part of the whole, but too fine, too subtle, too deep are the necessary changes which have to made to be able to prevent wars lastingly. The outer revolution must be accompanied by a conscious revolution in the inner; without this a true victory will hardly be possible. Today, many know: Our planet can only be saved, if humankind undergoes a transformation, if people get themselves going to set off for a new intelligence and a new readiness for truth and solidarity. Something must happen, something that reaches deeper and is more comprehensive than all revolutions have been up to now. A world revolution which in the west will no longer fight the existing systems but connect with the power of a higher order level "is laying in the air": The revolution of love - and the creation of conditions and structures of living in which the form of existence of love can sustainably develop. Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. Imagine all the people who sit in front of the TV and ask themselves "What can I do by myself?" would gather and coordinate really well. Every person does what is possible at her/his place or position being aware of the fact that: "I can be the turn." Imagine: A worldwide network of peace projects, future communities and healing biotopes develops in intellectual/spiritual connection. They gladly give shelter to all peace pilgrims who associate with the enterprise GRACE and who want to develop further on a personal level. More and more people take responsibility for the whole and the necessary jobs in the sub-areas with joy. The necessary money is made available by wealthy individuals and groups. More and more people know and fulfill their profession and their task in this global network of a powerfully sprouting peace force. The worldwide peace movement has guidelines which give orientation to its participants, also in their basic daily lives. All these guidelines are oriented by the deeper meaning of GRACE. GRACE is independent of ideologies, religions or political parties. GRACE serves life and its peaceful development. We meet each other with respect, solidarity and willingness to help. In the name of GRACE we refuse to be the enemy of anyone. GRACE always searches for the violent-free solution. My further personal commitment and work is dedicated to the development of a worldwide "Syndicate for Peace", which will see to it that everywhere in the world the first training places for the building up of peace villages can develop. Places which are there for the worldwide peace movement as oases of power and cooperation. The envisioned peace syndicate might consist of roundabout 30 persons. For the realization of the big idea I will continue my pilgrimage for the "Humanising of Money". I learnt and experienced that we can very well be the change that we are longing for. The idea of a worldwide peace movement in the centre of which the idea of the peace villages is located needs the contact with a broad public. Getting into contact with economists and business experts, who have seen the necessity of such a vast change of our patterns of thinking long since and are willing to support this is essential. The peace movement must get into contact with the functionality of money and seek to understand it without becoming subject to its laws. It must overcome old enemy pictures and contribute to enable the development of a humane economy. With the money that one single tank costs we could set a powerful start for the building up of the envisioned peace villages in the Middle East, Colombia, India and Portugal. My contribution lies in the preparation and netting of the correspondent technological, ecological and social pilot models which have already been developed by various groups in the world or are being worked on. At the same time, I am gladly willing to pass on my spiritual knowledge, my community experience and my experience in the area of love to others. I start a kind of "high-tech pilgrimage" for peace. I place myself fully in service. This time, I am more than a "beggar monkress" and predominantly walking on foot; I am traveling by car, train or airplane. I will let myself be guided I will let myself be guided to those meetings and contacts which are necessary for the building up of an appropriate peace network. I do this in the name of GRACE. The money that I need for my traveling and similar expenses I will take from the incoming donations, besides I will continue to have no more private property. All the rest of the money that will be given to us goes into the building up of projects for the development of this peace power. We will gladly inform all those of you who want to know what the money is being used for. I ask all committed and dedicated spirits for help and support. Please make contact with business, economic, and financial experts who are interested in new future projects. People who direct or know projects which are gladly willing to place their home at the disposal of peace pilgrims are kindly asked to contact us. Right now I am in the process of founding a peace office. I am gladly willing to inform a broader public about my work. Those who want to donate money or have important information for us please refer to: ring-of-po...@sabine-lichtenfels.de Homepage: http://www.igf-online.org oder http://www.prvme.org oder http://www.sabine-lichtenfels.de Donations can be transferred to: Sabine Kleinhammes, bank code 10010010, account number 597043103, reference: GRACE Power Sentence: Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. With warm greetings Sabine Lichtenfels ------------------------------------------------------------- News from the IGF: Summer University: http://www.tamera.org/english/index.html Invitation for the Forum for Peace Journalism: http://www.igf-online.org/index.php?id=371 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PS: If you got to know about this initiative via this mail and would like to join, please mark in which way you want to become part of the Ring of Power. We will only send out the messages to people who explicitly wish so. Thank you. 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