(01 - 14 April, 2008)
01 Apr 2008: Seventh Generation
Scientists are alerting us to the fragility and sensitivity of our planet.
It is the tradition of the Iroquois people that in arriving at a decision
they consider its implications right down to the seventh generation that
comes after them.
David Peat "Blackfoot Physics"
02 Apr 2008: Dimensions of experience
"It has always seemed hopeful that people passing the same spot of
earth, on the same day, at the same time in their lives could have utterly
divergent experiences. Other people have gone where I have gone, and met
some of the magic beings I knew, but it wasn't in their destinies to experience
what I did.
There are layers of realities before us, behind us ,around us and in us,
and we stay in a layer no matter how far we travel until the spirit admires
our courage and grace and allows us to sprout into another zone of experience."
Martin Prechel "Secrets of the Talking Jaguar"
03 Apr 2008: THE POWER OF SILENCE
The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything
one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythms of oneness. It is
everywhere, available top anyone at any time. It is us, the force within
that makes us stable, trusting and loving. It is contemplation contemplating
us.
Peace is letting go -- returning to the silence that cannot enter the
realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is
why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet.
Malidoma Patrice Some "Of Water and the Spirit. Ritual, Magic,
and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman."
04 Apr 2008: NATURES HEART AND SOUL - 1
Daily we build a world that treats nature as a commodity and exploits
it without conscience, wisdom or reverence. It's odd that religious leaders,
so vocally concerned about sexual morality and faithfulness to a creed,
have not been tireless in speaking on behalf of the earth and its creatures.
Nature suffers when our precious conscience is caught up in our own complexes
and anxieties and becomes neglectful of the world around us.
We have forgotten that nature is us and we are a manifestation of nature.
When we treat nature as inanimate, without a soul, then we are dooming
ourselves to all the suffering that stems from neglect of soul.
Thomas Moore "The Education of the Heart"
07 Apr 2008: Shamans of real life
Shamans of real life are not like the perfect indigenous masters of books.
Their bodies bleed, their hearts suffer, their children get sick, their
souls cry and laugh. indigenous shamans in the real world are facing the
violence of a time when their whole world is being devoured by the unbounded
greed of the white man.
And they are resisting. they are fighting to survive and to keep the treasure
of their spiritual tradition alive - not just for their children, but
for the entire world, you and me included.
Victor Sanchez "The Toltec Path of Recapitulation. Healing Your
Past to free Your Soul"
08 Apr 2008: NONSENSE
The importance of nonsense hardly can be overstated. The more clearly
we experience something as 'nonsense', the more clearly we are experiencing
the boundaries of our own self-imposed cognitive structures. "Nonsense"
is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have
superimposed on reality. There is no such thing as "nonsense"
apart from a judgmental intellect which calls it that.
True artists and true physicists know that nonsense is only that which,
viewed from our present point of view, is unintelligible. Nonsense is
nonsense only when we have not yet found that point of view from which
it makes sense.
Gary Zukav "The Dancing Wu Li Masters"
09 Apr 2008: Life and Death
Most people die clinging. They don't want to die and one can understand
why they don't want to die. Only at the moment of death do they recognize
the fact that they have not lived.
Osho "The Joy of Living Dangerously"
10 Apr 2008: People want you to be happy.
People want you to be happy.
Don't keep serving them your pain!
..
If you could untie your wings
And free your soul of jealousy,
You and everyone around you
Would fly up like doves.
..
Rumi: "Birdsong"
11 Apr 2008: SHAMANISM AND CIVILIZATION
This is really the challenge for the future. We can build a civilizationlike
nothing the world has ever seen. But can it be a human, a *human* civilization?
Can it actually honor human values? It's one thing, the rate of invention
or gross national product or production of industrial capacity-- all of
these things are all very well. But the real dilemma for human beings
is how to build a compassionate human civilization. The means to do it
come into our ken at the same rate as all these tools which betray it.
And if we betray our humanness in the pursuit of civilization, then the
dialogue has become mad.
So it is a kind of individual challenge for every single person to demand
that compassionate civilization. It calls for a uniquely human response
from each person. And the way to be motivated to do that is to take on
the fact of human mortality, your own and other peoples'.
Terrance McKenna (Interview 1999)
14 Apr 2008: ENERGY AT CONCEPTION
She said that the nagual's explanation of my craziness was that I was
conceived under unusual and desperate conditions. Nelida then related
to me facts about my parent's history that no one but my parents knew.
She disclosed that before I was conceived, while my parents lived and
worked in South Africa, my father was incarcerated for reasons he never
revealed. I had always fantasised that he was not in prison but in a political
detention camp. Nelida said that my father had saved a guard's life. Later,
that guard had helped my father to escape by turning his back at a crucial
moment.
"With his pursuers on his trail," Nelida continued," he
went to see his wife, to be with her for the last time on earth. He was
certain that he would be caught and killed. During that passionate life-death
embrace, your mother became pregnant with you. The intense fear and passion
for life that your father was feeling then was transmitted to you. Consequently,
you were born restless and unruly and with a passion for freedom."
I could barely hear her words. I was so stunned by what she was revealing
to me that my ears were buzzing and my knees went weak. I had to lean
against a tree trunk to keep from falling down.
Taisha Abelar "The Sorcerer's Crossing: A Woman's Journey"
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