Greetings everyOne!!

"quote from marianne williamson -- "we have only begun to scratch the surface of how we can use (love) to restore and transform our world...." c/o Bruce

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and love..." (1 Timothy 1:7)

[ I would wish to add that there is no evil in on this planet;) only the lack of our God, i.e. LOVE. Hate will convert to LOVE when the vibration of LOVE is in [its] presence. LOVE.]

"There is a time to love. And there's a time to hate. There is a time for war. And there is a time for peace. (Ecc. 3:8) ...we’ve arrived;))

Stay Well !! Living Harmony... Wishing you heaven in your heart, starlight in you soul, and miracles in you life!

Jane

---- On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Bruce Schuman wrote ---

just a little good morning. are we alive and well? yes? we did get a little bumped there for a while -- i was up in canada, some not-entirely-nice people, apparently in china, decided to attack hundreds or thousands of somewhat naive cold-fusion web sites all at the same time, and our project got knocked around a little bit. i drove 1,500 miles back down here, spent a day putting things back together, and locked some doors, as best i could, to slow any more attacks. then, i went back up to san francisco, spent a couple of days at the NAIN conference, and now i am back here in santa barbara again.

a lot going on -- most of it now, it seems, "on inner planes"

i've been into this retreat and "fasting" energy for getting on to three months now. did all this exercising, hiking up the steep mountain trails, riding the bike, lifting weights (kind of), doing pushups and sittups and all that stuff -- and i keep going for days hardly eating anything -- just because i need to do that...

sometimes, my energy just gets so fast and brilliant. i was going like a rocket when i got up to nain -- just flowing like liquid silk, guiding by the angels. but hitting directly into all that "stuff" -- it kind of crashes me. having to "eat food" -- for this incarnation -- can be a little tough.

one lady at the conference -- rev. ellen grace o'brien -- head of "the center for spiritual enlightenment" in san jose -- used an interesting phrase: "you have to care and not care"

it's like -- give everything you've got, with all the passion of your soul, and every drop of blood and heart and vision and sweat that is in you -- and then -- just let go, forget about it, it's not your problem anyway, how could the universe expect you to fix all this stuff, obviously it can't be done, and all the work is on inner planes anyway....

maybe we are truly "beyond words" now. i don't know if we can engineer any of this stuff or not. maybe things can be consciously and intentionally interconnected, by some kind of internet project -- or maybe -- that's just impossibly complex -- and all we can really do is transform our own inner identity and psychology --

and that transformation will open us to the resonant interconnection.

somebody at the conference gave me this link, regarding a "decade of cooperation"

http://traubman.igc.org/decadeofcooperation.pdf

maybe it is enough just to open ourselves to these possibilities. after all, the "laws of resonance" are simple -- let the entrainment just emerge by grace -- following all these "conscious and intentional" efforts we have made...

i am just letting it come -- and looking at this quote from marianne williamson -- "we have only begun to scratch the surface of how we can use (love) to restore and transform our world...."

---- On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, anne Akers wrote ---

Greeting to Starr, Bruce and others enjoying this topic.I know our Native American brothers and sisters use the pipe to cleansevision and to bring the world of spirit closer. Australian Aboriginal burn leaves from a certain bush to clear away negative energies. When we have our healing circles or meditation circles we burn a small baby sage smudge stick tom help clear away negative thought forms. We also practice a group visualization to centre us in spirit before starting. These ceremonies are done before any council circles start buisness. It is tangible to all attending that the energy softens and calms down to a peaceful and clear resonance. We also have a cirle of crystals and stones around the outer rim, these are taken care of by our crystal keeper, lovingly cleansed after and before every circle.We alos burn incense to further enhance the atmosphere, sometimes we play drumming music other times different chants in the background.

Even when we have our Womens craft circle we do this ceremony. We are forming our own ceremonies now taking from our other spiritual and religious practices the wisdoms which ahve worked for them over eons. Starr I have enjoyed the wisdom from the Bahi faith yet felt dissapointed in thier holding onto the old energy of exclusion of women. I try not to take this too personaly, and tell myself that this ignorance [lack of knowledge] will be gradually dissolve as women like us take our power back.

We are blessed also by having Reiki Masters, E.M.F. balancers, Kineseoligists and other initiates as a part of our circle. Everyone is accutley aware of the importance of being in thier place of centre and peace before we open the circle. Of cousre this cannot be known for sure, yet I trust thier spiritual integrity and intent. I figure is someone is not in love light and truth this will be made obvious to us as we are all highly skilled intuitive empaths. Our craft circles and teaching circles are different as this is an open forum for folk to discuss thier struggles. So we expect people to open up and share thier pain, we use beading, quilting, scrapbooking and other crafts a way of helping women relax into the new energy which many have no or little knowlede about.

Our mission is simply to create a circle for those who feel isolated on thier farms, so often these beautiful women end up on thier own spiritual journey, reading books, collecting thier own crystals and eventualy moving into the more advanced levels learning to meditate and work with energy.We aaaare a down to earth group and try to keep everything simple, we are not intellectuals or philosophers just women from the bush supporting each other and blending knowledge from many different souces. Trial and error seems to work for us. We have a small circle for those interested in metaphysics, Gnostocism, Buddhism and other paths. So many are called to Native American ceremony, we have one women teaching us to make dream catchers and a man coming soon to teach us drum making. He studied this craft over in the states and ceremony was a part of his initiation. We are very excited over his arrive.

Please make allowances for my spelling mistakes the curser on this site or maybe it is my computer has a live and well gremlin wreaking havoc. I have to go slow or else I become the new Shakespear creating a new language.Anne. Ph.D

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