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  <title>Scarlet Jewels</title>
  <subtitle>Fall out and into the unknown abyss whilst the old forms and models are lying and dying. Radicalize. Idealize.</subtitle>
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   <title>8.8.8 out of the blue - she stars in her own life!</title>
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   <summary type="text">Jewels has returned from Avalon! http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=745367789</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[Jewels has returned from Avalon!<br>http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=745367789<br><br><img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/145/kCard-blue.jpg" title=""  hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" /> <br />]]></content>
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   <published>2008-08-26T23:10:17Z</published>
   <updated>2008-08-26T23:20:45Z</updated>
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   <title>Still Time for Harvest</title>
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   <summary type="text">This morning I pulled a card from Dr. Christiane Northrup's "Women's Bodies, Women's WIsdom' Healing Cards entitled from the "Fertility &amp; Creativity" Key Life Are, Card I.   "Imagine? Allow: In order to tap in to your inherent fertility and creative ability, you must believe in unlimited pos...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/144/Moreau.jpg" title="" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0" /> This morning I pulled a card from Dr. Christiane Northrup's "Women's Bodies, Women's WIsdom' Healing Cards entitled from the "Fertility & Creativity" Key Life Are, Card I. <br><br><blockquote">"Imagine? Allow: In order to tap in to your inherent fertility and creative ability, you must believe in unlimited possibilities.  If this card has shown up in your reading, your spirit is asking you to open up to the possibility of creating or being more than you ever dreamed possible.<br><br><b>"You are infinitely creative by nature.  Biologica fertility is just one aspect of your creativity.  If anything at all were possible, what would you create?"</b></blockquote"><br><br>And then I was struck with the image which was "full of images that evoke abundance and virtually endless creative possibilities."   In particular Northrup is using classical images, and this particular image 'Les licornes' by Moreau uses similar themes from 'The Lady and Unicorn" tapestries from the middle ages I used in a 'tapestry' branding story for my business concept.  It has to do with the Heart's True Desire - Transcendental Love and also the 6th sense, the entire oversoul of S'Amuser.  <br><br>Friday night I came across a new site called WE Book dot com and decided to start throwing up the outline of my book and all completed or chapters in progress as a place to share and get feedback!  For those who might be interested <a href="http://www.webook.com/project/The-Scarlet-Thread" target="_blank">The Scarlet Thread</a> will be fleshed out here over the coming weeks.  I am determined to have two compilations of earlier work simultaneously completed whilst I am relaunching S'Amuser in LA.<br><br>I am so grateful to be back on US soil and so very grateful that I am in my flow and I have fans, allies, and smart business people willing to assist and network on my behalf.  I had some great news this week and feel that the unfolding is happening organically yet with focus, intent and smart execution this time.<br><br>If anything at all were possible - I would create what I am creating - and I would TRUST that all is here to support this process.  Chantal and are will be in a large comfortable and beautiful place in the Pacific Palisades by the start of August, and we will sign the lease on the new S'Amuser by summer's end, and The Scarlet Thread FIRST EDITION will go to print this Harvest.  I will find 2 weeks to take off with Agent KP and we will do the Journal Project.  The total sum total of my Life's Work to Date will be earmarked, a foundation will be set, all the feminine processing, the initiations and the journey will have it's reward in completed Works, to share the gift of gnosis I have gained along this deep strong path.  <br><br>I am an agent for change.  I am a vessel of creative flow.  I thank the gods angels and great Lady for all the assistance.  I thank the infinite synchronicities, fates and muses for the incredible inspiration and the ability to Re-member what I am here to share, and hold.<br><br>Once this foundation is laid, rocket fuel will pump through my mind soul and body and being and acting as an agent of change, love, beauty, and inspiration will flow into concrete projects and associations which uplift and support the greater world.  I will be again at the Round Table of Planetary Lights, who are one million percent committed to sharing a greater more abundant and peaceful world and creating from the inside out, an enlightened planetary society.  <br><br>If anything were possible, I would be on top of all the tasks and execution and TRUST that the right time and space is made available - aligned with my Will - for all to be completed effortlessly with passion - for the greater good.<br><br>Blessed Be!  What a Glorious Day!]]></content>
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   <published>2008-06-29T21:18:04Z</published>
   <updated>2008-06-29T21:20:58Z</updated>
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  <entry>
   <title>Love Thy Will be Done</title>
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   <summary type="text">Prince wrote {http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOW4LLRRTA&amp;feature=related|this} song of songs for Matika.  There is supposed to be an amazing story behind it.  Tamar used the {http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Love-Thy-Will-Be-Done-lyrics-Martika/D6642A139BA5DE574825710B000E41AE|lyrics} fo...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/143/SER-1.jpg" title="" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0" /> Prince wrote <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpOW4LLRRTA&feature=related" target="_blank">this</a> song of songs for Matika.  There is supposed to be an amazing story behind it.  Tamar used the <a href="http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Love-Thy-Will-Be-Done-lyrics-Martika/D6642A139BA5DE574825710B000E41AE" target="_blank">lyrics</a> for it as the finale' song in the Rooftop Serenade event we put on in the summer of love 2005 on the rooftop of S'Amuser and on the street, literally stopping traffic!  <br><br><i>"No longer can I resist (no..) the guiding light (guiding light)<br>The light that gives me the power to keep up the fight<br>I couldn’t be more satisfied (no…)<br>Even when there's no peace outside my window<br>There's peace inside<br>And that's why I can not longer run<br>Love thy will be done..." </i><br><br>And this is the continued Quest.<br>And this is the eternal Promise.<br><br>Love Thy Will be DONE.<br><br>To choose this, to know, gno, this - aint that what it's all about?<br><br>In order to do that, there must be a continued Point of Choice, that we move eternally back forth towards, <br>and reset IN...  for that is our making.<br> ]]></content>
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   <published>2008-03-21T19:52:46Z</published>
   <updated>2008-03-21T19:55:53Z</updated>
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   <title>a genuine relationship with all things.</title>
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   <summary type="text">"Meanwhile, we are beleaguered.  We hold the pass.   The fragile hold the pass precariously, hiding behind boulders of ego and dogma.   The heroic hold the pass a bit more tenaciously, gracefully acknowledging their follies and absurdities, but insisting, ever toward life.  Life is largely mate...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/142/beet.jpg" title="" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0" /> <br><i><blockquote>"Meanwhile, we are beleaguered.  We hold the pass.  <br>The fragile hold the pass precariously, hiding behind boulders of ego and dogma.  <br>The heroic hold the pass a bit more tenaciously, gracefully acknowledging their follies and absurdities, but insisting, ever toward life. <br>Life is largely material, and there is no small heroism in the full and open enjoyment of material things.  <br>The accumulation of material things is shallow and vain, <br>but to have a genuine relationship with such things is to have a relationship with life  and, by  extension, a  relationship  with  the  divine."</i> <br>-- Jitterbug Perfume</blockquote><br>I am grateful that I have had this genuine relationship with all things, with things, and have been able to discard and flow, to always take care of the bohemian bourgeoise artistic sensitivity.... <br><br>I am at a point now where I've realized where the innate shadow voices instilled via patriarchal matrixes of what a fraud/ fake we all are (thank you Tecia!) - what that is all about.  IT's always us, the supra conscious creative sensitive geniuses that unlayer and unlayer the onion of that ridiculous thought patterns.  That we are going to be found out for our fake fraud self.  Well guess what?  We are when we try to play in 'their' raindeer games!  We are a fake when we are pretending to be what we think is required instead of showing up WHOLEY as ALL we are!  In our fullness! <br><br>I'm at a point now where I am realizing where I am not and have not been showing up fully in my glory my power and truly living my life OUT LOUD.  This is the impulse.<br><br>I am here to make manifest the glory inside.  I am here to SHINE in the radiance of that which I KNOW is inside of me.  I have Shown Up in so many ways, in so many places, but I've played the double agent game also.  Gave up and got diplomatic.  Tried to see how the other slices of pie were whole also but had also forgotten.  The trick is tho, I can't be a slice next to their slice to remind them.  I have to reflect the sphere the orbit the revolving explosion of pure fire phi light love truth freedom!<br><br>I am grateful for this knowing.<br><br>That today, this moon, this week.<br><br>I know my worth is not in the false games of material accumulation.  My worth is not contingent on the bank account or a failed or successful business.  My worth is in the Gnosis, the experience, the journey, the wealth of my wisdom, right here in each moment.<br><br>And I expect that worth to be reflected in my earthly experience.  I expect the players to take the centre stage with me, and that the peers who are COMMITTED to BE that change, to BE and embody that transformation - will want to play with me and want to invest right here right now in the shared dream, the shared promise, the shared experience, of ALL of that!<br><br>I am grateful for the divine expression of my humanity.  And it's weight in gold.<br><br>]]></content>
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   <published>2008-02-20T01:25:58Z</published>
   <updated>2008-02-20T12:17:50Z</updated>
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   <title>the new Los Angeles Vision</title>
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   <summary type="text">you came to me again from a new possibility - the sacred hi desert mohave land - and when i walked on your soil and drove in a sacred spiral - laying lay lines throughout the southland in that ethereal space time between christmas and new years... lax to brentwood heights - to palm springs arts fe...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/141/101_0582.jpg" title="" align="left" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0" /> you came to me again from a new possibility - the sacred hi desert mohave land - and when i walked on your soil and drove in a sacred spiral - laying lay lines throughout the southland in that ethereal space time between christmas and new years... lax to brentwood heights - to palm springs arts festival - to letecia's family gathering - to amara and thomas' return to sell their sacred wares - to their home in yucca valley - 3 nights visioning with priestesses / sisters/ keepers of the eternal visions, letecia and amara, and then the time on amara's untouched land with the earth crust unbroken, the Vision came, the mind map revealed for 2008:  a return to the city of angels immediately for me, and a new home life for chantal and i .... then sunday 30th december we drove via glendale - to ojai - and had sacred spring renewal, celestine prophecy awake dreaming... new years with jay and cynthia meeting the hilarious dog archetype / oracle game... and then new years day dinner with jennifer in la and drive to la jolla .... meeting on the beach 2nd jan with he project 8 production team.... slept 2nd back in brentwood then 3rd in santa barbara with allen the golden hearted new keystone for my perfume business remergence in la.... and then back to ojai to collect tecia and land on the 3rd at marigrace's new home old sacred space centre... to an incredible climax with marigrace and letecia on friday the 4th.... spent the whole day 5th jan at lax writing new names for s'amuser... the eternal muse..... i am grateful for the huge VISION this trip gave me, the mind map i have on my wall here in glastonbury and the KNOWING that this is all UNFOLDING now, and that the new life in the city of angels will be fulfilled immediately.  i am grateful for he knowing that if i put forth the dream, the plan and feel the worth of this in my cells, that doors will open and it will be realized in flow ease and total abundance for ALL.  om shanti om.<br><br>i am grateful for the Vision - for the Sisters - for the Support - and for always and forever the Love...<br><br><br><img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/141/101_0589.jpg" title="amara and julie in the knowing tree"  hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" /> <img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/141/101_0580.jpg" title=""  hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0" /> <br />]]></content>
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   <published>2008-02-17T22:34:28Z</published>
   <updated>2008-02-17T22:51:57Z</updated>
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   <title>today and every day is the first day..... </title>
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   <summary type="text">I have been wanting to write and create a gratitude journal for some time.  I have a few zillion journal entries written on my heart....   Today is the moment I've been waiting for.  I am grateful for the child before me, your innocence trust and ability to feel deeply in your cells and atoms an...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/140/Image131.jpg" title="Chantal at Rosebud Farm 07" align="left" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0" /> I have been wanting to write and create a gratitude journal for some time.  I have a few zillion journal entries written on my heart.... <br><br>Today is the moment I've been waiting for.  I am grateful for the child before me, your innocence trust and ability to feel deeply in your cells and atoms and dancing molecules.  I am grateful you were sent to me to bless and uplift my life.  I am grateful incredibly for the honour of raising you and showing you a magical wonderful world.  I am grateful for the fact that you might not fully know all the activities and haunts of the insane 'i's that collapse from the Shared Space of the Eternal.  I am grateful for your presence in my life, and that it reflects purely the essence possible and awarded to me by the angels.  You are a gift to Life, to me your mother and to all our kin.  To our blood family and the Aquarian family that has stayed in sacred union and touch even if we are far apart.  I am grateful for the opportunity to cherish you and nourish you and protect you and to teach you that Life supports you.  I believe this FOR you even when I forget it for my small self.  I am eternally grateful that I believer in THAT reality being created for you, by me, through our small 'family' unit. <br><br>I am grateful for all that Chantal brings to my life and the world.  I just look at you, touch you, engage with you --- and I remember - everything!]]></content>
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   <published>2008-02-15T17:18:35Z</published>
   <updated>2008-02-15T17:26:20Z</updated>
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   <title>We are the New Civilization</title>
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   <summary type="text">Wow -- New Civ is 10 years old next month! I went to read the poem, and it seems different than I first read it.  Have the words changed?  Anyway, maybe Ming-Man can give us an update of the membership to date, and the number of countries, etc?  "We are the New Civilization We are here. We are...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/138/balancemanbl.jpg" title=""  hspace="0" vspace="2" border="0" /> <br />Wow -- New Civ is 10 years old next month! I went to read the poem, and it seems different than I first read it.  Have the words changed?  Anyway, maybe Ming-Man can give us an update of the membership to date, and the number of countries, etc?<br><br>"We are the <a href="http://www.newciv.org/ncn/ncnintro.html" target="_blank">New Civilization</a><br>We are here.<br>We are waking up now, out of the past, to dream a bigger dream.<br>We are friends and equals, we are diverse and unique, and we're united for something bigger than our differences.<br>We believe in freedom and cooperation, abundance and harmony.<br>We are a culture emerging, a renaissance of the essence of humanity.<br>We find our own guidance, and we discern our own truth.<br>We go in many directions, and yet we refuse to disperse.<br>We have many names, we speak many languages.<br>We are local, we are global.<br>We are in all regions of the world, we're everywhere in the air.<br>We are universe being aware of itself, we are the wave of evolution.<br>We are in every child's eyes, we face the unknown with wonder and excitement.<br>We are messengers from the future, living in the present.<br>We come from silence, and we speak our truth.<br>We cannot be quieted, because our voice is within everyone.<br>We have no enemies, no boundaries can hold us.<br>We respect the cycles and expressions of nature, because we are nature.<br>We don't play to win, we play to live and learn.<br>We act out of inspiration, love and integrity.<br>We explore, we discover, we feel, and we laugh.<br>We are building a world that works for everyone.<br>We endeavor to live our lives to their fullest potential.<br>We are independent, self-sufficient and responsible.<br>We relate to each other in peace, with compassion and respect, we unite in community.<br>We celebrate the wholeness within and around us all.<br>We dance to the rhythm of creation.<br>We weave the threads of the new times.<br>We are the new civilization."<br>]]></content>
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   <published>2005-02-06T23:12:18Z</published>
   <updated>2005-02-06T23:26:53Z</updated>
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  <entry>
   <title>Soulquakes</title>
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   <summary type="text">by Palden Jenkins  7th January 2005 One of Palden's occasional articles on the state of the world  The people of Aceh and the Indian Ocean have gone through a terrible disaster, and the world has gone through a quake and tsunami of the collective soul. This disaster was vast yet localised - u...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA["The disaster has brought many things clearer into focus. It struck several centres of ongoing, dirty conflict. Aceh, before the earthquake, was already in a dismal state, suffering deprivation and repression with outbursts of independence war. This conflict has been long, brutal and kept well away from the eyes of the world. It's another oil war and self-determination war, and Indonesian and international business, oil and military interests, and we consumers too, all have a stake. This was a powderkeg waiting to go boom.<br><br>Then there was southern Thailand - a simmering self-determination conflict of southern Thai Muslims against mainstream Thai Buddhists. There was Sri Lanka - a longstanding conflict between Tamils and Sinhalese costing 64,000 lives over 20 years. There was Somalia, stricken with warlordism. These cannot be passed off as simple ethnic quarrels - behind them lurk the manoeuvrings of individuals, arms, terror and corporate interests, politics, propaganda, corruption and ideology. The tsunami's effect is to flood them out and change the political landscape. Are the earthquake gods saying something about conflict?<br><br>Then there is the big question of rich and poor, and the levelling effect of the disaster. We've seen prosperous Western tourists dying alongside simple village folk. We've seen patterns of charitable donation reflecting the values more than the wealth of donors. This tsunami has pounded at all boundaries, making us vulnerable, aware of how much we need each other. <br><br>Two notable observations came out amongst all the news-feed: that animals in affected areas and the 'primitive' peoples of the Andaman Islands sustained relatively little damage. They moved out of danger a day or two before the disaster struck. What do they know that we don't? Does this point to plain old unscientific intuition, so unpopular in our day?<br><br>Then there is 'being in the right place at the right time'. When mere minutes make a big difference, who is standing where at the moment of impact becomes a life-or-death matter. This 'karmic' element, and the intricacy of the 'chance occurrences' and crucial momentary decisions recounted in the accounts of survivors, alludes to a strangely awesome, intricate power. This is apocalyptic, especially since 'apocalypse' involves revelation, things presenting themselves as they are, irrespective of how we might believe or want them to be.<br><br>In my last book (1) I wrote about the schizoid development of the collective psyche in our time. Double standards, such as making big promises and then failing to deliver aid, arise from humanity's current predicament: we want change as long as nothing really changes. Deep down, we are more genuinely civilised and humane than we are in everyday life and official culture. This leads to crises followed by acute bursts of conscience and insight, mediated by events. Suddenly we become more generous, compassionate, forgiving and understanding.<br><br>This is the real humanity coming through, stripped of protective armour. If there is divine intent here, surely this is one of its key purposes. Disasters are horrific and also bring out the best in people. Soulquakes shake us, revealing a bigger order of things. Even in gory scenes, the angels are close. Death has a way of doing this. It punctuates the sentences and paragraphs that make up history, unveiling new futures. <br><br>The Lisbon earthquake of 1755, with 60,000 dead, is thought to have sparked the European Enlightenment, and the Black Death of the 1340s is regarded as the beginning of an historic shift toward the modern world. The Tangshan earthquake of 1976, killing 255,000, brought the end of the Maoist era in China. These crises shook up existing ways and beliefs. Does today's disaster mark an historic watershed - and toward what? <br><br>All the talk is about aid being sent to the disaster zone, but is this aid one-way? Disaster-victims have unwittingly given us a massive level-shift and wake-up call, a gift beyond measure. This aid arrived in our own disaster-zones faster than our aid reached theirs. For we live in emotional deserts where suffering is long and slow, sophisticatedly contained and denied. Perhaps the developing world, socially and culturally, is developing us.<br><br>The open question is whether the sacrifice of all those lives will be worth it in the end. Will it connect the conflicting sides of our mass psyche? To continue the geological analogy: earthquakes represent a relaxation of geophysical tensions, and soulquakes could represent a release of tectonic tensions in the world psyche. This disaster has pointed firmly at human conflict. The collective unconscious has stated something quite clear.<br><br>We'll see multiple secondary effects. The tsunami has washed much further than its physical reach. In my own area of focus, the Holy Land, people in the streets of Ramallah and Tel Aviv have also been emotionally hit, and it re-casts their situation in a different light. There will be a shift of international attention away from crisis-points like this. This might permit atrocities while the world isn't looking, or it might catalyse homegrown breakthroughs and resolution. Or simply accelerate movement and precipitate issues.<br><br>Today there are markedly fewer conflicts than in the 20th Century - the bad scenes in Iraq give a false impression. What reduces conflict is a pragmatic public desire to get on with other things. The world is awash with weaponry, yet the historic tide is ebbing slowly away from war. There are notable exceptions and xenophobia is alive and well, yet human empathy is also broadening and deepening. We have our differences, but we're increasingly aware we are stuck in this flimsy boat together.<br><br>Deep questions get worked over at times like these, jiggled and swirled by billions of people's feelings, all flapping at once. Some pending issues go critical. What gives such events this power is their unexpectedness and our helplessness before them. Sometimes this is inspiring, as when the Berlin Wall came down, and sometimes tragic, as we see today. What hits us deepest is events' symbolic poignancy - their sharpness of definition, pathos and dream or trauma qualities. The power of soulquakes lies in what they reveal: our smothered visions and hopes, and our stowed-away ghouls of fear, guilt and shame. <br><br>Scenarios such as 9/11, Rwanda, Bosnia, Tienanmen Square or Chernobyl awaken deep forces of world concern. Some horrors go unnoticed - such as those in Aceh before the earthquake, or the wars in Congo, killing 2-3 million people. More people died in Iraq during Clinton's watch than Bush's, but Bush caught the world's eye. This capturing of the hearts and minds of humanity is what decides the magnitude of soulquakes. <br><br>The disaster shines new light on so many things. The rich and the poor. The plight of ordinary people at the hands of government, armies and business. The skewed priorities of nations and ruling elites. The relative significance of other problems worldwide. The risk of a future disaster so big that everything, everywhere changes. The dashing of plans, intentions and illusions. The power of religion and belief. Mass charitability. Cooperation. The exposure of big secrets or shameful situations. Issues erupting with no direct relation to the disaster.<br><br>Around 1980, research emerged (2) suggesting a connection between earthquake activity and social wellbeing and conflict, through a reciprocal buildup of social and geological charge. It was squelched, deemed unscientific. Perhaps it's a point worth examining again. In the social realm collective feeling can quickly rewrite the rules and change far more than was first visualised. Here's a quote from a young man (3) in the crowd in Kiev in December 2004:<br><br>"The most amazing thing - which I believe will have worldwide sociological implications for a long time to come - is how incredible this crowd is. When you think of a crowd unhappy about something, being cheated by politicians, betrayed by the system, you expect a bunch of angry, agitated people. Well, think again. This is the happiest, friendliest, most incredibly loving and supportive group of people I have ever encountered.<br><br>People are smiling, singing, laughing and offering help and support to each other. You don't see any police anywhere, not a single policeman in sight - imagine that. According to the mayor's office in the city of Kyiv, there are no reports of any crime in this huge metropolitan area. Crime has stopped! Everyone is a friend, everyone is a neighbour, everyone is a brother. I do not know how long this can last, but we are in the middle of some kind of miracle.<br><br>It is cold out there... There are mountains of warm clothes everywhere on the main street of the city, donated by Kyivites. Food, hot coffee, hot tea are abundant and free everywhere. But you do not see any alcohol - this is the most sober one million Ukrainians you will ever meet. The crowd is completely self-organising and improving its collective behaviour continuously. Every new day brings new elements of better organisation, improved conditions, improved communications and general functionality..."<br><br>This alludes to the power of social 'synergy'. It happened in UK when just one person, Princess Diana, died. Small event, big soulquake. Hospital admissions, crime rates, car accidents and pollution plummeted, and even trains ran on time. For a week, the nation shared something profound. Everything functioned well and many chronic social problems were temporarily, magically relieved. As in Kiev.<br><br>Now think of the opposite, and the symptoms arising from breakdown, distrust, panic and divisiveness - a default pattern often confused with freedom. Normally, societies subsist on a diet of organised psychic disarray and mutually-restrained offence, politely institutionalised as 'competitiveness' and 'a good thing'. Disasters have a way of exposing such dissonance. This then poses a big collective choice: do we really wish to continue like this?<br><br>So was this earthquake a randomly-firing geological event, or was there a connection with human activity? Indonesia has not recently been renowned for social wellbeing and harmony. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about divine retribution: I'm talking about the hidden relationship between human activity and 'chance' occurrences, about the interaction of social and geological stresses and the pregnant symbolism and emotional impact of events.<br><br>A crisis renders things transparent, irrevocably shifting emotional continents and forging new connections in the public mind. It will take years for the many implications of the Sumatran earthquake to emerge. There might be more large-scale disasters in years to come - we've only just got over the Caribbean tornadoes. These are times of compounding complexity, as a whole way of life and civilisation comes up against its limits to growth.<br><br>Welcome to the future. The 21st Century agenda makes itself conspicuous in two big ways. The agenda items are demonstrated in the spontaneous responses people make to the big events of our time, revealing an up-welling instinct for justice, humane and ecological solutions, peace, sanity and proportion. They are also shown by looking at the mirror image of what extreme conservatives worldwide fight to maintain - self-interest, authority, exploitation of resources and people, disparity of wealth and power, fear, distrust and polarisation. People know roughly what the new agenda is because it derives from life-experience: everyone deserves a decent life and a safe and fair world to live in. <br><br>This new agenda struggles to bust the straitjacket of 20th Century ways. It poses enormous questions concerning power, truth, security, fair deals and the purpose of life. It rises up in heart-rending events and our collective response to them. Mass death is one way messages from the heart of humanity are rammed home, shaking us to the core.<br><br>May those souls who have passed away find peace in their departing, and may those who are left behind find new life out of the devastation. This we can pray for. The value in these deaths lies in what we learn from this, what we do next.<br><br>This quake may have been accidental but, having occurred, its timing is impeccable, and it pinpoints many key issues directly. The big debate on aid, trade and debt-relief just scratches the surface. We stand now at a crucial historic watershed. The key priority for the developed world is not to provide aid, relief and reconstruction assistance, though these help. The priority is to cease being a problem for the rest of the world, and to allow the global playing field to be more level. Not by giving, though this too helps, but by reducing its extraction of wealth and resources and domination of the world agenda. <br><br>We are also witnessing a subtle shift toward increased local and regional self-sufficiency: after all, following the tsunami, local rescue got there first - neighbours, relatives and monks, not governments and NGOs. We stand now at the beginning of an historic trend moving away from large-scale aid and relief toward self- and mutual help - principally because, sometime in the future, there might well be too much to cope with, and hardly anyone left to help. <br><br>Developing nations have an advantage. Generally their people have functional family and community survival mechanisms. Meanwhile, richer, safer countries need to recognise the social and cultural crisis we're in, learning more from the 'less developed' and 'primitive' cultures we tend to look down on. The era of superpower hegemony is now over, the international community is all that remains, and democracy means will of the majority. <br><br>This soulquake has reminded us we're guests on Earth. A balance has tipped. What we've all fallen into is big, wide and deep. It's just a beginning. We know this.<br></blockquote></i><br><br>------------------------------------<br>NOTES:<br>1. Healing the Hurts of Nations - the human side of globalisation, Palden Jenkins, Gothic Image 2003, ISBN 0-906362-62-8. A free, online short version will appear at www.palden.co.uk/hhn in March 2005.<br>2. Jeffrey Goodman, We are the Earthquake Generation, Berkley Publishing Group, USA, 1980. <br>3. Thank you and good luck to Michael Bleyzer, Kyiv, Ukraine, address unknown, source Internet.<br>------------------------------------<br>Palden Jenkins<br>Glastonbury, England<br>www.palden.co.uk<br>palden@palden.co.uk <br>------------------------------------<br>© Copyright Palden Jenkins 2005. This article may be forwarded freely and printed in small numbers for personal, community or non-profit use if kept intact, and it may be posted on websites with proper attribution and link. Reproduction in print or commercial use require permission.<br>------------------------------------<br>]]></content>
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   <title>Holy Thoughts</title>
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   <summary type="text">People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;  forgive them anyway.  If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;  be kind anyway.  If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;  be honest and frank anyway.  You see, in the final analysis, it is...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/135/Multitude.gif" title="" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0" /> <i>People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;<br> forgive them anyway.<br><br>If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;<br> be kind anyway.<br><br>If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;<br> be honest and frank anyway.<br><br>You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God;<br> it was never between you and them anyway.</i><br><br>-Mother Theresa<br>]]></content>
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   <published>2004-12-25T15:37:37Z</published>
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   <title>Old Aphrodite, New Aphrodiate.  Same Day</title>
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   <summary type="text">My darling star-root sister Letecia reminds me of my old epic poems and I dare say, 6 years later, in Avalon, an alchemical marriage that brought the deepest transcendental light of Soul, and the darkest despair of manic depression.. now changing forms... with a new business being birthed out of t...</summary>
   <content type="html"><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.newciv.org/pic/nl/artpic/148/134/furdo2.jpg" title="" align="right" hspace="20" vspace="10" border="0" /> She, the peripheral, paradoxical<br> Question<br> Answer<br>  of<br>All of my knowings.<br><br>He comes to me in a lessor<br>Form<br>recently -- or did I just<br>finally see<br>the Lessor<br>God --<br>my arrogance! --<br>this lessor one wanting to<br>be enfolded<br>and surrendered.<br><br>How can I explain<br>a Stallion<br>riding<br>a pleasure-fulled<br>Aphrodite wave?<br><br>The swan of my surrender:<br>a foaming white stallion<br>is chariots of Jade-ed<br>destiny,<br>stealing such moments<br>is old-world,<br>shame ridden<br>ecstasy;<br>suppressed sexuality.<br><br> - that's why it's not about<br>the sex.<br>- or lesser children<br> of an invisible<br> dilemma.<br><br>How can you know<br>what breathes<br>between Her<br>crushing<br>thighs,<br> but Fairy Power<br>not<br>about<br>to<br>wait for you<br>to come along with<br> Her<br> forest'd Merry Ones?<br><br>Ancients in Elemental<br>balance,<br> the Highlands dry out<br>in deserts<br>of<br>hallucinating<br>Jerusalem's.<br><br>These Codes of<br>Ra Power<br>are the portals<br>homeward<br>into<br>bizarre<br>imaginings<br> which we are All<br> from, that place<br>within<br>sound chambers,<br> 2nd degree Shekinah Spaces.<br><br>Merkabahs spinning<br>still seems like the<br>one down the street<br>wearing a white turban<br>and manipulating chakrah orientation.<br><br>- the underplay of a<br>Tantric dance teacher<br>in reaction<br>to my Fire.<br><br>The container of Dark Aphrodite's<br>blaze<br>is the steeping<br>Reality<br>of Awful<br>Love,<br> so mighty it will<br>only absorb<br> red dwarf nebulas.<br><br>Witness my Temple Dance<br>to you<br> only for<br>that central Altar<br> of my Whore Body.<br><br> I am dancing out of<br> razor<br>  edges<br>  completing<br>    cycles of underworlds<br>  hidden<br>and heaven's trumped<br>return of Star glory.<br><br>As I write this Star-angels fly out of<br>Tatia's Green man eyes.<br> - this is my Fifth Sacred<br>    Devotion.<br><br>All my preparation<br>is not for<br>a<br>Secret Wedding..<br><br>Black Madonna's can<br>destroy life<br>but not as a<br>martyred scapegoat<br>or Lillith's daughters.<br><br>Eve's restored Grail<br>alchemizes<br>the regeneration<br>of spinning tear drops<br> overlaid<br>with my bleeding womb.<br><br><br>Inner time beats Her<br>sacred Wells<br> copulating<br>with a King<br> so non-human<br>- it is another story altogether.<br><br>whilst we are setting the Players<br>upon the<br>throne of thorns<br>for a labyrinth<br> return<br>solar-ly, lunar-ly...<br><br>this IS Nuit, Isis<br> of<br>my Diamond Eye.<br> I.<br><br>Jeweled Rays of<br>Her delightful<br>twinkling<br>shooting memorization<br> into grid lines<br>and knowing monoliths.<br><br>I am calling my lineage<br> forth<br>only thru constant<br>dedication<br>that<br>awakens all<br>deceptions.<br><br>Love need not cut<br>nor burn<br> yet all-Power,<br> all-Potential<br>must be honed<br>with<br> the intensity<br>of my tiger instincts.<br><br>You say I am no<br>longer 'cutting edge' -<br> yes!<br>- star portals<br> must roll the same<br>stones on tombs for the<br>only<br> protection<br>that works:<br><br>CONTAINING INFINITY.<br><br><br>She climbs the crystalline<br>platform into a<br> Nature Temple<br>wherever her good name<br>is manifested.<br><br>All the hype about<br>a life so revered.<br><br>whose life is it<br>but the One<br>as me the only One Here for the All.<br><br>this is my continuous<br> promise<br>  of That.<br></i></blockquote>]]></content>
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