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 11 Jan 2008 @ 10:07, by jazzolog. Activism
A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked.
"I am weeping for my sins," said the lad.
"You must have little to do," said the man.
The next day they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man.
"I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad.
"I thought it would come to that," said the man.
---Robert Louis Stevenson
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it's a waste of time looking for him further.
---Mohandas K. Gandhi
Drinking his morning tea
the monk is at peace.
Chrysanthemums.
---Basho
The picture is of author Jessica Valenti and her book of last year which was written especially for young women of college age. The image illustrates an interview with her at Salon [link] .
I've been trying to think how I got interested in civil rights. I know it was all the way back in early childhood, even though there was no "movement" to speak of then nor was my normal white family particularly involved in politics or social problems. What I think did it was a Walt Disney movie from 1946, which would have put me in 1st grade. Anything Walt made was OK, even though Mom worried about the scary parts in every one. To this day my worst fears can be traced to Snow White running and lost in the forest, or the disappearance of Bambi's mother, or especially the transformation of Lampwick into a mule in Pinocchio---all done with animated shadows...and sound. Neverthless, as a family we saw everything that came out, and so it was with a film called Song Of The South.
By '46, Disney was experimenting with live action and much less animation interspersed. Song Of The South is about a little boy, played by Bobby Driscoll, who lives on a big plantation in the South, although I don't remember that it was exactly slavery times. At any rate, he wanders one day into the area where his father's black workers live and meets a man known as Uncle Remus, played by James Baskett. The whole situation is a setup for Remus to tell the kid 3 of the stories about Brer Rabbit, collected in the writings of Joel Chandler Harris. Of course we shift to cartoons then, but it's the only animation I remember...except for the bluebirds when Uncle Remus sings the Oscar-winning song from the film Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.
OK, if you're wincing at some thoughts of stereotype here, you're not alone. In the 1960s, the NAACP protested to Disney about the movie...and it was withdrawn. The song and the Brer Rabbit sequences still can be found here and there, but apparently the full movie only can be purchased in Japan. A friend of mine found a couple of copies of video from there up in Canada, and smuggled them in. As a result, I can report I've seen Song Of The South fairly recently---and had the chance to share it with my kids. What impressed me as a child was the racial interaction in the movie, how Remus and the boy came to love each other, and the social repercussions their relationship eventually produced. But isn't this strange---that the very movie I credit with developing an interest in me in the civil rights of American citizens, and people around the world, is banned as being prejudicial?
Well leaving all that aside, what happened back in first grade is I became open to friendships with people of other races and nationalities. At the same time we were beginning to learn folk songs in music class at school. My uncle, who was essentially a farmer and a United Brethren, got me started in stamp collecting. The whole world and its peoples were opening up to me and I loved it. But I was made aware of problems. A black school friend named Ronnie followed me home one day, and Mom gave me a talk about different people staying and playing with their own "kind." I didn't like that, and so a year or 2 later I went home with another black kid named Morris. When we got to Metallic Avenue, I saw there was no street there at all. In fact, 10 feet in front of the house, which had no door on it by the way, there was a tall wire fence...and 10 feet beyond that were the tracks of our town's major railway, the Erie. I guess I was pretty scared, and I went home. More >
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 2 Jan 2008 @ 01:01, by jazzolog. Activism
When you meditate, invite yourself to feel the self-esteem, the dignity, and strong humility of the Buddha that you are.
---Sogyal Rinpoche
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
---Tennessee Williams
This year,
yes, even this year
has drawn to its close.
---Buson
The Opening of the Fifth Seal of the Apocalypse, 1610-14
El Greco
I had a night of foreboding last night. No, it wasn't the champagne. In fact I went to bed very early. I felt it when I awoke around 3 AM, with fragments of a dream still flickering. People were coming up the hill, closing in...and I needed to decide whether or not to shoot. Rather a moot question, since I didn't seem to have any guns.
Maybe the wind, which by then was battering the house, had shaken me up. The cold front had arrived, bringing the snow from further west that's falling now. We expect about an inch, and I've already put down the potash before the relatives arrive for a Hungarian New Year's feast.
It couldn't have been the hospitality I enjoyed yesterday at Kathy's remarkable home. She and her partner Constantine had invited a few people for a delicious lunch of soup, fresh bread, salad, deviled eggs, cheese and some Crumb's special crackers that I brought. The land is high on a hill of natural oak forest, with amazing outcroppings of huge boulders, possibly shoveled there by the glacier which chugged to a stop just north of there.
When Kathy first acquired the land, she found a cave among those rocks and there she lived until she could build a tepee, and eventually more comfortable shelter. What they have now is a model home, for me at least, that is self-sustaining and off-the-grid. You can see it here [link] and go there to find out more if you're close by. There are more and more energy-efficient and alternative houses showing up around here. People move here especially to try their hand at living this way. More >
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 11 Dec 2007 @ 21:05, by freo7. Activism
December 11, 2007: I have had this date on my calendar since last January - this is IT and IT'S BIG...
Hi Everyone, How are you this fine December evening? Well - this is going to be one of those weeks when you receive several emails from me. Things seem to happen in extremes these days, or as the old saying goes: "feast or famine." This week surely is a feast; and so there may be a plethora of emails coming your way!
I am in awe as I look a head to this month and discuss it with my metaphysical and astrological compadres. I almost don't know where to begin when I take in the breadth and the sheer majesty of what is happening in December 2007. I have heard some say that it is a "Grand Finale" of an epoch. Epochal, that is a good word to describe the times we are living in - indeed the IMMEDIATE times we are living in. This month we are dealing with cycles of 12 years, 90 years, 250 years, 3,000 years, and even 26,000 years. All coming to fruition NOW. In the dark of the velvet (5th) night...
As one of my previous emails discussed, we have just entered the 5th Night - the turning point of the 6 days and 7 nights - of the Mayan Calendar (as calculated by Carl Johann Calleman). NOTE: if you would like to read my article and many other posts/information on the Mayan 5th Night, click here: [link]
It is no coincidence that we are now peering into a very powerful Stargate Portal, just after we stepped into the 5th Night. The 5th Night is the backdrop (a velvety deep luxurious backdrop, like the indigo night sky) upon which all of this will play out. We have a New Moon in Sagittarius on Sunday (12-9-07) which opened up a portal involving a momentous planetary conjunction on Tuesday: Pluto and Jupiter conjunct at the Galactic Center. Then later in the month at the Solstice we have the chance to hit the RE-SET button on our lives and start fresh, REALLY start fresh in 2008. More on the Solstice later. For now I want to focus on Pluto/Jupiter at the Galactic Center.
Many are asking me: "What does Pluto on the Galactic Center mean exactly?" Truly, it's hard to say; we can only talk in energies and potentialities. Like every other planetary or celestial alignment - especially those involving Pluto - it is an opportunity for spiritual evolution. The choices that we make as we walk through the Stargate determine our experience.
To understand this conjunction, we have to back up a bit. Those who have been receiving my newsletter for several years have been reading about the (dwarf) planet Pluto traveling over the Galactic Center .
What is the Galactic Center ? It is the Core or HEART CHAKRA of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. In fact, the Galactic Center is a Black Hole which sucks energy (all matter) toward it.
In addition, on either side of this Prime Black Hole, we find Pulsars which pulse info to us about the past and the future. This means that we are especially open to transmissions from Spirit at this time. The December 11th conjunction occurring at 28 degrees Sagittarius is exact on the Pulsar that gives us a glimpse of our future. (Read more info on the nature of the Black Hole at Galactic Center => More >
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 6 Dec 2007 @ 21:15, by freo7. Activism
Changing the Course of Human History: 2008 a most pivotal year
channeled by Carol Fitzpatrick... [link]
http://www.carolynnfitzpatrick.com/futurehistory.html
"We are here my dear ones because you have called us to you. We are
Yeshua from the House of David, and Jehostephat brother and son John,
Corinna, sister, and Mary of the Magdalene. We are coming to you as a
collective consciousness because your beloved family of humanity is
preparing to play out the grand details of life in the physical.
Creation cycles that have been in play for millennial, well before the
time of our tribe, have come into the movement, a creation that is
about to explode with possibility. Many will look back at the end of
your time on the planet and realize that this year of 2008 is the
year that your path as a race of nations pivoted and changed the
course of human history. We cannot reveal the details of this
dramatic unfolding, my dear ones but in the telling of the creation,
you will find your way to your own choice. Your choice will be made
in the quiet of your very own heart. Your choice will change the
course, set the ship right, onto a different course.
You have been playing out the games of self-destruction for a very
long time. There have been many of the original tribesmen who have
been prophesying the coming choice, but to no avail. We beseech you
now to come into a collective adjoinment with one another.
It is now time to repair the breach among you as brethren of the
light. You will find that as you soften your heart, and atone for the
creations of old that the Divine light that you are it will become
heir apparent to even the most hardened of hearts.
There are many among you who will say, "I saw it coming all along,
but there was nothing that I could have done differently."
We say to you, our sons and daughter of the light, that you are the
last of the cycles of hatred and violence to set up this earthen
plane. Beyond the time of 2007, there will be no more. We are
preparing the way to light all hearts with understanding that
violence against the collective self must now be finished.
As you open your hearts to receive the Grace of God the Father, you
will find your Divine Mother there waiting for your embrace.
We open our hearts in all manners of being. We are the Essenes."
* Click here to read more by Carol herself => More >
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 31 Oct 2007 @ 22:51, by freo7. Activism
Tune in and link up energetically with Mt. Zion - the site of the Last Supper & supposedly where the Virgin Mary died. Enjoy the transcript of the work recently conducted In Egypt, Israel and Jordan with Michelle and her group on the 13th of September 2007 Lady Mary Magdalene Channeled through Michelle Eloff© www.TheLightweaver.org , Johannesburg, RSA13 September 2007 Live-Time Planetary Grid Activation - Mt. Zion
*This information may be shared with other sources on strict conditions that no information is altered or deleted or used for monetary gain, and the source of the information be acknowledged. Transcribed by Judith Muller *Please note that reading this information will have an effect on you. *You will be energetically linked with the Channeling Being and a similar process facilitated within you. It is not exactly the same as being in the presence of the channeling Master, however the effects are just as powerful. *Do not concern yourself regarding time lines given to the participants in the channeling. *You will be taken through a similar one in accordance with your Divine Plan, Timing & Purpose.
ACTIVATION INFORMATION STARTS HERE:
I am Mary Magdalene, greetings and welcome to all of you today. I stand within the presence of the Divine Violet and Golden flames of the Golden Age. These flames have manifested within your presence and within your being serving as gateways into the Divine worlds of reunion with the Light. All of you, as I am sure you already know, are *Divine aspects of the Gold and Violet flames of our cosmic parents*. These flames are the ones that burn brightly inside of you, fueling your inspiration and driving you to move forward and continue gaining power over that which creates the perception of limitation and fear.
The activation we are conducting with all of you today is one that will *challenge your belief systems* on a very deep level. The reason why I tell you this is because you are ready to embrace *a different level of quantum perception*. There are influences that you are affected by that are deliberately programmed into your environment so as to distract you. Some of you have been sensing the presence of this deliberate distraction. You have felt the uneasiness of something not being quite comfortable. This is *already your physical confirmation* that you have moved beyond many of the levels of density that keep humanity's perception in the lower vibrations of conscious perception.
What I am about to tell you may stretch your imagination and most importantly it will stretch your mind. Your mind needs this exercise because it has become rigid in its ability to move beyond the parameters set in place by the old paradigms that keep you locked in an attitude that feeds your belief systems and current perceptions of life. I am not here to feed any conspiracy theories, however, it is important that you know that not all of your conspiracy theorists are paranoid or neurotic. In fact much of what they have discovered is in fact true and you have all heard that very often truth is far stranger than fiction, and sometimes it is more difficult to digest the truth than it is to digest the illusion.
There have been experiments conducted that have changed your world dramatically. These experiments have already challenged the theory of relativity and many of Einstein's other theories. There have been experiments conducted in the year of 2000 to be specific, and in these experiments they managed to move faster than the barriers of light permit movement. Now what this means is that there is evidence that something can be in two places at the same time, but what it does even more, (which will stretch your imagination now) is, that it defies the law of cause and effect.
Now one does not have to have a cause for an effect to manifest, this means your power to be in more than one place at one time without a cause, without motive, and without intention is possible. In fact it is being done already. It is vital that your consciousness takes these words in because this is part of the matrices we are dismantling at this time.
The governments have mastered much of this already. It is also known as remote viewing and remote interference or influence. What this means is that they can reach an altered state of consciousness working from levels that the average human being can not work from as yet, simply because that power eludes them. Remote viewing and remote influencing means *you are able to tune into every single probable outcome in your future* based on where you are currently at, and then *you can ask which of those futures is the most probable*; which one is the most beneficial in terms of your learning, your journey - so which one would be of best benefit to you. And with that knowledge you can then move forward, you can create and *you can influence the dynamics of your life* and all life in fact, like never before. And this is where the true essence of magic and miracles manifest. You, as a group, are drawing the energy of *that realm into the physical field of planet earth* and you are drawing it *into the physical field of your own body*, right into the space around your atoms.
The atomic structure in your body knows all of this already. It was made from that power and it was birthed within that essence. It has all of that knowledge and over the months that lie ahead of you we will work with you in assisting you in activating the dormant parts of your brain that hold that technology, in other words the power to become an empowering vehicle of creation. More >
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 21 Oct 2007 @ 10:13, by feecor. Activism
Al Gore might want to answer one or more of these questions which were posed to him for his comming-out in Berlin next Tuesday.
There are more questions and the people can vote which one they consider most relevant for him to answer.
Pls. visit this link, and maybe even vote here
And now my questions: 1-4 (in full in the body below)
1. Apollo Alliance, 2. Earth Literate or Ignorant Leaders ? 3. Participation, Inclusion, Empowerment, Co-Creation, and shared agreed Actions? 4. Have you revisited "The Problematique" from 1970? More >
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10 Oct 2007 @ 04:44, by freo7. Activism
A N N O U N C I N G
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This community is forming in a location not subject
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nationality. *The one thing we all know in our hearts
and our spiritual core is the ONENESS of our being soul
brothers and sisters eternally already.
Divine guidance called and we have answered by creating
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These mp3 tracks were the basis for Joe's new book Zero
Limits. *Just hearing from DR. Hew Len in a live-time
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not to mention the realizations you receive listening to
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*These Ho'oponopono seminar mp3 recordings are a
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If you feel you are called from within to be a FOUNDING MEMBER
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5 Oct 2007 @ 20:54, by vaxen. Activism
The first principle of psywar is never repeat the talking points of your enemy.
The second principle is to deny them a platform to misinform.
WRAL TechWire, Oct. 1, 2007
The American education system is not mobilizing to support science, technology, engineering
and math.
Today's generation of kids is the most technology savvy group that this country has ever
produced. They are born with an iPod in one hand and a cell phone in another. They're text
messaging, e-mailing, instant messaging. They're on MySpace, YouTube & Google. They've got
Nintendo Wiis, Game Boys, Play Stations.
Their world is one of total interactivity. They're in constant communication with each other,
but when they go to school, they are told to leave those "toys" at home. They're not to be
used in school. Instead, the system continues teaching as if these kids belong to the last
century, by standing in front of a blackboard.
[link]
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EE Times, Oct. 3, 2007
Cyborg insects with embedded microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) will run remotely
controlled reconnaissance missions for the military, if its '"HI-MEMS" program succeeds.
The Hybrid-Insect MEMS program hatched earlier this year at the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency plans to develop cyborg bugs to patrol, gather intelligence, penetrate secret
meetings, track targets, retrieve samples and more.
For now, the DARPA program is concentrating on micro-miniaturizing MEMS sensors that can
stream data back from video cameras, audio microphones and other sensors the insect is
carrying. Next, they plan to incorporate microfluidic devices that can pack different
chemicals to be delivered as payloads--for instance in a bee sting--and to dispense
pheromones to control the flight of swarms. But Darpa's ultimate plan is to eventually hack
into the insects own natural senses, allowing the remote-control operator to look out of the
insects own eyes, instead of attaching a video camera for it to carry.
[link] More >
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 1 Oct 2007 @ 15:31, by cor. Activism
As the civil war in northern Uganda winds down there is a need to think about how to resettle hundreds of child-headed households: families where all of the adults have been killed by the war or HIV/AIDS. In partnership with Opok Farms, Life in Africa is working to create a self-sufficient resettlement village for 150 child-headed households. The village will include a special learn-by-doing model school to help deal with the educations that have been repeatedly interrupted for the last 20 years.
A foundational component of this project is building an emotionally and spiritually supportive community that helps children grow personally, while at the same time learning through working on routine group tasks and projects that benefit the entire community group. To begin this deep community building process, a series of workshops will be held at Opok Farm in 2008 to help participants learn how to listen deeply and speak lovingly to help each other deal with the personal challenges they have faced in their short lives. At least 60 households of orphans will be invited to participate, along with targeted groups of adults.
The intended result of this time spent together will be a cohesive social group of people who intentionally decide to build a residential village and community school at Opok Farm together, on land that is allocated for that purpose. The human community that forms through shared workshop experiences in 2008 will have autonomy over how and when to build what on the Opok Farm land that is allocated for that purpose.
Our first challenge in forging the community of Ugandans who will develop their own joint priorities and visions for the village they will build, is to provide the basic infrastructure that can enable that process to begin. Our proposal for using the $10,000 Razoo grant addresses the following immediate project needs for enabling Ugandans in the project target groups to spend time working together at the site.
* $3,000 will provide water treatment to purify water from an existing source on the farm.
* $3,000 will provide for group sleeping facilities.
* $2,000 will provide for the building of sanitary facilities.
* $2,000 will provide for materials to have fellow Razooer Cory Richardson build a bamboo and canvas dome to act as a multipurpose meeting structure.
All of this work will be photo documented in the group space here at Razoo and there will be fully disclosed, transparent accounting for the expenditure of each penny of the funding.
Planning the Opok Farms project is a global grassroots collaboration that involves a number of active Razooers:
* Linda Nowakowski in Thailand will be bringing a group of Ubon Ratchathani University students with with experience in Buddhist economics and SUfficiency Economy Philosophy to participate in community building workshops at Opok Farm March-May 2008.
* On his visit to Uganda in November 2007, Cory Richardson from Canada hopes to help build a geodesic bamboo dome to serve as a multi-purpose community meeting space at Opok Farms.
* David Bale in the UK is helping to research eco-tourism development possibilities
* John Powers in the USA is providing research and ideas on urban planning and housing construction techniques
* Christina Jordan in Uganda is the Director of Life in Africa - a 400+ member community of families in Kampala and Gulu, the majority of which are directly affected by Northern Uganda's war. (Christina's Ugandan husband owns Opok Farm).
To date, 6 individuals have contributed a total of $9,000 to clear and plant an initial 70 acres of farm land intended for village community use. Harvest proceeds will help to clear an additional 230 acres over the course of the next year.
Additional photos of Opok Farm are online at Flickr
Additional planning discussions about the Opok Farms project are online at Ned.com
If you are interested in helping with this project - raise your hand - post a message, message Linda. If you are interested in being a financial supporter please go to [link]
Join us: [link] More >
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21 Sep 2007 @ 03:09, by a-d. Activism
Do we dare to know the Truth of our own behaviour? Only those who truly do/have done so, will be able to go forward and escape the Repeat of History!... Jim Kirwan is one of my favorite Political Writers of all time. And this is a very good one!...
// a-d
One More Time! // by Jim Kirwan [ [link] ]
Jim Kirwan
9-18-7
Actually, this gluttonous festival of consumption began in earnest when Ronnie made it all VERY fashionable with "GREED is GOOD!" (A line from Wall Street memorialized on film).
But that was only the beginning because his polices were founded on this idiotic stone of self-defeat that "Only suckers "give" or give-back to society - "winners" TAKE it ALL, without apologies: and between these two impossibly simplistic statements - the fate of billions of people was sealed.
The world has forgotten just how much people had to suffer these same axioms before: Always the same dominant monsters controlling it all (the MONEY*CHANGERS). In the twilight of the Dark Ages there came into the world what we look back on now as The Renaissance, that 'golden age' that was the artistic and scientific explosion of breakthroughs that coincided with the beginning of the Inquisition, and the penury of most of the ordinary people of the time. In 'art' the church was King, Queen and 'god' to every working craftsman in Europe - and the 'courts' of monarchies were only eclipsed by the Holy Roman Empire of the Church.
Society chose to remember ONLY the Renaissance and skip over things like the Black Death (precursor to everything else - another model for the New World Order's way of death) that killed a third of the existing world then - or the Inquisition that made a total mockery of not only the rights of most human beings, but of any semblance of the individual's right over his or her own life. Because collectively "we" still fail to remember the prologue to our own existence - we must now repeat it at a million times the severity of those early days of massive crimes and tortures so freely dispensed by the rich and powerful.
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