Love is the beacon for alignment, an activation to a greater gestalt.

The individual is always empowered to choose freedom and love by recognizing their inner grandeur. Stop evaluating, stop judging, stop defining and begin to recognize the music of all that is that resonates within. As the individual begins to sing along to that music you shall recognize loving symphony of life. Then, all becomes possible, as you perceptions continue to broaden, and you begin to witness as your rubrics of understanding begin to expand; in this space of resonance it becomes revealed that Source is so far greater than you ever perceived, then you could ever imagine.

Make me a channel of your peace:

Where there is hatred, let me bring your love,

Where there is injury, your pardon, Lord,

And where there's doubt true faith in you.

Make me a channel of your peace:

Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope,

Where there is darkness, only light,

And where there's sadness, ever joy.

O Master, grant that I may never seek

So much to be consoled as to console;

To be understood as to understand,

To be loved, as to love with all my soul!

Make me a channel of your peace:

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

In giving of ourselves that we receive,

And in dying that we are born to eternal life.

If you're feeling frightened about what comes next, don't be. Embrace the uncertainty and allow it to lead you places. Be brave as it challenges you to exercise both your heart and mind as you create your own path towards happiness. Don't waste time with regret, and spin wildly into your next action. Enjoy the present, because you'll never get another one quite like it. But if you should ever look up and find yourself lost, simply take a breath and start over. Retrace your steps, and go back to the purest place in your heart - where your hope lives....

Energy is either allowed to languish separately in dominion or converted toward an eternal benevolent collective expression.

God looks at the world through the eyes of love. If we, therefore, as human beings made in the image of God also want to see reality rationally, that is, as it truly is, then we, too, must learn to look at what we see with love....

The secret is that true love is an unconditionally flowing current within creation, it cannot be collected, owned or contained. The spiritualist masters expanding themselves to encompass more of it so that more can flow through them on its way to engaging the rest of creation.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world -- that is the myth of the atomic age -- as in being able to remake ourselves.

Friend do it this way – that is,

whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.

And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.

When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.

If you do it that way – that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One – whatever you ask for,
that’s the Way It’s Going To Be.

Can Teaching Be A Subversive Act?

a followup to an excert from Neil Postman's book in the Facebook group Subversive Orthodoxy

"Though I have not been around for the last 40 years to accurately gage the level to which these statements are as valid as they were when they were written, my answer is yes. From my limited experience participated in education (either as student or teacher) on four continents I believe that there is still some serious gaps in positive approaches to education (especially on the primary level). Science is often dry and immutable; history is a concrete progression of chronological events; math is taught as if numbers constitute a universe in itself rather than an aspect of our (or perhaps related but parallel) universe(s); literature is a message from the author to be deciphered; and standardized testing is the measure of intelligence. The dynamism of the human mind and our physical and social world is often simplified to the point of monochromic monotony."

• Children can see through the attempts of adults to censor and simplify the world. From the very beginning of the educational experience the observant student sees the teacher (who is often still presented as the giver of knowledge rather than the facilitator of the learning experience) as withholding information. Thus the student may be easily disenfranchised from education (30% of Americans do no graduate high school). Worse yet students are taught to be spoon fed knowledge instead of finding it for themselves.

  
  

  It is accepted in most educational circles that different people learn in different ways, though steps to incorporate this into the educational system in many places have not been sufficient. The teacher may try different activities in class to help different learning styles but is that enough? Though not a perfect system I think that the Montessori system is the only method that has taken student cantered learning to sufficient levels.

  
  

  Overall the main point that I think Postman is getting to is that the stagnation within education can be addressed by drawing from sources not necessarily considered “educational.” I think this has been attempted and experimented with albeit not on a great scale. Students thrive when they are interested and have input or involvement in their education; when given the devices to reach those goals without having those goals handed to them they feel accomplished and seek more education. With gentle facilitation a teacher can provide tools for students to follow their interests and dreams incorporating the knowledge, experience, and most importantly decision making skills that will serve them in life.

  
  

  2) I think the analogous nature to Christianity is clear. Just as different people have different ways of learning, so people have different ways of experiencing religion. Some like it spoon-fed to them once every week and then they don't have to deal with it for the rest of the week. Those people may be sincere Christians but they've learnt that the most important part of being a Christian is getting your "blessing" from the minister/priest every week.

  
  

  Within many Christian churches I think the problem of a lack of religious dynamism is still prevalent. The ones that are flourishing (at least in membership numbers) are the charismatic churches that have more growth than any other churches (see Alistair McGrath's The Future of Christianity). While some have accused charismatic churches of a rather high member turnaround rate, the fact that they draw in huge amounts of people must say something about what many people want from their religious experience. They want to be involved in a very real and personal way. They want drums and excitement and the moving of the Spirit.

  
  

  Regardless of the manner in which the involvement occurs (different people prefer different kinds of religious interaction) people want to be involved in something relevant, dynamic, meaning, and real. Sadly this is something that much education and Christian churches have failed to do.

  
  

  A further problem in the past that continues in many sectors of Christianity that I have grown up in is the “in the world but not of the world” complex. Though not everyone takes it like this I’ve known countless people that insist on keeping away from the “evil world” and in doing so lose touch with the rest of the human race. These people have hardly added to the dynamism of Christianity.

  
  

  The danger is of course that opening up to the world might mean the taking on of “worldly” characteristics. Trends of upbeat musical services is evidence to some of the that infiltration into the church. Many don’t want to see the kinds of popularisation of Christianity that took place during the early centuries of Christianity to incorporate various pagan elements into a Christian framework. Was it a bad thing that Christianity was diluted by these other religious sources resulting in greater waves of converts? I don’t know if I’m qualified to answer that.

  
  

  3) My vision for the future of Christianity (Adventism in particular) is one where people are able to more easily pursue their religious experience without the fetters of stifling clichés, stagnating dogma, and blind unthinking faith. I think the drawing on sources from outside the church family should be a possible way of enriching people’s experience. Ministers should work more to be facilitators of the Christian experience rather than its imparter.

  
  

  I can’t envision how others should experience Christianity only how I do. My only hope is that tolerance of different ways of experiencing common faith will grow and allow more discussions of faith that will create dynamic and real religious experiences that can change the world. That, after all, was the whole point of Jesus mission. To shake things up, to subvert the stagnant complacency of the religious establishment of his time.

infinite communion 2

My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak. I call you–are you there? I have returned. I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you again.

‎your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be
on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
...it may not be
much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will
offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to
do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it
while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in
you.

Energy is bountiful, unclench your heart to let yourself feel & others to be moved.

‎Look up! Look up! The clouds are lifting - the sun is breaking through. We are
coming out of the darkness into the light. We are coming into a new world. A
kind new world where men will rise above their hate and brutality.

The
soul of man has been given wings - and at last he
is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow - into the light of hope -
into the future, that glorious future that belongs to you, to me and to all of
us. Look up. Look up.

If we see a God outside of ourselves, he tears us loose from the self, since the God is more powerful than we are. Our self falls into privation. But if the God moves into the self, he snatches us from what is outside us. We arrive at singleness in ourselves.

Transcendent individuals realize that they can access the light of life, the
light of eternity only by aligning into complete oneness. This process involves
connecting all the disparate episodes of one's life & formulating a singular
theme of progressing towards an actualizing True Love.

Father time humbles arrogance, sister virtue slays folly, while mother nature cures indifference.

What is it, in the end, that induces a man to go his own way
and to rise out of unconscious identity with the mass as out of a swathing mist?

It is what is commonly called vocation: an irrational factor that
destines a man to emancipate himself from the herd and from its well-worn paths.
Anyone with a vocation hears the voice of the inner man: he is
called.

The discovery of the value of human personality is reserved for a riper age.

For young people the search for personality values is very often a pretext for evading their biological duty.

Conversely, the exaggerated longing of an older person for the sexual values of youth is a short-sighted and often cowardly evasion of a duty which demands recognition of the value of personality and submission to the hierarchy of cultural values.

The young neurotic shrinks back in terror from the expansion of life’s duties, the old one from the dwindling of the treasures he has attained.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound
reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the
discovery of individuality in fact is.

You mustn't play a role, you must remain authentically you, radiating your song within the key of the intimate solutions becoming.

You cannot individuate on
Everest.

beyond the dream

"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside, but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say: "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say: "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

......

A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

This call for a worldwide fellowship that lifts neighborly concern beyond one’s tribe, race, class and nation is in reality a call for an all-embracing and unconditional love for all mankind. This oft misunderstood, this oft misinterpreted concept, so readily dismissed by the Nietzsches of the world as a weak and cowardly force, has now become an absolute necessity for the survival of man. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I’m not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality. This Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist belief about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first epistle of Saint John: "Let us love one another, (Yes) for love is God. (Yes) And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." "If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us." Let us hope that this spirit will become the order of the day.

We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. As Arnold Toynbee says: "Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is going to have the last word."

We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood—it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Omar Khayyam is right: "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on."

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard? Will our message be that the forces of American life militate against their arrival as full men, and we send our deepest regrets? Or will there be another message—of longing, of hope, of solidarity with their yearnings, of commitment to their cause, whatever the cost? The choice is ours, and though we might prefer it otherwise, we must choose in this crucial moment of human history.

...

And if we will only make the right choice, we will be able to transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of peace. If we will make the right choice, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."

MLK

Affirmations for Life

I am safe and secure at all times.
I am divinely protected and guided and my way is made smooth and easy.
I love my feet. They show me the way.
I love my legs. They give me support.
I am open to expanding my awareness of life.
I am willing to release all my old patterns of fear and insecurity to live with joy and well-being now.
I know that I belong. I know that I am safe.
People now support me in an easy and pleasurable way.
It is safe for me to enjoy my life now.
I am willing to be my own good mother and look after myself properly at all times.
I am responsible for the quality of my life.
I am open to new ideas, new thoughts, and new people in my life.
I am willing to consider the possibility that there are new approaches to enjoying
life which will enhance my sense of being alive and give me pleasure.
Life is good.
I trust life supports me in fulfilling my purpose.
I have a right to be me, just exactly as I am.
I have a right to express myself and manifest my dreams.
I can have pleasure.
I trust in the process of my life to unfold for my highest good and greatest joy.
I love my life just exactly the way it is. I am free to make whatever changes are necessary for my future.
I can risk doing what I feel is right.
I am a life enhancer.
I am creating a healthy foundation on which creativity can flourish.
I unconditionally love and approve of myself at all times.
I trust in my own perfection.
I am good enough to have what I want.
I release my negative attitudes which block my experience of pleasure.
It is safe to have life easy and pleasurable.
I allow pleasure, sweetness, and sensuality into my life.
I allow abundance and prosperity into my life.
I am in control of my own sexuality.
I give myself permission to enjoy my sexuality fully.
I trust the Infinite Intelligence to give me everything I need for my growth
and development.
I am enough. What I do is enough. What I have is enough. Who I am and
what I do is enough.
I open myself to the beauty, joy, and harmony of the Universe and I enjoy it.
I trust the process of life.
I love myself exactly as I am right now.
I deeply love and approve of who I am.
I am worthy of my own-self-love.
I love and respect myself at all times.
I trust in love.
I trust my worthiness.
I am worth my weight in gold.
There are no failures. I learn from everything I do.
I believe that everything is for my highest good and greatest joy.
I love life.
I listen to and trust my deepest insights.
I am worthy of the very best in life.
I release judgment and let my life flow.
I deeply and truly love and approve of myself.
I am adequate at all times to do that which is required of me.
I love who I am.
I am willing to love everything about myself.
I trust in love.
I open my heart to love.
I forgive myself
I forgive those who need forgiving for not being what I wanted them to be.
I acknowledge my own loveliness.
I am pure, good, and innocent.
Love is the purpose of my life.
Love is everywhere.
I open myself to the healing powers of love.
I follow the path of the heart.
I am confident that the healing power of God's love will heal my mind,heart, and body
I am able to harness my will power to control addictive influences in my life.
I am ready to put my negative habits to one side and openly develop my
creativity.
I substitute love, joy, and creative expression for old patterns of addiction
and abuse.
I willingly give up (smoking, alcohol abuse, dope, overeating and unhealthy
dieting) to enhance my own creative gifts.
Love opens the door for me to feel whole and complete.
Everything I do is an expression of love.
It is now safe for me to express my feelings.
I love and trust my creative gifts.
It is now right for me to express the best of who I am now.
I release the fear and doubts which block the way to my creative expression.
I am confident in the healing power of love to open my throat for greater
self-expression.
I think positive thoughts about myself and everything around me.
I open myself to my intuition and deepest knowing.
I acknowledge I am the source in creating my life the way I would like it
to be.
I accept that I am an unlimited being and that I can create anything I want.
I focus on what I love and draw it to me.
I release all the impediments which block my growth and development.
I am open to new ideas, people, and situations which will enhance my joy
and happiness.
I live in the truth of my grace, beauty, and intelligence.
I am responsible for the quality of love and happiness in my life.
I rethink all negative thoughts about myself and others and change them to
positive energy.
I create clarity and unlimited vision for myself about my life.
I trust whatever comes to me is for my greatest joy and highest good.
I am open and receptive to all life.
Love is eternal.
Love makes me free.
I am willing to go beyond my limitations to express and experience greater joy.
I am always willing to take the next step in my life.
I am divinely protected and guided.
I am safe and all life loves and supports me now.
Love surrounds me, protects and nourishes me.
I go beyond limiting beliefs and accept myself totally.
I acknowledge that the source of love is within me.
I am willing to be responsible for the quality of love and joy I have in my life.
The more love I give the more there is to receive.
I am open to the goodness and abundance of the Universe.

- The Book of Chakras, Ambika Wauters

Oneness is Abundance

I think that the human individual awakes to meaning in many ways, but, essentially we awake to meaning when we find relationships that we can dedicate our own freedoms to, and I think one of the things that makes this hard for us to be able to do so is the fact that we live in an economic system that makes competition a necessity; that our currency system says, "in order for this currency to be valuable, it has to be scarce." So scarcity is part of our economic world view, means that people are forced to compete and produces self interest. We don't wake up in a world of abundance.

Oneness is abundance. It has no limits, in the sense it is such a powerful motivation for community life, if it's seen as we're working for one goal mutually, to reinforce each persons value in it. 

But all that is compromised by our currency system. It's not designed for everyone to have; and it's designed, for someone who can work out a better plan, to be more efficient at eliminating others from the game - to be a monopoly, and to actually have a greater control over the resources.

How many people live in a world where their word no longer matters because they don't have money? They can't participate, whether it's in a democracy, or, they can't participate, whether it's in any other form of economic process, because they lack the basic means of participation.

Now, the thing is that a small portion of the world claim the rights to what the majority of the world produces every day, because of some, you know, what we call now "intellectual property", ownership of history. Because for me, white people owned my ancestors, and they produced some things that are still benefiting a group of people exclusively while the descendants of that group have nothing.

Now i'm not saying we're required to have economic compensation. I think we're required to have the right to produce, that's all i'm saying. We have the right to produce - everyone should be given the right to produce.

We should not be consistently limited by an economic system that has made slavery worse in the 21st century than it was in the 17th century. Because people expect to participate and count; people expect to experience a world of oneness and count. Because every system tells them they're free, and that is not true.

But, you know, it's either that the system decides to redistribute it's wealth in an equitable way by building and investing in human development; because i think this is the most appropriate process for our current world economics - human development.

We're a disposable culture and as a result of that we are challenged to get resources to where it needs to go - real healthy social, cultural, and human development.

The economic process is meeting a certain threshold now, in that, people are awakened to the fact that they can create other alternative agreements to our current monetary system, and, if these agreements are made, I think the system itself could collapse, because it doesn't have the participation of probably, well, a lot of people. A large percentage of the world could decide to do something different out of a collective inspiration. We can't underestimate the human potential when it comes to this power of awakening.

What allows a group of people at one point to say, "enough!", and create a revolution? We're not thinking of revolution any more as violence, we're thinking revolution as the power of agreement. That a group of people could one day say, "this is what we prefer to have", and they create that."

-Orland Bishop