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Tools For Conscious Awareness
Newsletter For
A Next Step...light center for emotional
healing
Vol. 80 -Addendum- May, 2007
In Truth, Simplicity Love and Service
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GODDESS MOTHER CREATRIX GRATEFUL ARE WE FOR BIRTHING AND LOVING US INTO THIS LIMITLESS
UNIVERSE OF BOUNDLESS POTENTIAL.
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FEATURES:
LIVE OUR HIGHEST INTENTION: PEACE
AMMACHI ON 20/20, Friday May 11
PREEMPTIVE PEACE: A Living "Prayer"
SPIRITUAL PURIFICATION RETREAT WITH LEONARD ORR
FOCUS ON WHAT YOU WANT
IT IS TIME TO LET GO
EMC2 AND AUTISM; A FREE PROGRAM
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"Today I will celebrate some aspects of growth in the natural world as
well as in me.
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Goddess Mother bless all the beloveds who tithe generously to Light centers. We ask you to bless and
abundantly prosper Lee Placchi for his offered gifts and time.
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As our global awakening heats up, so does the tension which a growing number of us are
transmuting to living our highest intention. Creativity is the keynote. With an unprecedented
opportunity to connect the collective instantaneously, we can initiate movements with a
brainstorm. With the focused fire of intention anything ... even planetary peace ... is
possible.
This month, the United States celebrates Mother's Day, a holiday that was originally not
a Hallmark occasion but a call for women to put an end to war. Poet, author and activist
Julia Ward Howe first championed a Mother's Peace Day in 1870. In her Mother's Day Proclamation,
she exhorted, "Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts...solemnly
take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace..."
More than a century hence, women everywhere are heeding the call, thanks to Sharon Mehdi's
seminal book, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. Written for her newborn granddaughter,
the book tells the tale of two grandmothers who decided to stand silently in their local park.
When asked why, they responded, "We are saving the world." People laughed at them, even as
other women ... and men ... joined the vigil. Pretty soon more than 2000 people filled the
park, and word quickly spread until similar groups were standing all over the country.
Mehdi's book touched a chord, and The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering meteorically morphed
from fiction to fact.
This Mother's Day, Sunday, May 13th, at 1 pm your local time, you have an opportunity to
save the world.
Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you're invited to stop and stand in silence for
five minutes with your sisters and brothers everywhere on Earth. To take a stand with
others in your area, consult this global list of Mother's Day Standing Women events.
There's even a soundtrack to stand by. Inspired by Mehdi's book, positive music artist
Stephana has recorded a heart-opening CD, "Women Saving the World".
As we awaken to our responsibility ("the ability to respond") to our Mother, and the
beneficent power we can unleash, what shines through is:
It doesn't take slogans and permits. It doesn't take anger or weapons. It takes a village -
and a vision. We have, and are, both. We are the ones we've been waiting for. To paraphrase
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "I have a dream that one day this nation will wise up..." Let
the upwising begin!
Shared by Soul Soothers
ABC News is doing a special hour segment on Faith, which will include a profile on
Amma. I encourage you to watch, or tape, and tell others. Check your local listing
for the ABC News 20/20 timeslot, but it's usually between 9pm and 11pm on Friday May 11.
I had the privilege to help with this piece, which was mostly filmed in Chennai
(India) earlier this year. This will be a rather lengthy piece, at least 10 minutes,
and (I've been told by the producers and interviewer - John Quinones) very positive.
Thanks for reading. Feel free to pass along. Amma will be touring in the United
States beginning on May 31 in Seattle, and finishing in Toronto on July 23. For
more information visit www.amma.org
Rob Sidon
May All Beings Everywhere Find Happiness and Peace.
A young psychiatrist was just beginning his residency at a mental hospital. On his first day in
a particular ward, he noticed an inmate silently standing at attention at the door, holding a
broom on his shoulder like a rifle. After several days of watching this man, the psychiatrist
walked over and asked, "Excuse me, but what are you doing?"
"I'm keeping the elephants away," the inmate replied.
"But there are no elephants around here," said the psychiatrist.
The inmate smiled. "See? It's working!"
As physicists are discovering, in this entangled universe of interrelated thoughts, it's not
always easy to determine "cause and effect." So as we consider a worldwide prayer for peace
in the Middle East - specifically a preemptive peace strike to forestall a preemptive war
strike on Iran - it's interesting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinanejad has already
initiated a preemptive peace move of his own. Say what you will about his motives,
a de-escalation of tensions is a step in the right direction for a change.
Did positive prayers and thoughts make any difference or are we just keeping the elephants
away? Who knows?
But I did get to experience first hand a very curious event about eight or nine years ago.
It was at a time when Bill Clinton was in the midst of his impeachment crisis. With his back
up against the wall, there was only one thing he could do - order air strikes against Iraq.
I was at a conference in Florida, and one of the speakers was Gregg Braden, a scientist by
training who has done a lot of research on meditation and prayer. Long before there was any
news of air strikes being launched, Gregg and a number of other presenters had planned a
worldwide meditation for peace with this particular conference as the focalizing event.
He instructed the group in a kind of prayer he called The Lost Mode of Prayer that involved
using the "juice" of emotion to feel and see the prayer already answered. As I closed my eyes,
I imagined a true "arms pact" between opposing sides. I saw a stage, and a line of individuals
coming from either side to meet in the middle. I imagined they were Israelis and Palestinians,
but they could have been Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, Serbs and Croats, Greeks and
Turks, or even Democrats and Republicans. In military fashion they strode to the middle, and
when members of "opposing" groups met, there was the cry of "Present arms!"
At which point, both individuals would open their arms - and hug. And thus, I watched this
procession continue until the end of the meditation. Later in the day, we heard the news that
for some inexplicable reason, the planes turned around. Did our prayer have anything to do
with it? And, can our intentions actually impact outcomes continents away?
Says Gregg Braden: "The authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls - the ancient Essenes - were very
clear that the world around us mirrors the feelings, emotions, and perceptions we hold inside
our bodies. Emotion is the power source, but it is scattered until thought gives it direction.
Feeling is the power of emotion merged with the guidance of human thought. It is this language
of feeling that Creation responds to. In this feeling state we have the ability to touch
Creation and the world around us through prayer. As it says in the Essene manuscripts, 'when
these three become one then you say to the mountain, move, and the mountain moves.'"
Did the shared intention cause the mountain to move, or are we simply making a mountain out
of a mole hill? And if the mountain did move, then why did the bombing get relaunched on another
day? Says Gregg, "What happened was that the people stopped their prayers. Most people view
prayer as something we do on occasion when we think we need God's help. We set a moment aside,
sit down and say a prayer asking for circumstances or events to change. Then we stop our prayer,
get up, and go about our business. In The Lost Mode of Prayer, the prayer - our heart's desire -
becomes a consciousness embodied, rather than just an action performed on occasion. The author
Neville terms it 'living in the wish fulfilled' We hold the feeling of our heart's desire day
in and day out, rather than simply praying for a moment when we'd like to see a change and then
leaving the state of prayer to go on with our daily lives. As we are surrounded and enveloped by
the feeling of our wish fulfilled,
we are actually living in a state of compassion, gratitude, and appreciation."
In other words, when we focus a strong positive feeling with the laser of intention - and when
we embody this feeling over time - we may actually be able to impact the field of possibilities.
The science of how this is being done can be found in books such as The Field by Lynn McTaggart,
Entangled Minds by Dean Radin, and Gregg Braden's latest book, The Divine Matrix. For now, let's
consider how as many of us as possible can hold the field for "mutually assured survival" in the
Middle East, and how we can reinforce an ongoing field of peaceful dreams to supersede the field
of nightmares we seem to have going now.
There have been news reports indicating possible air strikes on Iran beginning on Good Friday.
Again, is this true? Not true? We don't know. In any case, if we want to broadcast our intention
that Good Friday not become Bad Friday, that leaves us with Holy Thursday ... tomorrow, April 5th.
We are asking you and anyone else you forward this to to make tomorrow the day we begin to hold
our intention of preemptive peace and mutually assured survival.
So ... in keeping with Gregg's notion of prayer, what is your vivid and joyous vision of peace?
What does it look like? Sound like? Feel like? Does it have to do with opposing sides hugging?
Planting olive trees together instead of land mines? Celebrating that a ruling majority in each
land has adopted the "we're all in it together" world view? Whatever this scenario is, feel it.
Hold it for the entire day, whenever you think about it. Enroll others in doing the same. As Swami
is fond of saying, "An enrolling stone gathers no remorse."
Another thing Swami has said is, "Life is like photography. We use the negative to develop." Out
of the apparent negativity of the stories circulating that a bombing attack in Iran was imminent,
a great "positive" opportunity has emerged. Thanks to a dedicated webmaster in New York, BriAnna
Olson and an associate in Northern California, Suzanne Keehn, we are creating a website to help
hold this ongoing field of peace. We call it preemptivepeace.org and it will up and running shortly.
We will keep you apprised. We're in the process of growing, so when you go to our website, please
add your name/email to keep in touch.
So, as one might ask during Passover week, "Why is this site different from all other sites?"
Seriously, there are lots of peace organizations and peace sites, so how and why is this one
different? For one thing, we are creating a context that relates what we call "peace" to all of
the factors that prevent peace or make it possible - spiritual, emotional, political, spiritual,
environmental. We face directly the powerful and persistent beliefs that make us secretly fear
that peace isn't possible, we affirm practicing the "operating system" offered to us by all
religions via the Golden Rule and we offer a portal to the projects and practices that are most
likely to bring peace.
We are excited about being an ongoing "supportal" to all things that affirm our world view of
"we're all in this together," and give us tools to, as Swami says, "Regrow the Garden from the
grassroots up, and have a heaven of a time doing it."
As Gregg Braden would remind us, prayer isn't something we "do" but something that we "be." Let
the being of preemptive peace begin.
Contact Information
info@wakeuplaughing.com web: http://www.wakeuplaughing.com
Related material:
Global Wave of Peace: http://www.worldpeace.no/english/worldpeace/1.PEACE-PLAN.htm
"The last gasp of the patriarchal-dominated war-mentality of the Age of Empire with its
emphasis on wielding 'power-over' others is fast coming to an end. More and more, the ugly
face of Imperial greed shows itself naked to the world. It seems that the wealthy among us
are waging war against the rest of humanity and upon Mother Nature herself in an endless quest
for more and more profits. Greed seemingly takes the upper hand in political decisions to divert
water from people and gardens to industrial farming operations that deplete the soil and produce
nutritionless food, in political decisions to displace thousands to create dams that will power
environmentally unsound industries in the Third World, in the power of unscrupulous landowners
in communities large and small to blast gravel mines deep within the earth, in the willingness
of nations large and small to wage wars to usurp natural resources -- the list is endless.
Unfortunately, this greed leads to assaults by the predatory and warrior classes upon the great
bulk of humankind and upon our environment. In this undeclared class war, many casualties & horrors
are perpetrated every day. This class war cannot continue unabated without destroying our human
civilization around the world.
The fallout from this unrelenting war of the greedy against the rest of the world is spiritually
and factually related to the tumultuous changes taking place both politically & environmentally
across the globe, from both human created disasters to Earth changes taking place in order to
cleanse the many toxic assaults made upon our Mother Earth.
However, there is something else going on, sometimes more subtly than the cacophony of war &
greed that seems so overwhelming.
Something is taking place in the auras & the hearts & minds of many of us as well as in the
etheric body of the earth itself; something which acts to bring the unbalanced state of human
existence into balance. Something Divine seeks to restore equilibrium between humanity and the
natural environment. Something Divine seeks to bring peace to the warring classes of humanity.
Something so sacred, so subtle, yet so powerful that in its global balancing act it is both
disruptive & healing at the same time. This subtle energy is the energy of rebirth, the prelude
to the restoration of the Dominion of the Divine Lovers -- it is the Sacred Emergence of the
Divine Feminine."
- Curtis Lang -
Taken from Honoring The Divine Mother: Satya Center Easter Spiritual Newsletter
Imagine . . .
Breathing in the fragrances of pine trees, sage, blue lupine wild flowers, meadow grasses
and pristine mountain breezes?
Maybe even the whiff of your camp fire?
Imagine . . .
Gently stepping into a warm, natural hot springs pool surrounded by forest with the vista
of the valley before you?
Floating in the Temple Dome hot springspool above you an exquisite stained glass window
with a view to the sky? Ahhhhhhh.
Imagine . . .
Honoring yourself by setting aside the time and place for rejuvenation, profound relaxation
and inner stillness,
Connecting with others who are desiring the same and who are committed to spiritual practices?
Beginning or continuing your skills as a Rebirthing Breathworker with the Breath Master?
Leonard Orr is very pleased to invite you to the Third Annual Spiritual Purification and
Rebirthing Breathwork Retreat at Sierra Hot Springs, in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains
of Eastern California. You can take this retreat for the weekend, five or nine days, beginning
June 1, 2007 and generous early registration discounts have been created when paid by April 25, 2007.
This unique retreat, held in the healing waters and on the healing sacred land of ancient hot
springs offers quality, individual breath sessions, meetings with Leonard Orr each day, informative,
essential seminars in the areas of:
Spiritual Psychology
Life Extension and Physical Immortality
Integrating Prosperity Consciousness into daily living
Healing the Personal Law
Successfully Building or Expanding your Clientele
The Healing Power of Rebirthing Breathwork
Babaji Pujari Training that begins the first day of the training with Pujari Yasoda Deschenes and
Mount Shasta Transformational Music and Chanting with Anton Mizerak and Gary Cooper,
Sunday evening, June 3.
Really, an awesome, most heartfelt experience. And let's not forget the FUN!!
www.rebirthingbreathworkspiritualpurificationretreat.bravehost.com
and
www.sierrahotsprings.org
(707) 822-5449
(Pacific Daylight Savings)
Focus on what you want. Where you focus is what you create. Where your mind goes
is what you create. If you don't want this war, then don't focus on this war.
Focus instead on peace and as everybody being as one. Rather then seeing everyone as
separate, creating more separation. Focus on what you want. And if emotion is added
to the focus it intensifies. There is no good or bad emotion. So if you focus on
something with fear that is going to intensify the process. It is going to bring
it about quicker in your life. Focus on what you want, not what you are afraid of.
Truly FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real. It is a misperception of what is. This
focus goes as far as the books that one reads, the television programs one watches. If
the books are fear based they generate fear. If they are horror they generate fear. If
they are warlike they generate thoughts of anger and frustration and fear. If they are
love stories they generate feelings of love.
(Aktruna Collective channeled by Bonnee Klein Gilligan)
bonnee@commspeed. net
The doctor's young reception asked the sixtyish patient, "Are you on Medicare?". "No,
I'm not," he answered. "I'm still working, and I plan to retire when I'm one hundred and
four." She laughed and asked him to take a seat. He and I were the only people in the waiting
room, so I smiled at the man and said "I liked your answer ... and your spirit." "Thanks,"
he replied, "would you like to hear the story behind my statement?" "I'd love to," I agreed.
His name was John and he worked for a government agency. John was responsible for approving
loan applications for major home improvements. One day a woman called him and explained: "I
need a loan to convert my heating system to gas, though I really don't mind the coal at all.
It's those darn ashes - lugging them up from the basement all the time. I'm 104 now and I'm
just so tired of carrying those ashes!" John was surprised at this outpouring, and a little
skeptical of the woman's age claim, but the agency's investigation revealed that she was
indeed 104 years old. Only now was she rebelling at the burden she'd borne for so many years.
Looking Deeper
After hearing John's story, I wondered if there wasn't a broader message here than just the
remarkable stamina and endurance of an extraordinary woman. Picture the ashes as any heavy
burden that one might carry inside for years, unwilling or unable to release feelings of anger,
resentment, envy, or any other negative connection to the past. Happily, we don't have to
shoulder this emotional load until we're 104, or even for another day, or even another moment.
By choosing to let go of the past, we can sweep out all the ashes that weigh us down and subtly
affect every aspect of our health, our relationships, and our peace of mind.
My friend Jean was divorced after a thirty-year marriage that produced three daughters, one
son and eight grandchildren. Because she had literally raised them single-handedly, Jean was
hurt and angry that the children didn't take her part after the divorce. For months she refused
to attend any family celebration to which Jim was also invited. When I reasoned that her
children's perception of the relationship with and between the parents was probably altogether
different from hers, she clung to the belief that she was right.
One day Jean called in tears. "Saturday is my grand-daughter's birthday, and I really want to
be with her, but I can't bring myself to face my former husband." "Jim isn't the problem," I
said gently, "it's false pride. Instead of holding on to the painful past, which is over and
done, let the feelings go and get on with your life. You're depriving yourself of the joy of
sharing in these important occasions, while Jim feels free to experience them. Tell me, would
you rather be right, or be happy?"
That must have done the trick because when Saturday arrived, Jean appeared at her daughter's
home bearing her famous chocolate-chip cookies and a beautiful birthday cake.
Letting Go!
How great it feels to let go! How energizing! And the more we practice the art of letting go
of all negativity, the better able we become to devote our thoughts, our time, and our energy
to living joy fully in the present, whatever age we happen to be.
About The Author:
May Paron is a writer, ordained minister and Doctor of Metaphysical Science
whose focus is on health and hearing through spiritual psychology.
She can be reached at:
800 NE 195 S North Miami, FL 33179.
Dear Friends,
ONS
It's a very special time lately, with so many energies coming together for the Higher Good.
I want to make it known to all that there is real assistance for those who are showing the
frequency of AUTISM. I am deeply touched by this information, and I have already seen positive
results first-hand. Please listen to the very touching accounts from parents of autistic
children who have been on the AIM program at this URL:
http://emc2worldwid e.net/Audio1. html
I had just listened to this on Saturday night, and then went to the Light Workers Festival
yesterday. The first person whom I was lead to talk to there, at her little "Angel-Reading"
table, was a woman who immediately told me about her 5-year-old daughter being autistic.
I knew this was a 'set-up' from the angels. I shared with her what I'm sharing with you here.
The AIM program is offered FREE to people who show the frequency of autism. The website tells
you more and how to find out who has the frequency.
The facilitator, Joann Hamblin, is always willing to talk more about it with you, and she has
a toll-free number on her website: www.unitedglobalnet work.com. If you know of ANYONE who
knows anyone with autism (there are mild forms too), please pass this along and make it known.
This is important. It changes lives dramatically for the better!! The website and Joann will
give you more details.
ONS
Love,
Marge
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A CALL TO MOTHERS GRACE AND GIFTS
new book
Young Toni Delgado
Without a Divine Mother there is no Life. She is First Mover,
She is First Cause and Effect. Without Her Intent for Creation,
no Creation is feasible. She is the Womb of Creation. She is the
Originator, the Activator, the Place of Gestation, the Trusting
Parent who releases us into the Celebration of Life. Thru Her all
things are possible and all possibilities exist.
This book is a primer for healing the sum of ourselves. It offers
that healing our bodies, emotional mind, spirit, will, heart into
wholeness and Union with the One God is the Grace that Mother God--The
Mother of Everything offers to us.
This book is for those interested in the following:
The Feminine Divine, Womans Studies, Body-Mind-Spirit-Will-Heart,
Emotional Healing, Alternative Healing, Alternative Spirituality,
Creation Centered Spirituality, Emotional Release, Rebirthing, Quantum
Dynamics, Sacred Relationship, Higher Consciousness, Higher Awareness,
Wholeness and Wellness, Spiritual Purification
To order your copy: send a money order to:
Toni Delgado
P.O. Box 429
Dona Ana, New Mexico 88032
Book is $20 plus $5 p/h in U. S. and $11 abroad
Please include your mailing and email address
Thank you
In Truth, Simplicity, Love and Service,
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti, Om Peace.
Young Toni Delgado and Young Kelley Elkins
A NEXT STEP.light center for emotional healing
P.O.Box 429
Dona Ana, New Mexico 88032
toni@anextstep.org
www.anextstep.org
505-382-8771
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