May 2001 email Newsletter
Compassion has been the
primary interest of mine this past year. As we
approach the political and celestial events of the
next few weeks I am drawn ever more deeply into
asking myself how compassion, towards others as
well as towards myself, might transform the
energies surrounding these events. In any moment or action,
there are a number of factors converging. By giving
our attention to one of those factors, we give our
energy to it. The event then loops into our
energetic aura based on our choosing of the factor
to which we pay attention. When we look at an event and
see humor, we are apt to remember that moment as
humorous. When we look at an event and feel angry,
we are apt to continue to loop in and create more
anger when remembering the event. However, we can
change our perception of the event by stepping into
the larger picture through compassion. This is certainly easier to
do with an event that has less personal impact. But
even events that seem removed, by geography or from
not personally knowing those involved, echo through
the nation's larger consciousness to which we are
all connected. In the next few weeks we as a
nation will be experiencing the energies brought up
by anger, spitefulness, and greed. We can also meet
these energies with forgiveness, loving friendship,
and communal healing. Atamira shares with me the
insight that in order for healing energies to move
into or out from the planet they move through
ourselves. In order for new healing energies to be
drawn through us there must be a need through which
they are being drawn. My own observations, from
both reading newspapers 'on the road' and locally,
are that the coverage of Timothy McVeigh's
execution in two weeks will be massive. Our
attention, as a nation, is going into this moment.
Atamira asks, "What is the quality of attention
that we each would choose to give this event?"
"What is the quality of forgiveness, and
compassionate response that can be called through
us?" Where are the parallel events in our own lives
that mirror this situation?" As we each find the darker
edge of emotions that this event brings up, we have
the opportunity to step back into compassion and
feel new healing energies move through our lives,
and out into the larger national psyche. We may
already be experiencing personal events that
magnify in our own lives those same energies that
are coalescing around the execution. Know that as
you meet these events with your own tools of love,
you transform these events. It is not coincidental that
the June 21st solstice and full eclipse come 36
days later. There is a 'rest' period between these
events in which we can transform energies on a
national scale. Whatever is transformed during this
time period will be re-grounded with the eclipse
and solstice as our new reality of love. In the strangest of
paradoxes, the act which sprung out of hatred
serves to open the door to an array of new healing
energies for our nation. It is with the deepest of
compassion that I ask each of us to consider and
allow the circumstances that come into our lives
(especially mid to late May) be carefully examined.
Be open and aware that new possibilities exist.
Find them in gentleness, care and communion with
Life. May all who read this be
blessed, I'm spending July and August
close to home in Michigan, writing and editing
music for a new book and CD based on the Heart of
Light. As a complement, I'm meeting with small
groups of people in a series of LIVING
ROOM FORUMS. If you would
like to host such an event all you need is 6
friends and a room or patio space in the greater
Metro Detroit/Ann Arbor area for an evening. The
cost is $50 per person. Topics so far
include; INDIGO CHILDREN: Helpful
Insights and Practical Ideas for Parents, Teachers
and Caregivers (communicating with them more
effectively, handling situations of fear, anger
that are unique to this generation, honoring their
physical traits and boundaries) CONNECTING TO YOUR PERSONAL
GUIDE OR ANGEL: We each have a number of helpmates
on the other side. Whether or not there is a clear
connection often depends on how crowded our energy
field is. A few practical energy exercises can help
to clear out the old and make way for the new.
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