2019

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Jo Beall

I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.

~ Rumi ~

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The Atomic Bomb Dome pictured here

was the only structure left standing in the area 74 years ago when the first atomic bomb was detonated in Hiroshima, Japan

Its marker reads:

“As a historical witness that conveys the tragedy of suffering the first atomic bomb in human history and as a symbol that vows to faithfully seek the abolition of nuclear weapons and everlasting world peace.”

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the children of the earth gather this day in front of the Atomic Dome in the Hiroshima Memorial Park at exactly the time 74 years earlier that an explosion of atoms shattered the world… today, as millions come together across the world, we unite for an explosion of a vastly different sort… an explosion of love and peace, a chorus of voices with every country in the world represented in one unified prayer for peace… may peace prevail on earth…

yes, the one heart of all our relations choir is now unstoppable… yes, peace prevails on earth…

thousandfold thanks for standing together in love and peace for love and peace…

and, may we all join with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui in calling for the total elimination of the world’s nuclear weapons…

heiwa, heiwa, heiwa…

typhoon francisco came roaring through Japan today and still we stood in peace for peace… thank you for joining in and being a pulse that lights up the world with prayers for harmony, conscious evolution and for peace to prevail on Earth… let us close with the Nuclear Prayer…

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The Beginning and the End are in your hands, O Creator of the Universe. And in our hands you have placed the fate of this planet. We, who are tested by having both creative and destructive power in our free will, turn to you in sober fear and in intoxicating hope. We ask for your guidance and to share in your imagination in our deliberations about the use of nuclear force. Help us to lift the fog of atomic darkness that hovers so pervasively over our Earth, Your Earth, so that soon all eyes may see life magnified by your pure light. Bless all of us who wait today for your Presence and who dedicate ourselves to achieve your intended peace and rightful equilibrium on Earth. In the Name of all that is holy and all that is hoped. Amen.

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Thousandfold Peace, Thousandfold Peace, Thousand Thousandfold Peace in our one cosmic heart…

Peace Prevails on Earth!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 231 – 8/4/2019

Posted on August 5, 2019 by Jo Beall

i am at a loss today on this day when we celebrate the astonishing light of our being in the echo chamber of another day in the usa when we hear of two more incidents of unspeakable tragedy… so i dig deeply today for the light of our being wanting to be in communion to sing light in the dark, to fold a thousand cranes with you for us to all come together to chant grant us peace in honor of all who die every day re- membering it was 74 years ago today Anne Frank’s family’s secret hiding place was raided…

i’m going to let the words of the APA president speak for me today…

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“Our condolences are with the families and friends of those killed or injured in these horrific shootings and with all Americans affected every day by the twin horrors of hate and gun violence.

“As our nation tries to process the unthinkable yet again, it is clearer than ever that we are facing a public health crisis of gun violence fueled by racism, bigotry and hatred. The combination of easy access to assault weapons and hateful rhetoric is toxic. Psychological science has demonstrated that social contagion — the spread of thoughts, emotions and behaviors from person to person and among larger groups — is real, and may well be a factor, at least in the El Paso shooting.

“That shooting is being investigated as a hate crime, as it should be. Psychological science has demonstrated the damage that racism can inflict on its targets. Racism has been shown to have negative cognitive and behavioral effects on both children and adults and to increase anxiety, depression, self-defeating thoughts and avoidance behaviors.

“Routinely blaming mass shootings on mental illness is unfounded and stigmatizing. Research has shown that only a very small percentage of violent acts are committed by people who are diagnosed with, or in treatment for, mental illness. The rates of mental illness are roughly the same around the world, yet other countries are not experiencing these traumatic events as often as we face them. One critical factor is access to, and the lethality of, the weapons that are being used in these crimes. Adding racism, intolerance and bigotry to the mix is a recipe for disaster.

“If we want to address the gun violence that is tearing our country apart, we must keep our focus on finding evidence-based solutions. This includes restricting access to guns for people who are at risk for violence and working with psychologists and other experts to find solutions to the intolerance that is infecting our nation and the public dialogue.”

For people who are suffering distress in the aftermath of the shootings in Dayton and El Paso, APA offers a variety of resources, including:

Managing your distress in the aftermath of a shooting.

Helping children manage distress in the aftermath of a shooting.

How to talk to children about difficult news and tragedies.

How much news coverage is OK for children?

Warning signs of youth violence.

Gun Violence: Prediction, Prevention and Policy (an expert panel report).

APA’s Gun Violence Prevention Efforts.

may peace prevail in the usa, may peace prevail on earth may every thread of the web of life be peace now…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 230 – 8/3/2019

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Jo Beall

thank you for supporting us in living this day quietly and peacefully resting in great mystery’s strength trustfully while waiting patiently for the unfolding of divine will as we meet ourselves and all our relations equanimously, peacefully, lovingly and joyously facing whatever arises courageously…

i awaken today with a song flowing through… flowing in love in a field of divine grace always being the soul of the space… many hours later i will come on the internet and hear of today’s latest mass shooting in the usa and be so grateful for spirit sending me the song for this unspeakable moment, this moment when our one heart breaks…

may our one heart break wide open for us to take right action, to take this moment, this wild precious moment to love boundlessly, for giving love is the most powerful medicine, the most healing elixir and may we hold a vision of every cell of our universe meditating peace, breathing peace, singing peace and this prayer flows in waves over the planet and creates our world anew… a cosmos of peace built on justice and guided by love…

thank you for taking in the suffering, transmuting it into compassion and sending it out as lovingkindness and peace…

may cosmic hum dance through every beat of our oneheart…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 229 – 8/2/2019

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Jo Beall

what a lovely celebration today is of lammas, the soular harvest when the cycle of life invites our contemplating our blessings, reaping the harvest by seeing the big picture both cosmicly and in the ground of being – what are you harvesting? what has the garden you are grown this year?

in this sacred gathering moment in the heart field with daylight hours waning dramatically, i love going within, slowing down, pausing and listening to the cosmic hum, the music of the one animating spirit flowing through you, flowing through me, flowing through all our relations…

reflecting on my garden brings me right onto the pathless path i’ve been walking for almost twenty two months or is it twenty two years or twenty two lifetimes? anyway, it’s the path where we die before we die… dying to fixed ideas of the limited self, the protective self so that we can awaken in awe to whom we truly are…

looking through poetic eyes, metaphorical eyes, we witness a pregnant lioness on a high hill looking for food for the cub growing inside… she spies a flock of sheep and leaps down, down, down dying on impact with the blow of the landing… the baby cub is raised by the sheep and lives as a sheep until one day a lion approaches the flock heading straight for the young lion sheep who’s sure the end is nigh… the older lion carries the one who thinks she’s a sheep to a crystal clear lake and when the sheep lion sees her reflection, she roars in awe, awakening to whom she really is, a being of limitless courage, limitless heart who’s here on an ensouled sacred mission…

like the lion, each of us comes in with our own pathless path which is revealed through each blow, each little death when we courageously surrender to what is breaking open to our true boundless spirit nature…

in this regenerative space fueled generously by gratitude, let’s take a wild joyride on the high tides of sister moon into the ocean of imagination and dream wildly and expansively of what we’ll cultivate in the garden of being to serve the all…

thanks be to inner spirit,the one spirit leading us to contributing in a sacred way…

blissings!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 228 – 8/1/2019

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Jo Beall

welcome to the new moon, as in month, of awaken august still drawing down last night’s dark moon energy on this day in the northern hemisphere of celebrating soular harvest, lammas, the celtic festival of lughnasadh honoring the great sun king, the god of light as well as the queen mother of the grain and earth and their union that creates the seeds of all life and brings forth the harvest signifying the continual circle of life and the eventual surrender to the source of light…

may we celebrate the feasting and grace that the source of all life provides to sustain all cosmic hearts and hands…

may we appreciate the great gift the cosmos bestows on us during lammas – the union of Venus and Mars and a new energy of relationship emerges flowing through the divine feminine and birthing a wise feminine energy so needed in this moment…

may the wisdom of the divine feminine re-awaken original blessing reality – blessed be!

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 227 – 7/31/2019

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Jo Beall

in this moment of pregnant pause, i see us standing still and simultaneously moving at the speed of light on a high dune dedicated to free flight and deep dives into blessing this belonging space we share… this on the brink of a new world space where we realize there is no separation… this stillpoint at the center of our circle, the hub of the wheel where all that is, is still, where everything is oh so real, where the peace that passeth all understanding is palpable calling us into deep silence…. listen, listen to the cosmic hum… listen, listen to our heartbeat’s drum… listen, listen for the sound of the bell syncing our breathing to the mantra of all is well… deep peace of the running wave to you, deep peace, deep peace, deep peace…

thousandfold thanks for sharing this journey along the buen camino, the rainbow trail, for coming home to our one heart flowing in rhythm with mystery, dancing and singing in harmony and shining the light of divine love so brightly…

may we all awaken to the beauty of whom we are… one cosmos, one web, one tribe, one family, one being, one ocean, one underground/aboveground wellspring of the river of joy, one love, one…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 226 – 7/30/2019

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Jo Beall

thank you for this day on the eve of the new…

joy in the morning, joy in the kindness of strangers, joy in seeing the beauty of the moment, the beauty of every moment… thank you for the gift of flowing energy meeting this moment with courage and compassion real-eye-sing we are beloved community knitted together in an ever expanding tapestry delicately woven with a thousand thousandfold threads of luminous light dancing in the quantum field out beyond…

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in this field of love may we walk
all day long may we walk
through the turnings may
we walk
on the trail of pollen
may we walk
with love in our one heart may we walk
with love before us may we walk
with love behind us may we walk
with love above us may we walk
with love all around us may we
walk
wandering on a trail of
love, may we walk
beginning in love
deepening in love

always being love…

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here is my (heart that soars sowing seeds of bliss) new moon intention, the Cathar Creed…

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It has no membership, save those who know they belong.

It has no rivals because it is non competitive.

It has no ambition – it seeks only to serve.

It knows no boundaries, for isms are unloving.

It is not of itself because it seeks to enrich all groups and religions.

It acknowledges all great teachers of all the ages who have shown the truth of love.

Those who participate, practice the truth of love in all their being.

There is no walk of life that is a barrier.

Those who are, know.

It seeks not to teach, but to be, and by being, enriched.

It recognizes that the way we are may be the way of those around us because we are that way.

It recognizes the whole planet as a being of which we are a part.

It recognizes that the time has come for the supreme transmutation, the ultimate alchemical act of conscious change of the ego in to a voluntary return to the whole.

It does not proclaim itself with a loud voice, but in the subtle realms of loving.

It salutes all those in the past who have blazoned the path, but have paid the price.

It admits no hierarchy or structure, for no one is greater than another.

Its members shall know each other by their deeds and being, and by their eyes and by no other outward sign, save the fraternal embrace.

Each one will dedicate their life to the silent loving of their neighbour and environment, and the planet, will carry out their task, however exalted or humble.

It recognizes the supremacy of the great idea, which may only be accomplished if the human race practices the supremacy of love.

It has no reward to offer, either here or in the hereafter, save that of the ineffable joy of being and loving.

Each shall seek to advance the cause of understanding, doing good by stealth and teaching only by example.

They shall heal their neighbour, their community, our planet and living beings in whatever form they take.

They shall know no fear and feel no shame and their witness shall prevail over all odds.

It has no secret, no arcanum, no initiation, save that of true understanding of the power of love and that, if we want it to be so, the world will change, but only if we change.

All who belong, belong; they belong to the Church of Love.

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may we all plant the seeds of love…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 225 – 7/29/2019

Posted on July 29, 2019 by Jo Beall

“Under pressure, we do not rise to the level of our aspirations. We fall to the level of our training.”

~ Bruce Lee~

today, i’m really feeling like the waning moon drawing down the energies of this potent dark moon, the second new moon in july and this one in leo is in the powerful breakthrough portal of lion’s gate… to amplify this breakthrough energy, mercury has been quite the trickster over the last few days first damming up communications and today the dam broke and i’m flooded with a tsunami…

how easy it would be to tense up and recoil, to panic in the face of what feels like losing balance, losing control, the”end of the world” and yes it is and the opening of a new world, a world of being surrendered into spirit, flowing in harmony with source…

si’ se puede, yes we can freefall into the wings of love to land in the milagro field, the ground of being…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 224 – 7/28/2019

Posted on July 28, 2019 by Jo Beall

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”

~ Hafiz of Shariz ~

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…And this was my true task, to be the
music of the body. Do you understand? for truly the body needs
a song, a spirit, a soul. And no less, to make this work,
the soul has need of a body,
and I am both of the earth and I am of the inexplicable
beauty of heaven
where I fly so easily, so welcome, yes,
and this is why I have been sent, to teach this to your heart.”
~ Mary Oliver ~

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i’d love your joining me this moment in breathing in the astonishing light of being beauty… inspire three deep breaths to get you there, the most beautiful space imaginable… your eyes are filled with wonder and your heart/our one heart with joy… open a little bit more as you breathe in the beauty of our ever expanding home welcoming the light into your core to purify you, to embody every wild cell of your being, in this moment, this beautiful moment, the only moment, now…

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may our one heart listen deeply and hear the soul song, the cosmic hum vibrational wave rising and deepening in us all awakening the flowing soul song…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 6 – Day 223 – 7/27/2019

Posted on July 27, 2019 by Jo Beall

flowing in beauty

in the field of divine grace

always being the soul of the place

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I’m at home wherever I am
And in the room of lovers
I can see with closed eyes
the beauty that dances

Behind the veils
intoxicated with love
I too dance the rhythm
of this moving world…

~ Rumi ~

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may we feel the bliss of being loving presence everywhere, every here, every breath…

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it’s been a joy during this happy turn around the sun re-creation manifestival week to welcome home the pictured child of rapture, heart that soars sowing seeds of bliss, who first appeared to me some thirty years ago…

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welcome, bliss!

Abundance Created Together (ACT)

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. – Rainer Maria Rilke –