2018

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Jo Beall

this image visits me frequently… in dreams, in waking moments, especially on a day such as this, a day of stopping and seeing inside as i saunter along the rainbow trail, the path with heart, the pilgrimage of the soul, the pathless path…

this peace pilgrimage takes courage, a heart letting go completely to soften into the call of the beloved trusting that in this surrender, the cosm, the cosmos will have our back…

“A true vocation requires shedding anything that would impede or obscure the call. A true pilgrimage requires letting go of the very things most people try to hold onto. In seeking after what the soul desires we become pilgrims with no home but the path the soul would have us follow.”

~ Michael Meade ~

rapidly, i’m approaching the one year anniversary of being called into the lion’s roar, into awakening, into the deepest initiation adventure of this incarnation, a turn around the sun of arriving, of coming home wholeheartedly…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 241 – 8/14/2018

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Jo Beall

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self.”

~ Bhagavad Gita ~

a day of tahoma, the native name for beloved mt rainier pictured above… love the name tahoma sounding like to home, ah… and indeed, this day of being covered in clouds of smoke is a day of coming home to the heart and trusting in this wild journey… trusting in it’s rhythm which dances to the beat of the divine drummer of our one heart… following the rhythm deep within to the silent stillpoint where our most profound purpose lies in the ground of being calling us to nurture this trust daily… calling us to offer full presence, lovingkindness, compassion and generosity which opens the portal to a freedom of floating in the golden buoyant sea and vibrating in a river of joy frequency which is in the core of all being, that field of unitive harmony out beyond…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 240 – 8/13/2018

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Jo Beall

A mind that has no walls, that is not burdened with its own acquisitions, accumulations, with its own knowledge, a mind that lives timelessly, insecurely – to such a mind, life is an extraordinary thing. Such a mind is life itself, because life has no resting place.

– Jiddu Krishnamurti –

may life flow through all our relations as a timeless meandering river of water always moving aligned with the flow of dynamic life…

come, sit in the sand with me and listen to the song of the sea, feel into the rhythm of the waves breathing in and breathing out, experience life as a wave always flowing freely…

in joy being the ocean in a drop – ever seeking, exploring, pushing, overflowing its shoreline, penetrating every crevice with the waters of life, ceaselessly eroding the walls of suffering and separation to move us into the great turning and the revelation that there are no borders or boundaries and that there is simply one ever expanding interwoven web of iridescent silken threads…

om shanti

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 239 – 8/12/2018

Posted on August 12, 2018 by Jo Beall

two years ago on this sunday of mid-august, i began a weekly feature honoring one of us, a pilgrim on our shared journey of light with an amazing luminous being recognized all over the cosmos as an emissary of light, of love, of joy overflowing…

yes, the divine hummingbird reminds us all of our birthright as children of the light.. let us take this moment to invoke her presence of soul consciousness through the hum of her wings, our soul in free flight, resonating with the cosmic hum, the heartbeat of earth mother, flowing in the rhythm of star nation’s light waves…

one year later when i was back home for a wedding in charlottesville, another divine hummingbird, another pilgrim on our shared spirit path flies into our consciousness as we re-member Heather who was mowed down as c’ville exploded and who shall always live in our hearts as one who stands in love for love…

as her proud mother proclaims,

“I want her death to be a rallying cry for justice and equality and fairness and compassion…”

may we all come together across the cosmos to move the arc of justice towards its outer manifestation of love and compassion and peace and harmony re-membering our way is together as one… re-membering our birthright as joyous freespirits always trumping hate with love, always being joyous rainbow birds…

join me in wandering with wonder through the kingdom of joy traveling with the caravan of re-joy-sing chanting over and over again this psalm of the beloved for all our beloved relatives…

“If you are seeking, seek us with joy
For we live in the kingdom of joy.
Do not give your heart to anything else
But to the love of those who are clear joy,
Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.
For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –
Do not go in the direction of darkness –
I tell you: suns exist.”

~Rumi ~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 238 – 8/11/2018

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Jo Beall

i’m walking the bhakti path today,

floating through life in a buoyant way…

with nothing to do and nowhere to go,

resting still in the ocean, the ocean of flow..

chanting love’s names polishes our one heart,

resonating at the frequency of love you impart

a raising of the vibration of cosmic harmony

attuning us all to the deep peace of great mystery…

~

a year ago, i stood at an altar of love having flown home for a family wedding uniting the opposites with joy and celebration while across town, Charlottesville was exploding… it was good then to be standing in a unitive field of love balancing the hatred happening blocks away and it’s good to stand with you in love today with each of us invokes the beloved in our own authentic way… perhaps, you’ll join me in placing your hand on your heart and calling up the image of a relation you love… or, maybe, spend time in the company of a tree or play in water and squeal with glee or plant seeds of compassion and joy drawing down the courage of the leo new moon… whatever it is, float in devocean, in the ocean of devotion with your wide open heart re-joy-sing in the dream of the cosm – peace in every moment…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 237 – 8/10/2018

Posted on August 10, 2018 by Jo Beall

in just a couple of hours the super new moon in leo with partial soular eclipse will be here – 2:46 AM PDT on 8/11 for the eclipse followed a few minutes later by the new moon – bringing in potent energies of letting go and breaking through into an expanded consciousness of our true nature as light beings of love…

this new moon is a bit atypical being in leo and super emboldening us with the courage of the lion/lioness to roar, to awaken to this new day, this new you, this new field ripe for seeding with intentions of our deepest heartfelt desires…

may we meet this moment being peace…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 236 – 8/9/2018

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Jo Beall

seventy-three years ago today, at the end of World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki in Japan with the hypocenter right on the grounds of what is now the Peace Memorial Park where this sculpture rests…

listen to Words of the Sculptor about the Peace Statue he created to commemorate all who lost their lives to atomic radiation:

“After experiencing that nightmarish war, that blood-curdling carnage, that unendurable horror, Who could walk away without praying for peace? This statue was created as a signpost in the struggle for global harmony. Standing ten meters tall, it conveys the profundity of knowledge and the beauty of health and virility. The right hand points to the atomic bomb, the left hand points to peace, and the face prays deeply for the victims of war. Transcending the barriers of race and evoking the qualities of Buddha and God, it is a symbol of the greatest determination ever known in the history of Nagasaki and the highest hope of all mankind.”

-Seibo Kitamura (Spring 1995)

~

may we all sing out for love, peace and harmony for all our relations in our ever expanding universe and thank great mystery for blessing us with every breath and pouring the divine light of love so generously across the cosm…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 235 – 8/8/2018

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Jo Beall

are you feeling the energy of your inner lioness, the divine feminine, roaring gently into all your wild cells and quickening the rhythmic flow of love and compassion?

yes, today the doors of love and compassion are flung wide open for all to breeze through with our courageous lionhearts into this brave new world of lovingkindness and compassion….

let’s all take this moment, this beautiful moment. to bask in the radiant light streaming through us to see all that is as it truly is… a beautyway of love and light…

how i love this portal, this gateway into higher and deeper realms of consciousness when potent messages from the invisible realms are flowing freely… involving three key players, the sun and earth and the star sirius, this portal is set in motion in july when the sun and sirius known as the spiritual sun seem to merge together and are seen as one with our sun swallowed by sirius to die and be reborn with the frequencies of sirius during the first week of august when the sun is in the constellation of leo giving us the name lions gate… the energies are potent throughout the week and especially dramatic on the 8th when the sun and earth are directly opposed and our reborn sun laser beams the energies of the spiritual sun into pachamama raising the earth’s frequency, raising our frequency to love and above… in this year of 2018 which vibrates at the master number frequency of eleven, the energies of empathy, compassion and understanding, so needed on the planet, are flooding the cosmos…

yes to embracing empathy now…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 234 – 8/7/2018

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Jo Beall

Seventy-three years ago, the beautiful child in this image, Sadako, was 2 years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on her city of Hiroshima during the second world war… Nine years later, she developed the atomic bomb disease, leukemia… Hearing the ancient Japanese story that says when you fold 1000 paper cranes your wish will be granted, Sadako was able to fold 644 cranes with her wish for healing before she died at twelve years old from atomic radiation…

Inspired by her courage and strength, her friends and classmates dreamed of creating a monument to memorialize their friend and all children killed by the bomb. Young people all over the land of the rising sun realized their dream a couple of years later when in 1958 a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Park. The children also made a wish. It is inscribed at the bottom of the statue and reads:

“This is our cry, This is our prayer, Peace in the world”.

Today, people all over the world continue to fold paper cranes and send them to Sadako’s monument in Hiroshima.

May we all take up their cry and prayer of peace in the world… May there be peace on earth and may it begin with me and thee…

Om, shanti….

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 5 – Day 233 – 8/6/2018

Posted on August 6, 2018 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 ~

the children of the earth gather this day in front of the Atomic Dome in the Hiroshima Memorial Park at exactly the time 73 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…

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 –

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