“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been… Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.”

~ Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player ~

in this moment of eternity of celebrating the astonishing light of our being, let’s close our outer eyes and tune in with our inner vision to the eternal flame within as we follow our breath noticing how our breath is in rhythm with the waves of life, with the tides’ ebb and flow, the waning and waxing of the moon, the changing of seasons all inextricably interconnected with the rhythms of mama gaia’s breath… breathing in and breathing out… love… light… as we continue to breathe in from Pachamama, notice if there is any tension in your body and if so, shake it off and get all loosey goosey… breathing in deep relaxation into the body, breathing out an ecstatic ahh… breathing in, I smile… breathing out, i start my internal love engine…

now, let’s go deep inside to connect with where we carry our soul light… do you feel it in your heart? crown? 3^rd eye? throat? soular plexus? belly? root? Take your time… it may look like a beautiful candle flame, a burning ember, a flashlight, a lantern, a whirling vortex of pure white light… however your soul light appears and feels, rest assured it is always shining brightly…

now, look very closely at your light and see silver threads emanating from your soul light… we are going to follow these threads finding any and all fractures and splinters to heal, to whole, to bless and bring home… look for the threads and follow them back and back and back through all dimensions… you may find 2 or 3 or several hundred, simply follow them looking at each one closely, healing it, blessing it and bringing it home one after the other and notice with each fragment returning home into the circle of unconditional love how your soul light is brightened a thousand fold with every fragment that returns home… the healing happens so quickly with each thread so happy to be re-woven into the gr8 tapestry of soul light that is more and more luminous with every re-union… take this moment and luxuriate in the warm embrace of the astonishing light of your being,,, re-member, you can return here any time – we are the eternal radiance, we are the luminous shining ones we’ve been waiting for…

on this day of celebrating our earthmother, let’s re-member what we do to the web we do to ourselves and let’s optimize this moment of eternity with intending for our earthmother together… Guru Amar Das wrote this Shabad in India hundreds of years ago; let us we practice it today to bring healing: “When the Earth calls out in distress, the True One answers with ease and strength, and there is peace in the land.”

this Shabad helps us as human beings break any negative habits that block us from the expansion of awareness…

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“When the earth is in distress, shw attunes herself with love and sends out a prayer.

The True One hears the prayer, and with total ease is pleased to give Its strength and steadiness.

The True One sends a command to the Power of Rain, and the rain pours down in torrents.

The wealth of grain and corn grows thick.

A person cannot describe the value.

Oh Naanak, appreciate the Divine Identity.

You, Divine One, cause the life-giving food to be given to all the creatures.

Eating this, peace grows, and the cycle of pain comes no more.”

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by reciting this Shabad 11 times a day or for 11 minutes for 40 days as a global community, it is said we can rewrite the destiny of the earth and adjust our habits to develop new habits that serve the highest good for Mother Earth and all, i’m in – and you?

every day is a celebrating of our mother, a resounding of our commitment with our bounteous cosmos/with ourselves… for today’s celebration and psalm of cosmic adoration, i turn to an eco-poet, environmental activist and sacred sage of farsightedness to walk with us home along the green path into beloved community…

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Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth As Sacred Community

“It takes a universe to bring humans into being, a universe to educate humans, a universe to fulfill the human mode of being. More immediately, it takes a solar system and a planet Earth to shape, educate, and fulfill the human.

We can explain nothing if we cannot explain the whole. Our explanation of any part of the universe is integral to our understanding of the universe itself.

…we must think about and respond to the urgency of a renewal of the integral community of life systems throughout the Earth. Renewal is a community project.

What is needed is a new pattern of rapport with the planet. Here we come to the critical transformation needed in the emotional, aesthetic, spiritual, and religious orders of life. Only a change that profound in human consciousness can remedy the deep cultural pathology manifest in such destructive behavior. Such change is not possible, however, so long as we fail to appreciate the planet that provides us with a world abundant in the volume and variety of food for our nourishment, a world exquisite in supplying beauty of form, sweetness of taste, delicate fragrances for our enjoyment, and exciting challenges for us to overcome with skill and action. The poets and artists can help restore this sense of rapport with the natural world. It is this renewed sense of reciprocity with nature, in all of its complexity and remarkable beauty, that can help provide the psychic and spiritual energies necessary for the work ahead.

We come into being in and through the Earth. Simply put, we are Earthlings. The Earth is our origin, our nourishment, our educator, our healer, our fulfillment. At its core, even our spirituality is Earth derived. The human and the Earth are totally implicated, each in the other. If there is no spirituality in the Earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves.

We need a spirituality that emerges our of a reality deeper than ourselves, a spirituality that is as deep as the Earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. For it is in the stars that the primordial elements take shape in both their physical and psychic aspects. Out of these elements the solar system and Earth took shape, and out of Earth, ourselves.

In our contemplation of how tragic moments of disintegration over the course of the centuries were followed by immensely creative moments of renewal, we receive our great hope for the future. To initiate and guide this next creative moment of the story of the Earth is the Great Work of the religions of the world as we move on into the future.”

~ Thomas Berry ~

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thousand fold thanks for living the dream of the earth and taking the great work on…

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“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

i write again today of the necessary revolution as we approach the fifty-second year of globally celebrating our earthmother and her children in this sacred moment of great turning and cosmic rite of passage… the revolution i write of today is one of consciousness, a bold adventure the cosmos invites us to explore as foretold in other moments of eternity by the grandmothers…

there came a time when the grandmothers noticed it was the moment to focus on the good of the village and to remind the earthlings of how to be… they called in the spirits of the ancestors and the teachers and the unborn generations and the spirit of fire to kindle a flame which they nurtured and tendered and placed in the center of the wisdom council where the villagers sit in circle…

the grandmothers called on all the relatives to take a pledge repeating these words… in every action, in every thought, in every decision, i promise to hold the good of the children of all beings in this generation and for seven generations hence and this is my sacred vow…

may all of us tend the inner flame supported by the communitas of the invisible realms holding in our one heart and living out this sacred calling to always put first the good of the whole, to do what is best for the children…

and then, peace prevails on earth… blessed bee…

“There’s a revolution that needs to happen and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with Earth.“

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

listen, listen, listen to Beloved’s heart song calling us, in this moment of eternity of celebrating the astonishing light of being, to re-member the jewels are inside and all we have to do/be is open to their radiance filling us with soular power magnificent enough to power the cosmos with love…

dear sangha of light and love let’s conspire deeply through our one heart dropping into the center of being and taking another deep re-joy-sing breath, let’s drop down further into the core of being, the tiny space of the heart feeling the love you are, the love you transmit to the earth, the waters of life, your friends, family, trees, flowers, sunsets, sunrises, the moon, pet people, stone people, dolphins, whales, feathered people, ancestors…

let us rest here in this present moment, the only moment where love is all there is… here in the stillpoint of creation, open the heart a little more and take this beautiful moment to listen to the profound silence of the heart and beloved’s message for you…

now, in the flowering field of love, breathe in the golden light flowing like raindrops from our earthmother who loves us so and breathe in the golden light flowing so generously from the skyfather’s morning star as we listen in the heart to the song singing us… yes, the moment is now to fall in love again and again in every moment with every breath…

deepest bows…

welcome, well come to this moment of celebration with the sun ingressing into Taurus and our getting the 52nd Earth Day re-joy-sing going early and not really early as every day is a celebration of our mama gaia… i savor this day of rain falling gently and warming myself around the inner campfire connected etherically with all that is through the field of akasha as i begin a week of celebrating the fiftieth (golden) anniversary of earth day… i was born (physically) on the 23rd day of one of our thirteen moons and soulfully on the 22nd of april which would become earth day nineteen years later… as a young child, i decided the 23rd psalm was mine since i was physically born on that date, so here’s a song adapted from the 23rd for the 22nd when i was soulfully born… join me in a song of gratitude and honoring…

The Earth is my Mother.
I shall not want.
Her hand brings forth the green pastures.
She tarries within the still waters.
She leads me in fields of fruitfulness for my Glory.
Yea, as I walk through the summer of life unto death,
I will not be afraid, for You are with me.
Your womb in the earth will enfold me.
You prepare a harvest before me and bless my home with children.
You fill me with milk and honey.
My cup overflows.
Surely, goodness and beauty will nurture me all the days of my life,
and I will become part of the earth forever…

and now, join me in invoking and actuali-sing this earth bles-sing…

may earth’s song reach us in our deepest and wildest places…

may we hear it as we walk on her, partake of her sustenance and nestle in her waters and grasses…

may we hear the voices of the stone people, the winds, the waters, all creatures and plant people above the chatter so we can heed these voices…

may all who try to conquer earth learn the wisdom of humility from compost and humus…

may compassion inspired by earth’s boundless gifts open polluters hearts so widely that poisons are transmuted…

may our every inhalation and exhalation reverberate throughout the ocean deeps resounding in all watery soul beings…

may dolphins and wolves lead the re-joy-sing howling that all is well…

may we have a cosmic celebration with all our relatives grounding our roots deep into the earth and entwining our branches in the vast skysea…

may our grandchildren’s grandchildren’s grandchildren smile with delight as they share the legends of when we transformed the consciousness of domination and love of power into co-llaboration and the power of love…

and so it is,,, blessed bee…

perhaps you are wondering why i’m posting the full moon today and there are so many ways to respond that i’m consciously aware of… we are still in the radiation of this potent full moon, the first following equinox which determines the timing of the celebration of so many resurrection festivals throughout timelessness and with so much turbulence as we are still being called so emphatically by spirt to die to the old, it is critical for us to come together and listen for both our collective and personal soul song of creation of a cosmos of beauty… so, let’s come together in the sacred space of our one heart of boundless love to conspire, to breathe together spirit reality, attuning, at oneing a cosmos of balance and harmony and peace founded on justice and guided by love…

awesome, totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

be present in our every step as we wander into wonder

breathe us into being from the well of great silence

bless us as we journey deeper into grace

bless our homecoming into sacred space

for deep within is memory

of an ocean running free

round a field of rainbow light

cosmos of awe, garden of delight

here, breathe us into longing for the distant shore

breathing out belonging of oneness evermore

return us now to the belly, womb of singing cells

here, breathe us in and breathe us out in rhythm with ringing bells

resonance resounding throughout the galaxy

resonance resounding, blessed harmony

awesome, totally awesome, flowing in beauty before us, behind us, beside us, below us, above us, within us, hear our prayer…

today is truly a day of quintessence – celebrating the astonishing light of our being, Easter and Passover while still in the glow of the full moon of gaia with the image of yesterday’s double rainbow with an eagle flowing in harmony with rainbow mystery leading to that inner knowing that Wendell Berry names of always being led…

  in the very instant of surrendering to the whirlwind of life, the spirit that leads, we are transmuted into whirling rhythm… and in that moment, that long drawn-out moment, the world cracks wide open and thanksgiving sings us for the abundance of blessings that seen or unseen are always happening…

for our awakening to earth’s energy re-membering we are one heart…
for our awakening to earth’s oceans as our clean-sing tears…
for our awakening to earth’s wind as our enlivening breath…
for our awakening to earth’s landscape as our one body…

for our one heart opening dormant seeds…
for our tears filling rain clouds…
for our breath giving flight to migrating birds…
for our one body being an island of refuge…

for earth mother receiving our one heart for her energy…
for earth mother receiving our tears for her oceans…
for earth mother receiving our breath for her wind…
for earth mother receiving our body for her landscape…

for earth mother opening dormant seeds…
for earth mother filling rain clouds…
for earth mother giving flight to migrating birds…
for earth mother nurturing our islands of refuge…

and, for the cycles of life flowing unceasingly…

this moment sings at the frequency of liberation, liberation arising from  letting go; it sings at the frequency of love and surrendering to the cosmic hum which whispers only love is real; today simply sings the call of spirit… i listen and re-member…

eleven years ago today, a day vibrating at the master frequency of eleven, the LIGHT frequency, i coded and an angel of rainbow tinted white light came into me and flowed through me as she always does in times of troubled waters, in moments of great peril…

spontaneously appearing as a vortex of whirling white light, this winged angel of flight activates a mysterious flow of healing energy sacredly, secretly, silently, softly, supportively, synchronisticly… i hear the team of earthly angels celebrating getting a pulse going in me, i’m returning to the land of the living, returning to the miracle of being breathed alive in this moment, in every moment… ah, i better understand the last 9 days of feeling septic, yes, the body keeps the score, is the archival library, the akashic ocean…

thousandfold thanks, dear angel of light, for watching over us in the dark of the night, in the light of the day, for breathing and weaving the all that is in the rhythm of waves of love energy, home to freely flowing rainbow mystery…

thank you, dear co-hearts, for sharing this journey, for walking home together into the field out beyond where we’re filled with the inner sea of luminescent love energy…

Nobody who finds himself on the road to wholeness can escape that characteristic suspension which is the meaning of crucifixion. For he will infallibly run into things that thwart and “cross” him…

~ CG Jung ~

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today, Jung’s quotation could not be more apro pos for this moment of eternity, for this day, for the last 8 days, for the last 18 moons, for the last 2 years and on and on… as many of us across the globe honor this day as Good Friday, a (w)holy day in (w)holy week, i contemplate what crucifixion means and where it leads… i find this Jung quotation about being on the road to (w)holeness necessitating crucifixion so right on for on each of our paths, aren’t we led daily to the cross roads where we are given the choice to dissolve into and serve our greater self who responds in kind with wholeheartedly entering the human realm? isn’t this cross the true cross, the sacred stillpoint in the tiny space of the heart where every dance begins, where we real-eyes the gift of our suffering, of our bearing whatever is with grace, is what leads to the deepest peace of the flowing river of joy? and to liberation and how right on that at sundown many of us will begin the celebration of Passover…

deep peace of the running wave be unto you…