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Post by michelle on Nov 2, 2008 17:06:30 GMT 4
WiseUSA 'O8 Global Ceremony1:30-3pm PST/4:30-6pm EST/9:30-11pm GMT Sunday, November 2 my time at posting: 8 AM EST...this gathering is today; if you've found your way here in time, please join in this act of Oneness...MichelleFrom: The Gaiafield Project (dnicol@ciis.edu) Subject: Reminder: WiseUSA 'O8 Global Ceremony - Sunday Nov 2WiseUSA 'O8 Global Ceremony1:30-3pm PST/4:30-6pm EST/9:30-11pm GMT Sunday, November 2 We wanted to remind you about our upcoming WiseUSA 'O8 Global Ceremony on Sunday November 2. The Global Ceremony is the peak event of the WiseUSA program. It will be an opportunity for you to join with many others around the world in a space of deep stillness and prayerfulness just two days before a critical collective decision is made in the USA. Together we will call forth wisdom and compassion from America - regardless of the election outcome - for the benefit of the entire Earth community and the next seven generations. Can you help us spread the word by forwarding this email to your networks? Event Description Sunday November 2: 1:30-3pm PST /4:30-6pm EST/9:30-11pm GMT The WiseUSA 'O8 Global Ceremony on Sunday November 2 will be a ninety-minute ceremony of deep meditation, collective prayer, and contemplative music involving individuals and groups from around the world. The ceremony will be anchored in two live gatherings at venues on the east and west coasts of the USA: the historic All Soul's Church in the heart of Washington D.C., and the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment in San Jose, California. These gatherings will be linked by videoconference. Live audio from the ceremony will be broadcast for free to a global online audience (get the free broadcast HERE www.gaiafield.net/events/nov-2nd/broadcast ). Emmy-award winning musician and composer Gary Malkin is the event's artistic director. Check the time of the ceremony in your local area HERE.www.timezoneconverter.com/RSVP for the Global Ceremony HERE.gaiafield1.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2019751:Event:969Live event details If you live in the Washington D.C. Area, we invite you to attend the live gathering at the historic All Soul's Church, from 4:30-6pm EST. All Soul's, Unitarian, is located at 1500 Harvard Street NW, where the neighborhoods of Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan, and Mount Pleasant come together. The main entrance to the sanctuary is on 16th Street. For more information, or to RSVP to the All Soul's event, please contact Myra at silentpeace.media@gmail.com. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, we invite you to come to the beautiful Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, San Jose from 1.30-3pm PST. CSE is located at 1146 University Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126. For more information, or to RSVP to the CSE event, please contact Reverend Sundari at revsundari@csecenter.org. Online Broadcast The Global Ceremony will be broadcast live via internet radio. The broadcast will also include a stunning short video featuring the words of Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, set to music by Emmy-award winning musician Gary Malkin. To catch the broadcast, click HERE. www.gaiafield.net/events/nov-2nd/broadcastCreate your own WiseUSA 'O8 event! Creating your own event can be as easy as inviting a few friends around to listen to the online broadcast. To make it easy for you to organize your own WiseUSA 'O8 gathering, we've created a GROUP where you can get PR materials, ask questions, and meet other subtle activist leaders. gaiafield1.ning.com/group/wiseusaHere are a few examples of what others are planning:Darshan of Peace Meditation, gaiafield1.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2019751:Event:1687Vessels of Peace Practice for Peace, gaiafield1.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2019751:Event:725Yoga Center of Medford WiseUSA Global Link Teleconference, World Peace Prayer Society gaiafield1.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2019751:Event:2312Thank you so much for your continuing support and good will for our project. May Peace Prevail on Earth.
David Nicol, for the Gaiafield Wisdom Council.www.gaiafield.net/about/wisdom-circle
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michelle
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Post by michelle on Nov 6, 2008 14:21:25 GMT 4
From: www.care2.com/greenliving/a-call-for-conscious-evolution.htmlA Call for Conscious Evolution Oct 24, 2008 By the Evolutionary LeadersThe human family is in the midst of the most significant transformation of consciousness since its emergence in Africa over one hundred thousand years ago. Consciousness has been evolving for billions of years from the first cell to us. We are becoming aware that through our own consciousness the universe can know itself. This awareness reveals incredible new potential for our individual and collective humanity.
Simultaneously, we are the first species on this Earth aware that we can destroy ourselves by our own action. This may be the greatest wake-up call to the evolution of consciousness since the origin of Homo sapiens.
We now realize that we are affecting our own evolution by everything we do. This knowledge awakens in us the aspiration to become more conscious through subjective practices including meditation, reflection, prayer, intuition, creativity, and conscious choice making that accelerate our evolution in the direction of unity consciousness and inspire us to deeply align our collective vision.
THE CHALLENGE
At this juncture in human history, urgent global crises challenge us to learn to live sustainably, in harmony and gratitude with one another and with the living universe. The changes required of humanity are broad, deep, and far reaching. Only by acting swiftly and creatively can we birth a planetary culture that will bring well-being to every form of life in the Earth community.
The good news is that a compelling new story of our potential as a whole human species is emerging-a story of collaboration, citizen action, dialogue and new understandings propelled by unprecedented levels of democratic freedom, multicultural exchange, and access to communication technologies. It is nothing less than the story of our collective evolution.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION
We recognize that the inner and outer aspects of life evolve together. A dramatic awakening in consciousness will involve an equally dramatic shift in outward aspects of our lives. In particular, we see the following as vital opportunities for our conscious evolution, both personally and collectively:
Cultivating a Paradigm of Aliveness: We regard the universe as deeply alive and conscious by nature. In a living universe, our sense of subtle connection and participation with life around us is the basis for a compassionate and cooperative approach to living.
Educating for an Evolving Consciousness: Awakening consciousness is the foundation for all the change we seek to see in the world. We can work to elevate our capacity for conscious reflection and creative action in our personal lives as well as our collective lives as communities. We must support research and educational strategies that optimize human capacities and explore the nature of consciousness.
Restoring Ecological Balance: The balance of planetary ecosystems is fundamental to our survival. We must reverse the pollution of our global commons-the water, air and soil that nourish all life. We must encourage the proliferation of clean, renewable energy sources and expend all necessary resources toward mitigating the effects of climate change.
Encouraging Conscious Media: We must find innovative ways to use the new electronic media as the mirror of our positive evolutionary story, investing in their capacity to reach across differences of generation, culture, religion, wealth, and gender to build a working consensus about our collective future.
Engaging in Social and Political Transformation: More sustainable ways of living will require the support of a more conscious democracy and vibrant civil society from which more enlightened leaders will emerge. All individuals should be encouraged to use their gifts to create participatory, responsible and compassionate models of governance.
Working for Integrity in Commerce: Conscious businesses that are aware of the scope, depth, and long-range impacts of their actions are key to achieving sustainability. Business must become an ethical steward of the Earth's ecology and consciously establish an economic basis for a future of equitably shared abundance.
Promoting Health and Healing: The science of mind-body-spirit health has demonstrated the profound connection between the health of a whole person and the health of the system in which he or she lives. Whole systems healing, respecting both traditional knowledge and modern sciences, must be supported in physical, social, and spiritual domains.
Building Global Community: The new story is about all of us who share this planet. Together, we can create a culture of peace that eliminates the need for armed conflict, respecting and appreciating the glorious diversity of our human family.
YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VITAL
Our group has done its best to articulate possibilities for the evolution of consciousness at this crucial moment in time. Please reflect on this document, feel what resonates in your being and calls forth a response on your part. We invite you to discuss it with others, continuing this global conversation by adding to it the wisdom that is uniquely your own.
Together, let us co-create a new narrative of conscious evolution that is a call to individual and collective action, birthing the most significant transformation of consciousness in history. Join in the Call to Conscious Evolution by signing the pledge now. (NOTE: Only 743 persons have signed it as of November 6. I'm calling on FH readers to make a showing and sign...M )A Call to Conscious Evolution www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/248704259
Climate change, economic disparity, educational inequities, geopolitical tensions -- these mounting concerns are symptoms of a world that is out of balance. Together we can shift consciousness by co-creating a new way of being together. The Call to Conscious Evolution was born following a gathering of global visionaries. It's a movement that fully supports that the future is not what happens to us, but rather what WE create. Together, we can co-create a new narrative of conscious evolution by: * Building a global community and creating a culture of peace. * Restoring ecological balance to nourish all life, and mitigate the effects of climate change. * Engaging in social and political transformation by calling for a more conscious democracy. * Promoting health and healing by acknowledging the profound mind-body-spirit connection. * Supporting research and education that optimize human capacities. * Encouraging integrity in business and conscious media. In this great time of uncertainty, join us in elevating consciousness to create a better world. One governed by meaning and purpose. Accept nothing less. Every voice counts -- your voice counts.
THE PLEDGE I join with Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Jean Houston, and other evolutionary leaders to pledge to make my conscious evolution an important part of my life, and in so doing help make the world a better place.
Sign: www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/248704259********************** 2. From: www.care2.com/greenliving/the-context-for-a-conscious-evolution.htmlThe Context for a Conscious EvolutionOct 24, 2008 By the Evolutionary LeadersA Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice IF NOT US, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
Our economy is in crisis, wars are continuing to add to their deadly toll, and the balance of world power is shifting dramatically. Meanwhile, trust in government is at a historic low. Are we entering an era of chaos and decline, or are we poised to jump to a higher order?
TODAY'S MOUNTING WORLD PROBLEMS ARE MERELY SYMPTOMS...
...of a fractured, dualistic way of thinking (us vs. them, human vs. nature, win/lose) that is dangerously out of touch with the acute interdependence, wholeness, and unity in diversity of all that lives. Looking outward but not inward, reacting to external symptoms but not the root cause, we can't see why our world is out of balance. No wonder! As Einstein famously said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
"Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from dictates of governments and the results of battles but through vast numbers of people changing their minds. By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world."(Willis Harman, Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century)
Only such a shift in our shared field of consciousness, a collective waking up to our real human potential, will put us on the path to a life-enhancing future. But how can such a shift occur? Will it happen only after a fatal tipping point has been reached, with nothing to break our fall, or can we now intentionally choose to wake up to our shared responsibility for our future?
Signing the Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice may seem to you like a small, merely symbolic action. Yet even a single butterfly moving its wings can, according to Chaos Theory, cause a ripple effect large enough to change global weather patterns forever. Consciousness, similarly, is a unified field that can shift dramatically when the spontaneous emergence of new possibility captures increasing attention. Witness the sudden, over-night collapse of the Soviet system of communism when the real possibility of freedom took hold in people's minds.
As you join in signing this historic document, and as you go on to initiate conversations about our collective future as this document invites, you can be confident that your voice will be heard and your profound influence powerfully felt
This Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice was jointly issued by thirty-eight thought leaders and change agents whose names you will find listed below. They share a global, long-range perspective and a deep faith in our combined creative capacities to shape our own destiny. The future, in their view, is not what "happens to us" but rather what we can NOW imagine - actually see, taste, and feel - as possible and then go forward to create through our actions. This group of individuals who met to address the global prospects for evolutionary leadership on July 26 of this year at the Chopra Center in Carlsbad, CA were invited by the Chopra Foundation, Source of Synergy Foundation, and Association for Global New Thought. Their legitimacy however comes from a universal mandate that empowers us all: If not us, who? If not now, when?
These collective thought leaders know that the way we create meaning and purpose in our lives is through the narratives we tell about ourselves, where we've come from, what we aim for and why - and if we don't like the way it's reading now, we can change our story. This is a radical view of human freedom at a time that many fear our fate has already been sealed.
The butterfly, for which the global ripple effect is named, is a potent symbol of transformation. While mere change can mean becoming an ever bigger caterpillar, transformation is fundamentally different. The caterpillar inside its cocoon dissolves into a liquid carrying imaginal cells that construct an entirely new kind of creature with great beauty and the power of flight. The human imagination has a similar power - to perceive entirely new possibilities in our present conditions and to bring those possibilities into being. That is why Einstein also reasoned, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
Signing the Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choice signifies that you are ready to begin encircling our world, as its old forms are dissolving, with fresh imagining of what is possible, to share this sense of possibility with as many others as you can, and to work with them to consciously create with guided action a peaceful, just, harmonious and vibrantly beautiful world that reflects in every way the true nobility of our common humanity. The time has come.
Sign the Call to Conscious Evolution: Our Moment of Choicewww.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/248704259Note: Please see today's relevant post at: Re: "The Deciding Point" « Reply #2 Today at 3:24pm » Old Struggles on a New Earth Go To: airdance.proboards50.com/index.cgi?board=oneness&action=display&thread=207&page=1#3186
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