Tom, I’m not sure if you will see this but I will comment nevertheless. I thoroughly enjoy reading your articles. Thank you for your time and effort. I feel I have to mention that whether or not humanity will survive is not the question. If what you refer to as humanity is our current civilisation, you can be assured that it will not survive, as it has transpired for our far greater ancestoral civilisations. Akin to living with a terminal disease while being kept alive through medication despite painful and debilitating side effects, what use is it to force life when death is the compassionate and meaningful solution, and instead gracefully and selflessly allowing for renewal? As for humans, as we have ‘survived’ great cataclysms and collapses throughout history, we will ‘survive’ again. It is not a matter of being able to stay alive but rather the knowledge that being (whatever shape or form it may express as) is inevitable. What better way to transcend the illusion that is life and the the void between death and life - to realise the eternal and coherent continuity of being, than to forego any assumption that there is an expiring self / selves and anything to be lost?
I have spent this summer fixing the house that my ex-husband left when he died. The house was really in terrible shape. So much junk accumulated in it. It had been left empty and drug addicts moved in and caused damage. So I had a choice. Do I see this task as a chore and resent all the effort and money needed.? I decided instead to see this work as sacred. I now tell myself I am preparing the manage, the place for Christ to be born. As Meister Eckhart said “We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.” All of life can be seen as sacred. It is my choice how I want to look at things. I can remind myself when I think of those whom I don't like and disagree with that God loves those people too and loves them no less than me, the crooked politician, the corrupted head of an agency, the annoying person in the store etc. And all chores can be seen as holy. I wash dishes like I am washing baby Jesus in the sink. Then I have the opportunity to give attention to what I am doing. I don't always remember but I practice. And I am connected to numerous countless people, those who made and designed the computer I am now using. I owe them all gratitude.
The way I tend to try to see things, is, everything is happening as designed by the creator. If you want to involve yourself in the changing of the physical world. You don't try to change everything you see that is wrong as you see it. If you try to change "it," you put your focus on "it" energy flows where focus goes. So, you end up creating more of what you don't want. I've tried all this and failed greatly.
It's only when you calm yourself, go within you, find that space in meditation or prayer where you become No one, No thing, No time, No where. When you access that space of nothingness, and can return to that space in a quick change of your level of consciousness. You can begin to remove those conflicting things within you. To fix your outer world, you must begin by fixing your inner world. As above so below, as without so within. You Can Heal Yourself Louise L Hay... Peace...
As this Universe is geared towards balance and harmony it makes complete sense we, human beings of Earth, must also come to balance and harmony amongst ourselves, with Nature and our beautiful, beloved, badly abused, taken for granted home planet...for now at least. She is in process of becoming what esoteric astrologers refer to as a sacred planet. I'm certain she will heal faster with our loving kindness and respectful appreciation of her mission, and what must be ours too.
First time reader of Pulse after reading Joe's article in Canada's Druthers magazine. Excited to be here!
I'm a male survivor of the gender battles that started in the 60 + years when feminism made it's most recent debut. For many years I would have agreed with Tom that feminism signalled a return to the sacred. I see it differently now.
Men's as oppressors is at best a partial truth. Our complementariness, our equalness, is is what's true about the sexes. We're part of each other. Both men and the women need to be there in the sacred or else you have big trouble. Without respecting this, the social structure quickly goes to hell, which is where much of the west is going to now.
Traditionally we're the warriors who fought for the community and the family. We need to welcome men's courage and warriorship into the new fight for the future. We can fight for the wise future and we need to, but we can't do it without each other.
Just reading The Chalice and The Blade by Riane Eisler. Praying that the aspects of the divide or rift we have endured as women through out HIS-tory, will collide with whatever force is in/around/through us all to bring us back into Partnership. I suspect She is dancing among us flirting with our Hearts and ramping up that energy....like a solar blast!
Tom, I’m not sure if you will see this but I will comment nevertheless. I thoroughly enjoy reading your articles. Thank you for your time and effort. I feel I have to mention that whether or not humanity will survive is not the question. If what you refer to as humanity is our current civilisation, you can be assured that it will not survive, as it has transpired for our far greater ancestoral civilisations. Akin to living with a terminal disease while being kept alive through medication despite painful and debilitating side effects, what use is it to force life when death is the compassionate and meaningful solution, and instead gracefully and selflessly allowing for renewal? As for humans, as we have ‘survived’ great cataclysms and collapses throughout history, we will ‘survive’ again. It is not a matter of being able to stay alive but rather the knowledge that being (whatever shape or form it may express as) is inevitable. What better way to transcend the illusion that is life and the the void between death and life - to realise the eternal and coherent continuity of being, than to forego any assumption that there is an expiring self / selves and anything to be lost?
I have spent this summer fixing the house that my ex-husband left when he died. The house was really in terrible shape. So much junk accumulated in it. It had been left empty and drug addicts moved in and caused damage. So I had a choice. Do I see this task as a chore and resent all the effort and money needed.? I decided instead to see this work as sacred. I now tell myself I am preparing the manage, the place for Christ to be born. As Meister Eckhart said “We are all meant to be mothers of God...for God is always needing to be born.” All of life can be seen as sacred. It is my choice how I want to look at things. I can remind myself when I think of those whom I don't like and disagree with that God loves those people too and loves them no less than me, the crooked politician, the corrupted head of an agency, the annoying person in the store etc. And all chores can be seen as holy. I wash dishes like I am washing baby Jesus in the sink. Then I have the opportunity to give attention to what I am doing. I don't always remember but I practice. And I am connected to numerous countless people, those who made and designed the computer I am now using. I owe them all gratitude.
The way I tend to try to see things, is, everything is happening as designed by the creator. If you want to involve yourself in the changing of the physical world. You don't try to change everything you see that is wrong as you see it. If you try to change "it," you put your focus on "it" energy flows where focus goes. So, you end up creating more of what you don't want. I've tried all this and failed greatly.
It's only when you calm yourself, go within you, find that space in meditation or prayer where you become No one, No thing, No time, No where. When you access that space of nothingness, and can return to that space in a quick change of your level of consciousness. You can begin to remove those conflicting things within you. To fix your outer world, you must begin by fixing your inner world. As above so below, as without so within. You Can Heal Yourself Louise L Hay... Peace...
As this Universe is geared towards balance and harmony it makes complete sense we, human beings of Earth, must also come to balance and harmony amongst ourselves, with Nature and our beautiful, beloved, badly abused, taken for granted home planet...for now at least. She is in process of becoming what esoteric astrologers refer to as a sacred planet. I'm certain she will heal faster with our loving kindness and respectful appreciation of her mission, and what must be ours too.
I think you would be interested in Marshall Vian Summers and the Revelations he has brought to the world.
Look into Newmessage.org
First time reader of Pulse after reading Joe's article in Canada's Druthers magazine. Excited to be here!
I'm a male survivor of the gender battles that started in the 60 + years when feminism made it's most recent debut. For many years I would have agreed with Tom that feminism signalled a return to the sacred. I see it differently now.
Men's as oppressors is at best a partial truth. Our complementariness, our equalness, is is what's true about the sexes. We're part of each other. Both men and the women need to be there in the sacred or else you have big trouble. Without respecting this, the social structure quickly goes to hell, which is where much of the west is going to now.
Traditionally we're the warriors who fought for the community and the family. We need to welcome men's courage and warriorship into the new fight for the future. We can fight for the wise future and we need to, but we can't do it without each other.
Just reading The Chalice and The Blade by Riane Eisler. Praying that the aspects of the divide or rift we have endured as women through out HIS-tory, will collide with whatever force is in/around/through us all to bring us back into Partnership. I suspect She is dancing among us flirting with our Hearts and ramping up that energy....like a solar blast!