Monthly Archives: November 2012

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You May Say I’m a Dreamer…But I’m Not the Only One


Yesterday, I started to talk about chanting for peace, and the importance of chanting and music.  There is Spirit in Sound, and that Spirit takes us closer to the presence and love of The One.  You can chant alone, or you can look for groups, peace groups or chanting groups, within your neighborhood, church, temple or mosque, or you could start a group of your own.

Chanting is a way to bring more of the sacred into your life.  Chanting for peace is a way of putting that peaceful, loving energy into the world, where it can grow and be fed by others around you that you don’t even know are chanting.

Ecumenical groups chanting for peace can be such a beautiful experience, each person can bring a chant from their own path to share with the others.  This mixture of voices and thoughts and sounds lifting up together to the heavens, to the Beloved, work to help heal our World.

There are new wars starting as you read this.  I watch BBC News a lot to keep an eye on what is going on all over the world – American news tends to be self-centered, and while my own country is important, it is no more important than the rest of the world.  I’m filled with terrible sadness at the wars starting and continuing around the world; the people who would rather fight than talk; the innocent civilians who are being injured; and most importantly, the innocent children who are being injured, who are being maimed — blinded, losing limbs, and losing their faith in peace and hope.  I think about my nine grandchildren, and I can see their little faces if someone came up to them with a gun, or if they saw a bomb explode, and I ache for the grandchildren of others around the world.

Chanting for peace is an important concept, and is so easy to do.  You CAN do it by yourself, because the Beloved God does hear every voice, even the sounds of the old peace songs rise up and lift healing energy and spread it around the world, which is why I have included these two videos.

“Those who know Him cry with one voice; He is the singer, He is the song, and He is the music.  He speaks through every tune, He is manifest in every melody.”

–Nazir, Sufi Poet

I hope you enjoy these songs, and I pray that my chanting and the chanting of those who join me will help to save the lives of innocent people and children and will help to make this a peaceful world.

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Chanting For Peace


“Oh music,
In your depths we deposit our hearts and souls.
Thou hast taught us to see with our eyes
And hear with our hearts.”
——Kahlil Gibran

“Before the world was, all was in sound.
God was in sound, we are made of sound.”

—Hazrat Inayat Khan

Conflicts in the Middle East are often distressing and frustrating to follow in the news. I personally, often feel such sadness. But there are things we can do to help. I believe prayer and chanting are ways we can help to bring about peace in our world. With chanting in groups. Chaotic images fall away and walls and barriers move apart to make room for love and acceptance. Prayers in these groups are aligned to magnify our relationship with The One. A deep Peace can settle over the situations and ease the tensions. There is a call for Jerusalem to once again become an abode of peace.

We are enveloped in sound. The vibrations of energy that we call sound pour through us whether we are asleep or awake. Whether we are in the midst of a noisy traffic jam or on a mountain top. Nineteenth-century philosopher Lorenz Oken stated, “The eye takes a person into the world. The ear brings the world into a human being.”

“Flowers and bees may be different, but the honey is the same.
Systems of faith may be different, but God is One.”
—Rig Veda

The words you use to chant, I do not believe are important. You need only use words which take you into the inner self where you can focus on peace and harmony. OM, Native American chants, Jewish chants, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian or Islamic chants will take us within to help to bring the peace and harmony the world needs so desperately into fruition. I will be following up with more blogs about this important subject.

Working for Peace and Harmony in Our Time

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See Link Above – Obama Wins 8 of the Nation’s 10 Wealthiest Counties

 

President Obama doesn’t want the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to expire out of spite or for the heck of it. It’s because Obama wants a balanced approach to solving the nation’s budget problems, while still allowing for the same type of investments that built the modern economy and the middle-class: GI Bill, infrastructure, social security, microchip, personal computer, Pell Grants, GPS, Internet, fracking, Medicare, and so on.

8 of the nation’s wealthiest counties understood government and private sector collaboration during the Cold War made this country great. They understood Romney’s trickle-down plan was more of the same policies that have been weakening America for the last 11 years. 8 of the nation’s wealthiest counties voted for Obama because they knew it would benefit everyone along the economic spectrum – poor, middle-class, and rich.

 

 

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Working Together For Our World With Love and Acceptance


99% of the American people working to hold up the World

When Bush first ran for President against Al Gore, I was deeply disappointed when he won. However, he won fair and square. The majority of the people spoke in his favor. We even had the controversy over Florida and “the hanging chads from ballots.” I will admit I was unhappy and a bit suspicious.

I am a pacifist and I will admit that I shunned vets after Vietnam. I’ve learned a lot since then. I was totally against the War in Iraq, but I understood that many of our boys and girls were choosing to fight in this war. So I gave them my prayers and support. I still wasn’t happy, but I accepted this second administration. I felt Bush was a “cowboy” and not the man I wanted to be President. Well, it was my opinion and my right to voice my views, rationally and logically. For eight years I did not let anger or conspiracies rule my thoughts and life.

Now, times have changed and Barak Obama has been elected by the majority and electoral vote of the American people. I must say that I am shocked by all of the hatred, anger, and illogical talk that is taking place. Twenty states talking succession. Really? So you are taking your toys home and never playing with us again. In an election, someone always loses. Sometimes it is Domecrats and sometimes Republicans.

Our Founding Fathers did not have the sort of rhetoric and extreme anger I have been hearing on the internet and in articles…let alone Social Media. I believe they would be disappointed that all they dreamed and fought for, American freedom would end up being trashed like this.

It is time for each citizen to look into their hearts and minds and look for the rational, loving, accepting human being that this country was designed for. Please put aside the angst and let us all work together to make this a country and world filled with the love and beauty that Divinity has had in mind.

The beautiful creation of Divinity.

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Today throughout America and all her diverse geopolitical climes, there will be a discernible sadness in the air. November 12th  is the day where the nation as a whole takes a moment to not only honor but  thank all military people who served in all war especially those veterans still alive today. There will be tears  for some and somber reflections for others. At some point idealistically thinking, each of us will be inspired by the sacrifices of these men and women to live more fully.

This year I wanted to do much more than give the generic bullshit lip-service I have done in the past.  I figured that  the best way to honor those sacrifices no matter if I agree with the causes of the war would be to shine a light on those who suffer because they cannot benefit from the same rights as I do. As the…

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The Native Americans Truly Honored our Planet

There are indigenous people around the world who have given us a heritage and inheritance for honoring Mother Earth and our planet. We have knowledge of their wisdom and it is available if we want it.

Many people in the world today do value and honor our planet. Some of the changes that are happening are part of the life cycle of the planet but many we have caused ourselves. Whether changes are man-made or part of the life cycle of the planet- such as the ice age- we can help to heal our planet and help her to heal herself.

Planning green areas in cities are a great help, planting trees, and not allowing big business to pollute the air and water are other important things we can do. Recycling is a help and helping to organize recycling where it is not now available is another idea.

There are so many poets and authors who remind us of how important the landscape around us is. It is healing and soothing. It lifts the spirits and lights up the soul. We are so lucky to have this source of beauty around us whenever we want or need to see beauty. Painters and photographers have immortalized the beauty they saw and it adds to our joy to see the world through their cameras and paint brushes. I am a great fan of the Impressionists. I love the way the used light to enhance their brush strokes and to make you feel as if you were there in their shoes standing at their easels. How grateful I am for that gift they left to all of us.

The Natural World

…If one looks long enough at almost anything, looks with absolute attention at a flower, a stone, the bark of a tree, grass, snow, a cloud, something like revelation takes place. Something is “given,” and perhaps that something is always a reality outside the self. We are aware of God only when we cease to be aware of ourselves, not in the negative sense of denying the self, but in the sense of losing self in admiration and joy.”
—Excerpted from “From May Sarton’s Well”, Compiled by Edith Royce Schade

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Blanket Flowers from my garden. Photo by Barbara Mattio

Metroparks Zoo, Photo by Barbara Mattio