On Giving:

Giving recognizes oneness.

Giving is love.

Giving is abundance.

Giving is joy.

Giving is divine.

Giving is wealth.

Giving is change.

Giving is release.

Giving is understanding.

Giving is cooperation.

Giving is sharing.

Giving is selfless.

Giving is caring.

Giving is compassion.

Giving is strength.

Giving is gratitude.

Giving is fearlessness.

Giving is kind.

Giving knows no borders.

Giving knows no color.

Giving knows no gender.

Giving is passionate love.

Giving is the recognition;
Of the UNITY of ONE.

Giving is the recognition;
Of the UNITY of ALL.

Love to give…. Give to love.

What does yoga mean to you?

Yoga is a way of approaching life, of Being, of which asana is only a small (but important) part.  Yoga allows us to shed the things that prevent us from knowing our True Essence, and our connection with the Divine.  It’s a tool that removes stress from the body and mind, cultivates Peace and nurtures Consciousness – both in ourselves and the World.

What has been the most important manifestation you’ve created?

When your consciousness starts to merge with cosmic Consciousness, you start to acquire the 5 energies of Shiva: cit-sakti (all-Consciousness), ananda-sakti (all-Bliss), jnana-sakti (all-Knowledge), kriya-sakti (all-Action), iccha-sakti (all-Will). This requires letting go of many things while building Peace in the body and mind. When it happens, there is no difference between manifestation and being in the Flow, between you as a creator and as an instrument of the Divine. I was going to jokingly say: ‘Do I really have to say just one thing?’, but the truth is, we create nothing alone… The Secret and the Law of Attraction don’t work because they don’t recognize this fundamental Truth, one that was known thousands of years ago by the yogic rishis. It is through our choices that we align ourselves with the Divine… and then everything becomes possible.

What has been the most important lesson you’ve learned from your yoga practice?

That yoga is about Being and the choices we make… more than any physical act. When that is understood, Peace arises, and what is possible becomes limitless.

What is the meaning of consciousness to you?

I make the distinction between consciousness (little c, or citta) and Consciousness (big C, or Cit). Consciousness (little c) is the sum of our awareness and the product of our choices in life – what to think, what to do, how to be. Consciousness (big C) is beyond any definition or description our consciousness (little c) is capable of. It leaves you speechless, breathless.  Pure awareness of Love, the Divine.  Without Consciousness, nothing could exist.  Our consciousness merges with Consciousness as we progress on our path. This is what we are designed on every level of our being to do.

How do you feel the light and know that it is there?

It’s in everything I see, feel, hear, touch, taste and everything in between. It’s in the many miracles that happen everyday to nurture us, regardless of whether we live in harmony with the Divine or not. It is present in every moment of Bliss we experience.

Of all the people in your life, who was the most influential in helping you to form your life path and why?

My friend Steve, a yogi who lives yoga and has integrated its wisdom on every level of his being. It was his energy, his Being, not any one thing he said or did, but the sum of it all (especially the stuff between the lines). I don’t think he was aware of it when it first began, but I think he’s aware of it now.

What is the most effective/critical asana and why?

Savasana – it’s the only posture in which it is safe for everyone to practice pranayam, anytime.

What is yoga’s role in making this world a better place?

Yoga can be used in two ways – to destroy consciousness, or to nurture it.
I prefer the second option.

I had lost course,\n\nbut now I have found -\n\nonce again-\n\nmy metaphysical oarsman.\n\nReady to paddle,\n\nfull steam ahead,\n\ninto the river of life-\n\nthe stream of existence,\n\nand the ocean of the universe.\n\nRow with me,\n\nas together….\n\nWe unlock the secrets;\n\nOf Being.\n\n\n

image credit: allposters.com

Written after a conversation with my friend, M in the back seat of her new car, spilling crumbs of a muffin, discussing Martin Buber and the I-Thou experience.

On a ceiling
in Florence
fingertip
reaches for fingertip
to unclothe
the Divine Encounter.

Upon contact
faces evolve
and unwittingly
drop
their identities.

Hands cease
wringing
and meet sweet
Palm to Palm ~
a mirror
gesture.

In an unmarked
passageway, Time
dissolves in the Disappearance
of the Self.

And in an instant
a whisper in the Soul
bursts the notion of
“I” and “alone.”

Absolute awe
washes the mind
and at once
understands
that just as White
frothing Waves
cannot separate from the Sea
neither can the Soul
uncouple itself from God.

Our interlocked hands
though many ~
extend for the contact.
And reveal and translate
the Divine Encounter:
We are One.

nannette kennedy

Albert Einstein meets Rabindranath Tagore (14 July 1930)

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

- Albert Einstein

Archbishop Tutu Signs Humanity's Team Oneness Petition

Desmond Tutu to Receive Spiritual Leadership Award

PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ — South African Desmond Tutu will receive an international award recognizing his “vision, understanding and building of bridges,” a global spiritual group said.

The Nobel Peace laureate and retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town will receive the Spiritual Leadership Award from Humanity’s Team, a global movement “awakening the world to oneness,” the group said.

Tutu — who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid and brought reconciliation to South Africa’s people a decade later — will receive Humanity’s Team’s highest honor April 18 at the movement’s 2009 global Oneness Summit in Pretoria, South Africa, said the group, based in Boulder, Colorado.

The summit will focus on oneness, especially as expressed in the southern African ethic of “ubuntu,” which means, “I am what I am because of who we all are.”

“Archbishop Tutu has dedicated his life to solving some of the world’s most insurmountable challenges with vision, understanding and building of bridges,” Humanity’s Team Worldwide Coordinating Director Steve Farrell said.

“He embodies many of humanity’s greatest visions of spiritual courage — of ubuntu — and is now an icon of hope far beyond South Africa,” Farrell said. “We consider it a great privilege to give this award to this spiritual leader and we are extremely honored he has agreed to accept it.”

Tutu, 77, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, said he was “deeply grateful” to receive the Humanity’s Team honor, which has become the standard among global awards for extraordinary expressions of inclusive visionary spiritual leadership through one’s life lived.

In support of the movement’s oneness vision, he signed a Humanity’s Team petition asking the United Nations to declare an annual global Oneness Day.

“We must recognize our common humanity — that we are all one, that our destinies are bound up in another’s, that I need you for me to be me and that we complement each other as essential parts of a greater whole,” Tutu said.

“If we could but recognize this fundamental law of our being, then we would create a glorious world in which all of us live harmoniously together as members of one human family, God’s family,” Tutu said, echoing a statement from his “God Has a Dream.”

“Life would truly be ‘on Earth as it is in heaven,’” he said. “God’s dream would become a reality.”

To learn more about the award, the petition and the Oneness Summit, visit http://www.humanitysteam.org.

United Press International has published press release.  Go to: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/10/Tutu_signs_appeal_seeking_UN_Oneness_Day/UPI-58711234284241/

PHOTOS:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu signs a Humanity’s Team petition at his office in Cape Town, South Africa, asking the United Nations to declare an annual global Oneness Day. – http://www.ereleases.com/pr/2009-Tutu-Photo1.jpg

Anna-Mari Pieterse, Humanity’s Team South Africa coordinator, Oneness Summit principal organizer and Oneness Day Petition coordinator, presents a copy of the Oneness Declaration to Archbishop Desmond Tutu at his office in Cape Town, South Africa. Humanity’s Team plans to present the declaration and a petition with at least 50,000 signatures to the United Nations urging the world body to declare an annual global Oneness Day. – http://www.ereleases.com/pr/2009-Tutu-Photo2.jpg

PRESS CONTACT:

Gerry Harrington
Humanity’s Team
+1 845 331 7168
mobile: +1 845 389-9201
gerry.harrington@humanitysteam.org

or

Anna-Mari Pieterse
Humanity’s Team
(012) 348-5621
mobile: (083) 445-0412
amari@humanitysteamsa.org

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Awaken Humanity to One Consciousness!

Part of the reason that OneConsciousness.org is set up, is because of the constant message in my brain to help awaken others.  Most people in the world have totally forgotten their soul’s power and have yet to reawaken to certain Laws of the Universe.

Perhaps it is our responsibility to help awaken the sleeping people?  Let us bring to their attention waves of influence and information that helps unlock the hidden perfection within the mind/body/soul of all living people.

Next, ask yourself “What am I doing RIGHT NOW to help awaken others to path of spirituality?” Perhaps you could do a blog post, comment on someone elses post with additional clarification to help lead someone down the path with a link, maybe you could tweet something other worldly or something fresh that comes your mind from your spirit guides.

Mother Earth has received quite a beating these past 110 years. Cities have grown at an obscene pace, people spend most of their time in a 9-5 haze, and most people have no ideas who their neighbors are… In a way, we are very secluded, yet always very connected.

Rediscover your inner wisdom and help others discover the same. Chances are, that by helping others, that you will move down the path to enlightenment a bit quicker?

In Love, Guidance & Oneness…

Travis Wright

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The sun on the winter's solstice.

By Betty Kreeger

For decades, Rachel Carson and other visionaries concerned about the effect of pollution on earth and its population recognized and warned about the environmental devastation now facing us today. Millions of chemically injured around the world are the final evidence of this environmental catastrophe.  Power and greed have brought us to this place, and we have felt powerless to stop it due to our physical limitations.  However, we are more than our physical limitations. 

Recently I have been inspired by many teachings on the power of intentional thought, energy healing, and raising of consciousness. These energies are transformational, and unlimited.
 

Then a few nights ago I was inspired by one of the Everyday Super Hero stories.  The act of one woman, Irania Martinez Garcia, transformed the city dump in Guantanamo into an eco-friendly garden by separating organic and inorganic materials. The organic material was used as compost for the garden and the inorganic matter was stripped down to its core and recycled or re-sold. Her action was first just a thought – an intention to manifest a reality. And this thought inspired her and others to action. No “thing” ever manifests without first being preceded by a thought.  Have any of you ever accomplished something that was not been preceded by an intentional thought? 

Our physical limitations may prevent the millions of us from showing up for demonstrations at the various city halls or capitols around the world at a specific time, but we can use the power of the energy of our mind (thoughts) – sometimes called prayer – at a specific time to make a difference. We have a better resource for effecting change – conscious energy. Thoughts are energies that vibrate through the universe, whether negative or positive. They either raise the consciousness through the emotion of love or lower it through the emotion of fear. 

I believe there is an awakening of consciousness right now and with very little effort, the global MCS community could harness the power of our thoughts and make a difference.  By a very conservative estimate at least three percent of the earth’s 6 billion people have been chemically injured.  Therefore, at a minimum we are at least 18,000,000 strong.  
 

Many have researched the power of raising our consciousness. All is created through the power of two thoughts – love and fear. One physicist, David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., author of “Power vs. Force,” writes: “The difference in power between a loving thought and a fearful thought is so enormous as to be beyond the capacity of the human imagination to comprehend … even a few loving thoughts during the course of the day more than counterbalance all of our negative thoughts.” Energies vibrate from 20 (shame) to 700+ pure enlightenment, with critical consciousness being 200. He has shown that one person with an energy vibration of neutrality counter-balances (positively affects) the energy of 90,000 individuals with an energy level of 200 or below. Potentially, the 18,000,000 plus individuals in the MCS community has the potential to counterbalance 16 billion people (or nearly 3 times the earth’s population) vibrating below critical consciousness! There is no limitation when we raise our consciousness and thus raise the consciousness of others. 
 
Therefore, I would like to propose to the MCS community around the world that we set aside just one minute (more if you like) at a given time on January 1, 2009 (noon PST in the U.S. & other countries to decide their own time) to send an intentional healing of the earth, ourselves and all others. Everyone should choose wording with which you feel comfortable as long as it is consistent with promoting this healing. 

If you have no wording you would like to use, I offer something like the following which is fashioned after the 2,500-year-old Buddhist Loving Kindness Meditation. 

“May all of the earth’s inhabitants be filled with Loving Kindness toward themselves, all others and the earth.” 

“May the earth and its inhabitants be well in body and in mind.”

“May the earth and its inhabitants be safe from inner and outer dangers.” 

“May the world leaders promote peace and healthful practices for the healing of the earth and its people.”

“May all be happy and truly free.”

This post likely will generate a lot of thoughts – and hopefully participation. However, your decision whether to participate in this event is your personal choice. 

My hope is that January 1, 2009 will be just the first of several days we work together to raise global consciousness.  Together we can make a difference!

Connect to the Infinite, Divine Light!

Each of us has our own path when walking towards the light of self-realization. It is expressed through all that connects us to our spirit, whether it is through words, music, energy work, art or dance, to name just a few. No matter what form it takes, our purpose is to follow that expression which brings us to a union of body, mind and spirit—to One.

Living an authentic life; as prescribed by the 5 principles of Reiki, the Yamas and Niyamas of Yoga or the ‘basic’ truths of any religion i.e., acceptance, love, understanding, compassion or any emotion of lighter vibration, should be at the fore of our thoughts. It is the authenticity of our lives no matter the dogma or ritual we adhere to, which is important. It is with these intentions that we can release the barriers that keep us from seeing beyond illusion or what in Yoga is called Maya. This is often referred to as the veil, though more appropriately, it is all that is nature manifested.

Once authentic connection to this energy is made, messages are received depending on one’s abilities and interests; forms of perception. When we connect to that energy how it works through us, is as individual as are each of us. We all have a unique way of relating to this cosmic/universal/god/void/absolute energy. Some prefer to personalize it defining it as spiritual guides or angels, others see light, others sound or smell or taste or feeling or touch sensation—each of them are real and valid. We are all different, yet the same, how the mind translates the message is based on our own experience. So the journey to understand the “self” is perhaps the jumping point for how it is to fall into place; commencing within.

Meditation calms and quiets the mind, providing clarity and connection to the energy of the universe. That which comes within this state is a gift; sleep and dreams provide another avenue of an alternate awareness which opens this connection. An intention placed upon the mind prior to meditating or sleep can assist in allowing the mind to step out of the way so that the answer may be received. It is pertinent however, to understand that forcing the process can impede the progress. Sometimes the harder we force and grasp the further the goal retreats. Letting go or allowance prepare us to receive all that we seek. In my experience, when we are ready then all things come of their own accord. There is an ease.

When I was teaching and studying dancing I was moved to choreograph, the music moved me and I had visualizations of specific movements within space. Music stimulated a visual response as I ‘saw’ movement, so sight/vision and sound were at play.

Since returning to more spiritual pursuits and energy work this visual inclination led, in dream state or what I consider an alternate reality, to complete information sessions and simple knowing. Following this path also opened other channels of reception, as it was within a dream state that sound manifested in the form of musical notes to be a used in my energy work. In another dream it was light that manifested. I perceived beings of light and a name that was sounded upon emptiness; I observed an exchange between ‘God’ and the Archangel Michael.

Now, I am ‘moved’ to write, again this is just another form of creative expression, a flow from one area of interest or concentration to another. The manner of the messages has changed or at least the imagery has modified to suit the current situation. Entering yet another altered or heightened state of awareness/consciousness in meditation, I observed a discourse on material for a training manual and an attunement process to assist others and help them pass along this information, guiding the inner journey.

Whether physical or spiritual, the experiences were felt to be real. The persons or light beings or sound or movement or words appeared in dream or meditative state. The information was as real, and some even more powerful, as those I received in physical reality through traditional hands on methods.

Any creative expression opens channels to Oneness, with music I sing and my body responds with dance, I think and my mind creates words and I write. We can all connect to all the information that is, was and will be; no matter the name we call it. As we grow along a path to light we reach and move towards our fullest potential, developing abilities which are indeed just manifestations of One.

©T.S. (Tim) White, 2008

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www.TheSereneWay.com

Friday is the Day to Create Peace

Friday: Creating for Peace

Today, come up with at least one creative idea to resolve a conflict, either in your personal life or your family circle or among friends. If you can, try and create an idea that applies to your community, the nation, or the whole world.

You may:

• change an old habit that isn’t working
• look at someone a new way
• offer words you never offered before
• think of an activity that brings people together in good feeling and laughter.

Second, invite a family member or friend to come up with one creative idea of this kind on their own. Creativity feels best when you are the one thinking up the new idea or approach.

• Make it known that you accept and enjoy creativity.
• Be loose and easy.
• Let the ideas flow and try out anything that has appeal.

The purpose here is to bond, because only when you bond with others can there be mutual trust. When you trust, there is no need for hidden hostility and suspicion, which are the two great enemies of peace.

Please support my intention for peace by going to Intent.com. Then create your own intention to add the power of your intention toward peace in the world. Share this message with all your friends to create a tidal wave of peace for the planet right now.

~| Deepak Chopra