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Chrissie..You are right. I am suffering from trauma due to Sept. 11th. In America, we say "sucker punch" when someone distracts you and then hits you hard in the stomach. That's how I have been feeling like I'm been sucker punched.
I'm doing better now that the Christmas season is here, but I'm sure I'll never feel safe again. I know you know the feeling since you shared about the bombing at your building a few years ago. So much of this world lives with the fear of bombings. I pray for peace this season now more than ever.
How is your grandma, Chrissie? I hope she is feeling better. It is amazing that she is 101 years old.
My relationship with my Mother is so much better this holiday season. She no longer zaps me with vicious comments because they don't work on me. I have a lot more peace around her.
My daughter is taking acting lessons, cheerleading, and is playing basketball. I'm constantly in the car driving her somewhere, but it is a joy to see her becoming a young lady who has a sense of self esteem and personal power in her life. I used to go around saying "drama and chaos" whenever my Mother tried to shame me or bring me into an argument with my sisters. Now, Courtney uses "drama and chaos" when someone is trying to blame or shame her for something she isn't responsible for.
I'm writing my second book. My first book, I've given up hope on it being published, but I sent the last corrections to a new agent in New York recently. I feel a tremendous sense to move on and concentrate on the second book.
I'll be off until January 2nd after one more hour at work today. I'll be checking in at this website closer to Christmas.
Hello to Rose, Rosie, Rachel, Michael, Joe, CarolB, Dee, Jenn the Moonchild, Mae and everyone else.
Peace and love,
Christy
[Edit] For jls -- Fuzzy, 07:59:03 12/18/01 Tue [1]
Thanks J...I intend to! Hope you do too!
Hugs
Fuzzy
Dear Chrissie and all at the Path, wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy 2002.
Chrissie CONGRATULATIONS in getting your swimming certificate. Its very satisfying when you achieve something.
I wish all a very safe and wonderful holiday season.
Rosie
[Edit] to Christy -- Rose, 23:29:06 12/17/01 Mon [1]
hi how are you? .. Im doing okay..
how the holydayd were you at? wish you well!
thanks for your concern! were your from!
in californis never Snow were at least were Im at!
Smiles! love and Light Rose
[Edit] Surrender to Love - by Sanaya Roman -- Chrissie :)*, 16:52:20 12/16/01 Sun [1]
Surrender To Love
by Sanaya Roman
To surrender to love, you will need to pay attention to any of your own
emotions, moods, or thoughts that might lead you to act in less than loving
ways. You may need to surrender pride, a sense of self-importance, or the
need to have your way, to feel superior to, or to have power over others.
You will want to let go of those emotions that make you feel less than,
inferior, or doubtful of your worth. You will want to train yourself to
think about others in positive ways, even if you feel they have hurt you.
You will want to bring about harmonious conditions through your speech,
actions, and thoughts.
Discover any reactions to others that may contain even the slightest desire
to hurt them. Watch your moods and feelings so you can still be loving to
others even when you are experiencing negative emotions yourself. Surrender
to love, and respond to those around you with kindness. Recall several times
when you have done this, and how good you felt about yourself afterward.
When you feel others have hurt you, you may be tempted to hurt them in
return. At first you may want others to feel the pain you feel when they
have attacked, criticized, not valued, rejected, misunderstood, or
disappointed you. When you feel hurt by others you may want to react with
anger, withdraw your love, or retaliate in some way.
If it seems that someone is trying to hurt you, start by acknowledging and
feeling your pain. Do not force yourself to feel and act in loving ways
until you have transformed your pain. Lift the emotions you are feeling from
your solar plexus center into your heart center so you can feel the serenity
of love. Think of times you have responded with love even when hurting
others felt justified based on their treatment of you. Acknowledge yourself
every time you choose to respond with love even when others act in unloving
ways. In addition, forgive yourself for those times when you could not or
did not want to act lovingly.
Once you connect with your soul you can feel your soul's compassion. You
will understand that some people do not know how to be kind or considerate.
They are not really reacting to you; they are reacting to their own fears
and to their past. People sometimes say or do hurtful things because they do
not feel good about themselves. Your soul never takes offense; it
understands that whatever others do that seems unloving is a reflection of
who they are, not who you are.
Think of the person you have picked to soul link with. In the last few
weeks, have you, in even the slightest way, had the desire to hurt the other
person? Why did you feel this way? Were you in a bad mood or in the grip of
strong emotions? Or were you picking up the other person's intense emotions?
Did you think the other person was trying to insult or hurt you? Pay
attention to the things that trigger unloving reactions in you.
Stop before you react in a hurtful way. Take time to love and honor your
feelings. Do not try to talk yourself out of unloving feelings. Love your
feelings, listen to them, feel them, and then lift them into your heart to
be transformed into love. Take time away from the relationship, or create
physical distance, until you can respond with love. It is better to be apart
for a while, while you transform your feelings, than to be together and act
in unloving ways. Wait to respond until you can do so in a way that honors
both of you.
Say to yourself, "I now choose peace and love".
If you are trying to stay calm and loving, yet find yourself matching
people's bad moods and acting in hurtful ways, do not feel weak, think you
are a victim, or blame the other person for "giving" you bad energy. Forgive
yourself for not yet being enlightened! Lift solar plexus energy into your
heart center and feel the serenity of your soul's love. Think of times when
you have stayed centered and balanced around other people's negative energy.
Affirm that you have the power to choose how you want to feel.
If people around you are in the grip of strong emotions, soul link, and
sense your soul and their soul. Before you speak or act, you might say
something to yourself such as, "I now choose peace and love". Keep lifting
solar plexus energy into your heart center to surrender any urge to react in
an unloving way. It takes great self-awareness and continual attention to be
consistently loving and erase all desire to hurt. Not hurting others is one
of the greatest challenges and a most important step to take to awaken your
heart centers.
Transform anger with soul love.
To surrender to love you will need to release anger. Anger can be one of the
most challenging of all emotions to transform. It is the "fight" part of the
fight/flight response. Fear is the "flight" part, and I have talked about
transforming fear in many of my other books. Anger is the root of many
separative emotions such as irritation, feeling superior or righteous,
self-pity, and even depression, which is anger turned inward toward the
self. Almost everyone feels some degree of anger many times a day. This may
be self-anger, anger at society, anger at people who oppose what you believe
in, or anger at friends and loved ones. Think of your feelings today. When
did you choose to feel anger, if at all?
Anger is a force, an energy that can move you away from those things you are
angry at. Sometimes anger can be beneficial, such as when it motivates you
to leave a situation that is harmful to you. As you evolve, you will no
longer need strong emotions to propel you into action. You will act from the
calm, peaceful wisdom of your soul. Reacting out of anger takes away your
true power. It is only when you speak or act from the serene, expansive, and
loving perspective of your soul that you feel good about your actions and
words. When you act with soul love, you experience true power -- the power
of love, the most powerful energy in the universe.
Stop and acknowledge your anger.
Start recognizing when you feel angry. Sometimes you choose to feel angry
when you are around the anger of others. When you feel anger that is out of
proportion to the situation, you may be reacting to past pain that you have
not yet resolved. You may feel anger because you are out of harmony with the
universe or feel bad about yourself or your life. Or, you may feel angry
because you think others have not been treating you the way you should be
treated.
Stop and acknowledge your anger the moment it arises. Do not blame others
for causing it. If you are feeling angry, join with your soul to increase
your desire to love. Lift solar plexus energy into your heart center. Relax
into the serenity of soul love. Let energy flow up into your head center and
expand into the oneness of love. Experience your soul's wisdom, compassion,
and understanding. You can feel the serenity of love even when you are
around people who are angry, attacking, defensive, and functioning from
their unevolved solar plexus center. Choose how you want to feel no matter
what kind of emotions, thoughts, or energy you are around.
Do you have any hidden or not-so-hidden anger toward the person you have
been soul linking with? Lift solar plexus energy into your heart center.
Soul link and radiate your soul's accepting, transparent, and unconditional
love. You might say, "I surrender any anger I have toward you. I take
responsibility for making my own life work." Choose not to be a victim.
Instead, affirm that you have the power to create any life you want. Recall
a time when you transformed your anger and acted from a calm, dear, and
loving state. Reflect on how good you felt about yourself. Transforming
anger is a powerful step to take that will create positive changes in your
relationships with yourself and others.
Release irritation. Offer love instead.
Irritation is a strong emotion that can be experienced by people whose solar
plexus center is awakening and whose sensitivity to the energies about them
is increasing. Many people experience irritation as their sensitivity to the
disharmonious energies around them increases, before they have learned to
join with their soul and lift solar plexus reactions into their heart
center. As you may have experienced when you were around people who were
irritable, irritation can be contagious. You offer others a great gift when
you transform any irritation you are feeling into love. A joyful, cheerful
attitude is a loving contribution to the well-being of others.
If you are feeling irritation, or are around people who are expressing
irritation, blend with your soul and lift solar plexus energy into your
heart center until you can feel the serenity of soul love. Forgive yourself
for responding to the energies around you in a less-than-centered way.
Radiate a transparent love as you soul link. Forgive other people for being
irritable. Remain calm and play with radiating various soul love qualities,
such as a magnetic, accepting, and amplifying love, around them.
Honor yourself by setting boundaries.
Respect your time, your needs, and your spiritual path. If you find yourself
unable to set boundaries, to tell where you end and others begin, if you
feel other people's feelings as if they are your own, lift solar plexus
energy into your heart center. Remember the times when you did set
boundaries and people still loved you.
You can stay in calm, serene states of love, no matter what emotional states
other people are in, by radiating soul love. From this state of love you
will do what is good for yourself and your soul, rather than what other
people want you to do. Whether other people change or respond to your love
is not important. Every time you offer love, you awaken your heart centers.
Decide whether or not you want to continue to be around people who do not
honor you. Believe that all your relationships can be loving, supporting,
and enriching.
[Edit] For Fuzzy -- jls, 02:58:24 12/16/01 Sun [1]
Hey Fuzzy.. have a merry..
[Edit] Thoughts of love and light for my 101 year old grandma -- Chrissie :)*, 22:31:40 12/12/01 Wed [1]
Hi Christy and all here,
It's good to hear from you again Christy. You may be suffering from trauma from the 11 Sept events - my Reiki Master was talking about that today. I can't imagine how it must feel like to be an American living with America and so close to all the happenings etc. I switch off the telly now whenever anything re the 11 Sept comes on as I don't want to feel sad - I've already seen the videos of the happenings so many times, there is no point in deliberatly putting myself through the upset over and over. I can only continue to send love and light to the situation for all concerned.
My Reiki Master course was very exciting today and I'm looking forward to the second day tomorrow! (smiles)
I heard news today that my 101 year old grandmother in Indonesia as taken seriously ill and the family is really worried about her. She has lived to a good age and is getting tired - we all hope she will give us a few more years - the family is rallying around, hoping that she'll pull through. As they are so far away we haven't heard exactly what is wrong with her yet though do know that she is growing weaker by the day. It's probably old age.... she is approaching her 102th birthday in 2 months. Way to go grandma! She's a beautiful lady and I wish I had known her growing up. I only met her last year for the first time ever.
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* ^i^
p/s Christy, (smiles) thx for the good wishes re swimming - I was / am chuffed indeed!!! It's a big achievement for me and I'm really proud of seeing it through!!! especially threading water which was my one thing that I couldn't do !
[Edit] CONGRATULATIONS CHRISSIE ON LEARNING HOW TO SWIM!! -- Christy, 21:18:47 12/11/01 Tue [1]
Oops..I forgot to say Congratulations Chrissie for learning how to swim. Way to go!!
Chrissie..I'm sorry you've been sick. I hope you get to feeling better.
For those of you who follow Marianne Willamson, her sermons at the Church of Today are online. She has been a spiritual teacher of mine since "A Return to Love" was published.
http://www.churchoftoday.com
Nothing much going on with me. I have been really sad these past few months since 9/11. But, I am getting into the Christmas spirit.
Rachel..How are you doing these days?
Rose..Always a pleasure to read how you are doing.
Hi Rose - good to hear that all is going well on the home and work front; and that you're learning html! You're picking it up really well hon! Keep it up! I hope you're still writing your poems and good luck with the house hunting.
I am on my Reiki Master course tomorrow for a couple of days and really looking forward to it!
I still have an upper respiratory tract infection which is not very pleasant .... feels like I have bronchitis but it's not as that's lower chest as well and mine is confined to upper chest .... (groans). It's been 3 weeks now.
Christy et all - you guys still reading in????? Helloooo??? :)*
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* ^i^
[Edit] A Wave of Conversion to Islam in the U.S. Following September 11 !!! -- Jesus Lover, 23:08:44 12/08/01 Sat [1]
[Edit] hi all , hello Chrissie -- Rose :-))), 17:55:50 12/07/01 Fri [1]
hi chrissie Im doing okay, me and my honey are very happy!is
a very nice honest healthy relationship threes nothing better then an older
man for me! at least,
my Chelsea she's growing to be a tuff dog ! she's doing
wonderful , right know she's staying at a friends house because Im looking for
a two bedroom, Im living with my honey ,and the space is limited! so were looking
!
work? im in training right know , by my honey he teaches
computer and he's also a web-master and designer with 15 years of practice so
his my teacher!and from there love to get a certificated at school! not by him
but collage certificated, computers is were the money is! and that's what I
love is computer no!! I did not know I was a geek! mastic! he!he!I love it!
there so anything to-do with computer! and I love it!
Matthew my son been doing very good in school we go skate
boarding ,bike ride
on the weekends and sometimes swim at the pool! he's my inspiration
oh by the way Chrissie Its nice to heard that you got
your certificated
in Swiming Wow! way to go! go Chrissie! go Chrisie! go!
go!
Love and Ligh tRose
[Edit] I choose to live my highest awareness -- Chrissie :)*, 23:12:09 12/05/01 Wed [1]
Choice I choose to live my highest awareness
I choose to remember that every problem has a solution. And to know that this too is something I can deal with. Because I choose to look at a situation in this way, the present problem is a temporary thing to me. It is something that I'm working through. I am a good person. I choose to let go of feeling sorry for myself. I am willing to learn the lesson and to open up to the good that the Universe has to offer. I choose to be willing to change. I accept the fact that I will not always know how things are to be worked out. I can trust and I can know. Everything is working out for the best. All is well.
I choose to stretch beyond where I was when I got up this morning. I am ready to open myself to something new.
Yaba-daba-doo!! I finally got my Swimming Certificate tonite for swimming 25 meters front style, back stroke, breast stroke and also threading water! Wahoo! Not having been in a swimming pool for 18 years or so and also learning to swim at this age and it being cold and having flu etc hasn't been easy and I've persevered and I made it! I'm so pleased with myself especially as the 25 meters was really easy to do! Still having a bit of the flu I was slightly out of breath, but nevertheless okay and really pleased and chuffed! Ahhhhh! I aim to keep practicing and will dare to go in the cold fitness pool and do more lengths of 25 meters all strokes and also practice my threading water!
Wahay Jennifer hey!!
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* ^i^
p/s My foldaway Reiki Couch also arrived today which is wonderful and I can now start practising using the table on friends and fellow reiki practitioners! Wonderful! And it's almost Christmas and New Year!!! (groans)! Thoughts of lots of eating and sitting by the tv pass by! Sometimes I do get in the bad habit of watching too many good movies as I have satellite tv and also a really really nice new large screen tv .. bliss! I am blessed!
[Edit] In The Beginning is the Word -- Chrissie :)*, 21:37:17 12/04/01 Tue [1]
Dear all,
I was off with the flu and a chest infection for just under two weeks and I couldn't bear to stay on the computer for long apart from check emails etc; so I haven't been posting etc. Hope everyone is well.
Rosie, how was your sabbatical? I'm glad your job is safe and that you are still employed. I personally am too jittery to travel and probably won't go on a plane next year (mainly for financial reasons) but also cos of all the scares etc; which isn't too good for the travel industry. Apart from that how are you doing? Looking forward to Christmas? Are you planning on coming down to London again soon? It's a shame we missed each other this year - somehow I'll always remember that as when Indi crossed (or almost crossed) as you called me when I was driving back from the vets to meet up and Indi crossed over 2 days after, after that dreadful long weekend of waiting to see if he would pull through and sending all that Reiki and all that energy and upset ... ohhh, the thought of it all.
Christy, how are you doing? You've been fairly quiet lately. The US tragedy seems to have affected you quite a bit as your 'tone' is different and you're more reflective than usual etc and thankful etc. I can't imagine how the mood is in America at the moment or how it will be over Christmas as I'm sure the tragedy will be brought up etc. I just hope it ends soon and that everyone will have a peaceful Christmas and New Year.
Rose, your html skills are coming along quite nicely! How is your new boyfriend, your puppy and your son? Do you work? How are you? How is life?
Mae, how is your work? How are you doing and feeling?
Joe, how was Thailand this time round again? Are you back yet?
Rachel, glad that you enjoyed your birthday and that you are busy busy busy with the cancer charity etc. Your daughter must be growing up big and strong now and life must be very hectic indeed.
Kasia, how is the little baby? Or big baby shall we say? Did you promise us a picture? (smiles). How are you coping with work and family life, being a mother and a wife?
Jennifer, CarolB, how are you doing/feeling?
I'm sitting Reiki Masters next week and really looking forward to it. It's all in honour of Angel Indi as he got me started on it. The two little kittens are now about 7 months old and about to be spayed as they are on heat - well Mogwie is anyway and keeps calling and her body is very hot. They are both dear little angels and I can't imagine life without them. They are so sweet and cute together. Apart from that, there have been quite a few energy shifts in my life, mega busy per usual, trying to set up another forum and writing a few more pages which I'll put on this site soon, keeping my Reiki group going, Hoffman group as well (just about), and also fitting in swimming.
Affirmations
In the Beginning is the Word
Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It's either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences and negative affirmations create negative experiences. A tomato seed, if planted, will only gorw into a tomato plant. An acorn will only grow into an oak tree. A puppy will only grow into a dog. If we continually repeat negative statements about ourselves or about life, we only keep producing more negative experiences. I now rise beyond my family habit of seeing life in a negative way. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then only good will come to me.
I use my affirmations wisely.
Louise L Hay
Meditations To Heal Your Life
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* ^i^
[Edit] Smiles sorry about the last post ! I missed the name by three letter still learning -- Rose, 17:00:21 11/29/01 Thu [1]
[Edit] happy late birthay to you raquel -- Rose ;-), 16:47:25 11/29/01 Thu [1]
Thank you Chrissie! Yes I did have a wonderful birthday which seemed to last all weekend! I don't get online much at the moment as I am working more hours for the cancer charity and preparing for Christmas. My daughter and I are Roman Catholics so the spiritual preparations begin in earnest on Sunday with the start of Advent. I try to get the commercial stuff out of the way before then so I don't lose my focus. It makes November VERY busy!
Hugs to all at Lighting the Path
Rachel
[Edit] Hi all -- Chrissie :)*, 17:04:50 11/25/01 Sun [1]
Heya everyone
Dear Rachel, I hope you had a wonderful birthday on Friday. I haven't been online since then as I feel I've been to hell and back with the flu, fever, cough, shivers, you name it - I had it and it's still ongoing but now slighly more under control with some major medication, which I'm not keen on taking, but I rather that than suffer another sleepless night of constant coughing, runny eyes and nose and trying to sleep sitting up!
Dear all at the Path, A Happy Thanskigiving Day to you all. Whether you celebrate the day like our American Friends or not. I think we can all give Thanks for something in our lives.
I take the opportunity to give Thanks to my wonderful friend Debbie who has just been a tower of strenght to me during this period. I also give thanks to my many friends that i have met here on these pages.
First, Rose and Mae thanks for the birthday greetings.
For those who celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States, we have so much to be thankful for that our country survived 9/11. I'm so very grateful to live in the United States, to be employed, to have my health, my daughter is healthy, and I'm moving along in my spiritual path.
Thanksgiving is about thanking our Higher Power, or Universal Spirit or God for all blessings. Then, the giving part of Thanksgiving is about sharing with others from the abundance that we have.
Love and light to all,
Christy
[Edit] birthday greetings -- Mae, 06:03:31 11/18/01 Sun [1]
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAYS TO BOTH CHRISTY AND JEN... WISHING YOU BOTH ALL OF THE BEST.
[Edit] YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!!!! -- Christy, 15:57:26 11/14/01 Wed [1]
Thanks for all the best wishes on my birthday. I wish I knew how to print out in BIG letters and in COLOR or I would send a bigger message. My birthday was low key this year celebrating with my daughter, and a dear friend. I feel very blessed this year. Let's all continue to pray for peace in Afghanistan and around the world. I love Marianne Williamson's simple prayer:
Let love replace all fear
Let peace replace all violence
Let Spirit replace all else.
Dear Chrissie and all at the Path. I hope you are all well.
Wishing you a wonderful Happy Birthday Christy and may the day be filled with lots of nice goodies for you.
Chrissie my job for the moment is okay but i can honestly say that the Airline industry is shaken and the incident today in New York does nothing to assure or restore CONFIDENCE. Our USA market is as low as you can get and we have lots of SPECIALS to entice The travel industry to Travel.
I am away for a sabbatical and forced leave for the next 3 days. We have been forced to take leave in due to what has happened. At the moment with my health in tatters i welcome this rest.
Dear Jen, I understand how you feel about missing your father on your birthday as I missed Angel Indi dreadfully on my birthday and it was really sad to not be able to share my birthday with him after all those years together; so I can understand how much harder it is for you with your dad. I hope your birthday nevertheless was filled with love and sharing from friends and family and especially your beloved pets that share your life and love!! ((hugs))
Dear Christy
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* ^i^
p/s I've been mega mega mega busy the weekend and the past few days though it's not quite so busy at work due to the many redundancies we had over the past 2 weeks .... Rosie I hope your job is okay at work :)*
Mae, Joe, Rose, CarolB, Rachel, Kasia, Dee, Michael, et all who visit Lighting The Path, (smiles) - h-e-l-l-o!
[Edit] HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JEN -- Christy, 16:50:08 11/12/01 Mon [1]
Jen,
I'm sorry that I'm a day late..but I hope you had a Happy Birthday..
DEAR CHRISSIE AND ROSIE! Thank you so much for remembering my birthday! It really made my morning to see those wishes. It is a very tough Birthday this year having just lost my father a month ago. I have been feeling like I have been losing everyone around me. So nice to know I have family around the world who think of me! Love you very much and thanks for making my day!
Dear Chrissie and everyone at the Path.
I hope you are all well. I just wanted to say hi to you all. We have had the running of the Melbourne Cup its the race that stops a nation. I picked the winner its the only time i do bet. We had a barbacue as we had a holiday.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNIFER on the 11th November. I am doing it now just in case i forget to do it from home as i dont get on the computer all the time as i dont have a separate line.
I wish you all a great weekend. Its election time here in Australia and my friend and I decided to vote earlier as voting is compulsory and as we were about to vote there was a power failure and we voted in the dark. We both laughed so much.
Its the second incident involving power for me. As my sister and I were driving home the other night from my parents home she said oh my god. The street lamp was on fire so she swerved to the other side of the road as she crossed the actual lamp fell to the ground. If my sister had not noticed the lamp would have fallen on top of us. Then the electricity power line caught fire. So our angels were looking after us that night.
I hope there is not a third incident....
Ciao
Rosie
[Edit] Louise Hay's Meditations To Heal Your Life -- Chrissie :)*, 20:32:52 11/05/01 Mon [1]
I was inspired to share from my favourite book of Louise Hay's ie Meditations To Heal Your Life:
Divine Guidance All is in Divine Right Order
I really know that there is a power far greater than myself that flows through me every moment of every day and I can open myself to this power and receive what I need, whenever I choose. This is true of everyone. We all are learning that it is safe to look within. It is safe to enlarge our viewpoint of life. If things aren't going the way we expected in some area, it doesn't men we are bad or wrong. It is a signal that we are being redirected by Divine Guidance. When this happens, find a quiet place where you can relax and connect with the intelligence within you. Affirm that the supply of wisdom is inexhaustible and available to you, and that whatever you need to know is revealed to you in the perfect time, space and sequence.
When I meditate, I sit down and ask "What is it I need to know?" At some point during the day, I get an answer.
Consciousness
My power comes through the use of my mind
I am Pure Consciousness. I can use this Consciousness in any way I desire. I can choose to be conscious of the realm of lack and limitation or I can choose to be conscious of the realm of Infinite Oneness, Harmony and Wholeness. It is One Infinite Consciousness viewed either negatively or positively. At all times I am one with all of life, and I am free to experience love, harmony, beauty, strength, joy and so much more. I am Consciousness. I am energy. I am safe. I keep learning and growing and changing my consciousness and changing my experience. All is well.
What we see in our world is a mirror of what we have in our minds.
Energy
I am energy
I liberate my energy by doing things that delight me. As I consciously acknowledge the energy of love in my life, I dissolve old grudges that wear me down. When I feel tired, I rest. I even give myself permission to do absolutely nothing every once in a while. My energy is radiant and peaceful today. Laughing, singing and dancing are my natural, normal, spontaneous expressions. I know I am part of the Divine Plan. I am creating space inside myself for loving, optimistic, and cheerful patterns to constantly germinate, take root and grow. I nourish them with my positive attitude.
Loving yourself gives you the extra energy needed to work through any problems more quickly.
[Edit] a very pertinent poem -- Mae, 20:14:51 11/03/01 Sat [1]
A poem for these times:
"Human beings, in developing within themselves that
Divine Ray of Intuition will manifest Wisdom,
will become six-pointed stars of wisdom,
and will bring about the Dawn of the New Day,
The Day of Peace,of Harmony, and Power."~~~Eugene Fersen
Let us ALL say YES to that and do it!
Bless this sanctuary of loving kindness and all who visit & post here.
Love, Peace, & Harmony,
Mae
"The Hoffman Quadrinity Process is the most comprehensive, effective program for healing the wounds of childhood that I have yet encountered."
My 23-year old son Justin and I were sitting at the kitchen table late one night. Max, our Rottweiler, was curled at our feet. It was a poignant time for our family. Justin had just completed college and would be moving to the Hawaiian island of Kauai at the end of the month. His younger brother Andrei would head off to college at the same time. Their sister Natalia was about to be married, and my husband Miroslav and I were thinking about pulling up stakes and moving from Boston to Colorado. I got up to go to bed, but Justin called me back. There was an urgent tone in his voice that concerned me until I saw his shining smile. He looked deeply into my eyes. Mom, I have something really important to tell you. Are you listening - really listening? He wrapped his arms around me. I Love you, he said. I forgive you and I beg for your forgiveness.
Both of us began to weep. I whispered, I love you, Justin. I love you so very much and I forgive you. We rocked slowly in each other's arms. Then we grinned at one another and burst into a spirited chorus from Ren And Stimpy, our favorite cartoon: Happy, happy, joy, joy! Holding hands, we sang and danced around the moonlit room like a couple of kids.
Sound weird? Not if you've been through the Hoffman Quadrinity Process, which Justin and I had recently completed. Founder Bob Hoffman devised the process 25 years ago to help people transform the patterns of emotional and spiritual suffering that they learned during childhood.
As Carl Jung and John Bradshaw have said, we can't find the light in our lives until we've gone through the darkness and transformed the original pain of childhood. Until we do, we are covertly ruled by the wounded, emotionally immature child within, who searches for the unconditional love it needed but did not receive from its family of origin. According to Hoffman, we adopt negative emotional patterns from our parents in a process he calls negative love. When parents are unable to love their children unconditionally, the children feel estranged, abandoned and increasingly desperate. Consequently they try to ensure their parents' love by unconsciously imitating them. In effect, we are saying, See, Mommy and Daddy. I'm just like you. Now will you love me? In this way, we adopt many of our parents' worst traits.
When I was an adolescent I kept a journal in which I listed all of the awful ways my mother treated me. I vowed that I would never do these things to my children. Yet when I had kids, I found myself playing out some of my mother's most destructive patters. For example, I hated it when my mother manipulated my behavior with guilt. Nonetheless, I grew up to be a guilt tripper myself. It drove me nuts when my mother worried over everything imaginable, from germs to finances, when everybody was in good health and the bank account was full. Nevertheless, I grew up to be what psychologist Albert Ellis calls an awfulizer.
Not my Mother
None of us is a carbon copy of Mom or Dad. Instead of adopted all their parents' negative traits, adolescents seek their own authentic way of being. But to the degree that we feel unloved or unworthy, our uniqueness fails to flower. Since our attempts to be lovable by imitating our parents didn't pay off, we begin to define ourselves as being not-Mom or not-Dad. I was in my 30s before I realized that a major part of my personality had developed in rebellion to my mother. I wasn't really Joan. I was not-Lillian. For example, my mother wandered around the house like the Health Gestapo. She ogled every bite we ate, constantly felt our foreheads for fever and lurked at the bathroom door, yelling, Don't flush! so she could examine our bowel functions. Once, when the summer air turned chilly, she called the pediatrician to ask whether my brother should be put to bed in cotton of flannel pajamas. I felt invaded by my mother. So when I grew up, thermometers became a rare commodity in my home. Whereas my mother kept me in bed for two days after cold symptoms were gone, our own kids went skiing as their noses ran. Whereas I'd had to eat Jell-O and bouillon after a stomach upset, my own kids ate whatever appealed to them.
Some of the ways I rebelled against my mother were actually helpful. She believed that emotions were a sign of weakness and that religions were so much hogwash. In fact, she expressly forbade me to study psychology or religion. I attribute my lifelong interest in psychology and spirituality directly to adolescent rebellion against these opinions. But as long as those interests were associated with the rage I felt toward my mother, they could not flower from my soul. I needed to work through the anger I felt for my mother and to move into a place of forgiveness, where I felt free from her control. With the Hoffman Quadrinity Process, I went beyond forgiveness to a deep compassion and respect for my parents' struggles. I felt gratitude fro how good their parenting actually had been, particularly in light of the pain they carried from their own childhood's.
Hoffman says we're composed of four parts: the wounded emotional child, the adult intellect, the spiritual self and the body. The purpose of the process is to encourage the wounded emotional child to mature into a self aware, loving, emotional adult and to re-educate the adult intellect so that it accepts and works with the emotional self in service to the spiritual self. These three aspects are integrated with the body, which can then express optimal health, sexuality and harmonious relationship to the natural world through the senses. My husband Miroslav was the first of our family to go through the Quadrinity Process. He hoped to resolve some of his childhood pain and to develop a better relationship with his parents, himself, me and the children. I watched as Mirosh filled out a day's worth of pre-process forms in which he had to meticulously consider hundreds of negative traits that were potentially present in his parents. The he had to consider which traits he had adopted and which he had rebelled against. When Mirosh came home after the process, I expected him to be filled with the zeal of the newly converted. I steeled myself to be pleasant. But I was surprised. The post process Mirosh had very little to say about what had gone on in the week during which three teachers and 18 students had been sequestered in a quiet hotel in Cape Cod, Mass.
His presence spoke much louder than words. He seemed more in touch with his feelings and very respectful of mine. He was more peaceful and loving. He was a much better listener. His old buttons didn't seem to work so well anymore, and even if I started in on a jag of criticism, he didn't get defensive. The transference from his mother to me had been erased or at least greatly reduced. He saw me as myself, not through the filter of his relationship with his mother. And he was able to cultivate a closer, more loving relationship with his parents, which is still deepening.
After witnessing the changes in Mirosh, I signed up for the process two months later. I was hoping to drop the transference I had, which often prevented me from seeing people for who they were. I was also hoping to become more joyful, for in spite of all the healing I had already done, joy was a rare experience for me. Life seemed serious. A burden. And to tell the truth, sometimes I didn't really enjoy being alive.
Holy Work
I went through the process in Oakland, California, one of several sites around the country. The Oakland setting was an extraordinarily peaceful hilltop monastery. The first thing that caught my eye was a statue of the Madonna and child. It was a holy setting for holy work, but I still felt a little bit scared. I was entering this place not as the confident professional who helped other people to heal old emotional wounds, but as plain old Joan with her own wounds. I had nothing to hide behind.
I felt better as soon as I had my interview with Tim Lawrence, one of three teachers and two trainees who would work with our group of 21 students. He had read my material carefully, understood my patterns and was absolutely kind, respectful and loving, despite what he knew about me. I left that interview with the sense that I was going to be carefully, lovingly and thoroughly guided in a transformation that would leave no stone unturned or, as the process puts it, no pattern unbusted.
When I entered the room where most of our group work would take place over the next week, I was further reassured by the presence of a young man about Justin's age. Steve's father had completed the process a year before. I knew that the first two days of the process, called prosecution of mother and prosecution of father, were an exhaustive discharge of the anger about our parents' negative traits. Steve's presence gave me hope that the subsequent two days called defense of parents would lead to healing; otherwise, I reasoned, he wouldn't be there.
Just a year later, my own son would decide that he wanted to undertake the Quadrinity Process. I had no fear of the anger that Justin would mobilize toward me at the beginning of the week because I trusted in the transformation that he would undergo subsequently. I had a good laugh when Justin told me that he's had to add continuation pages to the pre-process lists of parental negative traits. I figured he was a perfectionist, a trait he had likely adopted from me! Getting in touch with the negative traits of one's parents is a crucial part of purging those traits in ourselves. Rather than ignoring old wounds and espousing instant forgiveness - a dead end that Hoffman refers to as putting whipped cream over the garbage - each parental and personal negative trait is dealt with specifically. During the last two days of the process, we were taught a powerful technique for neutralizing our negative patterns, thus freeing up energy for more creative responses.
A crucial aspect of the Hoffman Process is the spiritual context in which the anger, forgiveness, compassion and reparenting work is done. Even the thrashing of cushions and the attendant expletives during the prosecution of my parents felt like holy work. This was due to one of the first experiences of the week, the Light Journey. In this powerful visualization we were brought into the presence of the Light (God or however you understand the Source of your being) and our won wise, compassionate, loving, spiritual self.
In that sacred context we met our wounded emotional child and adult intellect, whose warring voices were immediately recognizable as the tiresome, self-depreciating, judgmental, defeatist inner dialogue that I was all too familiar with. It was obvious that their endless bickering comprised my ego, a term I am using not in the standard psychological sense, but as a description of the limited self born of negative love that perceives the world in terms of fear, lovelessness and scarcity. I was thrilled to realize that the constant uproar between the frightened child and the bullying ego was the source of the smoke screen that obscured the natural luminous clarity and unconditional love that is the essential core of being, the soul or spiritual self.
I was galvanized to pour my whole self into completing the process, which I saw as a spiritual undertaking as well as psychological healing. Of all the spiritual growth systems I had studied over the years, nothing had given me such a strong experience of the self coupled with a very specific and straightforward process of lovingly dismantling the ego.
All of my classmates experienced the Light Journey as a spiritual homecoming, a re-awakening to their own true nature. The desire to live in the peace of core self, rather than in the ward between the wounded emotional child and know-it-all intellect, infused us all with a sense of higher purpose as we went into the anger work. And we didn't go into it alone. During the Light Journey we also met our spirit guides, or guardian angels. Lest you think I've gone off the deep end here, I can tell you this. Between my work as a medical psychologist in a hospital and as a workshop leader, I have heard from hundreds of people who say they met their spirit guides during a near-death experience. Often these people maintain a relationship with their guides after they have been brought back to life. Thankfully I didn't have to die to meet my spirit guides, with whom I have had a lively relationship since completing the Hoffman Process.
Soul Truth
I found the intense work of the process to be a surprisingly private experience, although it was conducted for the most part in a group. At times we would complete and experience and then repair to our rooms to write in our journals, often for hours. I wrote hundreds of pages in the course of a week, coming to some amazing new understandings about myself and my parents. During the defense of parents, we did a visualization exercise in which our 12 year old selves interviewed each parent at twelve to find out what negative love traits they had taken on from their parents. I had a stunning revelation about my father as a 6 year old that explained many of his fears and idiosyncrasies.
My father was one of the most loving, respectful people I have ever known, and also one of the most frightened. I beat the cushions for a long time over the fear I adopted from him, which had been so limiting in my own life. But I had no inkling of the genesis of that fear until I traveled back in time to interview him in what seemed to be a parallel reality, as real as this world.
He told me a story of being brutally assaulted by the husband of the family cook. Rather than being told the story, I experienced it as if I were in his body, living the horror moment by moment. I found myself thrashing on the bed, weeping and crying out the pain of a deeply hurt child as I relived his trauma. When it was over, I found myself back in my 12 year old role, comforting him. I felt like I had visited with my father's soul and read what was imprinted there. Was the assault that I experienced true in the sense that it really happened? I have no way to know, since my father has been dead for 16 years, and my mother for three years. But the Hoffman staff believes that most such revelations can be corroborated. In any case, the literal truth of what I experienced doesn't matter. As the Jungian analyst Roger Woolger puts it, such experiences in the imaginable realm have the quality of psychic or soul truth in that they explain life patterns and predispose one to psychological transformation and spiritual growth.
During the process I felt safe and nurtured, certain that any negative traits that I failed to recognize in myself would be lovingly pointed out to me by my teachers. At no time did the work feel confrontational. Instead it felt honest, thorough and respectful. The group bonded deeply over the course of the week. And in spite of the hard work, we shared a lot of laughs and an easy camaraderie.
Nothing about our interaction escaped the eagle eyes of our teachers. Everything was grist for the mill of transformation. The use of drama and beautifully constructed ritual took the work to a very special level. Several of the rituals were so moving that I will always remember them as high points in my life.
During one I came face-to-face with the sad fact that I really didn't care that much about living. Life seemed hard to me. I tended to suffer a lot. Through the beauty and drama of the ritual, I realized that life was a choice, and that I had free will. I chose to live. I yelled to the sky, I choose life! I want to Live! Le Chaim!
One of the most concrete changes I have experienced since I took that vow is the steady increase of joy and gratitude that began to bubble up that day. Another change is that I find it nearly impossible to blame and shame myself or anyone else. Hoffman's motto is: Everyone's guilty but no one's to blame. Yes, I did adopt all those negative patterns from Mom and Dad, and I suffered for years because of them. Then I passed them onto Justin, Natalia and Andrei. I am guilty, but I'm not to blame. I was just passing the sins of my parents onto my children in the same mindless way that they have been passed on from the beginning of time.
In my own awakening and taking responsibility for living my life in a more loving, compassionate, honest and joyful way, I have become a more healing presence. I feel that I have healed my lineage both backwards and forwards in time.
Now, since he went through the process, Justin almost seems luminous. Being around him is uplifting. He is attractive in the true sense of the word because you feel good about yourself when you are around him. This was surprising to Justin at first. He certainly expected some benefit from the process, but had no idea of the magnitude of the change it would spur. I picture myself as a cup of love, he told me. I don't feel pushed away or rejected anymore. I can love somebody and not care about being loved back. The feeling of love is its own reward.
I've noticed that Justin and I can be much more honest about our needs. We don't do what others expect of us out of negative love and people pleasing. And if our behavior is not what other people expect, we can respond with much more compassion and much less guilt. As we sat at the window, watching the rain pour of the leaves of the weeping cherry tree, Justin told me: Spirituality feels natural now, like a natural part of my being. It doesn't come just through meditation or yoga, but in daily life.
We discussed the darkness, the self-hate that both of us had felt at times in our lives, the ways in which we had tried to avoid it, through alcohol or work or people or even meditation. I realized that I had gained five pounds since the process, but for the first time in my life didn't care. I felt good about myself. I felt healthy and it didn't matter that my favorite pants no longer buttoned. Justin felt the same way about himself. Attractiveness truly isn't physical - it reflects the fascination you feel for life and comes from within.
Woundedness to Wisdom
My children are grown up now and I am well pleased. My own wounded emotional child is also grown up. I have no patience with the idea that we must coddle our wounded inner child eternally, encouraging its whining and enabling our feelings of victimization to persist. It is never too late to grow up. And there is always time to be a better parent.
During the last exercise of the Quadrinity Process, called closure, I experienced how love and healing reach through time and space to our entire family - past, present and future. As we mentally cut the cords of negative love, I could feel the healing moving backwards in time, to my ancestors and all my relations.
When Justin went through closure, I felt myself on the receiving end of the healing he sent out to his own lineage. The week of Justin's process I tried to focus mentally on what he was likely to be doing, but on the seventh night, during closure, I was busy preparing dinner. Suddenly I looked at Mirsoh and felt an overwhelming outpouring of love for him. He seemed so precious. Every hair on his head seemed familiar and beloved. Gratitude for our 21 year marriage flooded through me and I began to weep for joy. The dog and two cats were gathered around, and the outpouring of loved flowed to them and from them. I felt connected to everything and began to undergo a dramatic shift in perception. Everything seemed shimmering and luminous. I couldn't tell where I ended and other things began. Even the water cooler seemed cosmic, the plastic and glass a miracle of God's creation.
When Justin and I spoke later, he told me that he'd had a particularly powerful experience of me in his visualization. Our shared experience echoed the powerful teachings of the 27th generation Cherokee medicine woman and Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dhyani Y wahoo. She reminds us that every act of healing is an act of service that we undertake not only for ourselves for our family, clan, nation and all beings.
I've always felt that at its heart healing is the simplest of matters, because we are already whole. Regardless of the experiences we have in this lifetime, despite the wounds we give and receive in the ultimate service of growing in wisdom and compassion, our souls never cease to shine. The Tibetan Buddhists compare our spiritual self, what they call our own true nature, or rigpa, to a mirror. It reflects the drama, but is itself changeless. Healing is about parting the clouds that obscure the mirror-like-perfection that we are. In the process, we become alchemists who transmute woundedness into wisdom. And this work we can do in many ways. Through therapy, 12 step programs, dreams, meditation and grace. The path for each of us is different. But when we are ready to heal the right path will open. For our family, the Hoffman Quadrinity Process was an important opening at the right time in our lives.
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., is co-founder of the Harvard Mind-Body Clinic, and author of the best selling Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson, and Minding the Body, Mending the Mind. Her newest book is Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism (Warner Books, 1993).
[Edit] Reason, a Season or Lifetime -- Chrissie :)*, 13:32:37 10/31/01 Wed [1]
A dear friend sent this to me in my mailbox today - it’s beautiful! Enjoy!
Are you a Reason, a Season or a Lifetime?
Pay attention to what you read. After you read this you will know
the reason it was sent to you!
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime.
When you figure out which one it is, you will know what to do for each person.
When someone is in your life for a REASON...
They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually.
They may seem like a godsend, and they are! They are there for the reason you need them to be.
Then, without any wrongdoing on your part, or at an inconvenient time, this person may say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die.
Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done.
The prayer you sent up has been answered. And now it is time to move on.
When people come into your life for SEASON...
It is because your turn has come to share and grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace, make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But only for a season.
When people come into your life for a LIFETIME...
It is usually to teach you lifetime lessons; things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation.
Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person, and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
Thank you for being a part of my life.
Stop here and just SMILE.
[Edit] Inspirational sites -- Chrissie :)*, 18:49:06 10/28/01 Sun [1]
Hi all,
We finally made it to the safari park today - just got back - exhausted but happy (smiles). Here are some wonderful sites to visit:
Hi all at Lighting The Path --- Rose (smiles) I love your html - way to go at learning it!!! It makes a big difference. I haven't had time lately to do the html that I used to do .... (sighs) - glad that you are doing it now (smiles).
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* ^i^
p/s it's been a long week and next Tuesday 20% of staff are being made redundant in the company so the atmosphere will be fairly sad .... :*
[Edit] hi michel -- Rose ;-), 15:19:25 10/26/01 Fri [1]
hi Michel is nice to see you posting here!
and at the hay house! Love and Light Rose.
[Edit] thoughts -- Rose ;-), 15:17:51 10/26/01 Fri [1]
Today's thought is:
Reflection for the Day
Today is the day for which I asked and for which I
have been given strength. I have been given
strength. That in itself is a miracle. In my old life, I
constantly endangered myself as well as countless
others. So the very fact that I am alive is the great
miracle from which all other miracles will flow,
providing I continue to do the things that have
brought me this far in my new life. Am I grateful
that I have been given this day?
Today I Pray
May God's goodness and mercy follow me all the
days of my life. May I never cease to wonder at the
greatest miracle in my life--that I am alive, here, on
this green earth, and growing healthier with the life-
preserving tools I have been given. Since God has
chosen to give my life and to preserve my life, even
through the dangers of addiction, may I always
continue to listen for His plan for me. May I always
believe in miracles.
Today I Will Remember
My life is a miracle.
[Edit] Gra agus Beannachtai i mBaile Atha Cliath Eireann-Nua E-Phoist!!!! -- Michael, 20:01:39 10/25/01 Thu [1]
Hi, Everyone at Lighting The Path-I'm just on my way back from Dublin to where I now live with my Parents in Rural Ireland, having lost the flat-please note that my previous e-mail address (eslpr1@indigo.ie) is no longer active and my apologies to you if you sent any e-mails that bounced-the digits before the "@" are are also my cell-phone or Mobile phone number as dialled from within Ireland-outside Ireland you would dial 00 or + for international access, the country code for Ireland which is 353 and then the number, dropping the first zero, so outside Ireland if you would like to call me in Ireland you are most welcome to do so: +353 87 210 89 20
Joe, I have not heard from you in quite some time-I share your feelings about the attacks in the US as several Irish people and those of Irish Descent have been killed and/or injured in the atrocity - we can have hope because even after a long stuggle in the nothern part of my own country the terrorist group known as the IRA who are Republican, Catholic, and nationalist are finally decommissioning the weapons despite the Loyalist paramilitaries not having done the same and despite groups like the UVF fuelling hatred between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland-it helps me have hope in my own life having been on the recieving end of so much crap with being bullied and put down put in a box by other people and not been allowed to stand up for myself all my life by other people, the latest of which is losing my flat in Dublin and as a result losing my friendship with Lorcan since May of this year-friendship ended in July-the past few months have been very tough for me and I dont really know I keep going at all-my parents have got a lot worse in the 3 years I was away in Dublin they having had a lot of mental and emotional problems, and as a result thier being on medication/tablets trying to cope with that ones own needs and being gay can drive a saint Mad!!!!
Love and Best Wishes,
Michael
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[Edit] the power of love -- Rose ;-), 17:32:45 10/25/01 Thu [1]
[Edit] I love you all :)* -- Chrissie :)*, 21:47:17 10/24/01 Wed [1]
Dear friends at Lighting The Path
Thanks so much for continuing to make my birthday special - I was very touched to see birthday messages from Rachel, CarolB, Mae, and thanks Rosie for reminding everyone and starting it off (smiles) .... I really am very touched and humbled especially since I forgot and haven't 'celebrated' everyone else's birthday here as I did last year. It's so sweet of you all ((( big hugs ))).
I also have a feeling it's someone's birthday close to mine and I have a feeling it's Christy's. I can't remember the date though and it seems that our 'old' yahoo egroups mailing thing has disappeared where we all put down our birthdays. I may have saved a copy at work - will take a look tomorrow.
My bath is running cold .... thanks again my wonderful friends and sending each and everyone one of you much ((((hugs)))) and ((((love)))). It's wonderful to feel loved and to be open and vulnerable/exposed albeit scary. I remember just after taking the Hoffman Process, the feeling of connection to our spirituality and oneness was so great and lasted for such a long time. When we get back into our fast paced lives we forget what it's like to love and be loved and ego takes over :)*
There's much for me to do; and to get back on track again etc .... life is so fast these days and I seem to get more and more tired. Before when I was younger I could go out drinking with friends and chatting till all hours and come back at 2am, go straight to bed and wake up at 6am and raring to go again .... now geez, I can't do that at all!
Love & Hugs
Chrissie :)* ^i^
[Edit] Re: Smiles -- Rose ;-), 18:47:01 10/24/01 Wed [1]
GETTING BETTER! HAHAHAHAHA
> :) means a smile and
>
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>
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>
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> (_!_) a regular ass
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> (__!__) a fat ass
>
> (!) a tight ass
>
> (_*_) a sore ass
>
> {_!_} a swishy ass
>
> (_o_) an ass that's been around
>
>
> (_x_) kiss my ass
>
> (_X_) leave my ass alone
>
> (_zzz_) a tired ass
>
> (_o^o_) a wise ass
>
> (_E=mc2_) a smart ass
>
> (_$_) Money coming out of his ass
>
> (_?_) Dumb Ass
>
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>You have just been E-MOONED!! Send this to 5 people within the
next
>hour and you will be blessed with people laughing at your e-mail.
This
>is NOT a chain letter, so if you don't mail it out, you won't have
bad
>luck. (But who wouldn't want to e-Moon a friend?) Happy
e-mooning!!!
>(__|__)
>
[Edit] Today's thought -- Rose, 15:56:26 10/24/01 Wed [1]
Today's thought is:
Listening feeds the spirit.
If we give each other our full attention and really
listen, we can't help but become closer. I am
nourished by your attention, as you are by mine.
Often our attention is anything but focused: we ask
a question but fail to listen to the answer. We half
listen to the other person, at the same time thinking
about what we will say next, or about something
extraneous to the conversation.
Genuine communication includes pauses and
silences--times when we let ourselves feel the
impact of our friend's words, reflect deeply on
them, and frame our answers carefully before
speaking. In this exchange, we learn, share, receive,
and give. We are participants in a dialogue of mind,
heart, and spirit.
Today, I will focus my attention fully on someone's
words, if only for a few minutes. I will seek to
nourish and be nourished.
[Edit] to Rachel -- Rose, 15:17:20 10/24/01 Wed [1]
hi Rachel! I hope your doing fine! I have a little dipression
problem too,
I have to deal time to time specially when the wather changes
to cold! I become like a little bear
and i get sleepy speels or sleppness
Im either awake full of Energy or tired!
well I guess that just part of life@ they say exercise,
and a good eating habit is good for a b
in your body as well emotional
P.S.
if you ever need some one to talk when your feeling blue! please count on
me! I'll be happy to help! take care!Love and Light Rose.
[Edit] posetive -- Rose ;-), 15:10:13 10/24/01 Wed [1]
*Learn how to create a lifestyle of freedom and abundance
while following your spiritual path in Today's Practical
Tool. See below.
*Someone in your life need healing? Read how one woman
used the power of love to help heal her husband in Today's
Featured Resource below.
October 24, 2001
TODAY'S POSITIVE THOUGHT:
Being conscious of your thoughts is the first step in
transforming your reality.
TODAY'S POSITIVE AFFIRMATION:
I AM conscious of my thoughts and I easily replace
them with thoughts that create the life I desire.
TODAY'S POSITIVE VISUALIZATION:
As I close my eyes I begin to breathe deeply. With
each new breath I release any confusion from my
thinking. I imagine that my mind is becoming
perfectly clear and free of all doubt and worry.
In my mind's eye I see myself going throughout my
day being conscious of my thoughts and feelings.
I imagine that I am easily able to replace any
limiting thoughts with limitless positive ones.
As I combine these new expanded thoughts with a
positive emotion I see my thoughts becoming the
reality I want and deserve. I give thanks that my
thoughts create a wonderful reality for me. I combine
these images with a feeling of joy and let them go.
I have your birthday marked on my calendar and I've noticed it several times in the last few days......and then I blew it!!! I didn't log on yesterday so i didn't get reminded by all the lovely messages.
I HOPE YOU HAD A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISSIE!
Hugs
Rachel
OH Chrissie!!!! I almost forgot your birthday. I am so glad that I visited this wonderful site today so that I could jog my memory about your birthday. So many friends of mine have birthdays' in October. What a wonderful group!!! Here's hoping this birthday is special and that you have many more filled with love and peace. Hugs to you!! Carol
[Edit] Thank you all (smiles) (hugs) -- Chrissie :)*, 21:32:54 10/23/01 Tue [1]
Dear all at Lighting The Path (smiles)
Thank you all for your birthday greetings and thoughts of love on my birthday! The weekend and yesterday was hectic for me and I didn't get a chance to log on and can't do so at work though I did peek a little and had big grins on my face (smiles) and felt loved - thanks.
A bunch of us tried to go to a safari park on Sunday; got up really early, Philip's train was delayed so the journey was delayed by an hour and then we got stuck for 4 hours on the motorway in traffic and by 2pm we weren't even halfway to the Safari Park and there was still miles of traffic so we ended up driving back and got back home fairly late; and will try again this weekend. Yesterday I attended a Reiki Circle after work which didn't finish till late and got back just before midnight.
It's been a strange birthday - many new friends this year and also this year is the first year that I am celebrating my birthday without Angel Indi and I was sad because of that today and I have been missing him a lot leading up to today as I look back on pictures we took last year at my birthday with Indi. I know he is with me in spirit but I'd give anything to hug and hold him in my arms just once more - I do visualise it and can feel hugging him and it does help though the real thing would be even better.
Jen thanks sweetie for the absolutely wonderful birthday ecard - the song was absolutely hilarious and it brought beams of smiles to my face - thanks for thinking of me especially during this time in your life; and thanks to all of you for remembering my birthday as I forgot all of yours this year due to Angel Indi's crossing over and stuff. So many people (friends) are mad at me for spending time on the internet and not spending time with them and it does hurt when they complain that they can't get through on my phone line cos I'm on the net again - my dad, mom and some close friends complain - and I guess perhaps they feel I give my friends on the internet more attention than them and they feel upset by it. And strangely those that complain don't really know how the internet works - all they know is that they can't get hold of me when they want to and I'm not available etc (sighs).
Thank you all again for the birthday wishes - I'm really touched and chuffed and Mary Ellen, thanks so much for the birthday wishes, birthday sister (smiles); way to go Rose on the html! Wonderful! Christy, thx sweetie :)*
I need to catch up on sleep ..... I love you all (smiles); and thanks for being out there for me all these years!
Love, Light and Blessings
Chrissie, Angel Indi, Kaycie, Mogwie and Chico ^i^
[Edit] Happy Birthday!! -- Rose ;-), 19:53:35 10/23/01 Tue [1]
I know exactly whereof you speak, Christy; it's difficult not to be swept into fear with all that's going on today and coming over the screens and presses. At times I think we all find ourselves being pulled into it.
We do have a choice though and I choose not to give my energy to fear. I choose love, prayer, and random acts of kindness.
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."~~~ Dalai Lama
Marianne Williamson has extended her 30 day prayer vigil: 10 minutes of quiet prayer at 12am EST, 11am CST for those in different time zones check out her website at:
I had been living with a lot of fear, bu these past few days I've been living more in faith. The world seems filled with a lot of violence these days in many parts of the world. I can only pray that love will prevail.
Have a great weekend,
Love,
Christy
[Edit] Thank you -- Rachel, 07:40:30 10/19/01 Fri [1]
Thank you for responding to my post Rose. I am horrified by the information in your post and understand why you wanted to share it. I am following world events closely but try to find some time to shut it all out and find some inner peace. I have had periods of depression over the last few years and have to work hard at not going there again. This group is part of my 'therapy' and I value it as somewhere free from the negativity of the world. Your posts are always excellent and positive...please don't stop sending them!
Big hugs
Rachel
[Edit] corecting -- Rose ;-), 17:04:38 10/18/01 Thu [1]
oops Sorry about the repetition,I meant it was very sad to me ,and want to share that with you all,sorry if you got me mistaken! Love and Light Rose
[Edit] : Smiles -- Rose ;-), 16:59:02 10/18/01 Thu [1]
hi and I respect your thoughts but my Intention was not politics,it was share an Information about the rights of women in the middle East because I was very of what some of them been going threw,I put my self in the same situation and its really,and want to share ,a reality
sorry if you got me mistaken,take care love and Light Rose
[Edit] : Smiles -- Rose ;-), 16:59:02 10/18/01 Thu [1]
hi and I respect your thoughts but my Intention was not politics,it was share an Information about the rights of women in the middle East because I was very of what some of them been going threw,I put my self in the same situation and its really,and want to share ,a reality
sorry if you got me mistaken,take care love and Light Rose
[Edit] : Smiles -- Rose ;-), 16:58:54 10/18/01 Thu [1]
hi and I respect your thoughts but my Intention was not politics,it was share an Information about the rights of women in the middle East because I was very of what some of them been going threw,I put my self in the same situation and its really,and want to share ,a reality
sorry if you got me mistaken,take care love and Light Rose
[Edit] Yes to this being a sanctuary -- Mae, 00:25:04 10/17/01 Wed [1]
I like the fact that this always has been a sanctuary of love and peace. I tend to agree with what Rachel said.
"Respectful of countless Buddhas,
I calmly light this candle,
brightening the face of the Earth."--- Thich Nhat Hanh
I feel very strongly that this is a place of sanctuary from the turbulence in the outside world. Please don't bring politics in here. This information and opinion may be valuable and accurate but there are more appropriate forums where they can be debated. I am active in a number of such forums. I come here to follow a path to peace, to find a haven of tranquility. This is only my opinion and I respect the fact that it may not be shared by others at Lighting the Path.
Rachel
[Edit] rights of women in the middle East -- Rose, 03:16:06 10/14/01 Sun [1]
3232) Rose and James
don't you wish@home.com Date & Time:
Saturday, 13-Oct-2001 21:08:04 CDT
Just some things to think About when considering the rights of women in the middle East
Did you know that 9 million Afghan women and girls have no human rights
Women and girls are forbidden to go to school or work outside of the home.
Women and girls may not leave their homes without a male relative.
Women are forced to wear a head-to-toe covering called a "burqa" with only a small mesh opening through which to breathe and see.
Women have been beaten and killed for not being properly covered or escorted.
The windows of homes occupied by women must be painted to prevent women from being seen.
Health care for Afghan women and girls is virtually non-existent since male doctors may not care for female patients.
Women are forbidden from speaking in public.
Pubescent girls and women are prohibited from speaking to males who are not close relatives.
How did this happen?
On September 27, 1996, the Taliban, an extremist militia claiming to be Islamic fundamentalists, seized power in a violent takeover of the government.
The Taliban government instituted its sexist policy under the guise of religious observance.
Before the Taliban takeover, Afghan women were:
60% of teachers at Kabul University
50% of students at Kabul University
50% of civilian the government workforce
70% of school teachers
40% of doctors
The Taliban is fundamentally wrong!
The Taliban government's persecution in the name of religion is false. Their laws against women and girls have no foundation in Islam. Islamic religions around the world allow women and girls to work, go to school and have basic human rights.
While the Taliban claims religious purity, Afghanistan grows 40% of the world's opium supply. Since the Taliban's takeover, opium production has increased 25%.
The attacks against women and girls are bad for everybody!
There has been a devastating effect on tens of thousands of families because many women in Afghanistan are widows and were the sole source of income for their families.
Since women are prohibited from working, many schools have been closed down because of a teacher shortage. Honour Killing of Girls and Women
But this is not just a Problem with the Afgan People Read this report form Amnesty International
"The right to life of women in Pakistan is conditional on their obeying social norms and traditions."
- Hina Jilani, lawyer and human rights activist
Women in Pakistan live in fear. They face death by shooting, burning or killing with axes if they are deemed to have brought shame on the family. They are killed for supposed 'illicit' relationships, for marrying men of their choice, for divorcing abusive husbands. They are even murdered by their kin if they are raped as they are thereby deemed to have brought shame on their family. The truth of the suspicion does not matter -- merely the allegation is enough to bring dishonour on the family and therefore justifies the slaying.
The lives of millions of women in Pakistan are circumscribed by traditions which enforce extreme seclusion and submission to men. Male relatives virtually own them and punish contraventions of their proprietary control with violence. For the most part, women bear traditional male control over every aspect of their bodies, speech and behaviour with stoicism, as part of their fate, but exposure to media, the work of women's groups and a greater degree of mobility have seen the beginnings of women's rights awareness seep into the secluded world of women. But if women begin to assert their rights, however tentatively, the response is harsh and immediate: the curve of honour killings has risen parallel to the rise in awareness of rights.
Every year hundreds of women are known to die as a result of honour killings. Many more cases go unreported and almost all go unpunished. The isolation and fear of women living under such threats are compounded by state indifference to and complicity in women's oppression. Police almost invariably take the man's side in honour killings or domestic murders, and rarely prosecute the killers. Even when the men are convicted, the judiciary ensures that they usually receive a light sentence, reinforcing the view that men can kill their female relatives with virtual impunity. Specific laws hamper redress as they discriminate against women.
The isolation of women is completed by the almost total absence of anywhere to hide. There are few women's shelters, and any woman attempting to travel on her own is a target for abuse by police, strangers or male relatives hunting for her. For some women suicide appears the only means of escape.
Abuses by private actors such as honour killings are crimes under the country's criminal laws. However, systematic failure by the state to prevent and to investigate them and to punish perpetrators leads to international responsibility of the state. The Government of Pakistan has taken no measures to end honour killings and to hold perpetrators to account. It has failed to train police and judges to be gender neutral and to amend discriminatory laws. It has ignored Article 5 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, which it ratified in 1996, which obliges states to "modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women" to eliminate prejudice and discriminatory traditions.
Some apologists claim that traditional practices as genuine manifestations of a community's culture may not be subjected to scrutiny from the perspective of rights contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Against this, the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action stated: "All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated" and asserted the duty of states "to promote all human rights and fundamental freedoms". The United Nations General Assembly in 1993 adopted the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women which urges states not to "invoke custom, tradition or religious consideration to avoid their obligation" to eliminate discriminatory treatment of women.
While recognizing the importance of cultural diversity, Amnesty International stands resolutely in defence of the universality of human rights, particularly the most fundamental rights to life and freedom from torture and ill-treatment. The role of the state is to ensure the full protection of these rights, where necessary mediating 'tradition' through education and the law.
This report is the fourth in a series issued by Amnesty International on the rights of women in Pakistan; it is the first to look at abuses of women's rights by private actors.
Ok... Now Tell me how this is happening... Is this a common way that women's rights are in the Middle east??...
How can any of this be from a People (Islam) who support tollerance and Equality? ...
If I look at the rights violations that exist as we speak All I see is "MEN" showing off the fact that they are in POWER ...Like a Child who is afraid that they are losing their TOYS they resort to violence.
I believe that what is good for one is good for all .. if the government did the same to the men the world would be outraged at the conditions of Rights violations, but since it is just done to women we write it off as a religious belief, and some troubbled beliefs I believe....
so is this terrorisim??? Treating women worse than dogs??? What do you think?
[Edit] So goood to hear from ole friends again (smiles) -- Chrissie :)*, 21:44:40 10/08/01 Mon [1]
Dear all at Lighting The Path,
Hello dear Kasia, it's sooooo good to hear from you finally sweetie! We've all been thinking about you soooooo much and wondering how you've been getting on. I'm so glad I took the time out to drop you a line as the 'guides' were nudging me to reach out to you to say helloooo and how are you and catch up! We've missed you! Well done on the promotion and being back at work and the new born baby! It's been wonderful to have been part of your journey of getting engaged, then married and then having your baby! And now hearing that you're back at work and enjoying it! Wahay!!!!
It's been my first day back today and got stuck in traffic for 45 mins on my first day back in the Blackwall tunnel - broken down lorry held up one lane of traffic and there was tail back for miles! Hi Rosie, - like you there is going to be some redundancies in the industry as well and we're hit too and I believe staff will be notified this week. I guess the whole world has been affected by the US tragedy in some form or another. I work just next to Canary Wharf tower and driving to work today, approaching the Tower and watching the planes fly past gives me the creepies as I can vividly remember that plane crashing into the second tower and it looks just like it's going to happen again as I drive past and it freakkkksss me out!! We're all having evacuation drills this month and in the 3 years I've been in that building we've only had one fire drill which was a shambles and no one took it seriously. I guess they never did fire drills cos you lose money if you have staff going outside as time is money in the industry I'm in!
It felt like I hadn't had the time off, being back at work and everything felt 'normal' ie like I'd always been there .. such a weird feeling. Maybe good - I don't know. Very tired though from today as it was a long day. Rosie, sending you thoughts of love and light and hoping that your job is safe and remember, out of this only good will come! You are safe, now and forevermore. As Louise says the worst thing that could happen is you die and starve and realistically you know that will never happen, so know that all is well and the Universe will take care of you!
Rachel, it's good to hear from you as well. I too was shocked yesterday evening to hear that they had started the bombing. My heart stopped for a moment and I held my breath and a shiver went down my spine and same again today when I heard it was the second day of bombing and that they would carry on doing such; and then to hear the stuff that Bin Laden was saying about the US not having peace or security till they felt it too etc ... gave me the chills. I have a lot of Muslim friends in Singapore and I don't quite want to contact them now cos I don't know how they feel - though they probably feel 'pointed at' - hopefully they don't feel the same way the Muslims do in Indonesia; which is shocking as they want to fly to Afghanistan to join the Jihad (holy war). I can't quite get my head around it all.
Let's also spare a moment to send love and healing light to Jennifer and her family who are healing and in need of comfort as Jennifer's father crossed over on Saturday 6th October. Let's keep Jennifer and family in our thoughts and prayers.
Chrissie...hope your first day back at work goes OK. This has been a difficult time to be off work. In many ways routine and busy days help when the world is going mad.It's nice to have the sound back on the site! Thank you.
Rosie...great to hear from you girl! I send love and prayers for your recovery to good health.
Kasia...belated congratulations. Adam sounds absolutely gorgeous. I know what you mean about neglecting the inner self. I totally lost myself when Ellie was born and it took my experience with breast cancer to remind me to take care of me too!
As always I'm rushing off to work. I pray for peace today...for ALL the world and for all of us
Much love
Rachel
[Edit] I am back! - Greetings from Kasia -- Kasia, 07:00:28 10/08/01 Mon [1]
Good morning to all my friends here! And very special thanks for Chrissie for hurring me up! Many a time I thought about all of you but there was always something else, usually more urgent, to do.
Well, I am a full-fledged mother of a 9-month-old boy, named Adam. He was born in January, the 14th, on Sunday at midday. For his first 8 months I was on a maternity leave and it was completely "crazy" time for especially for me, but also for my husband - you know, suddenly your almost perfectly-organized world came into little pieces you have no control on. Luckily Adam very soon started to sleep whole nights (when he was 6 weeks old), and led (actually still leads) quiate a regular life of his own - with almost regular times of meals, sleeping etc). Now he is a great adventurer - starts walking so we must have our eyes around heads. But he is an adorable little blonde boy with blue eyes (he definitely takes after his father, as far as looks are concerned at least).
I must say that toward the end of maternity leave I was more and more tired with all those routine tasks and really started missing work (a mild version of baby blues, I guess). And, as it was planned, in September I came back to work and Adam stays with a recommended baby-sitter I am very pleased with. The beginnings at work were - well a bit difficult - because I thought a lot about Adam but now it is much better though I do miss him and when I am back at home the whole afternoon we play on the floor or go for a walk.
At work I got promoted (hurra!)and got my own office (hurra!) and got more things to be responsible for (grins). But on the whole I am really happy - here at work and back at home.
Now I promise to be here more frequent and I also promise myself to take care of my inner self much neglected recently.
Another little child to take care of in the family (smiles!)
Anyway - I am so happy to be here with all of you again!
Love, Kasia
Dear Chrissie and all at the Path. I dont get to post as i used to but i have made some wonderful friends through this site and i have also been blessed to have had the pleasure o
meeting both Chrissie and Joe.
We take a lot for granted at times and we forget that things can change just by a stroke. I am saddened today by
the military strikes against Afghanistan and i thought that maybe humanity had gone a long way to avoid this sort of thing of happening again.
Back in my backyard i have my health issues which i am trying to overcome. There are some trying days but i am surrounded by my family and some wonderful friends.
At work we are going through a horrible patch. We have had 80 people lose jobs due to the decline in the travel industry and the collapse of one of our Domestic carriers. We are going through a tough time in the travel Industry and people are just too scared to travel. So at the moment as well as my health i will be going through another tough time whether i will have a job for much longer.
So we pray for each other and send out love to all of our friends. You are all in my thoughts. I love you all. We may not write as we used to but we do not forget friendships that have been forged across the globe and that is what we have to be thankful for.
I wish each and everyone a wonderful week and we hope our Leaders have some sense to bring this latest war to a swift end.
Hi Rose, Rianne, Christy, Carol, Mae, Joe, Rosie, Rachel, Kasia, Michael, Vanda, and all who read in and don't post :)*.
My month sabbatical off work is nearing its end and I return to work on Monday (sniffles). The tiime flew past - first couple of weeks was engulfed with the US tragedy and the rest two weeks were swamped trying to catch up cos it was hard to get motivated with the US tragedy etc - I kept wanting to watch tv to see if they had found survivors! So I haven't managed to do some of what I had planned to do on the site ... it'll have to happen at a later date.
Phil and I went swimming today and cooked a nice healthy lunch after and I just dropped him off at the station. I have quiet some space clearing and paperwork to catch up on before I return to work and there's the never ending daily housework especially with kittens in the house who think housework is playtime and they disrupt everything I've folded and think it's a game! Ha ha! Not funny!!
Life is so busy busy these days .... (sighs) - sometimes I wish I didn't have the computer anymore (grins) so I wouldn't have to spend time on here and then other times I can't remember how I was able to put all that time in before ... then again I guess I was up till 2am most nights doing what I needed to then ... yikes! And I do miss it .... ie the way things were but I guess things change and grow.
Sometimes I think oh what's happened in my life is so trivial, who'd want to hear about it but when I read about when say Christy or Rosie, or Joe or Rose post and share about their lives, it's really interesting to hear about it (smiles) and nice to catch up as it's hard via email, for me anyway.
Thinking of you all on this sunny day and just wanted to say hi!
Love & Hugs
Chrissie :)* ^i^
Going With The Flow
Melody Beattie
The Language of Letting Go
Go with the flow.
Let go of fear and your need to control. Relinquish anxiety. Let it slip away as you dive into the river of the present moment, the river of your life, your place in the Universe.
Stop trying to force the direction. Try not to swim against the current, unless it is necessary for your survival. Ifi you've been clinging to a branch at the riverside, let go.
Let yourself move forward. Let yourself be moved forward. Around the rapids when possible. If you can't, stay relaxed. Staying relaxed can take you safely through fierce currents.
If you go under a moment, allow yourself to surface naturally. You will.
Appreciate the beauty of the scenery as it is. See things with freshness, with newness. You shall never pass by today's scenery again!
Don't think too hard about things. The flow is meant to be experienced. Within it, care for yourself. YOu are part of the flow, an important part. Work with the flow. W ork within the flow. Trashing about isn't necessary. Let the flow help you care for yourself. Let it help you set boundaries, make decisions and get you where you need to be when it is time.
You can trust the flow and your part in it.
Today I will go with the flow
From Melody Beatties' "The Language of Letting Go", Pg 191
Gentleness is not a quality exclusive to women.
--Helen Reddy
Our options for how we respond to the men and women
in our lives are vast. Being critical is one option open
to us. Indifference and gentleness are others. The way
we treat others reveals our own state of being. When we
feel at peace, we generally respond peacefully to others.
Conversely, when we feel worthless and full of self-doubt,
we're likely to be sarcastic toward others. However, we
can pull ourselves out of the self-imposed dungeon of despair.
The method is this: In spite of personal feelings, be warm,
kind, and gentle in every personal exchange with another,
and your own dark mood is sure to be lifted.
Again we are confronted with the reality that we make
our world. Our treatment of others treats ourselves
simultaneously. Our friends and co-workers mirror the
self we often think we're hiding away. A conscious
decision will guarantee the happiness we long for when
the decision is to be gentle, loving, and caring toward
all the people in our lives.
[Edit] Hi everyone.... -- Rianne, 17:25:01 10/04/01 Thu [1]
Hi Chrissie (o/)& all the lovely people who post here. Just a quick hello because I'm so busy with work at the moment but I just wanted to say "hi" and send my love! Rianne.
[Edit] hi chrisie! -- Rose ;-), 21:22:20 10/01/01 Mon [1]
[Edit] Re: es Rosa hey como estan -- Dear friends, 21:20:02 10/01/01 Mon [1]
Querido amigo:
Todavia resuenan en nuestros corazones y conciencias los desgraciados
atentados ocurridos en los Estados Unidos de America. Estos a su vez
comienzan a avisar de la brutal represalia hacia "los culpables". Y estas
sin duda generaran mas violencia y radicalizacion en una espiral imparable
si es que no comenzamos todos a hacer algo. Para nosotros la violencia
engendra violencia y es responsabilidad de todos.
Abramos el futuro y construyamos la esperanza.
Necesitamos tu ayuda para Humanizar la Tierra.
Soy un miembro del Movimiento Humanista Internacional, que te pide ayuda
para poner en marcha Proyectos de Apoyo Humano de desarrollo local en tu
pais. Necesitamos miles de voluntarios para poner en marcha estos proyectos
en todo el mundo, para compensar los niveles de deshumanizacion, violencia
y discriminacion creciente que se estan dando en todo el mundo.
Vemos como cunde por doquier la desesperanza, la depresion, el suicidio y
la falta de un sentido de vida, como efecto de que las condiciones de vida
para la mayoría de las personas en el mundo se van deteriorando. Vemos como
aumentan la desigualdad, la pobreza, la drogadicción, la violencia y la
discriminación. Esto es producto de un sistema de valores que privilegia
ante todo la obtención de dinero a cualquier costo, la competencia caiga
quien caiga, el consumo de cosas, que va imponiendo una mirada cosificadora
del Ser Humano, como un objeto para satisfacer las propias necesidades,
privándolo así de su humanidad. El Ser Humano, no es una cosa, no es un
numero de consumidor, no es un numero de carnet de identidad, no es una
hormiga. Al interior de cada persona hay algo muy grande, hay un hacedor y
constructor de realidades, hay todo un mundo complejo y riquisimo, con sus
deseos, aspiraciones, frustraciones, sueños y vivencias de todo tipo, las
que van configurando un mundo interno de gran belleza que se quiere
expresar en el mundo, creciendo en felicidad y alejando el dolor y el
sufrimiento.
Nosotros te estamos convocando a eso, a que se manifieste en ti ese Ser
ayudando a tu gente, a través de Proyectos de Apoyo Humano, siendo parte de
una gran red de voluntarios en todo el mundo, que están conectados entre si
y que actuan en su medio inmediato. Te invitamos a mejorar tu país, a
ayudar a tu gente a resolver sus necesidades, a unir y fortalecer a las
personas, abriendo el futuro y construyendo la esperanza de que un mundo
mejor para todos es posible. Para esto es necesaria la unión de todos los
humanistas del mundo. Para erradicar la violencia, la discriminacion y la
pobreza del mundo necesitamos construir espacios de comunicacion y
reflexion sobre las necesidades concretas que tienen la personas.
Pero esto no son solo buenos deseos. Estos Proyectos de Apoyo Humano han
demostrado su eficacia en diversos países de Africa, Asia y Latinoamerica,
transformando poblados y barrios enteros, poniendo en marcha acciones que
van resolviendo las necesidades de forma integral y creciente, con las
personas comprometidas y como protagonistas de sus propias
transformaciones, personales y sociales.
El Movimiento Humanista es una organización mundial, que trabaja
actualmente en unos 105 países y que cuenta con alrededor de 160.000
voluntarios activos. Un Proyecto de Apoyo Humano es un proyecto no violento
de acción inmediata que resuelve las necesidades concretas de la gente en
su barrio, en su lugar de trabajo o estudio, allí donde quiera cambiar las
condiciones existentes. No es paternalista, no nos basamos en el dinero,
sino en la Fuerza de lo Humano organizada, en la que prima el trabajo
voluntario para transformarnos personalmente y transformar el medio en que
nos toca vivir.
En breve: Humanizar la Tierra es vencer el dolor y el sufrimiento en uno y
en los demas, y un Proyecto de Apoyo Humano es la implementacion practica
de ello.
En sintesis : Un Proyecto de Apoyo Humano es :
1- Un proyecto no violento y no discriminador de la gente que se organiza a
si misma en un tiempo breve para resolver sus necesidades concretas.
2- No es paternalista: No es caridad ni beneficencia, es la propia gente
organizada la que resuelve sus propias necesidades.
3- Es para beneficio de la gente en forma directa y del medio inmediato
cercano de esa gente.
4- Es Reciproco: Quien participa lo hace coordinadamente dentro de la
estructura del Movimiento Humanista, permitiendo asi avanzar hacia nuestro
objetivo principal: Humanizar la Tierra.
Humanizar la Tierra es transformar lo social y lo personal en forma
simultanea en virtud de colocar al ser humano como valor central; llevando
acciones concretas de cambio, de fe, de union entre la gente desde lo mejor
de cada uno a tu medio inmediato, o bien a la agrupacion social, cultural,
religiosa, o politica donde a diario tu influyes. Humanizar la Tierra
comienza por organizarse para trabajar por la salud, educacion y calidad de
vida de todos en igualdad de oportunidades y de posibilidades. Aquello que
no está organizado no cambia. En todos los paises estamos convocando
voluntarios, para que cada pais se convierta en la vanguardia de la Nacion
Humana Universal, multiple en sus etnias, multiple en sus creencias y en
sus costumbres, pero sin embargo unida en un proyecto conjunto por un
futuro que tenga dignidad humana. Es urgente que los humanistas de todo el
mundo nos unamos y globalicemos la solidaridad. Pongamonos en marcha, hoy y
no mañana. ¡Ya es tarde! El mundo puede ser diferente si tu no eres
indiferente. Todos dependemos de todos.
Te mando un fuerte abrazo esperando tu respuesta.
Jose Luis
http://www.mdnh.org/
Post Data : A los interesados les enviare algunos manuales basicos y
detallados para poner en marcha estos proyectos. Ayudanos a difundir esta
propuesta entre tus amigos y seres queridos.
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Love & Light
Chrissie :)*
Subj: A Message to World Peace Experiment Participants
Date: 01/10/01 02:07:15 GMT Daylight Time
From: carol@openheart.com
Reply-to: carol@openheart.com
To: carol@openheart.com
Dear World Peace Participant:
As you know, I very seldom send you a group email. I am doing so at this
time for several reasons:
1. To let you know that we have reached what I consider to be a
milestone. Last week our participant list grew to 8300. This is just
over 10 percent of our desired goal of 80,000. That means if every one
of our participants enrolled just 10 people, we would reach 80,000 very
rapidly! I encourage each of you to spread the word to others who you
feel would resonate with the idea of creating peace through a personal
shift in consciousness. Direct them to http://www.openheart.com/peace .
2. To share with you that we have published a great number of writings
inspired by the 9/11 events on our website at http://www.openheart.com/peace
Click on the "Inspired Writings" menu. I felt it was important to have a
repository for the many writings that are being circulated by email, if
for no other reason than to offer an oasis of calm and common sense to
those who are seeking vibrations other than the war drums being beaten by
our media... for those who are seeking a language for what they are
feeling in their hearts. Please visit often as I am updating it daily.
3. To share with you a prayer that Victor and I have been saying every
morning since the US Presidential elections. Since the events of 9/11
the prayer has taken on new meaning and importance. We must support our
leaders by holding them in the light and praying that they come from
their higher selves in all their thoughts, words and actions. I am
including the prayer at the end of this email. Say it often and share it
freely.
4. Lastly, there is a petition located at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/2hcd/ that I feel offers a win-win approach
to our government's "war on terrorism". Please check it out and if you
feel, as I do, that it is worth signing, please do so and tell your
friends and associates. It only takes a minute and if enough of us sign
it, perhaps we can actually help influence the course of history in a
positive way.
Only Love Prevails,
Carol Hansen Grey
--------------------- Prayer for World Leaders
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Mother-Father God: We ask that all our elected representatives, appointed
officials and business and world leaders be surrounded with and protected
by Your Light. We ask that their every thought, word and action come from
their Higher Selves and serve the highest good for our country and the
world. Acknowledging our oneness with each other and with all creation,
we ask this in Your Name. And so it is.
[Edit] The Positive side of the events of 11th Sept -- Chrissie :)*, 11:27:34 09/29/01 Sat [1]
Date: 28/09/01 02:24:18 GMT Daylight Time
From: MaryEllen@angelscribe.com (Angelscribe Newsletter)
Dearest Readers,
Many folks are writing me and asking about the numbers 111 showing up in association with the September 11th massacre.
They want to know "why?" if the numbers are good why was so much destruction
associated with it.
Following is some 111 information...then following that is the good news
which illustrates how the Angels were working overtime to assist.
Imagine being an Angel and knowing this event was going to take place.
They must have been fluttering theirwings overtime to shift the original intended results.
If you have been seeing the numbers 111 every time you turn around refer
to these webpages to see you are not alone:
http://angelscribe.com/1111.html
http://www.angelscribe.com/11112stor.html
http://angelscribe.com/1111stor.html
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***1111 Investigated***
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September 11th is the 254th day of the year: 2 + 5 + 4 = 11
The date of the attack: 9/11 - 9 + 1 + 1 = 11
After September 11th there are 111 days left to the end of the year.
119 is the area code to Iraq/Iran. 1 + 1 + 9 = 11
Twin Towers - standing side by side, resemble the number 11
The first plane to hit the towers was Flight 11
State of New York - The 11 State added to the Union
New York City - 11 Letters
Afghanistan - 11 Letters
The Pentagon - 11 Letters
Flight 11 - 92 on board - 9 + 2 = 11
Flight 77 - 65 on board - 6 + 5 = 11
Ramzi Yousef - 11 Letters (convicted of the attack on the
WTC in 1993)
And ..Jesus Christ - 11 letters
~ ^I^ ~
Mainstream media has not reported the SURVIVAL rates and all the positive news about the attacks. So those of us on the net are holding the banner of Good News up high.
Here is a fresh look at the numbers coming out of New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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*** The Buildings ***
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* The World Trade Center *
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The twin towers of the World Trade Center
were places of employment for 50,000 people.
With the current missing list of
6,500 people, that means
87% of them survived the massacre.
87% is a miraculous amount!
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*** The Pentagon ***
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*23,000 people were the target of a third plane aimed at the Pentagon.
The latest count shows 123 lost their lives. That is an amazing 99.5% survival rate.
In addition, the plane seems to have come in too low, too early to affect a
large portion of the building.
On top of that, the section that was hit was the first of five sections to undergo
renovations to help protect the Pentagon from terrorist attacks. It had recently
completed straightening and blast proofing, saving untold lives.
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*** The Planes ***
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* American Airlines Flight 77
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This Boeing 757 flown into the Pentagon could have carried up to 289 people,
yet only 64 were aboard. Luckily 78% of the seats were empty.
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* American Airlines Flight 11
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This Boeing 767 could have had up to 351 people aboard, but only carried 92.
Thankfully 74% of the seats were empty.
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* United Airlines Flight 175
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Another Boeing 767 that could have sat 351 people only had 65 people on
board. Fortunately it was 81% empty.
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* United Airlines Flight 93
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This Boeing 757 was one of the most uplifting stories yet. The smallest
flight to be hijacked with only 45 people aboard out of a possible 289 had 84%
of its capacity unused. Yet these people stood up to the attackers and thwarted a
fourth attempted destruction of a national landmark, saving untold numbers
of lives in the process. This was a Heroic Flight!
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*** In Summary ***
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Out of potentially 74,280 Americans directly targeted 93% survived or
avoided the attacks. That's a higher survival rate than heart attacks, breast
cancer, kidney transplants and liver transplants
- all common, survivable illnesses.
The Hijacked planes were mostly empty, the Pentagon was hit at its strongest point,
the overwhelming majority of people in the World Trade Center buildings escaped,
and a handful of passengers gave the ultimate sacrifice to save even more lives.
Religions of different faiths are holding services together.
People are praying and speaking ofworld peace in proportions never seen
before. We are asking to learn and understand about our neighbors in the world.
Many people were delayed from reaching their flights and work the
day of the attack. Listen toyour intuition. God works in quiet and mysterious ways.
We have all changed and grown.
Bless your loved ones and family.
Mary Ellen ^I^
AND:
Never doubt that a small group of
thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world; indeed,
it's the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead ~
AND:
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to the world
but you
may also be
the world to one person.
~ Anonymous ~
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[Edit] YES INDEED... -- Mae, 04:20:35 09/29/01 Sat [1]
AMEN to what you said, Carol B.. I agree.
Love, Peace, & Harmony to ALL, Mae
[Edit] Let Love Prevail -- CarolB, 03:52:50 09/29/01 Sat [1]
Hello All! I know these past two weeks have been trying times for all of us. From a 3-Dimensional point of view we just cannot make sense out of the happening of 9/11. From a metaphysical understanding, we know that all is not in vain, nor lost, and that love lives on for those affected. We have joined together in unity as a people for our country, and it has made us realize where our strength is. It is within.
Thank all of you who have shared with working to raise the energy of our Mother Earth. Continuing to do the world peace meditations, prayer for peace, quiet moments of visualizing our Earth and people restored in confidence and letting go of all fear. We move forward in the unity of love, forgiviness, and doing unto others, just as our great Master Jesus taught. Thank all of you brothers' and sisters' of light and love!! I love you all!!
Dear all - hi Rose, it's good to hear from you again, as always! Mae, you're welcome sweetie :)* Enjoy this article !!! It's amazing reading!
Subj: The Relationship Coach Newsletter #20 - Conflict Resolution
Date: 25/09/01 08:52:27 GMT Daylight Time
From: help@whatittakes.com (Rinatta Paries)
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"Teaching People How To Attract Love"
9/24/01 By Rinatta Paries, Relationship Coach
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Welcome to the Relationship Coach Newsletter, and welcome to
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All relationships experience conflict. Whether or not a
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Conflict by nature is difficult. And yet conflict is a normal,
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well is healthy and can improve, even add to a relationship,
leaving both of you feeling heard and understood. It is only
when people handle conflict poorly that the relationship gets in
trouble. How you handle conflict and what you do with the
information learned during the conflict is directly related to
the overall quality of your relationships.
If you approach conflict by becoming defensive, not listening,
or intentionally inflicting hurt upon your partner, the conflict
will go unresolved. Nor will you be supporting your
relationship. Rather, you will be creating more conflict and
resentment.
A much more productive and healing way to handle conflict is to
communicate, listen to and hear one another. One powerful way to
do this is through what I call "recreating." By this I mean
actively listening and verbally reenacting each other's
emotional experience. This way you communicate to each other
that there is a deep understanding of how both of you are being
affected. In the process, you create more closeness and trust in
the relationship.
Here is a step-by-step guide of how to "recreate" your
partner's thoughts and feelings:
1. Listen to what your partner is saying.
Do not think about other things as he/she is speaking. Focus on
how your partner must be feeling or has felt throughout this
conflict between you.
2. Do not interrupt or defend yourself.
Whether the event is your fault or not isn't the point at the
moment. What matters is that your partner is in pain and needs
your full attention.
3. When your partner is done speaking, "recreate" his/her
thoughts and feelings.
Verbally reenact your partner's experience as you understand
it. Verbalize what you are sensing behind the words. Verbalize
what it must feel like to be in the position your partner finds
him/herself in. This is not an admission that you have done
something wrong. It is simply a way to recognize and validate
your partner's feelings.
4. Continue to "recreate" until the anger or pain subsides and
tears or a smile appear.
When someone is listened to in this way, anger and pain
diminish without returning later as resentment. Tears or a smile
are a signal that you have been successful at recreating.
5. Go though the above steps as many times as needed until your
partner feels complete.
Sometimes additional anger or pain will come up in the process.
Let your partner, not you, decide when the process is over.
6. Now it's your turn.
Ask your partner if it would be ok if you shared how you feel
and if you could also be "recreated".
7. Now that you are no longer in conflict, talk about what
happened.
Discuss the facts of the event. Create a way that the situation
can be handled differently next time.
Do the above steps seem difficult, if not impossible? This
process indeed takes a tremendous amount of patience, self-
control and compassion. But the rewards are well worth the
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[Edit] : Smiles -- Rose ;-), 16:31:12 09/24/01 Mon [1]
Today's thought is:
Positive or negative--the choice is ours.
Every day we make a choice: we focus on the
positive or on the negative. For instance, we
can fix our attention on the weather being too hot or too cold, or we can
be thankful for the diversity of the seasons. We can
wake up grumbling about having to go to work, or
we can wake in gratitude that we are able to earn a
living.
Some things will always concern us--paying the
bills, raising the children, fixing the roof, staying
healthy, getting along with those we love, planning
for the future. But if this is all we think about, we
are missing the sense of deep appreciation that
makes us feel full and satisfied with life's gifts.
Let's take a moment today to begin to make a list of
the positive, starting with the fact that we're alive
and abstinent.
[Edit] Hello -- Rose ;-), 15:11:50 09/24/01 Mon [1]
hi chrissie how are you girl! hope all is well,joe how you being?? Rosie how it going? hope your doing better, and if you ever want to e-mail me feel free at any time! take care to all have a wonderful iday!
[Edit] re peacekeeper post -- Mae, 09:43:14 09/22/01 Sat [1]
Chrissie,
I really enjoyed the Cohen peacekeeper post, excellent...
Love, Peace, Harmony, & Healing to ALL,
Mae
[Edit] Being a Faithkeeper by Alan Cohen -- Chrissie :)*, 01:03:38 09/22/01 Sat [1]
Thx Christy :)* - here's to continued world peace, thoughts of love and healing energy towards all concerned and remembering "Only Love Prevails"
Being A Faithkeeper
by Alan Cohen
In the Native American tradition, one member of the tribe assumes the role
of "Faithkeeper". This person's role is to remain at peace, centered in
spiritual vision, no matter what events befall the tribe. Even if everyone
else in the tribe slips into pain, fear, or dissention, the Faithkeeper is
the one person the tribe can rely on as a lifeline to the Presence. This is
our role now.
In the face of the strange and shocking events that have recently occurred,
it would be almost humanly impossible not to be moved and challenged. Who
could look upon such inhumanity and not be shaken? Yet there is a place
within all of us that is always connected to our higher being. That is the
place to go to now. Your greatest contribution is your clarity, sense of
purpose, and vision. If you go into fear or terror, the terrorists have won.
They have succeeded in terrorizing you. Is that the role you would play?
Would you not rather overcome hatred with love? Doubt with trust? Sorrow
with comfort?
"Fear knocked at the door.
Faith answered.
No one was there."
The question is not, "Have you moved off your center?" The question is, "How
quickly can you regain it?" For many years we have been studying the
principles of spiritual truth. Now is the time to put them into practice.
When things are going well, it is easy to find God. When things seem
chaotic, it is harder. The strength we build by claiming divine order when
it is utterly unapparent is paramount. Spiritual mastery is gained in times
just such as these.
As you may know, I find many practical spiritual lessons through stories in
motion pictures. One comes to mind now that is quite applicable:
In Starman, an extraterrestrial visits earth to experience the joys and
sorrows of life as a human. He develops a relationship with a woman who
loves him. Eventually he must return to his home planet, but before he does,
she asks him what he has learned about the people of earth. "When things are
at their worst," he comments, "you are at your best."
September 11th showed us a disaster unlike any that most of us have seen in
our lifetime. But September 12th and the days that follow have shown us an
outpouring of love and compassion unlike any we have seen in our lifetime.
No single event has connected so many people throughout the entire planet
with a sense of caring and support. People from all over the world are
reaching out to share resources, blood, skill, money, and heart. There is a
miracle in here somewhere.
Let us not use this event as a way to stay disconnected from higher power.
Hold firm to your sense of wholeness and that of everyone you consider. When
you are upset you are ineffective to see a right course of action. When you
are hooked up, you are very powerful.
Mahatma Gandhi noted,
"The pure love of one person
can offset the hatred of thousands."
The pure love of one person can offset the anxiety of thousands. Let us each
be that one person.
There are two elements to this event: What happened, and what we do with it.
What was done has been done. What will be is still in our hands. We can make
of it what we choose. We can use it as a justification to lash out or we can
build a new consciousness that has no home for terror. Let us begin by
quitting terrifying ourselves with scary thoughts. Love disarms.
We bless and send love and intentions for well-being to those most affected.
Words soothe little, but respect for your power edifies you. When one of my
parents passed away, a friend left a simple message on my answering machine
that helped me immensely: "I feel your strength." We stand in deep honor of
the leaders and people of New York, who are demonstrating immense courage
and cooperation. New Yorkers are compellingly resilient, and they will
prevail. Thank you for an awesome model of dignity and grace under fire.
Perhaps it is no accident that world attention is being focused on the World
Trade Center. Perhaps the message is that it is time to trade our old world
for one more connected to our center.
We will come out on the other side of this. We will pick up the pieces and
move on. And we will be closer to home for it.
Blessings,
Alan Cohen
Alan Cohen is the author of 15 popular inspirational books, including the
award-winning A Deep Breath of Life. To order Alan's new novel My Father's
Voice or request a free catalog of Alan's books, tapes, and seminars, call
1-800-462-3013, email: admin@alancohen.com or visit Alan's web site at
www.alancohen.com http://www.alancohen.com.
[Edit] So glad that the weekend is here -- Christy, 18:06:24 09/21/01 Fri [1]
Hey everybody,
Chrissie..Thanks for sharing your story about your experience almost getting killed by a bomb. The angels were watching over you.
Life goes on in my hometown. Although we have all cried a river of tears in my country that connects us all, our hearts won't ever be the same.
I know that good will come out of these terrible tragedies. I just can't imagine how.
I'm very grateful that my life is blessed, and I have so much.
Love to all,
Christy
[Edit] Continued thoughts of love, light and world peace to all concerned -- Chrissie :)*, 23:52:52 09/18/01 Tue [1]
Dear all,
Hi Christy, I guess I never spoke about the IRA bombing 11 years ago cos it was so long ago. That was when the IRA were in their full 'attack' on London and there was always a bomb going off in the train station or in the City or on a bus or in a building somewhere - it was so common to hear of bomb scares and bombs going off - it became part and parcel of working in the City. The bombing of the Baltic Exchange was one of the big bombs going off and was a statement especially as 3 people died, all innocent ordinary people. I was working late for my boss and as he was leaving around 9pm, he told me not to stay late and that he'd give me a lift - if he hadn't offered me the lift I would have stayed to clear up my work and I would still have been in the building when the bomb went off outside at 9.15pm. I saw the salvage video afterwards and I would have been dead as the ceiling collapsed where I would have been sitting and if my boss had stayed later as well he would have been killed too as his office which was behind me disappeared onto the street and just wasn't there anymore. It was shocking at the time - it felt like we weren't in London but somewhere war torn like Beirut. It took a long time to recover and life was never the same again and we all had new challenges for years to come after because of the IRA bomb. They have since rebuilt the Baltic Exchange but I haven't been back there since and I'm sure those that survived the World Trade Center bombing will not want to go back at all.
Watching the news and interviews fo survivors still makes me cry as I feel so strongly for those affected and it feels like part of me is affected as we are all one; and what affects America affects the rest of the world too as it could have happened to any one of us; be it anyone of us on a plane at that time. It all still is hard to sink in; and it feels like a movie still and that it's not real. I watched an interview with a New Yorker who'd survived and he said what I would have said years ago working in the City, that suriviving a bombing like that is part and parcel of working in the City - which is sad. I'm glad that the IRA have stopped their bombings and attacks on London and I believe peace / a truce has been called for a while now (I don't really follow the news much as I'm not into politics and haven't watched the news for years - thanks to Louise Hay - watching the WTC bombing stuff is a rare exception for me - when that bombing went off in Oklahoma I didn't know or hear about it for days after as I don't watch the news - perhaps it's a bad thing; but perhaps not - as Louise Hay says if we are meant to know something, it will be revealed to us). I only found out about the WTC incident as a friend of mine rang me up as it happened and told me to switch on the television; otherwise I probably wouldn't have known at all as I never switch on the news and always watch satellite tv which doesn't have news flashes - only on terrestial television do they do that. So I guess in this instance I was meant to hear about it - I wish I hadn't as I was so shocked by it all ....
Continued love, light, healing thoughts and energy to all affected by the WTC and Pentagon incidents
Where intention goes, energy flows ....
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
[Edit] I had no idea -- Christy, 18:46:48 09/18/01 Tue [1]
Hey everybody,
Chrissie..I had no idea that you were so close to being killed by a terrorist bomb. I'm so glad that you weren't hurt because you have been a voice of love and light for thousands who visit this website.
Today, I prayed at 11:00am for five minutes to participate in Marianne's 30 day prayer for peace. It helped me so much. I feel safer today than in the past week. I know that prayer is more powerful than terrorism and love more powerful than hate.
I've seen folks be kinder and more loving to each other in my hometown than ever before. A movement of love and peace is sweeping my country along with patriotism. Please continue to pray for the rescue workers, the families of the deceased, especially for the children left without their Moms or Dads. Thanks.
Love to all,
Christy
[Edit] Marianne Willamson's 30 Day World Prayer for Peace -- Christy, 04:17:11 09/18/01 Tue [1]
Subject: Will you join Marianne Williamson in a 30 day prayer vigil for the world?
30 DAY INTERNATIONAL PRAYER VIGIL
TO BEGIN TUESDAY, SEPT. 18
Please join with others of faith and spiritual intention around the world, for a thirty day prayer vigil beginning Tuesday, Sept. 18 and continuing through Oct. 18.
For five minutes each day, at noon on the East Coast of the United States, 9am West Coast, 5pm in London, 7pm in Cairo, etc. (more time zones listed below), please pause for five minutes of sincere and silent prayer.
Let us open ourselves to the wisdom and love of God, asking that His will be done for ourselves, for each other and for future generations.
Amen.
New York City 12:00 Noon
Chicago 11:00 a.m.
Los Angeles 9:00 a.m.
London 5:00 p.m.
Paris 6:00 p.m.
Cairo/Beirut 7:00 p.m.
Johannesburg/ Istanbul 7:00 p.m.
Moscow 8:00 p.m.
New Delhi 10:30 p.m.
Beijing/Singapore 1:00 a.m.
Tokyo 2:00 a.m.
Sydney 3:00 a.m.
Auckland 4:00 a.m.
Dear God,
May love replace all fear.
May peace replace all violence.
May You replace all else.
Amen.
Love,
Marianne Williamson
www.churchoftoday.com
[Edit] A Million Prayers for the World -- Chrissie :)*, 00:08:08 09/18/01 Tue [1]
Dear all at Lighting The Path,
It's good to be able to share with each other at the world's time of grief and the whole world is grieving; and will do so for a long time to come, especially with waiting for the outcome of what will happen in the next few days - it could affect each and every one of us for a very long time. We can all put our energies together and focus on a peaceful outcome to the whole situation; and that we are all safe and the healing will commence.
Christy, I'm glad things are feeling better for you and your daughter - it must be really difficult being an American right now. I was involved in the Baltic Exchange Bomb some ten years ago where the IRA blew up my office building in the City and I'd left the building some 15 minutes before the bomb exploded. They'd left a van full of explosives outside the building (I can't remember why they chose the Baltic Exchange to blow up). It was the day after some government election and the IRA wanted to make a statement or something and 3 people died in that bomb explosion (one of them was the security guard whom I'd said goodnight to) and it looked like a bomb site for months afterwards. The buildings around for miles were affected as well by the bomb blast. It was so long ago I'm sure not many people remember it - it was about 10-11 years ago. I am lucky to be alive and this event in the US reminds me of what happened all those years ago; just on a larger scale.
Here's to world peace and Only Love Prevails
Love, Light, Peace & Blessings
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
p/s Rianne, Mae, good to hear from you and thx for the kind words - all of us contribute to making this site what it is (smiles)
Subj: Lightworkers - A MILLION PRAYERS FOR THE WORLD http://www.PrayersofPeace.com
Date: 17/09/01 01:43:40 GMT Daylight Time
From: RenukaSue@aol.com
"A Million Prayers of Peace to be presented in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel."
People everywhere are asking what they can do to help heal the wounds
created by the September 11th terrorist attacks. Please consider this
to be a tangible, prayerful response that will be felt around the
world.
A Letter From James Twyman:
Dear Friends,
Many of you will remember when I was invited to Iraq by Saddam Hussein
in 1998. We were on the verge of war and I was asked to sing the Peace
Concert at the national theater in Baghdad, a concert that was attended
primarily by government officials. I was able to secure valuable
contacts during that journey, feeling that there would come a time when
I would need to use them again. That time has come.
Last year over 250,000 prayers were contributed to the Million Prayer
March after Yasser Arafat said that it would take "a million strong
prayers to bring peace to the Middle East." (A web site had been set up
to collect the prayers.) It is safe to say that this statement applies
to the whole world, for our prayers of peace are needed now more than
ever.
I have arranged through a contact in Iraq to have the million prayers
of peace delivered through that country to the Taliban government in
Afghanistan. Likewise, because there is evidence to suggest that Iraq
was involved in the planning of these attacks, another copy of the
prayers will be delivered to Baghdad, hopefully to Saddam Hussein
himself.
Finally, because this prayer march originated with the conflict in the
Middle East, a conflict that has increased in the last year, a
computer disk containing the million prayers will be secretly inserted
into the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, lending energetic support to
peacemakers on both sides of that terrible war.
We need your help if we are to meet our goal of a million prayers of
peace. Can you think of a simpler, more profound way for you to be
personally involved in the process of healing? Please pass this on to
everyone you know, and tell people you meet. Simply click onto this
link or go to http://www.PrayersofPeace.com , then follow the instructions.
The events of September 11 were a wake up call. We need to actually
create a world of peace and compassion, not expect it to happen on its
own. Can your one prayer make a difference? YES!!! Add a prayer
every day...ten prayers a day… till we reach our mark. It is up to you.
Thanks, Chrissie for your affirmations. My daughter and I went outside Friday night and lit candles to show our support for folks in Washington, DC and New York.
I'm saying special prayers for the children who lost parents in this attack. With over 5,000 dead, there are many boys and girls without Momma's and Daddies. My Dad died when I was 17, so I can relate to their pain.
My daughter's school is writing letters to a school in Brooklyn, NY that they read about in the New York Times article last week. My daughter's school is making homemade cards, writing letters of hope, to these kids who witnessed the terror outside the school window across the river in Brooklyn as the teacher was writing assignments on the blackboard. The teacher in Brooklyn kept telling the kids not to look and keep writing. What a brave teacher!
It helps to know that England is with us, and Australia is with us. The prayers and support mean a lot to all Americans.
Love to you all,
Christy
[Edit] A week we will all never forget.... -- Rianne, 18:46:23 09/16/01 Sun [1]
It is uplifting to read all the lovely messages on this site --- you are all such wonderful & compassionate people. Oh, how I wish everyone was the same. I still cannot believe that this horrific tragedy has happened --- it is too awful to comprehend. It is terrible to feel so helpless, to think of all those poor people, it is truly heartbreaking.
I have hardly slept this week, watching the news constantly and hoping and praying that they find more survivors. Today in Whitby harbour [England] there were our firemen asking for donations to help their fellow firemen in New York --- it really touched my heart. Everyone was responding and no-one passed by without giving something. It made me feel comforted & I hope it helps you to know that we feel your pain too --- God love you.
I was in New York a couple of years ago and I was struck by just how vibrant and full of life NYC was. I loved being there.
I wish you all the courage and strength to get through the painful times ahead. Good does triumph over evil --- but this barbaric thing should never have happened. It makes us all question life and ask why oh why.
Sending my love, my prayers, my thoughts and my tears. Bless you all, Rianne.
Thank you Chrissie for this lovely site, it warms my heart to know that there are so many good people out there.
[Edit] Thanks for this loving site -- Mae, 16:26:53 09/16/01 Sun [1]
I am grateful to see all of the love and compassion shared here. It is such a relief to see no animosity, sarcasm, or pettiness as I've witnessed on other boards. Although I might not mention you by name, I do thank each of you for being genuine beacons of light, renewing and restoring my trust and faith in the goodness of my fellow travelers.
Love, Peace, & Harmony to ALL, Mae
[Edit] Light A Candle for Peace -- Chrissie :)*, 02:35:53 09/15/01 Sat [1]
Hi all - Christy -sending you and your daughter thoughts of peace and love tonight for a peaceful nite. Take a slow deep breath through your nose while counting to six, hold for a count of six, then gently and slowly breath out through your mouth (circled like an O) to the count of six. Do this a few times and affirm at the same time, your favourite affirmation, perhaps I am Safe and All Is Well; Everything is happening in the right time space and sequence and out of this only good will come; I trust the Universe to take care of me" or choose whichever you feel is suitable for you and your daugther.
or Light a Candle for Peace - the act of doing it, is very meditative and relaxing and it makes me feel like I'm contributing towards peace and it's again cathartic.
Love, Light & Hugs
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
I love you all!
[Edit] I meant to say -- Christy, 20:47:34 09/14/01 Fri [1]
Hey everybody,
I meant to say the first time that the United States mainland has been attacked since 1812.
Love and light,
Christy
[Edit] My heart is heavy -- Christy, 20:31:50 09/14/01 Fri [1]
Hey everybody,
Today is a day of national prayer and remeberance. I still can't believe that the United States has been attacked for the first time since 1812.
I can't console my daughter because she wants guarantees of our safety and I can't give her that today and maybe not ever. God is bigger than this crisis. I know that for sure.
I want to sleep peacefully tonight. Please pray for me to have the strength to not get impatient with my daughter's questions. I can't answer them, and I get upset with myself.
Love to all,
Christy
[Edit] Thoughts of love and peace -- Chrissie :)*, 01:23:05 09/14/01 Fri [1]
Dear all,
It's comforting to know that we've all gathered together here to mourn those lost in the US tragedy. As they said on tv today, it's cathartic to be able to talk about how we feel in a group and mourn and let it all out.
Like you, Christy, when the UK opened their air space, earlier today when I was at home, I heard and saw planes flying over my house (I live near City Airport which is near the Canary Wharf Tower which I can see from my front door and bedroom window), it freaked me out cos the noise was so loud and like you, I was waiting for the bang and the crash - it was an impulse thought - on hearing the jet engines and thinking that it was flying too low. One by one the planes flew past and it was eerie each time. I'm glad I'm at home and not at work near the Canary Wharf Tower ....
Trying not to watch too much tv and to turn on the visualisation and also turn on the Reiki which I do everytime they show a live shot of the WTC building. I've also sone some distant Reiki healing towards the planet earth and everyone concerned and it was a good healing session, for myself as well.
May peace prevail and may the world start it's healing from this event soon, including all the families and everyone involved
Joe, Rosie, it's good to hear from both of you again (hugs).
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
[Edit] prayers to our American friends -- rosie, 00:30:51 09/14/01 Fri [1]
Dear Chrissie and all at the Path. I have been away from Melbourne so i have been unable until today to express my thoughts on what has happened in America.
I have lots of relatives and friends in the USA and have visited the USA many times so it brings home that the whole world is affected. My heart goes out to the many families that are grieving those loved ones that have died. I am in shock and surreal was the word that came to my mind as i watched events unfold. I hardly watch television anymore but what i saw was just something that i never thought i would ever see in 2001.
That men can go out and kill innocent people is something that i cannot fathom. Here in Australia we are united with our American friends in this grief.
Our world and innocence is changed forever. Already here in Australia there is a lot of anti Muslim feelings which saddens me.
Once again my prayers and thoughts are with the families and friends of the victims. We pray for world peace.
[Edit] I'm finding difficult to cope with my feelings re: US tragedy -- Joe, 20:06:37 09/13/01 Thu [1]
Good Evening all
Like many many people all over the world, I can't get my head round the events that occurred in America on Tuesday. I feel anxious and upset and close to tears everytime I think of all those people dying in such a horrible manner. I'm just (understandably)deeply saddened over the whole mess. I think part of my anxiety stems from the idea that America will surely retaliate for these atrocities and many more lives may be lost...I pray for peace and sanity, in a world that seems to becoming more insane with everyday that passes.
I send love and light to each one of you and prays for the victims, their families, the perpetrators of these crimes (that they can be forgiven) and for us (that we can maybe find a way to forgive those who have taken so many lives).
Oprah show dedicated to healing to air today or tomorrow -- Christy, 14:51:58 09/13/01 Thu [1]
Hey everybody,
I was sleeping soundly last night when a HUGE plan flew over my house so low that the windows rattled and woke me up.
We live near a miltary base, and I have to assume it was a miltary plane. But, I didn't know what it was and I kept waiting for it to explode. It took me more than 1 hour to get back to sleep.
I heard from my friend, Stacy who is an Oprah show producer. They are trying to air a show devoted to healing our spirits from this tragedy either Thursday, Sept 13th today or tomorrow, Friday, Sept 14th. Those of you in the US, please call your local Oprah station affilate and request the show. My local station was relieved to hear of the show, and the program director was going to plan to put it on after I called.
Tomorrow is National Flag Day. Everyone is putting flags on their houses or flags on their cars. I'm comforted by the show of support and solidarity that our nation is showing. We will rise above this tragedy and become a stronger nation.
Thanks for the comforting words, Chrissie, and others that have posted. It is a reminder that even in dark times we can be a great source of support for each other.
Love to all,
Christy
[Edit] Turn Off Your TV and Turn On Visualisation -- Chrissie :)*, 11:56:30 09/13/01 Thu [1]
Subj: InnerSelf Magazine: Special mailing: 09/12/01
Date: 12/09/01 18:28:32 GMT Daylight Time
From: newsletter@innerself.com (InnerSelf.com)
Due to the events in the USA and the many calls to action from people
all over the world, we are sending an additional mailing today to all
subscribers to give you certain links of interest for those of you
who want to know how you can make a difference.
Go to: http://innerself.com/newsletter/09_11_2001_feedback.htm
for:
1) an article by publisher Marie T. Russell, as well as
2) a letter from a group including Marianne Williamson, and
3) several other requests for action and prayer
4) comments from InnerSelf subscribers.
Marie T. Russell & bobby jennings, publishers of InnerSelf
--------------------------------------- Turn Off TV and Turn On Visualisation
Dear Friends,
Let us stay centered, visualizing light and the golden flower of life surrounding the devastation in Manhattan at this time and related air disasters. This together with prayer is a very powerful force when united.
Visualize the violet flame transmuting whatever dark energies precipitated these horrific disasters. We are the light workers of the world and our work is before us. Shut off your TV and radio as continually feeding your matrix this negativity throws you off center. You must stay clearly focused and use your power of visualization.
The energies that caused this disaster are in a reverie with a sense of triumph... this is the time when their defenses are down on a vibrational (and psychic) level. Now is the time when our united energies of light can have greatest impact. Stop what you are doing and take 10 minutes to visualize and pray. See the note below for suggestions as well.
Peace and Love,
Darby
Dear Friends:
I was woken up this morning at 6:40AM for no apparent reason, so I sat in my meditation chair and started to see what I received. They put me to work with the planet bringing peace and protection to the people... I didn't know why until 10:30 AM when somebody called me with the devastating news of what is happening Twin Tower in N.Y., Pentagon, Washington, etc.
This is the message I received...
"Today all day long try to keep calm and enter in meditation and envision the planet Earth in a circle of pink light (love) and then a circle of blue light (protection)."
"Try to see how all the people in the planet, especially in the United States, receiving these two energies .... call upon, Melchisedek for peace, Zadkiel, Michael and the Angelic kingdom for help".
"Do not give more energy to what is happening... turn OFF your TV"
If you know of any other methods, its also OK, but use them, let us avoid any further disaster, LET US ALL WORK TOGETHER TODAY... we need you.
[Edit] Serenity's Hope - In the future days - -- Chrissie :)*, 11:41:07 09/13/01 Thu [1]
Continued Reiki healing, loving thoughts and prayers continue to be sent to those affected in Tuesday's incident in New York and Washington ....
Subj: Lightworkers - Serenity's Hope - In the future days.....
Date: 13/09/01 09:27:00 GMT Daylight Time
From: serenity@namastecafe.com (Serenity)
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Namaste, Sweet Angels!
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"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a
world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of
speech and expression--everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of
every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The
third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means
economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy
peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world. The fourth is
freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide
reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that
no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression
against any neighbor--anywhere in the world."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to
generate actions that are evolutionary for you.
-- From, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth
and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and
for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall.
Think of it... always."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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All things are difficult before they are easy.
-- Italian Proverb
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I took the Victory Over Violence pledge (inserted below.)
I encourage you to read this, print it, and keep it by you
when you can see it and "repledge" every day. Please pass this
on to others you care about.
This pledge was start by students, yet it applies to any area of your
life - home, work, community and anywhere you find yourself
interacting with others.
Victory Over Violence Peace Pledge
I, (insert your name) will value my own life. Recognizing that a lack
of self-identity and hope for the future lay at the roots of all
violence, I will reach beyond my limitations, taking concrete steps
each day to uncover my real potential. I will never give up on my
dreams, even if they seem impossible.
I will respect all life. Recognizing that violence comes in many
forms, I will not isolate myself but will create an environment where
others feel comfortable and can be themselves. I will see beyond
superficial differences and reflect on my own behavior.
I will inspire hope in others. With courage, I will resolutely stand
up against violence, be it verbal, physical or passive and teach
others through my own example. I will support others and encourage
them to follow their dreams.
For more information on Victory Over Violence, please go to
http://www.vov.com
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How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now,
and that there will never be a time when it is not now.
-- Gerald Jampolsky
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RED CROSS INFORMATION
TO GIVE BLOOD:
Call 1-800 GIVE LIFE or contact your local hospital or health care
system. As you might imagine, it is currently very difficult to get
through on a phone line. Please be patient and attempt your call later.
Keep in mind that the need for blood will be ongoing for the next
several months.
TO MAKE A DONATION:
Call 1-800 HELP NOW or visit the online donation system:
https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp
If you are experiencing problems while donating online, it is due to
extremely heavy volume on the Red Cross website. Please try again later
in the week or call the 800 number.
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I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes
stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never
more brave than when we do that.
-- Linda Ellerbee
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AMERICA GRIEVES
All members of our Life Support family are affected by the
terrorist attacks in the United States today, September 11. Some
of our readers may have actually been present at the scenes of
the attacks; others may have lost their lives and many lost loved
ones. Most of us watched and listened from afar as these horrific
events unfolded.
General Omar Bradley wrote this several decades ago: "Ours is a
world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about
war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know
about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and
rejected the Sermon on the Mount." Today's attack on American
civilians demonstrates again our world's intimate relationship
with killing.
Good and decent people around the globe feel shocked and helpless
in the face of such indiscriminant violence. We are in shock, but
not completely helpless. Here are some suggestions on what you
can do:
1. Remember, most persons of particular nationalities and
religious or ethnic backgrounds are NOT in favor of attacks upon
innocent men, women and children. Such atrocities come from
extremist and radical groups. Our anger, though justified, should
not broadly target innocent civilians of nation or persons who
simply happen to represent a certain religion or ethnicity.
2. This is a time to stick together, as a nation and as a world.
All nations must work together to ensure that such atrocities
never be allowed to occur again. This incident should usher in an
unprecedented time of cooperation as we fight side by side
against a common evil. We can dedicate ourselves to the cause of
ridding the world of terrorism.
3. We can turn our anger and helplessness into constructive
action. Give blood at a donation center close to you. Generously
support disaster response groups with material donations and
money. Some churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious
communities have disaster relief funds that are set up to receive
donations for this emergency. Those of faith should also pray for
those who lost loved ones, those who are missing and wounded and
those who labor to rescue and comfort victims. Pray also for
victims and perpetrators of violence throughout the world.
4. All Americans (and others) who are stunned by today's attack
should find time to grieve. Consider attending a service at your
community of faith to help put the day's events and aftermath in
perspective as you grieve for and with families and friends of
victims.
5. War, whether it be a conventional war or act of terrorism, is
abhorrent to the human family. In the long term, you can channel
your anger and concern into constructive support of organizations
dedicated to global peace, including the eradication of
terrorism, and to groups that give aid to victims of violence and
war.
6. Rededicate yourself to loving others. Life is short -- cherish
every moment of it.
America will never be the same again. September 11, 2001 will
forever be remembered as a defining moment in our history. But
let the history books record it also as a time of unparalleled
cohesiveness as nations unite to comfort a country in grief
and to commit together to rid our planet of the scourge of
terrorism. May God grant us wisdom this pivotal day, comfort as
we grieve and healing as we move ahead together.
Steve Goodier, September 11, 2001
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Namaste
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http://www.namastecafe.com/
serenity@namastecafe.com
Evil, (ignorance) is like a shadow-it has no real
substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You
cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it,
stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of
emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause
a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
-- Shakti Gawain
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[Edit] joining hands & hearts with others in prayer -- Mae, 06:42:30 09/13/01 Thu [1]
Joining hands & hearts with others in prayer for forgiveness, harmony, love, and peace at this most deeply disturbing & challenging time...
Become the love and peace.
Love & Thanks to ALL for their caring, sharing, and words of wisdom,
Mae
[Edit] Special Healing Prayers for Us All -- Chrissie :)*, 23:57:58 09/12/01 Wed [1]
Subj: Lightworkers - Serenity's Hope - Special Healing Prayers for us all
Date: 12/09/01 19:30:15 GMT Daylight Time
From: serenity@namastecafe.com (Serenity)
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I see in my mind a little ball of golden light
I watch this light as it begins to grow larger and larger,
until now it covers the entire inner vision of my mind
I see within this light a beautiful temple
I see a garden that surrounds the temple and a body of water
that flows through the garden
I see that the inside of the temple is lit by this
same beautiful golden light, and I am here
For I have been drawn here by the power
and in the Presence of God
I dedicate my days and my relationships and
experiences to You
May Your Spirit, which is within me, so guide
my thoughts, my feelings and my perceptions of all things
That I might grow into a happier, more peaceful,
more loving human being
Illumine my mind, illumine my life
Amen
From Marianne Williamson's ILLUMINATA
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Dear Holy Spirit
There is someone whom I very much dislike
It is: (say your own)
My anger or unforgiveness is because: (say your own)
I know that my ability to forgive this person(s) is where my
freedom lies,
for my hatred and judgment are attacks upon myself
This hatred keeps me tied, and I am willing to be free
Dear Holy Spirit, please help me
I surrender to You my thoughts of this person's(s) guilt
I allow myself to fully feel my pain, my sense of violation
My fear that this person(s) will hurt me again
I take these feelings and place them in Your Hands
May Your Love be like a bonfire in which
my feelings can transform
I know my attack thoughts are hurting me,
And yet I feel I cannot let them go
And so I say this to You, dear Holy Spirit,
I am willing to see this person's innocence
I am willing to see the pain in him that would
make him do these things
I am willing to have my perceptions healed that
I might rise above, that I might no longer,
that I might be released from this wheel of suffering
For I know if I could drop this, I would be set free
I cannot do this for myself, Dear Holy Spirit
In spite of my pain, in spite of my resistance,
I pray for this person(s)
I ask that this person(s) be healed and given new life
As I ask for surcease from my own pain
For truly we are reborn or we die together
I know this
I am willing to have a miracle
I am willing to forgive
I need Your strength to do so
Thank You, Holy Spirit, for making me bigger,
for bringing me closer to the divine power in
my own heart
I surrender this person(s) to You
I surrender my pain to you
Heal Him (them)
Heal Me
Thank You.
Dear Holy Spirit
Take from me my rage
I feel such anger from my pain, my frustration
and my disappointment
I throw my anger in so many inappropriate places
I do not contain it or use it creatively
Dear Holy Spirit,
Please grant me the serenity and peace that I might
know my own power within my peace
Transmute my rage, transform my anger
that I might not direct it against others or myself
That it might be undone
Unraveled through the grace of the Holy Spirit
Where I am focusing on someone's guilt,
please show me his innocence,
for I know that my attack on him is my own damnation
I am willing to see everyone's innocence
Please show it to me
Thank You
Bless us all.
Dear Holy Spirit
I have been betrayed
Take away from me this pain
Let me not be tempted to wrong those who have
wronged me, or to hate those who hate me
But rather dear Holy Spirit, please use Your power
on my behalf
That through Your Love I might invoke the Light
That through Your forgiveness I might speed resurrection
That through Your grace the spirit of the Lord
might enter and make all things right
Let me not be tempted by darkness, even
though it is all around me
Let me continue to see the good in others
Even when they have turned the arrows of their fear at me
Be my shield dear Holy Spirit
And please be my protector
Awaken in others the truth in their hearts
And awaken the same in me
I have faith in You, dear Holy Spirit, to right
all wrongs, to make all things clear, to bring
light out of apparent darkness I hold to You
I bless those who have not blessed me
I forgive them and I forgive myself
Or so do I wish to do
I ask for Your help
I pray for comfort
Thank You very much
Amen
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Look within your very centered space and see the part of you that is pure
spirit. Pure light. Pure energy. Visualize all your limitations falling away
one by one, until you are safe, healed and whole. Know that no matter what
is
going on in your life, no matter how difficult things may be, at the very
center of your being you are safe, and you are whole. You always will be.
Lifetime after lifetime, you are a shining spirit - a beautiful light.
Sometimes you come to this planet and cover your light and hide it. But the
light is always there. As you let those limitations go, and as you recognize
the true beauty of your being, you shine brilliantly. You are love. You are
energy. You are spirit. You are the spirit of love shining brightly. Let
your
light shine.
Be aware that you are pure consciousness.
You are not lonely or lost or abandoned.
You are one with all of Life.
From Louise Hay's "Heart Thoughts"
Namaste
»§«:*´`³ Serenity ³´`*:»§«
http://www.namastecafe.com/
serenity@namastecafe.com
Evil, (ignorance) is like a shadow-it has no real
substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You
cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it,
stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of
emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause
a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
-- Shakti Gawain
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Hi all - the first thing I did this morning when I woke up was to switch on the tv, hoping that they'd found many survivors overnight; disappointed to hear that only 9 had been recovered. I watched the news all day on Sky, BBC, CNN and CNBC, constantly switching and watching all the live broadcasts by the FBI, President Bush, The US Press Secretary, the Mayor of New York etc; and updates as they came along, and kept hoping that new survivors would be found. About a couple of hours ago we had a live update that one of the fire chiefs found or rather heard that 5 people, possibly firefighters were trapped in the basement and I'm just waiting for them to be brought out alive.
I'm glad that most all of those at Morgan Stanley managed to be evacuated and am hoping that the reason why there aren't that many bodies is because most people managed to evacuate in time; and that the death toll is only in their hundreds instead of thousands.
I'm also glad I'm not at work as I work next door to the Canary Wharf Tower in the Docklands and that was evacuated yesterday shortly after the Twin Towers collapsed; as it's the main target in London. There are news bulletins galore at work and most of our employess at the World Trade Center were evacuated safely yesterday as well.
It still all feels surreal, like it's not happening and it's like something out of a movie. My heart and thoughts go out to those who have to deal with the loss of their loved ones and rebuild. Continued thoughts of love, healing energy and Reiki towards peace and love for the whole situation; and if we concentrate of love and peace, that is what we will get; and hopefully the situation will end peacefully and there will be no retaliation on any part, ie war declared etc. There's been enough loss of lives ....
Peace, Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
[Edit] I'm still trying to deal with what happened -- Christy, 16:36:52 09/12/01 Wed [1]
Hey everyone,
It helps to see the encouraging words on this website.
My daughter woke up this morning and insisted on checking the TV to make sure that the attacks hadn't happenened again in the middle of the night. I kept my composure and insisted that we were safe. I cried after I dropped her off at school knowing that I might not ever feel safe again.
People in my home state of Alabama are giving blood and donating to the Red Cross to help those victims in New York and Washington. A community wide prayer service in my hometown is scheduled for tomorrow night.
I felt like I've been watching a horror movie yesterday and I kept waking up last night thinking it was a nightmare.
Please pray for the rescue workers in New York and Washington who are witnessing untold horrors of human death as they risk their own lives to rescue their fellow human beings.
It is a truly shocking tragedy in the USA and i send all my love, peace and light to all those who have died, suffering from this atrocity. Words can not express what we all feel.
The hate that brought this to happen cannot win. Let love and peace enter and strengthen all our hearts and spirit and expand to all those that are away from the path.
Love, Peace and Light
Philip
[Edit] Sending Prayers and Love -- Loz, 13:03:31 09/12/01 Wed [1]
Yesterday's events were truly horrific and incomprehensible. I was physically sick yesterday and numbed by the events as they unfolded as I struggled to take it in. I couldn't bear to watch the news, so many loved ones suffering and dying and mostly avoided those horrific pictures. All I could do was pray for everyone, and I shall continue with my prayers that Universe will provide for all those people suffering whatever it is that they need to see them through this.
Healing Prayers to all.
Lorraine
[Edit] Never put off saying what is in your heart... -- Jen the Moonchild, 11:47:56 09/12/01 Wed [1]
Yesterday's events rings home how one should never put off saying what is in their heart. That being said:
Seven Days of Prayer -- Chrissie :)*, 00:19:55 09/12/01 Wed [1]
Subj: Lightworkers - Seven Days of Prayer - It took seven to create the world........
Date: 12/09/01 00:10:55 GMT Daylight Time
From: serenity@namastecafe.com (Serenity)
Join Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, James Twyman, James
Redfield and Doreen Virtue in this prayerful response to the recent
terrorist attacks on the US. We join with all the millions around the
world praying for peace, and for those who have been injured or killed.
Please send this out to as many people as you can so we can keep our
minds focused on peace.
Seven Days of Prayer
It took seven to create the world,
we now ask you to join us in spending
the next seven days recreating it.
Wherever you are, join us for the next seven days "FEELING" this new
world and praying it into existence. At 9pm EST, 6pm west coast time,
from September 11 to 18, simply feel the presence of millions around the
world who are praying for all violence to cease. Spend ten minutes in
silence each night knowing that we are creating a new world based upon
the laws of compassion and peace. Once again, please pass this on to
everyone you know.
A Letter from Neale, Marianne, James, James and Doreen:
Dear friends around the world.
The events of this day cause every thinking person to stop their daily
lives, whatever is going on in them, and to ponder deeply the larger
questions of life. We search again for not only the meaning of life, but
the purpose of our individual and collective experience as we have
created it-and we look earnestly for ways in which we might recreate
ourselves anew as a human species, so that we will never treat each
other this way again.
The hour has come for us to demonstrate at the highest level our most
extraordinary thought about Who We Really Are.
There are two possible responses to what has occurred today. The first
comes from love, the second from fear.
If we come from fear we may panic and do things-as individuals and as
nations-that could only cause further damage. If we come from love we
will find refuge and strength, even as we provide it to others.
This is the moment of your ministry. This is the time of teaching. What
you teach at this time, through your every word and action right now,
will remain as indelible lessons in the hearts and minds of those whose
lives you touch, both now, and for years to come.
We will set the course for tomorrow, today. At this hour. In this
moment.
Let us seek not to pinpoint blame, but to pinpoint cause.
Unless we take this time to look at the cause of our experience, we will
never remove ourselves from the experiences it creates. Instead, we will
forever live in fear of retribution from those within the human family
who feel aggrieved, and, likewise, seek retribution from them.
To us the reasons are clear. We have not learned the most basic human
lessons. We have not remembered the most basic human truths. We have
not understood the most basic spiritual wisdom. In short, we have not
been listening to God, and because we have not, we watch ourselves do
ungodly things.
The message we hear from all sources of truth is clear: We are all one.
That is a message the human race has largely ignored. Forgetting this
truth is the only cause of hatred and war, and the way to remember is
simple: Love, this and every moment.
If we could love even those who have attacked us, and seek to understand
why they have done so, what then would be our response? Yet if we meet
negativity with negativity, rage with rage, attack with attack, what
then will be the outcome?
These are the questions that are placed before the human race today.
They are questions that we have failed to answer for thousands of years.
Failure to answer them now could eliminate the need to answer them at
all.
If we want the beauty of the world that we have co-created to be
experienced by our children and our children's children, we will have to
become spiritual activists right here, right now, and cause that to
happen. We must choose to be at cause in the matter.
So, talk with God today. Ask God for help, for counsel and advice, for
insight and for strength and for inner peace and for deep wisdom. Ask
God on this day to show us how to show up in the world in a way that
will cause the world itself to change. And join all those people around
the world who are praying right now, adding your Light to the Light that
dispells all fear.
That is the challenge that is placed before every thinking person today.
Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the
beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and
hatred-and the disparity that inevitably causes it - in that part of the
world which I touch?
Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence
that is You.
What can you do TODAY...this very moment?
A central teaching in most spiritual traditions is: What you wish to
experience, provide for another.
Look to see, now, what it is you wish to experience-in your own life,
and in the world. Then see if there is another for whom you may be the
source of that.
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they
are safe.
If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help
another to better understand.
If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness
or anger of another.
Those others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for
guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understanding, and
for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for
love.
We love you, and we send you our deepest thoughts of peace.
Neale, Marianne, James, James and Doreen
Namaste
»§«:*´`³ Serenity ³´`*:»§«
http://www.namastecafe.com/
serenity@namastecafe.com
Evil, (ignorance) is like a shadow-it has no real
substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You
cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it,
stomp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of
emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause
a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
-- Shakti Gawain
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[Edit] Message from Michael Lightweaver re today's events -- Chrissie :)*, 00:08:56 09/12/01 Wed [1]
Subj: Lightworkers - (fwd) prayer / world trade center (from Michael Lightweaver)
Date: 11/09/01 23:21:55 GMT Daylight Time
From: RenukaSue@aol.com
Dear Friends,
This is what I was attempting to send out earlier with my note...it is a message from Michael Lightweaver regarding todays events. I got totally cut off from my AOL account for most of the day so if you did try to e-mail me
and got it returned I am now back online.
Again, please remember that our task remains the same -- to keep peace in our hearts and use our gifts to help those around us. Please remember prayer is powerful.
I am physically challenged and my computer links me to all of you. I felt very cut off earlier today and it is good to have this voice again. When I got disconnected from the online world I got to thinking on what it would be like if all our conveniences and modern technology were removed for a time. I turned within to send prayers and my kitty family drew close to me.
We must always keep our home light strong, especially our connection with the infinite. You are in my prayers. Be peaceful and take comfort joining in prayer with all of us.
Following this note is Michael's message to you.
Susan Renuka Dubin B.A., CMT
Spirit LifePath Counseling -- http://www.renukasue.nu
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Dear Friends,
The people of the USA today have experienced what many people throughout the world have been experiencing for generations - the fundamental insecurity that comes with terrorism, whether it is perpetuated by an underground
organization or a government. Those who felt they had no voice and no power have been both heard and felt today in a very dramatic and tragic manner.
We have reached both a crossroads and a turning point. Everything stands in the balance. We have received a Great Wakeup Call.
In this decisive moment I am calling upon the Global Network of Light, represented by the PAN association of networks, to assume Spiritual Leadership in helping to transform this crisis into a major evolutionary step
forward for our Planet. This begins first and foremost within our own hearts and Spirit.
At a human level there is the temptation to lock into the emotional body and be dominated by fear, anger, despair & uncertainty. As spiritual beings, we know that nothing is by accident and all things are in Divine Order and are
but steps to toward Ultimate Good.
Today I invite you to join me in opening your heart in deep compassion for those who have died and those who have experienced the profound loss of loved ones.
Today I invite you to remember Who You Really Are, Why You Are Really Here and What This Is All About.
Today I invite you to step outside of the drama as it unfolds on your TV screen and go inside to Your Reality Source.
Today I invite you to join me in holding a Vision Of Positive Transformation For Planet Earth - at all levels: Socially, Politically, Ecologically, Spiritually.
Today I invite you to hold a vision that the annals of history will record that September 11, 2001, was a turning point in history. That through a great tragedy of unspeakable horror, the people and government of the most powerful country on Earth, woke up. And through its leadership; political, financial and spiritual, a New Earth was conceived - a place and time of Peace, Prosperity & Justice for all people everywhere; where there were no longer desperate people resorting to desperate means to right the wrongs they felt.
Now is the time for leadership. It begins within each of our hearts. Now is the time to decide whether we will be swept away by media prompted mass hysteria or step outside of the drama - reconnect deep within, and hold firm to what we know is the true Destiny of our Planet.
To this end, I am not inviting you to do a meditation at a certain time. No, I am inviting each of us to Become A Meditation; to move into a continual state of meditation with a quiet mind and peaceful heart, asking only for the Highest Good to ultimately evolve out of this crisis. It will be the quiet, calm spiritual leadership that we exemplify in this moment that will transform both our own lives, the lives of those around us, and the planet.
I Am Michael
Michael Lightweaver
Network 2012/PAN
www.N2012.com
Dear all -- Thx Jen for sharing your message for prayers and thoughts to all those involved in the World Trade Center and Pentagon plane crashes. The whole world is probably in shock - I know I am; and I don't normally watch the news. A few emails that have come through my email box this evening, including yours, are per below; take what feels right and let the rest go ....
In response to the events on 9-11-2001 Author Dr. Doreen Virtue sent out a
letter to all lightworkers as follows:
Dear Lightworkers,
This is a time where our spiritual knowledge is put to a test, and where the "rubber hits the road." Right now, not only is smoke from the fiery crashes permeating the atmosphere, but even more -- millions of peoples' fears and worries. It is absolutely essential that we continuously give our worries and fears about this situation to God and the angels.
Please join me in a unified prayer today at 4:44 p.m. in your time zone, to pray for those who passed-on, for their families and friends, and for us all upon earth. Let us also pray for those who orchestrated this event, so that they are filled with peace instead of fear and anger. And let's pray for the politicians involved to act with Divine wisdom, in response, instead of from
their egos.
Please ask everyone you know to join us in prayer at 4:44 p.m. today. As the time zones sweep the earth in rotation, so shall our prayers encircle the globe. We now call upon all God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Mary, all of the ascended masters, all of the archangels, and every angel to intervene into this situation. We ask Archangel Michael to vacuum away all toxins of anger, fear, and darkness from the world and all of its inhabitants. May this situation transmute into a blessing, that results in peace. May your fears be replaced with faith, and may your worries be transmuted into peace.
God is Love, and Love is all there is. You are Love, you are eternal, and in truth, all is at peace now and forever. Let us cling to the knowledge of that truth today. If we succumb into fear, the illusion of war will grow. If we cling to the knowledge of God's eternal peace, we will reveal that truth as our reality.
- Dr. Doreen Virtue
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Subj: Lightworkers - United Grid work
Date: 11/09/01 22:07:46 GMT Daylight Time
From: magnussa@i-one.at (Elisabeth Frauendorfer)
Dear friends,
In view of the recent catastrophic happenings in the USA several Reiki grids and many independent Reiki practicioners are sending healing energies to those who are in need of it and especially to the victims' souls.
There will be thousands of Reiki channels active and I believe it is a good time to connect to everyone of them by intention to potentiate and amplify these postive energies and send this positive healing energies to the root of the
trouble - the fanatic Islamic fundamentalistic leaders to heal their sick mental state or clear their demonic attachments off of them. Normally I would not have the courage to suggest something like that to you because it is like pushing a walking rod into a big wesp nest, but in his Situation we will have the help of all the available Reiki Masters and practicioners and that is a powerful one-time opportunity.
So, please do the following:
1) Use Hon Sha Zeh Sho Nen or just your intent to connect to the other Reiki brothers and sisters. Shield yourself as well as possible with White Light for your own protection against Negativity coming your way.
2) MPR-initiates: Use RELEASE to clear off as many negative energies from the fanatic Taliban and other Muslim sect leaders and especially the sick minds of them
3) Send Sei Heki to them and amplify this energy with EMPOWER (MPR) or a 9-spiral circle Cho Ku Rei
4) Send Dai Ko Myo to them and amplify this energy with EMPOWER or Cho Ku Rei
5) Repeat this as often as possible. When you close the session or take a break, take care to protect yourself as good as possible, at least put yourself into a cocoon of White Light with a crystal mirror shield on the outer end of the aura that reflects the negative energies coming your
way, and sends them back to the sender. If you can transform this negative energies into energies of Love it would be even better!
I am sending a global MPR attunement and a re-attunement to everbody of you about every hour to make you energetically stronger, and I also join in with the energy work.
With love and MPR blessings,
Elisabeth
http://www.geocities.com/magnussa_phoenix
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Subj: Unite to send Global Reiki
Date: 11/09/01 18:03:51 GMT Daylight Time
From: ReikiNews@aol.com
To Reiki Practitioners and Healers Worldwide:
Please unite with us to send Reiki for the dead and injured and all those affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Also send Reiki for all related future events and to heal the planet.
Let us unite at this time of great need to create a continuous wave of Reiki and prayer around the world. Please Reiki every hour on the hour, wherever you are, as many times as you can or simply send it continuously.
To make it more effective, you could add a prayer such as: "May the greatest and most powerful Reiki energies in the Universe work together to heal this situation and to create World Peace" or you could use another prayer or affirmation of your choice.
As you send Reiki, you could meditate on the all the others worldwide who are sending Reiki and allow yourself to merge with this great Reiki stream.
To send Reiki for World Peace, you may wish to click on the link below and print out the World Peace Grid and send Reiki through the image, or through the image on your screen. Whatever method you choose, please send
Reiki as frequently and as regularly as you can.
World Peace Crystals Grids: Click on the link below or copy and paste it into your browser.
http://www.reiki.org/GlobalHealing/northandsouthp.html
This email has gone out to 25,000 Reiki people worldwide. Please circulate this email to as many other Reiki people as possible.
Thanks for your help,
Your Reiki friends at
The International Center for Reiki Training
http://www.reiki.org
p/s Loz, yes, there are no coincidences and yet I am amazed at how the spirits guided you to find Lighting The Path again and post here (smiles). Will be in touch soonest and many congratulations at the engagement! I look forward to talking with you soonest!
[Edit] Thanks, too, Jen -- Christy, 21:39:15 09/11/01 Tue [1]
Thanks, Jen for the posting. I'm so grateful that I don't live near Washington, DC or New York City. The citizens who live there must be terrified of what might happen next.
I can only pray right now that we make it through the night safely without any more attacks..
Love and light,
Christy
[Edit] I'm saddened and stunned by the events today -- Christy, 20:23:44 09/11/01 Tue [1]
Hey everyone,
Chrissie..Thanks for the kind words in your email.
This morning has been very tragic for my country. Many lives have been lost in the NY World Trade Center as many as 10,000 are being suspected. Many lives were lost on the 4 planes hijacked.
I believe in the spirit of Love that will prevail in the coming days as people cope with their injuries and the tragic loss of their loved ones. Tonight, my daughter and I will go to church and pray.
Please pray for everyone involved in these tragedies including the persons who caused the tragedies because only when we replace all hate with love can we really be safe.
I am here to offer prayers of healing, strength, courage, peace, love, forgiveness, etc. to all who live in the United States at this simply horrific time. It is such a shock that this has happened...so many souls effected! Also...to all angels at this site...I am extending an offer that I have made at other sites. If for any reason in the coming days those living in the States need to leave...please know that you have a sister in Canada (me) who's door is open to you. Deep deep peace...so it is...blessed be!
Hi there Chrissie,
Wow, that was good timing then!! When I posted that message, for some reason I wasn’t able to view all the other comments on the board, that was until I posted then I was able to go back to the conversation room. Ahhh well, all’s well that ends well as they say. That’s why I’d thought that you’d moved on, if I had been able to read the comments, I would have seen that you still visit regularly. It’s funny, I was just doing some housework on my computer at home, clearing out some old stuff and finding proper places for things to go. I was sorting out some images when I came across a scan I did of my aura photograph. So, I placed it on my desktop. When I turned on my pc the other night, there I was, aura and all, staring me in the face whilst my pc was booting up. It got me thinking,... I then went about finding a few of the sites that I used to frequent. That’s how I came to be on this site. It’s funny isn’t it how such a small action can lead us forward to communicate with other souls.... If you’ve read Celestine Prophecy it all makes perfect sense and doesn’t seem strange at all!! I recommend it makes excellent reading.
I guess I want to say,.. well "Hi there".. and "how are you?"! and what have you been up to?
I’ve got some exciting news in as much as, I am getting married next year!! I’ve been busying myself with making all the arrangements and shopping etc. I’ve pretty much sorted out most things now,... what a keener, I still have nine and a half months to go!! Peter is my boss at work... (who says that you should never mix work with pleasure?!) two years my junior. I love what I do at work, I can happily say I am a graphic designer now... all that hard work at college a year and a half ago paid off. So did the affirmations. I can truly say that I earn good money working at a job I truly enjoy doing for people I love! Wow, the power of that affirmation really worked!! I couldn’t have dreamed it would take it quite so literally ;-)
Hi there Chrissie,
Wow, that was good timing then!! When I posted that message, for some reason I wasn’t able to view all the other comments on the board, that was until I posted then I was able to go back to the conversation room. Ahhh well, all’s well that ends well as they say. That’s why I’d thought that you’d moved on, if I had been able to read the comments, I would have seen that you still visit regularly. It’s funny, I was just doing some housework on my computer at home, clearing out some old stuff and finding proper places for things to go. I was sorting out some images when I came across a scan I did of my aura photograph. So, I placed it on my desktop. When I turned on my pc the other night, there I was, aura and all, staring me in the face whilst my pc was booting up. It got me thinking,... I then went about finding a few of the sites that I used to frequent. That’s how I came to be on this site. It’s funny isn’t it how such a small action can lead us forward to communicate with other souls.... If you’ve read Celestine Prophecy it all makes perfect sense and doesn’t seem strange at all!! I recommend it makes excellent reading.
I guess I want to say,.. well "Hi there".. and "how are you?"! and what have you been up to?
I’ve got some exciting news in as much as, I am getting married next year!! I’ve been busying myself with making all the arrangements and shopping etc. I’ve pretty much sorted out most things now,... what a keener, I still have nine and a half months to go!! Peter is my boss at work... (who says that you should never mix work with pleasure?!) two years my junior. I love what I do at work, I can happily say I am a graphic designer now... all that hard work at college a year and a half ago paid off. So did the affirmations. I can truly say that I earn good money working at a job I truly enjoy doing for people I love! Wow, the power of that affirmation really worked!! I couldn’t have dreamed it would take it quite so literally ;-)
Gotta get on with some work now.....
Later
Love
Lorraine
[Edit] New Outlooks - Louise L Hay -- Chrissie :)*, 11:07:13 09/11/01 Tue [1]
New Outlooks
I enjoy new ways of thinking
We do a lot of vacillating between old ideas and new ways of thinking. Be patient with yourself through this process. Beating yourself up only keeps you stuck. It's better to build yourself up instead. Anything you say or think is an affirmation. Really be aware of your thoughts and your words; you might discover that a lot of them are very negative. Many people tend to approach life through negative eyes. They take an ordinary situation like a rainy day and say something like "Oh what a terrible day". It isn't a terrible day, it's a wet day. To create a wonderful day sometimes takes just a slight change in the way you look at it. Be willing to let go of an old, negative way that you look at something and look at it in a new, positive way.
Rachel, way to go on conquering your fear of heights!!! A round of applause!! Yes it does sound like a lot of our lives have progressed and though we all seem to stop by probably daily (I know I do (grins)), we don't have as much time to post as we used to, but our thoughts are here and I guess it's a nice place to congregate and share when we do have time; and it's also nice to look back on the archives and remember and read the inspirational material, and there are lots!
Loz, great timing, my message said I'd contact you again while on Sabbatical and today is the start of my Sabbatical leave! Yeah! Though I have much to do these first few days - have to tidy up at work still and then at home and there's lots of plans so maybe towards the end of this week or early/mid next week I'll be in touch. It's a shame you live so far away! The site isn't quite the same without the music I think - it's technical - as I use a free website, they prefer me to use their websites instead of voy forums etc so they can advertise etc; I'll work a way around it over the next couple of weeks and will be tidying up this website a bit and taking things back to 'normal' so to speak.
Higher and Higher
When we are in a state of upset, we know that we have strayed from the abundance of the Higher Self. All we have to do to heal the upset is get back on the Spiritual Path once again.
Pg 167 - Susan Jeffers
Thoughts of Power and Love
Say Yes! to You!
It's not about how far we have to go ... it's about how far we have come. The older we get, the farther we've come!
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There is plenty of time. And despite what the chatter in your mind (or anyone else's) is tellin gyou, it's all unfolding perfectly.
Pg 103
Susan Jeffers'
Thoughts of Power and Love
Michael, our thoughts are with you :)*
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
[Edit] (\o/) Hello Chrissie! -- Lorraine, 23:35:23 09/09/01 Sun [1]
Hey there Chrissie,
It was great to hear from you the other day on my answer machine. I'll get in touch with you soon, if you don't get in touch with me before. So nice to think that I am in your thoughts, as you are in mine.
It's been a while since I was here. Some things don't seem to be working quite as well as they were on the site, maybe it's a little hiccough, or perhaps you've moved on from here.
Please keep in touch and let me know how you are and what you are up to.
Lots of love and light to you,
Lorraine
[Edit] Love and Greetings from Rural Ireland - New E-Mail Address! -- Michael, 15:35:16 09/08/01 Sat [1]
Hi, Everyone - its been a long time - a lot has happened since I last posted a message - My most sincere apologies to those of you who may have sent e-mails to my old e-mail address (eslpr1@indigo.ie) and bounced. My new e-mail, provided by e-merge, Eircell's Mobile Internet Service here in Ireland, is far better in that if I get a new e-mail I get a text message to my WAP mobile phone over Eircell's Mobile Network and I can then either send a voice message or arrange to travel to Dublin or the nearest towns to check and Reply to e-mails - the numbers comprise my mobile number as dialled within Ireland (outside Ireland you would dial +353 87 210 8920).
Since moving back to my highly dysfunctional parents after 3 years it's very tough - Aunt Betty, the interfering busybody bitch from hell, not satisfied with pulling the plug on my flat when I would not live my life her way, broke up, via my parents, with all her mind games and crap, broke up the the frienddship with Lorcan, which she sees as not right for me because of my own and my parents childhoods - she has a quick answer for everything and always has done - she does look down on me and my parents and will not stop interfering while pretending and making it look otherwise to me and everyone else, talking me out of everything I want just for its own sake, just because at long last with Lorcan, I could get out of her control - she did this with a platonic friendship 6 years ago as well-using her connections to stop it - my parents have always have had a lot of problems in every way - I can see no other choice but to just not try anymore because as long as my parents and bettys family are alive I can never be allowed to get out of my box I have tried so hard to get out of and stayed in for so long out of respect for all of them sacrificing and putting my own life on hold for them
with Both Eamon and Lorcans friendships being split up by betty and parents and others in 6 years as well as the other crap what I really want to say can not be posted as it contains very strong language indeed but I will say this - as the longest day that they live and breathe, for all that they have done to me all thier lives and mine may gods curse come down on them and may they have no luck in thier own lives for it all from day one. there is an old Dublin saying that gives me great comfort right now "what goes around, comes around"
Ring, text or e-mail me - I dont want to turn into a bitter lonely old queen as I see everyone else happy it fills me with so much pain and hurt its like the knife twisting in the wound,
Love,
MIchael.
xxxxxxxxx
[Edit] Mountain Air -- Rachel, 08:18:02 09/06/01 Thu [1]
Hi to all at Lighting the Path
I'm still as high as a kite after our holiday in the Austrian Alps. We had a fantastic two weeks of hiking and swimming in the outdoor pool surrounded by snow-capped peaks.
I am afraid of heights and get vertigo on a ladder (!) so my challenges were very obvious this holiday. Our first day was a descent of 1300m and 10km through snow fields and zig-zagging on scree. By the end of the week I was fit enough to do a 5 hour hike with a climb up 700m to a high level Hutte (2400m). We passed by Marmot burrows and saw an eagle. The high point in FTF terms was a high level hike on part of the Nordalpenweg all at 2300m across scree with a sheer drop of about 700m and several points where rock climbing was more appropriate! I kept hearing my six year old daughter behind me saying "Uh-oh Daddy! Mummy's frozen again" !!! It took all of the focus, balance and leg strength I've developed through Tai Chi classes and practise but I was buzzing with excitement and acheivement when we got down six hours later!
I have been looking back too Chrissie. Someone prompted me to look back through the archives at my contributions. Where did that scared sad individual go? I was so needy. Lighting the Path may not have turned out as you hoped but it has been a haven of acceptance and kindness to all of us. I get so tied up in my busy life to contribute more often but that in itself is a testament to the progress I have made and the support I have found here. I am out there and life is good....
I just took a walk down memory lane (smiles) of what used to be years ago - went to Susan Jeffer's forum and remember how wonderful those days were until sadly Susan had to shut the forum down 'tempoarily' she said (smiles); and then took a look at Hay House, which is still the same (smiles) and glad I'm no longer there (sadly). Time has flown past; things and priorities change and life moves on in different directions. Lighting The Path hasn't turned out to be what I wanted and had hoped for it to be, ie a place that would grow and have a life of it's own, without the need for me to be around so much; though contributing from time to time. What will be will be; and all things will unfold as they will (smiles).
I'm off next week on my sabbatical for a month; so will have some time to play around on the website (and the other one) though won't spend too much time as I have lots of work to catch up on, namely my Reiki, reading, counselling course, gym session (I'm doing the BodyDoctor workout (yeah) - I think the website is at www.bodydoctor.com) which the cast of the Mummy2 crew used and highly praised; plus I'm starting my raw food diet and the kittens raw food diet and sorting out routines for us all; and space clearing the house etc etc; and posting the pictures on the web of all etc etc - ahh so much planned!!
Higher and Higher
When we connect with others from the Lower Self, it feels like a scary and potentially humiliating experience. When we connect with others from the Higher Self, it feels like an act of love.
If we don't make the Journey inward and upward, we will forever be alone. Once we find our Higher Self, we will never be alone.
Susan Jeffers
Thoughts of Power and Love
Higher and Higher
[Edit] Receiving Prosperity - Louise Hay -- Chrissie :)*, 20:39:39 09/03/01 Mon [1]
Hi Mary Ellen and all at Lighting The Path,
I picked up Louise Hay's Receiving Prosperity tape this evening and so inspired by it again, thought I'd share the link with you all ...
Receiving Prosperity: How to Attract, Wealth, Love and Success into your Life
by Louise L Hay
Christy, do you still listen to your version of Louise's Receiving Prosperitiy tape?
Has anyone heard from Monique lately? Rachel? Kasia? Mae? CarolB? Helloooooooo?
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
p/s Rianne, your emails sound delicious especially when you bake stuff - I'm sure that's what your email said (grins) - I could smell the baking from my computer! (chuckles)!
[Edit] New Issue of The Philos-O-Free Zone is Online -- Mary Ellen, 20:28:25 09/03/01 Mon [1]
Hi Chrissie and many old friends!
I know many of you enjoy reading Susan "Free Spirit" Castellano's perspectives on life and living, so wanted to drop by and let your know that Susan's newest issue of The Philos-O-Free Zone arrived today and is now online. The title of this issue is...
LIKE A SNAKE SHEDDING ITS SKIN
BELIEFS BEGIN TO FALL AWAY.
[Edit] I Love My Stomach - Louise Hay -- Chrissie :)*, 20:59:24 08/29/01 Wed [1]
Hi all,
Will write more later on during the week hopefully - rushed for time; and have a bad stomach ache .... have had it all day and will be taking a long hot bath and giving myself some Reiki healing shortly ..... hard to do it at work as there is nowhere to do it and one is constantly interrupted when sitting at one's desk; though I've been sneaking in moments here and there.
I Love My Stomach
It is with joy that I digest the experiences of Life. Life agrees with me. I easily assimilate each new moment of every day. All is well in my world. I choose the thoughts that glorify my being. I trust life to feed me that which I need. I know my self worth. I am good enough just as I am. I am a Divine, Magnificent Expression of Life. I assimilate this thought and make it true for me. I love and appreciate my beautiful stomach.
Louise Hay
Love Your Body
A Positive and Affirming Guide for Loving and Appreciating Your Body
Pg 55
p/s Christy, Rose, etc thinking of you guys; and Rianne, love your calming posts (smiles)
[Edit] Great picture of Joe and Rosie!! -- Christy, 15:02:43 08/24/01 Fri [1]
Hey everybody,
Chrissie..That's a great picture of Joe & Rosie. Such great looking folks. I've got a picture of me & my dog, Cleveland that I would like to add to the family album someday, if you can tell me how to do it or show me the instructions. I can digitize at Wal-Mart and email it?
Rose..Thanks for the sweet posts.
Rianne..Welcome to our spiritual support family..
Rachel..How goes it with you?
Hi to Phillip, CarolB, Dee, Jen, Rosie, Joe, ChildofLight,
and anyone else that I missed.
May all your paths be lit with heavenly light. I'm still on the 40 Day Prosperity Plan and feeling stronger everyday.
Love,
Christy
[Edit] Christians, the LOST PAGAN Tribe... -- Egyptiania, 11:11:06 08/24/01 Fri [1]
We are fairly sure that the mythical gnostic Jesus is descended directly from Horus,
Egyptian god of "light and goodness" and whose tomb was found late last year.
Possibly worth repeating a few of the parallels:
Horus and the "Father" are "one."
Horus is the "Father" seen in the "Son."
Horus is the "light of the world" and is represented by the symbolical eye and the cross, the signs of salvation.
Horus was "the way, the truth, the life" by name and in person.
Horus was baptized with water by Anup (Just as "Jesus" was baptized with water by John and apropos of something, "John the Baptist" is a much more historically compelling figure than Jesus).
Horus was also the "Good Shepherd," the "Lamb" and the "Lion" Horus was a member of a trinity,
comprising Atum the "Father", Horus the "Son" and Ra the "Holy Spirit"
Horus was the avenger (vs Jesus who brings the sword),
the afflicted one and life eternal (Nope the Egyptians were no more offended by contradiction than your common or garden Christian of today).
Horus fed a multitude on a few grains from the granaries and fish from the Nile.
Horus was also known as Iasu and the Khristos - which easily translates to "Jesus Christ."
Horus had 12 followers representing the astrological houses(The Har-Khutti).
Horus was born on the December solstice, was "killed for mankind", but "rose" again.
To crown it all, many phrases from the "sermon on the mount" decorate his 3,500 BCE sarcophagus.
Striking, isn't it. For a few other similar mythic characters with similar tales you could try: Osiris, Hercules,
Mithra, Hermes,
Prometheus and Perseus and many, many more.
Patrick Campbell, author of "The Mythical Jesus", notes that all are pre-Christian sun gods,
all allegedly had gods for fathers, virgins for mothers; their births announced by stars; were born on the solstice (around December 25th); had tyrants who tried to kill them in their infancy; met violent deaths; rose from the dead; and nearly all were worshiped by "wise men" and were alleged to have fasted for forty days.
Now compare the "Eye" of Horus with the "Fish" of the Christians - especially when drawn in sand. Combine that with the story of the loaves and fishes...
Hi all ... mega mega mega quickie! I just put Rosie and Joe's pix on the Home Page @ http://lightingthepath.fws1.com/index.html for those of you who wish to take a look (grins). It was taken in my garden last year. I haven't scaled it down (grins) - it'll have to do for now!
I'm missing Angel Indi lots tonite. A cat just died on the feline lymphoma egroup tonite and that always makes me sad and brings back memories of Angel Indi's last few days.
My kittens are saying it's time for bed and want me to go get read so I have to go - hi Rianne, Christy, Phil et all .... will post again later!
Love, Light & Blessings
Chrissie :)* & Angel Indi (ô/)
[Edit] thank you Philip! your sweet! -- Rose., 22:42:47 08/23/01 Thu [1]
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*The Power Of Love Can Transform A Difficult Kid!
Before you give up on your "difficult kid" read
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One of my first experiments with the power of
love occurred while I was working as a
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for juvenile offenders. Johnny was an emotionally
troubled boy with a knack for alienating adults.
He seemed to find endless ways to disrupt class
and place himself at the center of everyone’s
attention.
I am not an easy person to upset, but this boy
was quite good at stimulating great distress in
me. For some reason he focused all of his
attention on me, creating so much stress that I
seriously considered quitting my job.
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I decided to test the power of this simple
process in this impossible situation.
I was so angry with Johnny for causing me
immeasurable pain that I found it difficult to
visualize love surrounding him. Fortunately for
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and was suspended for two weeks. During his
absence I diligently practiced the technique not
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Everywhere I went he followed. It was as if I had
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* Pour Love Into Your Child's Life
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[Edit] Hello there everyone.... -- Rianne, 18:16:56 08/22/01 Wed [1]
Hi Chrissie ---- thanks for your lovely message! I live on the north east coast of England ---- 10 minutes away from the sea and North Yorkshire moors.
Glad you enjoyed my little list ---- I enjoyed making it! (o/) Still haven't mastered the "middle bit" of the angel yet!
Haven't posted anywhere for a while because I've been quite busy at work. Had a couple of hours off this afternoon and spent the time in the garden. Years ago I planted a row of about 20+ lavender bushes along a border in my garden and this afternoon I spent a long while filling a large basket full of glorious lavender! While I was busy out there so were the bees, butterflies and ladybirds! Such a lovely afternoon.
[[I tie the lavender with raffia in bunches and then dry it for autumn and winter. I've bought muslin, pale lilac ribbons and embroidery silks and when the nights begin to get dark will busy myself making lavender bags as pressies for Christmas!]]
Hope the kittens are fine Chrissie? They must be getting quite big now?
Sending love in bunches as always, take care & speak to you soon! Rianne.
[Edit] Oh Happy Day -- Christy, 16:34:20 08/22/01 Wed [1]
Hey Everybody,
Rose and Rosie..Great to see you posting again
Phillip..I started back on the 40 day prosperity plan. I can't wait to see how it manifests in my life.
Chrissie..I hope you enjoy your time off from work.
Rachel..How are you these days?
I'm doing much better after I survived food poisoning, poison ivy, attack of the yellow jacket wasps, a near miss with a poisonous spider, and almost bit into a snack from the vending machine crawling with ants. I think the universe has been telling me to look at my "poisonous" or negative thoughts. I've been spending more time in prayer and meditation daily.
I went to court yesterday to resolve my problem with someone suing me. I was so nervous but everything went my way.
I'm so grateful. I'm trying to overcome my feelings of lack as I do the 40 day prosperity plan.
Have a great day,
Love,
Christy
[Edit] hi guys -- Philip, 14:44:33 08/20/01 Mon [1]
Hi all,
Just finished the 40 day prosperity plan, and took some doing to continue for the 40 days, with kicking myself to make sure i did it got to the end, for me i can say it has helped even whilst doing it, helping change some negative thinking, to new positive ways of thining and looking at things. I would recommend having a go at for anyone. could help in all sort of ways. Takes a bit of will power to change old ways and a bit of using are inner strength and not listen to all the do do its from our crazy minds.
Way to go Rose, wish you all the best with your new relationship.
Had a great weekend went sat in with chrissie to a reiki which was really good seeing new people learning abour reiki, and feeling, seeing all the energies. Quite something when healing each other and 'amazing' things happening. Will be interesting where this leads.
Love and Light, Peace and Inner strength
to all who come here
[Edit] Happy,Joy,Joy. -- Rose, 17:23:43 08/18/01 Sat [1]
I am as happy as can be my date went perfect ,just meet the my twin his name is warren,and its 32, and a taurus to like me,we got too much in common! he's german and Israeli,his dad is from israel,and mom germany Wow!Smiles, I a little like us here. we came almost from the same backroun soo much in common! aleluya!!! I wish to just for the best! well enough of that! I just want to share a little heaven! Love and Light Rose.
Hi Rose - you have such courage and strength within. I admire you. I don't quite know the full details or how long this has been going on, but you've got some courage! It took me so long to get over Carlos, which has now been 3 years almost and I'm still single and haven't been on a date (grins) - ain't that something! Instincts tell me that it's cos God has other plans for me as I have work to do and a relationship would be too distracting for what I need to do right now in my life which is far more important. Gee those words just flowed like they were channelled from me (smiles). When the time is right, it'll happen, though it's nice to have someone to cuddle up to and the physical contact is indeed missed. But all in good time! I'm amazed that you're already going on your first date!! Way to go!! Maybe for me, my standards are too high (grins) - I do remember when I was younger, guys were always flocking around though now I do things to avoid the looks and attention, ie by what I wear and I no longer drink or go to pubs etc so I don't meet the same kind of people I used to as I hang around different places now (smiles), ie Reiki Circles instead of pubs (chuckles).
It sounds like you've managed to pull yourself together and especially way to go re your poems! Do share them here with us when you get the chance - it would be wonderful to read them!!! A gift indeed!
Love, Light & Hugs
Chrissie :)* (ô/)
[Edit] wish you well ! Rosie. -- Rose., 18:50:11 08/17/01 Fri [1]
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2000 toyota corolla -- 2000 toyota corolla (2000 toyota corolla), 03:30:33 03/24/07 Sat [1] 
Holiday greetings.. -- Christy, 16:44:33 12/19/01 Wed [1] 
Surrender to Love - by Sanaya Roman -- Chrissie :)*, 16:52:20 12/16/01 Sun [1] 
A Wave of Conversion to Islam in the U.S. Following September 11 !!! -- Jesus Lover, 23:08:44 12/08/01 Sat [1] 
hi all , hello Chrissie -- Rose :-))), 17:55:50 12/07/01 Fri [1] 
Happy Birthday Dear Jennifer -- Chrissie :)*, 01:30:17 11/11/01 Sun [1] 
Reason, a Season or Lifetime -- Chrissie :)*, 13:32:37 10/31/01 Wed [1] 
My heart is heavy -- Christy, 20:31:50 09/14/01 Fri [1] 
positive -- Rose, 22:39:42 08/23/01 Thu [1] 
