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Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 119 Days – 4/14/2017

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Earth, isn’t this what you want: an invisible arising in us?…What is your urgent command, if not transformation?
— Rilke, Ninth Duino Elegy

on this good friday, this day of crucifixion, i contemplate Rilke’s question as a centering thought and turn to one of my transformational teachers’ words of wisdom…

Nobody who finds himself on the road to wholeness can escape that characteristic suspension which is the meaning of crucifixion.

For he will infallibly run into things that thwart and “cross” him:

first, the thing he has no wish to be (the shadow);

second, the thing he is not (the “other,” the individual reality of the “You”);

and third, his psychic non-ego (the collective unconscious).

  The Psychology of the Transference
Collected Works 16
Paragraph 470
~Carl Jung ~

Yet, although the attributes of Christ (consubstantiality with the Father, co-eternity, filiation, parthenogenesis, crucifixion, Lamb sacrificed between opposites, One divided into Many, etc.) undoubtedly mark him out as an embodiment of the self, looked at from the psychological angle he corresponds to only one half of the archetype.

The other half appears in the Antichrist. The latter is just as much a manifestation of the self, except that he consists of its dark aspect.

Both are Christian symbols, and they have the same meaning as the image of the Saviour crucified between two thieves.

This great symbol tells us that the progressive development and differentiation of consciousness leads to an ever more menacing awareness of the conflict and involves nothing less than a crucifixion of the ego, its agonizing suspension between irreconcilable opposites.

Aion

Page 44

~ Carl Jung ~

suspending across the tensions of the opposites, letting go of everything is indeed not a path for the faint of heart… as Jesus tells us…

it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God (Matthew 19:24)

when one does answer the call to take up the cross, the symbol of wholeness, and walk the path of individuation crucifying the illusory egoic identity, one opens the portal to the SELF, sacred space of nothing/everything, cosmic consciousness, a sense of immortality, a uniting of the opposites bringing us to the doorway to heaven…

namaste

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 118 Days – 4/13/2017

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on this day celebrated in the christian world as Maunday Thursday, the last supper, this peace pilgrim invites you to pilgrimage with the caravan of re-joy-sing to the third chakra of the earth in Ayers Rock at Uluru, Australia where the world began to celebrate in complementary fashion, the first supper…

let us begin with a little clean-sing as we wash each others’ feet moving onto tao-sing as we anoint each other with holy water as we pass the peace seamlessly from one to another to another saying, “you are my beloved, i open my heart to you…

now, let us gather round the table for a deep communion of choosing love, an agape feast in the lower room with the third chakra of the earth in the background…

before we share the fruits of the earth that thirteen grandmothers offer for all our relations, let us take a moment to center ourselves…

The Lady’s Prayer

Our Lady, who lives at the heart of all form,
Hallowed be thy name.
May the Queendom come,
May thy Will be done
That heaven may come to earth.

Please allow me this day
To drink from your sacred, silver spring.
And forgive me my forgetting
As I learn through your Grace
To return all non love with Love.

And take me by the hand
And lead me step by step
Into the patient valley of your Heart

For yours is the earth, my body and my life
For ever and ever.
Amen

Richard Rudd

The Seven Sacred Seals Portals To Grace, 2015

~

may peace, love and joy be at the center of every breath…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 117 Days – 4/12/2017

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journey with me to the bend in the river

to reflect in silence the circular way

come home to the heart, sacred space of surrender

where love flows freely every moment of the day

to reflect in silence the circular way,

rest in the center of the whirling water wheel

where love flows freely every moment of the day

re-joy-sing in beloved’s whisperings… only love is real

rest in the center of the whirling water wheel

to be breathed into perfect balance with deep mystery

re-joy-sing in beloved’s whisperings… only love is real

dancing at the stillpoint in harmony

journey with me to the bend in the river

to reflect in silence the circular way

rest in the center of the whirling water wheel

to be breathed into perfect balance with deep mystery

~

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 116 Days – 4/11/2017

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awakened april is also national poetry month, my intention is to post a poem each day of this moon and so far i have… today, as we rest in the glow of this moon and bathe in her healing light, outer and inner birds  flock around reminding me to be openhearted and free  and singing a joyful song…

may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old

may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young

and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there’s never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile

~ e.e. cummings ~

(Complete Poems 1904-1962)

may we all travel in peace…

From today onward
Until the attainment of enlightenment
May I be willing
To live with my chaos and confusion
And that of all other sentient beings.

May I be willing
To share our mutual confusion
And work incessantly and humbly
To help and elevate everyone without exception.

Tibetan Prayer from Light the Flame

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 115 Days – 4/10/2017

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woo hoo! the full moon in libra is here offering the perfect moment to be of service by being lovingkindness, compassion and support… when we give from a pure place, everyone is elevated…

draw down the energy of this full moon and lady luna will spread your joy and love and peace across the cosmos…

placing our hands in prayer position on our heart center, let us invoke the power of the moon with our intention…

Mother Moon, we wish to take your powerful energy tonight along with all the love, compassion and peace in our one heart and soul, and wrap it around the world 1000 times over. Mother Moon, we ask that you allow us to radiate joy and peace wherever we go, so we may inspire others as well as ourselves.

~

From today onward
Until the attainment of enlightenment
May I be willing
To live with my chaos and confusion
And that of all other sentient beings.

May I be willing
To share our mutual confusion
And work incessantly and humbly
To help and elevate everyone without exception.

Tibetan Prayer from Light the Flame

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 114 Days – 4/9/2017

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i love the rhythm and synchronicity of today… here we are on the weekly segment of  an image worth a thousand words illustrating the astonishing light of your being and simultaneously it’s the five year anniversary of  a spontaneous remission of throat cancer… i still re-member as if it’s this very moment the miraculous news of the disappearance of the lesions… in this moment, it is so real how miraculous the birth of  a baby is, something i once took so for granted and how miraculous all our relations are… the trillions of processes whirling around and around… i close this piece as i open and close each day…

From today onward
Until the attainment of enlightenment
May I be willing
To live with my chaos and confusion
And that of all other sentient beings.

May I be willing
To share our mutual confusion
And work incessantly and humbly
To help and elevate everyone without exception.

Tibetan Prayer from Light the Flame

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 113 Days – 4/8/2017

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holy synchronicity! it’s the eighth (alpha and omega) day of awakened april, a day that always echoes rebirth and coming alive… five years ago, the clown rags t. o. riches transfigured into bee u. tee fool… two years ago, i transported to an outer place that i had dreamed of and imagined since a wee child…

as a child swimming in the ocean on the outer banks of the new world

i imagined seeing across the sea to faraway cornwall of the old world

today, the tides have brought me home to a dream cave i re-member so well

when we danced as dolphins and chanted beloved’s songs

calling all who could hear to enter this heart portal

and break open the genius dream seed….

~

today, the magic of  4/8, 4+8=12 reverberates and i re-member the series of dreams as a 12 year old of being joseph with the coat of many colors… do you re-member your inner dreamer? do you hear the eternal whispering to you? step into the portal of this dream cave and feel your genius seed break open and carry you home, carry you into your soul and the tiny space of the heart… listen to rumi’s poem of the inner eternal, the dreamer we must re-member…

Has anyone seen the boy who used to come here?…
You know that one.
Have you heard stories about him?
Pharoah and the whole Egyptian world
collapsed for such a Joseph.
I’d gladly spend years getting word
of him…

~

may we all re-member and be faithful to the dream of our soul and this gift calling it came to life to give…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 112 Days – 4/7/2017

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yesterday was such a profound day of movement in the states… one moment the filibuster, the next the nuclear option, a few moments later strikes against a far-off land unleashed and i think of one of my favorite poems…

The Second Coming

William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
~
now, is the moment for inner awakening, for listening for the call of our soul, the whispers of our one heart to come home and tend the garden of our genius, the spark of light, the inner flame that is eternal and immortal, the dream that will never die…. yes, we may sleep at length until troubles awaken our beauty way…

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 111 Days – 4/6/2017

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today, the 111th day of the poetic peace pilgrimage vibrates at a miracle frequency… can you feel the spirits all around opening our eyes and heart to the oneness we are?

when we re-member we are all relatives, we are all a part of a greater whole, peace, gratitude, love and compassion organically arise…

as Alan Watts expressed in the love revolution of the sixties:

If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that.

Poetic PEACE Pilgrimage – Year 4 – Day 110 Days – 4/5/2017

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Dance, dance wherever we may be

We are the soul of the dance said she

And we’ll live as one wherever we may be

And we’ll live as one in true harmony

~

Emerge from the sea free to be

dancing rainbow poetry

Every step grounds me in love

thanking the sun, moon and stars above

~

From today onward
Until the attainment of enlightenment
May I be willing
To live with my chaos and confusion
And that of all other sentient beings.

May I be willing
To share our mutual confusion
And work incessantly and humbly
To help and elevate everyone without exception.

Tibetan Prayer from Light the Flame