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Friday, November 23, 2007

Universal Oneness


For all the keeners, seekers, questers, philosophers, drifters, and new-age shape-shifters who, in these politically corrupt times, in these socially distorted times, in these ecologically bereft times, who in these zippy, zany fast-lane techie-times wish to define and express something of enlightened spiritual value, I invite you to explore with me:

U N I V E R S A L O N E-N E S S.

There has never been a more poignant, vital, urgent and magnetic time to offer ourSelves, our entire Beingness, our Unlimited Source of Creative Inspiration and Imagination to a Higher Source- a Source which connects each and every one of us together, in a Unified Field of Collective Intent.

This is NOT the time for selfish elitism, superiority/ inferiority complexes, hierarchical models of self-importance and religious/ spiritual segregation. Nor is it a time for fear-mongering or materialistic identification, or human-centric hyper-individualism. Anything that creates cold alienation and heartless separation between you and I, anything that wedges a divide of negative judgment between us, or assigns a specific, systematised value to something or someone, must certainly be reconciled and resolved if we are to unite together in the Spirit of Universal Oneness. The time is NOW, in fact, it was yesterday………..and we have a lot of catching up to do.

Universal Oneness is the United Compassionate Truth of our Collective Divinity, through whatever distinct means, definitions, names, rituals, ceremonies, actions, thoughts, emotions, and dreams we may personally access this. As long as the Source is of Love, Compassion, and Acceptance, as long as we are compassionately conveying without manipulatively persuading, then we are weaving our unique free-will threads together on this Loom of Destiny we all share.

Your God is no better than my Goddess………..we are all finding our path to Source through richly diverse means. Religious righteousness only creates damaging separation. Express your God/ess, and true LOVE will always follow, whether it be through the teachings of Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Quan-Yin or Kali-Ma. There are Universal Truths in every Religion, Spiritual Walk and Enlightened Path. It is our responsibility to seek, to find and to express this Universal Truth in creative ways so we can come together in ONENESS. It is time to co-create our collective reality from a place of L O V E.

Each one of us is a sacred mirror for each-other. If ya spot it, ya got it! Rejection of another, harsh criticism of another, is only a manifestation of what we choose to deny or reject within Self. Antagonism, animosity and external challenges are again, mirrors of conflict existing within. Find the inner source of these reflections, and like puzzle pieces, connect them together, see their larger picture. WE are ONE, even in our apparent irreconcilable differences. And our Earth is OUR ONE HOME………

Universal Oneness is inherent in the Messages of Truth within each culture, language, and religion/ spiritual path. Any being can access it and accept it without feeling "other", without feeling ostracized or appropriated, without feeling wronged. The future sustainability of our Earth depends on our access and expression of Universal Oneness, of knowing we are all in this together, of co-operating together and co-creating together. Of resolving our differences instead of trying to come first or be right. In trying to shine light, we become a brighter day of hope, inspiration and divine expression.

Remember, if it creates separation, it creates a kind of death, or sabotage.
Choose Life.
Own your passion, your love, your inner heavens and hells.

LOVE is the only rEVOLUTION worth igniting for……………………

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

A Poem: Return

Here it is.
It is a dazzled, hypnotic suspension of bone
floating......
floating whalebone.

It floats
beyond between away and through
a depth of water neither here
nor there.

Before timeless
and after gravity,
defying-
it floats.

It floats
like some surrealist dream fragment
uttering the very first
contemplation of its waking.

And it will not
cannot
sink
(this bone)
floating bone of whale
it's lifted flesh already forgotten
in the perilous ocean's
(there are many oceans)
fierce and ruthless drive to raise
it's liquid mountains
(unfathomable mountains and pyramids
and frenzied hieroglyphs of neptunian tongue)

Out of Moon and Tide
and the ever questing Suns of epic men
this bone dances a floatdance
beyond eternal dimension.

And the hungered, spilling womb of the cosmos
maps itself through the harmonic convergence of it's waters
and holds the bone
(hold the bone now)

The beyond-time whalebone
is here.

It steers itself by geometric design,
spinning fractals,
so silken dolphins can dream of these shapes
before they arrive
with Godhead.

Hold the bone now.
It is the one Adam stole from the ecstasies of Lilith
so she would forever disembody
in the name of epiphanies sung to vacant virgins

Hold the bone now.
It is the bolt of lightning
no sight has ever glimpsed
except in the luminous, cascading pearls,
sudden and ecstatic,
from the loins of Poseidon

Hold the bone now.
It is remembering itself in order
to forget it was ever realized-
only desiring.

Desiring to vertebrae
the return of the

to vertebrae

the return
of

to vertebrae the return


to
vertebrae
by vertebrae
by vertebrae

Return.

-Amaya Dana O'Duir-

Monday, November 5, 2007

Indigenous Heart



Irrespective of where we presently reside geographically, we all carry within us an
Indigenous-Heart imprint which intimately connects us to the original ancestral lands of the related peoples whose bloods flow in our veins. The rich stories, traditions, foods, languages, echoes and historic memories of our ancestry are alive in us today, should we choose to intimately touch them with our conscious remembrance and our earnest inquiry.

We are the past, here now. If we are to live sustainably upon this bountiful and live-giving Earth, we should become intimately aware of what is happening with the past, present and future stewardship of the precious, and often times unrenewable resources from the lands of our birth, the lands of our ancestry and the lands we currently call home. It is the responsible thing to do. If we decidedly ignore this, the Indigenous Medicine of the Land may be, (and more often than not has already been) unjustly claimed, appropriated and exploited by selfish corporate interests for capitalist profit. This compromises our future sustainability.

Globally, traditional stewardship of indigenous land is being lost and vital bridges burned. There is a growing discontinuity between the peoples who have for generations, farmed, protected, sustained and guarded the integrity of the land and its resources and the imposed (and often violently enforced) economic structures that seek to "own" them. This is the cause of much political corruption, violence, abject poverty, and socio-political unrest in many places today. However, this CAN be transformed through the power of unity, and with compassionate, direct action and love. Send your sincere prayers and blessings forth abundantly-DAILY and touch your Indigenous Heart. Listen to what Heart tells you.

Know our land and it's generations of people and story. Consider where our waters come from and how to protect their flow and health. Plant an edible garden and include native species and sing a song for its beautiful vision of sustenance. Walk gently and barefoot in the dirt of community gardens and know your love of our earth. Protect our local agricultural lands and support local farmers and growers, especially our organic producers. Be brave enough to have an audible voice in our community and to express solidarity with those who seek true justice and harmony. Save your seeds. Take radical action when the earth calls for your stoic protection-you'll know when you are called. Preserve our Indigenous Hearts by Remembering the Land. Vow not to forget. And remember to Dream. Dream Big, like there is only one dream left for us all to share.