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Though there are torturers/ There are also musicians

Though there are torturers in this world

There are also musicians

from a poem by Michael Coady

A city that the sun has staked to the ground and dared to survive. A city that hums with the silent impact of thousands of rolling miles of sand waves washing round it.

A poet is woken in a woman’s bed, woken by the sound of her husband crashing his huge body against the door and roaring. The poet leaps from the window and goes flying across rooftops,… Continue

Added by Dave Rock on January 27, 2009 at 1:58pm — No Comments

NOW

In this moment

The sun glitters breathless and ecstatic

In a clear clear sky

In this moment

A polar bear drowns

From melting ice

Hold on

To it all

Light

Dark

and everything in between

It's all You

Ever wonder

how much

one little heart can hold?

All of it.

There's room for it all.

Sometimes it has to break… Continue

Added by Velcrow Ripper on January 24, 2009 at 4:12am — 3 Comments

I've given birth to myself

I’ve given birth to myself in muddy fields

Sweaty crowds dancefloors

Of Achilles heels

Open throats and eyes

Inky outcrops of rock

Slumping into the sea

Thinky fingerprint stained

Sheets of paper

I’ve

Been reborn as me

More times than there are names for god

There are monasteries devoted

To notating tabulating remembering

And celebrating my birthdates

My star charts expand in fractal arcs

Astrologically… Continue

Added by Dave Rock on January 22, 2009 at 4:47pm — 1 Comment

"The Dawning of Our Possibility"

"There are many issues that divide..We have to find the right ones that unite us..Or we all lose Our capacity to be able to be..The New Authors Writers and Agents of the very Change..We say we desire and seek..For this Day is "The Dawning of Our Possibility"..Daton O. Fullard 2009 This Piece is dedicated to all those who came before us..To give us a Vision of What We each can someday aspire to be..Their many names are written in the Library of My Blood and Soul..it is The very first page..Of… Continue

Added by Daton O Fullard on January 21, 2009 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

DARE TO DREAM!

"Hope and sincerity are the new punk." - Antony

light-person

DARE TO DREAM

For now, let go

Just for now, let it all go

Your worries, your fears

Your addiction to suffering

Put your despair and…

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Added by Velcrow Ripper on January 21, 2009 at 1:30am — 2 Comments

Barack Obama and the flow of Universal Spirit

From the first moment I heard Barack Obama speaking, though his venue is politics, I felt that he was emerging as a "voice of interfaith". I watched on television as he announced his candidacy, I joined his web network the day it was put on line. I followed his amazing campaign, as he organized the most powerful political network in American political history. I watched him as he appeared on hundreds of stages and platforms, repeating his positive and visionary message, in a humble and… Continue

Added by Bruce Schuman on January 20, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

Gandhi Peace Walk -- Stories From The Road

Follow Your Bliss by Dermot Butterly aka Gandhi Rolling Stone

Greetings my dear readers. Here I sit in my little camper in the long-term parking lot of the Oklahoma City airport hoping they don’t kick me out in the middle of the night. You see I just returned from a few days in Los Angeles getting some dental work done and now I’m back on the road. I’m feeling quite sad and even a little sorry for myself. The transition from a hot apartment, great meals, and the warmth of my… Continue

Added by Dermot Butterly on January 19, 2009 at 6:20pm — 1 Comment

Tired out, talked out, thought out

So many words. So much to say. My head, these days is fuller than it has been in ages. Thoughts, pop in and out all day long.... iPeace is often in my mind - the people, Gaza, and all the rest. Sometimes it is just too much to think about - and we all know our limits. I remember getting physically sick from following a war. So into it, it got into ME.

I find it is impossible to free my brain to relax: am I being egotistical to want to do so? I feel, maybe I am. But like I say,… Continue

Added by Stephanie on January 19, 2009 at 1:58pm — 12 Comments

hope

http://thejc.com/articles/why-i-did-not-rally-israel

i believe israel has made a terrible mistake for precisely the reasons mr freedland expounds so eloquently. however, there are many anti zionists who are using this issue to hate jews, and that tears at my heart.

we are all human. we are all in pain right now, and none so much as the families of those innocent palestinians who have lost their lives . the fighting has to stop. - violence only spreads like poison - it… Continue

Added by phil on January 19, 2009 at 8:00am — No Comments

We Are All So Different - We Are All The Same

A woman from Ucraine asked why I have so many pictures on my walls, in her home they just have the Madonna; I was asked by am American friend why they don't paint the old buildings in Italy; some Europeans show up to a dinner with wine, cake, as well as perhaps a gift and flowers, while other nationalities show up empty-handed; a Russian guest once drank all the cola in the hotel's refrigerator, thinking he didn't have to pay for it; in China 200 people waited for me (I was the last one) to… Continue

Added by Stephanie on January 12, 2009 at 8:33pm — 8 Comments

YES, you can choose PEACE right now!

Today I received an e-mail showing terrible pictures... about what's really going on in Gaza, it says (I was feeling, I was really manipulated)...

I was sitting in front of my computer devastated, and could not believe what my eyes were seeing... I remained a long time in front of these pictures... then, of course, I started to cry... as an empath, I could not NOT feel the pain, the suffering, the outrage, the lack of respect toward human rights... human LIFE... God's LIFE... God's… Continue

Added by ♥ Sara ♥ Raleiah ♥ on January 16, 2009 at 7:30pm — 14 Comments

Harmonic Entrainment Under Infinite Voltage

I can feel the ground moving. Obama is coming into Washington DC, Hillary in Thailand told me this morning that we're shifting into Aquarius, I can feel it in my body. There is a tremendous readiness in our collective evolution. We are ready for something -- poised, prepared, passionately crying out, knowing.

I read this blog post on Emergence this morning. It's so direct, so to the point. That call is directly received in… Continue

Added by Bruce Schuman on January 18, 2009 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

"If I Could Be"

If I Could Be

If I could be thy light that shines

bright in your darkest night

If I could be thy hand needed to dry

your too many tears that you shall cry

If I could be thy answers to thy often

questions when you ask of me why

If I could be thy Joy when thy are fully

surrounded only by moments of sadness

If I could be thy courage to replace in you

all of my many moments of… Continue

Added by Daton O Fullard on January 18, 2009 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Three Fine Flames are Gone

In answer to David's "I cry with you Abu al-Aish"

Three Fine Flames are Gone

These three bright flames are gone

whose fires once warmed our lives

this world just cannot weep enough

for all this pain within your heart,

nor can we fathom why they went

why were these flames snuffed out.

The inconsolable tears of a father

for all this pain and grief, he’s lost

the three most wonderful flames

that brightened… Continue

Added by David Gould on January 18, 2009 at 2:18am — 2 Comments

EMERGENCE

Human beings are a complex concoction, a molten mixture of mind, body, spirit, and shadow; a combination of the mental, physical, and spiritual plus all the goop from the dark cellar of our psyches, all coming together to create a fragrant, stinking, steaming sumptuous human stew that is uniquely me, uniquely you. To bring all these elements, and the many elements within these elements, into conscious harmony, to become an integrated… Continue

Added by Velcrow Ripper on January 17, 2009 at 9:42pm — 3 Comments

I cry with you Abu al-Aish

The deaths that opened the hearts of many Israelis.

So many deaths in this bloody war between Israel and Hamas have been in vain. If anything can be a consolation to Dr. Ezzeldeen Abu al-Aish at this unimaginable hard time, is the fact that the death of his 3 daughters opened a channel between Palestinian hearts to the mainstream Israeli hearts.

It happened last night, and the events were broadcasted live in prime… Continue

Added by David Califa on January 17, 2009 at 6:37pm — 59 Comments

iPod and iPhone as subsitutes for iMind and iPeace?

iPeace as a sustainable "Global Movement"?

Yes, it is indeed a very thoughtful mission in those modern times of proliferating "quick-and-greedy" solutions around the globe, where our actually highly developed sagacity and (emotional) intelligence got so badly distracted and our self-reflection even blindfolded bit by bit by all those oh-so "well-off"-promising symbols and signs of status, affluence and prestige....

....the same time leaving the poor to their own… Continue

Added by Dirk Boehmer on January 15, 2009 at 5:04pm — No Comments

"The Hate Peddlers"

The Hate Peddler

He gives candy to the kids..When they go out to play

He gives money to the village women..As they all go

about their day..He teases and flirts with the teenage

girls..As they too fall victim to his enticing siren song..

He counsels all the young men..With muscles so virile

so anxious and strong..

He embraces all the Elders and ask them about their

needs..He hugs and kisses the… Continue

Added by Daton O Fullard on January 14, 2009 at 10:30pm — 36 Comments

Ask the mercenary/ Psychology Today (War like a bussiness)

Ask the Mercenary

By Jay Dixit on January 12, 2009 in Brainstorm

This post is a response to "George Carlin's Last Interview" by Jay Dixit

As a British commando in the Special Air Service, John Geddes fought combat missions in the Falkland Islands and ran undercover ops in Northern Ireland and Bosnia. When he left the military, he became a commando-for-hire, protecting American and British media crews from hostile insurgents in Iraq. He now runs a private military… Continue

Added by Marvin Schult on January 15, 2009 at 8:00am — 2 Comments

There is just no other way!

Let me tell you a story. I went to visit my parents in Beer Sheva today. It takes about an hour to drive there. I got there at 12:45 pm. Said hi, kissed my parents and went to look what's cooking in my mom's pots.

Suddenly a siren started wailing. This has only one meaning for it these days for a million people in Israel. A missile is doing its way from Gaza in your direction. And you have to act fast.

My elderly parents… Continue

Added by David Califa on January 14, 2009 at 9:57pm — 46 Comments