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Over the past century
more and more has been written about the power of thought. Now even
science is getting into the act with the recent discoveries in
Quantum physics. And yet, have we fully grasped this reality? Has
this become a profound truth to most of us - like the concept of
gravity? The effects of our thoughts are rarely immediately visible
to us. So the power of thought is usually left in the realm of
"interesting factoids". It's just not something we put to use in our
daily lives. Ad agencies and PR professionals and the heads of
fundamentalist religious groups get it and use it, and it's used
with great success during political campaigns. How can people of
goodwill everywhere more effectively utilize this powerful tool for
the betterment of humanity?
The thoughts of a
single individual may indeed have power - but the synchronized
thoughts of thousands, perhaps millions of individuals - may just
change the course of humanity. What if thousands (maybe millions...)
of us were to contemplate Goodwill at the same time every month -
perhaps at the time of the full moon? Do you suppose that we might
at some point hit critical mass and effect the minds and hearts of
all humanity?
Through the burgeoning
use of the Internet, world servers around the globe have immediate
access to one another, creating the opportunity for synchronized
events. Because we believe the power of synchronized thought is
important we are putting together a list of groups around the world
who regularly hold full moon gatherings. If you know of a group or
event that you would like to have included, please contact us. We
have also included a couple of articles on full moon work, for those
of you who are asking "what's the full moon got to do with it?".
We hope this issue
inspires you.
This month we have
Carol Rosinski of
Toad Hollow Studios
to thank for the art that graces our pages. There is an exquisite
quality to the photographic perfection of her pencil drawings. Thank
you Carol, for sharing them with us!
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Creating an
Intentional
Digital Community
by
Chris Bache
IONS' Director of Transformative Learning
Editors Note:
This was written when Noetic Science premiered their online Internet community for dialogue and sharing insight and
aspirations.
We
have all experienced the feeling of communion that develops when we sit down
and write someone a letter. When we focus on that person, it is almost as if
they enter our physical presence. For a few minutes, the miles fall away and
we share a moment with them. Sometimes they enter so deeply into the room
that we feel their presence lingering long after we've sealed the envelope
and put it out for tomorrow's mail. Is this felt sense of contact just our
imagination? How often does the phone ring in the middle of such a letter,
and there they are on the other end of the line, moved by some impulse to
call us? A similar sense of communion, of shared experiential space,
sometimes rises in reading groups, when it feels as though our experience of
reading a book is being augmented by the experience of people we know
reading the same book on the same week.
From
two decades of teaching, I am convinced that when groups of people gather
together frequently and with well-focused and strong intention, there grows
around them a living field of energy that reflects their common purpose and
collective experience. When students gather in a course week after week,
their mental/emotional energy gathers momentum, and slowly creates something
like a standing wave in the subtle-energy patterns of the universe. This
standing wave gathers and focuses a field of energy that embodies the sum of
their collective experience in this project. Around a class that is
frequently taught, say, "Introduction to World Religions," there grows a
particular field of energy that is specific to the content of that course.
It is a field of mental or pranic energy generated by these particular
people coming together as a group to engage these particular ideas. This
field is a living energy created by the act of coming together for the
purpose of sharing certain experiences, and it can become a potent force in
the collective unconscious. Rupert Sheldrake first articulated this
fundamental insight in 1981 with his principle of formative causation and
morphic fields. When we join his insight to the cosmological vision of an
integrated, living universe that is emerging in many circles today, we can
suggest that these fields will be even more potent if the people gathered
are of good heart and compassionate intention, for then their efforts align
more easily with the One Heart that beats inside all of us.
I have
felt and observed these fields for so many years that I have no doubt about
their existence and power. It is this conviction that fuels my expectation
that these fields can and will form around our digital community as well. We
do not need to gather together physically to begin to generate a "learning
field" like those generated in a classroom. What is required is that we come
together robustly and consciously, that we open our minds and hearts to each
other and be genuinely present to the exchange that is taking place between
us, right here, right now.
Underneath any physical exchange of information, such as these words
appearing on your computer screen, is a deeper exchange of energy taking
place at a more subtle level. When you read what you see here, know that
before those words were typed into the computer, they were a thought held by
a human being. That thought has a certain energetic power, a "glow." I
believe that once it is formed, a thought has power that is truly operative
in the universe, alive in ways that we are only slowly beginning to
recognize. When you read the words in this online publication, what you are
doing at a deeper level is connecting your living mind to the power of these
living thoughts. Through your reading and attending, you are creating a
bridge of intention that is just as real as when you sit in a sweat lodge
and listen carefully to the person speaking across the circle. We do not
have to be physically in the same room for this deeper energetic exchange to
take place between us. Our scientific studies suggest that the power of mind
does not fall off at the square of the distance and is therefore not
diminished by the miles that separate us. What is required is not physical
proximity but clearly focused intention, and the Internet gives us the means
of achieving just this intention.
© Carol Rosinski
http://toadhollowstudio.com/
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Conscious Water Crystals:
The Power of Prayer
Made Visible
By S. Barber
In response to human thought
and emotion, water crystals can take many forms. . .
- The pictures and
discussion in this article represent the brilliant work of Japan's Masaru
Emoto. The photos have been published in a gorgeous book called The
Messages of Water. If you still doubt that your
thoughts impact the world around you, viewing Emoto's work will erase this
doubt forever.
The first
four pictures are courtesy of Rebecca at DolphinSwim,
http://www.seaswim.com. The rest were captured directly from
Emoto's book.
Emoto has been conducting worldwide research on the effect of ideas, words,
and music upon the molecules of water, and the descriptions below are taken
from the book of his published results.
 The
photo on the left is of a frozen water sample from the lake at Fujiwara Dam,
in Japan. As you can see, the water's structure is dark and amorphous, with
no crystalline formations.
 After the above water sample had been taken, the Reverend Kato Hoki, chief
priest of the Jyuhouin Temple, made a one-hour prayer practice beside the
dam. After that, new water samples were taken, frozen and photographed. As
you can see (at right), the change is stunning--the ugly blob of the former
sample has become a clear, bright-white hexagonal crystal-within-a-crystal.
At left, for comparison
purposes, is a representative photograph of "untreated" distilled water.
Different
 samples of distilled water showed different formations, but none
were crystallized. Then this water was treated by taping words or people's
names to the bottles, playing music to them, or exposing them to floral
essences... Here are some other effects that Emoto
claims to have found in his research:
Water from clear
mountain springs and streams has beautifully formed crystalline
structures, while the crystals of polluted or stagnant water are deformed
and distorted.
- Distilled water exposed
to classical music takes delicate, symmetrical crystalline shapes.
- When the words "thank
you" were taped to a bottle of distilled water, the frozen crystals had a
similar shape to the crystals formed by water that had been exposed to
Bach's "Goldberg Variations" (see right) -- music composed out of
gratitude to the man it was named for.
- When water samples are
bombarded with heavy metal music or labeled with negative words, or when
negative thoughts and emotions are focused intentionally upon them, the
water does not form crystals at all and displays chaotic, fragmented
structures.
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- When water is treated
with aromatic floral oils, the water crystals tend to mimic the shape of
the original flower. At right, water crystals were exposed to aromatic
essence of chamomile.
Of great interest for
healing and just day-to-day well
 being is the extreme effect upon water
crystals of negative words and ideas. When the words "Adolf Hitler" were
taped to a bottle of distilled water, the results seen at left were
obtained.
Here, you can see the
results of taping the words "You Fool" to a container of distilled water.
Interestingly, the pattern made by "You Fool" was almost identical to the
pattern that emerged when heavy metal music was played. Masaru Emoto wonders
in his book whether perhaps heavy metal musicians look upon people as fools...
Sometimes, when we cannot
see the immediate results of our prayers and affirmations, we think that we
have failed. But, as we learn through Masaru Emoto's amazing photographs,
that thought of failure itself becomes represented in the physical objects
that surround us. Now that we have seen this, perhaps we can begin to
realize that even when immediate results are invisible to the unaided human
eye, they are there. When we love our own bodies, they respond. When we send
our love to the Earth, she responds.
For our own
bodies at birth are 70 percent water, and the percentage of water in our
bodies remains high throughout life (depending upon weight and body type).
Also, the earth's surface is 70 percent water. And now we have seen before
our eyes the proof that water is far from inanimate, but is actually alive
and responsive to our every thought and emotion. Perhaps, having seen this,
we can begin to really understand the awesome power that we possess, through
choosing our thoughts and intentions, to heal ourselves and the earth. If
only we believe.
But whether
you...participate in...global meditations, or simply
do this inner work in the quiet of your own loving mind and heart -- we
can heal the body of our Mother and recreate a clear, pristine world to
hand down to our children and our children's children for seven generations.
--S. Barber
http://www.spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html
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Competition,
Cooperation & Co-creation
by Michael Lindfield
Through the power of focussed thought,
each of us is a powerful creator. Whether we have beauty and order or chaos and
confusion in our lives, the occult maxim that "energy follows thought" still
holds true. All of the societal forms and structures that we see around us have
been created by the human mind. To the degree that this mind (either collective
or individual) is full of fear and ignorance and unaware of its connected-ness
with other minds and other lives, then the result is a cultural form reflecting
this level of consciousness.
..Co-creation is the act of reaching out
to embrace the expanded view of a multi-dimensional macro system of life and a
reaching in to touch that inner and individual place deep within the heart and
soul which is the microcosm of creativity. When these two sentient worlds of
inner and outer creativity are connected then the human spirit is free to engage
consciously in shaping the world of form from out of the stuff of dreams and
spiritual values. This is the world of mundane magic, populated by angels,
muses, the forces of nature and the presence of the human soul. It is also our
destiny.
Co-creation is key to fulfilling our
human search for meaning that goes far beyond the simple pursuit of happiness.
This inner search transcends the desire and acquisition of material possessions,
for it is a journey of Spirit. It will eventually bring us into the realm of
innovation and shared global destiny. Co-creation will be our collective
response to Life's call for the human family to take its rightful place in the
greater scheme of things. It is this deep evolutionary urge that is moving us
from competition to cooperation and ultimately onward to co-creation: our true
business on the Earth.
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The
Lost Mode
Of Prayer
by Gregg Braden
Modern prayer researchers
currently identify four modes of prayer used in the west today. Does an
additional mode exist? Is there a fifth mode of prayer that allows us to
participate in the outcome of the events within our bodies as well as the
world around us? Recent findings in remote temple sites where these
traditions remain today, combined with new research into some of the most
sacred and esoteric traditions of our past, lead me to believe that the
answer is "Yes!"
Much of our conditioning in
western traditions for the last one and one half millennia has invited us to
"ask" that specific circumstances in our world change through divine
intervention; that our prayers be answered. In our well-intentioned asking,
however, we may unknowingly empower the very conditions that we are praying
to change. For example, when we ask, "Dear God, please let there be peace in
the world," in effect we are stating that peace does not exist in the
present. Ancient traditions remind us that prayers of asking are one form of
prayer, among other forms, that empower us to find peace in our world
through the quality of thought, feeling and emotion that we create in our
body. Once we allow the qualities of peace in our mind and fuel our prayer
through feelings of peace in our body, the fifth mode of prayer states that
the outcome has already happened.
Quantum science now takes this
idea one step further, stating that it is precisely such conditions of
feeling that creation responds to, by matching the feeling (prayer) of our
inner world with like conditions in our outer world. Though the outcome of
our prayer may not yet be apparent in our outer world, we are invited to
acknowledge our communion with creation and live as if our prayer has
already been answered.
Through the words of another
time, the ancients invited us to embrace our lost mode of prayer as a
consciousness that we become, rather than a prescribed form of action that
we perform upon occasion. In words that are as simple as they are elegant,
we are reminded to be "surrounded" by the answer to our prayers and
"enveloped" by the conditions that we choose to experience. In the modern
idiom, this description suggests to us that to effect change in our world,
we are invited to first have the feelings of the change having happened.
As modern science continues to
validate a relationship between our thoughts, feelings and dreams with the
world that surrounds us, it becomes more likely that a forgotten bridge
links our prayers with that of our experience. The beauty of such an inner
technology is that it is based upon human qualities that we already possess.
From the prophets who saw us in their dreams, we are reminded that in
honoring all life, we accomplish nothing less than the survival of our
species and the future of the only home we know.
http://www.greggbraden.net/lost_mode.php3
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Fairies Love Berries
 airies
love berries ... or so I've heard. I sat out this small basket of
berries thinking I could attract a few of the elusive little ones
near to me. I placed it in this secluded spot and then sat down
quietly where I could watch.
Slowly, as I sat there, my ears
began to open to bird song all around me. Robins, chickadees,
cardinals, sparrows and finches all hurrying from one place to
another rebuilding nests and gathering food for hungry just-hatched
nestlings and all the while proclaiming territory and commenting on the
weather.
 And
warm it was too. The earth was damp under me and smelled like old
leaves and winter well passed with an overtone of green growing
things yet to come...
The sound and warmth and smell of the day made me doze for
a while ... laid down like a wild thing there in the moist moss with just a
warm breeze as a cover. And when I awoke with twigs in my hair and dirt
smudged everywhere ... I knew they had been there. I could feel the magic
... I could sense the companionship of the other world always around ... So I concluded on that day that fairies
do indeed love berries, or any offering of trust, and will dance in our
dreams if we let them.
Carol Rosinski
http://toadhollowstudio.com/
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power of united effort upon the physical plane is being
realised today on a large scale... The power of unified
emotion (often expressing itself in what is called mob
psychology) is everywhere recognised and feared as well as
exploited. The power of unified thought is little grasped as
yet, and the power inherent in the light of many minds,
rendering them effective instruments in world affairs,
penetrating and dissipating glamour and proving creative upon
the physical plane, will prove to be a part of the new modes
of work which will be employed in the new age.
A. A. Bailey
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A Personal Process for
Peace
by Michael Lindfield
Many religions and schools of
philosophy throughout the ages have taught us that, “We reap what we sow”. If
this is truly the case, then the process of creating peace in the world is
inexorably linked to the choices that you and I make moment to moment. The
height of futility and self-delusion is for us to believe that a different and
better crop can be harvested if we continue to sow the same seed-thoughts of
negativity in the fertile ethers of the human psyche season after season. There
is so much goodness in our souls that has never had a chance to grow because the
present conditions are so inhospitable. We have a chance here and now to create
those right conditions.
We know in our heart of hearts that
these are precipitous and pivotal times and, intuitively, we also know that we
have the necessary power to make a difference.
...So may we make each moment count and
may all our thoughts and actions be inspiring and constitute acts of caring and
kindness that bring healing and unity instead of further darkness and separation
to our world. This is the time for spirit to be seen in action. After all, the
best peace demonstration is the one that shows that we can actually practice
what we preach.
Let Peace Prevail on Earth.
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 From the Lucis Trust website
http://www.lucistrust.org/meetings/fullmoon/
What has the
Full
Moon got to do with it?
Alice A. Bailey
Meditation is a potent method of service
to humanity when the mind is used as a channel for the reception of the energies
of light and love and the will-to-good and their direction into human
consciousness. And the moment of the full moon each month offers the greatest
opportunity for meditation - particularly in group formation...- to be
used as
One may ask, what has the moon got to do with
it? The energies of light and love and the will-to-good are always available to
those who can contact them in meditation. But in all aspects of our planetary
life there are cycles in the ebb and flow of spiritual energies with which
groups, as well as individuals, can consciously cooperate. One of the major
energy cycles coincides with the phases of the moon, reaching its peak, its high
tide, at the time of the full moon. This is a time, therefore, when the
channelling of energy through group meditation can be uniquely effective.
The moon itself has no influence on the
work; but the fully-lighted orb of the moon indicates a free and unimpeded
alignment between our planet and the sun, the solar centre, the energy source
for all life on Earth...That this realisation is part of humanity's ancient intuitive understanding is
verified by the many religious festivals which are fixed by reference to the
moon or a zodiacal constellation.
Today countless serving groups large and small
meet regularly throughout the world at the time of the full moon each month for
meditation work. It is helpful to realise that such meetings for group
meditation as a service to humanity have been held for many decades now. So the
work does not start anew every month or every year. Over the years a usable
group channel for energy distribution has been created which continuously grows
and builds on what has been achieved, and which demands of us at all times a
deepened understanding and an increased ability to penetrate to new levels of
consciousness, so lifting the consciousness of humanity as a whole even by an
immeasurable fraction.
That this may be difficult for newcomers is
understood. But with the emphasis on the contribution each one can make in
meditation, and in view of the group nature of this work, which includes
individuals at various levels of growth and understanding fused together through
group effort into a functioning unity, it is possible to maintain an open group
in fluid condition without affecting the power of the group channel, while at
the same time offering opportunity to those who wish to contribute what they
can. In other words, we come to give - not to receive...
In undertaking the service of full moon
meditation, the aim is to work imaginatively as members of the new group of
world servers, dedicated to world service. Spiritually and telepathically the
group is one and the work is one...Group meditation is, therefore, the intention of groups
coming together each month.
We do, however, have three vital factors
always in mind:
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The work we do is based on the fundamental
fact of occultism as the science of energy, which recognises that all is
energy and energy follows and conforms itself to thought.
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It is also based on what has been called
the central idea of occultism - that even the smallest atom of substance
contains within it that which can respond to spiritual energy and stimulation.
A passage from the book Discipleship in the
New Age provides the human and planetary framework in which our work proceeds:
The effect of human meditation at this time is
to change conditions, to invoke higher, spiritual potencies, to work with
concentration - both vertically and horizontally - within the world of men and
within the Kingdom of God. This vertical and horizontal activity holds the
secret of creative meditation. It is invocative of the higher energies,
and creates a channel of contact between soul and spirit. This is brought about
by what I have called "vertical meditation". It is also evocative and creates a
ferment or dynamic movement in the level of being which must be affected or
changed, and this is the horizontal aspect. Both the vertical and the horizontal
activities are descriptive of the method of invocation and evocation, as
employed by all the linking groups between the various planetary centres.
*Editors Note:
We believe that the power of many minds and hearts working in concert is
profound. In an effort to encourage more people to join in this positive work we
are adding a new page to our website. This page will list groups around the
planet that hold regular Full Moon meditations and prayer circles. Our present
list barely scratches the surface. If you know of a group that should be listed
please send us the name of the group, the town/city and country and a contact,
either website or email or phone number.
Full Moon Meetings
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 Personal
Courage
This month we begin a regular column that will introduce you to people who
are true world servers... heroes of our time.
14-year-old
University graduate student Gregory Smith discusses his
life, goals and the pursuit of knowledge
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Gregory
Smith peers out from beneath a shell of straight, golden
hair and answers interview questions with the assurance
and poise of a well-practiced public figure. Every
statement he makes with his soft, steady voice seems
perfectly prepared -- and he's only 14 years old.
It's no
wonder Smith is so skilled at accurately and carefully
voicing his thoughts. At an age when most children are
just mastering the art of convincing their parents to
extend their curfew, he has already spoken to and worked
with some of the most powerful public figures of our day.
Media tycoon Oprah Winfrey, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate
Betty Williams of Northern Ireland, Archbishop Desmond
Tutu, former Russian President Michel Gorbachev and former
President Bill Clinton to name a few.
..."When
I was 7 years old I knew, there must be a way that I can
make a difference," Smith said.
Smith
wasted no time. As a seven-year-old he started an
organization called IEM for non-violence -- "I" for
inspiration, "E" for education and "M" for motivation.
Smith's
quest to benefit children in need throughout the world
continued as he entered college and founded the
International Youth Advocates soon after. The organization
connects youth groups across the globe and promotes the
protection of children and their rights.
From the
beginning of his humanitarian journey, Smith's focus has
been on children.
"Starting
from when I was very young I saw the suffering of children
around the world, and I knew that there must be some way
that I can make a difference," he said.
Although
Smith excitedly recalled moments with figures such as
Clinton and Williams, he ultimately named his most
inspiring contacts -- the children he has encountered
through his travels.
"The most
amazing people I meet are whenever I travel around the
world, and whenever I see the horrific conditions and when
I meet the children," he said. "The children that have so
little ... but that still have hope for the future ...
that's my true inspiration."
As Smith
looks to the future, he said he hopes to continue
spreading his messages of peace and children's rights, and
perhaps someday do so from the Oval Office. One of his
dreams is to become President of the United States...
Curiosity
may have killed the cat, but Smith's intense curiosity and
desire to explore and improve the world seem to be the
driving forces in what has been, and looks to be an
amazing life.
To read
more go to Gregory's website at: http://www.gregoryrsmith.com/index.html
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