Hallelujah!

Jeff Buckley moved me from the moment I first purchased and listened to his album, Grace, from Melody Records, Chico. I bought it used, for a few "bucks".

I couldn't put the album down...and played it for hours, days, & months. That was 9 years ago.


Today NPR did a little review of the late Jeff Buckley...and I thought, "hey, perhaps I'll find something of his on YouTube." Alas. Jeff died 10 years ago...drowning in a Memphis swimming pool. His father, Tim Buckley was a recording artist also. I have his vinyl album Goodbye and Hello. Tim Buckley, like his son died at a very young age.

May their souls rest in peace.

Here is one of Jeff's recordings of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah".

I Never asked to be Your Mountain....Tim Buckley

So awesome to find Tim online. YouTube is my friend. :-) Listened to Hello and Goodbye... favorite album of high school days, 1971-4. I would love to find title song somewhere online. ??

THE LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY OF AKHENATEN, KING OF EGYPT

Roughly fourteen hundred years before Christ, at the time Egypt was at the height of her power, King Akhnaton ruled over that great country for a few years.

Akhnaton was born in Thebes, in about 1395 B.C.1 in a world already as old, as civilised and as sophisticated as our own. And he was the son of the greatest monarch of that world; the last offspring, in direct descent, of a long and glorious line of warriors over-loaded with the spoils of conquest; the heir of an empire that stretched, in modern words, from the Sudan to the borders of Armenia, and of a culture more than four thousand years old.

He was a thinker; he was an artist; he was a saint--the world’s first rationalist, and the oldest Prince of Peace. Through the visible disk of the Sun--Aton--he worshipped "the Energy within the Disk"--the ultimate Reality which men of all creeds still seek, knowingly or unknowingly, under a thousand names and through a thousand paths. And he styled himself as the Son of that unseen, everlasting Source of all life. "Thou art in my heart," he said in one of his hymns, "and no one knoweth Thee save I, Thy Son." And his words, long forgotten, have come down to us, recorded upon the walls of a nobleman’s tomb--these amazing words in what is perhaps the earliest poem which can be ascribed with certainty to any particular author: "I, Thy Son. . . ."


When he was a child, the famous Pyramids of Gizeh were nearly as ancient as the Roman remains in England are today, and the first empire-builder of whom we know something definite--Sargon of Agade--was already as remote in time as Nebuchadnezzar is now.2 And beyond the glories of which the oldest monuments bore witness, and beyond the mighty shadows of half-forgotten heroes and king-gods lost in the midst of legend, a still remoter antiquity, with its immemorial art and wisdom, extended over centuries, down to the dim beginnings of the Neolithic Age, and further still. Crete and the Ægean Isles had flourished for over two thousand years, and Babylonia and Elam for several millenniums more, while, unaware of each other and of the rest of mankind, distant India and China counted long centuries of polished life.

Other great souls have had disciples to preach their message, martyrs to bear testimony to their greatness in torture and death, missionaries to carry their name and domination to the limits of the earth; they have had commentators, admirers, detractors--philosophers, poets, artists--to keep their memory alive century after century. But Akhnaton’s fate was different. He had no sooner died than the fervour of his followers seems to have been spent out. Within a few years, his name was anathematised, his new city pulled down stone by stone, his remains profaned and his memory systematically destroyed, without, apparently, a single cry of protest on the part of any of those eighty thousand1 or more who had, in their zeal, left Thebes with him, thirteen years before. Ever since then, until a part of his foreign correspondence and fragments of his hymns were brought to light, some fifty years ago, there was not a man on earth who knew of his existence. (!!)

Akhnaton, in his love of truth, seems to have deliberately stripped himself of all the mystery that had helped his fathers to appear as gods in the eyes of their prostrate people. He was of unconventional manners and of kindly approach. His divinity was not the showy privilege of a Sun-born king, or of a prophet, asserted by external signs, but rather the innermost perfection of a man whose heart, will and understanding were in complete harmony with the eternal laws of life; of a man who had fulfilled man’s divine purpose as naturally as others drift away from it. He felt therefore no need of ascertaining it by a fastidious pomp, any more than by strange renunciations. There was no excess in him; nothing that the vulgar eye could look upon as "striking," nothing that popular enthusiasm could catch hold of and magnify. He wrought no extraordinary deeds, as other teachers are said to have done. The only wonder of which he spoke was the everlasting miracle of order and of fertility--the rhythm of day and night, the growth of a bird or of a baby.

And to this very day, notwithstanding the genuine admiration of a learned few for his rational religion, there are hardly any people in the world whose daily life he fills with his presence. ('Twould the Torah bearers recognize Mos!)



http://members.tripod.com/~neuro_net/asonfgod.htm

A 12 year old speaks at UN

"President and the Press."

Thats right, old JFK says everything thats happening now is basically...well... unamerican...

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW

Making Mundane Beautiful

Kalachakra Mandala

"War will continue until every human heart becomes a peace and justice center"...Anon

And when just one heart is at war there is war. Though it may be a silent cold & lonely war, it still affects the environment.

Teaching peace is noble. But how DO we teach peace? That question often has me baffled, whilst pondering life's lessons. This wonderful Life has it's variety of teachers. They add to the stew pot the best (and sometimes the worst) of their collective knowledge. Tracking over half a century now, a few brilliant teachers come to mind. Some stand out as profound practictioners of peace.

As a youth I decided to practice the style of Peace that the Bible stories taught. Catholic, for certain, these stories brought not only inspiration, they were artfully penned with color plated pictures, contained in large bound books. Once, I peeked inside to see how heaven was.

I'm feeling a lot smarter now. It's good to see the revelation, "All the world is a stage".

Teachers, like actors, "bring to life" the past. Those parochial school teachers did a so-so job of bringing Jesus' life to the classroom. It was enough to inspire the growth of nubby wings on this lil' gal. Fortunately the message did nothing to thwart a good many Babylon adventures.

"Do what thou wilst, and harm none. Love is the whole of the Law."

In making the mundane beautiful by taking junk and turning it into substance, we become self sustaining...in a spiraling way. It's like we are freecyling through our own UNI~verse as a brilliant and simple deduction. Revealing it's perpetual rhythm, harmony, frequency, and periodicity...it beckons us towards greater personal comfort and peace. It is like the tetragrammaton, Yod Heh Vav Heh...and un-nameable at best.

"It" brings only what is focused upon into the center, to be blended, and understood as...

...the peace that passeth all understanding.

And the point I'm making ..??

Know thyself,
Distractions happen....
Be Happy for YOU are Loved!!

Become a visible, walking/talking, Peace and Justice Center!!

"The Tibetan word for mandala is "kilkhor" which means "centre of the circle with exteriors walls and surrounding environment." Mandalas may be created with precious jewels, flowers, dyed rice, coloured stones, or coloured sand. Sand, traditionally made from crushed precious stones, is considered the most efficacious materials because of the precious substances involved and the great skill required to create the mandalas' exquisite details. Since each grain of sand is charged with the blessings of the ritual process, the entire sand mandala embodies a vast store of spiritual energy."

Which Wolf Will WE FEED?

Michael wrote:

> No matter how terrible the situation seems - I am sure, there are many> ways to change it.

A Fool answers:

Exactly. There are as many ways to change it as there are people who view the situation. Each can contribute in a unique way.
The degree of change is dependent on how much attention it is given. When the energy of attention is focussed on beneficial change, rather than pushing against those who are creating the situation the desired change occurs more rapidly.

Which wolf wins? The one you feed.

Here Comes the Heavy

Ready for the ride of your life...Open that parachute, Open your Mind!!

The PARK on Park....Avenue, that is

Here we are, Lila, Rich, and Beau....the chocolate labrador.... in a photo taken by our friend and Beau's master, Jeff Greening. I could write journals about "The Park on Park"...but will keep it down to a REaders Digest version for whatever it's worth. It was a beautiful Saturday, 2-17-07. We took a leisurly stroll through Chico's newest park. The three of us know and appreciate the magic that allowed the aquisition of this property. It has been a year and a half since we hosted , "Music at the Park", to create interest in the purchase of this parcel, (and...to persuade Maureen Kirk to change her "NO" vote to a "Yes...") . There was great satisfaction in seeing how much trash and debris had been cleared from the homeless camps. Hopefully the park will soon be open to the public.

Formerly a hog ranch, back in Chico's early days, the Thomasson family recently sold this parcel to the City of Chico. We know it was meant to be. Great Spirit saw to it.

Give thanks.

A new bicycle path will come soon...or so the little birdie said. ( How 'tweet it tiz.)

Madwagon lil gears up for Candalmas

she is her own thrill



Dancing dreams awake
while rearranging the furniture of this life... she muses

enough to laugh

An ordinary girl in an un-ordinary world

of Activating Excellerating Radiating Rays...


......thinking upon the Blessed Brigid, triple *3* goddess feasting..

honoured by the Crone, whose glossy maiden hair weaves around rose red rafters..

looking upon us...from her ancient ayin

Wafting long after the delete button is clicked.

~*Come to Egypt*~

http://www.pyramidcam.com/
I'm there..we're here...Everywhere Is.

Is Is

She

BLUE NILE REFLECTIONS...GRANDMA PAULINE'S BARDOS

Sisters One and all... (OKAY.. bruddas too...)

Awake she IS! The Divine Feminine has returned. The table is set...she is hungry for truth.

Soon...in a couple of new moons...We will celebrate her Wedding!! This is the show we've been waiting for. And, we are creating it!!!

Happy New Year!!


This coming year of Ding Hai, (yin fire pig), marks a 60 year cycle...and is also a Golden Boar Year marking a 600 year cycle.

(We have a Boar/Pig/Hai year every 12 years differentianted by one of 5 elements in either a yin or yang state. )

Have located an informative site:

http://english.seoul.go.kr/today/infocus/specialreport/1239293_5093.php

The article provides much on the significance of the coming Year!
A short quote concerning the year..

"And to top it off, 2007 is no ordinary Year of the Golden Pig. When further calculations are made using the principles of Ying and Yang, the year is a special kind of Golden Pig year that occurs only once every 600 years! For adherents of the science of divination, this makes it an extremely fortuitous time to pop out a little one."

This feels like a year to birth the divine femINine into her next level of perfection.





Bless you dear one! :-)

We are opening up to the sweet surrender of the luminous love-light

of the ONE!!

You are eternal, sister of manzanita, pine and corn...olive and earth, sky and sea.

Lila is out each day...no hermit yet...though it's a lovely thought.

Parents across town are now our prime focus.

Living with almost no dinero..!!

Most all our fun these days is free...

Burning very little fossel fuel... !!! Teeny tiny footprint according to those online calculators.

Just watched "The Future of Food". Focalizing on the immanance of seeds.

Also just rented "An Inconvienient Truth". Personally am feeling in equalibrium with Mother Nature..It's a great movie...stirring and evocative.

Creativity is soaring in this approaching cycle of the Golden Boar....Chinese New Year coming Feb 18th. A 600 year cycle of Yin..Mother Divine Feminine !

Always in heart connection with the larger family...but much work now required of the small family...hearth and home.

Happiness

Am realizing that which is available through global exchange.

Drinking deeply this great possibility.

We are what we create...

In L.V.X.,

lila

BBC's video series, Himalaya, covered an episode on Bhutan which I've recently viewed. Such a peaceful kingdom!!.

http://www.kingdomofbhutan.com/

Attilla:
There is a place in the world where the King (establishment, The Temple) is truly interested in the well-being of the nation: Bhutan. They measure the country's success in a kind of a Happiness Factor... You can't really go there - even as a tourist, visa is not easy to obtain and only the "stay in the country" fee is hundreds of dollars per day. They don't really want visitors... :-)

TEMPLE

One day, long ago, I heard a whisper urging the tending of the temple...Seeing the many accumulations and sensing the even greater and ever more microcosmic aspect of "dust", this one began a cleaning.



The cobwebs of this temple tell the truth..

Shake them down into my hair

And let me mingle in the dust dingy air of my misgivings.

And as the veil disintegrates, at my command,

I see the CIRCLE,

Eyes born of every pore .

The light is bright ....

....I AM learning.

Dispensationalism and Racism

With respect for Dr. Martin Luther King


Unity & Ethnic Equality

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Thomas Williams writes:
What would you think of a religious sect that taught that
there is one race that is by nature superior, and another race that
is by nature inferior?

And suppose that this sect taught that the superior race
has a divine right to dispossess members of the inferior race and
take their properties without compensation, and to ethnically
cleanse those who resist this expropriation, using violence if
necessary?

And suppose that this sect believed so strongly in this
system of racism and ethnic cleansing that it was willing to plunge
the world into war in order to fulfill its objectives.

And suppose that this sect claimed 70,000,000 adherents in
the world's most powerful nation, and had a stranglehold on the
foreign policy of that nation, so that the military and financial
might of that nation was directed toward the goal of helping the
superior race and suppressing the inferior race?

Welcome to the wonderful world of American
dispensationalism.

Dispensationalists, who are found in many fundamentalist
and evangelical denominations, follow the theological beliefs
of John Nelson Darby, C. I. Scofield and Hal Lindsey, who taught
that ethnic Jews constitute a superior race who are destined to take
over Palestine, then the entire Middle East and finally the
world. This naturally leads to a resentment of Palestinian Arabs,
and all other Middle Eastern nations that sympathize with the
Palestinians intheir resistance to the program of pushing them out
of their historic homelands. Dispensationalism,
taken to its logical conclusion, leads to racism.

It should be emphasized that not all American
fundamentalists and evangelicals are dispensationalists. Not all
dispensationalists are Zionist who support the Israeli takeover of the Middle East,
although it would be difficult to find prominent
dispensationalist spokesman who would publicly disassociate themselves from Zionism.
A few dispensationalists display personal animosity and hatred toward members
of Middle Eastern ethnic groups they dislike, while most attempt to maintain
cordial relations with individuals fromsuch groups.

Having made these disclaimers, it must be admitted that the
modern dispensational movement produces a lot of rhetoric and
propaganda against the Arab peoples that can only be described as racist.

For instance, an article on the web site of Cutting Edge
Ministries of Attleboro, Massachusetts, in an article entitled "White
Hot Genocidal Arab Hatred of Israel and All Jews is Setting the
Stage for End of the Age Fulfillment of Prophecy," contains this
white hot denunciation of the Arabs: "As Arabs armies advanced
toward the heart of Europe, they wantonly killed, raped,
and pillaged entire villages and cities.
This is the true Arab, and please do not ever forget it."

In October, 2000, Evangelist Franklin Graham, son of Billy
Graham who has built a reputation for fighting racism, stunned
observers with this attack on the Arabs, made during a
"Festival" in Lexington, Kentucky: "The Arabs will not be happy until
every Jew is dead. They hate the state of Israel. They all hate the
Jews. God gave that land to the Jews. The Arabs will never accept
that. Why can't they live in peace?" Dispensationalist followers of
the Grahams apparently were undisturbed by this declaration
that all Arabs are evil and that they have no civil or property
rights in the land of their birth.

In his Last Call newsletter, Pastor F. M. Riley of Roswell,
New Mexico denounces the Palestinians as "lazy" and accuse them of
stealing Palestine from the Jews, saying, "The Palestinians (and other Arabs)
have never been anything but 'squatters' on land that never
belonged to them in the first place."

Even dispensationalists who do not indulge in overt racist
condemnations of the Arabs often follow the assumption that
the Palestinians are meant to be subservient to the recent
Jewish colonists and settlers who have taken over their country,
and that Palestinians are not entitled to the same basic human rights
as all other peoples and ethnic groups are. This is an inherently racist ideology.

Another common teaching among dispensationalists is that
the Palestinians Arabs are Edomites, or the "House of Esau,"
and that it is God's will that all the Old Testament curses and
judgments on the ancient Edomites are meant to fall upon the modern Palestinians.

However, in reality there is no connection between the
Edomites and the Palestinians. Josephus, in his "Antiquities of the Jews," Chapter IX, (2), stated that the entire Edomite or Idumean nation was absorbed into the Jewish nation in the 2nd Century BC, and this statement is accepted by modern historians and Biblereference works. Thus, much anti-Arab prejudice is based on a totally false application of Old Testament prophecies against ancient Edom (similar to the misapplication which places the "curse of Ham" upon modern blacks).

Meanwhile, although Iran is a non-Arab country, the current
government of Iran has sided with the Palestinians. As a
result, some dispensationalists regard the existence of Iran and
the Iranian people as a threat to their theological belief that Israel
must take over the Middle East and therefore Iran must be bashed
also, as was done by Jimmy DeYoung in an article in the October/November 1998 issue of the Zionist magazine "Israel My Glory," in which he states, contrary to all Biblical and historical evidence, that "Persia, that ancient biblical enemy of the Jewish people, is the modern state ofIran. The hatred the Persians had for the Jewish people has carried over to the Iran of today."

So, many modern dispensationalists are displeased with the
Arabs and the Iranians, for supposedly hindering the divine plan for Jewish hegemony in the Middle East. But it turns out that many of these dispensationalists are equally irritated with the Jews and will even vocally condemn Jews, for their alleged sin of choosing to live in America and other Western countries, instead of moving to Israel where they supposedly belong according to dispensational ideology.

Here we have a paradox - Gentiles are allowed to live in
America or anywhere else they wish (unless you are a Palestinian
desiring to live in Palestine, which is forbidden). But Jews, who are supposedly the master, superior race, are not allowed to choose where they can live like everyone else - they must live in Israel, the new ghetto set aside for them, or suffer the divine displeasure. Some have even suggested that the Holocaust during World War 2 was God's punishment upon the Jews for not relocating to Israel, and part of God's plan to force them to go there anyway.

Dwight Wilson in his book "Armageddon Now" has extensively
documented anti-Semitic attitudes on the part of some
dispensationalists in the early 20th Century, as well as
their distribution of the anti-Semitic forgery "Protocols of the
Elders of Zion." Regarding dispensationalists of the 1930's and their attitude to German persecution of the Jews, Wilson says, "In spite of being theologically more pro-Jewish than any other Christian group, the premillennarians also were apathetic - because of a residual anti-Semitism, because persecution was prophetically expected, because it would encourage immigration to Palestine, because it seemed the beginning of the Great Tribulation and because it was a wonderful sign of the imminent blessed hope." Since that time evangelical concern for the welfare of Jews, as well as Arabs, has often played second fiddle to their desire for their peculiar prophetic schemes to be fulfilled, regardless of the cost in human misery.

Meanwhile, entire sermons have been preached and books have
been written on the subject of the greedy Jew who stays in
America so he can make money, instead of going to Israel where he belongs. The 1987 book "Let My People Go - The Struggle of the Jewish People to Return to Israel" by Tom Hess has on its front cover a Jewish man who is unable to go to Israel, because he is chained to a pole marked "Wall Street," thus perpetuating the offensive stereotypes of the rapacious Jew who will do anything for money.

Although there has never been a society more hospitable to
the Jews than America, this book attempts to scare Jews into fleeing to Israel, saying that millions of American Jews will soon be butchered by the KKK, Islamic terrorists or the KGB unless they hightail it for the Holy Land now. In a chapter entitled "American Jews" - Bound by Materialism," Hess accuses American Jews of being enslaved by the god of mammon, and tells them, "It's time to stop saying, 'I'm an American Jew,' stop bowing down and worshipping the god of materialism in America and fulfill your end-time biblical destiny. Return to the land of your forefather..."

If someone demanded that Americans of African, Mexican or
Chinese ancestry stop identifying themselves as Americans and get out of the country, and go back where their ancestors came from, this would quickly be identified and condemned as reprehensible racism. If we do thus to American Jews, it is clearly racism also.

In discussing the latent racism against Jews, Arabs and
other Middle Eastern peoples, on the part of dispensationalist who are frustrated of all these peoples to do exactly what they think is necessary to fulfill by the failure the "Armageddon theology" end-times fantasies that have been predicted by their favorite prophecy preachers, it must be emphasized that I am not accusing all dispensationalists of being racists or holding to racist views. This article
describes the attitudes of some dispensationalists, not all of them. No doubt there are many sincere dispensationalists who would publicly repudiate such views, if given the opportunity.

Therefore, I hereby invite all American dispensationalists
to publicly subscribe to and declare their agreement with the
following 2-point manifesto against racism:

1. We affirm that all Americans Jews are to be embraced and
welcomed as American citizens at all times, and encouraged to stay in
America if they wish, to enjoy the benefits that this society has provided for the Jewish people.
At no time will we give the impression that American Jews do not
belong here or that they belong in Israel.

2. We affirm that the Palestinian people are endowed with
the same human, civil and property rights as all other peoples of
the world, including the right to reside in their homeland, to travel
freely, to govern themselves free of foreign military occupation,
and to return to their homeland in the event that they have been
exiled. Whatever privileges we may regard the Jews as having been divinely in this dispensation, those privileges do not include the right to oppress the Palestinians in any way or to expropriate their property without compensation.

This is a platform that all of us, dispensationalists and
non- dispensationalists, can agree on. It is a scriptural
platform, because the Bible teaches that there is no difference
between the Jew and the Greek (Romans 10:12), that God has put no difference between Jews and Gentiles (Acts 15:9), that God has made of one blood all the peoples of the earth (Acts 17:26), and that in Christ there is Jew or Greek (Galatians 3:28). The Apostle Paul taught that there is no advantage in being a Jew, Galatians 5:6, 6:15, Philippians 3:3-9.

Any theological teaching that gives Jews a place of
privilege over Palestinians or Gentiles in general, or that places any added burdens and restrictions upon the Jews because of their ethnicity, is a relic of an unenlightened past, should be erased from our thinking or preaching.

Mr. Thomas Williamson is an ordained Baptist minister who
lives inChicago, Illinois. He contributes to Media Monitors Network (MMN)from time to time.

Andre' Leigh, Number 22

My son is pitching in this game played in the Phillipines. He is on a team from Hong Kong.

Andre' and Kathy are moving in to their new flat on the seventeeth floor of a 64 story high rise with eight towers. And to think we lived together in a fifty dollar a month cottage for his first five years. He is to receive his teaching credential at the end of the semester.

And it looks like I will be traveling abroad for his graduation, the first time since birth, in 1956. A little frightening, but it will be truly an amazing tour of Asia.

ODE to a great grandpa...William IX

...and the grandchild lil' sassy Aleanor..... (link)


...gleaming through the continuim...back for a flash in the "age" of our choosing....

brrrrrimming and full,

....housed up in a cozy nest of fern and oak....
and silver moonshine when clouds move on and mist is gone....

Begone oh Fear of NOY, THIS cold, for joy, has driven on.

...and 'twould I stand with heart in hand and meet the sky and touch the land ...

....Thus, into NIGHT I yield this middle strain of gut and brain...
release what's moving on to new and brighter plains,
...as only seen of eyes so bright....so blue and green....

Over yonder ships do wander hither, thither, far and on to where there is no day, no night, no blue, no green, no dark , no light.

I guess it is and always was because the page is full,

because...

another page, another day, another scene to watch and weigh...
to touch, to smell, to hear, to feel,
..........to understand what's false from real.

A knot doth crimp the braided yarn.
It keeps one's boat thus free from harm
and renders tight when sturdy has
the weavers yarn... and hand.... and head.

But still it's all tied up!



la la

Rainbow Tear can be seen and heard...found in the center of the prism through the window...the center of the diamond lotus of this heart...

taboo shares Nirrti:
"There will be plenty of time to be dead.When you are alive think like you are alive.When you are dead then be dead."

she replied,

"Bravo!
So shall we educate the living while they are dead?"
And the dead....., well...., some are said to still be hanging out where Ishi dwelt...., in the hills above our valley, in Mill Creek and Deer Creek canyons.
There, native tongues can be ascertained in the wind moving through the trees.
Was taught to pray them back home.
And to the East where the rising sun dawns, a feather on the breeze carries this prayer to the Massive Crossing over the bridge spanning life and death.
With visible breath...a wisp of smoke...be home...

*~a lil' lighter now