Historic Concert Bridges
Gaps between U.S. and North Korea
Sometimes where diplomacy fails, or is lacking
between two countries, the ARTS have the power to succeed. Such
was the case on Tuesday, Feb 26, as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra,
under the direction of Lorin Maazel, played an emotional concert inside
North Korea. I was warmed and blessed as I read in the Seattle
Times account of it this morning:
"As the New York
Philharmonic played the opening notes of "Arirang,"
a beloved Korean folk song, a murmur rippled through
the audience. Many in the audience perched forward
in their seats.
The piccolo played a
long, plaintive melody. Cymbals crashed, harp runs
flew up, the violins soared. And tears began forming
in the eyes of the staid audience, row upon row of
men in dark suits, women in colorful high-waisted
dresses called hanbok and all of them wearing pins
with the likeness of Kim Il Sung, the nation's
founder.
And right there, the
Philharmonic had them. The full-throated performance
of a piece deeply resonant for both North and South
Koreans ended the orchestra's historic concert in
this isolated nation on Tuesday in triumph.
The audience applauded for more than five minutes,
and orchestra members, some of them crying, waved.
People in the seats cheered and waved back,
reluctant to let the visiting Americans leave."
As
I considered this recent triumph, I pondered how SELDOM
we consider the power of the Arts for bridging gaps
between dissonant neighboring peoples---even as we boost
our stockpiles of war machines and bombs. And we
continue cutting back music, drama, and other
culturally-rich programs in public schools because we
just don't choose to allocate funds to such endeavors.
Down through history, we've held this truth to be
self-evident: "Music hath power to soothe the
savage beast" in all of us. Yet so often we
forget---and let it sit there on the back burner, while
coarser methods of "negotiation" are exhaustively
applied, often bringing minimal results and maximal cost
of resources and human lives. I'm so happy to see
that trend beginning to reverse itself. It brings
back memories of Paul McCartney and Billy Joel playing
to packed houses in Russia, just before huge changes
began taking place there. Bravo New York
Philharmonic!!!
DJ. 2/27/2008
FROZEN IN GRAND
CENTRAL STATION!
Want a laugh? Check out this video. It makes you glad to be human :-)
OTHERKIN
"How beautiful they are, the lordly ones
Who dwell in the hills
In the hollow hills.
They have faces like flowers
And their breath is wind that stirs amid the grasses
Filled with white clover.
Their limbs are more white than shafts of moonshine.
They are more fleet than the March wind.
They laugh and are glad and are terrible:
When their lances shake, every green reed quivers.
How beautiful they are
How beautiful the lordly ones
In the hollow hills."
____________
-- Fiona Macleod
SUPER TUESDAY, SUPER NEWS
DAY
Election
Day with Mercury Retrograde
Q:"I am wondering if it is just me or
is everyone is feeling the confusion and frustration about
this election day? My husband and I tried to dissect the
sample ballet while digesting our breakfast. My breakfast
was more meaningful. We couldn't make heads or tails out of
"the " Amendment 1" and the multitude of candidates made my
head spin. If this isn't a perfect example of Mercury
Retrograde I don't know what is. Mercury is the planet that
rules the way we think and process information. When it is
retrograde, it causes information to become tangled and
confused. This is the first time in my life that I can
recall being so undecided when I stood in the voting booth.
I would be
interested in your thoughts and feelings, as I am gathering
research data about this election
day. Fortunately Mercury will not be retrograde on Nov.
4th."
DJ: Thanks for
sharing your concerns, and for setting this matter
before us. As I pondered the Democratic Debate tonight,
between Hillary and Obama..........the cordiality that
was shown, the victorious points made on both
sides..........the camaraderie (not to mention the rapid
diminishing in numbers of other candidates).........I
realized that Spirit seems to have made short work of
the nebullousness we witnessed over the past few weeks.
I trust that the same "weeding" process will be underway
for several months, as we ready ourselves for November
4.
It behooves each of us to go
inward, and keep our eye solidly on whatever "ball"
Spirit sets before us---not allowing ourselves to be
sucked into irrelevant political dodges (irrelevant to
our own mind)....or sidetracked into other agendas than
what feels right for our own lives.
Outward Resolution
always follows Inward Clarity. It could easily be said
that "the leaders don't know because the people don't
know." We have detached from the process, in
disillusionment, so our leaders have detached from us.
One situation gives birth to the other. What I enjoyed
hearing tonight from BOTH candidates was a calling
America's people back into the
process.....pleading to us to come out of the clouds,
the romance novels, the sporting events...... so we can
all deal with extremely important issues facing us on
the hard deck!
To be truthful, this is a tall
order. Many people living on the Transformational Track
have their bags packed, ready to drop out of 3D
altogether. Asking them to unpack and stay awhile is
about as popular as informing a soldier on his way back
home that his "tour" in Iraq has been mandatorially
extended. It's not a happy notion! But is it
necessary? Perhaps.
As I said
above........the parallels of this campaign, and it's
importance to America........are remarkably similar to
the parallels of Oneness Consciousness (a United State),
and it's importance to the Ascension of Planet Earth.
Let's continue to keep
in touch on this in days to come!
I was talking to my friends Daisy and Raoul this
afternoon (who are also Massage Therapists, working in Seattle) and we were
comparing the unusual number of clients and friends lately who have been
talking about "leaving," as in "leaving the planet." People are SO
depressed, stressed, and mind-messed right now. Some hint at the
option of suicide, while others simply fear that their physical being might
just "give out".........as did the body of actor Heath Ledger, 28......found
face down this week on the floor of his Manhattan Apartment. Found by
who? His Massage Therapist. So yes......we stress specialists
absolutely DO get an accurate picture of the Collective Psyche, if we
examine all the "chit chat" that goes on while we're working on these dear
ones who come to us for help and healing.
In many of their writings,
The Reconnections have told us that "death is
illusion." A convincing illusion, to be sure, but only the barest
representation of truth. They go on to emphasize that the trappings of
Death---a body, a tale of dramatic ending, questions, consolations, a grave
stone---belong to those who are left behind. And what is the appointed
task of those left behind? We must CLAIM the body. We must OWN IT as
our own, lest we miss the lesson that it carries.
"Ask not for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for THEE."
~John Donne
As I was pondering over this young star who had
suddenly and dramatically left us, a friend asked me "What does all this
mean to you? What part of YOU does Heath Ledger represent?" At
the time, I told her something basic like "the stealing away of youth" (God
knows I've been feeling THAT)..... or the "untimely death of potential."
But now I see that this passing means much, much more. I'd like to
discuss some of that here.
From the sound of things, Heath had experienced a
sizeable blow-up in his current primary relationship. His daughter
Matilda was in Sweden, with actress-mother Michelle Williams, and he must
surely have been missing her. Maybe he was missing them both.
Relationships have this nasty habit of dying, don't they? They are
born, they die, and they get resurrected---over and over again. It
could be said that each shift and change in a dance of relationship
represents a "little death" (petit mort), and each coming together
represents a fresh "marriage" of sorts. This is what I discussed in
that poem "Playmate" that was on the Index Page
last week. We kiss a person good-bye in the morning, and sometimes we
never see them again. Remember those grieving spouses and parents from 9-11?
It truly boggles the mind. But that's just the way things appear on
THIS SIDE OF THE VEIL..........from the viewpoint of those who are "left
behind."
As vibrations change on the planet, our experience
of Linear Flow is ALSO being revealed to be
"illusion." And that is a long, long
discussion, which we've had before. Maybe we'll have it again, for those who
missed it. It makes us wonder who or what we can "count on" as we go
through our soul's evolution, yes? Indeed, it just may be THIS
question that is gnawing at the insides of those who are pondering "leaving
Earth" at this time. Who can they trust? Who will be there for
us NO MATTER WHAT? The only sure answer to that question I can find is
YOURSELF. Even many of those who trust in GOD allow for the
possibility that a person could be rejected by Him and sent to Hell. And
then what? You guessed it. An eternity alone with YOURSELF.
Without getting too philosophical at this point,
are we alone or are we ALL ONE?
There's lots to be pondered there. And again, we'll have to do it
elsewhere. I want this article to be about Heath.
The Joker. Summer, 2008.
"The Dark Knight."
It just may be Heath's defining role. That's because he carried it over into
"real life," didn't he? He has perpetrated the biggest and oldest JOKE
of all. A disappearing act. Now you see him, now you don't.
But that's what we ALL DO, my friends.......every moment of every day.
First we're here, then we're there..............then we
"hip hop" all across the Multiverse.
We are born, we die, we are reborn........all in a matter of a single Now
Moment. And all the "stuff" that happens in-between? Stage
props. I know that sounds callous and weird, except if you've already
extricated yourself from the pre-eminence of 3D thinking. As he filmed
this movie, I believe Heath was doing just that.
Every person has
"activating tones" that bring him or her into full Multiversal
Awareness. For my money, The Joker was Heath's activating tone.
It was his alarm clock. While he was filming the movie, he told one reporter
that he couldn't get more than two hours of sleep a night. His mind
wouldn't stop spinning. And why not? He was about to make the
biggest LEAP of his life, that's why. In the trailer, his character
passionately asks someone: Why so SERIOUS?" And in another
scene, as Batman is speeding towards him on a jet-propelled motorcycle, he
calls out: "Go ahead! Hit me!"
It brings to mind Jeff Bridge's character in the
movie
"Fearless," or Bruce Willis' character in the movie
"Unbreakable." What
happens inside a person when all fear departs.......when all the "rules" that
once held him in check no longer apply? I suspect that each one of us
will find that out someday.
My boys lost their mother at an early age......7
and 11. Little Matilda will only carry a faint memory of her famous,
larger-than-life Dad. She'll have his movies, of course. But
beyond that, she'll have to concoct her own version of who is was, or is,
now that he has stepped beyond the Veil. Any parent who leaves, early
in a child's life, becomes HUGE in their developing psyche. A
VOID that can never really be filled.
A motivating force. An icon.
The older I (seem to) get..........(it's all
illusion, you see........ha ha).........the more I acclimate to the
transience of being. My closest friends accuse me of "falling in love"
at the drop of a hat. I do it all the time, and I LOVE doing it.
I love being in love with love. Sometimes it's romantic, sometimes it
represents
deep and powerful friendship. Anais Nin is one of my favorite authors!
These days, I say I'm RISING IN LOVE........and the only way to do that is
to "fall," completely.......then fully accept it if something goes awry, and
the connection disintegrates. At this speed of vibration, that can
happen a lot. I weep with Karen Bishop as she now lets go of her Phil.
I wept with Pakistan as they laid their slain Lady President to rest.
I weep with shattered parents, who greet the bodies of their sons and
daughters, shipped back from Iraq. And I weep now with Michelle and
Matilda.......as well as Kim and Sally Ledger.......and all the world.
That Joker has gone wild. He's jumped out of the deck, naughty boy!
I awoke one morning this week with the feeling
that half my world had been evacuated. There were people all around
me, life was happening as it always seems to happen, but it felt like
everything and everyone was just mannequins, store-fronts. That's how
it feels to take on these new tones. We have "test pilot" selves, and we
have a "ground crew," which stays behind and sweeps up the train station,
and gets things ready for the next rush of activity. The feelings and
meanderings are always changing, always shifting. So must we.
Heath Ledger will surely be missed.
Understanding the "facts" about Linear Flow does not erase the experience of
emotion that is wrapped up it. And personally, I'm glad for that.
The whole spectrum of human experience is ours for the having. Why
deny any part of it?Horror Movies, Romances, Cowboy Flicks. It's all
ripe for the picking. Life's a smorgasbord. Have your fill.
"And the sun pours down like honey, on Our
Lady of the Harbor......"
~Leonard Cohen
POETIC LICENSE
I have a friend in Paris who has been inspiring me
to poetry of late. There's just something about her energy that sets
me off. The above picture is not a harbor, it's the Seine
River........but this is the scene I imagine when I hear Leonard Cohen's
song, "Suzanne." I originally fell in love with this tune through the
work of Judy Collins. It took quite a few years before I allowed
myself to climb into Leonard's world, especially through the vehicle of his
movie "I'm Your Man."
The song ("Suzanne") was originally inspired by
the wife of a close friend of Leonard's. They live near New York
Harbor, and he went to visit her one afternoon. There was no romantic
relationship there, but there was something about her manner and her energy
that inspired him to deep romanticism, so he wrote the song in her honor.
He talks about this in the movie. They sat by the window, and she
served him Constant Comment Tea (tea and oranges, that come all the way from
China)......and his mind just flew off into beauty. I call that
"Poetic License." You do not have to confine yourself to the "facts"
or to the world as it appears. You can make it anything you want.
This is how I experience my own "Suzanne" in
Paris. She has her own lovely name, but I call her Suzanne now, since
she reminded me of the song. The way she describes her existence
there, it just gives my heart wings and I'm flying off to points unknown in
my mind. I positively LOVED that place when we visited there in 2005.
The other day she wrote and said she was in need
of inner guidance, so she decided to consult her Tarot Cards. She then
began to present the sweetest, simplest, most precious manner for connecting
to Spirit.........
"I
then moved the furniture and laid out my yellow blanket in front of the
window, lit my candle as I always do and went to get my cards. I was off to
the kitchen to get a class of water and I stopped to sniff the beautiful
yellow flowers that I had bought over 2 weeks ago (I was noticing the
predominance of YELLOW in all her current experience) and I was amazed
how lively and beautiful they still were, I thought before anything I will
change their water and give them a little love for all the beauty and
delight they have and are giving me. Then as I pulled them out of the vase I
noticed as I looked closer that one of them was a double it had a second
flower growing out of the side that I didn’t see before. The voice came back
in my head and told me that I was both that I have new DNA that I no longer
am the same breed. I placed the flowers back on the table and went to the
blanket and opened my self up to my guide completely............"
It is this simple, straight-forward dance with ALL
LIFE that captures my intrigue. Tending the flowers, the double bud on
that one flower........it's all part of "guidance".........yet many of us
miss it. In truth ALL OF LIFE is like a Tarot Spread, if we're willing
to catch the metaphors unfolding all around us, which this lady certainly
does do!
AS she passed by them, the flowers "asked" for
more water...........and immediately I thought of more words to this song:
"They are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever, while
Suzanne holds the mirror." It seems that all of our lives are
either spent being a mirror for someone or looking into our own mirror.
I have a young Star Kid friend who lives in Czech
Republic. Recently, he has been getting premonitions of some possible
futures for humankind. He sees where the energies are leading, and
he's quite uneasy about it all.
"I don't know if anyone is
feeling things like I do, but if the change is about to
happen to everyone, there will be an army of mindless people
caught in a
pretty bad shape, unable to get out of it. It won't be just
a ring of fire,
it will be the heart of a sun.
If you can somehow tell me whether I am right about these
things or no, I
would like to hear it. There's just no one to talk about
this stuff."
Myrr
in Alaska and I were discussing it this morning. In a way, the boy is
right. This IS one possible future for humanity. Zombie-Ville.
People whose minds have been blown because they couldn't make the leap from
Separation Mentality to Oneness. It's like that scene in Lord of the Rings,
where Galadriel shows Frodo a reflection in the magic pool in her garden.
He sees slavery, tyranny, and death. She says: "This is what
will happen IF YOU FAIL to destroy the Ring of Power."
We
are all responsible for our own MIRROR. My Suzanne has her way of
dealing with life's reflections and Frodo had his. Fortunately for
all of us, there are enough Suzannes and Frodos in this world, doing
Grid Work, that there are some other alternative universes a person can
visit that doesn't feel like "I am Legend"...........or "Omega Man."
And yes...........I do believe we can call that POETIC LICENSE, too.
"And you want to
travel with them, and you want to travel blind........and you
think you'll maybe trust them.......'cause they've touched your
perfect body with their mind......"
DJ. 1/19/2008.
"The Kite Runner"
and the Afghan Girl
I am
doing some deep introspection these days. I saw the movie
"Kite Runner"
last night. What a powerful story........about the Afghan People. A
story of two friends...........in Afghanistan.....before the Russian
Occupation. A story of class distinctions, suffering, friendship and
beauty of soul.
I
had heard people sing its praises, but when I finally saw it
myself.........the effect on me was different than expected. In my own
heart, I found myself paying deep attention to the CUSTOMS AND
TRADITIONS of the people. The Marriage Customs, the deeply-held Societal
Guidelines, the Religious Practices. I am always one who is quick to
offer philosophical and/or societal "solutions" to mankind's ills. I
say: "If only we would do this, or stop doing
that...............everything would be fine." What I fail to ponder, at
times, is the deeply held ALLEGIANCE people feel to their ways and their
morality. The expression of morality in this movie is
DEEP.......especially the sense of servitude and loyalty one boy feels
for the other. The self-sacrifice and admiration he sustains. Where
there is deep morality, there is also profound IMMORALITY to balance and
offset it. The energy of that region of the world is so heavy with
brutality and strict intensity. I walked away from that movie with a
fresh perspective on the fact that I have NO FRIGGING IDEA what
suffering or pain is. In this country, we have been so spoiled and
coddled (at least in my life circle) that its hard to even look on it as
suffering when we take into account what these people have gone through.
Have you ever seen that picture of the Afghan girl..........the one with
the intense green eyes? That one picture says it all. (see above).
I read in a follow-up article that she is 28 or 29 years old
now.........and her eyes are just as intense.
DJ. 1/20/2008
Taking Life as it Comes
It seems that both God and Santa have had to take
it on the nose this year. People pray, they make Christmas Lists, but
things don't always happen the way we want them to. Someone wrote in
to the Reconnections the other day, wanting to know how to handle the
depression that comes about with thoughts of "wudda-cudd-shudda"
stuff......REGRETS.........broken dreams. Who do we deal with that?
First off, anyone who doesn't feel intermittently
DEPRESSED at this time is way out of touch. I don't say that to be
mean. It's just a fact. And I'm not talking about being mad at the
world, or down and out because of your lot in life. There are people
depressed today who are very rich, and even famous. What I'm referring
to is the fact that our Veils of Forgetfulness are wearing extremely thin
now........and our sense of being HELD BACK in limitation is breaking
through the clouds of oblivious awareness which have surrounded us.
In the transmission "The
Tragic Ones," the Recons give us a clear indication about why some
people elect to leave this world, as it were, in a trail of blazing sadness
and depression:
"Life on the Plane of Limitation is truly similar to what you might call your
"Hollywood." Vast spiritual entities with boundless power and
grace consent to divest themselves of said power and assume an identity that is
steeped in Limitation, and burdened with an assigned script to live out.
As if fashioned from clay and baked in a kiln, their figures depict the entire
spectrum of human emotion, and their embodiment a whole host of traits that
sometimes cause them to feel just like "aliens."
So it goes, My Dear Friends, with The Tragic Ones. Outwardly, they
may look helpless, lost, confused, desolate. But believe us--this is by
grand design. They wear for all to see a curious mixture of TRUE EMOTION
and ACCURATE COMPREHENSION of what life is like on this Plane of Limitation.
They do it entirely by choice. By planting in their earthly heart
those hidden memories of freedom, and then confounding their spirit with
difficulties and contradictions--they perfectly portray the "divided
citizenship" which is true of you all. Theirs is a
consciousness "on the fence."
True--when questioned directly about the situation, they rarely allow themselves
to own the real nature of their "work" here. Such a conversation
would doubtless produce a rage of distain about the injustice of it,
or......perhaps....... a sigh of sadness for their powerlessness to find peace.
Enjoy the show. The program has been specifically designed for your
pleasure! Their Expanded Self knows that, though they amount to
"nothing" within this physical context--they are winning Academy
Awards for their performance---which will be cherished, when they are presented
on the other side.
In your travels here......should you encounter one of these "dark
angels," we invite you to think twice about seeking to deflect them from
their appointed task. Would you counsel them, and lead them to peace?
Well, certainly........go on and try, if you can. But remember, My
Dear Friends.......could they not, at any time they choose, rise up to heights
of inestimable glory and grace? Could not you *all* do the very same?
It is for this grand purpose that they entered the world. We remind you,
therefore, to stand back and truly drink in the grandeur of their performance.
Take time to savour the portrait of pain and despair they are painting for you.
They are paying much to deliver it to you. And it comes from a heart of
love." <end excerpt>
As for the
disappointment and broken dreams.........another transmission (from the
early years).........nicely addresses this too. Granted, the words
serve the role of "mental programming," which is often resisted, initially,
by the emotional body........but everything takes time, does it not?
That's why we created time........so we could have PROCESS.............and
from that would flow progress.
From "Changing
Gears"..........
"Now we reveal this wonderful truth that, as a
Citizen of the Multiverse---every thought you have, every dream, every desire
that longs for fulfillment is HAPPENING NOW, IN THEIR ENTIRETY, WITHIN YOUR
MULTIDIMENSIONAL SELF. You see, this Physicality that has been held so
dear---this solid matter that you have clung to as "Real"---it is THIS
PLANE that is the shadow!!! And every part of that shadow; every nuance---is
REAL AND COMPLETE somewhere in the Multidimensional Self.
Part of the mechanism that binds together the
Limitation Plane is the "blocking" from your consciousness of full
representation of all you are and all you are doing. Since this is "defined
territory"--there is just not room for it all here. Therefore, the
Limitation Focus was created to view, in full manifestation, ONLY THOSE IDEAS
WHICH YOU WISH TO STUDY "UP CLOSE" AND IN SLOW MOTION. It is the
"microscope" designed for studying and exploring all those aspects
about yourself that interest you---those "issues" your Higher Self has
programmed you to resist. If you think about it--ONE HAS TO BE RESISTING THEM in
order to SLOW THEM DOWN to this vibrational frequency so they can become solid.
Therefore, this Plane of Visualization contains those "assignments"
that "fill in the gaps" experientially---joining with other alternate,
simultaneous existences and forming the huge jigsaw puzzle you are within the
Multiverse.
"Well, then..." you may ask, "How
about those thoughts and desires that appear IN MY MIND ONLY but never find a
resting place in physicality?" Our answer, then, is that they passed
through your mental body merely as a reminder that SOMEWHERE, IN ANOTHER PART OF
YOU the entire dream is being ACCOMPLISHED PERFECTLY and with great joy!! If the
hearer wishes a linear concept that would illustrate this---try the picture of a
fleeting desire to, perhaps, attend the wedding of a friend. To your
disappointment, physical "circumstances" prevent you from going.
However, two days after the event, you receive a call from that friend saying
that the wedding had been videotaped in it's entirety by SEVERAL different
photographers and all the cassettes are awaiting review at your earliest
convenience! And, we might hasten to add---when a Multidimensional Photographer
takes a Video--it's the kind of "replay" you can CLIMB RIGHT INTO!!!
This is because TIME DOES NOT EXIST! All a person needs to do is turn his
attention to that particular "channel" of the inner awareness and IT'S
SHOWTIME!!!! It is even possible for One to view, while still present in
Physicality, any events or dreams which are represented fully
"elsewhere." It is through the usage of the gateway of IMAGINATION
that those in Form have ALWAYS had access to the Multiverse. And certain
Spiritual Guides, accelerated parts of Yourself, who have been placed at the
entrance of this Gate, can be of assistance in Your explorations."
So......it all happens
SOMEWHERE, does it? Hmmmmmmm........and the 3D Plane is now
specializing in helping us study, up-close and personal, all those parts of
the Oneself we find it difficult to integrate. Double Hmmmmmmmmmm...............
The whole business
takes faith, it seems. More faith than asking a mountain to move from
here to there. More than a mustard seed. I think I'll have to
take the whole rest of this month to ponder that. And what a month
it's turning out to be! With all the numerological "new
beginnings" showing up this month, I've decided to rename myself "DON
ONE"..........or wait..........how about "Don One Demarco?" I
told one ailing dear soul to go check out that film TODAY (Don
Juan DeMarco)..........right now. She hasn't seen it yet.
It's MEDICINE, my friends.........Medicine for the Jungry Soul!!!
Ole! (and no one lays quite like
Johnny Depp, as you'll soon see!) muhuhahahahaha......
