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#3370 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Tue May 29, 2012 2:07 am
Subject: URGENT - "Fast tractor" - race against the clock to help our friends in Nigeria. Please read and share with your networks
pam_mclean2000
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Hello All ( Please forgive me sending this to you in a group email - it is to people who I believe share my concerns)

I need to help my friend John Dada of Fantsuam Foundation - and I need your help to do it. Details have gone live in the past 24hours at  http://fasttractor.net/

Please do all you can to get the word out. We are working against the clock and need to get as many people as possible interested and sharing the news.

Anything you can do to "create the buzz" will be much appreciated. Donations welcome too of course - but sharing the word is what we need to do as quickly as we can. 

What is it about?


Over two years ago there was the promise of government subsidised tractors and related equipment. This scheme is supposed to benefit genuine grass roots organsisations in Nigiera, such as Fantsuam Foundation. John Dada (who I know well and respect greatly) managed to scrape together the deposit of Ł2000 so Fantsuam Foundation would qualify. After many false rumours over the years the tractors suddenly appeared at Kaduna. On Tuesday May 15th  John was called to the delivery point and told to pay the remaining money - approximately Ł7,200  - within 21 days or forfeit the tractor. He had no hope of doing so. Fantsuam Foundation doesn't sit on reserves of money. It responds to urgent and important local needs, and is always squeezing all it can from its limited resources. There is never anything much in hand. John didn't have the money, he couldn't even borrow so much money in the time needed. He only needed a loan. He has a business plan for paying for the tractor over time.

Coming to the rescue

John told me. I told a friend, who told a couple of his friends, and they came up with an ambitious project called "Fast Tractor" to help John and the people he helps. It is ridiculously against the clock - but we are giving it our best shot and relying on the power of social media to get this tractor to where it ought to be.  Please help us. Share this as far and as fast as you can. I know this is genuine. I know the people and places involved. I admire and value the work that they do. I have done so ever since my first visit to Fantsuam Foundation in 2004. Together we can make his happen.

You can make the difference

Please help me to help my friends before they lose this chance. Don't let them lose "their" subsidised tractor to some profiteering person with money to spare who can resell it at a normal commercial price. If they can't hand over Ł7,200 they won't just loose the chance of the tractor - they will struggle to get their deposit back.

We need this story to go far and fast. The deadline is even shorter than we realised. We hadn't allowed for the bank holiday this weekend  We have raised over Ł1000 since we started less than 24 hours ago. We need the rest before the banks close on Friday.  

It's a crazy ask - but we're going for it. You can be the one that makes the difference between us hitting the target or just missing it.  Please pass this on. Help to create the buzz before you do anything else - and if you can afford it - please donate - every little helps.

Many thanks.

Pamela

#3371 From: Samwel Kongere <jambita1@...>
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 4:12 pm
Subject: TRICKLE UP SYSTEM
jambita1
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Social Community Network/Information Coordinator,
Suba/Mbita-Kenya
'Aliving hope is desire' When it is socially lived!


--- On Tue, 6/5/12, mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com <mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

From: mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com <mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [mendenyo] TRICKLE UP SYSTEM
To: mendenyo@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 3:20 AM

 


Dear all,

I am currently working hand in hand with women who are from rural Kenya to start small business in terms of reaching a right desirable level of sustainability as revolving loans ------Step 1-----Step 2----- Step 3 and then call it call "TRICKLE UP" for desired livelihood standards. If one women starts business with KES: 4000.00 e.g selling shop items, Maize, fruits and other greens, fish and reports to me after a week to see the profit towards sustainability and livelihood, after a month if this seems trustworthy then an additional KES:400.00 will be given then another KES: 400.00 this will total to KES: 12, 000.00 and then the women will be left to go on on her on but will be required to bring back the seed money to be given to another woman. There must be an application form signed and there must be 2 granters from within the group.
I am back to my community work like before!
SAMWEL

--- In mendenyo@yahoogroups.com, Pamela McLean <pam54321@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Andris
>
> I am still in contact with Samwel and so is Ken Owino
> It is not easy for Sam to connect with us at present.
> Ken visited Rusinga island recently - you may do best to try to connect
> with him if you do not manage to link up with Sam directly
>
> Pamela McLean.
>
> On 27 May 2012 09:35, <ms@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi Andris, I'm glad you found our pages about Samwel Kongere, Ricardo and
> > Rusinga Island. That activity took place several years ago and I'm not
> > sure how successful it was. Samwel's email is jambita1@... I'm not
> > currently working with him. I send your email also to his group Mendenyo
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mendenyo/ He is also on Facebook. Best
> > wishes in your projects!
> >
> > Andrius Kulikauskas
> > ms@..., (773) 306-3807, http://www.selflearners.net
> >
> > > Hello Andrius,
> > >
> > > I just stumbled upon your community wireless on Rusinga Island post here
> > > http://www.worknets.org/wiki.pl?WiFi and I'm astounded that I haven't
> > > connected with your organization before. I'm the CTO of an organization
> > > called Inveneo focused on rural broadband and low power computing
> > > challenges in the developing world.
> > >
> > > I am very interested to hear about the Rusinga Island (Kenya) community
> > > wireless project that seems to have been worked on by members of your
> > site
> > > named Ricardo and Samwel Kongere. I can't seem to locate contact
> > > information for these two guys on the worknets site.
> > >
> > > This coming week, I am headed to Mfangano Island to help an organization
> > > there called OHR (Organic Health Response) who runs a community computer
> > > center. We will be working to set up a long distance wifi link back to
> > > Kisumu using Ubiquiti wifi hardware. I would very much like to try to
> > > connect with anyone in the area working on community wireless.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the short notice, as I said, I just found your site through a
> > > coincidental google search.
> > >
> > > Thanks so much!
> > >
> > > Andris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ...............................................................
> > > andris bjornson
> > > inveneo
> > > chief technology officer
> > >
> > > office: +1.415.901.1969x 1215
> > > skype: andris.bjornson
> > > ................................................................
> > >
> > > Watch Inveneo in action on CNN
> > > http://www.inveneo.org/?q=CNNPrincipalVoices
> > >
> > > Subscribe to Inveneo via:
> > > - Email: http://bit.ly/inveneo-email
> > > - RSS: http://bit.ly/inveneo_rss
> > > - Twitter: http://bit.ly/inveneo-twitter
> > >
> > > ...............................................................
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>


#3372 From: Pamela McLean <pam@...>
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 5:33 pm
Subject: Re: TRICKLE UP SYSTEM
pam@...
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Dear Samwel

It is good to see this.

I wonder if it ties in with the women traders you are already working with. I am thinking of the ones that Ken met when he visited Mbita island recently. It seemed that scheme was working well. It woud be good if you could find ways to help more women.

Ken is hoping to catch up with you by phone at some point and will tell me about the conversation afterwards.

Pamela


On 5 June 2012 17:12, Samwel Kongere <jambita1@...> wrote:
 






Social Community Network/Information Coordinator,
Suba/Mbita-Kenya
'Aliving hope is desire' When it is socially lived!


--- On Tue, 6/5/12, mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com <mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

From: mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com <mendenyo-owner@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [mendenyo] TRICKLE UP SYSTEM
To: mendenyo@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 3:20 AM

 


Dear all,

I am currently working hand in hand with women who are from rural Kenya to start small business in terms of reaching a right desirable level of sustainability as revolving loans ------Step 1-----Step 2----- Step 3 and then call it call "TRICKLE UP" for desired livelihood standards. If one women starts business with KES: 4000.00 e.g selling shop items, Maize, fruits and other greens, fish and reports to me after a week to see the profit towards sustainability and livelihood, after a month if this seems trustworthy then an additional KES:400.00 will be given then another KES: 400.00 this will total to KES: 12, 000.00 and then the women will be left to go on on her on but will be required to bring back the seed money to be given to another woman. There must be an application form signed and there must be 2 granters from within the group.
I am back to my community work like before!
SAMWEL

--- In mendenyo@yahoogroups.com, Pamela McLean <pam54321@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Andris
>
> I am still in contact with Samwel and so is Ken Owino
> It is not easy for Sam to connect with us at present.
> Ken visited Rusinga island recently - you may do best to try to connect
> with him if you do not manage to link up with Sam directly
>
> Pamela McLean.
>
> On 27 May 2012 09:35, <ms@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Hi Andris, I'm glad you found our pages about Samwel Kongere, Ricardo and
> > Rusinga Island. That activity took place several years ago and I'm not
> > sure how successful it was. Samwel's email is jambita1@... I'm not
> > currently working with him. I send your email also to his group Mendenyo
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mendenyo/ He is also on Facebook. Best
> > wishes in your projects!
> >
> > Andrius Kulikauskas
> > ms@..., (773) 306-3807, http://www.selflearners.net
> >
> > > Hello Andrius,
> > >
> > > I just stumbled upon your community wireless on Rusinga Island post here
> > > http://www.worknets.org/wiki.pl?WiFi and I'm astounded that I haven't
> > > connected with your organization before. I'm the CTO of an organization
> > > called Inveneo focused on rural broadband and low power computing
> > > challenges in the developing world.
> > >
> > > I am very interested to hear about the Rusinga Island (Kenya) community
> > > wireless project that seems to have been worked on by members of your
> > site
> > > named Ricardo and Samwel Kongere. I can't seem to locate contact
> > > information for these two guys on the worknets site.
> > >
> > > This coming week, I am headed to Mfangano Island to help an organization
> > > there called OHR (Organic Health Response) who runs a community computer
> > > center. We will be working to set up a long distance wifi link back to
> > > Kisumu using Ubiquiti wifi hardware. I would very much like to try to
> > > connect with anyone in the area working on community wireless.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the short notice, as I said, I just found your site through a
> > > coincidental google search.
> > >
> > > Thanks so much!
> > >
> > > Andris
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ...............................................................
> > > andris bjornson
> > > inveneo
> > > chief technology officer
> > >
> > > office: +1.415.901.1969x 1215
> > > skype: andris.bjornson
> > > ................................................................
> > >
> > > Watch Inveneo in action on CNN
> > > http://www.inveneo.org/?q=CNNPrincipalVoices
> > >
> > > Subscribe to Inveneo via:
> > > - Email: http://bit.ly/inveneo-email
> > > - RSS: http://bit.ly/inveneo_rss
> > > - Twitter: http://bit.ly/inveneo-twitter
> > >
> > > ...............................................................
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>



#3373 From: "David N. Mutua" <davenzainga@...>
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 6:24 pm
Subject: [CALD International] 6/05/2012 11:24:00 AM
davenzainga
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Cuso International
My name is Sally Thomson and I left my home in Canada to volunteer with Cuso International in Uganda, where thousands of children were abducted and drawn into lives of slavery, murder and sexual abuse during the bloody war over the last 30 years.

Our mission here, with our partner at the Lira District Local Government, is to work with these youth and train them to become full members of the community.

It is a daunting task because even here in their own country it is widely believed these youths are “redundant” and a “lost cause”
Our plan is to reach out to these former child soldiers in a meaningful and sustainable way. When we first launched this program we expected a few hundred applicants. But when the day came - the crowds almost filled the entire village!

There were over a thousand young people on the first day – all of them eager to be chosen. After three days, there were 2,500 village youth clamouring to get to work.


So far, hundreds of local youth have been organized into groups working on income generating enterprises such as livestock management, agriculture, a bakery, bee-keeping and tailoring. They are now feeling useful and productive.

But we have just scratched the surface - there is still so much more to be done.

You may not visit us in Uganda – but you do have the power to make a difference from a world away. Please consider a gift to Cuso International to put overseas volunteers like myself in some of the poorest countries in the world. Together we can make a life changing difference!

With heartfelt thanks,



Sally Thomson, Volunteer
Cuso International


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#3374 From: Pamela McLean <pam@...>
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 6:38 pm
Subject: Re: Greetings BeLoVeD ONe! :D I'm sending ya! LiGhT! & Infinite! LoVE!!!! ArChAnGeL
pam@...
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Hi All
I've been busy and have only just noticed this thread.
It's not really appropriate for LFEO so I'll try to find time soon to remove it from the archives.
Pam

On 22 May 2012 22:57, Viktoriya <Editor@...> wrote:
 

Greetings BeLoVeD ONe! :D I'm sending ya! LiGhT! & Infinite! LoVE!!!! ArChAnGeL
Rick GaLaCtiC

The true Journey of Discovery consists not in seeking new
landscapes, but in having New Eyes!
~~~marcel proust

Ascension.

This word means so many different things to so many individuals. We are here to
properly clarify the true meaning of the word ascension.

Ascension is not a process to be feared, it is a natural occurrence, that the
planet Gaia has been undertaking for the past 5 of your years, without many of
you even knowing about it. The attention of many of you is now being brought to
the ascension process, as the timing now has become crucial.

The planet Earth is on her ascension course, with or without its inhabitants.

So many of you are still yet to realize the importance of your role here on
planet Earth. Yes, the planet is ascending, with or without your assistance, but
the reason so many of you have been chosen to assist with the ascension process
is not what you can do for Gaia, but what you can do for your fellow man.

There are still so many unawakened, unaware souls out there - it is your role to
assist these individuals in their awakening process, Earth will not, in fact,
cannot stop her ascension process to wait for everyone to awaken, so it is up to
you to enlighten your fellow man.

You know that you were sent here for a reason, and there are still so many of
you that have not yet awakened to that reason. We are here to tell you that this
reason is to alert mankind to the fact that the ascension process is happening
and to at least trigger some sort of recognition and awareness within them.

That is all that is required of you at this time - it is not your role to force
the issue of ascension onto your fellow man, merely to make as many of them as
possible aware of the fact that the Earth is on an unstoppable ascension course
and that all they need to do is look within - their spirit guides and mentors
are there waiting, all you need to do is release the trigger of awareness within
them.

So many new souls are awakening on a daily basis now that the veils of
forgetfulness have been lifted, and it is a wonderous sight for us all to
behold.

For those of you who have not yet experienced the direct contact or disclosure
with us - know that the time is almost upon you. The cabal have been removed
from your societies, and already you will have seen on your news programs that
the wealth has already begun to be redistributed. However, this is not your
concern, this issue has already been dealt with. The only foreseeable concern we
have is the notification of the planets ascension to as many of your fellow man
as possible - this is of the utmost priority at the moment, as many of the jobs
that we have in store for you will be worthless, unless the ascension process is
a success.

Many of you will have noticed an increase in sightings. This is our intent, as
the time is drawing ever near, and the sightings will become so commonplace that
when we deem the time is right for complete disclosure, very few of the Earths
inhabitants will be surprised by our landings. This is the role that we have
bestowed on many of you at this time, purely to make our landings a success, not
a fear based failure.

If you have not yet tuned into your higher self, your spirit, the Angels or your
Galactic family from the Stars, now is the time to do so. There can be no more
excuses and no more delays. You all know that you volunteered to be here for
this mission. The time for denial has long gone. The time to embrace and
acknowledge who you all are and where you are from is now.

As always, we offer you our unwavering support. We know that the questions will
continue until the ascension is so far gone that there will be a time that the
questions will cease - and your inner knowing will take over. It is contained
within you all, you just need to dig deep, and give your permission for the
relevant information to be revealed to you, as we cannot volunteer information
to you without your prior consent.

Why hold back any longer? Your fellow mankind need you now.

We are the Galactic Federation of Light.

More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

MSG from *ARCHANGEL MICHAEL* on May 21st, 2012.

Each advance builds upon the last. ¨C ArchangeL Michael channeled by Ron Head
May 21,2012

We offer our sincere congratulations for your magnificent success in your
meditations and visionings during yesterdayˇŻs event. We urge you to make
special efforts to remain grounded now as this wonderful energy continues to
make itself felt.

Allow your new consciousness to bring concepts of yourselves to your awareness
that you have not allowed to surface for many lifetimes. Allow also the energy
and light to penetrate deeply into your dear mother Gaia and to spill out into
the space around you, reaching out to unite with each other everywhere on this
planet. Allow your minds to understand that there is truly no limit to the
extent of your energetic fields. Understand the instantaneous connections you
have with all whom you resonate with.

Draw in this light and use it to build a strong and unbreakable link between
yourselves. We offer you an image. You and ourselves, you and Gaia, you and each
other, we are one. We are one. Each of you contribute all you are and ever have
been to the expanding consciousness we are. The power of the light, peace, and
love of this oneness cannot and will not be stopped until it manifests the world
you have imagined.

Live in this new world as often as you desire each day. Breathe it, walk in it,
play in it, love it into being. Speak about it to each other. Focus upon it with
feeling. As things around you begin to happen now, you will be distracted at
times, for they are what you have desired for so long. Take the time often to
return to your centers and ground yourselves. Return also to your image of the
new world you desire. Allow the events around you to transpire in the most
peaceful, safest, and smoothest way possible. Bring as much light to bear on
these events as you can muster. This is the function now of the light warrior.

Find within you the reality of unconditional love. You may be challenged to
maintain this as the truth of the past is exposed. We urge you to keep your
focus on your new world as much as you are able, and to allow the old to pass
away in peace. Your old world television, radio, and print media will offer up a
great deal of noise at first. They are not yet free to do otherwise. Many of you
have completely unplugged from that influence. More of you may want to do the
same, for now. For the time being, they are completely under control and are
being used to control you. Soon enough they will be free to return to the
reporting of truth. Some small efforts are already being seen. In the meantime,
you are all finding information that you resonate with, and interpreting it for
yourselves. This is by design, dear friends.

Watch closely now for small changes that will explode into huge long-term
benefits to your world. It took decades for the benefit of the airplane to
affect your world. It will take far, far less time for the new technologies to
reach all of you. Communication and travel are many times faster now. Each
advance builds upon the last. So has it ever been. And, as we have pointed out
to you, your inner world operates in exactly the same manner as your outer. Each
change builds upon the last. You are beginning to amaze yourselves.

We in our multitudes stand on all sides of you and ensure your success now. We
will speak again tomorrow. Good day. Archangel Michael

More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

May 14, 2012

Dear Ones, the time has come in your lives to let go of anything that is keeping
you back from living life in its highest expression. Many of you put off living
fully with your self talk. "I'll be happy when I lose 10 lbs." "I'll live my
life for myself once the kids are grown." "I'll start taking care of myself
first tomorrow." "If only I could find the right partner..." Every time you
procrastinate in such a way you are making a conscious decision to keep yourself
small and have a 'less than' experience. Hear us when we say you can start
living a life that is fulfilling right now, even if the conditions are less than
perfect. And the true miracle in that, is that once you do, the things that are
less than your ideal will sort themselves out. Your life expression,
particularly in these amazing and unprecedented times, is an incredible gift.
Cherish it and live it to the fullest, every single second. ~Archangel Gabriel

May 15, 2012

What is the one area that you consider most problematic in your life? Why not,
in a moment of silence and sincerity, take that one thing and surrender it to
God? Then go about your business, secure that it is being taken care of to bring
the highest outcome for all. How much lighter do you feel? How shifted are you
from letting go of that weight? How much extra time do you have now to create
more of what you do want? You see, the act of surrender is the most powerful
thing a human can do whether it is a generalized surrender, or specific to one
area of life. It is the energetic antidote to being stuck and a profound
decision to move forward again. It is the act of an empowered human being.
~Archangel Gabriel

May 16, 2012

Many of the human condition have a tendency to remember and apply their
spiritual teachings when times are good, yet the moment times get hard they
revert right back to their old ways. Conversely, many turn to spirituality when
their times are hard and forget all about it once things settle down. Your
spirituality is designed to allow you to navigate all of what your life
expression contains and will help you flow through the good times and what you
consider bad in the most empowered way possible. Sporadic spirituality, while
common in the initiate, is a beginner trait. Applying what you know and believe
at all times is mastery. ~Archangel Gabriel

May 17, 2012

It is time for the wounded healers to start to address their own healing, for
the teachers to apply and live by their own lessons, for the givers to start
receiving. That is the balance that is required to move forward in earnest into
the energies of the New Earth. Balance and boundaries have been major challenges
for many helper souls. The time is now to honour yourselves and to share the
gifts you so lovingly and willingly share with others with yourselves.
~Archangel Gabriel

May 18, 2012

When energetic elements are happening in quick succession, much like they are
this month (and year), it is so important to keep your balance. Be kind and
gentle to yourself. Listen to what your body and spirit needs. Stay in the now.
Practice gratitude. Go with the flow. Keep a positive attitude. Apply what you
know. It is an incredibly exciting time, Dear Ones! Take a moment to truly
cherish how profound it is that you are here assisting, honouring your souls
desire to experience this amazing and unprecedented time. Keeping your balance
and anchoring a calm and peaceful presence will help you enjoy these times and
will certainly be of service to yourself, others and Gaia. ~Archangel Gabriel

May 19, 2012

Many of you practice self-protection as a daily practice. We understand your
intent as you do this, but we would like to point out that what you are really
seeking is energetic clarity. The act of self-protection can separate and
divide, while choosing energetic clarity allows you to stand in your authentic
power and allow your light to shine, which supports the whole. While the steps
may be identical for both, the intention makes all the difference in the world.
~Archangel Gabriel

May 20, 2012

Many humans have a fear of stepping into their authentic power and embracing
themselves as creators. Dear Ones, there is nothing to fear! You have all had
many life expressions experiencing power to define what it is, and what it is
not. That was in preparation for the times you are in now. The fact that you are
treating power with such respect shows you are more than ready. Do not be afraid
of the responsibility you feel. In reality, you are already creating, so you may
as well fully commit to using your wisdom and mindfulness to create the life and
world of your dreams. You are so ready. We would like to add that you cannot
make a mistake. If you were heading in a direction that didn't honour you, you
would get uncomfortable and would naturally redirect. It is time to fully
embrace what you are here to do and feel the excitement and joy of stepping into
that sacred purpose you have prepared so very long for. ~Archangel Gabriel

More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Beloveds ~

Keep steadfast on your path - many distractions are offered to test your
resolve.

Some souls are struggling to let go of the old fear-based ways - let them be.

Only You can spiritually enlighten yourself - some choose to live in realities
where the lights are very dim;

This is a personal choice - the Light is there for every-One.

Do not look back - the Light is getting brighter - it is necessary to lift
mankind out of the dark ages of
living in fear, unaware of their true identity as divine sparks of God.

Fear is a lack of Love - a lack of Trust - a severe lack of Faith in the power
of Love within their own
heart-space.

The gigantic leap forward into an enlightened, illuminated spiritual way of
life on Mother Gaia is well
underway. If the path gets too rocky, too dense for you to see clearly, take my
hand and I will lead you.

I will walk with you and we will rejoice and sing and clear away the thick
forest of your mind -

I live within you ~ I have Loved and nurtured you from the very beginning of
your existence.

I am the bright Light that you are beginning to see - keep walking toward me as
I beckon you.

I AM the One True Love of your Life - I AM your Higher-Self - I will never let
you down.

Come closer ~ just a few more steps ~ and you will be HOME.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* )O( * )O( * )O( *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Message from P'taah

May 2012 - No More Struggle

So, my beloved ones, how is it going, the enlightenment stakes? Struggling
along? You know, the wonderful news is that you do not need to struggle any
longer. This timing - this impeccable timing that you have all created
yourselves in - is for one reason only and that is to come into the knowing of
the God-Goddessness of you. There is no other reason - just to come to know and
love who you truly are.

You do not come into that knowing, however, by struggling to practice what are
called grand disciplines or by reading massive tomes or even by listening to
'old spooks' like that which be I! All of that is absolutely valid and it great
fun, but it is not necessary. All that is necessary is that is you will come
into the knowing of who you are.

It's simple, indeed. No more struggle. Who you are, indeed, is grand and
wondrous. Who you are is a facet of the God/Goddess, All-That-Is, else you would
not be here. That which is called the universe is part of who you are. You are
the God-Goddessness. You are the universe. Nothing else really exists outside of
you, save to show you who you are - a grand mirror, a reflection to show you how
wonderful and how magnificent you are.

Within you, absolutely, is all knowledge - all knowledge. Whatever you read,
whatever you hear, is merely a shadowy fragment, a reflection of what is called
the true knowing and it is here. There is nothing else.

As you are part of the universe, indeed as you are truly a wonderful
multidimensional reflection of that God-Goddessness, so the universe supports
you absolutely in the expression of who you really are. So it is that when you
really start to know who you are, when you can take all of those parts of you -
you know, the ones that you hide because they are not good enough and not
acceptable - when you can take them, examine them and love them absolutely, you
automatically open the channel to your own Godhood.

It's really quite simple. Nothing to do except to embrace the totality of you.
Instead there you are, chasing enlightenment, struggling along, exploring
whatever is the newest thing - and all of the time the answers are within you.

You see, beloved peoples, that which is called your belief structure and that
which is called your fears are absolutely what create your reality. You are
driven by that fear!

Most of the time you live your lives in re-action. You are not in what is called
loving action, not in what is called the vulnerability. You are simply in
reaction to what is occurring about you. And remember that what is occurring
around you, you have created because you create your own reality absolutely!

So if you do not like what you are creating, you may change it. As you create
the change, the universe will support you absolutely.

You know, the universe does support all of your fears - all of that energy you
put into the fears, all of the energy that you put into hiding what you do not
like. The universe will support you absolutely and give you more. Whatever you
are putting energy into, the universe helps you.

So you may see in your life a certain patterning. That which has not been
resolved, you will create and re-create and re-create all of the days of your
life until you resolve it. How do you do that? Look at what it is in your life
that you do not desire, the beliefs about yourself that created it, and the
fear. When you embrace it all, you may change it absolutely.

We will talk more about embracement next month. So, my beloved ones, until then,
we love you grandly and issue forth to each and every one of you,

Namaste.

P'taah

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Lao Tzu on the Transition, Life with the Emperor, and the Way of Life
2012 May 21
Posted by Steve Beckow

The following is an excerpt from Heavenly Blessings, May 17, 2012, with Lao Tzu.
Lao Tzu is the author of the Tao Teh Ching and Hua Hu Ching. His simple,
unfrilled explication of ˇ°the Wayˇ± has proven itself a classic of spirituality
and won him countless adherents over centuries, well beyond the boundaries of
what might be considered Taoism.

The reference to the stick alludes to Lao TzuˇŻs first appearance to Linda in
which he showed her a gnarled upright stick in perfect balance on his hand.
Linda discussed the incident in the preamble. The sage is that gnarled stick in
perfect balance.

My favorite image of Lao Tzu is one that he gave of himself sitting at the
roadside, across from a popular noodle stand. The hot steam is rising from the
noodle pots across the way and travellers gather to eat and trade animated
gossip. Meanwhile, no one comes to partake of the weak meat soup that Lao Tzu
has prepared in silence and dispenses from a pot by his side. To the worldly
what Lao Tzu purveys is ˇ°weak meat soup.ˇ±

One of the surprising admissions he makes is that it was he who incarnated as
Djwhal Khul. Thanks to Mary for the transcript.
Heavenly Blessings, May 17, 2012, with Lao Tzu

Graham Dewyea: Hello and welcome to Heavenly Blessings with Linda Dillon and the
Council of Love, IˇŻm Graham Dewyea. Our guest today is Lao Tzu.

Lao Tzu: Greetings I am Lao Tzu.

GD: Welcome.

LT: And welcome to you and do not worry, you are in the stillness and you are
balancing on the stick and you are balancing within and without. There are many
challenges upon your planet at this time and the key is to stay within the
stillness and the balance of your heart and in that to stay in the balance and
the stillness of your mind and your emotion. When you are in this place, you are
also in the place of receptivity and you are able to bring forward what you
need, what you desire, what you anticipate and what you are here to do. So, yes,
I have asked this channel for the opportunity to speak to all of you and I
welcome you.

We have traveled together for a long time and we do so yet again. I have taken
many forms in many incarnations but I wish to come to you this way as ancient
teacher and ancient friend. I always am willing to give you my stick, that you
may carry it with you, that you may treasure it and you say to me ˇ°But Master,
what is so special about an old gnarled stick that is crooked and bent?ˇ± Well,
first of all it teaches you, reminds you to honor the wisdom of the elders, the
wisdom that has been gathered and that I come to share with you.

But it is also a symbol of your life; it is a symbol of what each of you go
through in your journey. There are very few beings and particularly on earth,
whose life is straightforward. There are always bends in the road. There are
always unexpected detours. There are always bumps and perhaps gnarls. I ask you
to take this stick and carry it and to practice balancing it that you may honor
your journey. Do not strip it down, do not take the bark off it, do not polish
it. Look at it in its perfect, natural form and appreciate it and then
appreciate your life.

It is a time when many of you are going through a period of reflection, of life
review, of examination of what you have done and not done, accomplished and for
many of you this is tinged a little with judgment and sometimes disappointment,
feelings of what might have been. My friends, this is not the purpose of this
examination and reflection, quite the contrary. The purpose is to see and to
exclaim and to claim everything you have done, everything you have come to know,
everything that you have experienced. Not judging it as good, bad, or
indifferent but simply embracing it for the journey it has been.

When I have walked the world as teacher and healer I would travel to the
villages and I would share the secrets of the healing and the chi, for it was
really no secret at all. But when I would travel to the poorest village and
still I would be honored to share a rice bowl and people would say to me
ˇ°Master, what is it like in the palace of the emperor? Is it not grand? Do you
not wish you were there? I wish I could go.ˇ± And I would look at these beings,
my fellow villagers, my fellow travelers and I would say to them ˇ°Look at the
riches that surround you, for your feet are on the ground, they are in the soil
all day long. You feel the heartbeat of the Mother, you awaken to the song of
the birds as the sun rises in the sky, you feel the warmth of the day and the
gifts of the breeze, you drink the fresh water with your hands, your children
surround you, your grandchildren honor you. These are the riches.ˇ±

For the emperor was always sick. He was always out of balance. And so, yes, he
would beckon to me and like any who would beckon to me I would respond and go,
often with some of you in tow for you are my students, my friends, my followers,
my journeyers. And we would work our healing and restore the balance and chi
flow within those of the palace walls and the emperor himself. And he would say
to me ˇ°What must I do to maintain this balance, to maintain my flow and why can
you not simply stay here and tend to me?ˇ± And I would always just smile and
look at him and I would say to him ˇ°What you must do is put your feet on the
earth and raise your face to the sun and give thanks for the riches, for you are
the son of heaven and this is much to be grateful for.ˇ±

And so I say to you, my dear friends, my children, be grateful for your stick;
be grateful for what you have, for even the hardships. The hardships have come
to you because you are strong enough to walk through them, to reveal the inner
meaning, to share with others. When you do not know sorrow, when you have not
experienced any of the old realm, then how do you know how others feel, what
they experience and challenge. So bless the hardships that you have faced and
the victories both large and small, for there are times in each of your lives
when simply opening your eyes and choosing to go forward another day is a
victory.

But I do not simply leave you with empty reassurances. I have brought the
LaHoChi back that you would have the tools to restore, not only your sacred self
but all of humanity and all of Gaia; that you would have in your hands, at your
fingertips what is necessary to obtain, maintain and retain the balance in all
things for this healing is not simply for the body, the mind, the spirit, the
soul, it is also for situations, environments, and for the planet we love, sweet
Gaia.

But I have other gifts that I also wish to gift to you this day and I know that
you have been gifted and blessed with the Silver Flame of Archangel Uriel. Is he
not magnificent? My gift to you is more humble than that, it is my cup, my small
oil cup, my light, for we simply place a wick as you would think of it in some
oil and I give you this, I give you my light that burns deep orange, that it
will light your way. You are courageous; you are the adventurers, that is why
St. Germaine and I have called to you.

But I want you to have this light as you travel into unknown territory so that
you may feel reassured, that you may see into situations that seem to be unclear
or that you are uncertain of. You are breaking new ground, you are ascending
into new territory, you are receiving the qualities of your inter-dimensional
self during this time of transition.

But I am not a foolish old man; I know there will be moments when you will feel
a little nervous. And so I ask for you to use this light that you will see your
way and if you are still nervous, if you are still anxious as many of you are,
ˇ®will this happen? will I make it?ˇŻ, then turn to me. There is nothing frail
about me; I am very strong and I will offer you my arm or my shoulder to lean
upon for I want you to find your way. And if you need guidance I will help you.
I do not run ahead of you. No, I want you to be able to find your way for that
is your joy and your journey but any assistance you need I am right there.

I also gift to you, my beloved friends, fellow journeyers, I give to you a ball
of twine. Yes, it is the old fashioned twine that you have not seen in a long
time. But I always carry this with me, I travel very light and my sack holds
very little, but these are essential tools and it is what I have to share with
you and so I do so joyfully; I do so in gratitude that you will accept these
humble gifts from me. ˇ°Why the twine?ˇ± you say. It is very useful, it is
useful in a number of ways; first of all if you think you are running out of
wicks for the oil simply cut a piece, it will burn brightly and show the way.
But primarily I give it to you that you may lay it down around you and form
boundaries.

It is a time of unity and this has been always what I have taught. I have taught
it in ancient China, I have taught it in Atlantis, I have taught it in Tibet as
my incarnation as Djwhal Khul, I have taught the importance of unity. But the
comfort level of unity, for you see that I tend to your comfort this night, is
knowing your boundaries. If you do not feel safe and secure and if you do not
feel within your safety and secure your sacred space which grows daily, my dear
hearts, if you do not feel this sense of boundary, of the wonder, the beauty,
the magnificence of your sacred self, the divine expression of who you are in
every dimension, in every reality, then it becomes frightening for you when we
say to you, ˇ°Join as one, acknowledge that you are one heart, part of one mind,
one energy.ˇ± The fear will rise up because you think ˇ°I will lose myself in
this seaˇ±.

And of course ultimately that is the goal, but not at this stage, not at this
stage of your journey. And so I give you this twine that you may lay down a
border, a boundary to define your beautiful self my sweet child and healer, my
teachers, my gatekeepers, my showers of the way. So use this twine to outline
what defines you and that you may feel safe in inviting people in or opening the
door.

And if you feel that you are going in this journey from the 3rd to the 5th
dimension, to the 7th, to the 9th, and you are afraid that you will not know
your way back home, that you will somehow lose your way, then simply unravel the
twine, anchor it, anchor it to your alter, to your bed, to your chair, anchor it
within your home. And as you travel simply allow the ball of twine, it is much
better than bird crumbs for our experience is the birds are a hungry group and
they believe that you do this for them not for you, so use the twine in this way
that you may always find your way home.

And it does not matter whether it is home to your own home where you think your
family lives, where your children reside and love you, or home to the 5th
dimension, or home to the 7th, or home to the heart of One. So I give this to
you in this way that you may keep it with you always; my gifts are always
multi-purpose and then you may also use it however you wish. But I want you to
know, although I am silent, I am always present. I am the observer, I am the
watcher, I am the teacher as well.

Now before we go any further, dear Graham of the inter-dimensional reality, do
you have any questions of me?

GD: Well firstly, thank you for your wisdom and your gifts and your peaceful
messages. Can you hear me ok?

LT: Yes, I can. And I think everybody else can as well. And I am not just
speaking about the radio.

GD: Well, your message and your visit with us today is so timely and one of the
things that strike meˇ­[at this point he was having technical difficulties again
and I could not piece together his questions]ˇ­

LT: I believe you have some further technical difficulties, but I want to talk,
and that is why today I chose to speak of these messages of comfort. Like you I
have lived as a human being and my journey has been long and there have been
times of ups and downs. Many of you are feeling the penetration of the energy
directly from the heart of Mother/Father/One and it is bringing up for you all
kind of things including what I have called ˇ®insecuritiesˇŻ. And you can also
use this ball of twine you know as a buoy, it will float even in the roughest
seas.

But how do you navigate, how do you navigate first of all when you know that you
are walking in areas that have not been walked by the general population of
earth, by humanity, ever? And how do you deal with the peaks, the troughs, the
waves, the emotional challenges?, and I would be remiss, it is also one of the
reasons I asked to speak to you because I have wandered the village, I have
wandered the rice fields, I have seen children die of hunger, I know what it is
to be in poverty, and I have seen the riches of those who rule, let us say
through arrogance, believing it is divine right; the only divine right is unity
and equality and freedom.

That is why I chose to go from village to village to heal my people, to allow
the force of love and light to move through them rapidly; not that it would take
years to heal, but moments, it is instantaneous. And I ask each of you to
remember and to learn if you cannot remember, learn my LaHoChi because it is
important especially now we have amplified it. And if you say ˇ°Lord, I donˇŻt
know what to do with thisˇ±, I say ˇ°Take your hands and put them on your heart
and stay still.ˇ± Too many of you so often you are running, you are leaning
right, you are leaning left, you are leaning forward, you are leaning back, and
you are not learning to stay still, in balance. And once you have this, yes what
the channel has called ˇ®stillpointˇŻ when you have the balance, when you can be
the stick in perfect balance, then you can move.

It would be absurd, ridiculous and a form of denial for us to say to you
ˇ°Everything is fine.ˇ± Everything is fine in divine timing and right and
process and what you are being gifted with, but we do not pretend that there is
not inner turmoil. That is why I speak to you of ˇ®choiceˇŻ and sometimes the
choice, the decision, the biggest decision is just to keep going, to get out of
bed. Sometimes the biggest choice and the wisest course of action is to sit, to
be still, to simply be and know that you will be nudged by appropriate action,
by appropriate inspiration. When it is time to move you will jump as if your
feet are on fire and you are filled with the spirit of action. But the balance
is the movement and the stillness.

But when you are feeling tossed by the waves, by the trough, by your emotions,
by what you think and let go of judgment please, it is very old 3rd dimension,
it has no place in your life, it never has. It is judgment that has gotten you,
the collective of humanity, into this mess so let it go and when you feel that
you are indecisive then be still. Your reaction and your reaction particularly
in the west is ˇ°Oh I have to do something.ˇ± And I ask of you ˇ°Why?ˇ±
Sometimes the wisest action is no action; it is tending to your self.

We bring this healing forward now because it can work the miracles of clearing,
of uniting, of honoring your boundaries and helping you feel safe of letting
them go. We bring this forward to you, and I do not do so alone, I do so with my
beloved St. Germaine and Archangel Raphael, Metatron, Jesus Sananda, the Mother,
the Divine Mother and yes as Mary, as Quan Yin, El Morya, Serapis Bey, Sanat
Kumara. All of these beings join with me in this healing that I offer you, not
at some future date but right now.

We are also joined by my dear friend and ally Grener of Ashira of Neptune. (1)
Yes, your star brothers and sisters have brought this healing to you in the
first place. They have not forgotten it and so they bring it to you once again.
We all do, not on a golden platter but in our hands and in the activation of
your hands, of your light, of your God force divinity, of Love. So often I hear
you say ˇ°Master, how can we heal the world? How can we do this when time is
running short?ˇ± And this is how you may do it.

What this chi, the LaHoChi, does for you is also allows you to direct and to
work more clearly with this energy that is this love, the laser beam of light
that is being sent to you directly from the heart of the Source One. It helps
you to direct it into yourself, into others, into your political situations,
your financial situations, into the environment where many are still living in
the 3rd dimensional reality, so that they may be penetrated and wake up in time
to claim their sovereignty. Yes, this journey of Ascension is about Gaia and her
reclaiming her rightful place, her journey of light and love. But dear friends,
make no mistake it is also about each of you claiming and reclaiming your
rightful place as well. The great awakening is upon you, it is not coming in
future times. It is here and it is yours and I am here to help. I will share my
rice bowl, I will share my twine, I will share my light. I will share my wisdom
and I will give you my stick.

I ask of you not to doubt yourself. I know what doubt is. There were times that
I would go to the palace and I would worry. I would worry not because I
couldnˇŻt heal the emperor but because I would doubt and worry about whether he
would accept the healing. But that was futile and of course that was part of my
learning, my journey in that lifetime. It was part of finding the middle way and
staying in the middle way, the Tao. It is none of my business whether the
emperor wishes to accept healing. If it is requested it is given. And so it is
with you. If people request your help, do not wait one moment to judge or to
think ˇ®will it work?ˇŻ Simply proceed. Proceed from balance and stillness into
the action, into the flow of love through you to them and I guarantee you, my
dear hearts, it will work each and every time. So acknowledge your doubt,
acknowledge the worry and then let it be gone. Do not carry it with you. Make
sure your sack is as light as mine. Go with peace and go with my love.

GD: Thank you.

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(1) The ˇ°Neptuneˇ± that Grener is from is not our planet Neptune. There are
apparently many Neptunes around the cosmos.

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20-May-2012

Hello Son,

Children Need to Know

The Creator has already activated their DNA to accept the energies of this year.
However, this will work if they are facing the correct way, and that is towards
ascension.

We remind you what happens to stagnant water, it becomes stale and undrinkable.
The properties of the water change and loose their nutrients. Same happens to
energy when it is not utilised.

For younger children, tell them a bright future is beckoning for everyone who
believes in God.

We remind you of an earlier channelling and we say the same to children.

Tell them; that the planet is changing into the most beautiful garden
imaginable. This garden is going to have wonderful waterfalls, flowers, bushes
and trees. It is giving off beautiful smells every where you go. Did you know
that the planet too is alive, when you go to any plant or tree, it can read your
thoughts. If you talk to a flower and say that it looks beautiful; the flower
understands what you are saying and will be pleased. Try to touch and say hello
to all the plants in the garden. Because they are alive; but we have lost the
language to understand them. But you can learn very quickly, if we silence the
mind and start listening.

Bring a plant for your children and let them make their own choice. Then let
them look after it, even talk to it. It is important to respect nature and all
its surroundings and show the children the beauty of the world of nature.

Tell him that the world is linked with families who care for each other.

Children are naturally inquisitive and trust their parents, so teach them what
you know in stages.

The older ones can easily access the internet and research on their own; but
guide them to your own favourite sites, it is vital to save time that they are
directed.

Share openly in your circles of trust the messages of this year and let the
belief inside of you grow stronger each day.

Your mother; children carry immense energies that light rooms that have remained
dark for years. They believe in lore more than you think.

Message from Ascended Master Saida Khatoon

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The Week Ahead: 05/21/2012
~Angela Peregoff

As we sit basking in the dynamic presence of yesterdayˇŻs solar eclipse New Moon
there is no longer any question that a cosmic acceleration is influencing our
times, as we seem to be in the midst of a new level of amplify. For the next
couple of weeks our sun is resting in perfect alignment with the central sun
Alcyone in the celestial Pleiadian system. This group of stars represents the
seven sisters or seven Goddesses in our galaxy. We also stand at the culmination
of Wesak, a festival celebration of enlightenment.

Typically May is a mystical rebirthing time when we can relax, merge with
Spirit, the higher planes, and drink in the elixirs of expanded consciousness.
We relax and smell the roses (the scent of the Divine); we feel like focusing on
comfort, beauty, security, and harmony within all our resources. However the
particular stellar waves that will be pouring in from the galaxies above will be
providing the signals and frequencies to anchor newer levels of awareness that
include sacred respect for the value of life and consciousness.

Energy vibrations from the Galactic Center will be transmitted across the
parsecs of space in a language of Light, a form of intelligent communication
that affect and support all forms of consciousness. The Pleiades, Alycone, Maia,
Electra, Merope and the rest of the cluster of stars from that region of the
galaxy will be transducing transmissions and relaying them onward. Our Sun will
catch the cosmic communications and distribute them to the rest of the solar
system.

Each wave of particular frequency will be carrying a specific resonance of
higher frequency and Divinity sent directly to your cells, where the spirals of
your DNA are in harmonic resonance with the spirals of the galaxy. You will not
see or feel the vibrations with you physical senses however your cells will
catch the signals loud and clear. Your biology will know it is being called upon
to tune itself to meet and match the new harmonics and entrain with the
escalating waves of resonant energy.

Imagine as we progresses towards the Memorial Day weekend in the US the kingdom
of humanity will be breathing a New set of encodements that will usher in the
experience of Life, physical immortality, and being our body of Light fully
present in a cellular biology. The transmissions are very strong and nothing can
dispel them. All life on planet Earth, as well as the entire solar system, must
adjust to this energy. The SunˇŻs role is to maintain balance by supporting and
sustaining the evolution of consciousness in this galactic realm.

If the resonance is not matched, then dissonance and discord occur, which is
what you usually see unfolding as scandals, dishonesty, bickering, warmongering
and new levels of madness. All manner of havoc is created by those who feel
frantic because they cannot match the cosmic attunement. If you lose contact
with your heart center, then you will not be able to fully occupy your body or
use your mind to its greatest capabilities during this time.

So if you have, or still are feeling as though the universe is giving you a run
for your money by having you stand in chaos, emotional upheaval, physical
ˇ°jumpiness,ˇ± fatigue, phases of confusion, listlessness, sensing compression
or its opposite, lightness of being it is because as a committed vessel of
Spirit you are holding the newest frequencies and assisting in raising the
vibration of the planet through your physical being. It may help to remember
that cosmic energies are always absorbed by the earth, so to remain calm and
centered, do as the rest of NatureˇŻs creatures and stay in touch with the
ground.

As an emissary of Divinity upon Gaia during this time many are acting as
grounding points of the deeper commitment of spirituality and consciousness that
is surfacing. As an entity understanding, ˇ°one with allˇ± your karmic ethics
has you devoted to the purpose of Ascension. As a straight shot of Source
dimensional equipment you are a very important component for the New Living
Field of embodiment. This knowledge may, or may not, make up for all that you
are processing physically and emotionally, however, know that if you are
building, claiming, and anchoring what is necessary to advance there are
celestial elders watching over you. If the need is there, ask for their
assistance when the merger of energies becomes too much. They will help, and at
the same time make sure that you continue to grow.

With so many scrambling changes occurring at once many are feeling as though
they exist in a house of mirrors. Possessing a keen awareness of the invisible
happenings can be distracting and confusing for the human living in accelerated
times. We all need to schedule time for pampering when we are feeling ill at
ease. For those that perform reality checks and find they are frenzied by
energies that are somewhat difficult to handle, you need to formulate clear
plans for balance and clarity by consulting your own internal pillar of wisdom
and commonsense. The message here is not to beat yourself up for feeling
bewildered and out of rhythm. Everyone is involved in this intensive
interchange; some are just aware that they are rendezvousing with sacred
agreements and contracts. Brainstorm ways that will support the times of
disenfranchised spiritual jolts. Visit a health practitioner, make sure your
diet is sound, avoid taking big risks, join a metaphysical group, get lost in
the arms of nature, etc. You are the only one who can muster the blockbuster
remedies for amplified waves of Light running through the human collective with
a vengeance during these times.

As the month comes to a close there will be a definite steadying effect that
should be felt by all. But before jumping for joy and high-fiving everyone in
your spiritual circle open your mind, while the opportunity presents itself, to
newly landing ideas that lead to stunning accomplishments in your human and
psychic life. As you settle in after the latest stationing between the full
moons inspirations and illuminations will be soaring through your brain. Take
time to write it all down for future reference. We have just been sent
information on how to BE our truth in greater measure. That means life will be
in our favor when we remain in harmony with our Soul values, not our human
characteristics such as curtailing, suppressing and limiting the directive of
Spirit.

Personally, I work diligently to remain in alignment with Universal Harmony and
this usually moves me beyond the spaces of whirlwind energies and magnetics.
Yes, my physicality still remains a utilized tool of SOURCE THOUGHT so I have my
days of light-particle processing when I am dizzy, headachy, or stiff and sore
but I recognize this as an opportunity to be a great and clear Light for the
greater good and try not to whine too much about it. After all, pro-creators are
the connector links of unification between the eternal and the now. How cool is
that?

Despite the transitioning symptoms we are in the Era of Pure Eternal Awakening
and life force energies. We are coming to understand that Purity and Divine Will
are the atmosphere that keeps Intelligence alive now and everything that vibes
with It enjoys unification at its highest standards. It is a space where one can
live out mastery within life circumstances and situations leading to perfection
and acceptance.

The old is easy ¨C the Newest is spiritual embodiment made physical!
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Hi everybody! I'm so excited, because the codes from the eclipse are already
showing results. Last night my right arm switched to antimatter again! It was
the exact feeling I had described in previous posts, where my body felt as if it
lost all density and a breezy sensation flowed throughout it and around it.
First, I felt it pulsating, and then it just shifted. It lasted for only about a
minute, but I was able to discern a few interesting facts from it. It happened
right after I awoke. I was in that "in between" state, still half asleep but
definitely awake, just like in previous times. This time, instead of my entire
body shifting, it was only my right arm, similar to an experience Petra
commented about that happened to her leg. I looked at my arm, and it looked
completely normal despite the fact that it felt like it was enveloped in a cool
breezy flame. Those are the best words I can use to describe it.

Obviously, this came on the heels of the solar eclipse. My body has been taking
in enormous amounts of energy since the night of the eclipse. It actually
started a couple days before, but the night of the eclipse was crazy insane. The
energy is sometimes thick like honey, other times it just pours in fast and
furious, and I use my heart to pump it throughout my body. Sometimes the chakra
at the base of my skull serves as a pump. I'm convinced we received a major
upgrade as a result of the eclipse, because I can feel that my body is holding a
lot more energy. And the download continues even as I write this. The energy
feels very benevolent in nature, but I do feel wired. When a big wave of energy
hits me, I feel a wooshing sensation in my ears and my entire body's vibration
increases for a few seconds. Every time that happens, I am hoping my body will
switch to antimatter again. I'm on the verge of being able to switch at will. I
can feel it.

I asked Metatron to explain in more detail the shift from matter to anti-matter.
Here is my understanding. Divine consciousness encapsulates the field of all
possibilities. Not all possible universes materialize into matter, although they
all have that potential. When divine consciousness focuses on a possible
reality, that reality exists in the field of antimatter. Reality must be
experienced through a vessel, a step down in consciousness, so in order to
experience a reality, divine consciousness must create a character through which
the experience can be perceived. That character is what many of us call our I AM
presence.

Every particle in the universe exists in both matter and antimatter. For every
electron, there is an equal and opposite positron in the field of antimatter.
For every proton exists an anti-proton. These are considered scientific facts.
Likewise, for every human being, there exists an equal and opposite human being
in anti-matter. This is our divine compliment. Our divine compliments exist in
the field of anti-matter and have not been burdened by the density of matter.
They are our the equivalent to our I AM presence, which is basically one step
down from divine consciousness. Merging with our divine compliment is a
prerequisite for the ascension.

Although we exist in both the field of matter and antimatter, we normally only
perceive what happens in the the field of matter, the material realm. Although
we experience our realities as a continuous progression of linear time, the
truth is there is a constant flashing between antimatter and matter, which
happens faster than our senses can perceive. By merging with our I AM presence,
we should be able to switch our perception from the material realm to the realm
of antimatter, which includes not only parallel earths but also omni earth and a
multitude of other possible realities. We should, in time, be able to surf the
realms of antimatter consciously. I'm sure this won't happen overnight. The
activation of the thirty-three chakra system includes the activation of 20
chakras which currently exist in the realm of antimatter. These chakras
interface with the material realm, and further open the door to conscious
interaction between realms.

When I and others have experienced the switch from matter to antimatter, we have
been able to leave our bodies through our heart chakras. One time I floated out
of my body to the top of the doorway to my bedroom and got scared out of my wits
and went right back into my body. A couple other times I went to dimensions I
never dreamed existed. The 12 + 1 chakras which are commonly accepted in new age
circles serve as interface from matter to antimatter in the same way the new 20
chakras serve as interface from antimatter to matter but in reverse. These 12 +
1 chakras extend from our physical bodies in a cone like fashion, spinning into
the realm of antimatter. You have to pass through a portal in the heart chakra
to get to the realm of antimatter. You may be able to use other chakras as
portals too. When you leave your body this way through your heart chakra, I
suspect you do not enter linear time in the material realm. You are entering the
realm of antimatter, which may appear very similar to the material realm but is
not. Crazy things can happen, like in a dream. I'm hoping, though, that when we
fully merge with our I AM presence, we will be able to switch from matter to
antimatter and leave our bodies to travel in linear time. Of course, these new
skills come with the added benefit of raising the consciousness of the entire
universe! How could we ask for more?

I'm still putting the pieces together. I know for sure the solar eclipse was a
big deal, and I'm anxious to hear about others' experiences. My friend and our
fellow lightworker, Sarah Gazala, has been experiencing multiple realities at
once. Anyone interested in cutting edge ascension info should check out her
blog: http://www.facebook.com/#!/sarah.g.blogs. Any other insight would be
appreciated. We are making this happen folks. The world is what we make it. I'm
so excited!

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Being present in multiple realities

As we are creating new realities there is something we need to know about these
realities.

We are usually creating our own reality or view of our own reality, but if we do
this we are having problems creating an overall change within the realities
outside of us.

We can only be part of change if we are present within the change and within the
reality we would like to change.

Changing a reality is not as simple as just changing your view of the reality.

Many have been in the process of changing their own reality and changing their
view of the reality outside of them.

Changing your own reality is much easier than changing the reality outside of
you as there is the influence of all others that are involved within the reality
outside of you.

You can change your own reality, as you usually will fully immerse yourself in
making that change.

Changing the reality outside of you becomes more difficult as you in this way
have placed yourself outside of the reality that is outside of you.

You made your own little creation within the overall creation, usually placing
barriers around it that prevent any energy from the outside reality to enter.

You are in your own little energy cocoon.

To be able to make changes in the reality outside of you, you will have to be
present within the reality outside of you.

This is where we need to learn how to be fully present in many realities
simultaneously without having this effecting the changes we made within our own
reality.

When you create your own views of the realities outside of you, these views are
going to limit the way you can make changes to the realities outside of you as
well as the fact that you are outside of the energies, so real changes cannot be
made as you are not going to be able to move energies within the outside
realities.

This is one of the reasons change is slow, because many have drawn back from the
overall reality that is happening on earth and have placed themselves outside of
the overall reality within their own reality cocoon.

We have to learn to be present within every reality that is created, as every
reality that is created is in fact within us as we are all involved in these
realities, even if we call them illusions, they are a part of us as our energy
is within them and the energy of all these realities is within us.

The other problems we encounter are the different views of the realities outside
of us, the difference in opinion and what should or could happen or be done to
change these realities upon earth and not just earth. We are present in many
more realities than just earth as our whole being contains everything.

To make changes in a certain reality, you have to be present within that
reality, meaning you have to be aware of how that reality is in fact working as
far as how and what this reality stands for, what are the energies within it,
how does the reality work spiritually and physically.

You have to have a complete understanding of all that is happening within that
reality to be able to assist in changes happening within it.

If you have certain views, you are limiting the higher parts of your being to
bring in the most appropriate changes as the work is being done by the human and
the view is limiting what can be done as you will follow the rules set by your
own view that you have created for yourself.

We are all here for a reason, but the question is are we all here to create
solely our own little reality or are we here to do more?

Petra Margolis

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BAST. Our Pets: Loving Companions Throughout The Ages. By, AuroRa Le. May 22,
2012.

&#10699; Many Greetings, I am Bast. I am Mother and protector of the Elemental
Realms, the Realms of Fire and Earth. I bid you welcome, once more. It is of the
greatest import on this day that you be made aware of a loving dynamic which
enfolds you, and has surrounded you throughout what you term as time. These are
connections deep and true. These bonds run strong within your core essence and
your history, and it is these which may never be broken. They have left an
indelible imprint upon your heart and energetic self. It is by GodˇŻs design
that this be so. You know these ones. It is the Animal Kingdom of which I speak,
and when I label them thus, I do so only to present this information in a manner
to which you may relate. Dog, cat, fish, bird, tortoise, mouseˇ­they go by many
names, but as in all the Universe, they are One. So, let us start at the
beginningˇ­

&#10699; Aeons ago, you emerged form Source. Sheltered, wide-eyed and unsullied
by the many battles you would soon fight in the name of peace, unity and truth.
You came forward in unimaginable numbers, as healers, teachers, warriors and the
like. Carriers of the love and light of your Father and Mother. In your
lifetimes you have comforted the lost, healed the sick, taught the unawakened,
fed the hungry, brought peace to war-torn lands. You have been heralded as the
brave wise ones. So, it was by the CreatorsˇŻ decree that you would have
protectors. Pet, totem, spirit-animal, companionˇ­ they would go by many names.
Regardless of the form they choose to assume, know well that you have never been
without the love of these fine friends. From far and wide they came, heeding the
call, knowing they were needed. They knew you and they found you. They are
creations of light, shapeshifting energetic entities who would merge their own
energy with yours and create a bond of an unbreakable nature; becoming one of
the finest parts of you, your love, your heart-self. There is no place you have
ever gone that they have not been with you, and there is no place you shall ever
go that they shall not follow. This is fact. Some of you have more than one of
these companions, maybe two, three, fourˇ­ And you may have chosen to share them
with another member of your soul family. Not to worry. All is free choice, all
is decided upon by the ones involved.

&#10699; You have all had a variety of ˇ°petsˇ± IˇŻm sure, throughout the course
of your human incarnations. The love you share has been powerful and
unconditional, and no doubt you grieved mightily at the time of their passing.
It was almost as if a portion of yourself had departed the Earth plane with
them. And in this you are not entirely wrong, because in a way, it did. You then
went on to find another, to fill the natural void you felt for the presence of
your protector and friend. You took your new one home, and developed an instant
bond of kinship. You recognized this one, over all the others. You simply knew.
Do not ever doubt for a moment that your beloved companion will return to you
again and again. By use of the vehicle you term ˇ°reincarnationˇ±, these
essences are indeed one and the same, returning to stand by your side as they
have always done throughout the ages. They are needed. They are an island of
peace amidst a paradigm of chaos. They possess no agenda, no artifice, no guile.
They are very much a part of you, and when a person remarks that one has come to
look like their pet, it is to this they are referring. Aspire to be as they are,
for they are unity and love in itˇŻs purest form. Theirs is the innate power to
assist you in your ascension. They can sense discordance and heal you, body and
soul. They are naturally telepathic and know your thoughts. Refrain from any
judgement of them, do not do this, please. For to harshly judge this one is to
judge a sacred element of yourself. For even the fiercest lion keeps a gentle
heart. Do not ˇ°slay the dragonˇ±, for the dragon is your friend. Do not cast
them off as just another sorely worn possession, for to do so is to cast off a
precious gift of The Divine.

&#10699; They have been loyally steadfast forever, and you must cherish these
beloved companions as they love you and assist you in the raising up of Gaia.
Take heart, for it is nearly done. Whilst the smaller battles still rage on,
have faith that you have won the war.

I am Bast.

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Wonderful things are happening now. ¨C Michael channeled by Ron Head
May 22,2012

Our discussion for today concerns truth. Many have an idea of truth as an
unchangeable against which they may gauge any concept. We wish to discuss truth
as a measure of what actually is.

We must understand that ˇ®what actually isˇŻ, is at all times in a state of
change. One cannot find anywhere in the multiverses a single instance of a
static thing. Every single minute particle is in constant movement. All is
energy, frequency, light, life. All is in utter and complete change at any
instant. Therefore, the truth which we are discussing is always in flux.

There are, however, in each universe, immutable ways in which things may change.
You call these laws. It is nice to have something to rely on, is it not? You are
discovering now the consequences of attempting to ignore these laws. For most of
you, these would seem to be obvious. But for some, it has seemed for a very long
time that they could proceed in directions contrary to many of these laws with
total impunity. This has brought mankind on earth, and Earth herself, to a very
dangerous point.

Those who have succeeded for many centuries in assuming near total control of
the planet are not unaware of the powers of the universe. They have simply
chosen the wrong power. They have bet on the wrong horse. The Creator has begun
to bring illusion back into its true state.

You will discover that, in actual fact, only a small fragment of who you are is
here playing this game of imagined separateness. But please do not feel that you
have been in error. You sent yourselves here to have experiences and learn the
ˇ®what ifsˇŻ of separation, and you have done so, magnificently. Those who have
completed their learning are now coming home. We are waiting with open arms for
your return. Your strength and courage and experience will now be of immense
value in places where others need them. You have earned rest, celebration, and
when you are ready, the chance to aid many just as we have aided you.

Wonderful things are happening now. There are only six months left in your year,
and you have decreed many changes to occur. Many efforts are being made to turn
your efforts into violence and chaos. Violence can be dealt with, you see. But
the efforts to do so are being exposed almost as quickly as they happen. We told
you that you had won, and you have. Just keep listening to your hearts, dear
friends.

Also, you are seeing many react to the new frequencies of this month in
seemingly insane ways. We have also discussed this before. It will take some
little time for those who were unprepared to begin to handle this new energy.
Some will not be able to. Many more will find themselves changing in ways they
will be at a loss to understand. Be prepared to accept them with love.

We will continue tomorrow, dear friends. Be at peace.

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My Heart Is With You
Lord Sananda
Through hilarion
May 21, 2012

My heart is with you

As the ascension of your energies has now officially begun.

From here on in, there will be a relatively continual garnering of the waves of
your energy as it responds

more and more to this now rapid acceleration in energy speed until zero point,
the ˇ®shiftˇŻ point,

You will notice that your energies will more and more now feel as if they are
more one unit,

moving as one unit.

These are the components of rhythm and flow.

Do you remember the digital picture boards with moving flowing water that you
may have seen in some

oriental, etc. restaurants?

Rolling waves.

The nice part of this for you is that your vibrational surrounding, your
encasement,

will accelerate.

And will bring you fresh, different perceptions to perceive through, and that is
really what it is all about.

Part of my purpose is to care and hold consciousness that nothing will stand in
your way of evolving.

Also I would also like to reflect that you arenˇŻt just remembering more of your
being into you,

and vice versa,

but also and simultaneously you are evolving anew, you are evolving anew, Yes.
Yes.

Have faith in this- you chose to be here so you must have prepared yourself,

And that will unfold, minute by minute.

Remain awake. Learn to feel more. Lovingly, meaning with acceptance, learn to
understand those
feelings through feeling them, having the experience.
You need these faculties also to perceive divinity within you, within all,
And this is what I mean by personal experience with source ¨C
That you experience within you- that makes it personal- that is all-
Having experienced the divine within yourself, you know it is within everything.
Very simple and gentle, but very powerful.
Then as you expand your consciousness, you can claim this reality everywhere.
In this way it is about the quality of the experiences which will become part of
your existence,
And this is what we mean by scope, frequency, even dimension.
It is the type of viewing that you are creating.
My job or goal is to gently share with you some ways to arrive at a really
substantial,
meaningful experience or spiritual position of viewing-experiencing the core
meanings of spirit, of you,
A you that one can scarcely imagine from the physical.

Enough for today.
I will share again as we all proceed inevitably now.
In source you are,
Sananda

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WHAT'S NEXT? It's a wait & SEE GAME? ~_~

Please continue to live your lives as masters of light. We do not deny that what
we may forsee in future days may not turn out to be accurate. When we comment on
things, it means this will occur when all continues as it is now. Should there
be a dramatic alteration to that course of development, my context will be
altered at that moment. Nothing cannot be changed by divine decree. However,
what I am concerned about in your realm is very different than simply altering a
cause and effect drama, as it includes all of your dreams and answers for the
human continuum.

We want you to continue the ongoing development of human mastery and not be
caught in the destruction of the land masses you are inhabiting. Once before we
had this same dance to deal with, and most of you chose to come home and miss
the next drama. Mass clearing of Atlantis was done by the Galactic Federation
thenˇŞit happened in a few days of human time, before the changes to the land
masses damaged your psyches. We don't have the same options now, because the
Atlantians were confident that they were being given another opportunity to
continue their claim to mastery. Now there are more obstacles to clearing your
damaged continents then there was then, the main one being the negative
attitudes that would disqualify many from moving towards the Galactic Federation
mobile devices. Most would deny their friendship and many would make war against
them. So we have only ascension as your answer to continuing life in another
dimension. When Mother Earth is newly created, the ascended beings will lead the
way to another human continuum. All who do not ascend may incarnate again in
other areas of the galaxy, one at a time in their new forms, but they will not
move there en-mass from earth's atmosphere.

When the collapse of your modern world comes to you via the news media it will
be too late to ascend. You need to give your answer before then. We need to know
who is in and who is not. Are you able to go on without others you now call
family? This may be necessary.

Most of you can only conceive of the future in ways that either continue your
current existence or is like the dreams you have had and made into concepts that
are not accurate. When ascension occurs, none of man's dreams about moving into
light bodies are exactly as this will be experienced. It will not be like the
dreams of your colleagues either. It will be a complete dismantling of your
dream. Can it be described here? No. You will have to have the experience.

Some of you are asking about the more noticeable topics we have been discussing.
Kelp is very good to eat now because none of the commercially available kelp was
harvested after the tsunami. This kelp was also harvested in areas that contains
no cesium. Chinese kelp is not guaranteed free of all contaminates, but it
contains no cesium. Korean and Japanese kelp are worth the price you pay for
them.

Those on the Hawaiian Islands do not need to be afraid of the food grown there.
Water used on the areas of food growth was not destructive or contaminated. Mist
does not come into the food growing areas of Hawaii as it does in Southern CA.
It is not the land that contains cesium, it is the air. Dust rises out of the
Pacific ocean in these contaminated areas and overtly makes its way towards the
not so protected areas where food is grown. Pure cesium is in the air and it
gets into the food that way. It was not going ashore in Hawaii in the same way,
so no damage was done. Hawaiian food is ok to eat.

Fukushima will be a news item for an indefinite amount of time. Should another
big earthquake or tsunami happen in its vicinity there could be complete
destruction on all the continents as a consequence. Can you understand that this
absolutely can happen? Can you be ready to ascend if it does? We are waiting to
gather you to ascend, but we will do it as soon as it appears that Fukushima
will get damaged again. Get ready NOW!

In the months to come anything can happen. Neither this dimension nor the
Galactic Federation can change these conditions. We can only lead you on to
ascension or another lifetime. Are you afraid? Then do what it takes to become
"ascension ready." Many light workers are available to assist.

Purification of diet can help. Purification of mind is most important. But
purification of fear is the answer to all of the above.

I AM THAT I AM
Ascended Master Saint Germain

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#3375 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Tue Jun 5, 2012 11:03 pm
Subject: It's First Thursday Again - on June 7th - You are Invited
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You are invited to Dadamac's First Thursday Meeting

Thursday June 7th 2012

Time  - 14.00  GMT     15.00 London time        15.00 Nigerian time,        17.00 East Africa Time, 

For your local time see The World Clock – Time Zone Converter  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

To join in go to -
http://etherpad.openstewardship.net/June-2012-First-Thursday - There is room for twenty people - (i.e. the first twenty people to arrive can get in - but usually we don't have that many )
 
How it works

On  the first Thursday of each month I try be online for an hour. I invite people to join me. Usually I have no idea if anyone will be willing and able to accept my invitation, but I wait online in the hope that someone will arrive - and usually the result is an  interesting  discussion of some kind

See the previous two meetings for an idea of what happens

Agenda

We'll start with "meet and greet" and will choose our topic according to who turns up.
If  only a couple of us turn up we can explore all our latest news,  interests and  issues in depth. If  more turn up then we'll explore the interests that  are shared by most people.

Enjoy

Everyone who is getting this is an interesting person - I look forward to chatting to you - and I think you would enjoy discovering each other.and exploring shared interests,  too.

Pamela

#3376 From: "Viktoriya" <Editor@...>
Date: Wed Jun 6, 2012 12:21 am
Subject: Greetings BeLoVeD ONeS! :D OPEN YOUR HEART! TO REAL LIGHT! No lil mind NO MORE!
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~6.5.12~ Dear Ones, We come with breaking news! I, Saint Germain and the
Arcturians are at liberty to inform you that some of your space brothers have
landed on your planet. A few shuttles received permission to land on your soil
and more specifically in Roswell (U.S.A.) and Staffordshire (England). Among the
first to land were the Pleiadians and the Arcturians : the Pleiadians for their
closeness to your earthly civilization and the Arcturians because of their
leadership abilities to handle the procedures involved. The Arcturians are the
ones who monitor everything conscientiously as regards to your spiritual
evolution on one hand and the disclosure project on the other hand. We
established contacts with President Obama and other authorities to figure out
how to be of further assistance to you and how to announce disclosure on your
world. Those with whom we have established connections are government
representatives and the ground crew, connected with the Disclosure project.
Obama will announce Disclosure in our presence through your television network
and he will also announce the arrests of the cabal.
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Self awareness and advancement: We would like to speak with you today on ways in
which you can further your growth and your advancement while you are here in
this physical plane. What you can be working on and focusing on is ways to
better accrue knowledge, wisdom and experience throughout your day. How this can
be done is through a coordinated effort to share with each other ideas, concepts
and your experiences with each other. To do this, interaction is required, and
this interaction can be facilitated through the means of the tools that are
already at your disposal. The Internet is your source for a wealth of
information, and it can be utilized in so many advantageous ways to further your
growth and expand your consciousness as you do the work that you have come here
to accomplish.

We see so many of you using the Internet in many different ways, and we do see
those of you who are getting the most out of this experience, though we do see a
number of you not getting out of your time on the Internet what is possible for
you. We would like to see improvements in this area by seeing more of you
focusing on the subject matter that will bring to you knowledge and wisdom that
is of greater importance to you at this time. There are so many interesting and
worthwhile subjects to read about and discuss amongst one another, however, the
time to indulge in many of these topics and discussions has passed. It is now a
time to focus on only the subjects that will bring to you the most you can get
from this experience.

We would like to see you focusing on subjects that will expand your
consciousness in the areas of spiritual evolution. We would like to see more of
you focus less on topics and interests that do not have the capabilities to
facilitate this kind of growth in your spiritual awareness. There is such a wide
range of different topics that will work to better qualify you for advancement
up through the multiple dimensions of this universe. At this time, we are taking
notice of what we shall call deficiencies in fundamental spiritual
understandings and awareness. We would like to see more of you focus on this and
turning back a few pages to the basics of spiritual understanding and awareness,
starting with the rights of others and how important these rights are to honor
and respect, namely in the ways of free choice and freedom of expression.

We see many of you at this time who are demonstrating that they have not yet
reached this fundamental level of understanding, and we say to you that you are
building a spiritual house on top of a faulty foundation if you do not first
reach this basic understanding. We suggest to you to better strengthen your
foundational structure by better understanding the sacred rights of free will
and choice, and work at respecting the boundaries and rights of another. We see
quite often those of you who trespass on this sacred right of another by
outspokenly condemning their views and opinions. This will not do if it is
spiritual ascension through this multidimensional universe that is your goal.
This behavior must be corrected, and corrected before you begin to amass more
advanced spiritual knowledge and wisdom.

One cannot put the cart before the horse, as you say, and placing advanced and
complex spiritual wisdom before you before you have learned one of its most
basic fundamentals, which are the rights of others, is a flaw that will lead to
problems up ahead and a stunting of your spiritual growth. We suggest to you
today to forgo all the advanced concepts, meditations and breathing exercises,
yoga, Zen, and all other advanced concepts and focus on one thing and one thing
only, and that is when another speaks or posts throughout your online social
networks, stop for just a moment and take a long deep breath, and while you
exhale think to yourself `Will I honor this soul's sacred right of free will and
choice, or will I choose to trespass against my brother or sister and condemn
him or her for their choice and right to exercise their right of expression. If
you could do this each and every time you are poised to offer reply to what
another has just expressed, you would be doing yourself and this other soul a
great service.

We are all here, in part, for spiritual growth and advancement along our
journey, and to judge another and condemn their thoughts and freedom of
expression is not assisting them on their journey in any way and is also not
assisting you on your journey. Instead, this can be likened to a head on train
wreck when two locomotives meet on the same track. This is certainly not
conducive to either locomotive, and this is certainly not what will lead to a
positive outcome for two souls who are also traveling upon their journey. We
thank you for your efforts in this regard, and we will be looking for
improvements in this area immediately starting today. What we would like to see
more of are those of you who outwardly express that you honor and respect the
views of others at all times and welcome always their views and opinions on any
subject they would like to discuss. This is the way of the higher dimensions of
this universe, where all beings respect the sacred rights of another and their
choice of expression, no matter what that expression may be and whether you
agree with this point of view or not.

No one is asking you to ever take on the perspective of another. You are only
being asked to honor another's right to choose their own perspective and express
this choice in any way that they see fit, as long as it does not intrude upon
the rights of another. This very basic and fundamental right is the cornerstone
of the foundation of this entire multidimensional universe, and it is here at
this very first block that we want you to focus your attention today and as you
move forward, and we would like you not to forget our discussion today and this
lesson on this extremely important spiritual virtue. Thank you, and bless you
all.

We are the Galactic Federation of Light.





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Enjoy this day to its fullest – Michael channeled by Ron Head
June 5,2012

And so, it is upon you, dear friends. The unmistakable rise in the energies of
light and love has begun. In addition, your biggest worries are beginning to
prove unfounded. There is still, in your world, enough fear and worry to
manifest these catastrophes. However we are delighted to see that the love and
light you are bringing to bear is daily winning out over the fear, even though
the numbers of you would not appear to be large enough.

Light is always ascendant, dear ones. And your numbers are far, far greater than
you imagine. You are a part of a universal host of uncountable number. As you
join your meditations and visualizations this day, feel the power you have
brought to bear. Feel us holding you in loving embrace. See all you have dreamed
and longed for these many thousands of your years coming to pass before your
mind's eye. See all resistance melting away as divine love replaces it in your
entire solar system; for you have enabled far reaching changes that have hardly
crossed your minds, my friends.

When you change yourselves, you change your world, and when you change your
world, you change the universe. This ascension, as you term it, reaches beyond
your ability to comprehend, at least with the intellect. Soon you will be seeing
things with a mind that will not have such restrictions. In that regard, we
would now offer a tiny piece of advice, if we may. We see so many of you
dreaming of what you will become, and that is a marvelous thing. We have indeed
encouraged it. But we would point out that you are, in your true selves, already
these wondrous beings. Achieving these things is not something you need try for.
You are now as you are because it is necessary to what you have come to
accomplish. We say to you that, if you simply relax into the flow of what you
are becoming, it will come to you easily and painlessly in divine timing. Wonder
at what you see happening to and around you, however, is fun. Is it not? That we
highly recommend.

Love, enjoy yourselves, and let that flow from you to all you meet. If you stub
your toe, come quickly to your centers and ask for our help if you need it. We
have told you that we walk by your side. In truth, we are always within, waiting
for your call. We urge you also to think of today as the beginning of a huge and
constant increase in the inflow of unconditional love to your world. It is an
event, surely, but it will not end when you leave your meditations. It will be
constant and constantly increasing in strength throughout these next months. We
would like for you to give the intent that you continue to increase in your
abilities to absorb and utilize these frequencies and this power in the
transformation of yourselves and all around you. In this way smooth and peaceful
change which hardly seems possible can occur.

Those who do not know of, or refuse to believe, what is happening will hardly be
able to understand. You, however, are now beginning to feel changes happening to
yourselves which amaze you. The same changes are happening to many, many of
those sleeping ones. They do not yet `get it', as you would say. When they get
so confused that they ask you, please comfort them and let them learn at their
own speed. They will surprise you.

Enjoy this day to its fullest, my dear friends. We will speak again tomorrow.

Copyright © Ronald Head. All Rights Reserved. You may copy and redistribute this
material so long as you do not alter it in any way, the content remains
complete, and you include this copyright notice link:
http://oraclesandhealers.wordpress.com/



a message from Sarah-Jane Grace

Tuesday, 5 June, 2012

As we continue our grand and mysterious tale of cosmic twists and turns, this
epic looks set to turn into an adventure of legend as the unconscious continues
to become conscious, and sleepwalkers stir and awaken seeking meaning and
purpose, love and unity. Each of us is a Divine spark, and we are stepping forth
into the full blazing glory of love of the most incredible kind.

As Venus dances across the Sun, we are being asked to fully open up our hearts,
minds and souls to love in the truest sense of the word. Love is a word often
used but it is the true power of love that is important now; when we feel the
energy of love, the word becomes so much more, as we realise that love is an
amazing and inspirational force.

Love is often dismissed as `fluffy' or `over-rated', for in the `real-world'
love cannot solve problems or put food on the table, but this misses the point!
Love is not about paying bills or fixing life's problems; love is a state of
being, and when in this state, everything changes. Love is not something to
`get' or `attain', love just is. It is when we open ourselves up to the full
power of this realisation that we step beyond limitations and connect with the
expansive and infinite essence of the Universe that is within each and every one
of us.

Whilst being human can make life complicated, love brings us back to the
simplicity and to the joy that is present in the magnificence of life. As we
prepare to open up our hearts and souls to the full and incredible force that is
love, we connect with the synergy of Self as hearts, minds and souls become One.

Love begins and ends within; if we cannot truly love ourselves, then how can we
love another? If we do not love our lives, then how can we love life? These are
basic and fundamental building blocks in the Universe, and whilst they are
simple, they should not be overlooked.

As we connect to the outpouring of love on all levels of our consciousness, we
take a bold step forward, for we move beyond fear, lack and doubt to a place of
openness, One-ness and wholeness. Love transcends barriers and it breaks down
walls, both within and without, and the time has come to find unity, both within
our Selves and with one another, to create a new chapter of hope, love and
harmony.

With a true sense of love in our hearts, this outpouring of love flows freely
within enabling us to be the very best that we can be; for we are Whole. We can
then unify and send this flow inwards, outwards, earthwards and skywards and
watch it ripple out touching the hearts and souls of so many.

This may sound a little `gushy', but Venus is opening up our hearts to the full
power of love. There are many thoughts about the impact of the Venus Transit,
and these words are simple in comparison, but life is simple, we no longer need
to complicate it.

It is now time to live whole-heartedly and consciously, awakened and inspired in
the present moment; it is time to be love and to live love. We are now ready to
open up to nirvana both within and without, for there is room for all of us to
live under the pink leaves of the lotus flower...

You are encouraged to share articles as long as copyright and contact
information are always included.  Thank you for your courtesy. Sarah-Jane Grace
www.theplanetwhisperer.co.uk

Copyright © 2006-2012 Sarah-Jane Grace. All Rights Reserved




--- In learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com, Pamela McLean <pam@...> wrote:
>
> Hi All
> I've been busy and have only just noticed this thread.
> It's not really appropriate for LFEO so I'll try to find time soon to
> remove it from the archives.
> Pam
>
> On 22 May 2012 22:57, Viktoriya <Editor@...> wrote:
>
> > **
> >
> >
> > Greetings BeLoVeD ONe! :D I'm sending ya! LiGhT! & Infinite! LoVE!!!!
> > ArChAnGeL
> > Rick GaLaCtiC
> >
> > The true Journey of Discovery consists not in seeking new
> > landscapes, but in having New Eyes!
> > ~~~marcel proust
> >
> > Ascension.
> >
> > This word means so many different things to so many individuals. We are
> > here to
> > properly clarify the true meaning of the word ascension.
> >
> > Ascension is not a process to be feared, it is a natural occurrence, that
> > the
> > planet Gaia has been undertaking for the past 5 of your years, without
> > many of
> > you even knowing about it. The attention of many of you is now being
> > brought to
> > the ascension process, as the timing now has become crucial.
> >
> > The planet Earth is on her ascension course, with or without its
> > inhabitants.
> >
> > So many of you are still yet to realize the importance of your role here on
> > planet Earth. Yes, the planet is ascending, with or without your
> > assistance, but
> > the reason so many of you have been chosen to assist with the ascension
> > process
> > is not what you can do for Gaia, but what you can do for your fellow man.
> >
> > There are still so many unawakened, unaware souls out there - it is your
> > role to
> > assist these individuals in their awakening process, Earth will not, in
> > fact,
> > cannot stop her ascension process to wait for everyone to awaken, so it is
> > up to
> > you to enlighten your fellow man.
> >
> > You know that you were sent here for a reason, and there are still so many
> > of
> > you that have not yet awakened to that reason. We are here to tell you
> > that this
> > reason is to alert mankind to the fact that the ascension process is
> > happening
> > and to at least trigger some sort of recognition and awareness within them.
> >
> > That is all that is required of you at this time - it is not your role to
> > force
> > the issue of ascension onto your fellow man, merely to make as many of
> > them as
> > possible aware of the fact that the Earth is on an unstoppable ascension
> > course
> > and that all they need to do is look within - their spirit guides and
> > mentors
> > are there waiting, all you need to do is release the trigger of awareness
> > within
> > them.
> >
> > So many new souls are awakening on a daily basis now that the veils of
> > forgetfulness have been lifted, and it is a wonderous sight for us all to
> > behold.
> >
> > For those of you who have not yet experienced the direct contact or
> > disclosure
> > with us - know that the time is almost upon you. The cabal have been
> > removed
> > from your societies, and already you will have seen on your news programs
> > that
> > the wealth has already begun to be redistributed. However, this is not your
> > concern, this issue has already been dealt with. The only foreseeable
> > concern we
> > have is the notification of the planets ascension to as many of your
> > fellow man
> > as possible - this is of the utmost priority at the moment, as many of the
> > jobs
> > that we have in store for you will be worthless, unless the ascension
> > process is
> > a success.
> >
> > Many of you will have noticed an increase in sightings. This is our
> > intent, as
> > the time is drawing ever near, and the sightings will become so
> > commonplace that
> > when we deem the time is right for complete disclosure, very few of the
> > Earths
> > inhabitants will be surprised by our landings. This is the role that we
> > have
> > bestowed on many of you at this time, purely to make our landings a
> > success, not
> > a fear based failure.
> >
> > If you have not yet tuned into your higher self, your spirit, the Angels
> > or your
> > Galactic family from the Stars, now is the time to do so. There can be no
> > more
> > excuses and no more delays. You all know that you volunteered to be here
> > for
> > this mission. The time for denial has long gone. The time to embrace and
> > acknowledge who you all are and where you are from is now.
> >
> > As always, we offer you our unwavering support. We know that the questions
> > will
> > continue until the ascension is so far gone that there will be a time that
> > the
> > questions will cease - and your inner knowing will take over. It is
> > contained
> > within you all, you just need to dig deep, and give your permission for the
> > relevant information to be revealed to you, as we cannot volunteer
> > information
> > to you without your prior consent.
> >
> > Why hold back any longer? Your fellow mankind need you now.
> >
> > We are the Galactic Federation of Light.
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > MSG from *ARCHANGEL MICHAEL* on May 21st, 2012.
> >
> > Each advance builds upon the last. ¨C ArchangeL Michael channeled by Ron
> > Head
> > May 21,2012
> >
> > We offer our sincere congratulations for your magnificent success in your
> > meditations and visionings during yesterdayˇŻs event. We urge you to make
> > special efforts to remain grounded now as this wonderful energy continues
> > to
> > make itself felt.
> >
> > Allow your new consciousness to bring concepts of yourselves to your
> > awareness
> > that you have not allowed to surface for many lifetimes. Allow also the
> > energy
> > and light to penetrate deeply into your dear mother Gaia and to spill out
> > into
> > the space around you, reaching out to unite with each other everywhere on
> > this
> > planet. Allow your minds to understand that there is truly no limit to the
> > extent of your energetic fields. Understand the instantaneous connections
> > you
> > have with all whom you resonate with.
> >
> > Draw in this light and use it to build a strong and unbreakable link
> > between
> > yourselves. We offer you an image. You and ourselves, you and Gaia, you
> > and each
> > other, we are one. We are one. Each of you contribute all you are and ever
> > have
> > been to the expanding consciousness we are. The power of the light, peace,
> > and
> > love of this oneness cannot and will not be stopped until it manifests the
> > world
> > you have imagined.
> >
> > Live in this new world as often as you desire each day. Breathe it, walk
> > in it,
> > play in it, love it into being. Speak about it to each other. Focus upon
> > it with
> > feeling. As things around you begin to happen now, you will be distracted
> > at
> > times, for they are what you have desired for so long. Take the time often
> > to
> > return to your centers and ground yourselves. Return also to your image of
> > the
> > new world you desire. Allow the events around you to transpire in the most
> > peaceful, safest, and smoothest way possible. Bring as much light to bear
> > on
> > these events as you can muster. This is the function now of the light
> > warrior.
> >
> > Find within you the reality of unconditional love. You may be challenged to
> > maintain this as the truth of the past is exposed. We urge you to keep your
> > focus on your new world as much as you are able, and to allow the old to
> > pass
> > away in peace. Your old world television, radio, and print media will
> > offer up a
> > great deal of noise at first. They are not yet free to do otherwise. Many
> > of you
> > have completely unplugged from that influence. More of you may want to do
> > the
> > same, for now. For the time being, they are completely under control and
> > are
> > being used to control you. Soon enough they will be free to return to the
> > reporting of truth. Some small efforts are already being seen. In the
> > meantime,
> > you are all finding information that you resonate with, and interpreting
> > it for
> > yourselves. This is by design, dear friends.
> >
> > Watch closely now for small changes that will explode into huge long-term
> > benefits to your world. It took decades for the benefit of the airplane to
> > affect your world. It will take far, far less time for the new
> > technologies to
> > reach all of you. Communication and travel are many times faster now. Each
> > advance builds upon the last. So has it ever been. And, as we have pointed
> > out
> > to you, your inner world operates in exactly the same manner as your
> > outer. Each
> > change builds upon the last. You are beginning to amaze yourselves.
> >
> > We in our multitudes stand on all sides of you and ensure your success
> > now. We
> > will speak again tomorrow. Good day. Archangel Michael
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > May 14, 2012
> >
> > Dear Ones, the time has come in your lives to let go of anything that is
> > keeping
> > you back from living life in its highest expression. Many of you put off
> > living
> > fully with your self talk. "I'll be happy when I lose 10 lbs." "I'll live
> > my
> > life for myself once the kids are grown." "I'll start taking care of myself
> > first tomorrow." "If only I could find the right partner..." Every time you
> > procrastinate in such a way you are making a conscious decision to keep
> > yourself
> > small and have a 'less than' experience. Hear us when we say you can start
> > living a life that is fulfilling right now, even if the conditions are
> > less than
> > perfect. And the true miracle in that, is that once you do, the things
> > that are
> > less than your ideal will sort themselves out. Your life expression,
> > particularly in these amazing and unprecedented times, is an incredible
> > gift.
> > Cherish it and live it to the fullest, every single second. ~Archangel
> > Gabriel
> >
> > May 15, 2012
> >
> > What is the one area that you consider most problematic in your life? Why
> > not,
> > in a moment of silence and sincerity, take that one thing and surrender it
> > to
> > God? Then go about your business, secure that it is being taken care of to
> > bring
> > the highest outcome for all. How much lighter do you feel? How shifted are
> > you
> > from letting go of that weight? How much extra time do you have now to
> > create
> > more of what you do want? You see, the act of surrender is the most
> > powerful
> > thing a human can do whether it is a generalized surrender, or specific to
> > one
> > area of life. It is the energetic antidote to being stuck and a profound
> > decision to move forward again. It is the act of an empowered human being.
> > ~Archangel Gabriel
> >
> > May 16, 2012
> >
> > Many of the human condition have a tendency to remember and apply their
> > spiritual teachings when times are good, yet the moment times get hard they
> > revert right back to their old ways. Conversely, many turn to spirituality
> > when
> > their times are hard and forget all about it once things settle down. Your
> > spirituality is designed to allow you to navigate all of what your life
> > expression contains and will help you flow through the good times and what
> > you
> > consider bad in the most empowered way possible. Sporadic spirituality,
> > while
> > common in the initiate, is a beginner trait. Applying what you know and
> > believe
> > at all times is mastery. ~Archangel Gabriel
> >
> > May 17, 2012
> >
> > It is time for the wounded healers to start to address their own healing,
> > for
> > the teachers to apply and live by their own lessons, for the givers to
> > start
> > receiving. That is the balance that is required to move forward in earnest
> > into
> > the energies of the New Earth. Balance and boundaries have been major
> > challenges
> > for many helper souls. The time is now to honour yourselves and to share
> > the
> > gifts you so lovingly and willingly share with others with yourselves.
> > ~Archangel Gabriel
> >
> > May 18, 2012
> >
> > When energetic elements are happening in quick succession, much like they
> > are
> > this month (and year), it is so important to keep your balance. Be kind and
> > gentle to yourself. Listen to what your body and spirit needs. Stay in the
> > now.
> > Practice gratitude. Go with the flow. Keep a positive attitude. Apply what
> > you
> > know. It is an incredibly exciting time, Dear Ones! Take a moment to truly
> > cherish how profound it is that you are here assisting, honouring your
> > souls
> > desire to experience this amazing and unprecedented time. Keeping your
> > balance
> > and anchoring a calm and peaceful presence will help you enjoy these times
> > and
> > will certainly be of service to yourself, others and Gaia. ~Archangel
> > Gabriel
> >
> > May 19, 2012
> >
> > Many of you practice self-protection as a daily practice. We understand
> > your
> > intent as you do this, but we would like to point out that what you are
> > really
> > seeking is energetic clarity. The act of self-protection can separate and
> > divide, while choosing energetic clarity allows you to stand in your
> > authentic
> > power and allow your light to shine, which supports the whole. While the
> > steps
> > may be identical for both, the intention makes all the difference in the
> > world.
> > ~Archangel Gabriel
> >
> > May 20, 2012
> >
> > Many humans have a fear of stepping into their authentic power and
> > embracing
> > themselves as creators. Dear Ones, there is nothing to fear! You have all
> > had
> > many life expressions experiencing power to define what it is, and what it
> > is
> > not. That was in preparation for the times you are in now. The fact that
> > you are
> > treating power with such respect shows you are more than ready. Do not be
> > afraid
> > of the responsibility you feel. In reality, you are already creating, so
> > you may
> > as well fully commit to using your wisdom and mindfulness to create the
> > life and
> > world of your dreams. You are so ready. We would like to add that you
> > cannot
> > make a mistake. If you were heading in a direction that didn't honour you,
> > you
> > would get uncomfortable and would naturally redirect. It is time to fully
> > embrace what you are here to do and feel the excitement and joy of
> > stepping into
> > that sacred purpose you have prepared so very long for. ~Archangel Gabriel
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Beloveds ~
> >
> > Keep steadfast on your path - many distractions are offered to test your
> > resolve.
> >
> > Some souls are struggling to let go of the old fear-based ways - let them
> > be.
> >
> > Only You can spiritually enlighten yourself - some choose to live in
> > realities
> > where the lights are very dim;
> >
> > This is a personal choice - the Light is there for every-One.
> >
> > Do not look back - the Light is getting brighter - it is necessary to lift
> > mankind out of the dark ages of
> > living in fear, unaware of their true identity as divine sparks of God.
> >
> > Fear is a lack of Love - a lack of Trust - a severe lack of Faith in the
> > power
> > of Love within their own
> > heart-space.
> >
> > The gigantic leap forward into an enlightened, illuminated spiritual way of
> > life on Mother Gaia is well
> > underway. If the path gets too rocky, too dense for you to see clearly,
> > take my
> > hand and I will lead you.
> >
> > I will walk with you and we will rejoice and sing and clear away the thick
> > forest of your mind -
> >
> > I live within you ~ I have Loved and nurtured you from the very beginning
> > of
> > your existence.
> >
> > I am the bright Light that you are beginning to see - keep walking toward
> > me as
> > I beckon you.
> >
> > I AM the One True Love of your Life - I AM your Higher-Self - I will never
> > let
> > you down.
> >
> > Come closer ~ just a few more steps ~ and you will be HOME.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~* )O( * )O( * )O( *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Message from P'taah
> >
> > May 2012 - No More Struggle
> >
> > So, my beloved ones, how is it going, the enlightenment stakes? Struggling
> > along? You know, the wonderful news is that you do not need to struggle any
> > longer. This timing - this impeccable timing that you have all created
> > yourselves in - is for one reason only and that is to come into the
> > knowing of
> > the God-Goddessness of you. There is no other reason - just to come to
> > know and
> > love who you truly are.
> >
> > You do not come into that knowing, however, by struggling to practice what
> > are
> > called grand disciplines or by reading massive tomes or even by listening
> > to
> > 'old spooks' like that which be I! All of that is absolutely valid and it
> > great
> > fun, but it is not necessary. All that is necessary is that is you will
> > come
> > into the knowing of who you are.
> >
> > It's simple, indeed. No more struggle. Who you are, indeed, is grand and
> > wondrous. Who you are is a facet of the God/Goddess, All-That-Is, else you
> > would
> > not be here. That which is called the universe is part of who you are. You
> > are
> > the God-Goddessness. You are the universe. Nothing else really exists
> > outside of
> > you, save to show you who you are - a grand mirror, a reflection to show
> > you how
> > wonderful and how magnificent you are.
> >
> > Within you, absolutely, is all knowledge - all knowledge. Whatever you
> > read,
> > whatever you hear, is merely a shadowy fragment, a reflection of what is
> > called
> > the true knowing and it is here. There is nothing else.
> >
> > As you are part of the universe, indeed as you are truly a wonderful
> > multidimensional reflection of that God-Goddessness, so the universe
> > supports
> > you absolutely in the expression of who you really are. So it is that when
> > you
> > really start to know who you are, when you can take all of those parts of
> > you -
> > you know, the ones that you hide because they are not good enough and not
> > acceptable - when you can take them, examine them and love them
> > absolutely, you
> > automatically open the channel to your own Godhood.
> >
> > It's really quite simple. Nothing to do except to embrace the totality of
> > you.
> > Instead there you are, chasing enlightenment, struggling along, exploring
> > whatever is the newest thing - and all of the time the answers are within
> > you.
> >
> > You see, beloved peoples, that which is called your belief structure and
> > that
> > which is called your fears are absolutely what create your reality. You are
> > driven by that fear!
> >
> > Most of the time you live your lives in re-action. You are not in what is
> > called
> > loving action, not in what is called the vulnerability. You are simply in
> > reaction to what is occurring about you. And remember that what is
> > occurring
> > around you, you have created because you create your own reality
> > absolutely!
> >
> > So if you do not like what you are creating, you may change it. As you
> > create
> > the change, the universe will support you absolutely.
> >
> > You know, the universe does support all of your fears - all of that energy
> > you
> > put into the fears, all of the energy that you put into hiding what you do
> > not
> > like. The universe will support you absolutely and give you more. Whatever
> > you
> > are putting energy into, the universe helps you.
> >
> > So you may see in your life a certain patterning. That which has not been
> > resolved, you will create and re-create and re-create all of the days of
> > your
> > life until you resolve it. How do you do that? Look at what it is in your
> > life
> > that you do not desire, the beliefs about yourself that created it, and the
> > fear. When you embrace it all, you may change it absolutely.
> >
> > We will talk more about embracement next month. So, my beloved ones, until
> > then,
> > we love you grandly and issue forth to each and every one of you,
> >
> > Namaste.
> >
> > P'taah
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Lao Tzu on the Transition, Life with the Emperor, and the Way of Life
> > 2012 May 21
> > Posted by Steve Beckow
> >
> > The following is an excerpt from Heavenly Blessings, May 17, 2012, with
> > Lao Tzu.
> > Lao Tzu is the author of the Tao Teh Ching and Hua Hu Ching. His simple,
> > unfrilled explication of ˇ°the Wayˇ± has proven itself a classic of
> > spirituality
> > and won him countless adherents over centuries, well beyond the boundaries
> > of
> > what might be considered Taoism.
> >
> > The reference to the stick alludes to Lao TzuˇŻs first appearance to Linda
> > in
> > which he showed her a gnarled upright stick in perfect balance on his hand.
> > Linda discussed the incident in the preamble. The sage is that gnarled
> > stick in
> > perfect balance.
> >
> > My favorite image of Lao Tzu is one that he gave of himself sitting at the
> > roadside, across from a popular noodle stand. The hot steam is rising from
> > the
> > noodle pots across the way and travellers gather to eat and trade animated
> > gossip. Meanwhile, no one comes to partake of the weak meat soup that Lao
> > Tzu
> > has prepared in silence and dispenses from a pot by his side. To the
> > worldly
> > what Lao Tzu purveys is ˇ°weak meat soup.ˇ±
> >
> > One of the surprising admissions he makes is that it was he who incarnated
> > as
> > Djwhal Khul. Thanks to Mary for the transcript.
> > Heavenly Blessings, May 17, 2012, with Lao Tzu
> >
> > Graham Dewyea: Hello and welcome to Heavenly Blessings with Linda Dillon
> > and the
> > Council of Love, IˇŻm Graham Dewyea. Our guest today is Lao Tzu.
> >
> > Lao Tzu: Greetings I am Lao Tzu.
> >
> > GD: Welcome.
> >
> > LT: And welcome to you and do not worry, you are in the stillness and you
> > are
> > balancing on the stick and you are balancing within and without. There are
> > many
> > challenges upon your planet at this time and the key is to stay within the
> > stillness and the balance of your heart and in that to stay in the balance
> > and
> > the stillness of your mind and your emotion. When you are in this place,
> > you are
> > also in the place of receptivity and you are able to bring forward what you
> > need, what you desire, what you anticipate and what you are here to do.
> > So, yes,
> > I have asked this channel for the opportunity to speak to all of you and I
> > welcome you.
> >
> > We have traveled together for a long time and we do so yet again. I have
> > taken
> > many forms in many incarnations but I wish to come to you this way as
> > ancient
> > teacher and ancient friend. I always am willing to give you my stick, that
> > you
> > may carry it with you, that you may treasure it and you say to me ˇ°But
> > Master,
> > what is so special about an old gnarled stick that is crooked and bent?ˇ±
> > Well,
> > first of all it teaches you, reminds you to honor the wisdom of the
> > elders, the
> > wisdom that has been gathered and that I come to share with you.
> >
> > But it is also a symbol of your life; it is a symbol of what each of you go
> > through in your journey. There are very few beings and particularly on
> > earth,
> > whose life is straightforward. There are always bends in the road. There
> > are
> > always unexpected detours. There are always bumps and perhaps gnarls. I
> > ask you
> > to take this stick and carry it and to practice balancing it that you may
> > honor
> > your journey. Do not strip it down, do not take the bark off it, do not
> > polish
> > it. Look at it in its perfect, natural form and appreciate it and then
> > appreciate your life.
> >
> > It is a time when many of you are going through a period of reflection, of
> > life
> > review, of examination of what you have done and not done, accomplished
> > and for
> > many of you this is tinged a little with judgment and sometimes
> > disappointment,
> > feelings of what might have been. My friends, this is not the purpose of
> > this
> > examination and reflection, quite the contrary. The purpose is to see and
> > to
> > exclaim and to claim everything you have done, everything you have come to
> > know,
> > everything that you have experienced. Not judging it as good, bad, or
> > indifferent but simply embracing it for the journey it has been.
> >
> > When I have walked the world as teacher and healer I would travel to the
> > villages and I would share the secrets of the healing and the chi, for it
> > was
> > really no secret at all. But when I would travel to the poorest village and
> > still I would be honored to share a rice bowl and people would say to me
> > ˇ°Master, what is it like in the palace of the emperor? Is it not grand?
> > Do you
> > not wish you were there? I wish I could go.ˇ± And I would look at these
> > beings,
> > my fellow villagers, my fellow travelers and I would say to them ˇ°Look at
> > the
> > riches that surround you, for your feet are on the ground, they are in the
> > soil
> > all day long. You feel the heartbeat of the Mother, you awaken to the song
> > of
> > the birds as the sun rises in the sky, you feel the warmth of the day and
> > the
> > gifts of the breeze, you drink the fresh water with your hands, your
> > children
> > surround you, your grandchildren honor you. These are the riches.ˇ±
> >
> > For the emperor was always sick. He was always out of balance. And so,
> > yes, he
> > would beckon to me and like any who would beckon to me I would respond and
> > go,
> > often with some of you in tow for you are my students, my friends, my
> > followers,
> > my journeyers. And we would work our healing and restore the balance and
> > chi
> > flow within those of the palace walls and the emperor himself. And he
> > would say
> > to me ˇ°What must I do to maintain this balance, to maintain my flow and
> > why can
> > you not simply stay here and tend to me?ˇ± And I would always just smile
> > and
> > look at him and I would say to him ˇ°What you must do is put your feet on
> > the
> > earth and raise your face to the sun and give thanks for the riches, for
> > you are
> > the son of heaven and this is much to be grateful for.ˇ±
> >
> > And so I say to you, my dear friends, my children, be grateful for your
> > stick;
> > be grateful for what you have, for even the hardships. The hardships have
> > come
> > to you because you are strong enough to walk through them, to reveal the
> > inner
> > meaning, to share with others. When you do not know sorrow, when you have
> > not
> > experienced any of the old realm, then how do you know how others feel,
> > what
> > they experience and challenge. So bless the hardships that you have faced
> > and
> > the victories both large and small, for there are times in each of your
> > lives
> > when simply opening your eyes and choosing to go forward another day is a
> > victory.
> >
> > But I do not simply leave you with empty reassurances. I have brought the
> > LaHoChi back that you would have the tools to restore, not only your
> > sacred self
> > but all of humanity and all of Gaia; that you would have in your hands, at
> > your
> > fingertips what is necessary to obtain, maintain and retain the balance in
> > all
> > things for this healing is not simply for the body, the mind, the spirit,
> > the
> > soul, it is also for situations, environments, and for the planet we love,
> > sweet
> > Gaia.
> >
> > But I have other gifts that I also wish to gift to you this day and I know
> > that
> > you have been gifted and blessed with the Silver Flame of Archangel Uriel.
> > Is he
> > not magnificent? My gift to you is more humble than that, it is my cup, my
> > small
> > oil cup, my light, for we simply place a wick as you would think of it in
> > some
> > oil and I give you this, I give you my light that burns deep orange, that
> > it
> > will light your way. You are courageous; you are the adventurers, that is
> > why
> > St. Germaine and I have called to you.
> >
> > But I want you to have this light as you travel into unknown territory so
> > that
> > you may feel reassured, that you may see into situations that seem to be
> > unclear
> > or that you are uncertain of. You are breaking new ground, you are
> > ascending
> > into new territory, you are receiving the qualities of your
> > inter-dimensional
> > self during this time of transition.
> >
> > But I am not a foolish old man; I know there will be moments when you will
> > feel
> > a little nervous. And so I ask for you to use this light that you will see
> > your
> > way and if you are still nervous, if you are still anxious as many of you
> > are,
> > ˇ®will this happen? will I make it?ˇŻ, then turn to me. There is nothing
> > frail
> > about me; I am very strong and I will offer you my arm or my shoulder to
> > lean
> > upon for I want you to find your way. And if you need guidance I will help
> > you.
> > I do not run ahead of you. No, I want you to be able to find your way for
> > that
> > is your joy and your journey but any assistance you need I am right there.
> >
> > I also gift to you, my beloved friends, fellow journeyers, I give to you a
> > ball
> > of twine. Yes, it is the old fashioned twine that you have not seen in a
> > long
> > time. But I always carry this with me, I travel very light and my sack
> > holds
> > very little, but these are essential tools and it is what I have to share
> > with
> > you and so I do so joyfully; I do so in gratitude that you will accept
> > these
> > humble gifts from me. ˇ°Why the twine?ˇ± you say. It is very useful, it is
> > useful in a number of ways; first of all if you think you are running out
> > of
> > wicks for the oil simply cut a piece, it will burn brightly and show the
> > way.
> > But primarily I give it to you that you may lay it down around you and form
> > boundaries.
> >
> > It is a time of unity and this has been always what I have taught. I have
> > taught
> > it in ancient China, I have taught it in Atlantis, I have taught it in
> > Tibet as
> > my incarnation as Djwhal Khul, I have taught the importance of unity. But
> > the
> > comfort level of unity, for you see that I tend to your comfort this
> > night, is
> > knowing your boundaries. If you do not feel safe and secure and if you do
> > not
> > feel within your safety and secure your sacred space which grows daily, my
> > dear
> > hearts, if you do not feel this sense of boundary, of the wonder, the
> > beauty,
> > the magnificence of your sacred self, the divine expression of who you are
> > in
> > every dimension, in every reality, then it becomes frightening for you
> > when we
> > say to you, ˇ°Join as one, acknowledge that you are one heart, part of one
> > mind,
> > one energy.ˇ± The fear will rise up because you think ˇ°I will lose myself
> > in
> > this seaˇ±.
> >
> > And of course ultimately that is the goal, but not at this stage, not at
> > this
> > stage of your journey. And so I give you this twine that you may lay down a
> > border, a boundary to define your beautiful self my sweet child and
> > healer, my
> > teachers, my gatekeepers, my showers of the way. So use this twine to
> > outline
> > what defines you and that you may feel safe in inviting people in or
> > opening the
> > door.
> >
> > And if you feel that you are going in this journey from the 3rd to the 5th
> > dimension, to the 7th, to the 9th, and you are afraid that you will not
> > know
> > your way back home, that you will somehow lose your way, then simply
> > unravel the
> > twine, anchor it, anchor it to your alter, to your bed, to your chair,
> > anchor it
> > within your home. And as you travel simply allow the ball of twine, it is
> > much
> > better than bird crumbs for our experience is the birds are a hungry group
> > and
> > they believe that you do this for them not for you, so use the twine in
> > this way
> > that you may always find your way home.
> >
> > And it does not matter whether it is home to your own home where you think
> > your
> > family lives, where your children reside and love you, or home to the 5th
> > dimension, or home to the 7th, or home to the heart of One. So I give this
> > to
> > you in this way that you may keep it with you always; my gifts are always
> > multi-purpose and then you may also use it however you wish. But I want
> > you to
> > know, although I am silent, I am always present. I am the observer, I am
> > the
> > watcher, I am the teacher as well.
> >
> > Now before we go any further, dear Graham of the inter-dimensional
> > reality, do
> > you have any questions of me?
> >
> > GD: Well firstly, thank you for your wisdom and your gifts and your
> > peaceful
> > messages. Can you hear me ok?
> >
> > LT: Yes, I can. And I think everybody else can as well. And I am not just
> > speaking about the radio.
> >
> > GD: Well, your message and your visit with us today is so timely and one
> > of the
> > things that strike meˇ­[at this point he was having technical difficulties
> > again
> > and I could not piece together his questions]ˇ­
> >
> > LT: I believe you have some further technical difficulties, but I want to
> > talk,
> > and that is why today I chose to speak of these messages of comfort. Like
> > you I
> > have lived as a human being and my journey has been long and there have
> > been
> > times of ups and downs. Many of you are feeling the penetration of the
> > energy
> > directly from the heart of Mother/Father/One and it is bringing up for you
> > all
> > kind of things including what I have called ˇ®insecuritiesˇŻ. And you can
> > also
> > use this ball of twine you know as a buoy, it will float even in the
> > roughest
> > seas.
> >
> > But how do you navigate, how do you navigate first of all when you know
> > that you
> > are walking in areas that have not been walked by the general population of
> > earth, by humanity, ever? And how do you deal with the peaks, the troughs,
> > the
> > waves, the emotional challenges?, and I would be remiss, it is also one of
> > the
> > reasons I asked to speak to you because I have wandered the village, I have
> > wandered the rice fields, I have seen children die of hunger, I know what
> > it is
> > to be in poverty, and I have seen the riches of those who rule, let us say
> > through arrogance, believing it is divine right; the only divine right is
> > unity
> > and equality and freedom.
> >
> > That is why I chose to go from village to village to heal my people, to
> > allow
> > the force of love and light to move through them rapidly; not that it
> > would take
> > years to heal, but moments, it is instantaneous. And I ask each of you to
> > remember and to learn if you cannot remember, learn my LaHoChi because it
> > is
> > important especially now we have amplified it. And if you say ˇ°Lord, I
> > donˇŻt
> > know what to do with thisˇ±, I say ˇ°Take your hands and put them on your
> > heart
> > and stay still.ˇ± Too many of you so often you are running, you are leaning
> > right, you are leaning left, you are leaning forward, you are leaning
> > back, and
> > you are not learning to stay still, in balance. And once you have this,
> > yes what
> > the channel has called ˇ®stillpointˇŻ when you have the balance, when you
> > can be
> > the stick in perfect balance, then you can move.
> >
> > It would be absurd, ridiculous and a form of denial for us to say to you
> > ˇ°Everything is fine.ˇ± Everything is fine in divine timing and right and
> > process and what you are being gifted with, but we do not pretend that
> > there is
> > not inner turmoil. That is why I speak to you of ˇ®choiceˇŻ and sometimes
> > the
> > choice, the decision, the biggest decision is just to keep going, to get
> > out of
> > bed. Sometimes the biggest choice and the wisest course of action is to
> > sit, to
> > be still, to simply be and know that you will be nudged by appropriate
> > action,
> > by appropriate inspiration. When it is time to move you will jump as if
> > your
> > feet are on fire and you are filled with the spirit of action. But the
> > balance
> > is the movement and the stillness.
> >
> > But when you are feeling tossed by the waves, by the trough, by your
> > emotions,
> > by what you think and let go of judgment please, it is very old 3rd
> > dimension,
> > it has no place in your life, it never has. It is judgment that has gotten
> > you,
> > the collective of humanity, into this mess so let it go and when you feel
> > that
> > you are indecisive then be still. Your reaction and your reaction
> > particularly
> > in the west is ˇ°Oh I have to do something.ˇ± And I ask of you ˇ°Why?ˇ±
> > Sometimes the wisest action is no action; it is tending to your self.
> >
> > We bring this healing forward now because it can work the miracles of
> > clearing,
> > of uniting, of honoring your boundaries and helping you feel safe of
> > letting
> > them go. We bring this forward to you, and I do not do so alone, I do so
> > with my
> > beloved St. Germaine and Archangel Raphael, Metatron, Jesus Sananda, the
> > Mother,
> > the Divine Mother and yes as Mary, as Quan Yin, El Morya, Serapis Bey,
> > Sanat
> > Kumara. All of these beings join with me in this healing that I offer you,
> > not
> > at some future date but right now.
> >
> > We are also joined by my dear friend and ally Grener of Ashira of Neptune.
> > (1)
> > Yes, your star brothers and sisters have brought this healing to you in the
> > first place. They have not forgotten it and so they bring it to you once
> > again.
> > We all do, not on a golden platter but in our hands and in the activation
> > of
> > your hands, of your light, of your God force divinity, of Love. So often I
> > hear
> > you say ˇ°Master, how can we heal the world? How can we do this when time
> > is
> > running short?ˇ± And this is how you may do it.
> >
> > What this chi, the LaHoChi, does for you is also allows you to direct and
> > to
> > work more clearly with this energy that is this love, the laser beam of
> > light
> > that is being sent to you directly from the heart of the Source One. It
> > helps
> > you to direct it into yourself, into others, into your political
> > situations,
> > your financial situations, into the environment where many are still
> > living in
> > the 3rd dimensional reality, so that they may be penetrated and wake up in
> > time
> > to claim their sovereignty. Yes, this journey of Ascension is about Gaia
> > and her
> > reclaiming her rightful place, her journey of light and love. But dear
> > friends,
> > make no mistake it is also about each of you claiming and reclaiming your
> > rightful place as well. The great awakening is upon you, it is not coming
> > in
> > future times. It is here and it is yours and I am here to help. I will
> > share my
> > rice bowl, I will share my twine, I will share my light. I will share my
> > wisdom
> > and I will give you my stick.
> >
> > I ask of you not to doubt yourself. I know what doubt is. There were times
> > that
> > I would go to the palace and I would worry. I would worry not because I
> > couldnˇŻt heal the emperor but because I would doubt and worry about
> > whether he
> > would accept the healing. But that was futile and of course that was part
> > of my
> > learning, my journey in that lifetime. It was part of finding the middle
> > way and
> > staying in the middle way, the Tao. It is none of my business whether the
> > emperor wishes to accept healing. If it is requested it is given. And so
> > it is
> > with you. If people request your help, do not wait one moment to judge or
> > to
> > think ˇ®will it work?ˇŻ Simply proceed. Proceed from balance and stillness
> > into
> > the action, into the flow of love through you to them and I guarantee you,
> > my
> > dear hearts, it will work each and every time. So acknowledge your doubt,
> > acknowledge the worry and then let it be gone. Do not carry it with you.
> > Make
> > sure your sack is as light as mine. Go with peace and go with my love.
> >
> > GD: Thank you.
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > (1) The ˇ°Neptuneˇ± that Grener is from is not our planet Neptune. There
> > are
> > apparently many Neptunes around the cosmos.
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > 20-May-2012
> >
> > Hello Son,
> >
> > Children Need to Know
> >
> > The Creator has already activated their DNA to accept the energies of this
> > year.
> > However, this will work if they are facing the correct way, and that is
> > towards
> > ascension.
> >
> > We remind you what happens to stagnant water, it becomes stale and
> > undrinkable.
> > The properties of the water change and loose their nutrients. Same happens
> > to
> > energy when it is not utilised.
> >
> > For younger children, tell them a bright future is beckoning for everyone
> > who
> > believes in God.
> >
> > We remind you of an earlier channelling and we say the same to children.
> >
> > Tell them; that the planet is changing into the most beautiful garden
> > imaginable. This garden is going to have wonderful waterfalls, flowers,
> > bushes
> > and trees. It is giving off beautiful smells every where you go. Did you
> > know
> > that the planet too is alive, when you go to any plant or tree, it can
> > read your
> > thoughts. If you talk to a flower and say that it looks beautiful; the
> > flower
> > understands what you are saying and will be pleased. Try to touch and say
> > hello
> > to all the plants in the garden. Because they are alive; but we have lost
> > the
> > language to understand them. But you can learn very quickly, if we silence
> > the
> > mind and start listening.
> >
> > Bring a plant for your children and let them make their own choice. Then
> > let
> > them look after it, even talk to it. It is important to respect nature and
> > all
> > its surroundings and show the children the beauty of the world of nature.
> >
> > Tell him that the world is linked with families who care for each other.
> >
> > Children are naturally inquisitive and trust their parents, so teach them
> > what
> > you know in stages.
> >
> > The older ones can easily access the internet and research on their own;
> > but
> > guide them to your own favourite sites, it is vital to save time that they
> > are
> > directed.
> >
> > Share openly in your circles of trust the messages of this year and let the
> > belief inside of you grow stronger each day.
> >
> > Your mother; children carry immense energies that light rooms that have
> > remained
> > dark for years. They believe in lore more than you think.
> >
> > Message from Ascended Master Saida Khatoon
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > The Week Ahead: 05/21/2012
> > ~Angela Peregoff
> >
> > As we sit basking in the dynamic presence of yesterdayˇŻs solar eclipse
> > New Moon
> > there is no longer any question that a cosmic acceleration is influencing
> > our
> > times, as we seem to be in the midst of a new level of amplify. For the
> > next
> > couple of weeks our sun is resting in perfect alignment with the central
> > sun
> > Alcyone in the celestial Pleiadian system. This group of stars represents
> > the
> > seven sisters or seven Goddesses in our galaxy. We also stand at the
> > culmination
> > of Wesak, a festival celebration of enlightenment.
> >
> > Typically May is a mystical rebirthing time when we can relax, merge with
> > Spirit, the higher planes, and drink in the elixirs of expanded
> > consciousness.
> > We relax and smell the roses (the scent of the Divine); we feel like
> > focusing on
> > comfort, beauty, security, and harmony within all our resources. However
> > the
> > particular stellar waves that will be pouring in from the galaxies above
> > will be
> > providing the signals and frequencies to anchor newer levels of awareness
> > that
> > include sacred respect for the value of life and consciousness.
> >
> > Energy vibrations from the Galactic Center will be transmitted across the
> > parsecs of space in a language of Light, a form of intelligent
> > communication
> > that affect and support all forms of consciousness. The Pleiades, Alycone,
> > Maia,
> > Electra, Merope and the rest of the cluster of stars from that region of
> > the
> > galaxy will be transducing transmissions and relaying them onward. Our Sun
> > will
> > catch the cosmic communications and distribute them to the rest of the
> > solar
> > system.
> >
> > Each wave of particular frequency will be carrying a specific resonance of
> > higher frequency and Divinity sent directly to your cells, where the
> > spirals of
> > your DNA are in harmonic resonance with the spirals of the galaxy. You
> > will not
> > see or feel the vibrations with you physical senses however your cells will
> > catch the signals loud and clear. Your biology will know it is being
> > called upon
> > to tune itself to meet and match the new harmonics and entrain with the
> > escalating waves of resonant energy.
> >
> > Imagine as we progresses towards the Memorial Day weekend in the US the
> > kingdom
> > of humanity will be breathing a New set of encodements that will usher in
> > the
> > experience of Life, physical immortality, and being our body of Light fully
> > present in a cellular biology. The transmissions are very strong and
> > nothing can
> > dispel them. All life on planet Earth, as well as the entire solar system,
> > must
> > adjust to this energy. The SunˇŻs role is to maintain balance by
> > supporting and
> > sustaining the evolution of consciousness in this galactic realm.
> >
> > If the resonance is not matched, then dissonance and discord occur, which
> > is
> > what you usually see unfolding as scandals, dishonesty, bickering,
> > warmongering
> > and new levels of madness. All manner of havoc is created by those who feel
> > frantic because they cannot match the cosmic attunement. If you lose
> > contact
> > with your heart center, then you will not be able to fully occupy your
> > body or
> > use your mind to its greatest capabilities during this time.
> >
> > So if you have, or still are feeling as though the universe is giving you
> > a run
> > for your money by having you stand in chaos, emotional upheaval, physical
> > ˇ°jumpiness,ˇ± fatigue, phases of confusion, listlessness, sensing
> > compression
> > or its opposite, lightness of being it is because as a committed vessel of
> > Spirit you are holding the newest frequencies and assisting in raising the
> > vibration of the planet through your physical being. It may help to
> > remember
> > that cosmic energies are always absorbed by the earth, so to remain calm
> > and
> > centered, do as the rest of NatureˇŻs creatures and stay in touch with the
> > ground.
> >
> > As an emissary of Divinity upon Gaia during this time many are acting as
> > grounding points of the deeper commitment of spirituality and
> > consciousness that
> > is surfacing. As an entity understanding, ˇ°one with allˇ± your karmic
> > ethics
> > has you devoted to the purpose of Ascension. As a straight shot of Source
> > dimensional equipment you are a very important component for the New Living
> > Field of embodiment. This knowledge may, or may not, make up for all that
> > you
> > are processing physically and emotionally, however, know that if you are
> > building, claiming, and anchoring what is necessary to advance there are
> > celestial elders watching over you. If the need is there, ask for their
> > assistance when the merger of energies becomes too much. They will help,
> > and at
> > the same time make sure that you continue to grow.
> >
> > With so many scrambling changes occurring at once many are feeling as
> > though
> > they exist in a house of mirrors. Possessing a keen awareness of the
> > invisible
> > happenings can be distracting and confusing for the human living in
> > accelerated
> > times. We all need to schedule time for pampering when we are feeling ill
> > at
> > ease. For those that perform reality checks and find they are frenzied by
> > energies that are somewhat difficult to handle, you need to formulate clear
> > plans for balance and clarity by consulting your own internal pillar of
> > wisdom
> > and commonsense. The message here is not to beat yourself up for feeling
> > bewildered and out of rhythm. Everyone is involved in this intensive
> > interchange; some are just aware that they are rendezvousing with sacred
> > agreements and contracts. Brainstorm ways that will support the times of
> > disenfranchised spiritual jolts. Visit a health practitioner, make sure
> > your
> > diet is sound, avoid taking big risks, join a metaphysical group, get lost
> > in
> > the arms of nature, etc. You are the only one who can muster the
> > blockbuster
> > remedies for amplified waves of Light running through the human collective
> > with
> > a vengeance during these times.
> >
> > As the month comes to a close there will be a definite steadying effect
> > that
> > should be felt by all. But before jumping for joy and high-fiving everyone
> > in
> > your spiritual circle open your mind, while the opportunity presents
> > itself, to
> > newly landing ideas that lead to stunning accomplishments in your human and
> > psychic life. As you settle in after the latest stationing between the full
> > moons inspirations and illuminations will be soaring through your brain.
> > Take
> > time to write it all down for future reference. We have just been sent
> > information on how to BE our truth in greater measure. That means life
> > will be
> > in our favor when we remain in harmony with our Soul values, not our human
> > characteristics such as curtailing, suppressing and limiting the directive
> > of
> > Spirit.
> >
> > Personally, I work diligently to remain in alignment with Universal
> > Harmony and
> > this usually moves me beyond the spaces of whirlwind energies and
> > magnetics.
> > Yes, my physicality still remains a utilized tool of SOURCE THOUGHT so I
> > have my
> > days of light-particle processing when I am dizzy, headachy, or stiff and
> > sore
> > but I recognize this as an opportunity to be a great and clear Light for
> > the
> > greater good and try not to whine too much about it. After all,
> > pro-creators are
> > the connector links of unification between the eternal and the now. How
> > cool is
> > that?
> >
> > Despite the transitioning symptoms we are in the Era of Pure Eternal
> > Awakening
> > and life force energies. We are coming to understand that Purity and
> > Divine Will
> > are the atmosphere that keeps Intelligence alive now and everything that
> > vibes
> > with It enjoys unification at its highest standards. It is a space where
> > one can
> > live out mastery within life circumstances and situations leading to
> > perfection
> > and acceptance.
> >
> > The old is easy ¨C the Newest is spiritual embodiment made physical!
> > Thanks for being a cosmic volunteer to Universal Source Substance,
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Hi everybody! I'm so excited, because the codes from the eclipse are
> > already
> > showing results. Last night my right arm switched to antimatter again! It
> > was
> > the exact feeling I had described in previous posts, where my body felt as
> > if it
> > lost all density and a breezy sensation flowed throughout it and around it.
> > First, I felt it pulsating, and then it just shifted. It lasted for only
> > about a
> > minute, but I was able to discern a few interesting facts from it. It
> > happened
> > right after I awoke. I was in that "in between" state, still half asleep
> > but
> > definitely awake, just like in previous times. This time, instead of my
> > entire
> > body shifting, it was only my right arm, similar to an experience Petra
> > commented about that happened to her leg. I looked at my arm, and it looked
> > completely normal despite the fact that it felt like it was enveloped in a
> > cool
> > breezy flame. Those are the best words I can use to describe it.
> >
> > Obviously, this came on the heels of the solar eclipse. My body has been
> > taking
> > in enormous amounts of energy since the night of the eclipse. It actually
> > started a couple days before, but the night of the eclipse was crazy
> > insane. The
> > energy is sometimes thick like honey, other times it just pours in fast and
> > furious, and I use my heart to pump it throughout my body. Sometimes the
> > chakra
> > at the base of my skull serves as a pump. I'm convinced we received a major
> > upgrade as a result of the eclipse, because I can feel that my body is
> > holding a
> > lot more energy. And the download continues even as I write this. The
> > energy
> > feels very benevolent in nature, but I do feel wired. When a big wave of
> > energy
> > hits me, I feel a wooshing sensation in my ears and my entire body's
> > vibration
> > increases for a few seconds. Every time that happens, I am hoping my body
> > will
> > switch to antimatter again. I'm on the verge of being able to switch at
> > will. I
> > can feel it.
> >
> > I asked Metatron to explain in more detail the shift from matter to
> > anti-matter.
> > Here is my understanding. Divine consciousness encapsulates the field of
> > all
> > possibilities. Not all possible universes materialize into matter,
> > although they
> > all have that potential. When divine consciousness focuses on a possible
> > reality, that reality exists in the field of antimatter. Reality must be
> > experienced through a vessel, a step down in consciousness, so in order to
> > experience a reality, divine consciousness must create a character through
> > which
> > the experience can be perceived. That character is what many of us call
> > our I AM
> > presence.
> >
> > Every particle in the universe exists in both matter and antimatter. For
> > every
> > electron, there is an equal and opposite positron in the field of
> > antimatter.
> > For every proton exists an anti-proton. These are considered scientific
> > facts.
> > Likewise, for every human being, there exists an equal and opposite human
> > being
> > in anti-matter. This is our divine compliment. Our divine compliments
> > exist in
> > the field of anti-matter and have not been burdened by the density of
> > matter.
> > They are our the equivalent to our I AM presence, which is basically one
> > step
> > down from divine consciousness. Merging with our divine compliment is a
> > prerequisite for the ascension.
> >
> > Although we exist in both the field of matter and antimatter, we normally
> > only
> > perceive what happens in the the field of matter, the material realm.
> > Although
> > we experience our realities as a continuous progression of linear time, the
> > truth is there is a constant flashing between antimatter and matter, which
> > happens faster than our senses can perceive. By merging with our I AM
> > presence,
> > we should be able to switch our perception from the material realm to the
> > realm
> > of antimatter, which includes not only parallel earths but also omni earth
> > and a
> > multitude of other possible realities. We should, in time, be able to surf
> > the
> > realms of antimatter consciously. I'm sure this won't happen overnight. The
> > activation of the thirty-three chakra system includes the activation of 20
> > chakras which currently exist in the realm of antimatter. These chakras
> > interface with the material realm, and further open the door to conscious
> > interaction between realms.
> >
> > When I and others have experienced the switch from matter to antimatter,
> > we have
> > been able to leave our bodies through our heart chakras. One time I
> > floated out
> > of my body to the top of the doorway to my bedroom and got scared out of
> > my wits
> > and went right back into my body. A couple other times I went to
> > dimensions I
> > never dreamed existed. The 12 + 1 chakras which are commonly accepted in
> > new age
> > circles serve as interface from matter to antimatter in the same way the
> > new 20
> > chakras serve as interface from antimatter to matter but in reverse. These
> > 12 +
> > 1 chakras extend from our physical bodies in a cone like fashion, spinning
> > into
> > the realm of antimatter. You have to pass through a portal in the heart
> > chakra
> > to get to the realm of antimatter. You may be able to use other chakras as
> > portals too. When you leave your body this way through your heart chakra, I
> > suspect you do not enter linear time in the material realm. You are
> > entering the
> > realm of antimatter, which may appear very similar to the material realm
> > but is
> > not. Crazy things can happen, like in a dream. I'm hoping, though, that
> > when we
> > fully merge with our I AM presence, we will be able to switch from matter
> > to
> > antimatter and leave our bodies to travel in linear time. Of course, these
> > new
> > skills come with the added benefit of raising the consciousness of the
> > entire
> > universe! How could we ask for more?
> >
> > I'm still putting the pieces together. I know for sure the solar eclipse
> > was a
> > big deal, and I'm anxious to hear about others' experiences. My friend and
> > our
> > fellow lightworker, Sarah Gazala, has been experiencing multiple realities
> > at
> > once. Anyone interested in cutting edge ascension info should check out her
> > blog: http://www.facebook.com/#!/sarah.g.blogs. Any other insight would be
> > appreciated. We are making this happen folks. The world is what we make
> > it. I'm
> > so excited!
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Being present in multiple realities
> >
> > As we are creating new realities there is something we need to know about
> > these
> > realities.
> >
> > We are usually creating our own reality or view of our own reality, but if
> > we do
> > this we are having problems creating an overall change within the realities
> > outside of us.
> >
> > We can only be part of change if we are present within the change and
> > within the
> > reality we would like to change.
> >
> > Changing a reality is not as simple as just changing your view of the
> > reality.
> >
> > Many have been in the process of changing their own reality and changing
> > their
> > view of the reality outside of them.
> >
> > Changing your own reality is much easier than changing the reality outside
> > of
> > you as there is the influence of all others that are involved within the
> > reality
> > outside of you.
> >
> > You can change your own reality, as you usually will fully immerse
> > yourself in
> > making that change.
> >
> > Changing the reality outside of you becomes more difficult as you in this
> > way
> > have placed yourself outside of the reality that is outside of you.
> >
> > You made your own little creation within the overall creation, usually
> > placing
> > barriers around it that prevent any energy from the outside reality to
> > enter.
> >
> > You are in your own little energy cocoon.
> >
> > To be able to make changes in the reality outside of you, you will have to
> > be
> > present within the reality outside of you.
> >
> > This is where we need to learn how to be fully present in many realities
> > simultaneously without having this effecting the changes we made within
> > our own
> > reality.
> >
> > When you create your own views of the realities outside of you, these
> > views are
> > going to limit the way you can make changes to the realities outside of
> > you as
> > well as the fact that you are outside of the energies, so real changes
> > cannot be
> > made as you are not going to be able to move energies within the outside
> > realities.
> >
> > This is one of the reasons change is slow, because many have drawn back
> > from the
> > overall reality that is happening on earth and have placed themselves
> > outside of
> > the overall reality within their own reality cocoon.
> >
> > We have to learn to be present within every reality that is created, as
> > every
> > reality that is created is in fact within us as we are all involved in
> > these
> > realities, even if we call them illusions, they are a part of us as our
> > energy
> > is within them and the energy of all these realities is within us.
> >
> > The other problems we encounter are the different views of the realities
> > outside
> > of us, the difference in opinion and what should or could happen or be
> > done to
> > change these realities upon earth and not just earth. We are present in
> > many
> > more realities than just earth as our whole being contains everything.
> >
> > To make changes in a certain reality, you have to be present within that
> > reality, meaning you have to be aware of how that reality is in fact
> > working as
> > far as how and what this reality stands for, what are the energies within
> > it,
> > how does the reality work spiritually and physically.
> >
> > You have to have a complete understanding of all that is happening within
> > that
> > reality to be able to assist in changes happening within it.
> >
> > If you have certain views, you are limiting the higher parts of your being
> > to
> > bring in the most appropriate changes as the work is being done by the
> > human and
> > the view is limiting what can be done as you will follow the rules set by
> > your
> > own view that you have created for yourself.
> >
> > We are all here for a reason, but the question is are we all here to create
> > solely our own little reality or are we here to do more?
> >
> > Petra Margolis
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > BAST. Our Pets: Loving Companions Throughout The Ages. By, AuroRa Le. May
> > 22,
> > 2012.
> >
> > ⧋ Many Greetings, I am Bast. I am Mother and protector of the
> > Elemental
> > Realms, the Realms of Fire and Earth. I bid you welcome, once more. It is
> > of the
> > greatest import on this day that you be made aware of a loving dynamic
> > which
> > enfolds you, and has surrounded you throughout what you term as time.
> > These are
> > connections deep and true. These bonds run strong within your core essence
> > and
> > your history, and it is these which may never be broken. They have left an
> > indelible imprint upon your heart and energetic self. It is by GodˇŻs
> > design
> > that this be so. You know these ones. It is the Animal Kingdom of which I
> > speak,
> > and when I label them thus, I do so only to present this information in a
> > manner
> > to which you may relate. Dog, cat, fish, bird, tortoise, mouseˇ­they go by
> > many
> > names, but as in all the Universe, they are One. So, let us start at the
> > beginningˇ­
> >
> > ⧋ Aeons ago, you emerged form Source. Sheltered, wide-eyed and
> > unsullied
> > by the many battles you would soon fight in the name of peace, unity and
> > truth.
> > You came forward in unimaginable numbers, as healers, teachers, warriors
> > and the
> > like. Carriers of the love and light of your Father and Mother. In your
> > lifetimes you have comforted the lost, healed the sick, taught the
> > unawakened,
> > fed the hungry, brought peace to war-torn lands. You have been heralded as
> > the
> > brave wise ones. So, it was by the CreatorsˇŻ decree that you would have
> > protectors. Pet, totem, spirit-animal, companionˇ­ they would go by many
> > names.
> > Regardless of the form they choose to assume, know well that you have
> > never been
> > without the love of these fine friends. From far and wide they came,
> > heeding the
> > call, knowing they were needed. They knew you and they found you. They are
> > creations of light, shapeshifting energetic entities who would merge their
> > own
> > energy with yours and create a bond of an unbreakable nature; becoming one
> > of
> > the finest parts of you, your love, your heart-self. There is no place you
> > have
> > ever gone that they have not been with you, and there is no place you
> > shall ever
> > go that they shall not follow. This is fact. Some of you have more than
> > one of
> > these companions, maybe two, three, fourˇ­ And you may have chosen to
> > share them
> > with another member of your soul family. Not to worry. All is free choice,
> > all
> > is decided upon by the ones involved.
> >
> > ⧋ You have all had a variety of ˇ°petsˇ± IˇŻm sure, throughout the
> > course
> > of your human incarnations. The love you share has been powerful and
> > unconditional, and no doubt you grieved mightily at the time of their
> > passing.
> > It was almost as if a portion of yourself had departed the Earth plane with
> > them. And in this you are not entirely wrong, because in a way, it did.
> > You then
> > went on to find another, to fill the natural void you felt for the
> > presence of
> > your protector and friend. You took your new one home, and developed an
> > instant
> > bond of kinship. You recognized this one, over all the others. You simply
> > knew.
> > Do not ever doubt for a moment that your beloved companion will return to
> > you
> > again and again. By use of the vehicle you term ˇ°reincarnationˇ±, these
> > essences are indeed one and the same, returning to stand by your side as
> > they
> > have always done throughout the ages. They are needed. They are an island
> > of
> > peace amidst a paradigm of chaos. They possess no agenda, no artifice, no
> > guile.
> > They are very much a part of you, and when a person remarks that one has
> > come to
> > look like their pet, it is to this they are referring. Aspire to be as
> > they are,
> > for they are unity and love in itˇŻs purest form. Theirs is the innate
> > power to
> > assist you in your ascension. They can sense discordance and heal you,
> > body and
> > soul. They are naturally telepathic and know your thoughts. Refrain from
> > any
> > judgement of them, do not do this, please. For to harshly judge this one
> > is to
> > judge a sacred element of yourself. For even the fiercest lion keeps a
> > gentle
> > heart. Do not ˇ°slay the dragonˇ±, for the dragon is your friend. Do not
> > cast
> > them off as just another sorely worn possession, for to do so is to cast
> > off a
> > precious gift of The Divine.
> >
> > ⧋ They have been loyally steadfast forever, and you must cherish
> > these
> > beloved companions as they love you and assist you in the raising up of
> > Gaia.
> > Take heart, for it is nearly done. Whilst the smaller battles still rage
> > on,
> > have faith that you have won the war.
> >
> > I am Bast.
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Wonderful things are happening now. ¨C Michael channeled by Ron Head
> > May 22,2012
> >
> > Our discussion for today concerns truth. Many have an idea of truth as an
> > unchangeable against which they may gauge any concept. We wish to discuss
> > truth
> > as a measure of what actually is.
> >
> > We must understand that ˇ®what actually isˇŻ, is at all times in a state of
> > change. One cannot find anywhere in the multiverses a single instance of a
> > static thing. Every single minute particle is in constant movement. All is
> > energy, frequency, light, life. All is in utter and complete change at any
> > instant. Therefore, the truth which we are discussing is always in flux.
> >
> > There are, however, in each universe, immutable ways in which things may
> > change.
> > You call these laws. It is nice to have something to rely on, is it not?
> > You are
> > discovering now the consequences of attempting to ignore these laws. For
> > most of
> > you, these would seem to be obvious. But for some, it has seemed for a
> > very long
> > time that they could proceed in directions contrary to many of these laws
> > with
> > total impunity. This has brought mankind on earth, and Earth herself, to a
> > very
> > dangerous point.
> >
> > Those who have succeeded for many centuries in assuming near total control
> > of
> > the planet are not unaware of the powers of the universe. They have simply
> > chosen the wrong power. They have bet on the wrong horse. The Creator has
> > begun
> > to bring illusion back into its true state.
> >
> > You will discover that, in actual fact, only a small fragment of who you
> > are is
> > here playing this game of imagined separateness. But please do not feel
> > that you
> > have been in error. You sent yourselves here to have experiences and learn
> > the
> > ˇ®what ifsˇŻ of separation, and you have done so, magnificently. Those who
> > have
> > completed their learning are now coming home. We are waiting with open
> > arms for
> > your return. Your strength and courage and experience will now be of
> > immense
> > value in places where others need them. You have earned rest, celebration,
> > and
> > when you are ready, the chance to aid many just as we have aided you.
> >
> > Wonderful things are happening now. There are only six months left in your
> > year,
> > and you have decreed many changes to occur. Many efforts are being made to
> > turn
> > your efforts into violence and chaos. Violence can be dealt with, you see.
> > But
> > the efforts to do so are being exposed almost as quickly as they happen.
> > We told
> > you that you had won, and you have. Just keep listening to your hearts,
> > dear
> > friends.
> >
> > Also, you are seeing many react to the new frequencies of this month in
> > seemingly insane ways. We have also discussed this before. It will take
> > some
> > little time for those who were unprepared to begin to handle this new
> > energy.
> > Some will not be able to. Many more will find themselves changing in ways
> > they
> > will be at a loss to understand. Be prepared to accept them with love.
> >
> > We will continue tomorrow, dear friends. Be at peace.
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > My Heart Is With You
> > Lord Sananda
> > Through hilarion
> > May 21, 2012
> >
> > My heart is with you
> >
> > As the ascension of your energies has now officially begun.
> >
> > From here on in, there will be a relatively continual garnering of the
> > waves of
> > your energy as it responds
> >
> > more and more to this now rapid acceleration in energy speed until zero
> > point,
> > the ˇ®shiftˇŻ point,
> >
> > You will notice that your energies will more and more now feel as if they
> > are
> > more one unit,
> >
> > moving as one unit.
> >
> > These are the components of rhythm and flow.
> >
> > Do you remember the digital picture boards with moving flowing water that
> > you
> > may have seen in some
> >
> > oriental, etc. restaurants?
> >
> > Rolling waves.
> >
> > The nice part of this for you is that your vibrational surrounding, your
> > encasement,
> >
> > will accelerate.
> >
> > And will bring you fresh, different perceptions to perceive through, and
> > that is
> > really what it is all about.
> >
> > Part of my purpose is to care and hold consciousness that nothing will
> > stand in
> > your way of evolving.
> >
> > Also I would also like to reflect that you arenˇŻt just remembering more
> > of your
> > being into you,
> >
> > and vice versa,
> >
> > but also and simultaneously you are evolving anew, you are evolving anew,
> > Yes.
> > Yes.
> >
> > Have faith in this- you chose to be here so you must have prepared
> > yourself,
> >
> > And that will unfold, minute by minute.
> >
> > Remain awake. Learn to feel more. Lovingly, meaning with acceptance, learn
> > to
> > understand those
> > feelings through feeling them, having the experience.
> > You need these faculties also to perceive divinity within you, within all,
> > And this is what I mean by personal experience with source ¨C
> > That you experience within you- that makes it personal- that is all-
> > Having experienced the divine within yourself, you know it is within
> > everything.
> > Very simple and gentle, but very powerful.
> > Then as you expand your consciousness, you can claim this reality
> > everywhere.
> > In this way it is about the quality of the experiences which will become
> > part of
> > your existence,
> > And this is what we mean by scope, frequency, even dimension.
> > It is the type of viewing that you are creating.
> > My job or goal is to gently share with you some ways to arrive at a really
> > substantial,
> > meaningful experience or spiritual position of viewing-experiencing the
> > core
> > meanings of spirit, of you,
> > A you that one can scarcely imagine from the physical.
> >
> > Enough for today.
> > I will share again as we all proceed inevitably now.
> > In source you are,
> > Sananda
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > WHAT'S NEXT? It's a wait & SEE GAME? ~_~
> >
> > Please continue to live your lives as masters of light. We do not deny
> > that what
> > we may forsee in future days may not turn out to be accurate. When we
> > comment on
> > things, it means this will occur when all continues as it is now. Should
> > there
> > be a dramatic alteration to that course of development, my context will be
> > altered at that moment. Nothing cannot be changed by divine decree.
> > However,
> > what I am concerned about in your realm is very different than simply
> > altering a
> > cause and effect drama, as it includes all of your dreams and answers for
> > the
> > human continuum.
> >
> > We want you to continue the ongoing development of human mastery and not be
> > caught in the destruction of the land masses you are inhabiting. Once
> > before we
> > had this same dance to deal with, and most of you chose to come home and
> > miss
> > the next drama. Mass clearing of Atlantis was done by the Galactic
> > Federation
> > thenˇŞit happened in a few days of human time, before the changes to the
> > land
> > masses damaged your psyches. We don't have the same options now, because
> > the
> > Atlantians were confident that they were being given another opportunity to
> > continue their claim to mastery. Now there are more obstacles to clearing
> > your
> > damaged continents then there was then, the main one being the negative
> > attitudes that would disqualify many from moving towards the Galactic
> > Federation
> > mobile devices. Most would deny their friendship and many would make war
> > against
> > them. So we have only ascension as your answer to continuing life in
> > another
> > dimension. When Mother Earth is newly created, the ascended beings will
> > lead the
> > way to another human continuum. All who do not ascend may incarnate again
> > in
> > other areas of the galaxy, one at a time in their new forms, but they will
> > not
> > move there en-mass from earth's atmosphere.
> >
> > When the collapse of your modern world comes to you via the news media it
> > will
> > be too late to ascend. You need to give your answer before then. We need
> > to know
> > who is in and who is not. Are you able to go on without others you now call
> > family? This may be necessary.
> >
> > Most of you can only conceive of the future in ways that either continue
> > your
> > current existence or is like the dreams you have had and made into
> > concepts that
> > are not accurate. When ascension occurs, none of man's dreams about moving
> > into
> > light bodies are exactly as this will be experienced. It will not be like
> > the
> > dreams of your colleagues either. It will be a complete dismantling of your
> > dream. Can it be described here? No. You will have to have the experience.
> >
> > Some of you are asking about the more noticeable topics we have been
> > discussing.
> > Kelp is very good to eat now because none of the commercially available
> > kelp was
> > harvested after the tsunami. This kelp was also harvested in areas that
> > contains
> > no cesium. Chinese kelp is not guaranteed free of all contaminates, but it
> > contains no cesium. Korean and Japanese kelp are worth the price you pay
> > for
> > them.
> >
> > Those on the Hawaiian Islands do not need to be afraid of the food grown
> > there.
> > Water used on the areas of food growth was not destructive or
> > contaminated. Mist
> > does not come into the food growing areas of Hawaii as it does in Southern
> > CA.
> > It is not the land that contains cesium, it is the air. Dust rises out of
> > the
> > Pacific ocean in these contaminated areas and overtly makes its way
> > towards the
> > not so protected areas where food is grown. Pure cesium is in the air and
> > it
> > gets into the food that way. It was not going ashore in Hawaii in the same
> > way,
> > so no damage was done. Hawaiian food is ok to eat.
> >
> > Fukushima will be a news item for an indefinite amount of time. Should
> > another
> > big earthquake or tsunami happen in its vicinity there could be complete
> > destruction on all the continents as a consequence. Can you understand
> > that this
> > absolutely can happen? Can you be ready to ascend if it does? We are
> > waiting to
> > gather you to ascend, but we will do it as soon as it appears that
> > Fukushima
> > will get damaged again. Get ready NOW!
> >
> > In the months to come anything can happen. Neither this dimension nor the
> > Galactic Federation can change these conditions. We can only lead you on to
> > ascension or another lifetime. Are you afraid? Then do what it takes to
> > become
> > "ascension ready." Many light workers are available to assist.
> >
> > Purification of diet can help. Purification of mind is most important. But
> > purification of fear is the answer to all of the above.
> >
> > I AM THAT I AM
> > Ascended Master Saint Germain
> >
> > More at: @ http://GALACTICFL.COM
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > In LiGhT! & In LoVE! Namaste. xoxoxoxo ArChAnGeL GaLaCtIc CmDr @
> > http://GALACTICFL.COM
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Please HeLP US! AnGeLS! & EaRtH AnGeLs! of LIGHT! :) To MaKe FILM to AwAKeN
> > SoULs Out of AmNeSia! from Millenia! by Sharing! or Donating! ;) * Now
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> > $50/hr
> > in US or $70 Worldwide! After Donate at: http://www.GaLaCtIcFL.com &/or
> > http://DirectoryOfUS.com/donate
> >
> > I will Contact Ya!:) *Make Some $MoNeY! & HELP Other SoULs! ALL OVER!
> > ReFeR Me
> > PPL! 50/50 SPLIT!:) You & I! to HeLp YoU! HeLP US! * REAL TESTIMONY: from
> > @jesse
> > Fry : "Thank you Rich! it was great talking with You! Human words cannot
> > express
> > my gratitude or excitement!!!! To Infinity and Beyond!!!!! ˇŢ
> >
> > Thank You Rich! Right before our call, I felt like losing all hope and
> > faith...certain things hit me so deep and so hard, and our conversation
> > helped revitalize my hope faith and strength
> > Gave a new twist to my conditioned perceptions, you really helped to
> > expand my reality and inspire me even deeper into the infinite depths of
> > Light and Unconditional Love.
> >
> > And the way life is rapidly unfolding and good things begin happening and
> > beautiful synchronicities become the music of daily life. The people we
> > meet, the lessons we lean the messages we receive, the flow of joy love
> > happiness and prosperity begins to flow abundantly
> >
> > I'm about to take a major step forward in my career, I'm following my
> > heart and my dreams, now all I needs Love.
> > What a Shift!!!! What a Shift!!!!
> > And so the journey continues!!!!
> >
> > So much SHIFT happening all at once
> >
> > Thank you yet again Mr Galactic Rich!!!
> >
> >
> > To Infinity!! ......AND BEYOND!!!!!!
> >
> > Buzz Lightyear is my new favorite super hero...it use to be Batman...but
> > batman only cares about his own city and his dark little cave...and Gotham
> > is blessed to have him!!!
> > But there comes a time in Ones life where One has to look beyond his whole
> > city, perhaps at his Country...perhaps the whole World...or possibly even
> > the Entire Universe
> >
> > Light up the Darkness
> >
> > Bob Marley is one of my favorite "Real Life Superhero's"
> >
> > So Until Next Time!
> > Keep Fit! AND HAVE FUN!!!!
> > : )*Smiley Face*( :
> >
> > -Body Break!
> > ...you know!... With Hal Johnson and Joanne McLode
> >
> > By: Jesse fry He Said it on Sunday. April 29th, 2012 at: 3:33 pm.
> >
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> > LQQK UP!!! to SAY HOLA! WE ARE HERE! WE ARE FROM THE STARS! WE ARE ALL ONE
> > GIGANTIC! COSMIC! MULTI-DIMENSIONAL! FAMILY OF LIGHT!!!! & so it is...
> >
> > Check out this Cool! Amazing Videos to UPlift You at:
> >
> > http://youtu.be/raiYEwnK2yA
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> >
> > http://youtu.be/t6MUm-EhH88
> >
> > http://youtu.be/ID-zDcvrHPk
> >
> > Thank You!!! BeLoVeD! I AM that I AM that I AM YOU! YOU ARE ME! WE ARE ALL
> > ONE LIGHT! ONE LOVE! ONE HEART!!! & so it is... Your friend. xxx ArchAngel
> > Rich Galactic. Join Our GALACTIC! ANGELIC! & FILM CREW! at:
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#3377 From: "Viktoriya" <Editor@...>
Date: Wed Jun 6, 2012 12:24 am
Subject: Btw: I KNOW ADREWS KULIKAUSK & HE KNOWS ME! LAST TIME I HELP HIM IN CHICAGO! :P
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IN LIGHT! & IN LOVE! namaste.

Your friend. ArChAnGeL Anthony D @ http://www.GALACTICFL.COM

#3378 From: "Viktoriya" <Editor@...>
Date: Wed Jun 6, 2012 12:27 am
Subject: btw: I work & OWN! : www.AMERICAenESPANOL.COM Peace & LoVE!!!! namaste. AD
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Peace & LoVE!!!! namaste. Anthony D. @ www.GALACTICFL.COM  www.WERALLONE.COM  
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#3379 From: Pamela McLean <pam@...>
Date: Wed Jun 6, 2012 7:12 am
Subject: Re: btw: I work & OWN! : www.AMERICAenESPANOL.COM Peace & LoVE!!!! namaste. AD
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Ref
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That does suggest that your interests do have considerable overlap with LearningFromEachOther - which was originally set up to look at emergent 21century educational systems.

I am interested in how the Internet is affecting the roles and relationships of teachers and learners, our increased opportunities to be independent learners, and so on. I am also interested in inclusion.

Your recent letters have shown little evidence of overlap with those interests - but your website does suggest overlap.If you do want to discuss items that are relevant to LFEO , and you speak "in your own voice" rather than "in the voice of some organisation" then you are welcome to stay,

Pamela

On 6 June 2012 01:27, Viktoriya <Editor@...> wrote:
 


#3380 From: "David N. Mutua" <davenzainga@...>
Date: Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:24 pm
Subject: [CALD International] 6/12/2012 03:24:00 PM
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Cincinnati Selected To Host 2012 Sister Cities Midwest Regional Conference


Cincinnati, Ohio has been selected in a competitive process to host the 2012 Sister Cities International's Regional Conference. The conference will unite citizen diplomacy leaders in the region and provide an opportunity for sister city associations to network, build partnerships and discuss best practices for empowering the citizen diplomacy movement in the Midwest.

"Under the leadership of Mayor Mark Mallory, Cincinnati has shown a commitment to diversity, global cooperation, and to the sister city movement worldwide," said Sister Cities International's President and CEO Mary D. Kane. During a recent sister cities mayor's delegation to Chengdu, China, Mayor Mallory gave a valuable presentation on the Cincinnati-Hamilton County Regional Emergency Operations Center and how participating cities can implement emergency preparedness measures in their communities. The city was also presented with an award for the best cultural city. "Cincinnati will provide a relevant setting to bring together sister city leaders from around the world."

"Hosting the Sister Cities International Conference further cements Cincinnati's growing position as an international position as an international destination for conventions and event," Mayor Mark Mallory said. "It will allow Cincinnati to develop new relationships and partnerships with leaders from around the world."

For more information Click here - http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/mayor/pages/-44599-/ 


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Posted By David N. Mutua to CALD International at 6/12/2012 03:24:00 PM

#3381 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Sat Jun 16, 2012 8:17 pm
Subject: In loving memory of Maria (Agnese) - video
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It is just over a year since the sudden death of Maria Agnese Giraudo 

Catherine, Giovina and Roberto wrote:

"we hope that by watching this video you will at least in part manage to feel what we could feel during this great day in which we could give her last respect and especially express our love and our gratitude for all the gifts we received from her. "

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: per_agnese@... <per_agnese@...>

Dear all,

 

We are writing the present mail to friends of Agnese (Maria) from outside Italy. On the 25th of April many friends living in Italy met in Santa Marinella for a commemoration day during which her ashes were spread in the sea.

 

First we met in the church together with Don Matteo and could express thoughts and prayers. Then Kenneth and Giuseppe (Agnese’s brother) went on a fisherman boat in the sea to spread her ashes while the other friends were on the seaside singing a song written by her colleagues from INRAN. We then had a farewell to Agnese through shouting. The four NAFSI acrobats who were with us (Samuel, Patrick, Kenneth and Steve) could then illustrate to us their project with children in Nairobi and then perform on a little square of Santa Marinella.


It took quite some time to put together the video and photos taken by different people and we had technical problems. That's why more than a month has already passed. However we hope that by watching this video you will at least in part manage to feel what we could feel during this great day in which we could give her last respect and especially express our love and our gratitude for all the gifts we received from her.

To watch the video: 

http://youtu.be/Kl_Vd1xvNbE

 

Please send this mail to anyone who is not in the mailing list but would like to receive it.


Peace


Catherine, Giovina and Roberto

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Thank you for sharing this. I am passing it on.

Pamela.

 



#3382 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Sun Jun 17, 2012 2:49 pm
Subject: Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
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I'm sharing this article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle with a heavy heart

I have copied parts of the article below which struck a particular chord, reminding me of all that happened in 2007/2008:
  • the straight-from-the-heart response of the Minciu Sodas community when we discovered that our friends in Kenya were in trouble
  • the amazing courage, fortitude, creativity and determination of the Kenyans, in Minciu Sodas and the wider Pyramid of Peace network, during the post election violence.
Pyramid of Peace activists played an unacknowledged role in reducing the impact of the violence, and in peace building and conflict resolution.

The article states  "In 2008 the main wars were in Western Province (Luoland) where (Kikuyu) police shot down Luo protesters, around Eldoret where Kikuyu immigrants were burned out of their homes and murdered by Kalenjin, and in Nairobi where battles took place in the poor slum areas between different ethnic groups."

Dear Pyramid of Peace Friends in Kenya - I remember how you were so active in those locations. I remember the heart-rending details that you were sending the rest of us in Minciu Sodas about what was happening - and how you refused to be divided by tribal loyalties. I remember too how the relationships that you had between each other reached across tribal boundaries. When there were attempts to push you into tribal divisions you stood firm. Your deep trust relationships enabled you to plan together and then go to your own tribal elders and persuade them to influence the warring youths. On top of that you were working with displaced people, you were helping individuals, you were responding to whatever needed a response given the limitation of financial support that those of us outside Kenya could send you.

Together we were making use of mobile phones, phone credits, the Internet, and established relationships of trust in wonderful, innovative and effective ways that maximiesd the potential of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). We were a community collaborating acting with one heart and mind and doing what we could in our own locations in so many different countries across Africa, Europe, and America (if I have forgotten other locations, please forgive me - and remind me)

What lessons did we learn my Minciu Sodas friends, and how can we draw on them  - to help prevent the horrors that his article suggests could lie ahead?

Even more importantly, how can we share those lessons? How can we use the practical experiences that we had of information sharing, practical on the ground responses, and  true collaboration achieving results in conditions of terrible violence, horror and need? Who are the  people who need to learn the lessons that we learned - and how do we tell them?
 
I feel we can't just wait and let it happen again - but we are not in positions of power or influence - "we are no-one" -  what do we do?

Richard Dowden - Director, RAS (Royal African Society) wrote:

"Appealing to and buying tribal loyalty became the name of the game. Kenya is probably now the most tribally divided nation in Africa. No wonder the 2007 election exploded into such  violence.... 

... the Kenyan election is wide open. Victory will go to the person who builds an alliance of tribal leaders. One thing is certain: Luo and Kikuyu will be on opposite sides. Raila Odinga, the Luo leader, will run and elements among the Kikuyu will do anything to stop him becoming president. For a while I thought that in 2008 Kenyans had reached the edge of the cliff and looked down. They wavered and pulled back. The militants were called off by their paymasters. Kofi Annan was on hand to help. Kenyans had seen a future that looked like hell and chose a fudged alliance of enemies instead.

That alliance is now falling apart. The new constitution has recreated a Kenya of 47 counties, whose elected governments will be funded by the state to spend as they wish.  It is, however, likely that a local politician from the dominant ethnic group in each county will be playing the ethnic card to garner support.

.... If politicians play the ethnic card in the next election, this winner-takes-all war could be fought in most of the new counties between any or all of Kenya’s 40-odd ethnic groups."  Link to full article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle

More about Pyramid of Peace:

An introduction via Phone for Peace 

A video of Pyramid of Peace Acrobats involved in Nairobi - with pleas for peace by two of the acrobats' leaders at the end , Kennedy Owino (a Luo) and James (a Kikuyu) 

The Pyramid of Peace Archive -  full archive of emails, chatroom meetings, forwarded text messages, reports of phone conversations and so on as the post election turmoil erupted and friends were caught up in it and struggled to help resolve the situation 

More about Minciu Sodas



#3383 From: Dan Otedo <dotedo@...>
Date: Mon Jun 18, 2012 8:32 am
Subject: Re: Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
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Very very true.
Its always nice to have someone from outside Kenya helping us to reflect what could very possibly happen.
I DREAD  the election year.
 
Dan OTEDO
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Tel: +254203745911 .Mobile:+254720366094
Email: dotedo@... 
 

From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
To: Posterous <post@...>; learningfromeachother <learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com>; nafsi Afrika acrobats <nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, 17 June 2012, 17:49
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS

 
I'm sharing this article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle with a heavy heart

I have copied parts of the article below which struck a particular chord, reminding me of all that happened in 2007/2008:
  • the straight-from-the-heart response of the Minciu Sodas community when we discovered that our friends in Kenya were in trouble
  • the amazing courage, fortitude, creativity and determination of the Kenyans, in Minciu Sodas and the wider Pyramid of Peace network, during the post election violence.
Pyramid of Peace activists played an unacknowledged role in reducing the impact of the violence, and in peace building and conflict resolution.

The article states  "In 2008 the main wars were in Western Province (Luoland) where (Kikuyu) police shot down Luo protesters, around Eldoret where Kikuyu immigrants were burned out of their homes and murdered by Kalenjin, and in Nairobi where battles took place in the poor slum areas between different ethnic groups."

Dear Pyramid of Peace Friends in Kenya - I remember how you were so active in those locations. I remember the heart-rending details that you were sending the rest of us in Minciu Sodas about what was happening - and how you refused to be divided by tribal loyalties. I remember too how the relationships that you had between each other reached across tribal boundaries. When there were attempts to push you into tribal divisions you stood firm. Your deep trust relationships enabled you to plan together and then go to your own tribal elders and persuade them to influence the warring youths. On top of that you were working with displaced people, you were helping individuals, you were responding to whatever needed a response given the limitation of financial support that those of us outside Kenya could send you.

Together we were making use of mobile phones, phone credits, the Internet, and established relationships of trust in wonderful, innovative and effective ways that maximiesd the potential of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). We were a community collaborating acting with one heart and mind and doing what we could in our own locations in so many different countries across Africa, Europe, and America (if I have forgotten other locations, please forgive me - and remind me)

What lessons did we learn my Minciu Sodas friends, and how can we draw on them  - to help prevent the horrors that his article suggests could lie ahead?

Even more importantly, how can we share those lessons? How can we use the practical experiences that we had of information sharing, practical on the ground responses, and  true collaboration achieving results in conditions of terrible violence, horror and need? Who are the  people who need to learn the lessons that we learned - and how do we tell them?
 
I feel we can't just wait and let it happen again - but we are not in positions of power or influence - "we are no-one" -  what do we do?

Richard Dowden - Director, RAS (Royal African Society) wrote:

"Appealing to and buying tribal loyalty became the name of the game. Kenya is probably now the most tribally divided nation in Africa. No wonder the 2007 election exploded into such  violence.... 

... the Kenyan election is wide open. Victory will go to the person who builds an alliance of tribal leaders. One thing is certain: Luo and Kikuyu will be on opposite sides. Raila Odinga, the Luo leader, will run and elements among the Kikuyu will do anything to stop him becoming president. For a while I thought that in 2008 Kenyans had reached the edge of the cliff and looked down. They wavered and pulled back. The militants were called off by their paymasters. Kofi Annan was on hand to help. Kenyans had seen a future that looked like hell and chose a fudged alliance of enemies instead.
That alliance is now falling apart. The new constitution has recreated a Kenya of 47 counties, whose elected governments will be funded by the state to spend as they wish.  It is, however, likely that a local politician from the dominant ethnic group in each county will be playing the ethnic card to garner support.
.... If politicians play the ethnic card in the next election, this winner-takes-all war could be fought in most of the new counties between any or all of Kenya’s 40-odd ethnic groups."  Link to full article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle
More about Pyramid of Peace:
An introduction via Phone for Peace 
A video of Pyramid of Peace Acrobats involved in Nairobi - with pleas for peace by two of the acrobats' leaders at the end , Kennedy Owino (a Luo) and James (a Kikuyu) 
The Pyramid of Peace Archive -  full archive of emails, chatroom meetings, forwarded text messages, reports of phone conversations and so on as the post election turmoil erupted and friends were caught up in it and struggled to help resolve the situation 
More about Minciu Sodas




#3384 From: nafsiafricaacro@...
Date: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:39 pm
Subject: Re: video of 25th of April with ashes dispersion of Maria Agnese
nafsiafricaacro
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Thanks Catherine for sharing this emotive yet encouraging piece.
She is missed a lot.

R.I.P Maria,

Ken Owino


Sent from IPhone


Den 16/06/2012 kl. 21.17 skrev "per_agnese@..." <per_agnese@...>:

Dear all,

 

We are writing the present mail to friends of Agnese (Maria) from outside Italy. On the 25th of April many friends living in Italy met in Santa Marinella for a commemoration day during which her ashes were spread in the sea.

 

First we met in the church together with Don Matteo and could express thoughts and prayers. Then Kenneth and Giuseppe (Agnese’s brother) went on a fisherman boat in the sea to spread her ashes while the other friends were on the seaside singing a song written by her colleagues from INRAN. We then had a farewell to Agnese through shouting. The four NAFSI acrobats who were with us (Samuel, Patrick, Kenneth and Steve) could then illustrate to us their project with children in Nairobi and then perform on a little square of Santa Marinella.


It took quite some time to put together the video and photos taken by different people and we had technical problems. That's why more than a month has already passed. However we hope that by watching this video you will at least in part manage to feel what we could feel during this great day in which we could give her last respect and especially express our love and our gratitude for all the gifts we received from her.

To watch the video: 

http://youtu.be/Kl_Vd1xvNbE

 

Please send this mail to anyone who is not in the mailing list but would like to receive it.


Peace


Catherine, Giovina and Roberto

 

=

#3385 From: nafsiafricaacro@...
Date: Sat Jun 23, 2012 2:57 pm
Subject: Re: Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
nafsiafricaacro
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Dear Pam,

I read your posting and gets a deep gut feeling and fear of the nearing General election in Kenya.
As the late Honourable Saitoti said " if we let Kenya succumb into the blood shed like it happened in the 2007 post election violence, we will be a shame to the whole world and will be a constant blame by the future generations".
His words and such articles shared by you, should echo a reminder to us that we lost most of our fellow brothers and sisters (killed by their own) and we survived the skirmishes. 
Giving a chance to another one would be opening a death hole to our own selves. 
I may be a victim of the next one, my life would be claimed in the next one!

It is our deep prayer that peace prevail in Kenya.

Peace,

Ken Owino
Nafsi Africa Acrobats
www.nafsiafrica.webs.com

Sent from IPhone


Den 17/06/2012 kl. 16.49 skrev Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>:

 

I'm sharing this article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle with a heavy heart

I have copied parts of the article below which struck a particular chord, reminding me of all that happened in 2007/2008:

  • the straight-from-the-heart response of the Minciu Sodas community when we discovered that our friends in Kenya were in trouble
  • the amazing courage, fortitude, creativity and determination of the Kenyans, in Minciu Sodas and the wider Pyramid of Peace network, during the post election violence.
Pyramid of Peace activists played an unacknowledged role in reducing the impact of the violence, and in peace building and conflict resolution.

The article states  "In 2008 the main wars were in Western Province (Luoland) where (Kikuyu) police shot down Luo protesters, around Eldoret where Kikuyu immigrants were burned out of their homes and murdered by Kalenjin, and in Nairobi where battles took place in the poor slum areas between different ethnic groups."

Dear Pyramid of Peace Friends in Kenya - I remember how you were so active in those locations. I remember the heart-rending details that you were sending the rest of us in Minciu Sodas about what was happening - and how you refused to be divided by tribal loyalties. I remember too how the relationships that you had between each other reached across tribal boundaries. When there were attempts to push you into tribal divisions you stood firm. Your deep trust relationships enabled you to plan together and then go to your own tribal elders and persuade them to influence the warring youths. On top of that you were working with displaced people, you were helping individuals, you were responding to whatever needed a response given the limitation of financial support that those of us outside Kenya could send you.

Together we were making use of mobile phones, phone credits, the Internet, and established relationships of trust in wonderful, innovative and effective ways that maximiesd the potential of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). We were a community collaborating acting with one heart and mind and doing what we could in our own locations in so many different countries across Africa, Europe, and America (if I have forgotten other locations, please forgive me - and remind me)

What lessons did we learn my Minciu Sodas friends, and how can we draw on them  - to help prevent the horrors that his article suggests could lie ahead?

Even more importantly, how can we share those lessons? How can we use the practical experiences that we had of information sharing, practical on the ground responses, and  true collaboration achieving results in conditions of terrible violence, horror and need? Who are the  people who need to learn the lessons that we learned - and how do we tell them?
 
I feel we can't just wait and let it happen again - but we are not in positions of power or influence - "we are no-one" -  what do we do?

Richard Dowden - Director, RAS (Royal African Society) wrote:

"Appealing to and buying tribal loyalty became the name of the game. Kenya is probably now the most tribally divided nation in Africa. No wonder the 2007 election exploded into such  violence.... 

... the Kenyan election is wide open. Victory will go to the person who builds an alliance of tribal leaders. One thing is certain: Luo and Kikuyu will be on opposite sides. Raila Odinga, the Luo leader, will run and elements among the Kikuyu will do anything to stop him becoming president. For a while I thought that in 2008 Kenyans had reached the edge of the cliff and looked down. They wavered and pulled back. The militants were called off by their paymasters. Kofi Annan was on hand to help. Kenyans had seen a future that looked like hell and chose a fudged alliance of enemies instead.

That alliance is now falling apart. The new constitution has recreated a Kenya of 47 counties, whose elected governments will be funded by the state to spend as they wish.  It is, however, likely that a local politician from the dominant ethnic group in each county will be playing the ethnic card to garner support.

.... If politicians play the ethnic card in the next election, this winner-takes-all war could be fought in most of the new counties between any or all of Kenya’s 40-odd ethnic groups."  Link to full article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle

More about Pyramid of Peace:

An introduction via Phone for Peace 

A video of Pyramid of Peace Acrobats involved in Nairobi - with pleas for peace by two of the acrobats' leaders at the end , Kennedy Owino (a Luo) and James (a Kikuyu) 

The Pyramid of Peace Archive -  full archive of emails, chatroom meetings, forwarded text messages, reports of phone conversations and so on as the post election turmoil erupted and friends were caught up in it and struggled to help resolve the situation 

More about Minciu Sodas



#3386 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:10 pm
Subject: Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
pam_mclean2000
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Ken and Dan (I have copied your emails below - and my original one)

Your responses go to my heart.

When is the election? How much time do we have?

We know the enemy - it is political division on tribal lines. (plus the continual underlying enemies - poverty, unemployment and ignorance).

We know our weapons from last time - they are trust and communication across tribal divisions, plus many extra ingredients of personal courage, resourcefulness, and other attributes.

We know from last time that we need allies and resources.

Forewarned is forearmed. We should not waste whatever time is left to us.

How can we best prepare our weapons? Where do we find our allies and resources?

Pam



On 23 June 2012 15:57, <nafsiafricaacro@...> wrote:
 

Dear Pam,

I read your posting and gets a deep gut feeling and fear of the nearing General election in Kenya.
As the late Honourable Saitoti said " if we let Kenya succumb into the blood shed like it happened in the 2007 post election violence, we will be a shame to the whole world and will be a constant blame by the future generations".
His words and such articles shared by you, should echo a reminder to us that we lost most of our fellow brothers and sisters (killed by their own) and we survived the skirmishes. 
Giving a chance to another one would be opening a death hole to our own selves. 
I may be a victim of the next one, my life would be claimed in the next one!

It is our deep prayer that peace prevail in Kenya.

Peace,

Ken Owino
Nafsi Africa Acrobats
www.nafsiafrica.webs.com

Sent from IPhone


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dan Otedo <dotedo@...>
Date: 18 June 2012 09:32
Subject: Re: [learningfromeachother] Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
To: "learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com" <learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com>

Very very true.
Its always nice to have someone from outside Kenya helping us to reflect what could very possibly happen.
I DREAD  the election year.
 
Dan OTEDO
Kenya ICT Trust Fund. P.O box 8475-00100 Nairobi.
Email: dotedo@... 
 

Den 17/06/2012 kl. 16.49 skrev Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>

I'm sharing this article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle with a heavy heart

I have copied parts of the article below which struck a particular chord, reminding me of all that happened in 2007/2008:

  • the straight-from-the-heart response of the Minciu Sodas community when we discovered that our friends in Kenya were in trouble
  • the amazing courage, fortitude, creativity and determination of the Kenyans, in Minciu Sodas and the wider Pyramid of Peace network, during the post election violence.
Pyramid of Peace activists played an unacknowledged role in reducing the impact of the violence, and in peace building and conflict resolution.

The article states  "In 2008 the main wars were in Western Province (Luoland) where (Kikuyu) police shot down Luo protesters, around Eldoret where Kikuyu immigrants were burned out of their homes and murdered by Kalenjin, and in Nairobi where battles took place in the poor slum areas between different ethnic groups."

Dear Pyramid of Peace Friends in Kenya - I remember how you were so active in those locations. I remember the heart-rending details that you were sending the rest of us in Minciu Sodas about what was happening - and how you refused to be divided by tribal loyalties. I remember too how the relationships that you had between each other reached across tribal boundaries. When there were attempts to push you into tribal divisions you stood firm. Your deep trust relationships enabled you to plan together and then go to your own tribal elders and persuade them to influence the warring youths. On top of that you were working with displaced people, you were helping individuals, you were responding to whatever needed a response given the limitation of financial support that those of us outside Kenya could send you.

Together we were making use of mobile phones, phone credits, the Internet, and established relationships of trust in wonderful, innovative and effective ways that maximiesd the potential of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies). We were a community collaborating acting with one heart and mind and doing what we could in our own locations in so many different countries across Africa, Europe, and America (if I have forgotten other locations, please forgive me - and remind me)

What lessons did we learn my Minciu Sodas friends, and how can we draw on them  - to help prevent the horrors that his article suggests could lie ahead?

Even more importantly, how can we share those lessons? How can we use the practical experiences that we had of information sharing, practical on the ground responses, and  true collaboration achieving results in conditions of terrible violence, horror and need? Who are the  people who need to learn the lessons that we learned - and how do we tell them?
 
I feel we can't just wait and let it happen again - but we are not in positions of power or influence - "we are no-one" -  what do we do?

Richard Dowden - Director, RAS (Royal African Society) wrote:

"Appealing to and buying tribal loyalty became the name of the game. Kenya is probably now the most tribally divided nation in Africa. No wonder the 2007 election exploded into such  violence.... 

... the Kenyan election is wide open. Victory will go to the person who builds an alliance of tribal leaders. One thing is certain: Luo and Kikuyu will be on opposite sides. Raila Odinga, the Luo leader, will run and elements among the Kikuyu will do anything to stop him becoming president. For a while I thought that in 2008 Kenyans had reached the edge of the cliff and looked down. They wavered and pulled back. The militants were called off by their paymasters. Kofi Annan was on hand to help. Kenyans had seen a future that looked like hell and chose a fudged alliance of enemies instead.

That alliance is now falling apart. The new constitution has recreated a Kenya of 47 counties, whose elected governments will be funded by the state to spend as they wish.  It is, however, likely that a local politician from the dominant ethnic group in each county will be playing the ethnic card to garner support.

.... If politicians play the ethnic card in the next election, this winner-takes-all war could be fought in most of the new counties between any or all of Kenya’s 40-odd ethnic groups."  Link to full article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle

More about Pyramid of Peace:

An introduction via Phone for Peace 

A video of Pyramid of Peace Acrobats involved in Nairobi - with pleas for peace by two of the acrobats' leaders at the end , Kennedy Owino (a Luo) and James (a Kikuyu) 

The Pyramid of Peace Archive -  full archive of emails, chatroom meetings, forwarded text messages, reports of phone conversations and so on as the post election turmoil erupted and friends were caught up in it and struggled to help resolve the situation 

More about Minciu Sodas




#3387 From: ms@...
Date: Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:59 am
Subject: Re: Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
minciusodas
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Pamela, Ken, Dan, I appreciate and share your concern about preparing for
the upcoming elections in Kenya.  Andrius Kulikauskas, ms@...

> Ken and Dan (I have copied your emails below - and my original one)
>
> Your responses go to my heart.
>
> When is the election? How much time do we have?
>
> We know the enemy - it is political division on tribal lines. (plus the
> continual underlying enemies - poverty, unemployment and ignorance).
>
> We know our weapons from last time - they are trust and communication
> across tribal divisions, plus many extra ingredients of personal courage,
> resourcefulness, and other attributes.
>
> We know from last time that we need allies and resources.
>
> Forewarned is forearmed. We should not waste whatever time is left to us.
>
> How can we best prepare our weapons? Where do we find our allies and
> resources?
>
> Pam
>
>
>
> On 23 June 2012 15:57, <nafsiafricaacro@...> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Dear Pam,
>>
>> I read your posting and gets a deep gut feeling and fear of the nearing
>> General election in Kenya.
>> As the late Honourable Saitoti said " if we let Kenya succumb into the
>> blood shed like it happened in the 2007 post election violence, we will
>> be
>> a shame to the whole world and will be a constant blame by the future
>> generations".
>> His words and such articles shared by you, should echo a reminder to us
>> that we lost most of our fellow brothers and sisters (killed by their
>> own)
>> and we survived the skirmishes.
>> Giving a chance to another one would be opening a death hole to our own
>> selves.
>> I may be a victim of the next one, my life would be claimed in the next
>> one!
>>
>> It is our deep prayer that peace prevail in Kenya.
>>
>> Peace,
>>
>> Ken Owino
>> Nafsi Africa Acrobats
>> www.nafsiafrica.webs.com
>>
>> Sent from IPhone
>>
>>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dan Otedo <dotedo@...>
> Date: 18 June 2012 09:32
> Subject: Re: [learningfromeachother] Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming
> battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
> To: "learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com" <
> learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com>
>
> Very very true.
> Its always nice to have someone from outside Kenya helping us to reflect
> what could very possibly happen.
> I DREAD  the election year.
>
> Dan OTEDO
> *Kenya ICT Trust Fund**.* P.O box 8475-00100 Nairobi.
> Tel: +254203745911 .Mobile:+254720366094
> Email: dotedo@...
> http:/com/profile/DanAndrewOtedo
> /twbcanada.ning.<http://twbcanada.ning.com/profile/DanAndrewOtedo>
>
>
>>
>> Den 17/06/2012 kl. 16.49 skrev Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
>>
>>
>> I'm sharing this article on Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming
>>
battle<http://www.royalafricansociety.org/component/content/article/1015.html>wi\
th
>> a heavy heart
>>
>> I have copied parts of the article below which struck a particular
>> chord,
>> reminding me of all that happened in 2007/2008:
>>
>>    - the straight-from-the-heart response of the Minciu Sodas community
>>    when we discovered that our friends in Kenya were in trouble
>>    - the amazing courage, fortitude, creativity and determination of the
>>    Kenyans, in Minciu Sodas and the wider Pyramid of Peace network,
>> during the
>>    post election violence.
>>
>> Pyramid of Peace activists played an unacknowledged role in reducing the
>> impact of the violence, and in peace building and conflict resolution.
>>
>> The article states  "In 2008 the main wars were in Western Province
>> (Luoland) where (Kikuyu) police shot down Luo protesters, around Eldoret
>> where Kikuyu immigrants were burned out of their homes and murdered by
>> Kalenjin, and in Nairobi where battles took place in the poor slum areas
>> between different ethnic groups."
>>
>> Dear Pyramid of Peace Friends in Kenya - I remember how you were so
>> active
>> in those locations. I remember the heart-rending details that you were
>> sending the rest of us in Minciu Sodas about what was happening - and
>> how
>> you refused to be divided by tribal loyalties. I remember too how the
>> relationships that you had between each other reached across tribal
>> boundaries. When there were attempts to push you into tribal divisions
>> you
>> stood firm. Your deep trust relationships enabled you to plan together
>> and
>> then go to your own tribal elders and persuade them to influence the
>> warring youths. On top of that you were working with displaced people,
>> you
>> were helping individuals, you were responding to whatever needed a
>> response
>> given the limitation of financial support that those of us outside Kenya
>> could send you.
>>
>> Together we were making use of mobile phones, phone credits, the
>> Internet,
>> and established relationships of trust in wonderful, innovative and
>> effective ways that maximiesd the potential of ICT (Information and
>> Communication Technologies). We were a community collaborating acting
>> with
>> one heart and mind and doing what we could in our own locations in so
>> many
>> different countries across Africa, Europe, and America (if I have
>> forgotten
>> other locations, please forgive me - and remind me)
>>
>> What lessons did we learn my Minciu Sodas friends, and how can we draw
>> on
>> them  - to help prevent the horrors that his article suggests could lie
>> ahead?
>>
>> Even more importantly, how can we share those lessons? How can we use
>> the
>> practical experiences that we had of information sharing, practical on
>> the
>> ground responses, and  true collaboration achieving results in
>> conditions
>> of terrible violence, horror and need? Who are the  people who need to
>> learn the lessons that we learned - and how do we tell them?
>>
>> I feel we can't just wait and let it happen again - but we are not in
>> positions of power or influence - "we are no-one" -  what do we do?
>>
>> *Richard Dowden - Director, RAS (Royal African Society) wrote:*
>>
>> "Appealing to and buying tribal loyalty became the name of the game.
>> Kenya is probably now the most tribally divided nation in Africa. No
>> wonder
>> the 2007 election exploded into such  violence....
>>
>> ... the Kenyan election is wide open. Victory will go to the person who
>> builds an alliance of tribal leaders. One thing is certain: Luo and
>> Kikuyu
>> will be on opposite sides. Raila Odinga, the Luo leader, will run and
>> elements among the Kikuyu will do anything to stop him becoming
>> president.
>> For a while I thought that in 2008 Kenyans had reached the edge of the
>> cliff and looked down. They wavered and pulled back. The militants were
>> called off by their paymasters. Kofi Annan was on hand to help. Kenyans
>> had
>> seen a future that looked like hell and chose a fudged alliance of
>> enemies
>> instead.
>>
>> That alliance is now falling apart. The new constitution has recreated a
>> Kenya of 47 counties, whose elected governments will be funded by the
>> state
>> to spend as they wish.  It is, however, likely that a local politician
>> from
>> the dominant ethnic group in each county will be playing the ethnic card
>> to
>> garner support.
>>
>> .... If politicians play the ethnic card in the next election, this
>> winner-takes-all war could be fought in most of the new counties between
>> any or all of Kenya’s 40-odd ethnic groups."  Link to full article on
>> Kenya:
>> Saitoti's death and the coming battle
>>  <http://www.royalafricansociety.org/component/content/article/1015.html>
>>
>> *More about Pyramid of Peace: *
>>
>> An introduction via Phone for Peace
>> <http://phone4peace.blogspot.co.uk/>
>>
>> A video of Pyramid of Peace
>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vGTiRlR5Ak>Acrobats involved in Nairobi
>> - with pleas for peace by two of the acrobats'
>> leaders at the end , Kennedy Owino (a Luo) and James (a Kikuyu)
>>
>> The Pyramid of Peace Archive <http://www.pyramidofpeace.net/> -  full
>> archive of emails, chatroom meetings, forwarded text messages, reports
>> of
>> phone conversations and so on as the post election turmoil erupted and
>> friends were caught up in it and struggled to help resolve the situation
>>
>> More about Minciu Sodas <http://www.dadamac.net/network/minciu-sodas>
>>
>>
>>
>

#3388 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Wed Jul 4, 2012 10:04 pm
Subject: It's First Thursday time again
pam_mclean2000
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It's First Thursday time again - you are very welcome to join us.

Next meeting - July 4th -
http://etherpad.openstewardship.net/July-2012-First-Thursday
Time  - 14.00  GMT,   15.00 Briish Summer Time ,   15.00 Nigerian time,        17.00 East Africa Time, 
For your local time see The World Clock – Time Zone Converter  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Pamela

#3389 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:06 pm
Subject: Another Pyramid of Peace
pam_mclean2000
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Regarding Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS and the email below I have set up an initiative on dadamac.net called Another Pyramid of Peace

This is not something that I have the competence to lead in any way. I am just providing a focal point where people might come together, in preparation. 

@Andrius - I'm aware I have not included a reference to the Pyramid of Peace Archive. Please would you send me the link.

Pameal
 

On 26 June 2012 08:01, Kenneth Chelimo <kennethchelimo@...> wrote:
 

Ken Owino,
 
I appreciate your  efforts in peace building among the youth in slum areas. The documentary you have attached is  indeed a good example of how Kenyans from different communities should co-exist and live together in harmony. More of these activities by the acrobats should go to rural areas where we witnessed tribal tension during the 2007/2008 post-election violence. Cheers Ken for your great work.
 
Ken Chelimo

From: "ms@..." <ms@...>
To: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com; minciu_sodas_EN@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com
Cc: nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com; holistichelping@yahoogroups.com; livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:59 AM
Subject: [holistichelping] Re: Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
 
Pamela, Ken, Dan, I appreciate and share your concern about preparing for
the upcoming elections in Kenya. Andrius Kulikauskas, mailto:ms%40ms.lt



#3390 From: ms@...
Date: Sat Jul 21, 2012 6:36 pm
Subject: Re: Another Pyramid of Peace
minciusodas
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Pamela McLean,

Thank you for your intiative
http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace
that we prepare and make sure that the March 2013 presidential elections
in Kenya are peaceful, without the violence that shocked us in 2008.

I expect that 2013 will be peaceful.  Many Kenyans care about peace and
many have experience in peaceful intervention from 2008.

Pamela, I appreciate all the more your concern that we prepare now for
peace.  We should not be complacent.  I imagine others are preparing for
violence.

Pamela, I appreciate your leadership and I wish to encourage you.  In
2008, I showed all the leadership I was able.  I took and gave all the
authority I could.

Pamela, you value what we achieved together with the Pyramid of Peace.
I'm glad that you're considering what we might take from that.

In response to your initiative, I apply my authority as Commander-in-Chief
of the Pyramid of Peace, as follows:
* Upon your consideration and acceptance, I appoint you
Commander-of-Operations through July, August, September 2012, or as I
decree otherwise, that you might boldly lead all who wish for a Pyramid of
Peace, as we had in 2008.
* Please choose a title (such as Convener, etc.) as you like best.
* I look to you to engage Kenyans and all who care, what may we do for
peace in Kenya in 2013? to reach out and include peacemakers of all
tribes, to analyze the potential for violence, to consider promising
solutions, to discuss what structures for coordination are most relevant
for 2013, to appreciate which individuals and what organizations we can
turn to for leadership.
* Please keep us informed if you see any need, any role in 2013 for a
command structure to support independent peacemakers, as I led in 2008.
* In general, do we need new groups, organizations or institutions? and
should they be related in any way to the Pyramid of Peace of 2008?
* Please consult especially with Janet Feldman as to how we can help
Kenyans, especially in reaching out across divisions.
* Please consult with Denis Kimambo, Kennedy Owino, Rachel Wambui Kungu
and Lawrence Achami, our Commanders, as to what Pyramid of Peace and other
groups might achieve for peace in Kenya in 2013.  I will consult with them
likewise.
* Please work publicly, as you do.
* I have redone our website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to point to a
wiki http://www.pyramidofpeace.net/wiki/ for linking to relevant pages,
which may be at your website http://www.dadamac.net or as you think best.
Please know we can develop the website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to
include a chat room and other functionality you think we'll need.

In this way, I offer you my authority that you might draw on it as much as
you like, if at all.  In that you do, please know that I judge you
competent, and I expect that you absorb and project that, as you serve, so
that others might likewise.  Embolden us!

I am very busy this July, August and September, and so I personally
appreciate your initiative.  I will have some free time in October,
November and December. I may be completely free in the first half of 2013.
  Thank you for valuing my participation!

Pamela, I think it's especially valuable at this time that you are based
in the UK, outside of Kenya.  We're showing that ethnic violence is not a
local concern, but a global concern.  You know and love people of many
tribes throughout Africa, and are not partial.  That's a great help!

Pamela, thank you!

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Commander-in-Chief
Pyramid of Peace
http://www.pyramidofpeace.net


----------------------------------------

> Regarding Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle -
> Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director,
>
RAS<http://dadamac.posterous.com/responses-to-kenya-saitotis-death-and-the-com>a\
nd
> the email below I have set up an initiative on
> dadamac.net called Another Pyramid of Peace
> <http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace>
>
> This is not something that I have the competence to lead in any way. I am
> just providing a focal point where people might come together, in
> preparation.
>
> @Andrius - I'm aware I have not included a reference to the Pyramid of
> Peace Archive. Please would you send me the link.
>
> Pameal
>
>
> On 26 June 2012 08:01, Kenneth Chelimo <kennethchelimo@...> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Ken Owino,
>>
>> I appreciate your  efforts in peace building among the youth in slum
>> areas. The documentary you have attached is  indeed a good example of
>> how
>> Kenyans from different communities should co-exist and live together in
>> harmony. More of these activities by the acrobats should go to rural
>> areas
>> where we witnessed tribal tension during the 2007/2008 post-election
>> violence. Cheers Ken for your great work.
>>
>> Ken Chelimo
>>
>>    *From:* "ms@..." <ms@...>
>> *To:* learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com;
>> minciu_sodas_EN@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com
>> *Cc:* nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com; holistichelping@yahoogroups.com;
>> livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:59 AM
>> *Subject:* [holistichelping] Re: Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and
>> the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
>>
>> Pamela, Ken, Dan, I appreciate and share your concern about preparing
>> for
>> the upcoming elections in Kenya. Andrius Kulikauskas,
>> mailto:ms%40ms.lt<ms%40ms.lt>
>>
>>
>>
>

#3391 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Sun Jul 22, 2012 2:14 pm
Subject: Re: [nafsiafrikasaana] Re: Another Pyramid of Peace
pam_mclean2000
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Andrius, Filip and everyone.

@ Andrius - I appreciate your email, but I do not see myself in a leadership role. I have simply raised the question of if we should be looking ahead - and it seems that it would be a good idea. 

@ Filip - thank you for you facebook idea

@ everyone - I am a learner and also a teacher - and one of the things I am learning about how is the Internet can help us to learn, and how it affects the roles of teachers and learners. (In my own DIY e-learning I find that I learn best in collaboration with others - and that we often learn from each other - all of us acting partly as teachers and partly as learners as we share our different perspectives).

Learning from last time

In the case of the upcoming elections I am wondering what we can learn from last time. We have enormous shared experience of the post election turmoil - from many different perspectives. We have an amazing rich archive of what happened. We can use that archive to remind ourselves. Newcomers can also dip into it in as much or as little depth as they choose to find out what happened.

We need to build our community, and we need to find the best ways to share information.

The chat room was enormously useful last time, and the various relevant yahoo groups of Minciu Sodas. People were using computers from home and also at cyber cafes. Phones of course were key to the success of Pyramid of Peace. MamaMikes and paypal were important for sending money.  Some things have changed since 2007/8. We need to find out what is most effective for people and where we will want to be "meeting"

It will also be helpful if we can develop ways of working together that are based on shared expectations and understanding. However we are working at a distance and people come with differing expectations and from different cultural backgrounds. We should not be surprised if different people see things in different ways. We have to build trust and be ready to accept that at times there will be mismatched assumptions and there will be some confusion because of different assumptions. The important thing is to take such happenings as learning experiences, and to build on our alignment and shared aims rather than dwell on our differences.

"Initiatives" space at Dadamac.net

I have made the space at dadamac for Another Pyramid of Peace  so that we have a starting place for what we are doing and learning from last time.  Let us all rub minds and see what lessons we can learn and what those lessons will enable us to do in terms of preparations for peacekeeping and  conflict  resolution should it become necessary.

Chatroom


@Andrius, you have said the chatroom could be set up again. I understood that it was closed because it was too costly. Please clarify what resources will be needed to open it again.

Wiki

Thank you also Andrius for setting up a wiki. Perhaps we should find out who is happy to use a wiki, and who would like to learn, and who is happy to teach others. I think wikis can be a great place to park information, and certainly the previous one proved very useful - but I confess there are also some aspects of of wikis that I don't like (including the amount of work they take).  However that is a discussion for another time.

Facebook

@Filip are you active on Facebook? I think it is a good idea, but, personally I do not want to be responsible for setting it up and feeding it with information. Who is active on FaceBook? How shall we go forward with this?

Yahoo groups

At present we are doing a lot of cross posting. I wonder if it might be a good idea to set up a yahoo group which is dedicated to PyramidOfPeace - and gradually we could move all of the discussion over there. What do people think of that idea?

Pamela



On 22 July 2012 12:21, Ph Ph <phenx-@...> wrote:
 

Perharps it's not very interesting but why not to get a facebook page/profil for this pyramid http://www.pyramidofpeace.net  ?
We could tell "I like" and ask a friend/link to get more contacts... ;-)
Filip.


To: holistichelping@yahoogroups.com; learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com; minciu_sodas_en@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com; nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com; livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com; post@...
From: ms@...
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:36:52 -0400
Subject: [nafsiafrikasaana] Re: Another Pyramid of Peace


 
Pamela McLean,

Thank you for your intiative
http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace
that we prepare and make sure that the March 2013 presidential elections
in Kenya are peaceful, without the violence that shocked us in 2008.

I expect that 2013 will be peaceful. Many Kenyans care about peace and
many have experience in peaceful intervention from 2008.

Pamela, I appreciate all the more your concern that we prepare now for
peace. We should not be complacent. I imagine others are preparing for
violence.

Pamela, I appreciate your leadership and I wish to encourage you. In
2008, I showed all the leadership I was able. I took and gave all the
authority I could.

Pamela, you value what we achieved together with the Pyramid of Peace.
I'm glad that you're considering what we might take from that.

In response to your initiative, I apply my authority as Commander-in-Chief
of the Pyramid of Peace, as follows:
* Upon your consideration and acceptance, I appoint you
Commander-of-Operations through July, August, September 2012, or as I
decree otherwise, that you might boldly lead all who wish for a Pyramid of
Peace, as we had in 2008.
* Please choose a title (such as Convener, etc.) as you like best.
* I look to you to engage Kenyans and all who care, what may we do for
peace in Kenya in 2013? to reach out and include peacemakers of all
tribes, to analyze the potential for violence, to consider promising
solutions, to discuss what structures for coordination are most relevant
for 2013, to appreciate which individuals and what organizations we can
turn to for leadership.
* Please keep us informed if you see any need, any role in 2013 for a
command structure to support independent peacemakers, as I led in 2008.
* In general, do we need new groups, organizations or institutions? and
should they be related in any way to the Pyramid of Peace of 2008?
* Please consult especially with Janet Feldman as to how we can help
Kenyans, especially in reaching out across divisions.
* Please consult with Denis Kimambo, Kennedy Owino, Rachel Wambui Kungu
and Lawrence Achami, our Commanders, as to what Pyramid of Peace and other
groups might achieve for peace in Kenya in 2013. I will consult with them
likewise.
* Please work publicly, as you do.
* I have redone our website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to point to a
wiki http://www.pyramidofpeace.net/wiki/ for linking to relevant pages,
which may be at your website http://www.dadamac.net or as you think best.
Please know we can develop the website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to
include a chat room and other functionality you think we'll need.

In this way, I offer you my authority that you might draw on it as much as
you like, if at all. In that you do, please know that I judge you
competent, and I expect that you absorb and project that, as you serve, so
that others might likewise. Embolden us!

I am very busy this July, August and September, and so I personally
appreciate your initiative. I will have some free time in October,
November and December. I may be completely free in the first half of 2013.
Thank you for valuing my participation!

Pamela, I think it's especially valuable at this time that you are based
in the UK, outside of Kenya. We're showing that ethnic violence is not a
local concern, but a global concern. You know and love people of many
tribes throughout Africa, and are not partial. That's a great help!

Pamela, thank you!

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Commander-in-Chief
Pyramid of Peace
http://www.pyramidofpeace.net

----------------------------------------

> Regarding Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle -
> Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director,
> RAS<http://dadamac.posterous.com/responses-to-kenya-saitotis-death-and-the-com>and
> the email below I have set up an initiative on
> dadamac.net called Another Pyramid of Peace
> <http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace>
>
> This is not something that I have the competence to lead in any way. I am
> just providing a focal point where people might come together, in
> preparation.
>
> @Andrius - I'm aware I have not included a reference to the Pyramid of
> Peace Archive. Please would you send me the link.
>
> Pameal
>
>
> On 26 June 2012 08:01, Kenneth Chelimo <kennethchelimo@...> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Ken Owino,
>>
>> I appreciate your efforts in peace building among the youth in slum
>> areas. The documentary you have attached is indeed a good example of
>> how
>> Kenyans from different communities should co-exist and live together in
>> harmony. More of these activities by the acrobats should go to rural
>> areas
>> where we witnessed tribal tension during the 2007/2008 post-election
>> violence. Cheers Ken for your great work.
>>
>> Ken Chelimo
>>
>> *From:* "ms@..." <ms@...>
>> *To:* learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com;
>> minciu_sodas_EN@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com
>> *Cc:* nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com; holistichelping@yahoogroups.com;
>> livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com
>> *Sent:* Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:59 AM
>> *Subject:* [holistichelping] Re: Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and
>> the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director, RAS
>>
>> Pamela, Ken, Dan, I appreciate and share your concern about preparing
>> for
>> the upcoming elections in Kenya. Andrius Kulikauskas,
>> mailto:ms%40ms.lt<ms%40ms.lt>
>>
>>
>>
>




#3392 From: ms@...
Date: Sun Jul 22, 2012 8:24 pm
Subject: Re: Another Pyramid of Peace
minciusodas
Send Email Send Email
 
Pamela McLean,

Thank you for your reply.  You don't see yourself in a leadership role.
Nevertheless, I do value your concern and strategic thinking.

Yes, at http://www.pyramidofpeace.net we do have an archive of our amazing
work together for peace in Kenya, which was public.  Some of the links
aren't working, though.  In December I expect to return to Lithuania and I
could fix things up and also collect my own reflections from then and
afterwards.  Perhaps we could publish an e-book to tell our stories and
share our lessons.

Pamela, I could set up a chat room at some point.  Best for me would be to
wait until December when I am back in Lithuania. I'm currently working
intensely on my art work "God's Face and God's Mind" which will hang in
the historic Pullman factory.  I've also been hired as a consultant to
help write research papers in tobacco control.  I have to finish the
latter work before I return to Lithuania.  Pamela, for Dadamac I could
work for $10 per hour and set up a chat room for you.  It may take up to
10 hours to set up and customize, but possibly 5 or so.  Alternatively, at
some point I might do it for free at pyramidofpeace.net if there is a
clear need.

I share my correspondence (through Facebook) with Kennedy Owino.  He's a
member of Nafsi Africa Acrobats and currently lives in Denmark.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas, ms@..., (773) 306-3807, http://www.selflearners.net

----------------------

Andrius Kulikauskas:

Hi Kennedy, how can I call you by phone or Skype? what is your number?
Pamela McLean wants to start "Another Pyramid of Peace" and I'd like to
encourage her leadership so I wanted to check with you and Dennis Kimambo
and Lawrence Achami regarding that. My thought is to keep Pyramid of Peace
as a command structure, continue as Commander-in-Chief and appoint her as
Commander-of-Operations for the next few months. She would start
preparations and explore what's most relevant for 2013, which might be
developing entirely new groups, structures, as she and others prefer, but
I would keep Pyramid of Peace ready to act as in 2008. What do you think?

-----------------------
Kennedy Nielsen Owino:

Dear Andrius,

  I hope you are doing good
  It would be great if we can catch up and talk over the phone, but Skype
would be o.k and cheaper.
  Anyway, my phone number is +4553140074 and skype address is
nafsiafrikaacrobats.
  I am busy these days with work but you can catch me any time after 5 pm
Danish time.
  When and what time do you prefer?

  It is an impressive idea to organise ourselves in preparation of
combating any violent eventuality that could follow the upcoming Kenya
General elections.
  I support your idea of approaching this through the Pyramid of Peace
initiative.
  However, i am not aware if the structure we used in 2008 would be
reliable or appropriate this time.
  I am saying this because it is long since i was back in Kenya.
  I do not have first hand comprehension of the realities at the grassroots.
  Have there been a shift in cultures and ways of thinking? Is there
hostility breeding underneath waiting to explode? Are certain tribes/
ethnic groups, proscribed and militia groups regrouping and preparing for
revenge and/ or another wave of attacks?
  Is there harmony amongst neighbouring tribes which would be seen even
after the elections? What are the contesting politicians messages to
their tribes?
  These are questions i may need to ask myself, or explore the answers
before giving you my views.
  It would be great to contact the likes of Denis Kimambo, Rachel Wangui,
Achami etc to get their opinions.
  I believe they have an upper hand in knowing exactly how the situation
stands at the ground.

  There are many initiatives already in force crusading and advocating for
Peace and sensitizing Kenyans on Peaceful attitudes during the elections
period.
  We just have to be sensitive on our approaches through the Pyramid of Peace.
  Since people are still in the healing process, some are still hurting, we
still have the internally displaced people in the camps and this period
reminds many of the bloodshed, toture, pain and humiliation they
underwent.
  One wrong wording or action that is not sensitive to the needs and
emotions of the people may diffuse or be mis- interpreted as hate speech,
insightment or a provocation to Violence.

  Peace,

  Ken Owino
  Nafsi Africa Acrobats
www.nafsiafrica.webs.com

  P.S: You are welcome to share my ideas on MSLab.

----------------------------

> Andrius, Filip and everyone.
>
> @ Andrius - I appreciate your email, but I do not see myself in a
> leadership role. I have simply raised the question of if we should be
> looking ahead - and it seems that it would be a good idea.
>
> @ Filip - thank you for you facebook idea
>
> @ everyone - I am a learner and also a teacher - and one of the things I
> am
> learning about how is the Internet can help us to learn, and how it
> affects
> the roles of teachers and learners. (In my own DIY e-learning I find that
> I
> learn best in collaboration with others - and that we often learn from
> each
> other - all of us acting partly as teachers and partly as learners as we
> share our different perspectives).
>
> *Learning from last time*
>
> In the case of the upcoming elections I am wondering what we can learn
> from
> last time. We have enormous shared experience of the post election turmoil
> - from many different perspectives. We have an amazing rich archive of
> what
> happened. We can use that archive to remind ourselves. Newcomers can also
> dip into it in as much or as little depth as they choose to find out what
> happened.
>
> We need to build our community, and we need to find the best ways to share
> information.
>
> The chat room was enormously useful last time, and the various relevant
> yahoo groups of Minciu Sodas. People were using computers from home and
> also at cyber cafes. Phones of course were key to the success of Pyramid
> of
> Peace. MamaMikes and paypal were important for sending money.  Some things
> have changed since 2007/8. We need to find out what is most effective for
> people and where we will want to be "meeting"
>
> It will also be helpful if we can develop ways of working together that
> are
> based on shared expectations and understanding. However we are working at
> a
> distance and people come with differing expectations and from different
> cultural backgrounds. We should not be surprised if different people see
> things in different ways. We have to build trust and be ready to accept
> that at times there will be mismatched assumptions and there will be some
> confusion because of different assumptions. The important thing is to take
> such happenings as learning experiences, and to build on our alignment and
> shared aims rather than dwell on our differences.
>
> *"Initiatives" space at Dadamac.net*
>
> I have made the space at dadamac for Another Pyramid of
> Peace<http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace>
> so that we have a starting place for what we are doing and learning from
> last time.  Let us all rub minds and see what lessons we can learn and
> what
> those lessons will enable us to do in terms of preparations for
> peacekeeping and  conflict  resolution should it become necessary.
> *
> Chatroom*
>
> @Andrius, you have said the chatroom could be set up again. I understood
> that it was closed because it was too costly. Please clarify what
> resources
> will be needed to open it again.
>
> *Wiki*
>
> Thank you also Andrius for setting up a wiki. Perhaps we should find out
> who is happy to use a wiki, and who would like to learn, and who is happy
> to teach others. I think wikis can be a great place to park information,
> and certainly the previous one proved very useful - but I confess there
> are
> also some aspects of of wikis that I don't like (including the amount of
> work they take).  However that is a discussion for another time.
>
> *Facebook*
>
> @Filip are you active on Facebook? I think it is a good idea, but,
> personally I do not want to be responsible for setting it up and feeding
> it
> with information. Who is active on FaceBook? How shall we go forward with
> this?
>
> *Yahoo groups
>
> *At present we are doing a lot of cross posting. I wonder if it might be a
> good idea to set up a yahoo group which is dedicated to PyramidOfPeace -
> and gradually we could move all of the discussion over there. What do
> people think of that idea?
>
> Pamela
>
>
>
> On 22 July 2012 12:21, Ph Ph <phenx-@...> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>>  Perharps it's not very interesting but why not to get a facebook
>> page/profil for this pyramid http://www.pyramidofpeace.net  ?
>> We could tell "I like" and ask a friend/link to get more contacts... ;-)
>> Filip.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> To: holistichelping@yahoogroups.com;
>> learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com;
>> minciu_sodas_en@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com;
>> nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com; livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com;
>> post@...
>> From: ms@...
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:36:52 -0400
>> Subject: [nafsiafrikasaana] Re: Another Pyramid of Peace
>>
>>
>>
>>  Pamela McLean,
>>
>> Thank you for your intiative
>> http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace
>> that we prepare and make sure that the March 2013 presidential elections
>> in Kenya are peaceful, without the violence that shocked us in 2008.
>>
>> I expect that 2013 will be peaceful. Many Kenyans care about peace and
>> many have experience in peaceful intervention from 2008.
>>
>> Pamela, I appreciate all the more your concern that we prepare now for
>> peace. We should not be complacent. I imagine others are preparing for
>> violence.
>>
>> Pamela, I appreciate your leadership and I wish to encourage you. In
>> 2008, I showed all the leadership I was able. I took and gave all the
>> authority I could.
>>
>> Pamela, you value what we achieved together with the Pyramid of Peace.
>> I'm glad that you're considering what we might take from that.
>>
>> In response to your initiative, I apply my authority as
>> Commander-in-Chief
>> of the Pyramid of Peace, as follows:
>> * Upon your consideration and acceptance, I appoint you
>> Commander-of-Operations through July, August, September 2012, or as I
>> decree otherwise, that you might boldly lead all who wish for a Pyramid
>> of
>> Peace, as we had in 2008.
>> * Please choose a title (such as Convener, etc.) as you like best.
>> * I look to you to engage Kenyans and all who care, what may we do for
>> peace in Kenya in 2013? to reach out and include peacemakers of all
>> tribes, to analyze the potential for violence, to consider promising
>> solutions, to discuss what structures for coordination are most relevant
>> for 2013, to appreciate which individuals and what organizations we can
>> turn to for leadership.
>> * Please keep us informed if you see any need, any role in 2013 for a
>> command structure to support independent peacemakers, as I led in 2008.
>> * In general, do we need new groups, organizations or institutions? and
>> should they be related in any way to the Pyramid of Peace of 2008?
>> * Please consult especially with Janet Feldman as to how we can help
>> Kenyans, especially in reaching out across divisions.
>> * Please consult with Denis Kimambo, Kennedy Owino, Rachel Wambui Kungu
>> and Lawrence Achami, our Commanders, as to what Pyramid of Peace and
>> other
>> groups might achieve for peace in Kenya in 2013. I will consult with
>> them
>> likewise.
>> * Please work publicly, as you do.
>> * I have redone our website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to point to a
>> wiki http://www.pyramidofpeace.net/wiki/ for linking to relevant pages,
>> which may be at your website http://www.dadamac.net or as you think
>> best.
>> Please know we can develop the website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to
>> include a chat room and other functionality you think we'll need.
>>
>> In this way, I offer you my authority that you might draw on it as much
>> as
>> you like, if at all. In that you do, please know that I judge you
>> competent, and I expect that you absorb and project that, as you serve,
>> so
>> that others might likewise. Embolden us!
>>
>> I am very busy this July, August and September, and so I personally
>> appreciate your initiative. I will have some free time in October,
>> November and December. I may be completely free in the first half of
>> 2013.
>> Thank you for valuing my participation!
>>
>> Pamela, I think it's especially valuable at this time that you are based
>> in the UK, outside of Kenya. We're showing that ethnic violence is not a
>> local concern, but a global concern. You know and love people of many
>> tribes throughout Africa, and are not partial. That's a great help!
>>
>> Pamela, thank you!
>>
>> Andrius
>>
>> Andrius Kulikauskas
>> Commander-in-Chief
>> Pyramid of Peace
>> http://www.pyramidofpeace.net
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> > Regarding Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle -
>> > Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director,
>> > RAS<
>> http://dadamac.posterous.com/responses-to-kenya-saitotis-death-and-the-com
>> >and
>> > the email below I have set up an initiative on
>> > dadamac.net called Another Pyramid of Peace
>> > <http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace>
>> >
>> > This is not something that I have the competence to lead in any way. I
>> am
>> > just providing a focal point where people might come together, in
>> > preparation.
>> >
>> > @Andrius - I'm aware I have not included a reference to the Pyramid of
>> > Peace Archive. Please would you send me the link.
>> >
>> > Pameal
>> >
>> >
>> > On 26 June 2012 08:01, Kenneth Chelimo <kennethchelimo@...>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> **
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ken Owino,
>> >>
>> >> I appreciate your efforts in peace building among the youth in slum
>> >> areas. The documentary you have attached is indeed a good example of
>> >> how
>> >> Kenyans from different communities should co-exist and live together
>> in
>> >> harmony. More of these activities by the acrobats should go to rural
>> >> areas
>> >> where we witnessed tribal tension during the 2007/2008 post-election
>> >> violence. Cheers Ken for your great work.
>> >>
>> >> Ken Chelimo
>> >>
>> >> *From:* "ms@..." <ms@...>
>> >> *To:* learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com;
>> >> minciu_sodas_EN@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com
>> >> *Cc:* nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com;
>> holistichelping@yahoogroups.com
>> ;
>> >> livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com
>> >> *Sent:* Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:59 AM
>> >> *Subject:* [holistichelping] Re: Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death
>> and
>> >> the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director,
>> RAS
>> >>
>> >> Pamela, Ken, Dan, I appreciate and share your concern about preparing
>> >> for
>> >> the upcoming elections in Kenya. Andrius Kulikauskas,
>> >> mailto:ms%40ms.lt<ms%40ms.lt>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>

#3393 From: kayiwa fred <fdkayiwa@...>
Date: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:03 pm
Subject: Re: In Europe with A team
fdkayiwa
Send Email Send Email
 
Hi there Friends
I just want to inform you that i managed to travel with my team from kampala to Europe to participate in world Youth Football Tournaments
Right now we are in Sweden just ended Gothia Cup http://www.gothiacup.se/ and my Team on 15 yrs lost on Finals againts PSG of France, this group had 210Teams but we managed to reach the second place thats a big achievements.
we are traveling to Norway Cup http://www.norwaycup.no/ until August 4th
just in case you are close Oslo you can emails me and we meet
Fred
Uganda


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Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2012 10:24 PM
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Re: Another Pyramid of Peace

 
Pamela McLean,

Thank you for your reply. You don't see yourself in a leadership role.
Nevertheless, I do value your concern and strategic thinking.

Yes, at http://www.pyramidofpeace.net we do have an archive of our amazing
work together for peace in Kenya, which was public. Some of the links
aren't working, though. In December I expect to return to Lithuania and I
could fix things up and also collect my own reflections from then and
afterwards. Perhaps we could publish an e-book to tell our stories and
share our lessons.

Pamela, I could set up a chat room at some point. Best for me would be to
wait until December when I am back in Lithuania. I'm currently working
intensely on my art work "God's Face and God's Mind" which will hang in
the historic Pullman factory. I've also been hired as a consultant to
help write research papers in tobacco control. I have to finish the
latter work before I return to Lithuania. Pamela, for Dadamac I could
work for $10 per hour and set up a chat room for you. It may take up to
10 hours to set up and customize, but possibly 5 or so. Alternatively, at
some point I might do it for free at pyramidofpeace.net if there is a
clear need.

I share my correspondence (through Facebook) with Kennedy Owino. He's a
member of Nafsi Africa Acrobats and currently lives in Denmark.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas, ms@..., (773) 306-3807, http://www.selflearners.net

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Andrius Kulikauskas:

Hi Kennedy, how can I call you by phone or Skype? what is your number?
Pamela McLean wants to start "Another Pyramid of Peace" and I'd like to
encourage her leadership so I wanted to check with you and Dennis Kimambo
and Lawrence Achami regarding that. My thought is to keep Pyramid of Peace
as a command structure, continue as Commander-in-Chief and appoint her as
Commander-of-Operations for the next few months. She would start
preparations and explore what's most relevant for 2013, which might be
developing entirely new groups, structures, as she and others prefer, but
I would keep Pyramid of Peace ready to act as in 2008. What do you think?

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Kennedy Nielsen Owino:

Dear Andrius,

I hope you are doing good
It would be great if we can catch up and talk over the phone, but Skype
would be o.k and cheaper.
Anyway, my phone number is +4553140074 and skype address is
nafsiafrikaacrobats.
I am busy these days with work but you can catch me any time after 5 pm
Danish time.
When and what time do you prefer?

It is an impressive idea to organise ourselves in preparation of
combating any violent eventuality that could follow the upcoming Kenya
General elections.
I support your idea of approaching this through the Pyramid of Peace
initiative.
However, i am not aware if the structure we used in 2008 would be
reliable or appropriate this time.
I am saying this because it is long since i was back in Kenya.
I do not have first hand comprehension of the realities at the grassroots.
Have there been a shift in cultures and ways of thinking? Is there
hostility breeding underneath waiting to explode? Are certain tribes/
ethnic groups, proscribed and militia groups regrouping and preparing for
revenge and/ or another wave of attacks?
Is there harmony amongst neighbouring tribes which would be seen even
after the elections? What are the contesting politicians messages to
their tribes?
These are questions i may need to ask myself, or explore the answers
before giving you my views.
It would be great to contact the likes of Denis Kimambo, Rachel Wangui,
Achami etc to get their opinions.
I believe they have an upper hand in knowing exactly how the situation
stands at the ground.

There are many initiatives already in force crusading and advocating for
Peace and sensitizing Kenyans on Peaceful attitudes during the elections
period.
We just have to be sensitive on our approaches through the Pyramid of Peace.
Since people are still in the healing process, some are still hurting, we
still have the internally displaced people in the camps and this period
reminds many of the bloodshed, toture, pain and humiliation they
underwent.
One wrong wording or action that is not sensitive to the needs and
emotions of the people may diffuse or be mis- interpreted as hate speech,
insightment or a provocation to Violence.

Peace,

Ken Owino
Nafsi Africa Acrobats
www.nafsiafrica.webs.com

P.S: You are welcome to share my ideas on MSLab.

----------------------------

> Andrius, Filip and everyone.
>
> @ Andrius - I appreciate your email, but I do not see myself in a
> leadership role. I have simply raised the question of if we should be
> looking ahead - and it seems that it would be a good idea.
>
> @ Filip - thank you for you facebook idea
>
> @ everyone - I am a learner and also a teacher - and one of the things I
> am
> learning about how is the Internet can help us to learn, and how it
> affects
> the roles of teachers and learners. (In my own DIY e-learning I find that
> I
> learn best in collaboration with others - and that we often learn from
> each
> other - all of us acting partly as teachers and partly as learners as we
> share our different perspectives).
>
> *Learning from last time*
>
> In the case of the upcoming elections I am wondering what we can learn
> from
> last time. We have enormous shared experience of the post election turmoil
> - from many different perspectives. We have an amazing rich archive of
> what
> happened. We can use that archive to remind ourselves. Newcomers can also
> dip into it in as much or as little depth as they choose to find out what
> happened.
>
> We need to build our community, and we need to find the best ways to share
> information.
>
> The chat room was enormously useful last time, and the various relevant
> yahoo groups of Minciu Sodas. People were using computers from home and
> also at cyber cafes. Phones of course were key to the success of Pyramid
> of
> Peace. MamaMikes and paypal were important for sending money. Some things
> have changed since 2007/8. We need to find out what is most effective for
> people and where we will want to be "meeting"
>
> It will also be helpful if we can develop ways of working together that
> are
> based on shared expectations and understanding. However we are working at
> a
> distance and people come with differing expectations and from different
> cultural backgrounds. We should not be surprised if different people see
> things in different ways. We have to build trust and be ready to accept
> that at times there will be mismatched assumptions and there will be some
> confusion because of different assumptions. The important thing is to take
> such happenings as learning experiences, and to build on our alignment and
> shared aims rather than dwell on our differences.
>
> *"Initiatives" space at Dadamac.net*
>
> I have made the space at dadamac for Another Pyramid of
> Peace<http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace>
> so that we have a starting place for what we are doing and learning from
> last time. Let us all rub minds and see what lessons we can learn and
> what
> those lessons will enable us to do in terms of preparations for
> peacekeeping and conflict resolution should it become necessary.
> *
> Chatroom*
>
> @Andrius, you have said the chatroom could be set up again. I understood
> that it was closed because it was too costly. Please clarify what
> resources
> will be needed to open it again.
>
> *Wiki*
>
> Thank you also Andrius for setting up a wiki. Perhaps we should find out
> who is happy to use a wiki, and who would like to learn, and who is happy
> to teach others. I think wikis can be a great place to park information,
> and certainly the previous one proved very useful - but I confess there
> are
> also some aspects of of wikis that I don't like (including the amount of
> work they take). However that is a discussion for another time.
>
> *Facebook*
>
> @Filip are you active on Facebook? I think it is a good idea, but,
> personally I do not want to be responsible for setting it up and feeding
> it
> with information. Who is active on FaceBook? How shall we go forward with
> this?
>
> *Yahoo groups
>
> *At present we are doing a lot of cross posting. I wonder if it might be a
> good idea to set up a yahoo group which is dedicated to PyramidOfPeace -
> and gradually we could move all of the discussion over there. What do
> people think of that idea?
>
> Pamela
>
>
>
> On 22 July 2012 12:21, Ph Ph <phenx-@...> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> Perharps it's not very interesting but why not to get a facebook
>> page/profil for this pyramid http://www.pyramidofpeace.net ?
>> We could tell "I like" and ask a friend/link to get more contacts... ;-)
>> Filip.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> To: holistichelping@yahoogroups.com;
>> learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com;
>> minciu_sodas_en@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com;
>> nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com; livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com;
>> post@...
>> From: ms@...
>> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:36:52 -0400
>> Subject: [nafsiafrikasaana] Re: Another Pyramid of Peace
>>
>>
>>
>> Pamela McLean,
>>
>> Thank you for your intiative
>> http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace
>> that we prepare and make sure that the March 2013 presidential elections
>> in Kenya are peaceful, without the violence that shocked us in 2008.
>>
>> I expect that 2013 will be peaceful. Many Kenyans care about peace and
>> many have experience in peaceful intervention from 2008.
>>
>> Pamela, I appreciate all the more your concern that we prepare now for
>> peace. We should not be complacent. I imagine others are preparing for
>> violence.
>>
>> Pamela, I appreciate your leadership and I wish to encourage you. In
>> 2008, I showed all the leadership I was able. I took and gave all the
>> authority I could.
>>
>> Pamela, you value what we achieved together with the Pyramid of Peace.
>> I'm glad that you're considering what we might take from that.
>>
>> In response to your initiative, I apply my authority as
>> Commander-in-Chief
>> of the Pyramid of Peace, as follows:
>> * Upon your consideration and acceptance, I appoint you
>> Commander-of-Operations through July, August, September 2012, or as I
>> decree otherwise, that you might boldly lead all who wish for a Pyramid
>> of
>> Peace, as we had in 2008.
>> * Please choose a title (such as Convener, etc.) as you like best.
>> * I look to you to engage Kenyans and all who care, what may we do for
>> peace in Kenya in 2013? to reach out and include peacemakers of all
>> tribes, to analyze the potential for violence, to consider promising
>> solutions, to discuss what structures for coordination are most relevant
>> for 2013, to appreciate which individuals and what organizations we can
>> turn to for leadership.
>> * Please keep us informed if you see any need, any role in 2013 for a
>> command structure to support independent peacemakers, as I led in 2008.
>> * In general, do we need new groups, organizations or institutions? and
>> should they be related in any way to the Pyramid of Peace of 2008?
>> * Please consult especially with Janet Feldman as to how we can help
>> Kenyans, especially in reaching out across divisions.
>> * Please consult with Denis Kimambo, Kennedy Owino, Rachel Wambui Kungu
>> and Lawrence Achami, our Commanders, as to what Pyramid of Peace and
>> other
>> groups might achieve for peace in Kenya in 2013. I will consult with
>> them
>> likewise.
>> * Please work publicly, as you do.
>> * I have redone our website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to point to a
>> wiki http://www.pyramidofpeace.net/wiki/ for linking to relevant pages,
>> which may be at your website http://www.dadamac.net or as you think
>> best.
>> Please know we can develop the website http://www.pyramidofpeace.net to
>> include a chat room and other functionality you think we'll need.
>>
>> In this way, I offer you my authority that you might draw on it as much
>> as
>> you like, if at all. In that you do, please know that I judge you
>> competent, and I expect that you absorb and project that, as you serve,
>> so
>> that others might likewise. Embolden us!
>>
>> I am very busy this July, August and September, and so I personally
>> appreciate your initiative. I will have some free time in October,
>> November and December. I may be completely free in the first half of
>> 2013.
>> Thank you for valuing my participation!
>>
>> Pamela, I think it's especially valuable at this time that you are based
>> in the UK, outside of Kenya. We're showing that ethnic violence is not a
>> local concern, but a global concern. You know and love people of many
>> tribes throughout Africa, and are not partial. That's a great help!
>>
>> Pamela, thank you!
>>
>> Andrius
>>
>> Andrius Kulikauskas
>> Commander-in-Chief
>> Pyramid of Peace
>> http://www.pyramidofpeace.net
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>> > Regarding Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death and the coming battle -
>> > Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director,
>> > RAS<
>> http://dadamac.posterous.com/responses-to-kenya-saitotis-death-and-the-com
>> >and
>> > the email below I have set up an initiative on
>> > dadamac.net called Another Pyramid of Peace
>> > <http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/another-pyramid-peace>
>> >
>> > This is not something that I have the competence to lead in any way. I
>> am
>> > just providing a focal point where people might come together, in
>> > preparation.
>> >
>> > @Andrius - I'm aware I have not included a reference to the Pyramid of
>> > Peace Archive. Please would you send me the link.
>> >
>> > Pameal
>> >
>> >
>> > On 26 June 2012 08:01, Kenneth Chelimo <kennethchelimo@...>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> **
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Ken Owino,
>> >>
>> >> I appreciate your efforts in peace building among the youth in slum
>> >> areas. The documentary you have attached is indeed a good example of
>> >> how
>> >> Kenyans from different communities should co-exist and live together
>> in
>> >> harmony. More of these activities by the acrobats should go to rural
>> >> areas
>> >> where we witnessed tribal tension during the 2007/2008 post-election
>> >> violence. Cheers Ken for your great work.
>> >>
>> >> Ken Chelimo
>> >>
>> >> *From:* "ms@..." <ms@...>
>> >> *To:* learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com;
>> >> minciu_sodas_EN@yahoogroups.com; fightingpeacefully@yahoogroups.com
>> >> *Cc:* nafsiafrikasaana@yahoogroups.com;
>> holistichelping@yahoogroups.com
>> ;
>> >> livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com
>> >> *Sent:* Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:59 AM
>> >> *Subject:* [holistichelping] Re: Responses to Kenya: Saitoti's death
>> and
>> >> the coming battle - Chilling analysis by Richard Dowden - Director,
>> RAS
>> >>
>> >> Pamela, Ken, Dan, I appreciate and share your concern about preparing
>> >> for
>> >> the upcoming elections in Kenya. Andrius Kulikauskas,
>> >> mailto:ms%40ms.lt<ms%40ms.lt>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>




#3394 From: ms@...
Date: Tue Jul 24, 2012 8:17 pm
Subject: Re: In Europe with A team
minciusodas
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Fred Kayiwa, Congratulations on your Ugandan football team's inspiring wins!
Andrius Kulikauskas

> Hi there Friends
> I just want to inform you that i managed to travel with my team from
> kampala to Europe to participate in world Youth Football Tournaments
> Right now we are in Sweden just ended Gothia
> Cup http://www.gothiacup.se/ and my Team on 15 yrs lost on Finals againts
> PSG of France, this group had 210Teams but we managed to reach the second
> place thats a big achievements.
> we are traveling to Norway Cup http://www.norwaycup.no/ until August 4th
> just in case you are close Oslo you can emails me and we meet
> Fred
> Uganda
>

#3395 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:48 pm
Subject: An update on thinking and doing at Dadamac.net
pam_mclean2000
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Hi Steve, readers of my open letters at http://dadamac.posterous.com, and Learning From Each Other friends
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Steve.

You asked how things are going, but we didn't have long and as it's all so mixed in together all I could do was a quick mention of Fast Tractor.

I've been thinking about what I might have told you if we had more time. As you will see - it's an impossibly long list. It's as much about what I'm thinking (as a result of what I'm doing) as it is a report of what I've been doing (that has stimulated the thinking). I have found it helpful to think about what my long answer might have covered - so thanks for asking the question. I've limited myself to the things that have been most important to me this month - mainly this week -  and I've left out quite a lot. The list itself serves the purpose of giving you an overview. The detail was more for me. At some point we might pick on one or two of the topics to look at further. I might also want to share bits of this with other people - so I'm posting it to posterous and LFEO as well as to you.

1 - Alternative academia
2 - Communities and cultures
3 - Coursera
4 - Visibility of Kenyan project on Dadamac.net
5 - New clarity
6 - Fast Tractor, Collage-network and Dadamac.net
7 - Motivation and direction
8 - Fail Faire and Dadamac's value
9 - Need for balance
10 - Making the invisible visible
11 - Gems of information
12 - Ecological imagery
13 - Posting this

1 - Alternative academia

I got feedback for my draft chapter for the e-learning book. The editors were looking for more examples of learner-directed learning, which is where I come in. They seem to like my approach of describing my reality as “alternative academia”. This is a device I adopted to make it easier to compare my experiences with the reality of the editors, most other contributors, and the target audience. I describe their reality as “established academia”. I thought if I placed myself firmly outside “established academia” it would help to free things up. It would save the academics from asking themselves questions about supervision, course structure, assessment, accreditation and other stuff that is important in their world and absent in mind. I wrote a draft according to a structure that the editor suggested, and put in lots of references, and it seems my unconventional contribution as a DIY e-learner is welcomed. However I now feel a strong pressure to redraft it is if I do belong in established academia, which is not my cultural home.

2 - Communities and cultures


You and I have touched on issues of zapping between different cultures. On Thursday I read a useful paper relating to communities of practice and their boundaries. It had some good insights about the richness of diverse communities and about chaos at the boundaries. It made a lot of sense regarding my continual dance between focus on diversity and my experiences of emergent groups, convergence, separation and all that stuff. It tied in well with the links George Por sent us following the discussions  we all had at the RSA.

3 - Coursera


I've started my history of the Internet course with Coursera. I'm very interested to see how it works. It's assessed, which I was not expecting, and find highly demotivating. I don't really want to “master” the  cource materials.  I just want a familiarise  myself with what it covers, and how it does it.  However assessment and a final judgement of having passed or failed brings in all kinds of new dynamics. I feel a need to demonstrate to "the powers that be" that I'm not a failure, but I didn't enrol in order to prove anything to them. I enrolled to take what I wanted from the course. Only a few hours in and I feel pushed towards jumping through hoops. I think they have only three categories “pass”, “fail” or “dropout”. I can understand why they're doing this. Obviously a lot of students do want some kind of certification and the course providers are trying to satisfy that need. Tthere's a quiz at the end of this week, and next week the assessment is peer assessment. I'll be interested to see how that works.  Then maybe I'll decide to be an early dropout so I can stop thinking about passing or failing. Though that would be a shame as the course content is interesting. I like the quick questions along the way too. They are very useful to jolt me back into a better level of concentration. I can see that the course designers want to track the replies as well, as that is such useful feedback for them on how well we are learning. But there is a different between questions as devices to support learning and being sorted into success/failure/drop-out.

4 - Visibility of Kenyan project on Dadamac.net


I've had a couple more long, Skype, typed-chats with Ken Owino. We're exploring how he can make use of the structures that we've set up for John Dada for his group - Nafsi Acrobats. The main difference with Ken is that he will have to write the blogs up himself. Ken and I are also going to try and help Samwel Kongere to make his project more visible. We discussed the extra challenges involved in that. Julliet says she wants to do something similar as well. Together those three projects could make a very interesting Kenyan presence on Dadamac.net. Each one is interesting in its own right. I'll give it a try until Christmas and then think again. Lessons learned would also help me to decide about trying to include additional projects that I know from elsewhere.

5 - New clarity

I'm starting to make it clear that there are different kinds of initiatives on Dadamac.net
  • Initiated by Fantsuam Foundation and visible because of Dadamac UK-Nigeria.
  • Initiated by Dadamac UK-Nigeria and implemented through Fantsuam Foundation
  • Initiated by people outside of Fantsuam Foundation and made visible by Dadamac UK
  • Initiated by Dadamac UK
6 - Fast Tractor, Collage-network and Dadamac.net
 
In a way it is thanks to Fast Tractor and Collage-network  that I have got around to some new thinking about Dadamac and my relationship to different parts of it.

It is odd. I now realise that although Dadamac is so named because of John and me I have only made space on Dadamac.net for “John” and “John-and-me” but not for “me”.

The lack of a visible “me” presence presented a problem when Nikki and I started College.  We could see how Collage grew naturally from our work together in Dadamac, but there was no obvious connection for “outsiders” to see. Then Fast Tractor came along.  Given my role in that it makes sense to pull Dadamac.net and FastTractor closer together. At first I hated that idea. I thought  greater visibility for FastTractor at Dadamac.net would reinforce the false perception that I'm a fundraiser. That's not true, although obviously John does need more funds.  One of the outcomes of my previous work is that, within Dadamac, we have a mechanism whereby people can easily raise funds online, as you discovered with FastTractor. However we do  not have a donor base, or income stream, or other financial foundation–and I'm not the right person to build them.

7 - Motivation and direction

You already know something about my relationship with Dadamac and its various manifestations - although I have only told you in a rather incoherent way. I now see  some parallels with my ambivalent relationship to the Coursera course.  I won't try to explain properly to you, but it's something about hoop jumping, and other people's expectations. (Ref "I won't try to explain properly to you" - by this point I know I'm really writing this to help me to understand. You may not even read this far - and if you do it will be a quick scan-read).

I don't mind doing the things I don't like, I don't mind doing the things I'm not good at, as long as I see them as  being part of the “something else” that I'm really working on. The mundane and tedious has to be done, or the rest is not possible, but it is like any life-work balance. If the mundane and tedious outweighs all the rest, something is gong wrong. I am allowing myself to be overburdened with the mundane and tedious. 

I need to check what it is that motivates me to do any of the mundane and tedious chores - and make sure I nurture that motivation, or that I simply let people know that i am going to stop doing the mundane and tedious, so they won't be surprised or feel let down. For some bizarre reason I do see (or have seen) value (or potential value) of some kind in what Dadamac offers . I must do, otherwise  I would not have worked to patiently for so long on the mundane and tedious, I need to re-examine what I see as valuable and nurture it, and also see if I can make the supportive mundane-and-tedious any quicker and slicker (Hmm - I've tried that often in the past and to date have failed).

8 - Fail Faire and Dadamac's value

As explored at the Fail Faire I have failed to interest any one else in that "value" that I see in Dadamac.  Why then continue? I guess for the same reason that John comes to the Dadamac UK-Nigeria meetings every week - because it helps him to take a longer-view, to see things from a new perspective, to escape from the immediate and urgent. In theory he comes to the meetings to update us (Nikki and me), so that we can tell others, but even if no-one else listens to what we tell them he still comes. We bring him information too sometimes, but it is far more the other direction. Somehow it is enough for him that he tells us - even if - until Fast Tractor - there was no evidence of anyone ever listening.

At one time I thought the value of our meetings was because John also brought his Fantsuam Foundation team online with him, and so there was a kind of weekly Fantsuam Foundation planning meeting (with Nikki and I from Dadamac in the UK listening in). Dadamac-UK organised the meeting, set up the agenda, chased up people to be there, then handed over the chairmanship to John. We provided occasional information, but more often we asked for clarification, and we found another chairman if John's connection dropped or he was called away. We also added some kind of extra dimension because of being online in the UK. However since the post-election violence and Boko Haram and the resultant loss of staff and other issues John has not been bringing a team with him in the same way. But he still comes, and from what he says, this is largely because by telling us he gives himself a chance for reflection.

9 - Need for balance.

I need to get that same balance for myself. What I do for the online space which is Dadamac.net is my 'immediate and urgent". I've always recognised that my "field work" is partly on the ground and partly online (which includes what I am doing in Dadamac.net). The thing about field work in Africa compared to fieldwork online is is that with African fieldwork there are the obvious phases of preparation, implementation (which always has a big "reality check" component) , and return. On return there is the culture shock of returning, and the related need to reconstruct internal views of reality.

With ongoing field work conducted online there is not the same simplicity and separation. I therefore need to build in for myself a mechanism for reflection, which is similar to John coming to the weekly Dadamac meetings.

If I am going to become visible at dadamac.net then I need to somehow fit myself into the structures I have set up there (or maybe set up some addtional structure or structures).  That is the challenge I am currently addressing. There is something about dadamac.net visibility that has a certain required element of collaboration to it. It has to do with the fact that I set it up to help make other people visible. Somehow I don't know how to go there "for myself, on my own"(whcih is why i usually finish up "meeting" people elsewhere. If I am making everyone else visible, but not myself then I will become resentful. However everyone else is doing visible things. My stuff (depending on how you look at it) is either invisible - or so visible that no-one sees it.

10 - Making the invisible visible

My true interests have to do with “invisible stuff”: information flows, knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, deep structural change, emerging 21st-century systems are learning, cross-cultural collaboration techniques online, and other things you can't capture in a photo.
  • If we need to make FastTractor visible – and we do…
  • if I don't want Dadamac net to be dominated by a fund-raising appeal – and I don't…
  • Then I must find a way to illustrate the learning, thinking and analysing that I do – if only for the sake of my own sanity and self-respect.
Yes, that is it! I need to do an audit of my work,even if it is only for myself. 

11 - Gems of information


I know I have amazing rich seams of information. I thought others would see the value of what I brought to the surface, but they don't. Maybe what I see as gems  they only see as rough diamonds, or less than that, chunks of ore, or simply bits of worthless rock and rubble. Perhaps it's time to sift through it all and start to his point out some of the rough diamonds. I guess that's why I'm adding “learning issues” to the headings on my new write-ups of initiatives on Dadamac.net. Maybe later on I'll go through the learning issues and start right up learning outcomes i.e. what I have learned. If I write in that way then I will have a structure and foundation – reference points – clear connections between analysis and actuality. I will be able to do some mapping of emergence.

12 - Ecological imagery


Hmm, as I wrote that I was seeing an image of a deep rooted tree (maybe the influence of your economic food chain diagram). I'm reminded of David Mutua and our use of  analogies about gardens and gardening as we worked on the Information Centre in Ago-Are. I think too of Andrius Kulikauskas calling his “laboratory” Minciu Sodas  (Lithuanian for  Orchard of Thoughts) and most recently George Por's references including gardens of knowledge (hmm -and so much of my knowledge coming from grass-roots experiences and connections).  I think I like ecological analogies better than mining ones. They are less destructive and reductive, more spontaneous and fruitful. Enough already (far too much, long ago, for you to read properly) but useful for my thinking. I will go back to Dadamac.net next time with that new analogy in mind, to do more weeding and replanting.

So, all my experiences, the people I know, the things I've done etc, they are the rich compost, topsoil, leaf litter etc that my thoughts and ideas have been planted in. My “lack of specialisation and focus” maps to a lack of “monoculture”. Of course ecological analogies make more sense. Analogies of mining and gems relate to our mindset of scarcity. Analogies of gardens and growing things relate to fruitfulness and abundant reproduction – seeding, replicating, cross pollinating, adapting.

13 - Posting this

I plan to post this before our next phone call. Then if you repeat your question of how things have been going over the past couple of weeks I'll be able to tell you that I've sent you this e-mail about it.  I think I'll go back and number the subheadings I've been putting in. I'll copy them at the top like a contents list. You can take a quick look at the headings and ask a couple of your probing questions and my thoughts will be comparatively well ordered now in readiness to reply.

I'll probably publish at as well, in case I want to refer to any of it publicly later.

Talk to you "shortly" - in both senses of that word - now that I've written at length.

Pamela

#3396 From: ms@...
Date: Sun Jul 29, 2012 10:20 pm
Subject: Re: An update on thinking and doing at Dadamac.net
minciusodas
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Pamela,

I love your "thinking out loud" below about your enterprise Dadamac,
bridging very different cultures, civilizations, the UK and Africa.  I
also applaud your efforts in Kenya, especially because they'll help us all
respond next year if there is a need after the elections there.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas, ms@..., (773) 306-3807, http://www.selflearners.net

--------------

> Hi Steve, readers of my open letters at http://dadamac.posterous.com, and
> Learning From Each Other friends
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Steve.
>
> You asked how things are going, but we didn't have long and as it's all so
> mixed in together all I could do was a quick mention of Fast Tractor.
>
> I've been thinking about what I might have told you if we had more time.
> As
> you will see - it's an impossibly long list. It's as much about what I'm
> thinking (as a result of what I'm doing) as it is a report of what I've
> been doing (that has stimulated the thinking). I have found it helpful to
> think about what my long answer might have covered - so thanks for asking
> the question. I've limited myself to the things that have been most
> important to me this month - mainly this week -  and I've left out quite a
> lot. The list itself serves the purpose of giving you an overview. The
> detail was more for me. At some point we might pick on one or two of the
> topics to look at further. I might also want to share bits of this with
> other people - so I'm posting it to posterous and LFEO as well as to you.
>
> 1 - Alternative academia
> 2 - Communities and cultures
> 3 - Coursera
> 4 - Visibility of Kenyan project on Dadamac.net
> 5 - New clarity
> 6 - Fast Tractor, Collage-network and Dadamac.net
> 7 - Motivation and direction
> 8 - Fail Faire and Dadamac's value
> 9 - Need for balance
> 10 - Making the invisible visible
> 11 - Gems of information
> 12 - Ecological imagery
> 13 - Posting this
>
> *1 - Alternative academia
>
> *I got feedback* *for my draft chapter for the e-learning book. The
> editors
> were looking for more examples of learner-directed learning, which is
> where
> I come in. They seem to like my approach of describing my reality as
> “alternative academia”. This is a device I adopted to make it easier to
> compare my experiences with the reality of the editors, most other
> contributors, and the target audience. I describe their reality as
> “established academia”. I thought if I placed myself firmly outside
> “established academia” it would help to free things up. It would save the
> academics from asking themselves questions about supervision, course
> structure, assessment, accreditation and other stuff that is important in
> their world and absent in mind. I wrote a draft according to a structure
> that the editor suggested, and put in lots of references, and it seems my
> unconventional contribution as a DIY e-learner is welcomed. However I now
> feel a strong pressure to redraft it is if I do belong in established
> academia, which is not my cultural home.
> *
> 2 - Communities and cultures*
>
> You and I have touched on issues of zapping between different cultures. On
> Thursday I read a useful paper relating to communities of practice and
> their boundaries. It had some good insights about the richness of diverse
> communities and about chaos at the boundaries. It made a lot of sense
> regarding my continual dance between focus on diversity and my experiences
> of emergent groups, convergence, separation and all that stuff. It tied in
> well with the links George Por sent us following the discussions  we all
> had at the RSA.
> *
> 3 - Coursera*
>
> I've started my history of the Internet course with Coursera. I'm very
> interested to see how it works. It's assessed, which I was not expecting,
> and find highly demotivating. I don't really want to “master” the  cource
> materials.  I just want a familiarise  myself with what it covers, and how
> it does it.  However assessment and a final judgement of having passed or
> failed brings in all kinds of new dynamics. I feel a need to demonstrate
> to
> "the powers that be" that I'm not a failure, but I didn't enrol in order
> to
> prove anything to them. I enrolled to take what I wanted from the course.
> Only a few hours in and I feel pushed towards jumping through hoops. I
> think they have only three categories “pass”, “fail” or “dropout”.
I can
> understand why they're doing this. Obviously a lot of students do want
> some
> kind of certification and the course providers are trying to satisfy that
> need. Tthere's a quiz at the end of this week, and next week the
> assessment
> is peer assessment. I'll be interested to see how that works.  Then maybe
> I'll decide to be an early dropout so I can stop thinking about passing or
> failing. Though that would be a shame as the course content is
> interesting.
> I like the quick questions along the way too. They are very useful to jolt
> me back into a better level of concentration. I can see that the course
> designers want to track the replies as well, as that is such useful
> feedback for them on how well we are learning. But there is a different
> between questions as devices to support learning and being sorted into
> success/failure/drop-out.
> *
> 4 - Visibility of Kenyan project on Dadamac.net*
>
> I've had a couple more long, Skype, typed-chats with Ken Owino. We're
> exploring how he can make use of the structures that we've set up for John
> Dada for his group - Nafsi Acrobats. The main difference with Ken is that
> he will have to write the blogs up himself. Ken and I are also going to
> try
> and help Samwel Kongere to make his project more visible. We discussed the
> extra challenges involved in that. Julliet says she wants to do something
> similar as well. Together those three projects could make a very
> interesting Kenyan presence on Dadamac.net. Each one is interesting in its
> own right. I'll give it a try until Christmas and then think again.
> Lessons
> learned would also help me to decide about trying to include additional
> projects that I know from elsewhere.
>
> *5 - New clarity*
>
> I'm starting to make it clear that there are different kinds of
> initiatives
> on Dadamac.net
>
>    - Initiated by Fantsuam Foundation and visible because of Dadamac
>    UK-Nigeria.
>    - Initiated by Dadamac UK-Nigeria and implemented through Fantsuam
>    Foundation
>    - Initiated by people outside of Fantsuam Foundation and made visible
> by
>    Dadamac UK
>    - Initiated by Dadamac UK
>
> *6 - Fast Tractor, Collage-network and Dadamac.net*
>
> In a way it is thanks to Fast Tractor and Collage-network  that I have got
> around to some new thinking about Dadamac and my relationship to different
> parts of it.
>
> It is odd. I now realise that although Dadamac is so named because of John
> and me I have only made space on Dadamac.net for “John” and
“John-and-me”
> but not for “me”.
>
> The lack of a visible “me” presence presented a problem when Nikki and I
> started College.  We could see how Collage grew naturally from our work
> together in Dadamac, but there was no obvious connection for “outsiders”
> to
> see. Then Fast Tractor came along.  Given my role in that it makes sense
> to
> pull Dadamac.net and FastTractor closer together. At first I hated that
> idea. I thought  greater visibility for FastTractor at Dadamac.net would
> reinforce the false perception that I'm a fundraiser. That's not true,
> although obviously John does need more funds.  One of the outcomes of my
> previous work is that, within Dadamac, we have a mechanism whereby people
> can easily raise funds online, as you discovered with FastTractor. However
> we do  not have a donor base, or income stream, or other financial
> foundation–and I'm not the right person to build them.
>
> *7 - Motivation and direction*
>
> You already know something about my relationship with Dadamac and its
> various manifestations - although I have only told you in a rather
> incoherent way. I now see  some parallels with my ambivalent relationship
> to the Coursera course.  I won't try to explain properly to you, but it's
> something about hoop jumping, and other people's expectations. (Ref "I
> won't try to explain properly to you" - by this point I know I'm really
> writing this to help me to understand. You may not even read this far -
> and
> if you do it will be a quick scan-read).
>
> I don't mind doing the things I don't like, I don't mind doing the things
> I'm not good at, as long as I see them as  being part of the “something
> else” that I'm really working on. The mundane and tedious has to be done,
> or the rest is not possible, but it is like any life-work balance. If the
> mundane and tedious outweighs all the rest, something is gong wrong. I am
> allowing myself to be overburdened with the mundane and tedious.
>
> I need to check what it is that motivates me to do any of the mundane and
> tedious chores - and make sure I nurture that motivation, or that I simply
> let people know that i am going to stop doing the mundane and tedious, so
> they won't be surprised or feel let down. For some bizarre reason I do see
> (or have seen) value (or potential value) of some kind in what Dadamac
> offers . I must do, otherwise  I would not have worked to patiently for so
> long on the mundane and tedious, I need to re-examine what I see as
> valuable and nurture it, and also see if I can make the supportive
> mundane-and-tedious any quicker and slicker (Hmm - I've tried that often
> in
> the past and to date have failed).
>
> *8 - Fail Faire and Dadamac's value*
>
> As explored at the Fail Faire I have failed to interest any one else in
> that "value" that I see in Dadamac.  Why then continue? I guess for the
> same reason that John comes to the Dadamac UK-Nigeria meetings every week
> -
> because it helps him to take a longer-view, to see things from a new
> perspective, to escape from the immediate and urgent. In theory he comes
> to
> the meetings to update us (Nikki and me), so that we can tell others, but
> even if no-one else listens to what we tell them he still comes. We bring
> him information too sometimes, but it is far more the other direction.
> Somehow it is enough for him that he tells us - even if - until Fast
> Tractor - there was no evidence of anyone ever listening.
>
> At one time I thought the value of our meetings was because John also
> brought his Fantsuam Foundation team online with him, and so there was a
> kind of weekly Fantsuam Foundation planning meeting (with Nikki and I from
> Dadamac in the UK listening in). Dadamac-UK organised the meeting, set up
> the agenda, chased up people to be there, then handed over the
> chairmanship
> to John. We provided occasional information, but more often we asked for
> clarification, and we found another chairman if John's connection dropped
> or he was called away. We also added some kind of extra dimension because
> of being online in the UK. However since the post-election violence and
> Boko Haram and the resultant loss of staff and other issues John has not
> been bringing a team with him in the same way. But he still comes, and
> from
> what he says, this is largely because by telling us he gives himself a
> chance for reflection.
>
> *9 - Need for balance.*
>
> I need to get that same balance for myself. What I do for the online space
> which is Dadamac.net is my 'immediate and urgent". I've always recognised
> that my "field work" is partly on the ground and partly online (which
> includes what I am doing in Dadamac.net). The thing about field work in
> Africa compared to fieldwork online is is that with African fieldwork
> there
> are the obvious phases of preparation, implementation (which always has a
> big "reality check" component) , and return. On return there is the
> culture
> shock of returning, and the related need to reconstruct internal views of
> reality.
>
> With ongoing field work conducted online there is not the same simplicity
> and separation. I therefore need to build in for myself a mechanism for
> reflection, which is similar to John coming to the weekly Dadamac
> meetings.
>
> If I am going to become visible at dadamac.net then I need to somehow fit
> myself into the structures I have set up there (or maybe set up some
> addtional structure or structures).  That is the challenge I am currently
> addressing. There is something about dadamac.net visibility that has a
> certain required element of collaboration to it. It has to do with the
> fact
> that I set it up to help make other people visible. Somehow I don't know
> how to go there "for myself, on my own"(whcih is why i usually finish up
> "meeting" people elsewhere. If I am making everyone else visible, but not
> myself then I will become resentful. However everyone else is doing
> visible
> things. My stuff (depending on how you look at it) is either invisible -
> or
> so visible that no-one sees it.
>
> *10 - Making the invisible visible*
>
> My true interests have to do with “invisible stuff”: information flows,
> knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, deep structural change, emerging
> 21st-century systems are learning, cross-cultural collaboration techniques
> online, and other things you can't capture in a photo.
>
>    - If we need to make FastTractor visible – and we do…
>    - if I don't want Dadamac net to be dominated by a fund-raising appeal
> –
>    and I don't…
>    - Then I must find a way to illustrate the learning, thinking and
>    analysing that I do – if only for the sake of my own sanity and
>    self-respect.
>
> Yes, that is it! I need to do an audit of my work,even if it is only for
> myself.
> *
> 11 - Gems of information*
>
> I know I have amazing rich seams of information. I thought others would
> see
> the value of what I brought to the surface, but they don't. Maybe what I
> see as gems  they only see as rough diamonds, or less than that, chunks of
> ore, or simply bits of worthless rock and rubble. Perhaps it's time to
> sift
> through it all and start to his point out some of the rough diamonds. I
> guess that's why I'm adding “learning issues” to the headings on my new
> write-ups of initiatives on Dadamac.net. Maybe later on I'll go through
> the
> learning issues and start right up learning outcomes i.e. what I have
> learned. If I write in that way then I will have a structure and
> foundation
> – reference points – clear connections between analysis and actuality. I
> will be able to do some mapping of emergence.
> *
> 12 - Ecological imagery*
>
> Hmm, as I wrote that I was seeing an image of a deep rooted tree (maybe
> the
> influence of your economic food chain diagram). I'm reminded of David
> Mutua
> and our use of  analogies about gardens and gardening as we worked on the
> Information Centre in Ago-Are. I think too of Andrius Kulikauskas calling
> his “laboratory” Minciu Sodas  (Lithuanian for  Orchard of Thoughts) and
> most recently George Por's references including gardens of knowledge (hmm
> -and so much of my knowledge coming from grass-roots experiences and
> connections).  I think I like ecological analogies better than mining
> ones.
> They are less destructive and reductive, more spontaneous and fruitful.
> Enough already (far too much, long ago, for you to read properly) but
> useful for my thinking. I will go back to Dadamac.net next time with that
> new analogy in mind, to do more weeding and replanting.
>
> So, all my experiences, the people I know, the things I've done etc, they
> are the rich compost, topsoil, leaf litter etc that my thoughts and ideas
> have been planted in. My “lack of specialisation and focus” maps to a lack
> of “monoculture”. Of course ecological analogies make more sense.
> Analogies
> of mining and gems relate to our mindset of scarcity. Analogies of gardens
> and growing things relate to fruitfulness and abundant reproduction –
> seeding, replicating, cross pollinating, adapting.
>
> *13 - Posting this*
>
> I plan to post this before our next phone call. Then if you repeat your
> question of how things have been going over the past couple of weeks I'll
> be able to tell you that I've sent you this e-mail about it.  I think I'll
> go back and number the subheadings I've been putting in. I'll copy them at
> the top like a contents list. You can take a quick look at the headings
> and
> ask a couple of your probing questions and my thoughts will be
> comparatively well ordered now in readiness to reply.
>
> I'll probably publish at as well, in case I want to refer to any of it
> publicly later.
>
> Talk to you "shortly" - in both senses of that word - now that I've
> written
> at length.
>
> Pamela
>

#3397 From: Kennedy Owino <nafsiafricaacro@...>
Date: Wed Aug 1, 2012 2:15 pm
Subject: Re: Re: An update on thinking and doing at Dadamac.net
nafsiafricaacro
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Dear All,

Pam and i are working around on how we could give Nafsi Africa Acrobats more online visibility.
She has currently set up a blog page for Nafsi at Dadamac.net. ( http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/nafsi-acrobats-visibility )
We have had a couple of Skype typed correspondence to lay out fundamental steps in making the blog page active.

In our last conversation on 13/06/2012 we started by usual greetings and deciding on the agenda for the day.
Then we discussed about the comfortable and convinient ways for the Blog presence for Kenya to work out.
We are borrowing ideas from the breakthroughs of Uk-Nigeria.
Our agreement was to have regular online meetings and scheduled every Thursday as our meeting day.
The UK-Kenya meetings would initially just be between me and Pam but develop this  to include more participants over time.
We will be using Skype as our meeting place but would consider other place should we get more people interested in participating.
We thought that Nafsi members, Sponsors and collaborators would be the team interested in participating in the meetings.
We would change the structure of the meeting, the venue and time once we establish how often they would be willing to attend.
But then it will take series of meetings, weeks and probably months before getting a large team to attend.
We will be saving the archive of the meetings or making notes via e-mail (as in this case) to refer to, or for other interested parties to follow on the developments.
The archive will majorly be on the Online Public forum (learning from each other yahoo group, Nafsi Africa Sanaa yahoo group and Posterous).
We will make it an effort to circulate the same privately on interested parties e-mails through the mailing list we will create.
Our  skype conversations which we will be sharing here is also to try to identify and define the readers and writers of the news about nafsi in the blog.

In developing our blog we will  have a three-person study group where we can learn from each others approaches, succeses and failures.
These are:  http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/juliet-makhapilas-project-visibility and http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/communication-visisbility-collaboration
and http://www.dadamac.net/initiative/nafsi-acrobats-visibility 
I will be helping with the content while Pam will be handling the techie bit of it as getting the information published but within the progress she will teach me how to publish.
We will work towards a regular blog post with comments. Therefore, our main objective is to stimulate interest of others to partcipate by reading or contributing comments to stories as well.

We would wish to know who and who would be interested in following our blog, we could include your e-mail in our mailing list and/or add you as readers.
 
Peace,

Ken Owino
Nafsi Africa Acrobats
www.nafsiafrica.webs.com

From: "ms@..." <ms@...>
To: learningfromeachother@yahoogroups.com
Cc: livingbytruth@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 12:20 AM
Subject: [learningfromeachother] Re: An update on thinking and doing at Dadamac.net

 
Pamela,

I love your "thinking out loud" below about your enterprise Dadamac,
bridging very different cultures, civilizations, the UK and Africa. I
also applaud your efforts in Kenya, especially because they'll help us all
respond next year if there is a need after the elections there.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas, ms@..., (773) 306-3807, http://www.selflearners.net

--------------

> Hi Steve, readers of my open letters at http://dadamac.posterous.com, and
> Learning From Each Other friends
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Steve.
>
> You asked how things are going, but we didn't have long and as it's all so
> mixed in together all I could do was a quick mention of Fast Tractor.
>
> I've been thinking about what I might have told you if we had more time.
> As
> you will see - it's an impossibly long list. It's as much about what I'm
> thinking (as a result of what I'm doing) as it is a report of what I've
> been doing (that has stimulated the thinking). I have found it helpful to
> think about what my long answer might have covered - so thanks for asking
> the question. I've limited myself to the things that have been most
> important to me this month - mainly this week - and I've left out quite a
> lot. The list itself serves the purpose of giving you an overview. The
> detail was more for me. At some point we might pick on one or two of the
> topics to look at further. I might also want to share bits of this with
> other people - so I'm posting it to posterous and LFEO as well as to you.
>
> 1 - Alternative academia
> 2 - Communities and cultures
> 3 - Coursera
> 4 - Visibility of Kenyan project on Dadamac.net
> 5 - New clarity
> 6 - Fast Tractor, Collage-network and Dadamac.net
> 7 - Motivation and direction
> 8 - Fail Faire and Dadamac's value
> 9 - Need for balance
> 10 - Making the invisible visible
> 11 - Gems of information
> 12 - Ecological imagery
> 13 - Posting this
>
> *1 - Alternative academia
>
> *I got feedback* *for my draft chapter for the e-learning book. The
> editors
> were looking for more examples of learner-directed learning, which is
> where
> I come in. They seem to like my approach of describing my reality as
> “alternative academia”. This is a device I adopted to make it easier to
> compare my experiences with the reality of the editors, most other
> contributors, and the target audience. I describe their reality as
> “established academia”. I thought if I placed myself firmly outside
> “established academia” it would help to free things up. It would save the
> academics from asking themselves questions about supervision, course
> structure, assessment, accreditation and other stuff that is important in
> their world and absent in mind. I wrote a draft according to a structure
> that the editor suggested, and put in lots of references, and it seems my
> unconventional contribution as a DIY e-learner is welcomed. However I now
> feel a strong pressure to redraft it is if I do belong in established
> academia, which is not my cultural home.
> *
> 2 - Communities and cultures*
>
> You and I have touched on issues of zapping between different cultures. On
> Thursday I read a useful paper relating to communities of practice and
> their boundaries. It had some good insights about the richness of diverse
> communities and about chaos at the boundaries. It made a lot of sense
> regarding my continual dance between focus on diversity and my experiences
> of emergent groups, convergence, separation and all that stuff. It tied in
> well with the links George Por sent us following the discussions we all
> had at the RSA.
> *
> 3 - Coursera*
>
> I've started my history of the Internet course with Coursera. I'm very
> interested to see how it works. It's assessed, which I was not expecting,
> and find highly demotivating. I don't really want to “master” the cource
> materials. I just want a familiarise myself with what it covers, and how
> it does it. However assessment and a final judgement of having passed or
> failed brings in all kinds of new dynamics. I feel a need to demonstrate
> to
> "the powers that be" that I'm not a failure, but I didn't enrol in order
> to
> prove anything to them. I enrolled to take what I wanted from the course.
> Only a few hours in and I feel pushed towards jumping through hoops. I
> think they have only three categories “pass”, “fail” or “dropout”. I can
> understand why they're doing this. Obviously a lot of students do want
> some
> kind of certification and the course providers are trying to satisfy that
> need. Tthere's a quiz at the end of this week, and next week the
> assessment
> is peer assessment. I'll be interested to see how that works. Then maybe
> I'll decide to be an early dropout so I can stop thinking about passing or
> failing. Though that would be a shame as the course content is
> interesting.
> I like the quick questions along the way too. They are very useful to jolt
> me back into a better level of concentration. I can see that the course
> designers want to track the replies as well, as that is such useful
> feedback for them on how well we are learning. But there is a different
> between questions as devices to support learning and being sorted into
> success/failure/drop-out.
> *
> 4 - Visibility of Kenyan project on Dadamac.net*
>
> I've had a couple more long, Skype, typed-chats with Ken Owino. We're
> exploring how he can make use of the structures that we've set up for John
> Dada for his group - Nafsi Acrobats. The main difference with Ken is that
> he will have to write the blogs up himself. Ken and I are also going to
> try
> and help Samwel Kongere to make his project more visible. We discussed the
> extra challenges involved in that. Julliet says she wants to do something
> similar as well. Together those three projects could make a very
> interesting Kenyan presence on Dadamac.net. Each one is interesting in its
> own right. I'll give it a try until Christmas and then think again.
> Lessons
> learned would also help me to decide about trying to include additional
> projects that I know from elsewhere.
>
> *5 - New clarity*
>
> I'm starting to make it clear that there are different kinds of
> initiatives
> on Dadamac.net
>
> - Initiated by Fantsuam Foundation and visible because of Dadamac
> UK-Nigeria.
> - Initiated by Dadamac UK-Nigeria and implemented through Fantsuam
> Foundation
> - Initiated by people outside of Fantsuam Foundation and made visible
> by
> Dadamac UK
> - Initiated by Dadamac UK
>
> *6 - Fast Tractor, Collage-network and Dadamac.net*
>
> In a way it is thanks to Fast Tractor and Collage-network that I have got
> around to some new thinking about Dadamac and my relationship to different
> parts of it.
>
> It is odd. I now realise that although Dadamac is so named because of John
> and me I have only made space on Dadamac.net for “John” and “John-and-me”
> but not for “me”.
>
> The lack of a visible “me” presence presented a problem when Nikki and I
> started College. We could see how Collage grew naturally from our work
> together in Dadamac, but there was no obvious connection for “outsiders”
> to
> see. Then Fast Tractor came along. Given my role in that it makes sense
> to
> pull Dadamac.net and FastTractor closer together. At first I hated that
> idea. I thought greater visibility for FastTractor at Dadamac.net would
> reinforce the false perception that I'm a fundraiser. That's not true,
> although obviously John does need more funds. One of the outcomes of my
> previous work is that, within Dadamac, we have a mechanism whereby people
> can easily raise funds online, as you discovered with FastTractor. However
> we do not have a donor base, or income stream, or other financial
> foundation–and I'm not the right person to build them.
>
> *7 - Motivation and direction*
>
> You already know something about my relationship with Dadamac and its
> various manifestations - although I have only told you in a rather
> incoherent way. I now see some parallels with my ambivalent relationship
> to the Coursera course. I won't try to explain properly to you, but it's
> something about hoop jumping, and other people's expectations. (Ref "I
> won't try to explain properly to you" - by this point I know I'm really
> writing this to help me to understand. You may not even read this far -
> and
> if you do it will be a quick scan-read).
>
> I don't mind doing the things I don't like, I don't mind doing the things
> I'm not good at, as long as I see them as being part of the “something
> else” that I'm really working on. The mundane and tedious has to be done,
> or the rest is not possible, but it is like any life-work balance. If the
> mundane and tedious outweighs all the rest, something is gong wrong. I am
> allowing myself to be overburdened with the mundane and tedious.
>
> I need to check what it is that motivates me to do any of the mundane and
> tedious chores - and make sure I nurture that motivation, or that I simply
> let people know that i am going to stop doing the mundane and tedious, so
> they won't be surprised or feel let down. For some bizarre reason I do see
> (or have seen) value (or potential value) of some kind in what Dadamac
> offers . I must do, otherwise I would not have worked to patiently for so
> long on the mundane and tedious, I need to re-examine what I see as
> valuable and nurture it, and also see if I can make the supportive
> mundane-and-tedious any quicker and slicker (Hmm - I've tried that often
> in
> the past and to date have failed).
>
> *8 - Fail Faire and Dadamac's value*
>
> As explored at the Fail Faire I have failed to interest any one else in
> that "value" that I see in Dadamac. Why then continue? I guess for the
> same reason that John comes to the Dadamac UK-Nigeria meetings every week
> -
> because it helps him to take a longer-view, to see things from a new
> perspective, to escape from the immediate and urgent. In theory he comes
> to
> the meetings to update us (Nikki and me), so that we can tell others, but
> even if no-one else listens to what we tell them he still comes. We bring
> him information too sometimes, but it is far more the other direction.
> Somehow it is enough for him that he tells us - even if - until Fast
> Tractor - there was no evidence of anyone ever listening.
>
> At one time I thought the value of our meetings was because John also
> brought his Fantsuam Foundation team online with him, and so there was a
> kind of weekly Fantsuam Foundation planning meeting (with Nikki and I from
> Dadamac in the UK listening in). Dadamac-UK organised the meeting, set up
> the agenda, chased up people to be there, then handed over the
> chairmanship
> to John. We provided occasional information, but more often we asked for
> clarification, and we found another chairman if John's connection dropped
> or he was called away. We also added some kind of extra dimension because
> of being online in the UK. However since the post-election violence and
> Boko Haram and the resultant loss of staff and other issues John has not
> been bringing a team with him in the same way. But he still comes, and
> from
> what he says, this is largely because by telling us he gives himself a
> chance for reflection.
>
> *9 - Need for balance.*
>
> I need to get that same balance for myself. What I do for the online space
> which is Dadamac.net is my 'immediate and urgent". I've always recognised
> that my "field work" is partly on the ground and partly online (which
> includes what I am doing in Dadamac.net). The thing about field work in
> Africa compared to fieldwork online is is that with African fieldwork
> there
> are the obvious phases of preparation, implementation (which always has a
> big "reality check" component) , and return. On return there is the
> culture
> shock of returning, and the related need to reconstruct internal views of
> reality.
>
> With ongoing field work conducted online there is not the same simplicity
> and separation. I therefore need to build in for myself a mechanism for
> reflection, which is similar to John coming to the weekly Dadamac
> meetings.
>
> If I am going to become visible at dadamac.net then I need to somehow fit
> myself into the structures I have set up there (or maybe set up some
> addtional structure or structures). That is the challenge I am currently
> addressing. There is something about dadamac.net visibility that has a
> certain required element of collaboration to it. It has to do with the
> fact
> that I set it up to help make other people visible. Somehow I don't know
> how to go there "for myself, on my own"(whcih is why i usually finish up
> "meeting" people elsewhere. If I am making everyone else visible, but not
> myself then I will become resentful. However everyone else is doing
> visible
> things. My stuff (depending on how you look at it) is either invisible -
> or
> so visible that no-one sees it.
>
> *10 - Making the invisible visible*
>
> My true interests have to do with “invisible stuff”: information flows,
> knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, deep structural change, emerging
> 21st-century systems are learning, cross-cultural collaboration techniques
> online, and other things you can't capture in a photo.
>
> - If we need to make FastTractor visible – and we do…
> - if I don't want Dadamac net to be dominated by a fund-raising appeal
> –
> and I don't…
> - Then I must find a way to illustrate the learning, thinking and
> analysing that I do – if only for the sake of my own sanity and
> self-respect.
>
> Yes, that is it! I need to do an audit of my work,even if it is only for
> myself.
> *
> 11 - Gems of information*
>
> I know I have amazing rich seams of information. I thought others would
> see
> the value of what I brought to the surface, but they don't. Maybe what I
> see as gems they only see as rough diamonds, or less than that, chunks of
> ore, or simply bits of worthless rock and rubble. Perhaps it's time to
> sift
> through it all and start to his point out some of the rough diamonds. I
> guess that's why I'm adding “learning issues” to the headings on my new
> write-ups of initiatives on Dadamac.net. Maybe later on I'll go through
> the
> learning issues and start right up learning outcomes i.e. what I have
> learned. If I write in that way then I will have a structure and
> foundation
> – reference points – clear connections between analysis and actuality. I
> will be able to do some mapping of emergence.
> *
> 12 - Ecological imagery*
>
> Hmm, as I wrote that I was seeing an image of a deep rooted tree (maybe
> the
> influence of your economic food chain diagram). I'm reminded of David
> Mutua
> and our use of analogies about gardens and gardening as we worked on the
> Information Centre in Ago-Are. I think too of Andrius Kulikauskas calling
> his “laboratory” Minciu Sodas (Lithuanian for Orchard of Thoughts) and
> most recently George Por's references including gardens of knowledge (hmm
> -and so much of my knowledge coming from grass-roots experiences and
> connections). I think I like ecological analogies better than mining
> ones.
> They are less destructive and reductive, more spontaneous and fruitful.
> Enough already (far too much, long ago, for you to read properly) but
> useful for my thinking. I will go back to Dadamac.net next time with that
> new analogy in mind, to do more weeding and replanting.
>
> So, all my experiences, the people I know, the things I've done etc, they
> are the rich compost, topsoil, leaf litter etc that my thoughts and ideas
> have been planted in. My “lack of specialisation and focus” maps to a lack
> of “monoculture”. Of course ecological analogies make more sense.
> Analogies
> of mining and gems relate to our mindset of scarcity. Analogies of gardens
> and growing things relate to fruitfulness and abundant reproduction –
> seeding, replicating, cross pollinating, adapting.
>
> *13 - Posting this*
>
> I plan to post this before our next phone call. Then if you repeat your
> question of how things have been going over the past couple of weeks I'll
> be able to tell you that I've sent you this e-mail about it. I think I'll
> go back and number the subheadings I've been putting in. I'll copy them at
> the top like a contents list. You can take a quick look at the headings
> and
> ask a couple of your probing questions and my thoughts will be
> comparatively well ordered now in readiness to reply.
>
> I'll probably publish at as well, in case I want to refer to any of it
> publicly later.
>
> Talk to you "shortly" - in both senses of that word - now that I've
> written
> at length.
>
> Pamela
>




#3398 From: Pamela McLean <pam54321@...>
Date: Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:50 am
Subject: Ivan Illich and Dadamacadamy
pam_mclean2000
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Hi Steve, Andrius and everyone

This continues various previous discussions on 21st century education systems - Internet - changing roles and relationships, teaching, learning, knowledge creations and sharing etc.

If you want more of the background contact me by comments, or via LFEO or email me pamela.mclean@...

Illich is a favourite of alternative academia, and his work has been around so long that it is well known in established academia as well. Given there is great overlap between this and much of Dadamacademy I think I may have discovered an interesting new bridge between what I am doing and established educational thought.

Ivan Illich wrote

Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver universal education. The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education--and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries.
—Ivan Illich.

Hold that thought!

Now consider some aspects of Dadamacademy / alternative academia:
  1. What I wrote in the e-learning chapter ref my experiences as a DIY e-learner in alternative academia
  2. Posts I have written regarding my personal learning journey online - and my attempts to find appropriate descriptions that would not be open to misunderstanding - and my final decision to give up using established descriptions and instead describe myself as a Dadamac learner - i.e. "my kind of learner"
  3. Responses to that post where some of my contacts claimed to be Dadamac learners as well.
  4. The idea that if I wasn't the only one - and as we aren't just learners, we also teach each other - I'd change the description and not just have dadamac learners, but i had have an online space for us - the Dadamacademy.
  5. Blogs I have written regarding Dadamacademy Dream or Reality, and Don't Share an Idea, Build a Prototype.
  6. People in my online network who describe our relationship in terms of me being their teacher (although I always try to point out that we are teaching each other and I am also learning)   

Going back to the Illich quote - The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs.

The funnel idea could have a couple of meanings. It could tie in with the top down model of education which pours "right answers" into people, or it could relate to the industrial "production line" approach to education (taking people and pushing them through the system to turn them into employment fodder). The Dadamacademy ideas do reverse the old "funnel" appraoches.

......their institutional inverse: educational webs....

Dadamacademy of course is a small web-based community involved in various learning happenings.

......educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one....

Dadamacademy has no entrance requirements - except for practical present limitations due to lack of resources:

  1. Needing to use English as the language for learning because I'm involved in everything and I can only work in English. If more people were involved then other languages would be used. I think the majority of Dadamac learners are multilingual. 
  2. Needing to have access to the Internet - even if it is infrequent access and low  bandwidth. This presents financial challenges to various Dadamac learners as well as logistical ones. It would be good to be able to help them have less problematic access.

heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning....

  1. The range of topics to be studied are limited to the areas of overlapping interests within the Dadamacadamy community - but as we get more people (and better systems to help them find each other) that could grow. 
  2. Learners touched by the fully developed Dadamacademy approach and networked community could certainly learn much more that if they were outside it - so there would be heightened opportunity.
  3. The amount of time spent is up to the individual.

.......learning, sharing, and caring.....

Given a philosophy of knowledge creation, open-ness. Peer 2 Peer, learning commons, etc I guess we cover the sharing aspect

Given the nature of cross-cultural collaboration I think it tends to lead towards a different level of connection with people - and if you know people personally then inequalities and hardships hit home more forcibly so perhaps it does increase the level of caring.

@Andrius - thank you for your thoughtful reply to my previous posts - maybe we can have a skype voice chat to cover some of that ground and other ideas we need to catch up on.. 

Pamela

#3399 From: ms@...
Date: Fri Aug 10, 2012 1:37 pm
Subject: Re: Ivan Illich and Dadamacadamy
minciusodas
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Hi Pamela,

Thank you for writing about Ivan Illich and also for sharing your own
learning experiences.  Yes, I'm interested in that, too.  I'm overwhelmed
with work on my latest art, God's Mind and God's Face, and so I don't know
if I'll manage to snatch any time until it's up on September 22-23 in
Pullman.  I'm trying to survey the full variety of meaningful episodes in
life. They all have to do with learning. I'm especially interested now how
one episode relates with another. I'll be staying in touch.

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas, ms@..., (773) 306-3807, http://www.selflearners.net

> Hi Steve*, *Andrius and everyone
>
> This continues various previous discussions on 21st century education
> systems - Internet - changing roles and relationships, teaching, learning,
> knowledge creations and sharing etc.
>
> If you want more of the background contact me by comments, or via LFEO or
> email me pamela.mclean@...*
>
> *Illich is a favourite of alternative academia, and his work has been
> around so long that it is well known in established academia as well.
> Given
> there is great overlap between this and much of Dadamacademy I think I may
> have discovered an interesting new bridge between what I am doing and
> established educational thought.
> *
> Ivan Illich wrote *
>
> Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more
> feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built
> on
> the style of present schools. Neither new attitudes of teachers toward
> their pupils nor the proliferation of educational hardware or software (in
> classroom or bedroom), nor finally the attempt to expand the pedagogue's
> responsibility until it engulfs his pupils' lifetimes will deliver
> universal education. *The current search for new educational funnels must
> be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational
> webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment
> of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.* We hope to
> contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research
> on education--and also to those who seek alternatives to other established
> service industries.
> —Ivan Illich.
>
> Hold that thought!
>
> Now consider some aspects of Dadamacademy / alternative academia:
>
>    1. What I wrote in the e-learning chapter ref my experiences as a DIY
>    e-learner in alternative academia
>    2. Posts I have written regarding my personal learning journey online -
>    and my attempts to find appropriate descriptions that would not be open
> to
>    misunderstanding - and my final decision to give up using established
>    descriptions and instead describe myself as a Dadamac learner - i.e.
> "my
>    kind of learner"
>    3. Responses to that post where some of my contacts claimed to be
>    Dadamac learners as well.
>    4. The idea that if I wasn't the only one - and as we aren't just
>    learners, we also teach each other - I'd change the description and not
>    just have dadamac learners, but i had have an online space for us - the
>    Dadamacademy.
>    5. Blogs I have written regarding Dadamacademy Dream or Reality, and
>    Don't Share an Idea, Build a Prototype.
>    6. People in my online network who describe our relationship in terms
> of
>    me being their teacher (although I always try to point out that we are
>    teaching each other and I am also learning)
>
> Going back to the Illich quote - *The current search for new educational
> funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse:
> educational webs. *
>
> The funnel idea could have a couple of meanings. It could tie in with the
> top down model of education which pours "right answers" into people, or it
> could relate to the industrial "production line" approach to education
> (taking people and pushing them through the system to turn them into
> employment fodder). The Dadamacademy ideas do reverse the old "funnel"
> appraoches.
>
> ......*their institutional inverse: educational webs....
> *
>
> Dadamacademy of course is a small web-based community involved in various
> learning happenings.
>
> ......*educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one....*
>
> Dadamacademy has no entrance requirements - except for practical present
> limitations due to lack of resources:
>
>    1. Needing to use English as the language for learning because I'm
>    involved in everything and I can only work in English. If more people
> were
>    involved then other languages would be used. I think the majority of
>    Dadamac learners are multilingual.
>    2. Needing to have access to the Internet - even if it is infrequent
>    access and low  bandwidth. This presents financial challenges to
> various
>    Dadamac learners as well as logistical ones. It would be good to be
> able to
>    help them have less problematic access.
>
> *heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his
> living into one of learning.... *
>
>    1. The range of topics to be studied are limited to the areas of
>    overlapping interests within the Dadamacadamy community - but as we get
>    more people (and better systems to help them find each other) that
> could
>    grow.
>    2. Learners touched by the fully developed Dadamacademy approach and
>    networked community could certainly learn much more that if they were
>    outside it - so there would be heightened opportunity.
>    3. The amount of time spent is up to the individual.
>
> .......*learning, sharing, and caring.....*
>
> Given* *a philosophy of knowledge creation, open-ness. Peer 2 Peer,
> learning commons, etc I guess we cover the sharing aspect
> Given the nature of cross-cultural collaboration I think it tends to lead
> towards a different level of connection with people - and if you know
> people personally then inequalities and hardships hit home more forcibly
> so
> perhaps it does increase the level of caring.
>
> @Andrius - thank you for your thoughtful reply to my previous posts -
> maybe
> we can have a skype voice chat to cover some of that ground and other
> ideas
> we need to catch up on..
>
> Pamela
>

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