<div dir="ltr">Marc your words are such a blessing for all of us to learn from, or relearn. Every writing you have shared with me through Spirit House has enriched my Life...my Spirit..my Being. TNot only that...your voice when speaking your words....puts me in trans that holds tight unto cellular level...dream level. Thank you, Love Always<div>Gracee'</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 4:13 PM Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px">Yes ~ thanks so much Ron for bringing us into alignment once again during this time of turning and awakening ~ putting focus where it gives heart and perspective to it all.</div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px">I would like to add this prayer as an offering which I read at one of our solstice or equinox gatherings a few years ago.</div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px">May all love and light be with us ~</div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px">~ Marc 🌟</div><div style="text-align:left;margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Praise be to the Below!</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Praise be to our Mother Earth!</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Sustaining us and providing for us so abundantly.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">We give thanks with deep gratitude!</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Remembering </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">what we do to the earth</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">we do to ourselves.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px">That from this earth </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">comes the miracle of life</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">from each small seed and everything that moves.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">From each and every thing that moves and grows </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">giving life and food to all creatures great and small</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">to all things living here together.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Great Spirit help us to grow </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">and to learn to take better care of our lives</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">to sanctify this precious gift of our life</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">this miraculous earth</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"> and all that there is.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px">Great spirit help us to realize that we are One</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"> That we <span style="text-decoration:underline">are</span> each other.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Herculanum;min-height:18px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:18px"><font size="5">May we learn to live </font><span style="font-size:18px">where we remember</span></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">there is n<span style="text-decoration:underline">owhere </span>that we are not touching.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Each blade of grass </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">grain of sand</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">breath of wind</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">is a sacred holy thing.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Help us to sanctify this place we are in.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">A moment to moment thing </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">to Remember </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">that wherever we are is the Holy place.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Help us to remember the Awe</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"> that each step and each breath</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"> is a sacred and miraculous gift.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Help us to remember</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">how these rivers and oceans </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">keep pulsing their course </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">their life-blood flowing </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">through everything </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">nurturing everything.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Help us to remember</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">how the earth and us</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">are O<span style="text-decoration:underline">ne</span> body</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">that what we do to the earth</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">we do to ourselves.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">That EVERYTHING </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">is a miracle and a mystery ~ a sacred gift.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Just to be is a blessing</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"> Just to live is holy.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">That this is the thing to remember:</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">That with each step we are touching the earth and each other.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;min-height:25px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Remember where we are.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">Remember as we walk upon this earth</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">that all that we have is our soul.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">We are the caretakers here.</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">That we <span style="text-decoration:underline">are </span>the Earth </div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">The Earth is us</div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;text-align:center;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:normal">We are One.</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 5, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Amanda Zabel via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Beautiful, Ron. Thank you for taking the time to articulate this perspective. I bow to the complexity and the simplicity. Thank you for your gigantic heart of wisdom. <div>Love and only love,</div><div>Amanda</div><div>Song of Love<br><div>
<div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font face="Georgia" color="#0433ff"><i><br>As dreams are the healing songs </i></font><i style="color:rgb(4,51,255);font-family:Georgia">from the wilderness </i><font face="Georgia" color="#0433ff"><i>of our unconscious</i></font><font face="Georgia"><i><font color="#0433ff">—</font></i></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font face="Georgia"><i><font color="#0433ff">So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes </font></i></font><i style="font-family:Georgia"><font color="#0433ff">are the healing dreams </font></i></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font face="Georgia"><i><font color="#0433ff">from the deep singing mind </font></i></font><i style="font-family:Georgia"><font color="#0433ff">of the earth. </font> </i></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font face="Georgia"><i>~Dale Pendell, Living with Barbarians</i></font></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none"><font face="Georgia"><i><br></i></font></div><br>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 5, 2020, at 5:05 PM, rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align:center;font-size:18px">Independence Day </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:17px">or</div><div style="text-align:center"> Interdependence or Inner-dependence</div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~This is the year with no sky dazzling fireworks display ~ No Salmon BBQ ~ No big family and friends bash~. Only the sound of a few fire crackers and gun shots ~ American flags displayed here and about and the #1 big event in my neighborhood was the 8:00 howl of sorrow~. I took out my long departed Grandmother’s American flag that I inherited may years ago ~ it is old, thin, faded and frayed around the edges ~ put has been flying proudly</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">off the second story balcony surrounded by tall bamboo~. </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">That seems to somehow fit the description of America right now in light of what is finally being revealed, and exposed to the only ones on the planet that have not been able to see the true of the “Windigo"~. And yet it’s always been </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">so so SO obvious and yet over looked as a result of some fancy magic mass hypnosis convincing us that we are numero uno </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">and beyond reproach and that we are distinct and that we are separate, insulated with a privilege</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">that is beyond reproach ~ that our consumption of the World’s resources, including people, comes without sanction~.</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><i><font color="#0433ff"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"Americans constitute 5% of the </span><b style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left">world's</b><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> population but </span><b style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left">consume</b><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> 24% of the </span><b style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left">world's</b></font></i><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3"><span><i><font color="#0433ff"> energy. The population is projected to increase by nearly 130 million people - the equivalent of adding another four states the size of California - by the year 2050.”</font></i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"> (ref. Google )</span></span></font></span></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~The article below <span style="font-size:13px">(link)</span> is one that speaks to all of us in a very sober fashion ~ If you don’t know the meaning “Windigo” pls. Google it”.</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">We speak to “waking-up” in spiritual circles of conversation, study, discussion and inquiry and all the while </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">we are awake but the knowing is obscured, covered up by unconscious thought patterns we</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">have been conditioned to believe ~ all wrapped in belief structures organized to create </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">unconscious complicity against that which actually is the Life sustaining</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">force of Love manifesting~. </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~The entire World of 7.8 billion of us is Waking-up to the realization that are living and dying in this very moment we call “Reality” ~! </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">This reality of opulent aliveness and diverse abundance nurtured by one sun that shines equally upon</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"> everything and everyone~. We are this season’s people and what are planting and harvesting~?</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~ Waking-up is for many something new and shocking ~ there is also the hangover realization of a bad dream and the uncomfortable</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">feeling that accompanies rubbing the sleep out of one’s eyes to greet the morning light~. We are in the process of clearing the old dream right now and there is a sting to it and that sting may intensify as we deepen into the clearing of what is not right, never been in right-relationship, </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">making amends and dreaming a new, healthy, sustainable dream with total equanimity motivated by the presence of </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">love and beauty as the operative motivation to all of life~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~ Independence, Interdependence or Inner-dependance are all choices~. The one thing that all three of these words have in common is the word “dependance”~. </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~The definition of “dependance” is, <i>“the quality or state of being influenced or determined by or subject to another.” </i></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">That quality or state is based on a dualist form of “otherness” ~ The dualistic form is based on separation and fear </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">and the non-dual is based on the realization that there is only One and all seemingly others are but part of the One~. </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">This is a choice that is made based on one’s own experience - either out of fear or Love ~ </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">That is the choice we are asked at this time in the human experience - 'do I recognize that I am of the One~?’ </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">To recognize the beauty in every moment </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">is one of the keys ~ there is great beauty in opening the eyes and ears of the heart~. </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">~ This article is a beautiful piece of writing that offers a loving hand in the choice for sustainability as a function of living in </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">this garden of beauty~. A lot of restoration work ahead of us in multiple areas~.</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px"><br></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px">Only Love, ~Ron </div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><blockquote type="cite" style="text-align:start"><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://lithub.com/robin-wall-kimmerer-greed-does-not-have-to-define-our-relationship-to-land/?fbclid=IwAR3lhZ56_kd1pvfKknj2IBXfs41LDlJ3P5Z9KVjqr7rAUZ0LgR6S5XDWuEQ" target="_blank">https://lithub.com/robin-wall-kimmerer-greed-does-not-have-to-define-our-relationship-to-land/?fbclid=IwAR3lhZ56_kd1pvfKknj2IBXfs41LDlJ3P5Z9KVjqr7rAUZ0LgR6S5XDWuEQ</a></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" target="_blank">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Thespiritexpress mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" target="_blank">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress" target="_blank">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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