<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Marc,<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thanks for your beautiful prayer of gratitude for the planet and all of us.</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hope for you and Carolyn continued healing, Dennis <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 6, 2020, at 7:50 PM, cathy fantulin via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Yes, and I vow to be the protector, the fertilizer, the synergistic balance that sustains me. </div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:05 PM rnadeau via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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;" class=""><div style="text-align:center;font-size:18px" class="">Independence Day </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:17px" class="">or</div><div style="text-align:center" class=""> Interdependence or Inner-dependence</div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~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" class="">off the second story balcony surrounded by tall bamboo~. </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">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" class="">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" class="">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" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">"Americans constitute 5% of the </span><b style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left" class="">world's</b><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""> population but </span><b style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left" class="">consume</b><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""> 24% of the </span><b style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left" class="">world's</b></font></i><span style="text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="3" class=""><span class=""><i class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""> 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" class=""> (ref. Google )</span></span></font></span></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~The article below <span style="font-size:13px" class="">(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" class="">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" class="">we are awake but the knowing is obscured, covered up by unconscious thought patterns we</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">have been conditioned to believe ~ all wrapped in belief structures organized to create </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">unconscious complicity against that which actually is the Life sustaining</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">force of Love manifesting~. </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~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" class="">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" class=""> everything and everyone~. We are this season’s people and what are planting and harvesting~?</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~ 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" class="">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" class="">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" class="">love and beauty as the operative motivation to all of life~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~YES, WE ARE WAKING-UP~~~~~~!</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~ 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" class="">~The definition of “dependance” is, <i class="">“the quality or state of being influenced or determined by or subject to another.” </i></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">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" class="">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" class="">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" class="">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" class="">To recognize the beauty in every moment </div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">~ 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" class="">this garden of beauty~. A lot of restoration work ahead of us in multiple areas~.</div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center;font-size:16px" class="">Only Love, ~Ron </div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="text-align:start" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://lithub.com/robin-wall-kimmerer-greed-does-not-have-to-define-our-relationship-to-land/?fbclid=IwAR3lhZ56_kd1pvfKknj2IBXfs41LDlJ3P5Z9KVjqr7rAUZ0LgR6S5XDWuEQ" target="_blank" class="">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" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align:center" class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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