<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Just saw the thread. :)<div><br></div><div>This is Hopi and speaks to our times if you want to go deeper. </div><div><br></div><div><div style="display: block;" class=""><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.audible.com/pd/1705285961?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.audible.com/pd/1705285961?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#8093A9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:157px;" width="300" height="157" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="51hd9QnFinL._SL10_UR1600,800_CR200,50,1200,630_CLa|1200,630|51hd9QnFinL.jpg|0,0,1200,630+82,82,465,465_PJAdblSocialShare-Gradientoverlay-largeasin-0to70,TopLeft,0,0_PJAdblSocialShare-AudibleLogo-Large,TopLeft,600,270_OU01_ZBLISTENING ON,617,216,52,500,AudibleSansMd,30,255,255,255.jpg" src="cid:8B2FCCA6-486C-412D-8E2E-F7CBD33C4FF5"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#8093A9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="table-layout:fixed;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;background-color:rgba(128, 147, 169, 1);-apple-color-filter:initial;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:700;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.audible.com/pd/1705285961?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1);">The Hopi Survival Kit</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:600;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.audible.com/pd/1705285961?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#FFFFFF" style="color: rgba(235, 235, 245, 0.6);">audible.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div><br></div><div><br><div><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 2, 2025, at 9:14 AM, lavender@mcn.org wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Yes, so true. Thank you Marc. <div><br></div><div>When I was in New York, about three months after 9/11, I began to experience a total panic attack. I was crawling underneath my skin, unable to be in my body. That morning, in my meditation, I had been visited by a fireman who had died while he was trying to save people. I began to feel all 3000 souls who had died in buildings and the grief was paralyzing. </div><div><br></div><div>I called a friend who guided me to find a quiet place, surround myself in Lavender healing light. </div><div><br></div><div>As I did this a voice began to speak and an hoop appeared in the room. The voice said:</div><div><br></div><div>"there is war and destruction and grief and tragedy happening all over the world. And if I am fortunate enough to not have been in that burning building, to not have a gun pointed at me, to not be getting bombed at, it was my job to help maintain that sacred hoop. </div><div><br></div><div>Do not postpone your happiness, and be grateful for the life and good fortune you have."</div><div><br></div><div>This message from White Eagle resonates so deeply with me. It also affirms the guidance I was given in a very difficult time.</div><div><br></div><div>I am grateful for you all and for all the wisdom that you share here in community.</div><div><br></div><div>With love,</div><div>Lavender</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Sep 1, 2025, at 10:09 PM, Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle commented a few days ago on the current situation:</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">🌟</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> This moment humanity is experiencing can be seen as a door or a hole. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">The decision to fall in the hole or walk through the door is up to you. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">If you consume the news 24 hours a day, with negative energy, constantly nervous, with pessimism, </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">you will fall into this hole.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">But if you take the opportunity to look at yourself, to rethink life and death, to take care of yourself and others, </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">then you will walk through the portal.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Take care of your home, take care of your body. Connect with your spiritual home. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">When you take care of yourself, you take care of everyone at the same time.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Do not underestimate the spiritual dimension of this crisis. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Take the perspective of an eagle that sees everything from above with a broader view. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">There is a social question in this crisis, but also a spiritual question. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">The two go hand in hand.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Without the social dimension we fall into fanaticism.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Without the spiritual dimension, we fall into pessimism and futility.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Are you ready to face this crisis? Grab your toolbox and use all the tools at your disposal.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Learn resistance from the example of Indian and African peoples: we have been and are exterminated.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> But we never stopped singing, dancing, lighting a fire and rejoicing.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Don't feel guilty for feeling blessed in these troubled times.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Being sad or angry doesn't help at all. Resistance is resistance through joy!</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">You have the right to be strong and positive. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">And there's no other way to do it than to maintain a beautiful, happy, bright posture.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Has nothing to do with alienation (ignorance of the world).</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">It's a resistance strategy.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">When we cross the threshold, we have a new worldview because we faced our fears and difficulties. </div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">This is all you can do now:</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Serenity in the storm</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""> Keep calm, pray everyday</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Make a habit of meeting the sacred everyday.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Show resistance through art, joy, trust and love.</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">🌟</div></div></blockquote></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress mailing list</span><br><span>Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</span><br><span>https://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress</span><br></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>