[Thespiritexpress] Finding Light in Dark Times

Tue Oct 17 15:21:35 PDT 2023

Thank you, Tomas & Marc
			Dennis
> On Oct 17, 2023, at 12:29 PM, Yasskin Marc via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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> From dear brother Tomas ~ 
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> In these dire times is it heartening to hear from our spiritual guides and leaders.
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> In Truth ~ it is all a co-creation ~ Everything ~ We are all responsible ~ ⚡️
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> w/love, ~m.🌟
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> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Dr. Tom Pinkson <a-new-vision-of-living at v.kajabimail.net <mailto:a-new-vision-of-living at v.kajabimail.net>>
>> Subject: Finding Light in Dark Times
>> Date: October 17, 2023 at 12:09:15 PM PDT
>> To: yasskin at mindspring.com <mailto:yasskin at mindspring.com>
>> Reply-To: tompinkson at gmail.com <mailto:tompinkson at gmail.com>
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>> 
>> Hola Relatives, 
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>> The news coming out of the Israel and Gaza conflict is too horrible for the mind to comprehend, what has been and what it portends, let alone elsewhere around the world where violence and climate change disasters wreck havoc on innocent beings, plants and animals. Shock, sadness, despair, grief, anger, depression.
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>> It feels overwhelming. What to do? How to respond? How to try and be with it all and still keep going with life, with keeping the flicker of hope alive in these darkening times that can so easily cause us (me) to close our hearts and shut down just to try and stay sane while such craziness abounds with such incredible hurtfulness to all.
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>> Then I go outside into our yard this morning, to do my morning thanksgiving prayers and there before me is the eight foot high Lion’s Tail Plant vibrating with life. Bees, Monarch Butterflies, and Hummingbirds all darting in and out amongst the flowers gathering some of the sweet nectar that they produce. It is a circus of motion, of sound, of life. Next to all this activity I see how some new stalks of baby grass tendrils coming up through the soil where Andrea seeded a barren stretch of earth with hopes that new growth would one day take place. It is.
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>> Nature works. Nature produces amazing diversity of life and beings, all seeking to live and flourish.
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>> Trying to balance the existence of such beauty and creativity with the demons of violence unleashed in so many ways is very vexing to say the least. It makes it more important than ever to take good care of our stressed out selves and, of extreme importance, to do the inner work to keep our hearts open to the healing presence of love light within us all and to pray and work for healing, for peace, for justice, for beauty.
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>> These incredibly challenging times call us go grow, to deepen, raise and expand the bandwidth of our conscious awareness so we can recognize, understand and live together cooperatively and harmoniously from the sacred unity that we are all embedded in and that lives in the deepest recess of our essential being. As the Lakota say during their prayers, “We are all related.”
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>> What we do to another, to the earth, the ocean, the air, to animals, we do to ourselves and our children, our families, the ones coming down the line in future generations. There is no such phenomenon as separation. It is as if we are infected with a mind-virus that distorts our perception into believing we are each separate objects living in a universe of separate objects. Modern particle physics along with indigenous wisdom science and spiritual traditions worldwide present the same understanding - we, all of creation, seen and unseen, are interwovenly interconnected in a web of unity with all that is, all that has been, all that will be.
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>> We all make a difference no matter what we do. It is inescapable that what we think, feel and do enters the energy field of the planet precisely because we are all connected. The only aspect of this that is in question is - what kind of difference do we make? In a time of increasing violence, polarization and social unrest the energy of fear grows stronger and feeds judgment and reactivity. The root of fear is the perception and belief in separation for then we are aliened from the cosmic forces that give and sustain our lives. It is a huge wake up call to remember that we are all sacred beings, worthy of respect, care and support, we are all starlight come to earth, come to life and we are all, at our essence, part and parcel of infinite, unconditonal light and love. We are loved, we are love and our love is for giving and receiving, to live love now.
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>> For true healing we must go to the roots of what causes people to commit violence towards innocent others. What has happened in their lives that drives them to commit unspeakable acts to women, children, old ones? We must not only react to symptoms stopping ALL those who hurt others from so doing, but equally so must we penetrate deep within to address the causative factors that brings human beings to kill, main and destroy members of their fellow human family.
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>> When enough of us do the work to open our awareness to love’s presence, to spirit’s presence in all beings, in all creatures, in all of creation...and when enough of us show up as what I call Spiritual Wisdom Warriors to be the change we want to see in the world, to change the organizational systems and institutions we have created to try and meet our needs into ones that truly serve all people, not just caucasians through ideology of white supremacy and institutional racism and discrimination, not just the one percent, but all people, all beings, we can create the kind of peaceful and just, harmonious, healthy and happy win-win-world for all that we have the potential to make be a reality.
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>> As dire news fights for your attention, instead seek to stay awake and live the love that you are, that we all are, at the deepest level of our being. The below song came to me many years ago and I use it regularly and am happy to share it with you today:
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>> May all beings be happy. 
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>> May all beings be safe. 
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>> May all beings everywhere be free. 
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>> It starts right at home with you and me.
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>> Chat it over and over, throughout your days. May it support you, and keep you going with the light of love in dark times. 
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>> With Prayers for Peace, for Opening Hearts and Minds to True Healing.
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>> Love,
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>> 
>> 
>> Tomás
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>> Dr. Tom Pinkson
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