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In this issue:
1) Welcome Letter by Sibyl McLendon
2) What Can I Do? by Susan James
3) 30 Day Prayer Vigil from Marianne Williamson
4) Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome by Sibyl McLendon
5) The Power Of Music
6) About Afghanistan by Tamim Ansary
7) The Magic Wall by Susan James
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NOTE: some of you have not doubt noticed that the archive site for this newsletter has been down all week. This has forced me to move it (yet again). The new URL for MousePages is:
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Welcome letter
by Sibyl McLendon
Yá'át'ééh, my friends. Another week has gone by, and Americans are trying to get back to some semblance of their lives. There are many dark moments still...
I am appalled that so many are selling stock, and driving the market down so badly. I am NOT into this at all, but it seems to me that panic and selling off stock means that people are still more concerned with their own wallets than what is happening in this country.
And attacks on innocent people continue, based on what they look like. Arab-American students are leaving school, and innocent people are afraid to shop or go to worship. Pakistanis are being attacked and killed in other countries. What does this say about the people who would hurt them, based on skin color, or the way that they dress? There can be no comfort, if one is ruled by fear, and no inner peace in a heart filled with anger, and hate. Please, pray for Light and Love to enter everyone's heart.
I am writing this on Sunday. At 4 in the morning on Monday, my son goes for his Army physical and testing. I will just be happy to know, once and for all, what is going to happen with him. He intends to ask to go into a medical field, and this is a great relief to me. I want him to be helping people, not killing them. War is war, and warriors are necessary, but I do not want his soul to be wounded. Please, pray for him, as you pray for the world.
I urge you all to look for the hozho in your lives, and in these troubled times. I would like to leave you with some words from a Navajo ceremony, a version of the Blessingway written by
Frank Mitchell, a Navajo Medicine man and Singer:
Blessed, my country will always be there, this I say
Blessed my mountain ranges,
With pollen they will be blessed, this I say,
Blessed the running waters,
With pollen they will be blessed, this I say
According to these things, I shall live, this I say,
According to these things, we shall live, this I say!
Sa'ah Naaghaii Bik'eh Hozho I shall be,
Before me it will be hozho as I live on,
Behind me it will be hozho as I live on,
Below me it will be hozho as I live on,
Above me it will be hozho as I live on,
Hozho has been restored.
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Words from a good friend...
I hate no-one nor do I despise anyone. I pity the terrorists in one way and that is that they have never truly experienced what it means to fully love or care for anything but themselves. A shame that there is no shining light in their lives only the darkness of their souls. We must pray also for their souls that in some way God will enter in and change the heart that is turned into stone. So, my dear friend, I will leave you with this: Never let the evil of others touch your life or the lives of those you love. Be strong and always give love. That is the most important thing we can share with one another.
Pat
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What Can I Do?
(by Susan James)
As I closed my eyes to sleep last night, I asked:
*What Can I Do?*.
In the middle of the night, I woke up with one of those moments where an impression falls into the middle of your mind like a gentle raindrop falls in a lake.
The phrase that softly touched: *3 Years of Beauty*.
I usually keep a clipboard by my bed for this kind of thing, but forgot last night and had to drag myself across the room to write it down. I know from past experience I don't remember it the next morning.
Also what came is this: Many of us understand the power of a thought, the mechanics behind energy, the ingredients of what makes things happen. And we don't have to *do* anything, and our intention moves towards us.
The understanding I have from the phrase: *3 Years of Beauty* is that we can change the level of humanity with a phrase such as that, as it is carried around the world. Many folks will see that one grouping of words and *know* instinctively what it means.
It will work like the 100th Monkey Theory. It will change mass consciousness, mass thought within 3 years. Within 3 years we will have changed the humanity to the point that there will be no more lower light energy that will be supported to bring about events such as the WTC or any other moments like that around the world.
So, what I am now doing, is I am putting the phrase*3 Years of Beauty* up on my Computer Monitor where I have other phrases that I intend for my life, knowing full well those intentions are on their way to me. I am also placing that one line in all of my newsletters that go out across the Internet, it will be in them all somewhere.
And oh yes, it will be on My Magic Wall, where all of my other dreams coming true are moving towards me. And if you don't have a Magic Wall and want me to send it to you via email just let me know, (yes, its free).
I Love This World I have chosen to be a part of, and I'd like it to be here and in a beautiful shape for us all to enjoy our time in it !
With Love And *3 Years of Beauty* Beginning This day,
Susan James
sjames@rica.net
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30 DAY INTERNATIONAL PRAYER VIGIL TO BEGIN TUESDAY, SEPT. 1
[note from Sibyl: you can join in anytime. Just because this has already started, don't let that stop you!]
Please join with others of faith and spiritual intention around the world, for a thirty day prayer vigil beginning Tuesday, Sept. 18 and continuing through Oct. 18. For five minutes each day, at noon on the East Coast of the United States, 9am West Coast, 5pm in London, 7pm in Cairo, etc. (more time zones listed below), please pause for five minutes of sincere and silent prayer.
Let us open ourselves to the wisdom and love of God, asking that Spirit's will be done for ourselves, for each other and for future generations. Amen.
New York City 12:00 Noon
Chicago 11:00 a.m.
Los Angeles 9:00 a.m
London 5:00 p.m.
Paris 6:00 p.m.
Cairo/Beirut 7:00 p.m
Johannesburg/ Istanbul 7:00 p.m
Moscow 8:00 p.m.
New Delhi 10:30 p.m
Beijing/Singapore 1:00 a.m.
Tokyo 2:00 a.m.
Sydney 3:00 a.m.
Auckland 4:00 a.m.
Dear God,
May love replace all fear.
May peace replace all violence.
May You replace all else.
Amen.
Love,
Marianne Williamson
www.churchoftoday.com
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Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
by Sibyl McLendon
We all went through a traumatic event last week. Something unthinkable happened, and it touched us all in ways that we never dreamt were possible. We have all been filled with feeling of grief, horror, and extreme sadness. That is normal and expected in the face of the events of last week.
Now the country is slowly attempting to get back to work, to move on as best as we can. I have concerns, however, that some of us will have more trouble moving on than others. Some of us have been affected in ways that we do not understand, and more deeply than we have ways of coping with. In times such as these, Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome may have crept into our lives.
Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, PTSS, is the emotional response that many people have to overwhelming traumatic events. It creeps over our lives, and leaves us lost in a maze of disfunctional emotions and pain. If you, or anyone you know, is experiencing the following problems, and does not seem to be getting better, PTSS may be the problem:
shock
terror
irritability
blame
anger
guilt
grief or sadness
emotional numbing
helplessness
loss of pleasure derived from familiar activities
difficulty feeling happy
difficulty feeling loving
impaired concentration
impaired decision making ability
memory impairment
disbelief
confusion
nightmares
worry
dissociation (e.g., tunnel vision, dreamlike or "spacey" feeling)
fatigue, exhaustion
insomnia
headaches
gastrointestinal upset
decreased appetite
decreased libido
social withdrawal
impaired work performance
impaired school performance
decreased satisfaction
distrust
PTSS can manifest as any combination of the above symptoms. While it is very reasonable to be terribly upset by the attacks, it should not reasonable to allow these events to permanently affect us to such a degree that we can not get past it. There is help. It may be time to seek professional assistance. There are any number of agencies that can assist people who are showing possible PTSS symptoms, for little or no cost. Pick up the phone and make some calls. Get help for yourself, your friend or loved one. Time will not heal PTSS, it will just get worse. Here are two on line sites that have helpful lists of available resources:
http://www.ptsd.com/
http://mentalhelp.net/guide/trauma.htm
Do it now. The best response to the events of last week is to emerge stronger.
Sibyl McLendon
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This is a link to a really moving page, showing pictures of the outpouring of support for American from around the world. It is slow-loading, so you can open up a new browser and surf around or read your email while you wait for it to load completely. Believe me, it is well worth the wait.
http://home.earthlink.net/~hankinhsd/thankyou.htm
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The Power Of Music
At The Same Time
by Barbra Streisand
Think of all the hearts
beating in the world
at the same time
Think of all the faces
and the stories they could tell
at the same time
Think of all the eyes
looking out into this world
trying to make some sense of what we see
Think of all the ways we have of seeing
think of all the ways there are of being
Think of all the children
being born into this world
at the same time
Feel your love surround them
through the years they'll need to grow
at the same time
Just think of all the hands
that will be reaching for a dream
think of all the dreams that could come true
if the hands we're reaching with
could come together
joining me and you
When it comes to thinking of tomorrow
we must protect our fragile destiny
in this precious life there's no time to borrow
the time has come to be a family
Think of all the love
pouring from our hearts
at the same time
Think of all the light our looks
can shine and grow in this world
at the same time
Think what we've been givin
and yet think what we could lose
all of life is in our trembling hands
its time to overcome our fears
and join to build a world that loves and understands
It helps to think of all the hearts
beating in the world
and hope for all the hearts
healing in the world
theres a healing music in our hearts
beating in this world
at the same time
at the same time
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A sobering essay forwarded by a UC Berkeley professor:
The following was sent to me by my friend Tamim Ansary. Tamim is an Afghani-American writer. He is also one of the most brilliant people I know in this life. When he writes, I read. When he talks, I listen. Here is his take on Afghanistan and the whole mess we are in.
Dear Gary and whoever else is on this email thread:
I've been hearing a lot of talk about "bombing Afghanistan back to the
Stone Age." Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk Radio today, allowed that this would mean killing innocent people, people who had nothing to do with this atrocity, but "we're at war, we have to accept collateral damage. What else can we do?" Minutes later I heard some TV pundit discussing whether we "have the belly to do what must be done." And I thought about the issues being raised especially hard because I am from Afghanistan, and even though I've lived here for 35 years I've never lost track of what's going on there. So I want to tell anyone who will listen how it all looks from where I'm standing.
I speak as one who hates the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt in my mind that these people were responsible for the atrocity in New York. I agree that something must be done about those monsters.
But the Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan. The Taliban are a cult of ignorant psychotics who took over Afghanistan in 1997. Bin Laden is a political criminal with a plan. When you think Taliban, think Nazis. When you
think Bin Laden, think Hitler. And when you think "the people of Afghanistan" think "the Jews in the concentration camps." It's not only that the Afghan people had nothing to do with this atrocity. They were the first victims of the perpetrators. They would exult if someone would come in there, take out the Taliban and clear out the rats nest of international thugs holed up in their country.
Some say, why don't the Afghans rise up and overthrow the Taliban? The answer is, they're starved, exhausted, hurt, incapacitated, suffering. A few years ago, the United Nations estimated that there are 500,000 disabled orphans in Afghanistan--a country with no economy, no food. There are millions of widows. And the Taliban has been burying these widows alive in mass graves. The soil is littered with land mines, the farms were all destroyed by the Soviets. These are a few of the reasons why the Afghan people have not overthrown the Taliban.
We come now to the question of bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age. Trouble is, that's been done. The Soviets took care of it already. Make the Afghans suffer? They're already suffering. Level their houses? Done. Turn their schools into piles of rubble? Done. Eradicate their hospitals? Done. Destroy their infrastructure? Cut them off from medicine and health care? Too late. Someone already did all that. New bombs would only stir the rubble of earlier bombs. Would they at least get the Taliban?
Not likely. In today's Afghanistan, only the Taliban eat, only they have the means to move around. They'd slip away and hide. Maybe the bombs would get some of those disabled orphans, they don't move too fast, they don't even have wheelchairs. But flying over Kabul and dropping bombs wouldn't really be a strike against the criminals who did this horrific thing. Actually it would only be making common cause with the Taliban--by raping once again the people they've been raping all this time. So what else is there? What can be done, then? Let me now speak with true fear and
trembling. The only way to get Bin Laden is to go in there with ground troops. When people speak of "having the belly to do what needs to be done" they're thinking in terms of having the belly to kill as many as needed.
Having the belly to overcome any moral qualms about killing innocent people. Let's pull our heads out of the sand. What's actually on the table is Americans dying. And not just because some
Americans would die fighting their way through Afghanistan to Bin Laden's hideout. It's much bigger than that folks. Because to get any troops to Afghanistan, we'd have to go through Pakistan. Would they let us? Not likely. T he conquest of Pakistan would have to be first. Will other Muslim nations just stand by? You see where I'm going. We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West.
And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants.
That's why he did this. Read his speeches and statements. It's all right there. He really believes Islam would beat the west. It might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers. If the west wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of view. He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever that would mean, but the war would
last for years and millions would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that?
Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
Tamim Ansary
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THE MAGIC WALL: Introduction
Copyright 2001/SusanJames/VastFive
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1. The Magic Wall came about due to my research and
dissection of the Aladdin's Lamp Fable and Ali Baba
and the Cave of Thieves. Both Persian Fables which are
known to contain Ancient Truth and Wisdoms.
2. I have two focuses on My Magic Wall:
A. Livelihood Intentions
B. Lifestyle Intentions
3. I have Pictures/photos of both lifestyle and livelihood
Intentions on Blue Posterboard, on the Back of My Office
Door.
4. I have inspirations/tasks/projects.....things do be done listed
on the Wall next to my Magic Wall/Door...also very
colorful.
5. I also stated as an intention: that Everything on My Magic
Wall Comes true.
6. My Magic Wall is My Aladdin's Lamp.
7. Why does this work? Because, I understand the Mechanics
of Imagination; Which leads to knowledge, which leads to
experience.
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30 DAY SECRET MAGIC WALL PLAN (sj)
Copyright2001/SusanJames/VastFive/ARR
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OVERALL INTENTION: Being Spirit
Mastering Myself (keeping my feet forward), which shows up
in my livelihood and lifestyle experiences
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SPECIFIC INTENT:
Purposely Apply Focus (which is emotion applied on Purpose)
to my Magic Wall and all that appears there.
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WHAT DOES MY SOUL WANT?
My Soul wants to evolve. It evolves thru my physical self
manifesting desires. Therefore: My Soul Leads the way to my
Magic Wall Manifestations.
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I "DO/BE" MY MAGIC WALL BY:
-Feeling what I choose and intend
-By Knowing my Imagination becomes my Experience.
-I focus on what has given me life:.....
The Imagination of My Soul
-Nothing...stands...NO-THING, stands in the way of me and
my imagination.
-I stay in my imagination and notice when I am not there.
The Mind of My Soul is MY Imagination: I STAY THERE !
I figured out a way to be here, but "not" be here.
Where ever I Am, I pretend Im not there.
(Both of these statements came to me, when I was asking:
Help me Switch it around. Where my fantasy becomes realty.)
ACTION: Read the stuff I have placed on Magic Wall once
every day in the morning. When reading know longer feels
good, then simply just look at the Wall for a few moments.
If I can answer any questions about this, or you have
comments.....just let me know !
Love Susan
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feel free to send it on, just please keep all stuff in place and
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