Journal October 6 2009 Tuesday

Gratitude And Ponderings
1- i have a dear, sweet, kind,
thoughtful, romantic, loving
soon-to-be-son-in-law Al
who loves our daughter
very truly much
2- i have a friend like
Susan Norrie
i can have lunch with
tomorrow (postponed
she hasta take her mom
to see doc)
3- i can go see Donna & Leslie
in play THE BEAUX STRATAGEM
with Janie
Monica & Elgia
4-i have a friend Kathy Castle
i can worry about
when she looks gray
5- i have a friend Bonnie
whose dance card is so
filled up with doctor stuff
she can't come see me
and have a visit this week
6- i have a friend Ann
who is a bead lady,
knitter, creator of felted purses,
who is coming to visit with me
see our crazy house and
have lunch with me Thursday
7- i have sunshine
at the river
-a chance to finish reading
Luciano Passuelio's
mindmap stuff
-catch up on World Gratitude
posts
-finish writing note for
CAYCE CARDS chapters
Happiness
Spirit
-and maybe read a bit in
Christina Page's
2012 AND THE GALACTIC CENTER
THE RETURN OF THE GREAT MOTHER
8- i swam in the river today
a little chilly
and i don't need
the seeds floating
off the plants
in their puffs of floaty clouds
to tell me
soon
what passes
for what we call winter
way down here
in south alabama
will come
and it will be too cold
to go swimming in the water
but today
the sun is shining waarm
on our floating platform
in the river
and i can take great joy
in its dazzling rays
and the songs
of ever so many birds
as they pause
in their flights
to the places they fly to
when it gets cold
9- It might be more feminine
to have a time bowl/basket
/bowl/basket of time
rather than time boxes
10- Am I trying to
build momentum
/show results
/make progress on a problem?
11- how can I learn
how to stay
completely focused?
how to treat time
as a limited resource?
& how to tune my results?
12- [*ask Debbie Happy Cohen]
is time a limited resource?
13- do i want to treat it
this way?
14- what are my time bandits?
what do i spend too much time
doing?
15- [notes from DVD
THE RETURN OF ANASTASIA
with Dr. Leonard Sharashkin]
-Don't fight the old.
Build the new.
-If you read just one book in your life,
read ANASTASIA!
-sacred ringing cedar tress
emit audible vibration
have influence
not just on human health
but on human destiny
-1996- 2,000 copies
of the first book
were self-published
-Russian words -ancient language
language of the heart
each word is filled with
emotion and feeling
words have metaphysical
meanings
-English -language of the mind
how do you translate imagery
and emotions and feelings
you get from reading Russian?
-eternal mind = human being
both man and woman
Man- with capital M
highlighted words of Jesus
in Bible
-everything that was ever needed
for this project was provided
out of the blue
-Nexus Magazine
-touches on something so deep
in our being
it crosses cultural differences
-Russia = seeding the light
-Edgar Cayce (Reading 3976-10)
Out of Russia
will come a new hope
of the world
-singing/ringing trees
energy waves
-Edgar Cayce (reading 410-1)
people who have ability to hear
words of the trees
-Native American
Yaquis/Surem
people who went to the wilderness
to a woman
who received her power from the sea
to interpret message
God had made earth for
(Dr. Kathleen M. Sands
American Quarterly, Vol. 35)
book = beech
wooden books with rules
carve on them
before that time
-remembrance when knowledge
was gotten directly from nature
from trees
from earth
-kingdom = family homestead
king = head of kin
dom = home, as in domestic
-God = year
yearly cycle
God is to be seen and experienced
through the seasons
the natural cycles
of Nature
-kingdom of God
family homestead inscribed
in the natural cycle
/permaculture farm
living with your family
on land
in community
-Spring[time]
mother's message
cycle of death and birth in nature
cycle of life
-Russian -garden (darcha) = to give
woman giving apples says:
this is for your family
this is not about $
reverence for earth
what's given for free to us
shouldn't be sold for $
-English -farm = to take
-two ways of looking at the world
-in Russian joy = to give off light
your joy is the light that you shine
-water = freedom-giver
-Man = eternal mind
-Anastasia - resurrection
in sanskrit = incorruptible
Persephone = goddess of spring
spring equinox
-communing with nature
-Russian princes brought Food and Authority
control food > control people's lives
food is source of power and authority
in 100 years they destroyed resources
-30,000 years ago central Russia was settled
people lived in harmony with surroundings
with abundance
subsistence needs (fire, wood, shelter)
but princes wanted golden plates,
churches with golden domes,
servants
their demands required use of more resources
cut down trees
resources got exhausted
nature can provide for subsistence
but vanity needs are limitless
-grain- high-caloried, easy to store,
easy to transport
used to feed armies
-vanity-wealth
exploitation of people/humans
exploitation of nature
-Dr. Margaret Paxon
imperial court
Versailles
extremelt harsh expoitation
-people deprived of their personal space
-churches being built with gold
>people running away to Siberia
-Albert Schweitzer
blueprint for colinization of Africa
for just a little work
> nature supplies natives every need
the negro is a free man
the state has to impose involuntary needs
desire for may wares
taxes
desire for enjoyment
create in him as many needs as possible
colonization- template
for subverting the traditional
the self-sufficient
-taxes and trade
destroy family ties
and communities
confiscate land for princes and churches
-before Christainity
everybody lived on land
it could not be owned
-Prince Svyatosalv:
Christain faith is monstrosity.
pre-Christian Russian tradition
different mind-set
Rod vs. Christianity
source of all life/ killing of a tree
kin/ contempt for Mother
phallus/ contempt for virility
birth/ fertility as shameful
strength/ weakness
(fighting forcefully for family and land)/ (meakness towards authority)
life and joy/ death and mourning
children of Rod/ slaves of god
freedom/ authority
direct link to Rod/ intermediaries
Life of Rod/ fear of death
-Saint Prince Vladimir
killed brother to gain power
raped daughter in front of soldiers
after she bore him 6 children
he sent her to monastary
so he could marry a Byzantine princess
-kin -all generations past and future
reincarnation
fault- yourself in past
future -it will be yourself as well
perpetuation of life- sacred in old Russia
-yearly celebrations in nature not church buildings
music and dancing
celebration of life force in a very direct way
-religion took sacred sites
and built churches there
-gold penus churches
-Russian Orthodox Church
pravo-slavnaya
Praising the Rightness
taken from pagan tradition
understanding universal law
that governs everything
and praising this law
for everything beautiful
that it gives
-Eternal life
in nature
life in nature
pagan
death, rebirth
seasons in nature
-people in nature
can see their death
as part of life
-to Christianize you have to instill
fear of death
-they used pagan symbols on churches
-Anastasia = pagan beliefs
-Saints- old pagan gods
-solar element/repeating cross = wheel of God force
-Russian Orthadox Inquisition
massive killing of wisemen
who advised communities on agriculture
and how to understand nature
fled to Siberia
1000 years = 40 generations
substance of understanding
of the meaning of life
passed on by means of example
wisemen, nature
agriculture
anastasia = this cycle of rebirth
fire = the sun
circle dances = movement of earth
around the sun
pagan symbols of fertilty
in wood carvings on houses today
sun = enlightenment
very physical
walk out every morning
to greet the sun
solar element
solar signs on traditional clothes
people still live in log cabins
have their own gardens
grow their own food
-expoitation of nature and Man
-propaganda posters
it stayed the same
nothing really changes
czar
communists
a man could be put on trial
and executed for not surrendering grain
if you give grain
you preserve
your freedom
and your life
-aspiration to have your land back
how come we're spozed
to pay for our own land?
it was ours already
in last 1000 years
Russians have had to buy their ancestral land
3X
in 1988 they had a grand celebration
of 1000 years of baptism in Russia
complete victory of Christian faith
over paganism
1996 Antastasia was published
eco-villages were formed
headlines read:
The Bewitching Lure Of Homegrown Cults
about the Anastasia movement
Anastasia brings spring in her footsteps
some words from a song:
Light is flowing, gently flowing
Illuminating our faces
Returning back to pristine sources
the music of the soul
Dark troubles shall not return
since Light quite simply equals love
life of freedom, lif in Light
Discover Spring's great world and peace
The Light is flowing, gently flowing