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Sister Organizations, clockwise from the top center:
Gather the Women
Global Matrix, Circle
Connections, LightPages,
Imagine the Good, Sole2Soul Walk, Women of Spirit and Faith, Spheres Circles,
Standing Women, Women Waking the World, Evolutionary Women, Weaving the World, Ways Women Lead, Millionth Circle.
To see organizational news, click on their links. Collective highlights below.
Allies for the Greater Good
A Collaborative
Newsletter... and Exploration of Shared Purpose...
If we are one humanity evolving, how can we adjust our
thinking and our projects to be more precisely together?
THE STRATEGIC VIEW, October 2011
Can you feel it? A field of love has appeared through the
cracks of our divided culture(s).
As stories circulate around 2012 and as the world's
institutions stagger, it is tempting to hold tightly to a story or position
that promises some certainty. But the outcome of holding on seems to bring even
more uncertainty... political deadlock, run-away profiteering, religious
fanaticism, and so on.
Yet, beyond the separation fostered by the holdings, beyond
the suffering that comes with it, wherever a relaxed mind really looks
around... a newness is rising. It is perhaps most visible when we witness
local gatherings across the world, united through global telecommunications. A
call for change is issued, and hearts and minds respond spontaneously in
different places around the globe. Our technology reveals our interconnection,
the web of life that we are, and the parts of our global body that need
attention are brought to light.
It is when this local/global simultaneity is most profound,
when open, willing hearts and minds are joined in a field of Oneness, that the
newness becomes most palpable. This is a deep personal experience beyond
separation, and for those who experience it, a wave of deep love breaks the
barriers between self and other. I am more myself and yet more connected to
you at the same time. Relaxation to this place of truth, simultaneously
with others, is bringing with it a new culture of wholeness from which to
create a new world.
-- Jeanie DeRousseau, PhD, Anthropologist
With deep gratitude for conversations and shared experiences with Nina
Cooley, Bonnie Kelley, and Lucky Sweeny, founding members of the Santa Barbara Conscious Evolution
community, and Vikki
Hanchin, and during the September gathering of the Imagine the Good Foundation.
[PLEASE
SHARE YOUR PERSPECTIVE: What newness are you experiencing?]
ACTIVE FRONT LINES
BUILDING UNITY THRU LOCAL/GLOBAL
SIMULTANEITY
Although the following local/global
call is a bit out of the ordinary for this forum, it brings a deep energy of
change. Please join us in recognizing the call to wholeness that it represents.
As each of us lives into the frequencies of wholeness and unity, we will hold
one another safely through these times.
FOSTERING ORGANIC COLLABORATION AND A
NEW WISDOM CULTURE
[PLEASE
SHARE your projects here, and your sense of what is new and emerging.]
[See also SPHERES
CIRCULAR E-ZINE, a circle sister publication, serving and cross-pollinating
conscious projects for a decade. Contact Deb Mitchell with your project at
(505) 603-6441 or spherescircles@earthlink.net.]
PERSPECTIVES ON THE WHOLE SYSTEM
The newness is here...
As a bitter-sweet sense of loss
A Splitting of the Worlds
[Reprinted from Unplug from the Patriarchy Newsletter, August 28,
2011]
By Lucia Rene
Writer, Buddhist monk, Energy warrior for a balanced world, www.unplugfromthepatriarchy.com
For the past 2 days, I've been feeling a little sad. Some
change is in the air, and I haven't been able to identify precisely what
change, what sadness. It felt as though I was leaving something behind and
embarking on a new adventure, an adventure that was very quiet and subdued.
Will I stop disseminating spiritual knowledge through teleconferences, I
wondered? Will I completely redefine my offerings and move into a new phase?
Will I drop the body? What change is looming that could be so life changing?
Finally, this morning in meditation, I put my finger on it.
Have you seen the movie The Lord of the Rings or read
Tolkien's wonderful trilogy of that name? If so, perhaps you remember one of
the last scenes where the elves, Bilbo, Frodo, and Gandalf get on a pretty
wooden boat, sail out of the harbor, and disappear from view. They leave for a
new world.
That's it, I thought. That moment in the film captures the
feeling perfectly! [more]
As access to deep wisdom
"Separation, judgment, the marking of so-called
'differences' in one another have run their course.
These things are finished." -The
Great Council of the Grandmothers, www.grandmothersspeak.com.
"The
great work has been accomplished and the prophecy has been fulfilled ...
The 5th world has been born. It is here. Go forth into this newness."
-The Lakota Ancestors, through Seashell Moon Woman, www.expectwonderful.com
Walking With the Grandmothers
By Grandmother Tonya Whitedeer
Clan Mother of the Bear Clan of Medicine Creek Métis in
Please join the grandmothers and me for the next united Worldwide
Prayers for our Waters on October 28th, a most powerful of times.
If it were not for the acknowledgment of my ancestral
Chickasaw Grandmothers, and all of my Grandmothers that are part of my own DNA,
I would not have had the courage to step onto the path of the Grandmothers. So
many have asked, "How do I bring in the Grandmothers?" My answer,
"Do you know your ancestral Grandmothers?" Just by searching, you
open the door necessary for them to come to you.
And, believe me, they are ready, willing, and able to come
to your aid, no matter what it might be. They are excited that you have
acknowledged them; they have always been close by, within your spirit's aura,
waiting! [more...]
As we see beyond the suffering to the Truth of Being
Navigating Changing Relationships Through the Shift
By Laurie McCammon
CEO of the Imagine the Good Foundation, www.imaginethegood.com
"Beyond right doing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I
will meet you there. " Rumi
Over a decade ago when I first encountered this quote on a
card in a greeting card store, I knew it was important in some way. On the
surface, it seemed like an expression of a desire for a truce, and that is
probably what most people buying the card intended for its use. But my purpose
for buying it was something else entirely. I had just become aware of the idea
of the morphogenetic field as an awareness one could access which did not
contain the duality that is so inherent in our world. I had a longing to dwell
in a place beyond duality, and a curiosity to experience such a state of mind
myself. The card was a tangible reminder to keep searching, always in the
background of my thoughts, a sort of private search for the Holy Grail. [more]
As the natural world conveys its wisdom to us
Song from the Sacred White
© Victoria A. Hanchin, LCSW, received 11/19/2010
Writer, Holistic psychotherapist, Visionary activist for transformational
community, www.wholepersonwholeplanet.com
This song came as a "download" after I sat in
meditation and asked for guidance about what was to be my next focus in my
service to assist the Planetary Shift into the New Earth of Unity and Joy. I
immediately saw—and FELT—the presence of "Lightning," the Sacred
White
Indigenous Soul: Original, Whole
Seeing with Sacred Eyes
Life's interconnection, speaking as Blessing
Divinity realized.
In a
Sacred way, creative as play
Offering our self-expressions
As gifts freely given, joyously living
Abundance the lesson.
A new
way to listen: Oneness the mission
Listening to Creation:
Animals, stones, trees, rivers and bones
Honoring All Our Relations.
Releasing
the lies of shallow eyes,
Beholding each other's beauty.
Freed from the chatter, speaking what matters:
Heart, Soul, Community.
No
more separation, now co-creation.
Relating essence-to-essence.
Original Blessing: joy, peace and sharing.
A New Earth expressing Love's presence.
[Editor's Note: The newness is here ... when our
interconnections are not comprehensible from the old reality. This
Newsletter almost assembled itself. It was as though the information wanted to
be disseminated, and my job was to maintain an ease as I served the process.
Although there was an apparent magic in many of the connections made, one
connection was so mind-stretching that I must add it here.
Vikki Hanchin ("Song from the Sacred White
Buffalo" above) and I have had many conversations about what is happening
in the world today, and her name kept coming to me. Unable to reach her, I
found myself instead having no less than 3 conversations about the White
Buffalo, sacred to many Native Americans, and to Vikki.
About midnight, my phone rang. Vikki's name came up on my
screen, so I answered, "Hello, Vikki?", forgetting that it was 3 am
her time. Vikki was actually sleeping, but her phone too rang from across the
room where she had it plugged into the wall. She woke up, got out of bed,
walked across the room, and picked up her phone to hear me saying, "Hello,
Vikki?" Our phones had connected us, and when our brains
caught up with the reality of that, we realized that the Song from the Sacred
White Buffalo was most definitely to be included in the Allies News!
Wishing us all the continued magic of Oneness embodied...
Jeanie DeRousseau]
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This
Collaborative Information is intended to cross-pollinate a wave of related women's
initiatives, and has been sent to all their memberships including LightPages
members of: Circle
Connections, www.circleconnections.com:
Creating a sacred online circle space for conversations that invite women's
wisdom around the important issues of these times, including the intersection
of feminine values and economics. Modeling circle principles and facilitation
as a learning opportunity for those new to circle. Evolutionary
Women, www.evolutionarywomen.com:
Creating events, gatherings, forums and services for women called to the
Co-Creative Feminine. Look for their book Conscious Choices, and their
upcoming 2012 events in Gather
the Women Global Matrix, www.gatherthewomen.org:
Networking women and women's organizations who share a belief that the time
is now to activate the incredible power of women's wisdom on a planetary
scale. Inviting women to gather locally and/or to become regional
coordinators for local circles. Imagine
the Good, www.imaginethegood.com:
Inspiring and empowering people to shift their attention to the greater good.
Inviting women to use their film, "The Heart to Lead: Women as Allies
for the Greater Good", to catalyze circle conversations and build
community, and to watch for their new Foundation promoting organic
collaboration. Millionth
Circle, www.millionthcircle.org:
Inviting circles with a spiritual center to become a worldwide healing force
through feminine values of relationship, nurturing, interdependency, with the
aim of celebrating the millionth circle. Supporting a 5th UN World Conference
on Women through a petition at www.5wcw.org.
Offerings, www.offeringspublications.com:
On-going conversation that fosters the story of women evolving themselves,
their lives, their world. With foci on birthing, new politics, money, women's
networks, using art, in-person and through online channels. Sole2SoulWalk, www.Sole2SoulWalk.com:
Resting, having completed the inner and outer dimensions of a 7 month walk
across Spheres
Circles, www.spherescircles.com:
Promoting the principles of positivity and connectivity through the Spheres
Circular E-zine, part of CMN, the Conscious Meme Network, [See their Facebook page here]. Promoting
Spheres Circles, and Pollyanna Power and products, "Positive attitude in
action"! Standing
Women, www.standingwomen.org:
Following Sharon Mehdi's story of the Great Silent Grandmother Gathering,
inviting women worldwide to stand in silence for a better world every
Mother's Day. Over 8000 'standings' in 80+ countries form the foundation for
a network of committed mothering love across the planet. Inviting new
every-moment commitments. Water
Convergence, www.waterconvergence.com:
Building and nurturing an on-going field of love and unity around the earth's
waters. Calling us each into conversations and rituals that bless our waters,
cleanse our oceans, and provide clean drinking water for generations to come.
Ways
Women Lead, www.wayswomenlead.net:
Following the threads of organic collaboration to foster networking of
grassroots women around the United Nations. Promoting a global culture of
self-discovery, empowerment, and leadership for the common good. Weaving
the World, www.weavingtheworld.com:
Inviting women to identify
the agenda of Good and design the cultural space opening now for
themselves and their families. Offering a library of interviews with women in
leadership, and energetic practices to transform self and society. Women of
Spirit and Faith, www.womenofspiritandfaith.org:
Convening multi-faith conversations that celebrate women's spiritual
leadership. Inviting local circles around their new book, Women,
Spirituality and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power, to
carry the conversation to every community. Women
Waking the World, www.womenwakingtheworld.com:
Communicating the root cause of today's crisis, the devaluation of the
feminine, and working to restore feminine wisdom, values and influence in the
service of all life. See
interactive pages for all of these women's organizations at www.LightPages.net. Contact Jeanie@LightPages.net for more
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