Marianne Williamson interview which I found encouraging

(when you click on the the title you will go to Alternatives UK's menu of free podcasts.  Pass person who appears to have gone a little overboard with elective surgery...Scroll way down to Marianne Williamson and then follow directions.  She really is good at making the spiritual truth accessible.  When I talk about the truth as I see it people's eyes glaze over.  She makes you go "Ohhhhhhh! I get it!" )

So yesterday I listened to President Obama's weekly address.  I receive emails from the White House and you can too!  I don't always open the emails but yesterday I did.  His address was focused on corporate influence on elections which is not accompanied by identification of donors.  Businesses can put money into politics already but the new development has to do with the amounts of money and the clandestine nature of the contributions.  Anyway, I posted the link to Facebook and sent a link to a bunch of people.  Probably you were one of them.  I mentioned using the power of the vote to elect leaders who put human rights before corporate rights.  Marianne Williamson uses very similar language towards the end of this lecture.

It irks me no end to hear people such as the array of brilliant minds on the Fox News platform using their power to influence already fearful people into more fear.  You are either in the TEA PARTY or you are a Communist.  If you are concerned with feeding and clothing hungry children you are a Communist.  Well let me go out on a limb here and state that feeding, clothing and educating children is very important to me.  How radical!  I call it Democracy.  It makes me happy.  

Marianne Williamson touches on that idea, care of children as a priority of collective effort, and I find that when I hear other people speak that goal from power I calm down.  I still remember weeping when Liv Ullman spoke from her position as UN Ambassador for Children and asked why the welfare of children always comes last.  Talk about Mama Grizzlies; she was pissed off!  I'll bet that's on YouTube since everything else is.  I don't know why the (totally avoidable) suffering of others should cause me pain.  I don't know why the stifling of other people's minds should cause me to feel anger.  But if I take that energy and use it to help maybe I will feel better.

So, my spiritual path now includes canvassing for the Democratic Party.  I really dread the actual doing of this.  We'll see how it goes.

And I dedicate this next song to Glenn Beck.  It may have been written for him.  The verse is 'F U' just so you know.  But it's still great. link to song I heard while standing outside dressing room in Hollister store while my big little girl tried on jeans. I sought out a sales clerk to ask who is that singing. It's Lily Allen God bless her.

meditation challenge

OK.  I'm a little chagrined that I haven't written anything since May.  I shall not dwell upon that.  

Moving forward:  Since Deepak Chopra wrote a book about Christ which caught my attention I've been more aware of him (Chopra) and have opted in to his web world.  I like his sense of humor.  Also, I've read some of his responses to heartfelt, occasionally heartbreaking, queries posted to his blog.  His responses make sense.  He sounds like someone who practiced medicine seriously, which he did.  He's got Doctor thinking going on.    The Chopra Center has me on their list for email solicitations to pricey retreats.  Today I received an invitation to a FREE 21 day meditation challenge.  I enrolled.

My calendar already said Meditation on August 12.  I'd been looking at the website for a local Tibetan Meditation center and made note of their weekly open meditation.  It is destined.

you can only start from where you are.

It will all work out. HOW will it? I don't know. It's a mystery

Philip Henslowe: Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

Hugh Fennyman: So what do we do?
Philip Henslowe: Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well.
Hugh Fennyman: How?
Philip Henslowe: I don't know. It's a mystery.

While I cleaned today I had Shakespeare In Love playing.  It surprised me how little I remembered of it.  The lines above particularly interested me. It will be ok.  How will it?  I don't know...
I like the certainty.  It's out of your control and yet the outcome is not in question.


And speaking of mystery, while watching The Wizard's of Waverly Place with my favorite pre-teen last week I spotted a poster in the background for "Mystery Play".  That's pretty funny.  Pretty obscure and therefore more funny.  http://www.steinerbooks.org/detail.html?id=9781855841840

Kind of like seeing the Advent Wreath from the Waldorf Kindergarten (completely not in favor of tv for kids) in the Disney Tinkerbelle Movie.

real thing:

tinkerbell movie - can't find it but there is really an Advent Spiral in the movie.  I don't think they appear elsewhere so some Disney movie maker is hip to the Waldorf Kindergarten.


This seems to support up the thesis that popped into my head 20 years ago

The Esoteric is becoming Exoteric and the Exoteric is becoming Esoteric.

Tavis Smiley - Meet the Faiths (click this title... it's a link)

I heard part of this on the drive home from our church's faith formation evening.  I love Tavis Smiley anyway but this was so right up my alley.  You can't talk about human dignity without hinting at a creator.  like yeee ahhh, I know!

my link was blocked for copywrite reasons.

Sorry, I'm thinking

while you wait, enjoy this cartoon which I associate with the Holy Spirit.  Some gifts may be very difficult to share.  You can't always turn them on and off like a bathtub faucet.


I just went visiting old posts and realized that the you tube link here was blocked.


so here's a wiki-page about the cartoon I was trying to refer you to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Froggy_Evening