-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ <A HREF="http://www.aci.net/kalliste/">The Home Page of J. Orlin Grabbe</A> ----- Today's Lesson From Seven Life Lessons of Chaos by John Briggs and F. David Peat The poet John Keats called the entry into chaos as immersion in "doubts and uncertainties." Think of doubts and uncertainties as a way of extending whatever limited degrees of freedom we have come to accept from life. Artists, healers, and those undergoing life changes open up to the uncertainties, accessing degrees of freedom that can spur new self-organization. Going through the death of a loved one, a divorce, or a period of self-doubt is painful, but often those are the very experiences that bring us to a keen sense of the truth beyond words and a new path in life. The history of the world's religions is full of stories about mystics and sages who spend time in the "wilderness"--either literally or through some "dark night of the soul" and inner chaos. Healing of mind and body in many traditional societies involves a descent into darkness, chaos, and death. Greek healers encouraged "incubation," in which a sick individual was required to sleep and dream. Using ceremonies designed to loosen the grip of the conscious ego, the sick person was encouraged to let go of the familiar structures of his life and enter the dark world of gods and underground forces. By letting go of consensual structures, a creative self-reorganization became possible. ===== Der Fuhrer Invades Yugoslavia Serb Farmers Massacred; NATO Goes in Search of Villains A NATO peace: experience the difference SIR MICHAEL JACKSON, the Nato commander in Kosovo, yesterday launched a manhunt for the killers of 14 Serb farmers, describing their deaths as "a cowardly act of brutal and cold murder". In the worst incident since Nato peacekeepers deployed in the Yugoslav province six weeks ago, ethnic Albanians shot 13 men and a boy of 15 as they worked in fields at Gracko, 10 miles south of the Kosovo capital Pristina. The dead farmers were found on Friday night after a Gurkha patrol heard a sustained burst of automatic fire. Seconds later Serb villagers used a special hotline to alert a nearby British base to the shootings. The killers had already fled when the soldiers arrived on the scene minutes later. The troops found the bodies of 12 men and the young boy lying in a circle. A fourteenth victim died on his tractor 150 yards away. General Jackson rejected accusations by a villager in Gracko that Kfor was "complicit" with Albanians in "this tragic and murderous attack". He said: "It is plainly absurd and it's rather insulting. We are here to maintain public safety. We will leave no stone unturned to get hold of the murderers." As word of the killings spread across Kosovo, tension between Serb and ethnic Albanians rose to fever pitch, threatening to usher in a new wave of ethnic blood-letting. Major Ian Seraph, a spokesman for British troops in the area, said yesterday: "I'm sure they'll remember the day for the rest of their lives. They saw 13 bodies killed in cold blood lying next to a combine harvester. "The harvester was still running. About five minutes later they found another body on top of a tractor. They were all killed in a most horrible and gruesome manner." One of the first soldiers on the scene, Lt Col Robin Hedges, said: "It cannot be called a war crime, it is mass murder." Nato sealed off the scene of the killings which were near a track in a maize field and took the farmers' bodies to a morgue in Pristina. Forensic experts combed the area yesterday. Leading Serbian Orthodox church officials travelled to Gracko yesterday to reassure the villagers. Father Sava, a young priest, said after talking to villagers: "We must not let the people down by allowing one repression to be replaced by another. We've had enough of Milosevic's crimes here. We mustn't let Albanian extremists do the same thing." Throughout Gracko, a tidy village with white-washed houses built around a large square, the Serbs were in deep shock. They gathered in small groups, some with heads in their hands or with tears slowly running down their worn cheeks. Three members of a family sat quietly on a short wooden bench at one end of the village. Dusko Vujecic, the father, said: "Before the war it was all right. We had no problems with the Albanians in the next villages. Even now we get on okay. We always greet each other in the streets. Sometimes we talk in Serbian, sometimes in Albanian. I worked with Albanians for 20 years in a factory. They are good people. But after this, we don't know what to think anymore. Perhaps we should leave, although I don't know where to." A little further down the road a group of elderly ladies in black dresses cried openly. One woman Stanimir Djekic, whispered: "My brother was with them. Now he is dead." As British soldiers serving with REME looked on, Slobodanka Ristic, 58, told how her 75-year old husband, Nikola, had been missing for nine days, feared kidnapped by ethnic Albanian guerrillas. She said: "We don't feel safe with Nato. The Albanians are just killing us." But the paltry hope that the future has for the Serbs of Gracko, surrounded by mostly hostile ethnic Albanian communities, was summed up best by one old man. As he surveyed the village, he said: "I know where I was born and where I live now. But I have no idea where I am going to die." The London Telegraph, July 25, 1999 ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. 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