The Butterfly Initiative/Saving the World with Butterflies
Dear friends,
You are about to be butterflied. Don't panic. This is a once and done
event, kind of like a vaccination for despair that may bring you new hope and
brighten up your life. We have a 95% success rate on even those who have given
up completely. If after reading these first couple of emails, you want to
unsubscibe, just ask to be removed from the email list or ask to be put on
the update mailing list only. If you like what you read you and don't
unsubscribe, you will find future mailing topics at the very end of this
email. Your comments are welcome and your participation is optional,
although much encouraged.
I have a whole collection of amazing stories that people have been sharing.
All you have to do is ask. If you can endorse the Earth Proclamation for your
organization and/or forward it and any other material from us to your email
buddies, it would be very much appreciated.
An unfortunate part of corresponding with people on the Internet is that
you often don't know, besides the email address and possibly a name, who you
are actually communicating with. I am overwhelmed with the volume of mail and
if you are not in my data bank, I often can't properly identify who I am
corresponding to.
If you are interested in getting updates, please send me some information
about yourself and try to include your name, group affiliation, address, and
phone number (please specify if its home, office, or both, and how we first
connected. You may also include some information about your organization or a
short bio about yourself. This would make it easier for me to remember who
you are as an individual. I am sure that you understand how impersonal email
communicating can be.
I hope that together, by spreading the word on the Internet, we can make
our shared dreams come true.
In the dance,
Alan Moore / Member of the Peace and Justice Commission/City of Berkeley
Butterfly Gardeners Association/Friends of Tree Island
Earth Rainbow Network/Action Coalition for Global Change
1563 Solano Ave. #477
Berkeley, CA 94707
510-528-7730
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Tree Island Millennium Gathering & Coalition
<A HREF="http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000">
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http://www.motley-focus.com/~timber/essence.html</A> Jean Houston's Of
Essence and Butterflies/ from A Mythic Life
The Butterfly Initiative
Saving the World with Butterflies
Dear butterfly lover,
Butterflies are beautiful. Butterflies are inspiring. They can be quite
magical, helping us to connect with nature, as well as with our spiritual
selves. Yet butterflies are disappearing everywhere right before our very
eyes. When uncaring human activities get out of hand, it is always the
butterflies that take the first and most profound blow. Studies have shown
that when rainforests are destroyed, or local temperatures rise, or chemicals
and pesticides contaminate our environment, or natural habitats are lost, it
is almost always the butterfly that suffers most. For these reasons they serve
as environmental indicators, and stewardship of butterflies becomes linked to
such serious issues as habitat destruction, pesticide misuse, global warming,
and deforestation. A recent news report linked butterfly declines to a
corresponding decline in bee reproduction rates, and predicted that in three
years pollination may become the world's number one problem. No butterflies
and bees , very little pollination. Need I say more.
Please join the Butterfly Gardeners Association in its efforts to stop and
reverse the world-wide decline and extinction of butterfly species that now
calls out to all of us. Nearly five years ago I began this organization which
has since inspired many others across our country to look at the butterfly in
a new way, as a symbol of a new Earth consiousness that could not only reverse
their decline, but could also promote environmental stewardship, bio and
cultural diversity, and even world peace. Moved by the visible decline of
butterfly populations worldwide, members have created beautiful butterfly
gardens in their backyards and communities. They also promote environmental
education and action to help regenerate these gorgeous creatures.
The butterfly initiative is a wondrous and rare adventure. It is practical,
uplifting and inspiring. Butterfly gardening can be a catalyst to a wide range
of positive activities. These include projects from environmental education to
violence prevention; from beautification of our backyards to habitat
preservation in our parks; and from rehabilitation programs for handicapped
children to therapy programs for prison populations. Because of their
astounding transformation from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis (pupa) to their
incredible color spangled elegance, they can be the symbol for mankind's own
unfolding into more caring and loving beings.
Can you please spread our message of love and hope to friends and
organizations you know. You can also help by writing stories for publication
in your local newpaper, magazine, or organizational newsletter and website.
Perhaps you can assist with public relations or marketing, doing artwork or
graphics, composing music or dance, or working with children doing gardening
projects, nature studies, or reading programs. Maybe you have organizing
skills, clerical or computer abilities, or grant writing and fundraising
expertise. You might help arrange a coffee for one of our speakers. We can
even give a more formal butterfly presentation to an organization, like your
church, club, or civic group. We offer practical gardening experience,
inspire hope and enpowerment, and some of our amazing and miraculous stories
will surely fascinate you.
We are currently looking for creative minded people to serve on our
advisory committee or board? We hope to form an alliance of a wide range of
groups working cooperatively to promote world peace, environmental and social
justice, and global consciousness raising. Our goal is world peace by January
1, 2000. We will support the spirit of the Earth Proclamation & Prayer, a
version of the origional Earth Proclamation, the Earth Magna Carta of John
McConnell the father of Earth Day, the United Nations Earth Charter, and work
to attain personal and planetary transformation as symbolized by the
butterfly. Whatever you decide, your assignment will be perfectly right for
you. It may be nothing more than doing what you are already doing, but under a
larger butterfly banner. We will surely come to realize that we are all
pieces of the same puzzle, playing the best game on Earth. We play by
following our bliss, and by weaving ours dreams together with mutual respect,
trust, and love, and by seeing our interconnectedness with each other and the
entire web of life.
Most importantly, you can get the organizations you know or belong to to
sign and endorse the ideals of the Earth Proclamation.
When John F. Kennedy set a goal to land men on the moon, he didn't say
let's do this sometime. He said we'll do it by the end of the decade. He
proclaimed a bold plan and a set definite date. The rest is history.
Thusly, the Butterfly Gardeners Association and the Social Action Committee
of the Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship planted the first seeds for a planned
harvest of world peace with environmental and social justice for all on March
2, 1998 before the Peace and Justice Commission. The Earth Proclamation passed
by unanimous consent and was endorsed by the City of Berkeley. Berkeley mayor
Shirley Dean declared April 22-30 as Butterfly Berkeley Week during the Earth
Day ceremonies. The week ended with a butterfly release at the Willard School
when over 250 children released their own school-grown butterflies. The
project's first goal will be to get 1000 groups to support the Earth
Proclamation by the winter of 1998. Our mission will be to bring business,
peace, environmental, and faith organizations together to work in harmony
promoting world peace, and defending Mother Earth, with a special focus on
preserving California redwood forests at the Headwaters.
A Brief Butterfly History
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The recent evolution of the butterfly as a metephor symbolizing humanity's
conscious evolution to a more loving and cooperative state started over
twenty-five years. After the first Earth Day, Trina Paulus came out with Hope
for the Flowers and used the butterfly to illustrate a better way so that we
caterpillars would stop crawling all over each other to get to the "top".
What's at the top anyway? Trina got millions of people thinking about
transformation in a new way. On June 26, 1997, Trina joined us at the United
Nations Earth Summit+5 for a butterfly release and ceremony.
Then Norie Huddle advanced the transformational theme to usher in what she
termed the "Butterfly Era of Global Civilization" in her book, Butterfly,
published on Earth Day 1990, and told me Trina's book was an inspiration to
her and got her thinking about transformation. In Butterfly she writes:
"The caterpillars new cells are called "imaginal cell." They resonate at a
different frequency. They are so totally different from the catepillar cells
that his immune system thinks they are enemies...and gobbles them up--Chomp!
Gulp! But these new imaginal cells continue to appear. More and more of them!
Pretty soon, the caterpillar's immune system cannot destroy them fast enough.
More and more of the imaginal cells survive. And then an amazing thing
happens! The little tiny lonely imaginal cells start to clump together, into
friendly little groups. They all resonate together at the same frequency,
passing information from one to another.Then, after awhile, another amazing
thing happens! The clumps of imaginal cells start to cluster together!..,A
long string of clumping and clustering imaginal cell, all resonating at the
same frequency, all passing information from one to another there inside the
chrysalis."
"A wave of Good News travels throughout the system-- Lurches and
heaves...but not yet a butterfly."
"Then at some point, the entire long string of imaginal cells suddenly
realizes all together that it is Something Different from the caterpillar.
Something New! Something Wonderfull!....and in that realization is the shout
of the birth of the butterfly!"
Happy Birthday Butterfly!!!
"Since the butterfly now "knows" that it is a butterfly, the little tiny
imaginal cells no longer have to do all those things individual cells must do.
Now they are part of a mult-celled organism-- A FAMILY who can share the
work."
"Each new butterfly cell can take on a different job.----There is something
for everyone to do. And everyone is important. And each cell begins to do
just that very thing it is most drawn to do. And every other cell encourages
it to do just that."
"A great way to organize a butterfly!"
And a great way to organize a butterfly movement!
In February of 1998, Barbara Marx Hubbard released her new book, Conscious
Evolution, and advanced the butterfly theme to new heights. In her book she
writes:
"As people started waking up, they became imaginal disks in the body of
society. The environmental movement, the antiwar movement, the Apollo space
program, the women's movement, the civil rights and human rights movements,
new music, transcendental meditation, yoga, and mind-expanding substances all
encouraged a young generation to act as instruments of social change--striving
to birth the still-invisible societal butterfly. And often when new leaders
did step forward, they were attacked by society's immune system fighting to
maintain the old social order of the caterpillar: Witness the assassinations
of Ghandi, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr."
The latest development that encompasses all the above and explains the
butterfly phenomena in detail is in a book written by Joanne Lauck called The
Voice of the Infinite in the Small. You will have to read this to believe it.
Both Norie and Joanne are butterfly writers.
Ushering in the Butterfly Era of Global Civilization
The Butterfly Gardeners Association was founded on August 5, 1993. It was
intended to be very much like Greenpeace's campaign which focused on saving
the whales in the 1970's. Using the whale as a living symbol, Greenpeace
launched a campaign that sparked new energy into the environmental movement
and brought needed attention to the plight of these wonderous creatures.
Since its inception, one man's vision has been shared by thousands of
others across the country who now look at the butterfly in a new way; as a
symbol of a new Earth consiousness that can promote environmental stewardship,
education, conservation, and even world peace. The goal is to save the Earth's
biological and cultural diversity. Since that day the Butterfly Gardeners
Association has taken flight nationally, and participated in butterfly
releases at the UN Earth Summit, the Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Obervance, the
World Peace Festival with Pete Seeger, and the Woodstock Festival, to name a
few. The BGA, operating on a shoe-string budget, has galvanized support from
a host of sources, including educators, businesses, politicians, children,
adults, seniors, faith groups, futurists, authors, and environmental and peace
group.
The organization is acheiving its many goals with the support and endless
efforts of hundreds of volunteers and gardeners. For this reason we feel that
every event is nothing short of a miracle. How could anyone have ever
suspected that such a simple, exquisite creature could have touched so many?
The butterfly is opening doors as well as hearts. It has motivated people to
work together peacefully to save the only home they know, Earth. It is truly a
happening birthed in love, a miraculous transformation that has taken flight
on the wings of a butterfly. It is now certain that the butterfly will be the
symbol for the Millenium, with themes of "personal and planetary
transformation" and transformation through forgiveness."
"Like butterflies opening their wings to express their fragile beauty, we are
learning to open our hearts to express our love and compassion. The world will
be made anew when all humans are accepted as brothers and sisters of the human
family, joining as One to heal the scars of the past and create a better world
for all living, sentient beings on Earth."
"Beauty seems to be an intrinsic part of nature, and perhaps even the
organizing principle of reality. Scientists, in testing their theories,
invariably find that the simplest, most elegant, most beautiful equation, is
the correct one. Rainbows, butterflies, and the periodic table are some
examples of intrinsic beauty. The world will be saved by beauty."
(National Geographic Magazine)
"We may . . . come to see them as embodying all the beauty and complexity of
nature itself. It is said that a butterfly can, with a flap of its wings,
change the world . . . that the ripple it sends out can spawn a hurricane."
National Geographic Dec. 93)
"Everyone has their own 'personal tree' to sit in. Life's circumstances
sometimes seem overwhelming, but we must remember the amazing power of love.
Just as the ripples in the ocean shape and form the land - from the cliffs to
the tiny grains of sand - so do our actions, words, and thoughts shape and
form our reality. Even more, ripples joining one another form tidal waves that
change the planet. If we make sure that our every thought, word, and action
are based in love then the ripples we create will bring about positive change
for a positive future." Julia Butterfly
"Rarely if ever do we get a chance to restore to nature even a tiny part of
what we have taken away." (National
Geographic Magazine Dec 93/ Read about the butterfly effect in the Web of Life
by Fritjof Capra).
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has". (Margaret Mead / quote
from origination of Earth Day in 1969)
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it!
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Goethe -
"The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but
how we conduct ourselves in daily life." "In our struggle for freedom truth
is the only weapon we possess." -His Holiness the Dalai Lama-
"One who is willing to give one's body for the Earth,and do so with love, is
the only one fit to be steward of the Earth"-Lao Tzu
"Could we have a genetically based affinity for butterflies, which are the
most salient demonstrations of metamorphosis present in the environments where
humans have evolved? If genetically encoded, does the expression of this
image require an environmental trigger? Could the archetype remain latent,
within our subconscious mind, until some element in our immediate environment
call it forth?" (Cultures of Habit by Gary Paul Nablan)
Alan Moore, founder of the Butterfly Gardeners Association, or Bee Gees for
short, has invested over four-hundred thousand dollars to make this dream an
emerging reality. After giving up his home, business, life savings, and
friends in Allentown, Pa, he came to California with nothing more than $800 to
do a butterfly release at the Bioneers Conference. The conference theme was
"visionary solutions for the Earth's environment" and was held at the Presidio
in San Francisco from October 31-November 21, 1998. He stayed in California
to attend a millennium organizing meeting of the Earth Rainbow Network in
Santa Barbara from December 12-14. He had suggested convening such a meeting
to Jean Hudon, founder of the Earth Rainbow Network, who lives in Quebec,
Canada. Dedicated ERN members in Santa Barbara and elsewhere did the actual
organizing.
In the interim of six weeks between the two meetings, he began to network
and build coalitions with environmental, peace, faith, spiritual, cultural,
business, and millennium groups throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He
joined the U-Turn Society in San Francisco founded by Dave Seaborg, son of
Glen Seaborg, the discoverer of plutonium. Group participants included
Milenio, Earth-Aid, the Star Alliance, Earth Day's Mark Dubois(also of Earth
Wise), Rainforest Action, BGA, BAN Waste Coalition, and other Bay area civic,
environmental, and peace groups.
In January Alan returned to California and took up residence in Berkeley.
Within two weeks he was appointed to the Peace and Justice Commission.
Besides organizing for the millennium, he is researching a book he plans to
co-author with Norie Huddle. The book, which may be entitled Butterfly Tales,
is about twelve people whose lives have been radically changed by the magical
effect butterflies have on people. Some have left their jobs, others have
transformed their lives. All are working to better the world, spread love,
save the Earth, and promote world peace. Some have already written books on
their experiences. These include Black Butterfly by Dr. Richard Moss
(Celestrial Arts), The Alchemist and Valkyries by Pablo Coelho (Harper San
Francisco), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby(Alfred
Knopf) which was written with 200,000 blinks of his eye and whose rights were
bought by Steven Speilberg, and The Butterfly Rises by Kit Tremaine (Blue
Dolphin Publishing).
The rights to The Diving Bell and the Butterfly have been bought by Stephen
Speilberg. Moore has spoken to Spielberg's executive secretary and was told
to get an agent to submit his story idea. He is now looking for both an agent
and someone to write the screenplay. Blue Dolphin publisher Paul Clemens
believes Butterfly Tales has the potential to be the most successful work he
has ever published.
Alan and Norie, are focusing on how to play what she calls The Best Game on
Earth. The cover of Butterfly (Huddle Books) states that historian Arnold
Toynbee observed that the 21 civilizations he studied all collapsed for the
same reason: their inability to adapt to changes taking place either within
them or surrounding them. Like Joseph Campbell, Toynbee noted the importance
of myth in shaping the future of a civilization. For from the myth springs
the vision of new possibilities. Each nation, each culture tells such an
overarching story about itself. But when great changes take place, a new myth
is required. Butterfly is the myth for our times. It was published on Earth
Day 1990 as a tale of great transformation to help usher in the "Butterfly
Era" of global civilization. Working together we can we can do what no one of
us can do alone. We can make the butterfly not only the symbol for the
Millennium, but that of the conscious evolution of humanity itself.
Norie is the author of six other books, including Huggles, and Surviving.
Surviving (Schocken Books), includes interviews with Bucky Fuller, Russell
Means, Dick Gregory, Lester Brown, Ed Teller, Edgar Mitchell, Joanna Macy, and
Robert Muller and was on the New York Times best seller list. She has just
completed a new book entitled Money, Power, and Purpose. She is Chairwoman of
the Board and Executive Director of the Center for New National Security. She
has spoken to radio and television audiences of over ten million and to live
audiences of up to ten thousand.
Our butterflies are capturing the hearts and minds of people all over the
world, including many authors, futurists, environmentalists, and native
Americans. These include Jean Houston, Norie Huddle, Linda Grover, Robert
Theobald, Elisabet Sahtouris, Mark Victor Hansen, Peace Pilgrim II, Michael
Cohen, Ken Kalb, Dr. Richard Moss, Trina Paulus, Hopi elder Thomas Banyakya,
and tree-sitter Julia Butterfly.
Butterfly related nonfiction books include Conscious Evolution by Barbara
Marx Hubbard (New World Library), A Mthic Life by Jean Houston(Harper
Collins), The Chalice and the Blade by Riane Eisler (Harper & Row), The
Healing of America by Marriane Williamson (Harper), The Voice of the Infinite
in the Small by Joanne Lauck(Swan-Raven & Company), The Web of Life and the
Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra (Anchor Books/Doubleday), Thinking Like a
Mountain- Towards a Council of All Beings by Joanne Macy and Johnny Seed,
Cultures of Habitat by Gary Paul Nabhan (Counterpoint), Prescriptions For
Living by Bernard Siegel, The Chymical Cook by Jay Bremyer (Station Hill
Openings), The Healing of America by Marianne Williamson (Harper),
Other nonfiction books written by authors involved in this project include
Reworking Success-New Communities at the Millenium by Robert Theobald (New
Society Publishers), Peace Pilgrim II by Peace Pilgrim II, The Way It Is by
Corbin Harney, Journey to a Governed World-Thru 50 Years in the Peace Movement
by Dr. Lucille Green, The Grand Catharsis and Lightshift 2000 by Ken Kalb
(Lucky Star Research Institute), Chicken Soup for the Soul by Mark Victor
Hansen and Reconnecting with Nature by Michael Cohen (Ecopress).
In the fiction category are Tree Island by Linda Grover, The Coming of a
New Millennium by Heidi Neale and Nick Manolukas (Labrys), Vision of the Grail
by Kathleen Jacoby, and Heartlight by T.A. Barron (Philomel Books).
Children's books include Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus, The
Butterfly Boy by Laurence Yep (Farrar Straus Giroux), Both Sides Now by Joni
Mitchell (Scholastic), I Monty by Marcus Bach (A.R.E Press), and On the Wings
of a Butterfly-A story about Life and Death by Marilyn Maple, Ph.D. (Parenting
Press).
Moore has coined a new meaning for the word butterfly, which as a verb
means to give or teach someone the gift of looking at the world, as with
butterfly eyes, and seeing only beauty, love, and harmony in the world around
them. If we can reach out and butterfly people all over the world, we may be
heralding the dawn of a major paradigm shift and find ourselves living in the
Butterfly Era of Global Civilization that Norie envisioned.
THE RULES
For everyone We follow our hearts and intuition and abide by the
Butterflies' Co-creator's Agreements.
For board members Same as above but there will be one meeting a year, and
that can be an on-line conference . When a critial issue comes up you can vote
by email or send us your comments or advice anytime by phone, email, or snail.
BUTTERFLY CO-CREATOR'S AGREEMENTS
To offer practical guidelines for how to begin the transformation, I invite
you to accept the Co-Creators' Agreements from "The Rings of Empowerment" ,
edited by Global Family's Carolyn Anderson, based on the writings of Barbara
Marx Hubbard and Marian Head:
1. Commit to the Mission Our mission is to liberate ourselves and
all humanity to realize our full potential. I agree to use this mission as a
guide for my actions.
2. Communicate with Integrity I agree to tell my truth, with compassion
for myself and others.
3. Listen with your heart I agree to listen respectfully to the
communicating of others and attune to their deepest meaning.
4. Honor one another I agree to honor each person's process,
acknowledging that everyone, including myself, is making the best possible
choice or decision we are capable of at that moment of choice or decision.
5. Appreciate your contributions I agree to take responsibility for
getting acknowledged.
6. Express appreciation for others' contributions I agree to acknowledge
others.
7. Honor our differences I agree to come from a sense of cooperation and
caring in my interactions with others, and from an understanding that goals
are often the same even though methods for achieving them may differ.
8. Use grievances as opportunities to evolve self I agree to look for the
unresolved issues within me that creates a reaction to another's behavior.
9. Maintain resonance I agree to take the time to establish rapport and
then to reconnect with anyone with whom I feel out of harmony as soon as it's
appropriate.
10. Resolve problems constructively I agree to offer at least one solution
any time I present a problem. I agree to take problems, complaints and upsets
to the person(s) with whom I can resolve them, at the earliest opportunity. I
agree not to criticize or complain to someone who cannot do something about my
complaint, and I will redirect others to do the same.
11. Go for excellence I agree to support others and to be supported in
participating at the highest level of excellence.
12. Learn from experience I agree to look for the opportunity to learn from
my experiences, to continue doing what works, and discontinue doing what does
not work.
13. Be a leader I agree to foster an environment of genuine collaboration in
which all people, including myself, feel empowered to to express our
individual and collective potential.
14. Reevaluate your commitment I agree to choose and re-choose to
participate in my core group. It's my choice.
15. Lighten UP! I agree to create joy in my relationships, my work and my
life.
SOME LETTERS
Dear Alan:
I wish I could join you on the tour, but unfortunately, I already have many
engagements. My new book,Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our
social Potential, is dedicated to "imaginal cells," those cells in the body of
a butterfly which hold the picture and pattern of the butterfly in the body of
the caterpillar. We are definitely on the same wavelength. Thanks so much
for your wonderful work.
Thanks for your work. Barbara Marx Hubbard 7-28-97
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Wed, 20 Aug. 1997
Hi Alan,
My family and I had a wonderful time at the World Peace Festival in Amenia,
NY. Several thousand people attended. It was really wonderful, despite the
downpour towards the end. Some of the wonderful highlights were the World
Peace Prayer Society's wonderful Flag Ceremony in which the flags of the world
are presented by children one by one, and the crowd joins in May Peace Prevail
in ...Canada, etc., and May Peace Prevail on Earth ... It was a very
beautiful and moving experience, which ended with everyone putting their ear
to Mother Earth and feeling the life bond that joins us all ... Pete Seeger
made a guest appearance, inspiring the crowds with some of his peace songs.
Our friend Alan Moore was there, too, and my 8 year old daughter was
thrilled at being able to let a butterfly fly up into the rainy skies. The
crowd that gathered around was visibly moved and inspired as Alan recited the
EARTH PROCLAMATION and spoke about the efforts of the Earth Rainbow Network
and the huge movement that is arising from every direction to utilize the year
2000 as an opportunity to transform our global community.
Although we're planning for events to take place 864 days from now, let's
remember it's the journey that is most important -- let's keep our eyes, and
hearts open to the gatherings and get-togethers that take place throughout the
year, all around the world, where people get together to celebrate our desire
for peace on earth -- a better world where peace, justice and a sustainable
planet are the primary aims and focuses individually and as a global
community.
Love to you all - Bob Silverstein
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Subj: Re: Join Board,
Date: 6/29/98 1:19:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antares)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Alan,
Two simple words. An invitation: Join Board. I shall respond with one word:
OKAY! For some reason I find it well nigh impossible to say "No!" to you.
Consider yourself hugged, saluted, kissed & blessed 5 billion times over.
There is a beautiful character named Ayesha (who wears nothing but a
technicolor dreamcoat of living butterflies) in Salman Rushdie's "Satanic
Verses" who leads a massive procession of pilgrims to a paradise of innocence,
beauty, simplicity and truth. The next butterfly that lands on me I shall
address as "Alan."
Robert Theobald's word "infoglut" is precisely the word I've been looking
for! Michael J. Cohen's work with Ecopsychology also strikes a very big chord
with me. I have absolutely no doubt that Magick River needs to be affiliated
with the planetary network for peaceful & harmonious transformation - and the
BGA/Action Coalition for Global Change/Earth Rainbow Network seems to be the
most universally acceptable vehicle thus far.
Antares/MAGICK RIVER/44000 KUALA KUBU BARU/MALAYSIA
Future Topics
Butterfly Miracle News
Butterfly Magic and the Moody Blues
Excerpts from the butterfly chapter, Nation of Winged People from The Voice of
the Infinite in the Small
Butterflies and Rainbows/Bereavement stories from Hello from Heaven
Butterfly Goals
Butterfly Stories
Introducing the Butterfly Board
