Dear Ecofem, Sorry to have been so out of touch. I've been building a web site: members.aol.com/jellking/personal/index for the curious and working to put togehter renewal. I've been following your discussions and grokking them, when I could. Here's a proposal from me with Chris King and the other members of WED you might want to join in--please take this seriously and do what you can to promote the idea: We are writing to you to invite you to join with us with one heart in conceiving and conveying to others the Gaian/Dionysian whole Earth empowerment "WEAVING RENEWAL" evoked below. This empowerment is the seed for reconciliation between humanity and nature in reflowering a third of the world's living diversity. As the 'unveiling' it also celebrates the liberation of woman and goddess alike from the yoke of patriarchal oppression. In this seed, the curse of the witch cast by the patriarchs in the name of the father God shall at last be broken in reuinion with the sacred feminine. Please reply to this invitation! Time is critically short to fulfil this fertility awakening. This is Gaian/Dionysian tradition and no accident. Please do reply as a third of Earth's living diversity is the goal! To access the concept in visual terms you can go immediately to: http://www.sakina.org/santafe.htm the text version follows with attached jpg. ################### Wisdom Earth Democracy (WED) invites you to join in WEAVING RENEWAL A Gaian/Dionysian Rite of Passage in Co-creative Partnership to unlock the Age of Paradise Whole Earth Empowerment, Santa Fe, NM, 31st July 1999 The Renewal consummates human cultural tradition in a key rite of passage celebrating our cosmic coming of age. Together we will perform apocalypsia - the bridal 'unveiling' of the epoch of paradise - to cherish Earth's living diversity and replenish it into the immortal genetic future, through reunion in the sacred marriage - of female and male, body and mind, chaos and order, spirit and nature - enlightenment of true love in Earth's ecological reflowering. In this pivotal transition, we end the Biblical epoch of dominion of man over woman and nature in culminating the millennium, as we consummate the creative partnership of Eve and Adam, Inanna and Dumuzi, Magdalen and Christ, goddess and god - feminine and masculine in reconciliation - the two becoming one again - in the very tradition of Gaian/Dionysian theatre of the unexpected that founded the Western tradition of visionary arts and Christianity itself in the sacramental vine. This reconciliation in divine comedy reweaves the garment of immortality, healing broken-heartedness through reconciliation of all paths, Christianity, Wicca, Tao, Judaism, Islam, Sufi, Buddhism, Shamanism, and the paths of diverse ethnic peoples, as components of the human visionary stream of consciousness, complementing the verdant natural spectre of evolutionary cosmology manifest in all species of Earth's ancient, unfolding genetic web. The Invitation We invite you as artists, performers, musicians, dancers, dreamers, visionaries and co-celebrants to evoke with us the new eco-Genesis. Not just a ritual performance, but root empowerment - lightning reuniting heaven and Earth in rains of plenty - the Renewal is both exceedingly ancient and post-New Age, fulfilling the ancient Essene prophecy in opening the doors of perception to our unfolding future. Please Contact Us! (Chris) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please Contact Us! (Jane) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Uncertainty and Creative Empowerment Please note that because this is a transformative rite of passage and not merely a ritual or performance, its power depends on the active participation of all people present. It is thus not a performance with necessarily a fixed plan or venue. All aspects of the Renewal are intended to be unpredictable, uncertain and unclear until the unveiling takes place. It may be in the desert, in the city on a mountain in the forest or all or none of these. Only by meeting the appointment with destiny will you know and participate creatively. Ecosystemic Democracy and Biodiversity Avoiding the death of two thirds of nature is the paramount gift of life to the living future. The grass-roots purpose of pronouncing apocalypsia is to save the full third of biological and genetic diversity which could die in addition to the third inevitably doomed to extinction forever. This is the triage of the world apocalypse. Reducing mass extinction of life by a third is a massive social undertaking and conscious readjustment to the long-term nurturing of abundance. We invite social ecologists, ecological feminists, Earth-firsters, Greenpeacers and all who love the diversity of planet Earth to come into meeting at this event to conceive the process of replenishing the Earth in ecosystemic democracy. Contact Information Website: www.sakina.org/santafe.htm E-mail: Chris King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jane King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
