Hi Glory could you send me your e-mail address (I'm getting an error message). Would like to continue off-list. Meg Salter
MegaSpace Consulting 416/486-6660 meg.sal...@sympatico.ca www.megaspaceconsulting.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glory Ressler" <on.the.e...@sympatico.ca> To: <osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:00 AM Subject: Re: A Practice of Peace (Tova Averbuch) > Dear Meg, Eric, and all! > This list is like a great jewel in my heart. > I am fascinated that there are at least three Canadians on this list > (add me!) that have been deeply touched by the work of Neil Douglas Klotz. > I had the great pleasure of participating in a Dances of Universal Peace > retreat led by Neil and others from the Sufi community around ten years > ago. We spent an entire, several hour long, session intoning the mantra > of the Aramaic trans.. of The Lord's Prayer', whilst repeating and, also > co-creating, sacred mudra. We also recreated the Beatitudes and the last > days of Jesus' life in a similar way. > It is very difficult for me to express the impact and significance of > this experience on my life. I engaged with time, space, and place in a > transformed. I was also aware of the individuals, perfectly flawed, that > were bumping into one another, including myself. I can still draw up > from my body the qualities of openness, flow, compassion (with each > other passionately) and deep peace that attended the gathering. In fact, > it is this recent thread and the specific posts below that have prompted > me to reflect... > I see how that experience was one of the first moments when I felt the > limits of my own openness. The ability to hold space was (is) critical. > And I experienced my personal limitations. This was troubling, as it > definitely didn't fit my idealized self-concept. The essential tension > was activated and I am still (Do you think me terribly slow?) moving > through a resonant iteration of this theme. Trust - the actual living of > it. The more I change, the more I stay the same, it seems :-) > I also had an experience when, > During a dance where we circled rotating partners within a larger > whirling circle, and sang, 'Come, come, whoever you are. Even though > you've broken your vows ten thousand times before, come, come again.', I > came around to a new partner and was startled to catch a glimpse of ten > thousand souls in her eyes. I was literally jolted into the awareness of > what I saw... it was so shockingly beautiful that I burst into tears. Of > course, as soon as this registered, the view was gone. On another > occasion, my voice altered entirely and I found myself adding strange > harmony to the mantra being sung. My entire body tingles at the > remembrance of these experiences. During a less honourably pursued > altered state, I felt as if I were a cell in the dancing body of the > universe. > A long, long time ago and in what seems a faraway land, I was a > DeadHead. So I'm not unfamiliar with various altered states of reality > :-) Until those moments with Neil, however, I WAS unfamiliar with the > path of moving meditation as a means of accessing them. > I would be interested in hearing of any similar/different, yet related, > experiences of others. Particularly ones concerning > diversity/unity/peace - on or off list, as you see fit. > In a recent email exchange, a friend shared that she 'seeks the > consequences of peace' rather than the state itself. Peace as a verb, a > process. Perhaps if we share our experiences of the sort I mention > above, we can develop our understanding of the 'consequences of .... > (unity/diversity, peace, etc...)'? > Just some thoughts... hoping that I'll get some support for my odd > experiences and be able to connect with others on this level - which for > me currently is a solitary place. > Many blessing and much love, > glory > > Eric Lilius wrote: > > >I, too, have been reminded of the translations from the Aramaic that Neil > >Douglas Klotz has published. I have had at least two copies of Prayers of the > >Cosmos, both of which I have given away to priests. > > > > > > > >Meg Salter wrote: > > > >>Jeff, Peg and others ... > >>on the unity/diversity topic... > >>I've come across a couple of marvelous books by Neil Douglas-Klotz , "The > >>Hidden Gospel" , and "Prayers of the Cosmos", who translates Jesus' works > >>from the original Aramaic.... > >>"Alaha... refers to the Divine... and means variously sacred unity, the > >>ultimate power/potential/ the One with no opposite.. God is based on a > >>German root work meaning good. Goodness may be one aspect of the divine, but > >>is not the same as unity. Goodness does not, by definition, include > >>everything.... > >>..wherever we turn... the same message..! > >> > >>Meg Salter > >> > >>MegaSpace Consulting > >>416/486-6660 > >>meg.sal...@sympatico.ca > >>www.megaspaceconsulting.com > >> > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > ------------------------------ > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, > Visit: > > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
