The two sides plan to meet again in 2004 and continue the regular talks through 2006.

http://www.wie.org/j22/Debold.asp

Boomeritis leaves us in a world of spiritual pretense that robs the sacred of its power and goodness by trying to make it serve us and our personal need for control.

  Christiana, thank-you for sending this piece.   THE QUANTUM PERSPECTIVE—Part One

(All of us are affected by the war in Iraq. Many
are for it, many are against
it. Many think all war is wrong, others speak of
there being ‘just’ wars,
war that, while still being regrettable, is
necessary for the greater good.
Whatever your perspective, I think it is important
to remember that world
peace is never going to exist in a sustained way
on this planet until a
critical mass of us finds true inner peace. With
that in mind, I offer the
following…)

The quest for enlightenment, for true inner
freedom, involves a deep inquiry
into who and what you really are, beyond all ideas
about who you are. It
involves a deep inquiry into the nature of reality
itself. If you are able to
put whatever religious beliefs and concepts you
currently hold aside, and
look closely at the way physical reality is put
together, you come to a
remarkable discovery. You come to the same
insights arrived at by quantum
physics in our own time, by Jesus 2,000 years ago,
and by the Buddha 2, 500
years ago.

This discovery is that reality is a unified field
of energy and
consciousness. It is not the universe of separate
objects and things, of "us"
in here, and the rest of the world out there, as
Newton believed, but is a
participatory universe, where every particle,
every atom is profoundly
interconnected. Reality is so interconnected that
just by observing, looking
into a system, you affect and change the
system—and are, in turn, affected
and change by it.

This quantum perspective brings an entirely new,
and astonishingly contempor
ary—indeed, timeless—kind of meaning to the Buddha’s statements that,
"Form is emptiness, and emptiness is form," and
"All the ten thousand things
are created by a single thought." It allows us to
hear Jesus’ words, "I and
the Father are One" in a new way, especially if we
see the word "Father" as a
metaphor for consciousness itself.  It makes it
easier for us to understand
Jesus when he said to his disciples, "This applies
to you, too. You are just
as much a part of the Oneness as I am."

We are not separate from the rest of creation, but
are one with it. Ramesh
Balsekar, a contemporary Indian teacher of
self-realization, reminds us that
in Hindu mythology, the universe was perceived
thousands of years ago as a
multi-dimensional net of jewels, each one a
reflection of, and profoundly
related to, the other. He quotes an ancient
Chinese saying: "Pick a blade of
grass and you shake the universe."

And the fundamental quality that connects
everything, as modern quantum
physics is discovering, is consciousness itself.
In fact, the quantum
scientists have come to the startling conclusion
that consciousness is a
permanent and inherent property of the universe,
and that conscious
awareness, or observership, is a mandatory
requirement for making reality
tangible. We, as observers, participants, are
creating the whole thing.
Perception, in other words, is reality.

One thinks of Shakespeare, the brilliant
playwright and—in his own way,
metaphysician—writing over five hundred years ago:
"All the world’s a stage,
and all the people many players." What becomes
clear with the universal,
quantum, or holographic perspective is that we are
scripting the whole thing.
It doesn’t happen without our thinking, or
dreaming it, into being.

© Jim Dreaver 2003
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Joyce  

allspirit  

MY thoughts shimmer with these shimmering leaves and my heart sings
with the touch of this sunlight; my life is glad to be floating with
all things into the blue of space, into the dark of time.

DARK clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

THY sunshine smiles upon the winter days of my heart, never doubting
of its spring flowers.

LET me feel this world as thy love taking form, then my love will
help it.

I HAVE dipped the vessel of my heart into this silent hour; it has
filled with love.

MY heart, with its lapping waves of song, longs to caress this green
world of the sunny day.

THE world has kissed my soul with its pain, asking for its return in
songs.

TIMID thoughts, do not be afraid of me. I am a poet.

THE song feels the infinite in the air, the picture in the earth, the
poem in the air and the earth; For its words have meaning that walks
and music that soars.

LET this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.

~ Rabindranath Tagore ~    From "Stray Birds"  

Brother Void  

What is meant by light? To gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ----NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS   On the dark and difficult path you have chosen, you sometime lose your way. Your spirit becomes suffused in a warm, fuzzy light. The Universe becomes infinitely benevolent. Things start to happen for a reason. Eventually you hit bottom and purchase the collected works of Yanni. But do not be fooled. Remember; there are two kinds of light: the steady blue flame at the heart of darkness and the false, desperate sunshine of the cheery countenance. Your wisdom will grow not by conjuring figures of light, but by making the dark- ness conscious. So pick up the path you lost and, once again, be on your dark and difficult way.   The dark path lights my way.  

 A special thanks to Dave Mason for the images.