A Practice of Peace (Tova Averbuch)

[Meg Salter]

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.salter at sympatico.ca
www.megaspaceconsulting.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glory Ressler" <on.the.edge at SYMPATICO.CA>
To: <OSLIST at 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.salter at sympatico.ca
> >>www.megaspaceconsulting.com
> >>
>
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