bluelab is a developing non profit corporation providing transformative approaches to activist multi media art productions. bluelab will seek the participation of artists of all stripes-- along with spiritual teachers, concerned professionals and visionary citizens.
bluelab is morphing into a new collaborative art org which is being called Circa http://circart.blogspot.com/. The writings will remain here and available for perusal. If you are interested in our new project and org you can email us and we will give you further information. Thanks for your interest.
More to come.
http://www.triageart@yahoo.com/
“A growing consensus of scientists, scholars, and visionaries now recognizes that the earth community is facing an unprecedented evolutionary challenge. The ecological, political, and spiritual crisis of late modernity calls for a fundamental reorientation of our civilization, including a transformation of both the structures of our institutions and our own consciousness.
Thomas Berry has called this task ‘The Great Work.’ “
Finish what you've started here
You make your move
just once a year
In the city
in the town
Your happy home
is never found
Second hand
was never planned
The birth was over,
the baby banned
She fled the place
at such a pace
She never even saw your face
So go with me
Inside
Believe
You have so much to give
Switch the light off,
have a go
Force the only one you know
To leave this place
without a trace
A pity
I had seen your face
Where do you think
I will find
This party girl
who was so kind?
Raven hair
and skin so fair
Sadness
never visits there
So go with me
Inside
Believe
You have so much to give
the Delgados
Make Your Move
We didn't sleep too late.
There was a fire in the yard.
All of the tress were in light.
They had no faces to show.
I saw a sign in the sky:
Seven swans,
seven swans,
seven swans.
I heard a voice in my mind:
I will try, I will try, I will try. I will try, I will try, I will try.
We saw the dragon move down.
My father burned into coal.
My mother saw it from far.
She took her purse to the bed.
I saw a sign in the sky:
Seven horns, seven horns, seven horns.
I heard a voice in my mind:
I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord.
He said: I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord.
He said: I am Lord, I am Lord, I am Lord.
He will take you.
If you run,
He will chase you.
He will take you.
If you run,
He will chase you
'cause He is the Lord.
'Cause He is the Lord...
Seven swans, seven swans, seven swans, seven swans, seven swans...
Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans
“The question is no longer how did we get here, and why? But, where can we possibly go, and how? We live in a society that has drastically narrowed our sensitivity to moral and spiritual issues; the problem we face is how to deal with a belief structure that has blocked both psychological and spiritual development. If there is a new agenda, a new vision now emerging within our society, how might one help put it into practice?”
Suzi Gablik
...bluelab is being developed upon the issue first posed by Einstein, "a problem cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness in which it was created.” It has become evident to many that in order to meet the problems we face as a species we must embrace a radical revision of our beliefs and our behaviors.
bluelab functions upon the strong presumption that artists likely figure significantly into the revisioning of a new world—and the invention of ways to communicate our discoveries. As we all learn more and more about our essential interconnectedness it also becomes increasingly evident that artists can’t function in a social vacuum. The label of “artist” is a problematic one and only used as a signifier of persons with specific media skills and training who are fluent in creative processes and who have some professional link to art. We are working to deconstruct as much as possible the binary--"us vs. them" mentality that still pervades the high art world. It seems to us that consistent with new paradigmatic shifts taking placethroughout all fields--there is a need to reconsider our accepted definitions of "artist" and "audience" all together. bluelab is constructed to offer pathways into higher levels of inclusivity. It is only through true inclusion that we can hope to make work that is deeply inviting and that offers an atmosphere of true love and trust and safety to all.
In terms of the way bluelab will in fact function, we are working to develop a sound and effective approach to community building which relies heavily upon time tested processes that are well understood and are seeking the help of people who are expert in these processes. On practical levels, the sharing and cross fertilization of specific areas of expertise allows for rich and complex works which through communal process are fused unselfconsiously and intuitively making of an organic whole.
Why all the talk of “community”?It is our firm belief that by building works in a heightened communal space we will in fact be building works potent with transformational energies. Jung talked about the distinctions between “liminal”or
transformative space and “liminoid”, or works that are simply entertaining. With a hard look at where we are at as a species and planet—it seems like simple math that we must link art making to the real task at hand—that of saving the earth.
Jesus pushes it back to the edge. Can you even see the image of Christ in the least of the brothers and sisters? He uses that as his only description of the final judgement. Nothing about commandments, nothing about church attendance, nothing about papal infallibility: simply a matter of our ability to see. Can we see Christ in the people, the nobodies who can't play our game of success? They smell. They're a nuisance. They're on welfare. They are a drain on our tax money. If we can, then we are really seeing.
He pushes it even further than that. He says we have to love and recognize the divine image even in our enemies. He teaches what they thought a religious leader could never demand of his followers: love of the enemy. Logically that makes no sense. Soulfully it makes absolute sense, because in terms of the soul, it really is all or nothing. Either we see the divine image in all created things or we don't see it at all. Once we see it, we're trapped. We see it once and the circle keeps moving out. If we still try to exclude some: sick people, blacks, people on welfare, gays (or whomever we've decided to hate), we're not there. We don't understand. If the world is a temple, then our enemies are sacred, too. The ability to respect the outsider is probably the litmus test of true seeing. ...
Everything becomes enchanting...
Richard Rohr Everything Belongs
“[Suzi] Gablik speaks of the previous paradigm of the Enlightenment period and what it has meant to artists: ‘Individualism, freedom and self-expression are the great modernist buzz words.’ The notion that art could serve collective cultural needs rather than a personal quest for self-expression seems almost ‘presumptuous’ in that worldview. Yet this assumption lies at the base of a paradigm shift in art, a shift ‘from objects to relationships.’ Gablik challenges her coworkers not to settle for abstract theorizing in making this paradigm shift. She personalizes and therefore grounds the transformations that must be undergone when she insists that ‘the way to prepare the ground for a new paradigm shift is to make changes in one’s own life.’ Spirituality is about praxis, she is saying, not just theory.”
Matthew Fox, The Reinvention of Work
Being an artist carries with it a great potential and a great obligation...In a culture made up of images, sound, and stories created by artists who do not hold themselves accountable for that very culture, we have a set-up for destruction. Suzanne Lacy
Is it possible to create new spiritual structures for collaborative art making and to implement such toward community building with a depth of conviction, courage and inspiration that might move participants beyond self-interest toward truly new possibilities? Is it possible that with rigorous and focused processes artists could joyously make work engaging meaningfully with the specter of our global challenges while together exploring the uncharted territory of their souls? Can community building processes readily pour into art making wherein something meaningful and healing might evolve? Is it possible that these discoveries might be transmitted to the public at large through various new media shedding fresh light upon human potentials? Is it possible that all of this could dovetail with the efforts of important organizations such as The Global Justice Movement, Environmental Defense and Amnesty International toward a healthier and happier planet?
We say hopefully, yes.
What if artists were offered stipends, room and board allowing them to come together and to work intensively and without distraction for substantial blocks of time on film, music and real time performance collaborations? What if artists and thinkers could explore important issues in depth leading to transformational theater, installation, film and music? What if these artists were guided by experts through a structured community building process prior to beginning to create their projects? What if artists were given opportunity to work with and interact with some of the leaders of our time in the fields of art, science, and philosophy? What if these artists were given all the production equipment and technical assistance they might need to produce global quality shows? What if supporters and friends of our organization were given intimate amphitheater access to segments of our artists’ processes as well as early rehearsals, scheduled meals, activities and fellowship? What if the productions could be built and performed with some eventually touring the US and the world?
bluelab has been founded and created out of a perceived need to reconsider art making and professional collaborative art practice proceeding boldly from visionary prerogatives. We don’t find fault with the many artists who will not be drawn to what we are doing—for spiritual practice and its interface with collaborative art making are not for everyone.
In light of our present global endgame scenario it seems frivolous at best to argue over rhetorical issues. bluelab is intended for the “Great Work”--that of joining leaders of many fields worldwide who are engaged in the work of saving the earth. We believe that perhaps the only way to meet our present challenges is to deeply transform ourselves which implies the support of a real community and structured spiritual practice to be determined by each member for her or himself.
When serious professional artists are willing to embrace the rigors of authentic spiritual practice, the work of community building and heightened artistic collaboration will undoubtedly fall quickly into place.
The abundance of quotes from Sufi teachers have been included simply because they are part of my daily practice and do not infer a direct link between bluelab and Sufism. In point of fact, any serious spiritual practitioner must see that there can be no schism between the teachings of true Sufism and any sincere humanitarian interest. In the interest of those who may fear some sort of covert Islamic link, Sufism as it’s practiced and defined by and large in the West is Universalist in its orientation and in fact many Sufi’s roots are Christian and Jewish.
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings." --Wendell Berry
"Emptiness feels empty not because there is nothing present, but because whatever it is we're doing has no egotistic interference. The subtle arteries have no ego plaque in them, nothing to resist the smooth flow of the soul. Without our getting in the way, the life of the soul is rich and full, though unpredictable. But it isn't easy to trust strong desire and the life that keeps pouring into us. We always think we know better what should be and how it should all turn out. That is why the death principle --avoiding, worrying, being moralistic--is so popular." Thomas Moore The Soul's Religion
"Becoming a person of deeply grounded and rich imagination may be more desirable than being healthy, politically savvy, or well informed."
Thomas Moore
All through Erikson’s work is the implication that the creative adult (the generative adult) is precisely the person who can infuse his life with play;…the great cultural synthesizers—the religious, political and cultural geniuses such as Luther, Freud and Gandhi—were supreme in their playfulness, especially in their work. Their great words of synthesis were personal attempts to restore the active mastery of their egos in the context of the tensions and dichotomies of their personal and public historical situations. All great historical syntheses are as much play as they are work. They are work because they are indeed attentive to the real contradictions and tensions that most people of a given historical period both sense and suffer. They are a result of play because the creative genius does not simply conform to, adjust to, and accommodate to these tensions. Instead, he bends and reshapes these tensions until they submit to a new synthesis which not only enlivens and activates him but which also enlivens and activates a whole people and an entire era.
“Some renaissance theologians worked hard at reconciling paganism with Judaism and Christianity. We have yet to achieve this détente that is essential to the life of the soul. Fragments of our hearts and minds are located in the garden of Gethsemane and in the garden of Epicurus, on the zodiac of the Apostles and on the zodiac of the animals, in the wine of Dionysus and in the wine of the Eucharist, in the psalms of David and in the hymns of Homer.
It is not a matter of belonging to a religion or professing one’s faith, it is a matter of orientation in life and participation in its mysteries.
We can all be pagan in our affirmation of all of life, Christian in our affirmation of communal love, Jewish in our affirmation of the sacredness of family, [Islamic in our affirmation of self-sacrifice,] [Hindu in our affirmation of the multiplicity of God's expression], Buddhist in our affirmation of emptiness, and Taoist in our affirmation of paradox.
The new monk wears invisible robes. Thomas Merton travels across the globe, and in the home of Eastern monks, dies. Isn’t this a myth for our time and about the resurrection of the monastic spirit!”
"The bringers of joy are the children of sorrow."
“Vulnerability, then, is not only the ability to risk being wounded but is most often made manifest by revealing our woundedness: our brokenness, our crippledness, our weaknesses, our failures and inadequacies. I do not think that Jesus walked vulnerably among the outcasts and crippled of the world purely as a sacrificial act. To the contrary, I suspect he did so because he preferred their company. It is only among the overtly imperfect that we can find community and only among the overtly imperfect nations of the world that we can find peace. Our imperfections are among the few things we human beings have in common….Indeed, only honest people can play a healing role in the world.”
M.Scott Peck, M.D., A Different Drum
"In and through community lies the salvation of the world."
M Scott Peck, MD
A Different Drum
“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Albert Einstein
“If one wishes to change the world, one must first become that change.” Mohandas Gandhi
"In the very first chapter Thomas (Berry) lays before us 'The Great Work.' In each historical epoch, he says, people are given a “Great Work” to do—in one age, the settling of new lands, in another the building of great cathedrals, the creation of artistic, philosophical, religious or scientific works, or the shaping of political structures and ideas. The Great Works of prior periods are seen in such things as the movement of the first people out of Africa in the Paleolithic Period; the creation of language, rituals and social structures in hunter-gatherer communities; the establishment of agriculture communities in the Neolithic Period; the development of the great classical civilizations; and, in the modern period, advances in technology, urban civilization, new
ideals of government and human rights, the modern business enterprise and globalism.
Our Great Work is not something we choose, Thomas says. It is something we find ourselves thrown into by virtue only of being born in a certain time and place. The task may seem
overwhelming, one coming in response to some huge historical difficulty, but, he observes, just as we are given our historical task by some power beyond ourselves, we must also believe we are given the abilities to fulfill this task.
The Great Work into which we and our children are born, Thomas says, comes in response to
the devastation of the planet caused by human activity. We are facing a breakdown in the life
systems that can only be understood by comparison with events that marked the great transitions in the geo-biological eras of Earth’s history, such as the extinction of the dinosaurs and countless other species when the Mesozoic Era ended and our present Cenozoic Era began. Our task is to move from our modern industrial civilization with its devastating impact to that of benign presence. It is an arduous and overwhelming task, one exceeding in its complexity that ever offered to humans, for it is not simply one of adjustment to disturbance of human life patterns, as, for example, that occasioned by the Great Depression or the recent World Wars, but one of dealing with the disruption and termination of the geo-biological system that has governed the functioning of the planet in the 67 million year reign of the Cenozoic Era in the history of the planet Earth."
Ten Sufi Thoughtsfrom
The Way of Illumination by Hazrat Inayat Khan
There are ten principal Sufi thoughts which comprise all the important subjects with which the inner life of man is concerned:
1) There is one God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none else exists save God.
2) There is one Master, the Guiding Spirit of all souls, who constantly leads all followers towards the light.
3) There is one Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, which truly enlightens all readers.
4) There is one Religion, the unswerving progress in the right direction towards the ideal, which fulfils the life's purpose of every soul.
5) There is one Law, the law of Reciprocity, which can be observed by a selfless conscience together with a sense of awakened justice.
6) There is one human Brotherhood, the Brotherhood and Sisterhood which unites the children of earth indiscriminately in the Fatherhood (/Motherhood) of God.
7) There is one Moral Principle, the love which springs forth from self-denial, and blooms in deeds of beneficence.
8) There is one Object of Praise, the beauty which uplifts the heart of its worshipper through all aspects from the seen to the unseen.
9) There is one Truth, the true knowledge of our being within and without which is the essence of all wisdom.
10) There is one Path, the annihilation of the false ego in the real, which raises the mortal to immortality and in which resides all perfection.
The following are shared objectives for bluelab and were first articulated as such by Hazrat Inayat Khan who is credited as the first to bring Sufism to the West--in the early 20th century.
The objectives of the Sufi path:
1) To realize and spread the knowledge of unity, the religion of love and wisdom, so that the bias of faiths and beliefs may of itself fall away, the human heart may overflow with love, and all hatred caused by distinctions and differences may be rooted out.
2) To discover the light and power latent in man, the secret of all religion, the power of mysticism, and the essence of philosophy, without interfering with customs or belief.
3) To help to bring the world's two opposite poles, East and West, closer together by the interchange of thought and ideals that the Universal Brotherhood may form of itself and man may see with man beyond the narrow national and racial boundaries.
From the desk of Norm Kurland...Marguerite, You correctly target on money power as the ultimate source of why the world is not working as it could, if the monetary institutions were transformed to empower every human being on earth. However, I and others associated in the American Revolutionary Party do not agree with this statement of yours: "Today, it appears that our only hope lies in the power of Mother Nature in the form of Global Climate change to create enough worldwide chaos to shatter the control of the global elite who operate as the Global Monetocracy System." An alternate scenario of hope is based on the "Just Third Way" synthesis of ideas by such practical visionaries as Buckminster Fuller, Louis O. Kelso and Social Justice scholar Fr. William Ferree.
As Bucky stated in Utopia or Oblivion: "We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. . . .[The challenge is] to make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time with spontaneous cooperation and without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone." You might want to read my forward to Fr. Ferree's pamphlet "Introduction to Social Justice" for guidelines on how to mobilize people power plus servant leadership power plus idea power to meet Bucky's challenge to those of us who have not lost hope or have given in to the Global Monetocracy System.
Idea power in the hands of true revolutionaries (i.e., servant leaders) will unleash enough positive people power to overcome the GMS, especially when those ideas conform to universal principles of justice.
*The American Revolutionary Party* /*DECLARATION OF MONETARY JUSTICE *
WHEREAS, the United States economy is today plagued by a growing gap between the rich and the non-rich; by continuing erosion of income security and quality of family life; by debilitating waste and underemployment of human talent; by inadequate growth alongside shackled technological potential; by growing dependency on foreign energy supplies; by record-level trade and governmental budget deficits; and by an estimated $74 trillion Social Security and Medicare revenue shortfall added to historically high Federal debt being imposed on young Americans and generations not yet born; and WHEREAS, the sustainable growth and energy self-sufficiency of the American economy in the Twenty-First Century will require trillions of dollars each year of new and improved, life-enhancing technology, rentable space and physical infrastructure; and WHEREAS, the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, as early as 1977, has declared broad-based ownership of new capital as an effective strategy for raising national productivity, and President George W. Bush has reiterated this policy in his call for an "ownership society", and WHEREAS, the national goal of creating an ownership society has been seriously frustrated by the systemic concentration of economic power and exclusionary access to future capital credit to the advantage of the wealthiest Americans; and WHEREAS, the Federal Reserve System has stifled the growth of America's productive capacity through its monetary policy, by monetizing public sector growth and mounting Federal debt; by favoring Wall Street speculators over Main Street commercial bankers; by shortchanging the capital credit needs of entrepreneurs, inventors, farmers and workers; by increasing the dependency of families by burdening them with usurious consumer credit; and by perpetuating unjust capital credit and ownership barriers between rich Americans and those without savings; and WHEREAS, there is a fundamental difference between asset-backed credit for productive uses and debt-backed credit for non-productive uses or consumption, the first being critical for stimulating private sector investment, savings and the supply of new marketable wealth, and the second being used to give people more inflated dollars to chase the same supply of existing wealth; and WHEREAS, the Federal Reserve Board is now empowered under Section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act to reform monetary policy to discourage non-productive and speculative uses of credit, to encourage accelerated rates of private sector growth, and to promote widespread individual access to productive credit as a fundamental right of citizenship;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Congress amend the Federal Reserve Act to require the Federal Reserve Board to stop monetizing government debt through its buying and selling of U.S. Treasury securities, and to begin re-activating its discount mechanism to encourage private sector growth linked to expanded ownership opportunities for all Americans. TO THIS END, we hereby petition the Federal Reserve Board to adopt a two-tiered money-creation and credit policy that sharply distinguishes between ownership-expanding productive capital credit, and ownership-concentrating and non-productive uses of credit. The upper tier, reflecting the higher market costs of borrowing money from existing domestic and foreign savings pools and existing assets, should continue to be maintained as a source of market-rate credit to public-sector borrowers, consumers, speculators, and for all other non-productive purposes. The Federal Reserve discount rate for the lower tier should be reduced to no higher than 0.5 percent, to cover the Fed's cost of administering the linkage between growth in the overall money supply with ownership-broadening, non-inflationary productive growth in the U.S. economy. This new reservoir of Federal Reserve monetized credit should be reserved exclusively for commercial bank members of the Federal Reserve System to the extent they in turn make available in equal periodic allotments to every citizen through "Capital Homestead Accounts" (Special IRAs) direct access to capital credit at reasonable service charges and risk premiums, with prime rates set by market forces above the 0.5% cost of money to the member banks.
Such expanded bank credit should not be subsidized by the taxpayers and should be backed and collateralized by widely-owned private sector assets and insured against the risk of default by commercial capital credit insurers and reinsurers. Such ownership-broadening capital credit borrowed through local banks at the lower tier rates could be invested in "qualified" securities such as newly issued full-dividend payout, full voting shares in a company for which a member of the citizen’s household works; companies in which the citizen’s household has a monthly billing account; for-profit Community Investment Corporations organized for large-scale local land and infrastructural development; Employee Stock Ownership Plans; production and marketing cooperatives and partnerships; family-owned and -operated businesses and farms; and mature companies with a history of solid earnings;
and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this Declaration of Monetary Justice be sent to the President and to each member of Congress and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. /Adopted on April 15, 2005 at the founding ceremony at the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C. by the Founders of The American Revolutionary Party and ratified by other signatories to this Declaration./ If you like our plan for redesigning the American money system to prevent the disorder you envision, then copy my email note to you to all those in your network and invite them to join us next April at the Fed.
Own or Be Owned,
Marguerite Hampton wrote:
I wish you guys would "get it" that as long as we have"the best government that money can buy" we aregoing to continue to be "wage slaves". What makes it even more difficult is that it only takes 30 % of the world wide labor force to produce all the goods and services for the 6+ billion of us on the planet due to technological advances. That leaves billons competing for jobs and those who will work for the least pay are going to get the jobs.Those who control the global monetary system do not care two hoots about people -- their only concern is how to make the most money for the system. So having superfluous in the labor forceplays directly into their hands. Years ago the GMS cut a deal with "white labor" in the U.S. and agreed to create the middle (white) class and give them preferential treatment in return for their support and loyalty to the white GMS. Now the elite GMS no longer needs the white middle class as they have created an educated worldwide group of people who have been trained as "robots" to take positions in the worldwide labor force at low pay compared to the wages required by the white upper-middle class in order to maintain the lifestyle to which they have been trained (programmed) to aspire and meet through excessive consumption of designated items.We also must include the other industrialized nations here who are bound as wage slaves" to the GMS.
This was largely accomplished after WWII when the"powers that be" largely located in the U.S. and Britain,through the Marshall Plan set up the scenario that exits today putting the mega corporations (controlled by the GMS) in power. If anyone has noticed these corporations control more wealth collectively than any country in the world. Here is where the wealth and power is centered.David C. Korten, in one of his books, (don't recall if it is "When Corporations Rule the World" or "The Post-Corporate World") reveals that these mega corporations are controlled by "the global elite" who control the major portion of the world's wealth. It appears these people number approximately 450 people who intermarry in order to maintain control and sit on the Boards of Directors of these corporations in "interlocking directorates".They represent 13 old European families" whose wealth can be traced back to the Neolithic Age and the Vikings (Phoenicians - an Hebraic tribe) who built and manned the large sailing fleets when the lines of supply were shifted in the area of Mesopotamia from inland to seaward.Those who were adept at raising money to build these fleets became the first "money brokers" and were the founders of the Global Monetocracy System.
While the GMS has changed over time, the wealth largely remains in the hands of and under the control of descendents and business associates of those who were the first to set up the monetary system. Control was passed down through "secret societies" and religious orders directed toward the social engineering of the masses in order to manipulate human labor fortheir benefit. Many of the Viking sailing ships also participated in slave trading from which huge fortunes were also amassed. Of the "secret societies" through which power was passed (other than through religious orders) one of the most powerful in relatively recent times was the Freemasons. The Freemasons appear to be tied to the Knights of Templar. Thirteen Freemasons were among the writers and signers of the Constitution. The Freemasons were also very much involved in The French Revolution, the war between the U.S. and Britain in which the East Indies Company became the real winner, as well as the Civil War in the U.S. Like Urban, I cannot help but chuckle at the idea of "those who have nothing left to lose" taking on this powerful group with whom both financial and political power reside.Today, it appears that our only hope lies in the power of Mother Nature in the form of Global Climate change to create enough worldwide chaos to shatter the control of the global elite who operate as the Global Monetocracy System.
We can only be prepared to take advantage of this moment of chaos when we may intercede in the system. But this is also dependent upon enough of us having evolved in consciousness to where we are operating from a state of "holodynamic mind" or "inner Christ consciousness" to be able to transcend the "flight or fight"syndrome and realize the unlimited potential of the human mind when both halves of the human brain are integrated with the heart brain This"integration/entrainment" (the gestalt) is what produces the "hologram"and allows us to experience the whole" as a "particle". However, there is also growing recognition today that the Earth and the people on it are part of a "collective universal consciousness that is continually evolving toward a higher level of universal awareness in a continiuum of which there are no beginnings and no endings and time is cyclical. While as individuals we may not see it as such, universally the world is always moving toward healing, health and wholeness. We are but a particle of this whole. For greater understanding of the latter, may I suggest reading "The Universe in An Atom" by the Dalai Lama.
Marguerite
Being an artist carries with it a great potential and a great obligation...In a culture made up of images, sound, and stories created by artists who do not hold themselves accountable for that very culture, we have a set-up for destruction.
Suzanne Lacy
Toward the One, the perfection of Love, Harmony and Beauty, the Only Being, united with all the illuminated souls who form the embodiment of the Message, the Spirit of Guidance.
From the desk of Norm Kurland...
