Sunday, January 16, 2022

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

I thought you might like this, especially the archives at Stanford University…
Great sermon today!
God Bless
Eric

Sent from my iPhone 11+max :-D))

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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

From Rev. Dr. Aliah MaJon:

I grew up during the early Civil Rights Movement, so I've known about Martin Luther King, Jr. my whole life. In fact, he was so important to our family that I even considered him an "ancestor" — socially speaking. My mother is from Alabama, so the racial justice activities he led in her home state were routinely the topic of conversations.

Of course, I also knew that Dr. King was a Christian minister, and often delivered actual church sermons along with the historic speeches he came to be known for.

Another way of putting this: Rev. King was a true leader and teacher from the time he was in college until he left us when he was assassinated in 1968.

During my research on his life and his historic contributions, I discovered a few resources that contain archives of Dr. King's sermons and speeches — and one of my favorite sermons is called The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life, which you can listen to here while viewing a slideshow of historical photographs of Dr. King and others. (Read the transcript here.)

I wasn't at all surprised to learn that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also taught about what I would call "Practical Spirituality" — he delivered illuminating words to congregations long before he stood on a platform to bring forth racial and social justice. I personally feel that you cannot be a leader of his caliber without knowing about, and putting into practice, what I consider to be high level spiritual growth and personal development principles. My own life proved this to me.

Dr. King seems to have been quite a student of those principles early in his life — this sermon is from 1953. It really speaks to me that I can now look at him as a role model in this regard, as well as knowing him to be an icon of civil rights. I agree with the words of his sermon, and I especially love and that he put forth that a "Complete Life" must have the following three parts:

1. Length: Love Yourself
2. Breath: Love Others
3. Height: Love God (or whatever name you call your Higher Power.)

I sincerely hope this helps to deepen your reflections on Dr. King as we celebrate his life and contributions tomorrow.

Sending sweet blessings to our ancestors,

Rev. Dr. Aliah K. MaJon (she/her)
The Shift Network
Chief Inclusion Officer
 

WATCH: I Am MLK Jr. — Official Trailer


 

I Am MLK Jr. tells the story and celebrates the life of an American icon. The documentary features interviews with civil rights-era activists such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ambassador Andrew Young, Congressman John Lewis and Rev. Al Sharpton. It also features contemporary writers, activists and influencers in sports entertainment and media such as Van Jones, Carmelo Anthony, Nick Cannon, Shaun King, Malcom Jenkins, and more. Watch Trailer

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Fwd: OMTimes Magazine January 2022 with don Jose Ruiz and January Forecasts



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From: OMTimes Media <newsletter@omtimes.com>
Subject: OMTimes Magazine January 2022 with don Jose Ruiz and January Forecasts
Date: January 2, 2022 at 6:30:13 AM EST
Reply-To: OMTimes Media <newsletter@omtimes.com>

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OMTimes Magazine January 2022 Edition
 
OMTimes is thrilled to have don Jose Ruiz on the cover of the OMTimes Magazine January 2022 Edition.

don Jose Ruiz has dedicated his life to sharing the ancient Toltec wisdom by translating it into practical, everyday life concepts that promote transformation through truth, love, and common sense. don Jose Ruiz collaborated with his father don Miguel Ruiz on The Fifth Agreement which offers a fresh perspective on the Four Agreements and a powerful new agreement for transforming our lives into our personal heaven.  His latest work is Shamanic Power Animals.
 
Click HERE to read the Digital eZine!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Articles This Week
 
 
don Jose Ruiz: The Ancestral Knowledge of Power Animals  
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Tarot Astrology Forecast January 2022 for Each Zodiac Sign
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January 2022 Astrology Forecast
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The Lovers Card: Tarot Arcanum for 2022
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2022 Vedic Astrology Predictions For All Signs
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Navigating 2022 Eclipses and Their Energy Flow
by Liane Buck
 
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How to Handle a 2022 Mercury Retrograde 
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The Renewal of Hope: The Spiritual Meaning of January 2022
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Saturday, January 1, 2022

Fwd: [COMPLETE] Reboot group Sat, Jan 1, 2022 - Revenge, abuse & self hatred

I actually joined this as Dawn requested, 
But honestly, never listened to a full episode . . . 

I don't understand the negatives, just don't go there. . . 

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From: Oracle Girl <jacqueline@oraclegirl.org>
Subject: [COMPLETE] Reboot group Sat, Jan 1, 2022 - Revenge, abuse & self hatred
Date: January 1, 2022 at 1:29:12 PM EST
To: Rafé <stars2man@gmail.com>

Revenge, abuse & self hatred
 
Revenge, abuse & self hatred.
 
This purification track deletes the frequency of the abuser in your own life. Be prepared to lose those you might love, needing to separate from them. Finally let go of the part of you which sees and knows abuse but does nothing decisive about it. Act wholeheartedly out of the purity of your own source connection, finally letting go of fear; the inability to remain in your body; and biochemical imbalance particularly in relation to hormones, addictions, food disorders and weight problems.
 
Abuse is any type of behaviour which has the need to consume another's life force because there is an absence of source connection. This can occur by default because the party involved actually has no biological pathway for the embodiment of pure love. Or someone has the wiring for pure love, but they have become so disconnected, they need to power themselves through others. 
 
Either case results in the ongoing and regular need to control and subjugate one's attempted food source with no accountability. Sanctions will be imposed if someone does not conform - from which there is no way back. Intimacy is lost and the bond of affection shattered. On one side, the abused does not wish to open themselves to further takeover and the potential for possession. On the other, the abuser's heart hardens, polarising the personality into an unreachable dynamic of beauty and rage built on merely self hatred.
 
This is in stark contrast with so-called negative emotions which, just like positive emotions, arise and fall out of love. Here there is never guilt, spite, lack of self worth or the need for revenge and punishment, even if someone has acted badly. The major difference between anger which is love and anger which is abuse is taking responsibility. When someone genuinely hurts another, however accidentally, they will care and instantly self reflect, setting out to physically change.
 
 
 
 
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Fwd: Radical Realism



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From: Presencing Institute <otto.scharmer@presencing.org>
Subject: Radical Realism
Date: January 1, 2022 at 6:00:50 PM EST


Dear E. Rafael,

As we enter the new year, I would like to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and to set the intention for 2022. But above all, I would like to thank you and the entire Presencing Institute community for your contributions to all that we have created and seeded at this moment of planetary emergency and social transformation.

What did we learn in 2021? Three things stand out for me. 

Humility. Whatever we thought or predicted would happen in 2021 probably changed multiple times over the course of the year. Starting with the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, the accelerated impact of climate change, not to mention Delta and Omicron, time and again we saw that reality keeps changing around us. Our established concepts and ways of knowing need to soften and make way for what Prof. Edgar Schein calls "humble inquiry."  

Reflexivity. Reflecting on how societies respond to these challenges has made me aware how often we look for the source of the problems we face outside of ourselves rather than inside— inside our own country's boundaries or inside ourselves. This outdated view exists in all cultures, but is especially apparent in the US, where I live. Twenty years ago, in 2001, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 presented an opportunity to look at ourselves in the mirror. Today, 20 years since the "war on terror" was launched, and 8 trillion dollars later, we realize that the enemy we were fighting was in fact much closer to home. 

Which takes us to January 6, 2021. Again, we see a superpower armed to the teeth against perceived threats from outside, yet utterly helpless against the domestic terror of white supremacy (i.e., threats originating from within). 

We live in a moment of "reflexive modernity," which Ulrich Beck defined as the increased backfiring of our own past actions onto our current conditions. It's a moment also known as the Anthropocene, the age of humans. In the Anthropocene, most of our planet's major problems are caused by human beings. As long as we refuse to see ourselves in the mirror, pain and suffering will continue to increase. 

But if we look honestly at our reflection in the mirror, then we can begin to bend our perspective from a silo to a systems view, from a mindset operating with egosystem awareness to one that operates with ecosystem awareness. When that happens, we can change course as a collective, as a whole system. We can be in service of radical regeneration through bridging the ecological, social, and spiritual divides. 

The Presencing Institute was founded 15 years ago with a single purpose in mind: to develop and democratize access to the methods, tools, and practice fields that help institutions, systems, and communities to transform themselves from ego to eco ways of operating. Which brings me to the third learning experience of 2021. 

Action Confidence. Hope and action confidence are largely missing from our contemporary culture. We live in a culture that has a strong undercurrent of depression, anxiety, and fear. So where do hope and action confidence come from? They originate from within. To access them, we need to shift the inner place from which we operate. 

Hope is not to be confused with delusional optimism. Hope and action confidence are grounded in radical realism: a realism that is not only in touch with what currently is, but also in touch with a field of possibility that needs us to manifest. In short: Action confidence is an "inside job" that requires us to tap into our highest (future) Selves.

Humility. Reflexivity. Action Confidence. What does this triad call on us to do? It calls on us to cultivate our interior condition to shift the locus of cognition, listening, and action from inside ourselves (ego) to outside ourselves (eco). Shifting the locus of cognition is the essence of Open Mind; shifting the locus of listening is the essence of Open Heart; and shifting the locus of action is the essence of Open Will. 

We know that this profound transformation of our civilization is not going to be easy. It's not going to happen overnight. And it will require all of us to show up with our best Selves, time and again. But for the first time in my life, I feel that it's actually within reach. It's why we are here. And all these transformations, large and small, are already being seeded and prototyped around the world. 

Where? Here is a link that offers a glimpse of some of these positive transformations. Check it out: Annual Report

How will the radical regeneration of our key civilizational institutions happen? Not by delegating it to Big Money, Big Tech, or Big Gov. If it's going to work, it will be sparked by a movement that works from EVERYWHERE: bottom-up, top-down, middle-out, and outside-in, in countless cross-sector and cross-systems initiatives. These seeds start small, then they take roots, grow, interconnect, and finally they learn to collaborate at scale in order to shift how the larger ecosystems operate. Presently that movement is still in its infancy. To realize its full potential, it needs a top-notch support structure: a school for transformation.
 
Over the next couple of years, 2022-2023, we have the unique opportunity to prototype such a support structure by synthesizing everything that we have learned to make it relevant to that emerging movement and to the decade(s) of transformation ahead. Our vision and intention is to integrate and extend the methods, tools, practices, and pathways that we have developed in a new platform and ecosystem tentatively called u.school for transformation

If you want to be part of this collective effort, check out our site and our peer-reviewed journal. You can support these activities by paying it forward here. The most significant years of this decade and century are beginning now.

With profound appreciation for what we as a community can presence and cultivate,

Yours sincerely,
Otto
Co-founder and Chair, Presencing Institute
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