will  it  always  be  thus  that

i am as an empty vessel

standing

waiting silent to receive

being filled to overflowing

and

i pour me out completely unto emptiness again

cycle after cycle unto emptiness again

empty vessel

standing

waiting silent to receive

and i hear it rushing mighty like a wind

and i feel it like a fire rushing through me once again

the power and the presence and

i am filled to overflowing

and i pour me out completely

unto emptiness

again

cycle after cycle unto emptiness again

empty vessel

standing

waiting silent to receive

david barnes

Long Awaited Song

The clouds broke last night

inner light shining through

the blackened mass,

winds breaking over the tides,

the unforgiven released,

the unrepentant returned 

to outer darkness.

Now comes the morning,

clouds racing across the sky

the earth breathing freely,

unfettered from the manacles 

of cruelty and ignorance,

lifted on the wings of a great bird

to soar above the land

with the long awaited song

of freedom.

Don Hynes

© donynes.com

Heavenly  Magic

Uranda  July 14, 1954  Colorado

Heavenly Magic is all too often not keenly felt or perceived. The magic aspect of reality tends to be obscure, except in certain moments of life. But what is the nature of this magic? If one sees a glorious sunset and is caught up with the sense of its beauty, there is magic, something beyond mundane description. I might illustrate with a little incident from our recent trip. After clearing into the United States at Bellingham, Washington, we got over Olympia and the clouds were very heavy—many of the mountains there were absolutely hidden with dark, forbidding clouds and heavy rain. I flew west and picked up a little valley running out toward the coast—we were under very dark clouds; it was almost like night. As we approached the end of the valley out toward the ocean, there was a glorious opening, a pattern of light. There were some lighter clouds out over the Pacific, but there were certain patterns of fingers of light, carrying tints of rainbow color. Kathy described it as something like the Portals of Heaven. Now this particular scene, coming out of this forbidding weather, down this very beautiful valley and the opening beyond into the light, the delicate colorings, the ocean, the little town [Grays Harbor] all combined to provide a real sense of magic, something exquisite, beyond description, but something very real that penetrated all the avenues of awareness and perception. That is Magic.

In those moments when there is a sharing of the sweet essences of friendship, moments when with some other person there is a quietude, a heavenly atmosphere, all sense of adverse pressures gone, the Beauty of Life emphasized, a peace within and without, those moments are moments of Divine Magic, beyond description, beyond the fulness of comprehension. One is left with the sense that, whatever one can see in it, there is more than that which is seen, and that is Magic. When we begin to touch into the reality of God's Love, to sense it and to know it, to abide in it, when we begin to let it fill body and mind and heart, something utterly exquisite, something which may be indicated by some means such as words, as I use them, but something utterly indescribable. That is Magic.

The beauty of Truth, with all of its intricate designs, its basic structures, its formations, its applications endless—something of it within the scope of vision in any moment but always, where there is awareness, a constant sensing of something on beyond, something yet to unfold, something exquisite in its grandeur and in its delicacy, something for which one needs to have eyes to behold great things and eyes to behold tiny microscopic forms, something that gives promise that there is an ever-newness, something beyond description and without end. That sensing of the beauty and the vastness, the endlessness, that is Magic. Divine Magic relates to our awareness of a central field, regardless of how small or large it may be, fairly clear, but a realization that it is not framed and shut off but goes endlessly in all directions from the point we see. Divine Magic—which leads into the incomprehensible Light, that which brings freedom and creates.

We begin to see something of the ever-expanding realization and expression of Heavenly Magic. You come out of the valley, from under the dark cloud, and there we see the Portals of Heaven, the Beauty of Being, the Wonder of Life. We are letting the Spirit of God come through our capacities of Being without distorting it. For the Spirit of Life in you is a part of the Spirit of God. At any point along the path where any human being honestly recognizes the Truth and is willing to receive some assistance in examining what is true and what is not, and he begins to turn his response and attention, his interest, in the direction of the things of Heavenly Magic, he will find that the only real power in Life is not on the side of evil but on the side of that which is Divine, the side where we know what it means to live to the Glory of God and the blessing of the children of men.

Tulsi  Gabbard

a luminous and radiant speech

sweet and strong and intelligent and full of good heart

YouTube video

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii

spoke at the Annual Hindu American Foundation Awareness Gala.

She spoke about being the first-ever Hindu Member of Congress

and about the work that is cut out for the Foundation and its volunteers.

Perelandra  Center  For  Nature  Research

Perelandra is for everyone who wants to take charge of their health, their environment, and their life in simple, extraordinarily effective ways. So, if your health, your environment and your life matter to you, I encourage you, I urge you — hell, I dare you to learn about Perelanda and what we have to offer. This may be the most important click you've ever made.

www.perelandra-ltd.com

Celebrating the Power of the Individual

by Machaelle Wright

Founder of Perelandra

Perelandra celebrates the power of the individual. Everything we offer is geared to the individual and his or her quest to live in environmentally friendly ways in three main areas: environment, health and soil-less gardens (i.e., business, home, special projects, the creative arts — all "gardens" that do not grow in soil). At Perelandra we increase the power of the individual tenfold by including an element that is guaranteed to provide balance in all areas of our lives: nature intelligence. The current global crisis is an excellent demonstration of what we humans don't know about interfacing with nature's planet and about balance as it relates to every aspect of our lives and health. Well, here's an interesting idea: How about allowing nature — the intelligence inherent in that nature — to join us in equal partnership to give us the input we need to make new decisions and live in new ways that have a strong, positive impact on our lives and our health as well as the planet?

Sometimes it is difficult to understand the power of one person living in a world of billions of others. Here's a little exercise to help. Take a moment to think about the breadth and depth of the environmental disasters we face today. Think about the air pollution and the health effects we experience when we breathe that air. Think about the serious water issues we face: the pollution, the scarcity, the looming wars over water. Think about the deteriorating soil quality, the dying oceans, the endangered wildlife, the increasing occurrences of wild fires that each year are more severe than the last. And think about the critical issue of global warming and its ramifications for everyone and everything around the world.

Now think about this: Every one of these problems has been created by us humans over a relatively short period of time. By "us" I don't mean large groups or global populations acting in concert. This disaster has been created by individuals acting independently. By "us" I am referring to you, me, our spouses, each of our children, our grandfathers, our grandmothers, our cousins... Our current crisis was created by each of us acting independently and establishing a personal and professional lifestyle that was environmentally deaf, dumb and blind. The needed coordination between governments and industry to turn this crisis around will never succeed if we as individuals don't join in the efforts. If the same number of individuals who created the problem focused on what they need to do on the personal level to live an environmentally conscious life, we could turn the global problems around in an amazingly short time. I believe in the power of the individual and I believe in the importance of our acting responsibly as individuals without waiting for the right leader or group. In actuality, it's the power of the individual that leads the way.

Now imagine what we individuals could accomplish if we teamed up with the greatest authority in the field of balance — nature — to help us personally to make the best decisions for improving our lives and our planet. Imagine what it would be like if individual scientists not only made discoveries that could unravel the environmental mess we have created but also made new discoveries that didn't add to or perpetuate the problems. Perelandra is all about giving you the information and tools for creating just such a partnership for addressing every aspect of your life and work. In his 2007 speech on the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize, Al Gore said: "It is time to make peace with the planet." To this I add,

It is time to make peace with nature

There's only one Perelandra garden and we know many of you wish you could visit us here and see the garden in person. But that's just not practical. So we try to offer as many ways possible for you to connect to Perelandra and experience the research done here and the results of Machaelle’s long-standing partnership with nature.

Every week, we take photos of what's happening in the Perelandra garden; the plants, the animal life, the work we are doing — everything from mulching and fertilizing to planting and pruning. Our goal is to provide a visual connection to give you an experience of the changes in the garden as we move through the seasons. We post new photos here every Saturday highlighting what's happening in and around the garden. For Virtual Open Houses, we put together special theme galleries and slide shows. We keep an archive of the past few years’ galleries here for you to view anytime you need to get away and take a walk in the Perelandra garden. Enjoy!

In 1976, we declared Perelandra a nature sanctuary and research center. It is dedicated to the discovery and practice of nature's principles of balance as taught by nature. Our primary focus has been in areas of co-creative partnerships we humans can potentially have with nature — such as gardening, agriculture and health. The direction and timing at Perelandra have been set by nature and this in itself has been a tremendous learning process for us. Nature's sense of timing and direction tends to defy our sense of logic! The research and work that has gone on here is a result of careful listening to nature's input as to what is to be done, step by step.

Since beginning my work with nature, I have seen proven over and over that if we are going to reestablish ecological balance and live as an active contributor rather than a challenger to that balance, we are going to have to look to nature to teach us, give us answers, and help us pull out of our present ecological downspiral. If ever there was a time to create a conscious and active co-creative partnership with nature, it seems it is now.

Machaelle Wright

Tulsi  Gabbard

would like to be

President  of  the  United States

Tulsi Gabbard (/ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd/; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and military veteran serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013. She is a member of the Democratic Party. First elected in 2012, she became the first Samoan American and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress.

Tulsi Gabbard served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in a combat zone in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009. She served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004. When she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21, Gabbard was the youngest woman to be elected to a U.S. state legislature.

She was a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 to 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sandersfor the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Sheopposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She is critical of interventionism in Iraq, Libya, Venezuela, and Syria. She supports abortion rights, Medicare for All, and same-sex marriage.

She is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020. She is the first Samoan to run for President.

Tulsi Gabbard is married to Abraham Williams

Hindu Vedic Weding

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/02/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-2020-presidential-race.html

https://gabbard.house.gov

The valley spirit is alive!

Call it female mystery,

Mother of heaven and earth.

Eternally present,

Giving birth without labour.

John Stubbs