I sat down at the computer with the intention of sharing my journey with the Vessels of Peace. In checking email after going online I found one from the Vessels of Peace...talk about peace popping up all over the place. Instead of setting up a blog post I found myself writing a post to the Divine Cosmos Forum http://www.divinecosmos.com/forums/index.php that I will copy part of to get started.
Due to an extraordinary sequence of events last summer I found myself responding passionately to a forwarded email about a group of women calling themselves the Vessels of Peace. Just the phrase ….vessels of peace… spoke to the fulfillment of a deep need. Upon investigation I was satisfied that this was an effort I was meant to be part of.
With the guidance/meditations offered through those first teleconferences, I created an intentional place for Peace to reside within my being. This has produced a profound yet subtle shift in my body vibration. While I would describe the overall inner feeling of being smoother, softer and gentler, the outer more physical manifestation of this energy can be unruly and uncomfortable in its’ bare assed honesty. This work has also assisted me in letting go of cherished but dysfunctional core beliefs that were formed in childhood.
I came across the Divine Cosmos site around the same time last summer, another forwarded link I followed. http://www.divinecosmos.com/index.php
I found myself resonant with David’s message and finally understood why after thirty something years of reading all the metaphysical material I could lay my hands on I had avoided Edgar Cayce. I felt Cayce was “old fashioned” and guilt riddled and preferred the Urantia book, or Seth material and even stuff like Lobsang Rampa or the IChing. I now find that David is so not “old fashioned” as to make my head spin and love it.
Late this winter it was time to order the Science of Peace series (by the founder of Divine Cosmos David Wilcock). I’m on a second read of the series. It’s a delight to have my hunches and intuitive understanding of our Oneness backed up with scientific data, a confidence builder. The research into the concept of praying and meditating for peace is a particularly comforting/confidence building piece of information to my way of being. I have for tens of years responded to anyone who suggests violence of any sort as an answer to conflict of any kind that “violence begets violence.
What I found in my mailbox today was an invitation to further partake of the science of peace that I have been studying through my participation with the Vessels of Peace.
I will copy and paste the email in it's entirety to explain...
Dear Vessels of Peace Community,
We want to thank all of you who stood in peace and silence for children and the world as part of the Standing Women Mother’s Day event. We received more responses to our email to you about this event than we have about anything in quite some time. From Australia to New Zealand to Canada and all across the U.S., you let us know you would be standing – sometimes alone, more often with 2 or more – and in a few cases, with hundreds!
If you have not done so already, please visit the standingwomen.org website, where women continue to share their experiences of the day, and also to post photos. (If you look for the Santa Barbara, California, photos, you will see a couple of VoP Core Circle member Julie Heyman, who stood with a huge circle at the Mission Rose Gardens!)
We also want you to know about another event in which Vessels of Peace is participating:
The Compassion to Action Program for Global Peace
Vessels of Peace is one of many groups participating in a global “breakthrough celebration,” the Compassion to Action Program to “unite human intention with technology to promote social harmony.” This experience is being coordinated by Common Passion (See www.commonpassion.org), and it began May 15th and continues through May 29th. During this time period, groups all over the world are dedicating events and practices to the purpose of global peace, and scientists and others will be monitoring the effects of this “experiment” in intentionality upon various social factors (like incidence of crime, etc) in various locations around the world.
Since we already have our weekly teleconference meditations underway, we are designating the Doulas for Peace meditations on May 20th and May 27th to align with this program. To see the VoP listing, as well as the listings of many, many other groups, go to this link on the Common Passion website, scroll down to the United States listings, and then keep scrolling to find VoP, near the end: http://www.commonpassion.org/mayevent/viewactivities.php
Four Minutes a Day for Peace
If you cannot participate in one or both of the VoP calls on the 20th and 27th, then we’d like to offer you another way to take part in the Compassion to Action Program during these next 12 days:
Between now and May 29th, commit four minutes a day to repeating the peace mantras.
Just four minutes! How simple that is ... and yet how profound could be its effect.
You could do this during one four-minute period in your day, or you could spread the four minutes throughout your day, such as:
- a minute in the morning, when you wake up
- a minute around lunch time
- a minute around dinner time or sunset
- a minute before you go to sleep
Whichever way you choose, begin by affirming your intention to align with everyone presencing peace around the world. You could do this by reading the “Concordance for Peace” from the Common Passion website:
“I relax into the presence of pure love, peace and harmony...in and around me. Peace
prevails! Thank you Creative Presence for the feeling of oneness shared *now* in the
hearts and minds of all life, all matter, water and form, and in Mother Earth herself. I
flow in my days with love and compassion in my heart, peace and calm in my mind,
balance in my step, and a sparkle of oneness in my smiling eyes.”
Or you could think or say part or all of the Affirmation of Peace ... or the 11th Intention ... or some other prayer or intention for peace that resonates with you.
After affirming your intention, then silently or out loud, slowly repeat the four peace mantras - Peace ... Om shanti ... Salaam ... Shalom - four times.
After the fourth repetition, if doing this in one-minute segments, or at end of four minutes, if doing it once a day, place your hand on your heart center for a moment, in gratitude for the knowing that what you have just done has been of service.
Continue this daily through May 29th ... And let us know what you notice and experience along the way.
Thank you for allowing the flow of grace to work through you in service to our world ...
With love,
The Vessels of Peace Core Circle
THE PURPOSE OF THIS POST IS TO INVITE ONE AND ALL TO JOIN EITHER OF THESE PEACE INITIATIVES. IF I HAVEN'T MADE MYSELF CLEAR WITH LINKS AND INFO, PLEASE ASK.
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