Love Light 9/11/2001

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2012-01-30T15:20:00.000-08:00

In this post there will be some mention of the date 9/11/2001. To remind people that it was a High Holy Day that was purposely blasphemed by warmongers to spawn hate and darkness. So we should understand this and re-think our perceptions of it and understand it as a High Holy Day to be honored. As such; to do this we are bringing back Good Energy to our Consciousness and Life. Since this High Holy Day is Ninennial it only comes every 9 years.

Master Work/1/22/2012. Big Leap of Faith!

2012-01-23T09:02:00.000-08:00

2012 Analysis.

2012-01-20T09:14:00.000-08:00

Over the last week or so I've been resurrecting last years chart. It's a rather monumental task to try to figure out all the numbers for a whole year and analyze them but that's what I'm doing.
If you can imagine 365 days in a year; make that 366 days because it's Leap Year and multiply that times 7 and you have an idea of how many numbers I had to shuffle (2562) without the aid of software. It's a lot of work.
What I've been doing, I guess, is statistics and it's a huge amount of information to organize.
So I do it and I try to glean some information from the statistics I'm gathering. I'm going into uncharted territory because no one can show me the way. No one else knows the system I'm using, no one else is going to do the work for me and no one else can advise me.
One year is the same as the next except that the Year progresses by 1 (until 9 and then it starts over as 1 the next year). This makes the Destiny Progress by 1 and the Way progress by 1. The Star is a total of the Day+Destiny+Way so it progresses by 3 and there is 3 in between each star. The Star is going to be a 1-4-7, a 2(11)-5-8 or a 3-6-9. One of these Star sequences takes a rest each year. In 2012 it's the 3-6-9 that's taking a rest. Sometimes the way these numbers progress makes for some interesting signs and some predictions can be made.
I have decided that Star is a "Gift from God" (Or the Universe if you prefer) so there is a big change from year to year. The Early Star is 1/Individual, Leader, New Beginning; 4/Work, Create, Discipline; 7/Logic, Order, Hermit. The Late Star is 2/Balance, Kindness, Harmony (11/Light, Enlightenment, Truth) 5/Freedom, Soul, Core, Center; 8/Power, God, Knowing. The Star Sequence that's taking a rest is 3/Completion, Attraction, Social; 6/Life, Nurture, Care; 9/Perfect Love, Universal Love.
Also we went from a 4Year; Work and Discipline Creating Energy to a 5Year; Freedom Soul Center Core Energy. We're in a Year who's primary energy is Freedom. We need this Freedom and it's essential to our Soul. The Soul is searching for it's place, where it's right. Without Freedom the Soul can't develop. This Late Star also has a 5in it and it's associated with 11/Light and 8/God Power and that's a Gift from God.
An extremely important consideration is for these numbers to have Good Positive meaning because we're in Good. Otherwise they have the opposite meaning because we're in evil. A good example is that 5/Freedom is bondage in the negative. 11/Light would be darkness and 8/Power would be weakness. So you can see why we must live in Positive Energy.
People don't know what Good is or what evil is but put simply Good is Creation and evil is destruction. Love Light is Good and it's what's essential to our guide to Positive Energy. It's actually "The Secret to Heaven"; to "have no self interest, Be Doubly Generous and Good to All."
Love Light is "Love of All Creation and Light; which is the Truth". How can we say we Love God if we don't Love Creation?
We have to Love Light because if we love lies and evil it isn't Love and if we don't Love why would we want Light? Bottom Line; we must Love Light.
Christ said "The Truth will set you Free!" Christ was Good and Christ Consciousness is Good. Not to make Christ a God of oppression so we can lord it over others and take advantage of our status but to have Christ Consciousness and try to seek the highest and best Good to share with others.
2012; rather than being a crazy year with all kinds of dangerous signs; it seems to be a regular year. So those who want to make trouble this year are going to have to work evil. These signs are not dramatic and signs are not Good or evil by themselves.
I'm still working on the chart and the analysis but so far it's not as dramatic as 2011.
I started all this because last May there were some amazing signs and after I made the first chart of May I did the whole year. This year I took the chart for 2011 and made it into 2012 to see if it looked like it was the end of the World.
According to the Love Light Chart we should be looking to 9/11/2013 as the end; but not the end of the World, just the "Transformation". I also investigated that and I still don't see any signs to worry about. I think it's mankind that makes things either Good or evil anyway and not the Numbers. Some people do know how to manipulate negative energy and they use it on the Numbers but with Positive Energy we can make all things Good.
The point now is for good people to do good things and live good Creative lives of lots of Positive Energy so whatever numbers there are will make things turn out well by Positive Energy.
For a while it seemed like we were going to fall down into the pit but things have been turning around lately. It seems like folks are trying to change things and make things better and they're not believing all the negativity and the lies that we're being told. So there's hope and the more people try and the more we think critically and go with our instincts the more positive energy there will be.
When the Transformation is complete we are either going to emerge into the Light 11 or into darkness. I think that we are going to emerge into the Light and we're going to see better days.
I'll keep you posted on the analysis and if I find out any different; I'll let you know.
Love Light Smith

"I Stand Up For The Truth"

2012-01-09T08:17:00.001-08:00

I Stand Up For The Truth.

Happy New Year 2011-2012!

2011-12-31T21:43:00.000-08:00

I Wonder.

2011-12-27T12:32:00.000-08:00

I Wonder.
Day after day, night after night I pray to get some really awesome input from the Spiritual World. I would think; Christ; I may be really deluded but I think you should feel like talking to me or you might want to send me an Angel to talk to me and at least tell me how I’m doing. After all; I promote you to the World all the time and for that I loose friends, take a chance of being martyred myself and have hardly any good feedback from those I reach out to. I spend so much time doing it and sometimes all I get is people telling me to take them off the list. I thought I was on your team; Christ; so why don’t you or one of your agents talk to me?
Well he probably has been and I just haven’t been picking up on it but… What I’ve really been doing to arrive at what I say are very profound conclusions is just using my head and figuring things out and not shutting anything out that might disagree with one conventional wisdom paradigm or another.
I’ve always said “the Holy Spirit is Very Subtle” and this is born out by my lack of good feedback.
I have gotten some really amazing signs but it’s been a long time and maybe they were supposed to be kept secret but I told a few people; so they quit coming.
I have pretty good dreams and sometimes their interpretation is astounding. But I’ve never talked to Jesus! I’ve seen myself in a dream and Tigers as well as a few recent Presidents. I’ve seen my diseased parents and a diseased Aunt and thousands of other people. I’ve seen and heard Satan; who I opposed with many others but I can’t remember seeing and hearing Jesus.
Sometimes Newmeralligy seems like discovering an old tablet that talks about things that are long gone. It seems like a formula that was left behind by Ancient Ones as a tool for whom ever wants to learn to Understand God. So I use it and try to get others to see the things I’ve found.
It’s really just Logic, though. Like Stephen Hawkins; but with a belief in God/Goddess instead of a PHD in Astrophysics.
And I give it to you and you don’t owe me anything and neither does Christ.
I’d love to see him, though, or one of his Angels, or you.
Love Light

Brother Nathanael; Confronting Zionism?

2011-12-21T09:40:00.000-08:00

I have to admit I like this charismatic cross waving zealot. He's got a gift and he's saying what a lot of people want to hear. The more I think about it, though, the more I think he's not deffending Christ but our patriarchal past and the supremacy of the Catholic Church. He's also trying to make a lot of money off Christians.
Disclaimer: If I offend Christians; go read your Bible and Forgive Me. If I offend non believers; think of Christ as someone who inspired Leo Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King to be selfless and heroic. If I offend Brother Nathanael Kapner; I Love You Brother. Let's talk.
The Roman Catholic Church was and still is anti-Christ and I assume Greek and Russian Orthodox are the same. Do we forget that they are first of all guilty of killing Christ in the first place and then blaming it on the Jews? The Roman's persecuted Christians for 300 years and then Constantine usurped the Church and took Christ's name as a weapon of war. They practiced genocide against Christ's real followers; the Cathars. They burned thousands of Midwives at the stake as Witches and when some Priests printed Bibles they burned them at the stake! They spread terror throughout Europe and the Mid East in the Crusades and the 100 years war and then took their evil to the America's where they destroyed the Aboriginal Heaven on Earth in a quest for gold. All the patriarchal religions went on a colonizing spree; using Jesus' name to terrorize the World looking for gold, oil and diamonds. They took their God to China for the Opium war to force addiction and went to Africa to fill ships with slaves. They made Haiti a slave colony and when they got free they had to pay reparations to the French for being free! They used false piety to make money in every conceivable way even if they had to do it with drugs, war and slavery. That's the way it was then and that's the way it is now. Among the big players there's no Good vs evil; it's just evil vs evil and Christi-anti is just angry because the Jews have gotten the upper hand!
Kapner is using an old trick of the advertizing biz by creating a villian and then stepping in as the Hero with what we "need". He uses Zionists and Jews as the Villians and him as the Christian Prophet waving the Cross with Dead Jesus on it. He had me for a while until I realized that he's using the symbolism of the Catholic Church and it's Dogma to give himself sacred authority! He's also a super salesman who's sold Major Brands of cleaning products for years so he's been using this trick for years like they do to sell things on TV. And there on his website is Visa, Master Card and Paypal.
He could be totally sincere and maybe not even know that the Church he's copying is not a good witness for Christ! He's smart to do that, though, because there's billions of people in the world who are still deceived by the Church and it's "moral authority"; but the Truth is something else!
The Goodness of the church is a myth! Did they ever try to stop the war? Did they ever say "No; Jesus said ' "Blessed are the Peace Makers and The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth"? Did they say "Blessed are the Mercifull"?
He's right that international Jews have a long history of making money off our stupidity and greed but as I heard it; "you can't cheat an honest man."
To be honest; we are just waking up to the fact that the Jews are now in charge and trying to bring back the Church dictatorship is only going to cause war but that's what Kapner wants to do. Some others want something different such as a secular state but I want Christ to come! I want Love Light.
It doesn't look like Brother Nathanael is preaching Love as an antidote to hate as Christ would have us do. Why is he holding a Cross with Dead Jesus on it? Is Jesus dead or is he alive?
I guess we're supposed to believe the cross with Christ on it is a good Christian symbol but it could be that they are proud so they parade his body around and keep it on the Cross. The Love Light symbol has 2 crosses in an X that means stop using the cross! That's the message I get.
Monotheism is not the answer whether it's Jewish, or Christian because it only fosters hate on account of the Religion of 1 which says "there's only 1 way and it's our way" and "if it's not our way it's evil". Maybe if their way was Christ and it was open, respectful and wise but it's not. It's just about patriarchal monotheism and domination.
There are many Good Paths of Righteousness but the problem is the religion of 1 comes in and says there's only 1 and the religious leaders can always get people to fight for them because they're under their spell. This patriarchal religion of 1 is foolish and destructive and it's easy to fool people because they're in darkness and don't want the Light. They're not connected to Feminine Wisdom that knows the Truth about Life so instead they destroy life.
Enlightenment is impossible without a Balance of the Feminine and Masculine. Here's something New from Love Light: In hell there is no Feminine because it will not go there so those who destroy life better know that they will be abandoned by "All the Lovely Things and Life" and just be sitting there in hell with a bunch of guys in a constant state of violence and women who've lost their loveliness!
Brother Nathanael you better confront the Villian within. Don't be taken in by Monotheism and the anti-Christ.
Love Light

Unite in the Love Light of Christ.

2011-10-23T14:58:00.000-07:00

See My Love Light Pick: http://lovelightpick.blogspot.com/

For quite some time the Heading has been about The Life Force and yet my focus has begun pointing toward Christ more and more. This may offend some: I want to explore this a little:
12/8/2011: I believe there is a root in Monotheism to offend when it comes to Spiritual Practices and it has to do with how Social Engineering is used to control us through Religion. If we recognised this I think we could be free.
For one thing there is a principal of divide and conquor that our oppressors use to steal our power. The way it works in Religion is that Religious Leaders tell us that insignificant differences in practice would condemns us and make us evil. They use this to spawn hate and darkness in us. That way they convince us by a their methodology to sacrifice ourselves for them. It's the same when political leaders and governments do this.
This is not of Christ and his name should not be used in vane to break the Law. The end result is that our leaders actually make a lot more people evil because hate and violence is against all paths of real Righteousness. Ironically it brings evil into the fold of those trying to practice Good! If, on the other hand, we realized that practically the whole World wants Good and by Understanding we find it, we could actually do Good.
Understanding is Truth and Love and Peace are Divine. That is why, in the following Message I try to show Christ consciousness. His teachings are similar to how all the Great Religions taught. Part of how we begin to Understand is by becoming more tolerant of others who are trying to be Good. This is directed at everyone including Monotheists and Atheists because intolerance is coming from everywhere. It's bad when the ego keeps us in darkness instead of protecting the Truth.
We should not think we are the only ones who have the Truth and hate because of this! It is arrogance; a completely male centered, egotistical zealotry that is like a dark spell keeping us in bondage to the evil masters. We're foolish if we don't see the Light!
I propose that Christ was saying this all the time. If we don't understand Christ we can't see how the anti-Christ has confounded us and used every means to keep us from Christ (Truth and Freedom). The Christian Church has used Christ like a weapon to attack people and they think they have a monopoly on righteousness because of him but the truth is that all religions have close similarities and are not evil because of minor differences. When Christ is used in a way that opposes his light and it becomes evil; then it's the anti-Christ. That's why we need to stop this way of relating to the World and find the Love Light of Christ.
Christ never said we should go out and attack other people because of their Spiritual beliefs but he did say "I have other sheep that are not of this fold" John 10:16. There is even a story by Native Americans of a Jesus like figure that came to them. There are other claims from other countries and even a shrine where they say he's buried in India. Muslims believe that he is in Heaven beside Mohamed and will come back at the End of Time to fight the anti-Christ.
Even before the account of his life in the 1st Century there was an account of a very similar Teacher with a similar name; Yashua, that the Gnostic's told and before that there were similar Myths of Isis, Buddha, Krishna and Mythra.
Far from preaching that Christians should go out and take over the World in the name of Christ; here is what he said to his Disciples from the Bible: Mat 5:5 Blessed are the Meek for they shall inherit the Earth. : 6; Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for Righteousness; for they shall be filled. : 7; Blessed are the Merciful for they shall obtain Mercy. : 8; Blessed are the Pure in Heart; for they shall see God. : 9; Blessed are the Peacemakers; for they shall be called Sons of God. : 10; Blessed are those who are persecuted for Righteousness; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. : 11; Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you for my sake. : 12; Rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven; for so they persecuted the Prophets who were before you.
Prophets are Teachers of Truth. Christ said: “I am the Light of the World. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the Light of Life.” John 8:12; “If you abide in my word, you are my Disciples indeed. John 8:31.; and you shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free." :32 Christ wasn't just repeating the dogma of the Jewish Religion. In fact he was confronting it's deceit and collusion with the Roman occupiers. The Truth was the Truth and it was intended to lead to Freedom whereas deceit practiced by the authorities was designed to keep people in bondage. It should be explained that it wasn't the Jews, themselves who hated Christ but a corrupt Priesthood in league with Rome. It wasn't long until they together with the Roman occupiers had him killed. Then after more than 300 years of persecution at the hands of the Romans, Christianity was legitimized; but in name only and without his teachings on Truth, Peace and Charity. Even now it seems that Paul's teachings on Grace have replaced Christ's teachings on Obedience. In John 19:10 he said "If you keep my Commandments, you will abide in my Love". And it's not harsh law keeping that he's speaking of because in 19:11 he explains it's so his "Joy will remain in you". In 19:12 he states; that far from being hard; his Commandment is for Love. Then he says in 19:13 that "greater Love has no man than this that he should lay down his life for his Friends". Following this in 19:14 he says; " you are my Friends is you do whatsoever I Command you".
So Christians should be living the way Christ taught them but instead they have let themselves be lead for thousands of years by a priesthood that stood against his teachings. In fact when the first Priest printed a Bible for the People the Catholic Church had him burned at the stake. That's how afraid they were that people would read Christ's teachings.
There are Peaceful Christians but they're a minority and most "Christians" follow the Gods of Government and Power. This is what is defined as "Civil Religion" which has some common beliefs with the Christian Church but is not Christian.
So now by naming some of the deadly ills I perceive in our World and the negative aspects of some of what is behind all the evil we participate in I want to name that which has come to me as an antidote to it.
It came to me soon after I wrote these words: "God Please Give Us a Religion that Works!" In response to that I got Love Light. In the intervening 5 years I have strived to understand what Love Light means and the Love Light Chart and Reading with the Signs and Wonders is the compilation of that work.
It does no good to just keep on naming all the negative symptoms of a problem but we should try to understand what is behind the evil that we see. I believe that to a large degree I have diagnosed the source of the disease and the remedy is Love Light!
Love Light has come as a means to Rekindle the Fire of Christ through the Love of All Creation and Light. It's what Christ came to achieve and it is an attempt to re-establish his Method of Love, Mind of Light, Spirit of Light and Body of Love. It came with "The Secret of Heaven" to "have no self interest, Be Doubly Generous and Good to All".
Love Light is a Miracle and the Truth is seen by accessing a particular system of order known to be a way to talk to God. The Truth of this is only available to those who Love Light. Knowing this way and Love Light have led me into Greater Faith in Christ.
My Faith in Christ and the Authority of this Love Light Salvation leads me to conclude that far from dispelling the Truth of Christ we now have a Greater than Ever Power of Multi Faceted versions of his Righteous Spirit!
Think about it! All of the anti-Christ forces of evil have been trying to stamp out the Christ Spirit but it keeps growing into a diverse body of belief. The trouble is that these various diverse beliefs oppose each other but if they would realize that they are all united and stopped fighting each other; they would become something Wonderful and Good that everyone would benefit by! It would unify all Good and the Truth would set Everyone Free!

I can't speak for every concept of Christ because there are so many but let's track down a few of them and see what they are. The Bible Version is good and it could serve as the one and only version if it was followed sincerely without Church Dogma that glorifies his crucifixion and excuses Christians from obedience to his moral teachings and laws of Peace, Love and Light. This Bible version of a Christ born on December 25th 0 ad was most likely a Mythical Being that had been adopted by the Catholic Church from the Gnostic's based on Yeshua Pantera, a Jewish Mystic who about 100bc was killed by the Jews and Romans. There is also a belief that Julias Ceasar and Cleopatra's child Ceasarian was the mythical Christ. Buddhists and Muslims also have a Christ Myth that parallels the same time period. Other versions of almost the exact same variety come from some more ancient sources. There is a theory that Jesus is just a composite of many previous mythical saviors. So we can take our pick of all these Myths or totally reject the reasoning of a Christ Like Messiah. Nevertheless I believe it is just as valid to identify with a Mythical Being as a real historical one and validate them both in the Power of their Holy Spirit. What is most important to know is that anyone can step into this role because if we are in Christ, then we are Christ and can Be Christ and do the same thing as Christ; to bring the Truth that Sets Men Free. We have some recent examples of this by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and John F. Kennedy. Perhaps we should honor these fallen Martyrs and include them as Christ archetypes.
From a Spiritual Perspective there are many unknowns; especially in a largely un- Spiritual civilization but there is one great possibility in the Ancient belief in a Grand Man where many souls reside within an ideal such as Christ. There may be a head over the body and one supreme consciousness above all, such as Jesus Christ and then there are many other such intellects in the head as well as other parts of the Grand Man's body. This notion may have come from the most ancient of all sources in the Himalaya's that has come to us in the present through Egypt, Greece, Arabia, and has been purported by many modern Prophets such as Emanuel Swedenborg.
In this scenario people or groups of people become Spiritual Adepts in a belief system or paradigm such as Christ Consciousness. They live their lives in this ideal way and many times become Martyred by the anti-Christ forces. When they die they become part of this "Body of Christ" in the "Kingdom of Heaven" as Christ says. Under this scenario; which is a perfectly legitimate spiritual concept, those who have lived to serve others are drawn to and accepted into this Body. So whether or not there is an actual Historical Christ; there is a Spiritual one whose ideal many Men and Women have lived up to and become part of. It is then legitimate and good to try to aspire to this ideal. The Holy Spirit guides those who wish to live it. This is the crucial guide that often is persecuted by worldly powers who may be Spiritual; but evil.
So Christ exists within this "Grand Man". I would also choose not to be Patriarchal and propose that there is also a Grand Woman too. Swedenborg mentions the merging of Male and Female into a single spirit so it could be that there is no distinct sexual identity such a God and Goddess. I have always made this distinction because it is a good logical construct to explain many spiritual concepts and how they relate to psychological and physical reality. A new concept of Life Force is a joining of the Masculine and Feminine but this happens to create something new and does not blur the distinction.
So with a Swedenborgeon upbringing and continued influence including the Biblical Jesus, my guidance from Holy Spirit and the tools of Divination that she has guided me to; I have a concept of Christ that's very similar to the Biblical and Historical one. Jesus is a great model for us and there is a complete construct of his Birth, Death and Resurrection that is a good belief. There are also Lessons that he taught that are a joy to practice.
Love Light invests a lot in the Historical Christ and is interconnected with him as can be seen by the Love Light Reading, Chart, and Signs and Wonders.
It's getting close to Christmas when we celebrate his Birth. It's origins are in Paganism and were more about Astrological symbolism and Sun Worship as well as Harvest Festivals. I see no problem here and think we should embrace this and consider it an Honor that they wanted to make this ancient holiday into a celebration of Christ!
My belief, though is that the real Date of Jesus birth is documented by Scripture and Astrology to be 9/11/3bc according to the Book "The Star that Astonished the World" by Ernest L. Martin. Further I believe the date 9/11 should be held as a Holy Day to be honored and every 9 years when the year is a 3 such as 2001, 2010 and 2019; this should be a High Holy Day of 9/11/3. To make a word to describe this I invent Ninennias. I do this to make it perfect and backed up with numbers that fit it's meaning; and they are 9-6-3: Love-Life-Completion. The Ninennias High Holy Day of Love Light and the Birth of Christ.
I propose a Church called "Love Light Christian Church" with the purpose of Uniting in the Love Light of Christ. Since I believe that it was Christ Consciousness and Holy Spirit that brought Love Light into this manifestation and that it's purpose is also to Rekindle the Love of Christ; that it should also stand as a version of Christ to be honored in Unity with every other sheep fold under the hand of the Great Sheppard; Christ.
Love Light Smith

How To Make a Love Light and a Name Sign

2011-09-26T05:34:00.000-07:00

These are some instructions that will be helpful if you are interested in Newmeralligy and Love Light techniques.

Today I spun off the negative aspects of 911.

2011-08-22T10:37:00.000-07:00

Today I spun off the negative aspects of 911truth to another blog; 911Light. That way I can devote more positive emphasis on this site. I think this will be welcome to a lot of people.
Now I can plan more projects that are strictly speaking; more Love Light.
Love Light Smith

PS: Just 2 Weeks and 6 Day til 9/11

Love Light 9/11/2010-9/11/2011.

2011-08-11T09:43:00.000-07:00

On this August 11; just 1 Month before 9/11/2011 I take this opportunity to present my readers with this Collage of Material and Art created over the past year for Love Light 9/11/2001; including some that's new.
9/11/2011 is just a Month away and I think it's important to once again remind you to Honor This Holy Day. This Year it's on a Sunday so there's no excuse not to. I suggest a commemorative Holy Day to celebrate Good Positive Energy and do it with Respect and Honor.
It will be 10 years since the infamous day that changed History and led us down this path of destruction to where we are now. The World will be forever changed because of what happened that day and by what followed.
Here is my speculation: 9/11/2001 should have been a High Holy Day but we were not aware of it. If anything good can be said it's that we realize that now. It follows that this event was used to spawn something; a spell that's controlling us. Blasphemy was committed on a High Holy Day by the attack on the World Trade Center and negative energy was used as an ingredient to turn us to war. By secret means and sorcery this was accomplished; the wars and torture hurt our National Psyche and spawned the power to continue more oppression. That gathering and use of evil energy was a mass consolidation of negativity; thereby evil power was accumulated. This seems to be obvious once you put 2 and 2 together.
Maybe there's something Good about this; that it exposes evil to the Light. It also gives us the opportunity to see what is Good. True Good is working with all the Positive Forces and avoiding destruction. Good is Honoring the Life Force. It is Honoring the Creation and every living creature on the Planet. In fact we honor all Life in the Universe and those who dwell in The City of Light.
Call this Life Force what you may; I call it Goddess. It's the Sacred Feminine; the Mother and we should be in a God that Loves Goddess!
This God could be Christ Consciousness. "God With Us". We could call it Jehovah, Allah, Gaia, Vishnu. It could be the God of the Rainbow Tribe. It's "I Am That I Am"; it's Iatia.
My analogy is to understand God as a Collective Consciousness and this is what I mean when I say God. By this definition there may be many gods because there are many ways. Each of us is a part of a collective. It is our Culture and there are various Cultures. These collectives have an intellectual and spiritual consciousness. This is the analogy I use to signify God. Then since there is certainly more than one collective in the World, I see this as more than one god. The Ancients understood this but now the religious right says there is only one God. This has led in our case to a collective that legitimizes war. That's the only result that could possibly come from a collective that wants power over the whole World and they use Monotheistic principals as a mandate.
If the collective says that there is only one god and their god is the only way; they say they have to destroy all other collective views and people who follow other gods. It is an attempt to take over the World and destroy every other thought process in the name of god.
So that is what we have and it is taught in principal by 3,000 year old laws found in the Old Testament; especially laws found in Leviticus. In these ancient texts the Jews are told to attack and kill off every tribe they come across and kill everyone, destroy their idols and even kill their animals! If this isn't genocide I don't know what it is!
So the World is still dominated by Religions who practice Monotheism and follow these teachings selectively and this collective uses the idea that they are the only good people because this is what they follow so it teaches them to hate and kill all others!
What I believe is that Monotheism has been used by leaders who take this power to control people and use it to manipulate a population. This is possible because the mechanisms within this belief system are perfect for it as long as authority is maintained and liberalism is kept out. The people who wield the power may not even believe in the religion but they know that it can be used as a spawn to power. A good example was Carl Rove and the fact that he was an Agnostic but he got Bush to profess Christianity even though he obviously was anti-Christ. Catholic Popes whipped up wars of unspeakable depravity and genocide against the righteous by burning Wise Women at the stake among other ungodly acts; all in the name of God; their God; who they said was the only God and if you didn't follow them you would go to Hell!
So that's how the Catholics control 8 Billion people on the Globe and they have kept their power from a once powerful and ruthless civilization by exporting their religion to most of the World. In doing this they have gone over the whole world and destroyed every other civilization they could get their hands on and brought them into their collective to follow their god.
Though the Catholic Church has had to learn to share power with spin off "Christian Churches" denominations the Monotheistic and Patriarchal principals have remained the same and the Old Testament and Paul are followed more than Jesus.
Apparently the Muslims believe the same way and the Old Testament was used the same way as a tool by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire when they used genocide on the Armenians. The same scenario was used by fanatical Muslim Clerics and political leaders such as was the case of the Taliban destroying 2000 year old Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001 to eliminate any other gods before Monotheism.
We should remember that it was used first by the Jews. I think that the fierceness of the Jews because of Monotheism eventually wore the Romans down and the Christians were obviously so devoted to it that the Romans finally decided to adapt it to their agenda. They negated everything Jesus said in their practices and began to use it effectively to create a warring race. As they adapted it to the Hedonistic practices of their former Pagan society they made it universal and called it the Catholic Church. Then they cynically used the name of Christ to establish an empire that bore no resemblance to the Savior. Later, other Denominations were born and adopted this same collective thinking and the same god. Islam also spun off from it and used the same collective thinking as their God. The God of the Jews; Jehovah or Allah but it is still Monotheism and it still has done the same and spawned warring religions that seek World domination!
The various Nations who have espoused this have been at odds with each other and act as if they are enemies and sometimes they may be but they all use the same playbook to control their people and bring them under subjection. They have used Monotheism and the idea of one god and the threat of Hell to deceive people but the truth is that we are already in Hell and I think patriarchy in the negative and Monotheism is making it that way!
Now because we believe in Monotheism we are just 1 step away from Atheism. I've thought this for some time because most Monotheism is so limited Spiritually. Just take away 1 thing; 1 God and it's Atheism. This this is because Monotheism limits it's perspective to 1 and 1 has tunnel vision, is narrow, is patriarchal. A more full and open Spirituality is Free and Freedom is essential for True Spirituality. Keep God but don't limit it to a Mono-anything. See that a perspective that includes the whole of life and don't demonize the World and you begin to grow in Enlightenment and you see where God fits into the picture! When you believe in many points of view; many Cultural identies; many ways to be Conscious and many Collectives and respect and validate them; we are all Free and share Freedom of Religion with the World. This Freedom is what leads to Enlightenment; Not the oppression of Theocracy!
The possibility of other Gods/Religious Points of View and a Spirit World all around and your own Soul Discovery in it's a much more Free and workable Spiritual system is a far more balanced and harmonious ideal. We don't have to fight the rest of the World and if we decide to change our collective consciousness we don't have to have a bunch of fundamentalists threatening us with their hell. That's kind of archaic 1950's choice between the Monotheism and Athiesm is an unpleasant reminder of the unenlightened past.
If we are taught that we are either a Monotheist or an Atheist that's a simple idea for simple people but the Truth is something much better. Generally speaking there thousands of other choices of what to believe and there may even be some unaffected ancient religions that are still intact. So truthfully we have much more choice. Love Light is New and it's still developing and is guided by The Holy Spirit out of Heaven. So don't worry if the powerful world leaders are still using the same collective consciousness to make war and the populace of the empire is willing to serve this collective and this god because there are far more choices than we are led to believe!
This God is money too. It is still being used by the original Monotheists to control our World and cause us go to war against all that is Holy in Creation. Mayor Rothschild once said "I care not who rules a Nation as long as I control the money." So we are controlled and our politicians are controlled and we go to war for them and they take all our money and enslave us with debt for generations to come; and we're afraid and rightly so because we are controlled by money; and this is our God!
Rest assured there are other Gods, and other ways and collectives of consciousness. There may be one True God but it is not the patriarchal god of monotheism whose wild and reckless ways show that he has no connection to the Wisdom of a Holy God. In fact there may be One True God who is Male but he is not alone and is joined in Love with a Feminine God of Life and together they Created the Universe and Us and our World. How can a God and Goddess Create Life unless there is Love. If we are in the Light we would know this. How can Life exist when god hates Life? How can Life exist when god only seeks to exploit Life and only sees her as a means to an end? We only Create Life and Sustain it by Nurture when there is Love. Light is God/Goddess.
The only perfect words I ever found in Newmeralligy were God With Us. This is what Christ is called in the New Testament. It is here that Christ Consciousness is defined. It is here that Love is defined and Light. We need to stop taking his name in vane to make war and kill. Jesus Loved the Feminine Life Force I'm sure. If we have a Collective Consciousness and a God; better it were to be this and the Holy Spirit; Goddess. God/Goddess. God/Us. Amen/Awoman.
If it's Christ then we say; "Blessed are the Poor, Blessed are the Peacemakers and The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth." Then if I do Live in this Christ Consciousness, God With Us and Love Light; I honor his birth on 9/11/3bc and will celebrate it as a High Holy Day. Then I will celebrate every 9/11; especially in the 3Year which is the High Holy Day; Love Light.
Amen and Awoman!
LLS

Love Light Beginning........

2011-06-21T05:57:00.000-07:00

This morning I decided to give the new figure a name and call it Love Light Beginning.
If you notice the new lines; they are lines of the word Beginning.
The Love Light has also become Love Light Engine and Flowering Love Light so it has More Power. is Opening Up and Beginning.
This has come out of a search for Christ and a depiction of Love Light holding a Diamond Crucible containing the Mind and Spirit of Christ.
While this may seem unusual to our vision of Christ I believe it is a good depiction of an Ideal that holds up Christ and admits the Spirit of his Perfect Mind to Enlighten Our Being. And further that those who hold up his Light are in him and of him.
Blessed are the Meek, For they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, For they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called children of God.

Love Light Smith

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 5/29/1917-11/22/1963

2011-06-20T19:56:00.000-07:00

2011 Chart.

2011-06-16T15:06:00.000-07:00

I made a Chart for the entire Year of 2011. I started out by doing a chart for May and then just kept doing more Charts until I had the whole year. I have begun 2012 and another Chart for the 9 year Cycle.
I will be updating my comments and checking the 2011 Chart to find more patterns as time goes on.
There seems to be a great new realization coming out of this chart with various Number Energies and their source.
Granted; this system is one I have expanded and some of it's techniques are unknown to other Numerologists but I believe it's conclusions can be verified logically as well as Numerologically. To me it’s a great tool to explore with and discover Truth that is hiding in plane sight.
What I think is most interesting about this is the implication that we can see the source of a number energy by the Star Sign. From here a New Theory is born and implies a need for New Logic.

Love Light is For-Christ.

2011-06-14T11:33:00.000-07:00

Last Picture of Esser's Peace and Moving On.

2011-06-11T10:56:00.000-07:00

A short sabatical would now be a more accurate discription of my sojurne at Esser's Peace. It was a Good and Light filled experience defining Truth. Truth for Light. I found it there. Face time with possible nature connections and success growing food were the visions I held and two out of three aint bad. One more experience and we're all closer to the goal. Still could be a Fall Garden somewhere else with other people creating in a place where Humanity cooperates and coexists with Nature; living on the land and working it's life giving power.
I found that Nature can feel so right but if our Minds don't meld the Human connection is not right and it's impossible to feel inspired and in the right place.
So I travel on. I'm Free! Back home for now and back out very soon when the fair winds blow.
Love Light

Lives and Esser's Peace.

2011-06-07T06:23:00.000-07:00

Having "left my old life behind" I come back to write about it, contemplate and write down my thoughts. In fact I didn't leave my old life behind and find it necessary to come back to it while working on my new life. Back and forth I go between them.
What I find is that Esser's Peace is indeed a New World that is natural and wild and there are new people and new issues to deal with and the birth of a new creation is a painful experience at times.
Love Light is at Esser's Peace and I find it being even more plane how it's principals apply to real people and how differently we perceive the World around us. I see Love Light as obvious and others see issues of Spirit and Goodness so differently but I believe there is a chance for some enlightenment whether it is just for me or if it is shared.
What I see most plainly is how Positive and negative energy affects the given numbers of those who I have the honor to examine. It is indeed an honor to work with people who are willing to have a Reading done. They go into it with no idea just how deeply it tells the truth about their mission in life and how important it is to do it Good.
I believe that it will be shown how much more cooperation there will be for those who go about their mission without self interest and I believe that is the whole crux of Positive Energy. When we do that we are in a Work of Love and Creation.
Otherwise we are always in conflict and drama trying to compete with those around us. Positive Energy gives us the ability to turn our abilities into assets that everyone shares and we are truly looking out for those around us and not ourselves.
I made the statement "If God is with Me I will do Good" and I analyzed it. It's almost the same numbers as Love Light except that the Method If is a 6/Nurture instead of 9/Perfect Love but it's the same in Mind of 11/Light,Soul of 11/Light and Body of 9/Perfect Love.
It is so worth it to go into these things because for one, we have a chance to begin to create a Heaven on Earth and in lieu of that there is enlightenment gained and shared and something greater for those who leave the darkness of this World and come into the Light.
Are we in the End Times? We don't know but this World could end at any time for a long list of reasons. Are we ready?
The other day one of our Neighbors asked me if I believed in "Being Saved" and I told them that I did but for perhaps very different reasons. I do believe that Love Light is a message from Christ and I do believe that he is a God to a great many people and that his teachings are a guide that if we really follow will save us. That I believe but I also believe that his name is being used in vane by people who believe they are saved and aren't following him or his teachings. So I don't believe that people are saved unless they have the Light of Christ, which is the Truth.
Yes there's Grace and that seems to be the favorite doctrine of Christians but that is for Babes in Christ who have just begun to see, not for those who have been Christians for a long time. They should be following what Jesus Christ said and they should be looking deeper into it than is generally practiced by mainstream christianity.
There is no excuse for war and that is the most anti-Christ occupation that we are currently involved in as a Nation and the Churches have gone along with this as much as anyone. Christ didn't tell us to go on the offensive against other nations because they were different and because we were lied to in order to take us to War: He told us that "Blessed are the Peace Makers" and he told us that "We will know the Truth and the Truth will make us Free!"
So if we believe we are "Saved" we had better know what that means. It implies change first of all and we need to find out what this change is supposed to be.
According to Love Light we are all given certain talents and only through Good do these talents become Good Fruit. Good is many things but it is especially having no self interest, being generous and good to all. Not serving anti-Christ aims like war and greed is especially important. Keeping the Commandments not to covet, commit adultery, lie, steal and kill including in war. This is morality and we shouldn't overlook this because there are some things that society tells us are good but we should look to a higher power for the Truth. There are many lies told to us by Civil Society and we need to be critical thinkers and not just "sheeple".
One of these days we will be asked to answer for our lives and how we lived. I don't say this in a proud way but to be Truthful; the Love Light of Christ is crucial. After studying it for over 4 years many inspired concepts have come to me and I am willing to share all of it with everyone. And yes; I continue to deal with my own negatives and my own karma every day.
Love Light Smith

Horsing around at Esser's Peace!

2011-05-31T18:50:00.000-07:00

New Love Light World a Reality!

2011-05-24T07:05:00.000-07:00

5/25/2011. Remember all the Love Light World paintings I did for the Blog? I'm living there.
It's been raining a lot so it's hard to get the gardens in but it's been fun settling in. At least the creek is high enough for canoeing! Also good for Frogs and Tadpoles!
When we took a trip to town we wondered if anybody had been Raptured. No one had: Just an erruption in Iceland and a terrible tornado on Sunday.
Today is the Convergence of the Star Signs so we'll have to see how that goes. I am starting a new life in the New Love Light World so you need to keep up with progress and I'll keep everyone posted. Love Light Smith

Unusual Patterns of May!

2011-05-07T08:59:00.000-07:00

5/20/2011. Tomorrow is Not going to be the End of the World but I hear that it is supposed to be a couple of times a day in conversation. All this hype comes from a retired engineer named Robert Fitzpatrick who has taken it upon himself to advertize again the end of the World according to an evangelist with a radio show named Harold Camping.
I don't have the time to check it out but it all has to do with a numerological value of 7 which is Monotheism's final complete number unlike Numerology which uses the number 9. They also use the 1 as Completion instead of 3. It seems that the number 1 could be considered as a holy number by Monotheists because of their dependence on it as a principal. ie 1 God, 1 Life, 1 Way, 1 Book, 1 male energy rules, 1 Chosen People, 1 Individualism. This I call the Religion of 1 and I believe that it is a flawed belief system that prohibits enlightenment and is opposed to the Feminine Life Force.
This is something to comment on because it seems that Conventional Christianity thinks of 7/Hermit as perfection because that seems to be the ultimate thing to be for them. To Me, though, there are two more initiations after that. 8 is to know God and be a part of God and 9 is Perfect Love and includes every aspect of every number. Then to say that 1 is completion instead of 3 is completely different than what has been practiced by Numerologists for thousands of years.
There are many thousands of systems that are practiced and all of them depend on tapping into a system of order so it's difficult to say that one or the other is the only correct way. His system is really foriegn to me, though and I'm not going to give it much more attention than that unless a bunch of people are Raptured that day.
To me the most interesting time is the next 3 days immediately following that as Gemini begins. I go into that below as it is some sort of Conjunction. Look for
*** in the text below to read my comment.
Today is a rare 2/Harmonious day with an 11/Enlightened Destiny with a 31/4/Sociable Work Way and an 17/8/God Power Blessing. It looks like we need to work in a sociable way to get Enlightenment and Truth on this Harmonious day that is blessed and Powered by God.
5/21/2011. On the 21st there are two 3's which do correspond to Completion but I believe that it is only completion of Taurus and this is a welcome transition from the difficult masculine Taurus to the feminine Gemini. The Destiny is an intense 30/3 and is not only means completion but, open hearted and generous. To get there is the 32/5/Free Soul and it is blessed by Light in the Star Sign which is from God. I don't perceive anything of doom in this date. Love Light
5/17/2011. Look at the Chart and you will see that there are 3-8's! 8's are Power and that is a lot of 8's and it means Complete Power or Generous Power. Keep in mind that Power can be Positive or negative. If it's Positive it will be in Freedom and whoever or whatever is Power will be willingly served and will provide much that is helpful and necessary to our lives. Otherwise it is an unhappy and controlling power over. The 17/8/Day I identify with God and the 28/1/Way I see as Goddess because those are the Mirwords of 17 and 28. God is a 17/8 and Goddess is a 28/1. Together they are 45/9/Free to Create/Perfect Love.
5/18/2011. There are 2-9's and 2-11's. Incredable Balanced Perfect Love and Light is possible today! This is the epitome of Love Light 9/11/2001 and it could bring about amazing things for both Love and Light! 9 and 11 are central to Numerology, are centered on Christ, are about Truth and show the connection to the Heavenly rehlms. The fact that there are 2 of each shows a doubling of their effect and a balance to their existance. I see this Wednesday as a truly remarkable day and a day when Heaven and Earth are connected. Love Light Smith
5/16/2011. What I saw yesterday as "You Should See Help" should have been "You Should Sight Help" or "You Should First Help". As I say, this is experimental and I just started using this system and I appologise.
So to correct: Help is not here for us but You Should First Help. Then it looks like we'll see Help coming from far off. I did a Reading on it and it has six 5's which is a lot of 5's and means Life of Freedom.
5/16/2011 is a good day for Reasoning because of the 16/7 day and the 25/7/Free Balance for Logic Destiny. By Way of 27/Logic in Balance for 9/Perfect Love Blessed by 23/Complete Balance/5/Freedom Star; Free Month in a Work Year.
I get "You" for 16/7 and Should for 25/7. First for 27/9 and Help for 23/5. This is theoretical and based on Mirroring Numbers but it says something and I think we aught to check it out: It says "You Should First Help". In other words look at and analize what to Help. After You First Help comes Your Freedom! We'll see. Love Light.
So it goes "You Should See Help". The Prediction is that there will be a sign of Help tomorrow. Notice the Help you receive. Something Like That. Love Light
5/15/2011. For the second time this month today is a 6 Day and a 6 Destiny. 6 is Life as long as the intention is Good. A 15/6 is Self Life because it is Freedom of the Individual Creating Life. The Destiny is a 24/6 is Great Life because it's Work in Balance Creating Life. So today is about Life and the Way is 8/Power but it comes from 26/8. This Power is is to Think and it's about Life in Balance. The Blessing from the Star Sign is 20/2/Intense Harmony and is a Will or desire.
The 14th had a tripple 5 so it was about Complete Freedom and it's Way was a 25/7 that was figuring this out; blessed by a 17/8 Star which means God to me. All of it in a, don't forget, 4/Creation Work Year.
We had a Friday the 13th that had a very positive feeling to it. The Ancients felt that 13 was Good Luck and a Friday the 13th was especially Good Luck. It has to do with Transitions. The 22 Destiny is a 4 but is a Master Worker and the Way to it is again the Great Life! All Blessed by a 14/5 In Freedom that's in a, don't forget, 5/Free month and a 4/Work year.
5/11/2011. The 11th may be a bit hard to take if we don't want to deal with the truth because this a consequence of the 11. It also comes with a brightness and an energy of enlightenment that can be illuminating! Ha, ha. It is bolstered by Balance which is the 20/2/Destiny it becomes when the 5/Freedom Month and 4/Work Year is added. Add 2 to the 20 and get 22/Way/Master Work to get to that Destiny. This is all Blessed by a 35/8; Freedom in Generosity Creating Power.
So this Hard Working Year in this Free Soul Month on this Day of Enlightenment we do our Master Work to achieve Balance and are blessed to do so by Right Power.
Love Light Smith
5/10/2011. Yesterday on the 9th I did a lot of writing. 9's are powerful days and can be really good. Because we're being bombarded by so much negativity and lies they can really be hard to take too. That's why I wrote all day and tried to work out what was True to my vision. The writing will appear some time later.
Today is a New Beginning and a good day to express yourself. The Way is Social and the Blessing is Freedom. That gives two 1's, two 5's, one 4 and one 3.
5/8/2011. Today is Mothers Day and it looks like a Socially Powerful Day due to the three 8's! This same phenemena happens again on the 17th. The thing is to take control of the Day and don't let it take control of you. Be Sociable and share the Power!
Because it, like every day this month, has a 5 it is Free. Every day this 4/Year is Work we Create. The Way today is 1/New Beginnings we want to have self determination or in the highest energy it's Oneness.
5/7/2011. The ancient tradition of observing the Sabath is something I've done to one degree or another for some time. Today is syncronized with the Sabath being on this double 7 Day. 7 is the Hermit and it is Spiritual Analitical. Logic and Reason are it's hallmarks. Today we are experiencing this in 3's due to the syncronization.
Every Sabath, as I'm sure devout Jews and Muslims can attest is the day they go into Study, Prayer and Meditation and it is perfect for ariving at the gates of Epiphany and Discovery.
Today also has two 5's so it doubles and balances Freedom. This Year is a 4/Work and there is also a 9/Perfect Love that takes us to the Sabath. It's a Holy Day and should be lived in Positive Energy because whatever we do that is negative on a Holy Day is especially harmful to the Soul. Love Light
5/6/2011. I took my own advise and had a Sociable Free Day yesterday and spent the day talking about our Spiritual Quests with an important new friend.
Today is a double 6 so we need to Nurture Life Today and this doubling is also Balance and Harmony which it so happens is our Blessing in Star. The Way to this is Power so we should be able to accomplish this if our Energy is Good.
5/5/2011. I did work hard yesterday and today I'm tired. There are three 5's today so it looks like Sociable Freedom. I don't have a lot that has to be done so that enables me to be mostly free. The Way is Logic so it's a good day to reason and we're blessed with Power from God. Thankyou God!
How many people are able to have freedom? Most people have to repeat every day the way they did the day before in an endless routine and even if they know that every day is different there is limited leeway to express it. That's one reason to have a profession that allows you to feel free and not simply as wage slaves.
For a long time I have noticed that people act differently every day and I feel different every day; sometimes good and sometimes bad. I think this is the reason why. What would happen if we had no Calendar and no Clocks? What if we had a different Calendar? I don't think we'd like it much and I don't know what we'd do if we had True Freedom. I don't know if we could even recognise it.
Freedom, like everything else is an aquired thing that takes many years of practice. I think we may have to look outside of our Culture to find it. We may have to die to find it because our bodies always have needs to fulfill. While we live we always must work so the only way to be free is to be happy with our work. Even then we get tired. Freedom may be having the right to rest when we're tired. Freedom may be the discipline to keep going, even when we're tired but not because we're forced to. Freedom may be to keep going even when we're tired because we're forced to because we are still free in our mind. Freedom may be the right to walk away from that with which we have grown weary.
I am very greatful to be Free; if only for Today. Love Light
5/4/2011. A 4 Day is a good day to work. The Destiny of 13/4 is good to create Change. How to get there: The 15/6 Way is free, individualistic and nurturing. Blessed from the Stars with work in new beginnings that creates Freedom. Good Day to work and that's what I plan to do. Love Light.
5/3/2011. Someone emailed me that there is a lining up of Pleides (big dipper), Moon and Earth on the 21st. I'm not an Astrologer but I found out that Pleides is in the Sign of Taurus. It happens that the 21st is the last day of Taurus. This is exactly where Gemini starts the next day and for the 22nd, 23rd and 24th there is a really amazing conjunction on the chart of Star Signs and Destiny, Way and Star on the 24th.
If you look at it you'll see the 33-9-3 stars conjuncting the Destiny(D), Way(W), Star(S) on the 24th.
33 is about my favorite # because it's my Hearts Desire; My Soul Number; The Teacher. 9 is what I hope to achieve; Perfection and the 3 is a very sexy feminine #. 3 is known to be Completion and it is attractive and sociable. It is the Number in the Love Light Mantra that says "Be Doubly Generous" because there are two 3's.
See that the 24th is a 6 which means Life and it is on a line with the aformentioned 3 conjunction. So everything is coming down to this 3 and it represents the favorite thing that creates life; namely sex and the getting together of two souls in an act that results in a 3rd wonderful result! It's Body, Mind and Spirit. Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Mother, Father, Children. Earth, Moon and Stars.
It's a beautiful thing, these 3 days of Gemini!
That's how God has planned it and what God has brought together, let no man or man made god put Us under.
I believe it would be a great day to get Married if anyone was looking for a date. It's only 3 weeks from now.
The next day after that is the 25th which is the Hermits day and Destiny and would be perfect for a Honeymoon.
The day following on the 26th is 8/Power. The 27th is a 9/Perfection/Love for Day and Destiny and it has two 3's enabling and blessing it! 28th is a double new beginning enabled by intense Work and blessed by Life!
The 29th is two 11's so tremendous Light and a 5 Way enabling it with Freedom, which is the signiture of Christ; "The Truth Shall Set You Free". And it's blessed by the 9/Perfect Love!
The 30th is two 3's and that brings it all together; enabled by 6/Life and blessed by a third 3. That's Heavy!
The 31st Works with two 4's and is enabled by a highly reasoned 7 and that last 6. This is where we want to pray to God to keep this Positive and Good because it's a 15/6 that is war if it's negative!
Pray everyone that the anti-Christ wizzards of the scull and bones don't do something bad in any of this and cause it to go negative because the next Month; June is a 6 month and we want it to be Life and to Nurture Life and not be it's opposite.
It's important to know this and not be ignorant because when a Light is shined on evil it is exposed and can no longer hide in the cloak of darkness.
So let's Pray very explicidly for the anti-Christ to be stopped by God and that we are in God.
In Christ we are "God With Us". This is Christ and Love Light is His Message.
Amen/Awoman!
Love Light Smith

5/2/2011. First thing to explain is that there are single digit numbers and Master Numbers. 11,22 and 33 are Master Numbers of 2, 4 and 6. In most ways they are the same. In the statement that "the Day # and the Destiny # are the same", don't be confused when the Destiny is sometimes the Master # of the Day and visa versa. What is clear is that the doubling of the energy of the Day and the repeat of the Star Sign every 3 days are signs of increased power and predictability this May 2011.
Already on the 1st a dramatic event occured with the aledged killing of Osama Bin Laden and the media reasertion of his role in 9/11.
I am trying to keep it positive in my interpretation but whenever the propaganda machine gets involved a negative has to be taken into account and we are being brain washed and fooled. 1 is individuality but it can become the loss of individuality and self expression or the beginning of something negative instead of positive. This 3 Way is still Completion but Completion of what? Why was Bin Laden Killed and gotten rid of? Why couldn't we see the body? Why wasn't he brought to trial? How do we know it was Bin Laden? Again we are asked to believe something the media is reporting on without proof. Many of us already know that a fake Bin Laden that was so obviously not the real Bin Laden has been used because the real Bin Laden has been dead for years. We don't even get to see a fake Bin Laden this time!
The 5 Star Sign on the 1st was Freedom if Positive but it's bondage in the negative. Star is an Energy from God but what God are we serving? Is it the God of Righteousness that Created the Universe or some man made God that seeks to take away our Freedom? Is it Christ or the anti-Christ? Is it the father of lies and the prince of darkness?
Christ came to Set Us Free and said we must have the Truth and if we take this 5 from him we will get Freedom or if we get it from those who oppose him we will become their slaves.
Today in Good Positive Energy is a 2/Balance day with an 11/Light/Truth Destiny. The 4/Way enables the Light by working on Transformation. Our blessing from God is Power that's given to replace the power that's been taken from us.
Tomorrow we have a 3/Completion/Open Hearted/Generous/Day that is Destined for that by Freedom and blessed from God with Light if we are in Good Positive Energy.
I Urge everyone to seek the God of Righteousness and Good so the energies can come to us as they are supposed to so we can get the benefit we are supposed to instead of the curse.
Freedom, Power and Light! Freedom, Power and Balance! Freedom, Power and Light! Freedom, Power and Light! Freedom, Power and Balance! Freedom, Power and Light! Freedom, Power and Light! These are our Blessing until the 33/Teacher comes!

5/1/2011: Starting on the 1st Day; 1/New Beginning a new beginning is assured by the Destiny. The Way; how we get there is by 3/Completion. Star blesses with Freedom. On the 2nd the 2/balance day is destined to become the closely related 11/Light of Truth; getting there through transformative work and the Star blesses with Power of God. The 3rd; completion is destined to complete and get there by Freedom. This is all blessed by 11/Enlightenment.
Every day is Destined the same as it's own energy and gets there by a Way that is determined by adding Taurus/2, to the Destiny. On the 22nd start adding Gemini/3 to the Destiny to find the Way. Star in Taurus is that these 5-8-11's are Blessings from the Male God Christ.
***The double of the Day and repeat in the Destiny goes all month but the Way changes by adding 3 on the 22nd when Taurus becomes Gemini and a switch from Masculine to Feminine occurs. At this time the Star beginning as a 33/Teacher switches to the multiples of 3 and I contend that the Star is now a Goddess Blessing that comes from the City of Light where God's Consort Reigns! At the same time that the Way would be a 33/Teacher the Star Blessing becomes a 33/Teacher and repeats of the 6-9-3Star begin. On the 24th/6/Gaia/Life the Destiny is the 33/Teacher with a Way of 9/Perfection. This seems to validate the Holy Spirit/Feminine/Goddess instructions of the Teacher/Christ enlightening us to Protect the Life Force.
I interpret the 5-8-11 to be numbers of Lord Christ because 5/Freedom, 8/Power and 11/Light are his Signiture. Christ as 33/Teacher in Star is plausable on the 22nd which is itself a strong Master Number meaning Master Work.
(5/2/2011) Note that after the 33/Teacher Star comes, the next day is a 5/Freedom/Day and Destiny with a Way of Power and a Blessing from Goddess of 9/Perfection. The following day on the 24th we see the 33/Teacher again in the destiny. Look at something amazing and a Sign in that this 33-9-3 is in the quadrant of the 33-9-3 of the Star Signs. See the 3 in the corner and as the pivot point!
What does this mean? 33/Teacher(Priest)-9/Love/Perfection-3/Completion/Open Heart converging at right angles on 5/24/2011 and highlighting 5/22,23,& 24/2011. This needs to be analized more.

The 25th is strong in 7/Logic. The 26th has 8/Power with 11/Light-9/Love enabling it. The 27th/Perfection is Destined to be perfect and is enabled by two 3's/Completion/Open Heartedness. 28th is a personified New Beginning for the 4th time in May. 29th is a double enlightenment by Way of Freedom and blessed by Perfection. 30th is Completion personified by Way of Life and blessed by Completion. On the 31st; last day of the Month it's hard work by good reason blessed by Peace and Life.
In short this is going to be an amazing Month that is blessed by Freedom, Power and Light in the beginning and Perfection, Completion and Life in the End.
Don't forget that this is only going to be Good if Good Positive Energy is put into it. If we fall for the lies of negativity it is going to make their meanings negative! These numbers can be Fantasticly Good or terribly bad according to what energy is affecting them. The very last number is 6 that is Life or death and the next month June is also a 6 so we better be Good and Positive so we can have the Antidote for the poison we must overcome!
This means taking care of yourself in Body, Mind and Spirit and doing the same for everyone around you; clear out to everyone else in the World, All Life and Every Created Thing!
Love Light Smith

This was how I discovered the Love Light Symbol

2011-04-27T09:09:00.000-07:00

In order to see the Divine Nature of the Love Light Symbol and how I perceive the Spiritual Connection with Christ we need to look again at how I made it. There are geometric laws that define every Name Sign and how it's made.

The Love Light Symbol is governed by these laws and this method has connected it a tradition of symbology that is thousands of years old. Without knowing this it is hard to see the true relevance to connect it with Christ.

This is a Mystery and I can't account for why this is so but like all Mysteries; the more we search, the more amazing knowledge we discover. I believe that we are encountering laws of the Universe that Transcend both Science and Religion and open up another dimension that will eventually connect the Conscious and Subconscious Mind.

Love Light.

Love Light is a Christogram!

2011-04-24T11:06:00.000-07:00

On Easter a new Sign was discovered and a new link between Love Light and Christ. While researching the name Christ I came across an important verification that Love Light is a Christ Sign!
I know the Love Light symbol and always considered it Divine but today I found a way to verify this by the Ancient Greek Symbol of Christ; the X.
Below is the basis for this copied from Wikipedia:

"The use of "Χ," derived from Chi, the Greek alphabet initial, as an abbreviation for Christ (most commonly in the abbreviation "Χmas") is often misinterpreted as a modern secularization of the term. Thus understood, the centuries-old English word Χmas, is actually a shortened form of CHmas, which is, itself, a shortened form for Christmas. Christians are sometimes referred to as "Xians," with the 'X' replacing 'Christ.[42]"

I separated the X of 2 Crosses from the rest of the Symbol. I never did that before and it creates an amazing Symbol of 2 crosses in a pattern of 3 X's. The 2 Crosses could also be seen as 2 swords crossing. It looks familiar and I'm sure that is a common symbol on any number of Crests. The 2 inverted V's are symbolic and I interpret them as communication with God. This Symbol could signify the Trinity. See also the other part of the Love Light Symbol after it has been disected another Christogram. For some reason I see it as table or platform for Christ's Body.
I previously stated that the Love Light Symbol is a Sign of Christ and it can be seen with all the charactaristics of a Human Body if you understand it. It looks like a Human Body stretched out as if it was on a Cross.

Besides the Love Light Symbol and in the Equation of the Love Light Code there are 2 more Christ Signs: The Way and Destiny; Way/11/Light(Truth) taken to Destiny/5/Freedom by Christ's quote "The Truth Shall Set You Free". The other Christ Sign is the Date 9/11/2001/3 which refers to Christ's birth in 9/11/3bc as proven by Rev. Earnest L. Martin in the Book "The Star that Astonished The World".

The significance of this is truly amazing to me and the fact that it was discovered on Easter is Awe Inspiring!

Love Light Smith

Ollo of Love Light Signs

2011-04-14T05:44:00.000-07:00

Ollo of Love Light Reading

2011-04-14T05:13:00.000-07:00

New Love Light Harbor

2011-04-07T10:14:00.000-07:00

New Love Light Trail to the Mountains

2011-04-04T18:36:00.000-07:00

I think this one is the prettiest snapshot yet! Look at that trail! It's definately going to somewhere mysterious. Before I find out where it goes, though, I have to do a lot more Creating in the New Love Light World.

New Love Light Coastal Plain

2011-04-04T11:07:00.000-07:00

New Garden Sea Scene

2011-04-04T06:41:00.001-07:00

Sky Became the Sea.

2011-04-02T08:31:00.000-07:00

The meaning of this Title is that when I first began this "New Love Light World" I made the Sky blue and put a Love Light Sun in the Sky. Later when I began to go further right on the canvas I made a blue sea. When I went back left over the original painting I saw that the sky could be a vast panorama of the sea and I made it that way by putting sailboats on it. Now I have to pull the picture down so I can make a new sky and put the Love Light sun back up as well as the God With Us Sun and the Newmeralligy Sun.
Love Light Smith

Two Garden Home Coverings

2011-03-30T06:03:00.000-07:00

Love Light Engine Garden House.

2011-03-29T14:55:00.000-07:00

New Love Light Community

2011-03-27T20:35:00.000-07:00

New Love Light Community Center

2011-03-26T06:30:00.000-07:00

New Love Light Beginnings Commentary

2011-03-22T19:22:00.000-07:00

4/1/20ll
Snapshots of New Love Light World

Sure enough; I knew that if I explored beyond Love Light Center I would discover amazing new places. What I thought was the Sky above was actually the Sea and when I opened the limits of my perspective I created a little Harbor Village. Another thing I discovered was the possibility of powering everything with Love Light Energy!
Positive Energy is the Energy of the Future and every little Home can make it's own.
This is a Work in Progress and I need to put more people in the scenes and add more detail but I couldn't wait to share this snapshot on the New World I'm discovering!
As a matter of fact the entire Blog is a work in progress and the articles too.
We need to work to create a New World to replace the one that is swiftly disappearing before our eyes and make sure it’s ready when the old one is gone.
This last statement can be taken in several ways and I am going to leave that up to you how you want to interpret it. It is also many ways in actuality. We could be resurrecting this World in a physical way by changing the paradigm and saving it. It could be in a Science Fiction kind of way where we are creating the reality of a New World that is being made on another Planet somewhere else in the Universe. “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.” Rev 21:1; could be talking about a physical Earth or a Spiritual one. In other words it could be talking about the afterlife.
No matter. If we don’t want to be a part of the problem we need to be a part of the solution!
It’s not so far out to believe that there is another Earth out there in the Universe that we could be born onto in our next life and that it may be a far more beautiful and peaceful place. How do we know that we are not being prepared to go there if we are good candidates? Or if we are not good candidates we would be prevented from going there? When you think about it, we don’t really know why we were born and we don’t really know much about our purpose in Life or the Afterlife. We could conceivably be here as a test of our worthiness and whether we pass or fail determines our next assignment after this Life.
The majority of people believe in some sort of afterlife and it could be that what I am imagining with Love Light and what was in the Prophesy was talking about a Spiritual afterlife. There are other versions of life after death and they all depend upon the idea of a Soul; the Core of our Being; Our Inner Consciousness.
Some of us have been convinced by Society to consider anything having to do with scripture to be silly or ignorant and that to give any credence to ancient prophesies is just superstition. I give them credence though.
I don’t take them literally or consider them irrefutable or beyond reproach in every regard but I think they hold many clues and many scriptures are Divinely Inspired. That is my opinion and I have verified this with “Newmeralligy”, “Love Light” and “God With Us” as well. This is all a part of how I interpret and none of this would be the same without my background. So with this in mind I have always considered this next passage as important to our future.
Here is a frightening scenario from Revelation 20:14 & 15: “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
Isn’t it possible that eventually we will destroy our World and it will burn up? That is a possibility and so are many other ways that we could destroy ourselves. Anyway, if we are a part of this and are not trying to prevent the destruction aren’t we also guilty of destroying this World? On the contrary, if we are a part of saving this World aren’t we blameless for it’s destruction?
It could be that if we are guilty of destroying this World we will be destroyed along with it and if we are innocent we will be saved.
It’s something to consider.
No matter what your beliefs on this we are a lot better off if we try to Save this World and not be a part of destroying it and no matter what our beliefs we will be innocent. Additionally; it also may not save us if we’re a Christian and we’re doing everything we’ve been told to do but we’re a part of destroying the World. A lot of credence is put on Grace and it’s put up there to excuse people for what they are doing including blatantly destroying the Creation and actually expressing a desire to see it destroyed.
I believe that this World is Sacred and the Creation is Sacred or Holy, Godly, Divine, Inviolate. (I don’t like the word Sacred, particularly, since it comes from the word Sacrifice. Sacrifice was connected to death and is a part of the idea of blood letting in Sacred Rituals that gave power to the Living (particularly Priests) through death. It’s a hard word to give up though. We certainly don’t want to sacrifice our World to give power to something evil.)
Positive Energy is not simply denying the negative. This is what it seems we are being asked to do by so many “Spiritual” discourses. I agree that we don’t need to dwell on the negatives or let fear rule our lives but we do need to know what negativity is so we can oppose it. If we are going to live Positively we should know how to do it. Does that make sense? If we are a part of the problem, don’t we want to know it so we can not be a part of the solution? That makes sense. One really important thing we can do is be logical.
Whatever we do is what we serve and that’s the thing we’ll be under in the end. Gandhi has many good quotes but the one I like best is “Live Simply so that Others can Simply Live.” If we live Simply the finite resources of this Planet are fairly distributed and the Planet will not be destroyed but can continue to sustain us. We also show our respect and love for our Mother Earth and all Life by living simply.
Obviously those who have control of the mechanisms of power are not living simply and are not encouraging us to live simply. They are using up everything at a destructive rate and using destructive energy to feed their negative energy. There is some kind of power that is being fed evil energy in this way and it is greatly increasing the power over us. Even worse is that this includes the hold over our souls too! When no one seems able to see the truth of an event like 9/11/2001 there is a spell at work and when dark powers fool us into wars, bail outs and environmental catastrophes we know we’re in a spell or under their power!
That’s negative energy and that’s what we’re under. Positive Energy is realizing it and getting out from under it. The more we suffer from living under this the more we start to see it for what it is. Many more people are starting to see and it is as if we’re being offered more and more clear chances to see it for what it is!
Some kind of God force is at work here and I believe we are being given many chances to see the Truth and it's important to see and get on the Right Side. The Right also needs to get on the Right Side obviously but we don’t need to continue doing the same as the Right has espoused. Part of what the political right have done is change the meaning of words and that is part of the problem with terms. They’ve even made the word Correct have a bad connotation as in “politically correct” which should have a good meaning.
We can’t give up either and that is one thing they want us to do and leave it up to them. That would be a mistake and it is a mistake not to change things for the better. Even if we don’t Save the World in a physical way we can save ourselves. I always thought that was the reason for Love Light and it’s prophetic message. If you believe in Positive Energy and Good and you believe in the afterlife and the Soul; don’t you think it’s important to get out from under the spell and get into Good Positive Energy? Shouldn’t we show Love and Respect Mother Earth? Shouldn’t we get out away from the force of a destructive dark entity and into the Loving Power of God/Goddess?
That’s why I’m Creating a vision of a Divinely Inspired World in New Love Light. It's also helpful to know that Goddess and Heaven are one and the same.
Love Light Smith

Love Light Transform You

2011-03-22T09:41:00.000-07:00

This image needs to be explained and the first thing is to remind people about the effects of negative energy on Numbers and on everything. Another thing is to realize that those in power use numerology to keep us in a spell. How else could we not see what is going on around us. That is why things happen on certain days. It’s planned that way and it’s no coincidence. That is why things are named as they are and by investigating the numbers in the name I can discern this.
The first thing I noticed was how many 15’s there are in this chart. For some time I have realized that 15/6 in the negative is war. First of all 6 is supposed to mean Life but in the negative it is the opposite; death. 15/6 would mean Freedom in Self Determination creating Life but in the negative it’s bondage in oppression to kill. War is 15/6 and so is Dawn. Two important numbers; Mind and Logic in the chart are 15/6. These are clues to the purpose of attacking Libya.
The pretext for attacking Libya is humanitarian. No WMD’s this time but regime change is at the center of this invasion as it was in Iraq. An investigation into the numbers gives clues to the true motives here; namely war. War gives more power to the dark side and the negative energy spawns more evil power.
There are 3-8’s/power; Destiny, Future and Legacy are all 8’s. Very important placements of power. Power can be cooperative and free or it can be oppressive and the later is true in this case.
I’m not going to go into all the numbers. You can read their negative meanings on the chart.
There is a positive aspect to this chart and it is Transformation; Changing this for a good outcome so that it does have a good result. It could turn out well for us if the intentions change. That is why I surrounded it with 13 Love Light symbols and lighted it up. 13 is Transformation and the Light exposes the wrong intentions to make them right.
We are all in a spell that is taking us to the abyss; to an evil end and there are very few that are awake or that see the “Elephant in the Room”. We were already in a spell when the World Trade Center attack happened 9/11/2001 and that’s why most people were not aware of what actually happened and why people still refuse to see the Truth in it even after overwhelming proof has been presented.
I am no Magician but I am convinced from seeing the evidence that we have been tricked and are under an evil spell and are being led to destruction. If there is a hell and a prince of darkness; we are being dominated by that! If you don’t believe it look at how many people are just going along with what’s happening! How many people who say they follow Christ, the Prince of Peace, are going to war and sending their children into it! How many "Liberals" are no longer Liberal because they vote for a party that has sold out!
I also look at the morals and ethics of mainstream society and the fact that the new philosophies and beliefs actually say that pretty much everything is OK. There is just a very small minority that have real moral scruples anymore.
In the Bible it says that there are only a few who will enter the Kingdom of Heaven and when Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed it was because of the level of corruption and the fact that there were no more righteous people left.
In China there is a belief that many troubles befall a Country when there is bad leadership. Chinese leaders supressed this belief. Other leaders as well but that is exactly what is happening to the World. Ever since 9/11/2001 we have had war and one tragedy after another: The World Trade Center attack, war in Afghanistan and Iraq, toxic dust exposure, the wall street collapse, the bp blowout, several earthquakes, the Japanese Disaster and this new war in Libya etc. The corporations have taken over the US government and are using it to run over us and the environment and for their own private army. They are using the media as a propaganda machine to keep us in the spell. Now we don’t believe that there is such a thing as Global Warming. Kids are on drugs and hooked on video games. Etc. etc, etc; on and on and it’s all because of bad leadership.
I am not even allowed to talk about these negatives because supposedly if we give it attention it will grow! That’s the current philosophy but Hell! It’s Growing anyway so that’s BS. I say it’s growing because people don’t see it and don’t want to see it!
So that’s another thing that’s leading us to destruction is all these new philosophies and supposedly spiritually awake people are telling us that addressing this Karma is negative. I say that’s building on a bad foundation. Christian society had their foundation on Jesus’ teachings and it was knocked out in the middle ages. In most cases it has never been fixed. So we live in a society that already had a mainstream religion that told them to obey the laws of the country and that believed that Grace was an excuse to do anything and now the New Age comes along and basically says not to acknowledge the problems but put good energy into it and make it Good. I don't know if anyone really knows what Good Energy is!
Good Energy is Love Light. The Love of All Creation and Light; the Truth. Without either Love or Light there is only negative energy. That's because you can Love anything good or evil without Light! There can be no Wisdom without Truth. Truth is not just subjective truth that's only opinion but it is Truth as opposed to lies. Good Energy is to “have no self interest, Be Doubly Generous and Good to All”. Essentially helping others and that means helping the Whole; everyone and those in the Future as well so we have to live sustainably.
It is also deciding which God you serve. Whether you believe in God or not it is what power you are under; oppressive or Free. If you are going along with the evil god that is destroying the Creation of Creator God then it is the destroyer that you follow and that is going to be who is over you in the end.
Was this what Jesus meant by Salvation? I think it was because he said “You will know the Truth and the Truth Shall Set You Free”. If we knew the Truth we could be Free. So what if we don’t know the Truth? Are we lost? That’s how it looks to me right now in this World of Ours.
There’s always hope, though and that’s why I’m doing the New Love Light Beginnings series. I want to show what kind of a World we could live in and some alternatives to how we do it in our unsustainable life. We need to work for it, though. It won’t happen if we don’t work and one thing we have to work for is to change things in a positive way. How can we change if we don’t know what’s going on and the Truth?
To the New Age I say how can we know what is Positive if we don’t know what is negative?
Love Light Smith

New Love Light Beginnings Left

2011-03-21T05:33:00.000-07:00

Happy Spring and Solstice. It's already been 80 here in Arkansas.
More news from Japan. Of course the reason that they can't keep the water in the cooling ponds is because they're cracked and broken. They say don't drink the water because there's iodine in it. Iodine is the new code word for Radiation. Actually Iodine is what you need to take to deminish the effects of Radiation. There's many other substances we can take like kelp and we need to become familiar with these because we are going to need them I worry.
Japan had plans for more than two dozen new reactors! Sounds more like they need to get rid of the ones they have and so do we. Then we need to get into some serious austerity measures to reduce our usage of Everything!
Learn to Live Simply. Sit under the Old Oak Tree in the Summer and sleep on the Screen Porch. Ride Bicycles, have a Garden, Vacation at Home.
I think we aught to live by the part of the Lords Prayer that says Forgive Us Our Debts as we Forgive our Debtors. That way we wouldn't have to be slaves to the rat race and we wouldn't have to make a living destroying the Earth.
Look into most jobs and you will find a strong element of destroying the Earth in every one of them. The first element is getting in a car and going off to join the other wage slaves. If we stayed home and worked the ground and grew our own food that is the best way we could occupy our time!
Go back to School; not the factory school but many small community schools where they taught survival skills. The skills that our forefathers had. We could go to school with our kids and all learn these skills again!
That's my thought for the day.
Love Light Smith

New Love Light Beginnings.

2011-03-18T08:29:00.000-07:00

I have wanted to put down visions of a New and better World for some time and now seems to be the perfect time to start. The idea is to show in an Artistic way what our Lives could look like if we would realize a better way of life. This is Love Light so what better forum than this to express it?
I have some Artistic tallent but it is not trained and actually I have done very little but every time I do it, it seems to come out well. So if you think it looks a little amaturish; give me time to practice. I really like the digital format and with it I can not only do Art easier but can get it out to more people too.
Loving All you people who read my blog and hope to inspire you as I am inspired.
Love Light Smith

Beginning New Love Light!

2011-03-17T10:24:00.000-07:00

Fallout Threat On The World

2011-03-16T14:54:00.000-07:00

Gas and Oils Wells Cause Earthquakes!

2011-03-14T09:40:00.000-07:00

Tsunami Hits Japan!

2011-03-11T08:35:00.000-08:00

Gas and Oil wells cause Earthquakes!

3/14/2011, 3/15/2011
Every day gives new perspective to the situation in Japan. It only seems to be getting worse. I’m sure that some of my New Thought friends could put a positive spin on it but unless we take this as a warning and make drastic changes to our way of life we can only expect many more negative consequences. What’s good in all this is that if we do change our Lives will change for the better. Dramatically so!
The reality, though, is that we need to stop pumping oil out of the “Ring of Fire” because it is causing accelerated geological movement. It’s my opinion that removing oil and gas from the ground removes the shock absorbing ability of the earth and in sensitive areas like the Ring of Fire this will have dire consequences like we’ve just seen.
Oil and gas work and particularly fracking is destructive in other ways. When they add hydrochloric acid, diesel and other chemicals to water and pump it into the ground at 30,000psi anyone could figure out what is going to happen to the water in the Aquifers! What kind of future is there if we destroy our water supply? What right do we have to do this? What right do we have to destroy our Sacred Mother Earth? These are actions we do with oblivious minds and arrogance!
So Today as we get more bad news from Japan we can understand the future and a World of bad choices if we continue to let the blind lead the blind. I’m talking about the leaders who have brought us to this; Referring to the elites who own the oil companies and the major corporations and our governments. The ones who are doing a really bad job right now. I just found out who built those nuclear power plants that are going into meltdown. General Electric. Yea; same ones who build nuclear weapons. Yea; and have a lot of involvement in the war machine. I could have suspected but anyway; these are our leaders. What kind of leaders are they? Are they Good? (What would Jesus say?)
Would anyone be offended if I asked who do these leaders follow because it looks like they’re leading us into the abyss! I’ll let people guess who I’m referring to because it’s not nice to demonize anyone. But is that a crazy notion?
While we watch and wait for more bad news it’s shocking to witness the horror of this situation. How devastating for those poor people who by no Fault of their own have become our latest victims. Just 4 days ago they were hard working people going about their business. Now suddenly there are millions of them lining up to receive aid; which is inadequate at this point.
Again we wait for our leaders to initiate a response to this disaster. Our own president Obama is offering help and tries to give aid like he did for the BP blow out last year in the Golf of Mexico. We’re beginning to realize that these aren’t isolated incidents. Once a disaster has struck there isn’t much we can do about it other than clean up and go on with our lives in a spoiled environment. It hurts to look back on what we’ve lost when we consider the loss of Marine Life in the Gulf and a fishing industry that will never come back. Naturally BP is weaseling out of paying their share of the damage. Ironically now in Japan oil companies may be to blame because they dared to drill in “The Ring of Fire”.
Looking back it’s easy to see how we could have avoided the BP disaster. If those in charge had some foresight and had listened to the experts they would not have drilled in such an incredibly risky place. Our technology has only advanced to the point where it’s good enough to get us in trouble and not good enough to get us out. The oil companies were in it to make lots of money but they didn’t want to be responsible or take full responsibility when they messed up. That’s how it works but if the system was fair we would all have been fully compensated and they wouldn’t have anything.
Now there’s a moratorium on deep water drilling but before the well blew up Obama had backed initiatives to drill more. Already the industry wants to go back and start drilling again.
Obama is going to help Japan and this is supposed to be different because it’s a natural disaster unlike the man made one in the Gulf. We assume it couldn’t have been avoided. It was just Mother Nature doing her thing? Maybe She’s angry!
Or maybe oil drilling is somehow connected to this new disaster. There’s always something wrong with it from the very beginning. Even exploring for oil in the sea does huge damage because they use powerful sonar that’s deadly to sea life. Where oil companies are working in the Spratly Islands of the South China Sea it’s also a fishing ground. China, Japan Taiwan, Maylasia, the Phillipines and Vietnam have all developed oil reserves there. These nations are drilling and pumping oil in the Ring of Fire. What happens in this earthquake prone area when oil is removed or when fracking is done for natural gas? I think we just saw what happens.
Usually there is serious environmental damage from careless operations but maybe now we’re starting to see far more serious consequences. Oil wells near the Fault area could be causing Earthquakes and Tsunami’s! In 2006 a Tsunami originating here killed 220,000 Indonesians and 4 days ago this one in Japan. This possible fact is either being ignored or kept secret by the oil industry.
We’re at war. Not just because we invaded other Countries to take their oil but to a larger extent it’s a war on Mother Earth. It seems like everything wrong is connected to oil somehow. If we want it so bad we can’t think about Faults in the ground and Faults in our way of Life.
We don’t realize that there’s a Fault running through our thinking from a Faulty belief system. The biggest Fault we have is continuing to take Mother Earth for granted!
We have a lot of Faults and Fault Lines and now we have to walk a fine line between life and death and we’re in no shape to do it! It’s like we’ve been to a big party hosted by the oil companies and now we’re driving home drunk and endangering every human on the Planet! We don’t want to face up to it but we need rehab because we’ve started doing this all the time! We need to straighten out our lives but we keep being tempted out of sobriety. Strangely, being sober and serious about recovery is considered crazy! It’s dangerous to be anywhere near this honky-tonk reality if you want to be sober and think clearly.
Sobriety is about the sacredness of Life and we won’t see our faults unless we check into rehab for a while. Again it’s about taking care of the Life Force. If we can stop thinking only about today and having our next beer or barrel or gallon if gas maybe we could figure our Lives out.
For some reason we are given so many reasons why we don’t need to change. Many come from Philosophies and Religions so I’m going to say that any belief that says we don’t need to work at this is just another enabler that keeps us addicted. It’s not just God who’s going to save Us but “God With Us” and this is infinitely more powerful than anything we’ve ever tried! Life is about the Past, Present and Future and it’s about doing what’s right! Stop listening to those who have taken away our rights to Life and don’t want to give them back! The corporate controlled media is being used to confuse us! This Chaos is only perfect if it leads us to make a change! Destroying our Sacred Creation is not perfection and we must oppose it!
To God/Goddess it must be like seeing everything you worked for destroyed and your Children dieing. Now we can understand this because of the Tsunami! As one of God’s Children I want to witness for the Truth and say; “Love Light is Perfect: The Love of All Creation and Light is Perfect. Heaven is Perfect. “have no self interest, Be Doubly Generous and Good To All” is perfect!
Love Light 9/11/2001 is beginning an initiative to show what our world could do to be sustainable and this is my next project. It’s a Big Project! Come along and find out what it means to say: “Don’t Miss Your Ride To Heaven”. Love Light Smith

3/11/2011.
Today we got the News of the Tsunami that hit Japan. As more news comes in it becomes ever more clear just how devistating this has been to one of our closest allies and trading partner. I am very sorry for the losses they have suffered and everything they will have to do in their recovery. It is a very sad day for all of Us to get this News.
When I heard about it I began to put it to Numbers and this is what I find:
First the Image (Name Sign) is Striking in how it depicts an event down below that spreads upward. The Image to the Left is just Tsunami so you can see what that looks like alone.
I am expressing negative meanings in the Numbers because this is a negative event. Numbers become negative when negative energy is put on them.
The most prominent Number is the 3-11's. I have heard that 11 can be destruction and if this is true it's source is Mother Earth this time. I see it associated with the word Attack! It's in the Birth (First) Essence, the Way (that takes us to our Destiny) and in the Field (where we end up). This could be a result of Man Made events that haven't taken our World into account and we are experiencing the results. Without intending to it seems that Man has been waging war on Mother Earth!
The 2-7's are essentially a Beginning Method and an End Result that comes from a Reason to a Reason which may be that the Earth is reacting violently to stresses we're putting on her which result in severe consequences for Mankind.
This happened on a day of Intense New Beginnings/10/1 and has a Legacy of Universal Power/82 making again Intense New Beginnings/10/1.
The 2-6's are connected to war. An assault is evident in the 15/6 with death as a consequence. The Earth is certainly under assault and she may be seen as fighting back and showing her displeasure in the wars Man is waging.
2-8's are both 17/8's that indicate to me that God has become involved and this will affect our Destiny and how we think.
There is also an influx of intense disharmony/20/2 that comes in a Month of Completion/3 and Year of possible destruction/4. The 1-9 is bad because it is negative in all aspects and shows a real lack of perfection with an aspect against Love.
The 44 in Trail indicates something of Very Powerful Spirit and the 77 is Spiritual Destiny. These can be viewed in a Positive or negative way. Positive would be that we are experiencing a Chastening from a Powerful Spirit such as God to change our course and the Spiritual Destiny could also be Good or evil and be viewed in a personal way or a collective way indicating a question; which way we are going?
I view this as a warning to a very lax World Culture that is only concerned with the now and is not considering the Future. There is also a total lack of respect for this most Holy and Profoundly Beautiful Planet. If we don't start respecting this this World we are all in for some very difficult times.
For now, though, we pray for those unfortunate people who have been affected by this terrible event.
Love Light Smith

Newmeralligy

2011-03-09T05:41:00.000-08:00

God With Us

2011-03-05T08:11:00.000-08:00

Highest Developed Love Light So Far. The Core Principals.

2011-02-28T12:31:00.000-08:00

I went back and removed one of my new numbers, retained others and made the scope of Newmeralligy better. Along with this I realized something new.

Highest Developed Love Light So Far; the Core Principals.
3/3/2011

I say “Highest Developed Love Light So Far” indicating that I have improved the process and understand it better. Then I went through it and cleaned up the graphics and took out "Voice". This corrected Legacy and ollo.
8/Power is what Legacy and ollo should rightly be. Remember that Birth Essence is the Mother, Legacy is the Father and ollo is the Child. There are no other numbers that represent Mother and Father better than 6/Life and 8/Power. Father and Mother in Love produce a Child ollo/8/Power. To protect and bring up this Child destined for Power it is necessary for the Father to have Power and exhibit Authority because He needs to protect the Child and hold it High. In this case the Child is Love Light; the most Noble Ideal.
There is a new realizations that came from doing this. It concerns me that too few people Love Light. I hadn't realized what caused this until I did the work and noticed the Maturity # 7/Spiritual Reasoning. I realized that most people including myself are not Spiritually Mature. I include myself because I realize that the more spiritually developed I get the better able I'll be to get it across. On the other hand my endeavor to bring it is my practice of it.
Love Light is infinately old and must have been in existence when the Universe formed. It’s the Masculine and Feminine forces working together to bring Life to Creation.
The Core Principals are how the Masculine Loves the Feminine Life Force. I thought I had it all figured out but there's more to it than I thought. Masculine brings the Seed; the Idea. The Feminine Forms Life around it but which is Love and which is Light? If they both have Love Light they both love the Life Force by loving each other. What seems to be lacking in Humanity is the Masculine Loving the Feminine and caring for it so the Life Force will Thrive..
I propose that the Core principal is the Masculine Love for the Feminine. It is not just Men and Women but the concept that Men and Women have both Masculine and Feminine Energy within. These balance each other and work together to create and maintain Life. This is core knowledge and this realization is what gives Order to Creation. When this realization is internalized we will begin Regeneration.
What I see around me is mass confusion and many foolish people who think they're wise; but it's like Jesus said “The foolish man builds his house upon the sand.” Unless we build our beliefs on this rock of Truth we we are not Wise. This means we must understand Life before we can solve Life's problems.
We begin by taking care of ourselves completely; in Body, Mind and Spirit. If we are fortunate enough to have a Mate this adds another dimension to the equation and we have a Life outside of ourselves to take care of. This Love outside us helps the Life within. Then we direct this Love toward the Life of our Community, the World and Creation.
It won't work if it's just a Man and a Woman regardless of the Life Force. We disreguard this at our own peril. If we Love the Life Force we take care of it completely; in Body Mind and Spirit.
This is very important because if we leave out something and don't care, we fail. Particularly I think this applies to uplifting each other's Spirits. This is too often neglected. Spiritually it's more crucial than food or knowledge. This is where Love should begin because if we miss this we unknowingly hurt the Spirit; sometimes from a false sense that we are doing right. So we Believe Well, Think Well and Eat Well. It all adds up to bennefit the whole. Put Wisdom into our Soul, Truth into our Mind, and Good Food into our Body.
Again, this will not work if we are living in a World that does not Love the Life Force so once we have achieved our own balance we should share it with others by personal dialogue or in public discourse.
All People are born with imperfections. This means they have needs in their Soul. I see this in their Numbers. This is also a principal of the Church I was brought up in and it’s called “Inherited Evil”. Buddhism calls it Karma. In life we must “work on Karma” and “become Regenerated. In Newmeralligy the principal is that we are born with weak or missing Numbers in the Table and these numbers appear in our Chart as Lessons we are assigned.
Perhaps I should change the Love Light Mantra to “have no selfish interest, Be Doubly Generous and Good To All” because we must have Self Interest to take care of the Life Force within us. If we take care of the Life Force outside Us that helps Us but we don’t do it to be selfish. We do it because we were given Life and should honor and love it.
We are not taught this enough and it's a major problem. In many cases we're taught to harm. We do it to ourselves with harmful thoughts and to others with harmful actions. It seems that everything we do to make a living harms the Earth and war is the most harmful. In America we founded our culture on war so it's no wonder we're so destructive. Because we've never faced up to this we've become one big military industrial complex that's run by criminals. We think we're free but we never were and we take away people's freedom all over the World.
Referring back to something I said above we unknowingly hurt the Spirit; sometimes from a false sense that we are doing right. This mistake still plays itself out in the false belief in manifest destiny that justifies all the deadly sins; and does it with the Church's blessing. It tells the mass that we have a monopoly on the truth and the only God and the only Christ and "we must destroy the heathens that don't know God" and the mass does as it's told and goes throughout the World destroying the Core Principals. I am not blaming Jesus Christ; I'm blaming false prophets.
If Christians would be Christian they would know not to do the things they are being told to do. The Truth of Jesus is still in the Bible so people don't have much excuse to live contrary to it but they are just part of the mass. There are also other sources of Truth than the Bible too but false teachers try to threaten people not to go there. My own Newmeralligy would certainly be a big one!
That is why we destroy even the crucial Systems that Sustain Life on such a huge scale! The leaders who have led us to do this should "have a mill stone put around their necks and be cast into the Sea" because they taught us to destroy.
We are taught to dishonor Life first by the Church. Look for an example to the traditional dismissal of anything of a Feminine Deity. Mention Goddess to a Christian and you get accused of being a satan worshiper!
I want to show the flip side of this by pointing out a "Christian School" that promotes the neo-con agenda by having their leaders come in and speak to their students. One I know was Dick Cheney who works for the most destructive corporation in America; Halliburton. Now as a result of what this corporation has done this School is in the center of some of the worst environmental damage our planet has ever seen. They serve as a terrifying example of how churches are used. Nothing has really changed since the autrocities comitted by the Roman Catholic Church because churches are apparently fronts for Wall Street.
It happened that Dick Cheney was only one in a string of conservative neo cons that were invited to speak. Close to the school Halliburton is extracting “natural gas” and caused incredible destruction in Central Arkansas. It has done the same in thousands places around the Country; causing the loss of clean water sources, spewing toxic gas into the air and causing earthquakes.
We didn’t suspect a thing even though Halliburton was the company responsible for the blowout of the BP oil well in the Golf of Mexico. Our leaders knew but they took money and permitted them to go to work fracking Mother Earth; pumping unknown liquids that contain acids and diesel into the ground at incredibly high pressure; which in turn came out even more toxic to destroy aquifers and spew over land and into waterways. Not all gas was captured and it even leaked out as gas clouds into the atmosphere.
This was all predictable and happened because people are oblivious to what is sacred and because Life is't honored. The fact is that we may have lost the entire water supply of Southern Arkansas. it's killing fish in the Arkansas River and has gassed thousands of birds. There are daily Earthquakes because Mother Earth shudders as she's violated. How long can we Live without caring for Mother Earth? Only seconds without Air, only days without Water and only weeks without Food! This terribly short sighted focus of industry has let looters and bad leaders bring us to this point that now threatens us all with genocide if it's not stopped. It's all due to ignoring Core Principals.
For me I knew that it was wrong and what would happen but I have limited resources to fight against this tide. Who knows how bad it will have to get before it's stopped. There is a lot of public concern but people are beginning to realize that they don't have any power against a corprotocracy and the media propaganda machine. Once we had the Power of the EPA but that seems to have been eliminated during the reign of terror of the neo con bush and now obama. They've done their best to take us down the path to Hell!
This reference to Hell may not be considered reasonable and demonizing the corpse elite may seem unreasonable. It's mean but it's not nearly as mean as these corporations who think they're Gods. I use it because it's a pretty apt way to explain this dynamic and how it works. It seems that if negative energy is practiced so explicitly by the "elites" and they are using their power to destroy the Creation that they are trying to destroy us. This is the most evil thing I can think of! What else would satan strive to do than destroy God Us and Creation?
Why should we help Satan take us to Hell! He can't defeat us if we Honor Life and God! We can defeat him by keeping the Core Principal to Love the Life Force.
Love Light

Keep Love Light Free

2011-02-21T07:06:00.000-08:00

Masculine + Feminine = Creation

2011-02-19T13:31:00.000-08:00

2/19/2011,
One of the Old Guard Prophets of Conventional Christianity; who I happen to respect a lot, challenged me on the aspects of Divinity that I have advanced concerning The Life Force. Like most of the Old Guard Monotheists; he is not yet ready to accept the Feminine Divine.
This essay is the result of going deeper into the subject:

When the Masculine and the Feminine unite there is Creation. Is that Creation Masculine or Feminine? Is it possible for either one by itself to make Creation? God Created us in his own image. Are we just Male or are we Male and Female? We are Male and Female so it stands to reason that God is Male and Female too. When Monotheists try to say that God is Male that looks like patriarchy negating the Feminine.
I don't think Jesus was like that; He had Women around him all the time. I think paul was like that; he didn't like women. There are many people who say that Christianity was usurped by paul and that he wanted people to follow him instead of Jesus.
I read the Bible with a grain of salt. It is called "Gods Word" and yet not one word was actually written directly by God. It was written by men who said it was Gods Word so actually they could have been saying "Men are God". The crazy thing is that could be true and what we think of as God is really Goddess. After all the Universe is 1 big system to Create Life and so is Mother Earth.
Mother needs Father for 1 reason and that's for procreation. She needs the Seed. Then She needs to be Loved and cared for so she can foster Life. That is her soul purpose and we can be grateful that she wants to because we are the product of her Creation. That's why we need to honor Her and Love her. If we don't we'll have to live as divorced children after Mom has been thrown out of the house. Dad doesn't know how to handle kids and he's always always talking crap about Mom!
There are many problems with Monotheism but it seems to be an outgrowth of warrior societies that have to suppress the Feminine in order to maintain their belief that justify killing and exploiting other human beings.
Prior to Monotheism all cultures honored the Feminine. Jews too had a belief in the Feminine Goddess Shekina. The Patriarchal Religious leadership of Jesus day had long before rejected Shekina and the Feminine Paradigm.
Other problems with Monotheism have to do with singular thinking that won't let other ideas in and tend to go toward their goal with blinders on; unaware of what's going on around them and unwilling to see other points of view.
This all Male energy shuts out the Feminine and the Wisdom it could gain. Patriarchy then goes obsessively into shrewd force without any thought for the Holiness of Life. This disavowal of the Feminine Life Force leads it to every kind of unwise authority over Life and Creation.
In our Society we have either Monotheism or Atheism but the idea of God/Goddess is spurned for the most part because it is a threat to the status quo. This exact same dynamic opposed Christ and the Truth. The Truth Sets People Free and the power structure of the time didn't want their subjects to be free so the anti-Christ took action and killed him and the persecutions began. Later they took his name in vane with a contrary and corrupted message and used his church as an opressive army. After that and because of their abuse of power and their absurd hypocrisy they actually spawned atheism and the anti-Christ themselves!
My friend is very kind and just and I don't know why he dislikes Feminine Spirituality so much. I suspect that it’s because he’s a traditionalist and not ready to think outside the box. They have had their Patriarchal say long enough, though and it’s time for new ideas from Holy Spirit.
There have been so many lies told by Religion that people don’t even believe there is truth but ultimately there is and we should be trying to find it together instead of fighting over it.
The analogy of a piece of fabric rent by division because I said there were many Gods was only my attempt to shake us awake a little. It could only help the fabric of the cosmos to include all manor of belief so that oneness may be possible. To deny one part or the whole truth is like never weaving the fabric in the first place. Every piece of fabric has a life span and then new fabric must be made. The materials to make the fabric comes from a world that creates via Male/ Female interaction and Men and Women use this resource and Create from it.
The only thing that the lone Masculine can do is destroy and that is what it does when it's left alone with no Love or Light.

2/16/2011: All I Really Want To Say Today........

2011-02-16T06:49:00.000-08:00

All I really want to say today is that this blog is evolving and there's many flaws to overcome as I try to express what I want to say. I write something and think it's great and then I have another look at it and freak out and rewrite and edit and then I look at it again and do it all over and over and over.
Sometimes, thank God, eventually I read it later and say "that's perfect. It's exactly what I wanted to say".
Getting there is the problem and I usually publish prematurely and sometimes with an announcement where a lot of people go check it out.
So sorry. Please forgive the misunderstandings that come from this.
I'm not a trained writer in the respect that I ever went to college or to a writing class after high school. In fact I dropped out of High School after an old tight ass male teacher gave me an F on an essay that I had worked really hard on and thought was good.
Most of what I have learned has been at "The School of Hard Knocks" and I think this blog qualifies as Higher Learning at Knocks.
It is a lot to ask of people to keep checking back to see if I have it right yet but that is what I'm going to ask you to do. I need the pressure to write and I use public opinion to streighten me out.
Maybe I'll just make an announcement when I finally get it.
The ideas are there and they are right but mostly my problem is that they are too offensive.
Yesterday I learned a new term: "Tribal Moral Community". Pretty Cool! I wonder which one I belong in? Some day I hope to find out.
Love Light Smith

Daily Edit 2/15/2011

2011-02-13T09:18:00.000-08:00

2/15/2011.
There's a reason for saying “There Are Many Gods”; to create Freedom. Without free choice there's no Truth and only obligation to believe. We're Free to Choose and people are choosing.
It’s time now for the various Faiths to be truthful and be true to God. In other words; be something that people benefit from Spiritually.
For a Church to be open and supportive there should be something more: give them the Truth and don't lead them astray or exploit them and use them as an army. Forgive me for using this example but it's the truth. Can it not be argued that Jews and Muslims should do the same?
I call Monotheism; “The Religion of 1”. If the Religion of 1 was to mature the 1 would be Oneness and it’s Male Energy would be balanced with the Feminine Life Force to become Wise.
I think there's a Universal God Over All. It's a God of Order and has a Consciousness that spans the Universe. Jehovah may fit this description and many people believe him to be the One God. You will know him by his fruits; his followers. Do they reflect the Love of God? Do they Honor the Creation? Are they Creators?
From early childhood I’ve had an Earthly God; Jesus. He's come as Love Light and God With Us. This is My God. He is not the God of the Universe but he comes from that God and The Holy Spirit; The Mother Of All. That's what I know.
Others are Free to choose what they want to be and what they want to be a part of.

There Are Many Gods/ 2/12/2011.

2011-02-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

2/12/2011
I really get nervous saying “There are Many Gods.” The God of Monotheism is So Powerful and so pervasive throughout society it is risky to seem to oppose it. I want to Cooperate with it. It is also risky to talk about any Gods to the Secular world. So it’s OK to believe in 1 God and it’s OK to not believe in God but it’s not OK to believe in Many Gods. Pagan’s may also get offended but I’m not sure why yet. I’m trying to make Peace not war. This is really about Freedom!
In the Illustration above; the Reading expresses a huge amount of 5/Freedom associated with “There Are Many Gods” and that is what I feel. The date today makes the Synchronicity of this Subject come to Life. Both the Voice of the Date and the Voice of God is expressing 5/Freedom. The Rational and The Trail are 5/Freedom and the entire Ollo Vine is stacked with Three 5/Freedoms. Seven 5’s is a huge amount and the fact that there are Seven means Freedom is the Rational result of realizing that There are Many Gods. I believe this is very obvious once you get over the shock of this new idea.
Having so much dominance by 5/Freedom leaves less in the other numbers but there is some power for 2-3’s/Harmonious Completion, 2-9’s/Harmonious Love and 2-11’s Harmonious Light. There is 1-2/Balance, 1-4/Creation, 1-7/Logic and 1-22/Spiritual Work.
This is certainly a credable Subject and I believe it is a completely valid idea. It may take some more work to make this concept understandable but I will keep trying to make it more plain and simple.
Love Light Smith

My Daily Blog 2/11/2011.

2011-02-11T09:14:00.001-08:00

2/11/2011. What an amazing Date! That’s Beautiful! It is all about Harmony and Enlightenment.
Have you ever noticed how much the personality of each day changes? Yesterday I was in a bad mood all day. I bet things look up today and there is a lot of Good to be gleaned from our thoughts and actions.
This morning as I was waking up and thinking I decided to start writing a Daily Blog. I usually do write something every day so now I’ll just do it with more intention and purpose.
The blog has had a problem that seemed to cause disharmony because it seemed to me that Jesus was behind Love Light and although I Love Jesus he is a sore point to much of the World. So I had an epiphany that seems to solve this.
The epiphany is simple but profound and I’m not sure why it hasn’t occurred to me before.
It’s Simple because it makes us Free and profound because it confronts Dogma and creates Harmony.
More and more I’ve come to believe something that’s heretical but true. Monotheism is no longer logical to me and think it would be better if we reasoned it out.
To understand this it’s necessary to understand what I mean by a God. I would define it as a Collective Consciousness in a Belief System that has a Focus on some sort of Higher Being or Idea. Within this concept there are so many possibilities. This realization creates a new Collective Consciousness.
I said it was simple but it may not sound that way. Simply put it is that there are many Gods and we don’t have to fight about it.
Christians are most famous for saying there is only 1 God and theirs is it and they have to take over the World to enforce it. This has caused thousands of years of needless war and bloodshed! Monotheism ostensibly gives credibility and righteousness to actions that might otherwise be considered barbarism and brutality.
So now if we understand that there is more than 1 God and there is no reason to hate someone because they have a different God we may continue on with this idea. We have no right to force someone else to worship our God and our God should have to be chosen by Free Will. If our God can stand on it’s own merit and is truly Great, it aught to be readily seen and people should be able to decide to honor our God or not!
Here are some Gods for example who someone could choose to honor: Buddah, Allah, Jehova, Krishna, Thor, Jesus, Iatia and there’s many more: or Goddesses: Freya, Shekina, Brigit, Gaia, and Others; or Idols such as: Money, Power, Pleasure, Materialism or whatever they choose. Our laws of incorporation even create another sort of God; the corporation! Corporations have all the legal rights as a person and since they are seen as a person they would also fall under the definition of a God; "a Collective Consciousness in a Belief System that has a Focus on some sort of Higher Being or Idea". Therefore when we gave corporations the same rights as a human being we were creating Gods. In many cases these corporations imitate Gods due to their all powerfulness and the fact that they now can know more about us than we do because of their spy network.
There is certainly more than 1 God under this definition. There may Truly be 1 God over all but that God is different in everyone’s mind and we don’t need to kill each other off over that.
First and foremost let’s Love the Life Force and to do that we need to Love Light.

God Willing; more tomorrow.

Love Light Smith.

A Call To Love Light Child.

2011-01-12T09:42:00.000-08:00

I have been waiting for dialogue to the Love Light Child and then this came to me. It's by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles and it seems right for now.
Love Light Smith

A CALL TO LOVE!
by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
http://eraofpeace.org
Precious Hearts, a monumental shift is taking place at this moment that transcends the perception of our conscious minds. Please go within to the deepest recesses of your heart and read these words from that sacred space where Divine Intelligence prevails. We are being called, on behalf of Humanity and all Life evolving on this sweet Earth, to release the greatest expression of Divine Love we have ever experienced. This very moment, focus your attention on the person you Love the most in this world. Tangibly feel your Love flowing through your Heart Flame into the Heart Flame of your Loved One. Now, feel your Love expanding and expanding until it envelops every particle of Life on Earth. Ask the Presence of God pulsating within your heart to increase this expression of Divine Love daily and hourly with every breath you take from this moment forth.
On Saturday, January 8, 2011, which numerically was an 11:11 day, we held a Celebration of Life Service for my beloved son Joao who passed away unexpectedly on December 29, 2010. The service was held at Saint Pius X Catholic Church in Tucson, Arizona at 10:00 a.m. There was an overflow crowd of over 700 people physically present and tens of thousands of people all over the world joining with us in consciousness to send their Love and support.
At 10:10 a.m., during the exact moment that Tucson was being flooded with Love and support from all over the world, an unprecedented act of violence took place which took the lives of six people and seriously wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and eleven other people. Those who were killed included a Federal Judge and a nine year old girl who was born on September 11, 2001.
The focus of the world instantaneously turned to Tucson, and people everywhere began invoking the Light and praying for healing and comfort for the people involved. This outpouring of Love and Compassion created a powerful forcefield of Light that enveloped the planet and paved the way for a shift of consciousness that has the potential of lifting Humanity into a Higher Order of Unity Consciousness and Oneness than we have previously experienced. The success of this opportunity is up to us. Let’s all accept responsibility for being the Open Door for a perpetual influx of Divine Love. Let’s all hold the sacred space for Humanity to remember the Oneness of ALL Life.
The banner for the memorial service that was held in Tucson on January 12th in honor of those who lost their lives stated, “Together We Thrive.” During that event, President Obama and many other dignitaries who had come to Tucson for the service expressed the need for all of us to set aside our differences and for us to cocreate a new level of civil communication and interaction. It was expressed that it is time for us to reaffirm our commitment to each other and for us to build a more sensible and caring world. We were all asked to unite in a mission of recovery, and to honor the fallen by going forward in ways that heal and do not wound.
President Obama said, “What matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but how well we have Loved.”
We must all strive to be better people in our private lives, better friends, better coworkers, better neighbors. We cannot use this tragedy as one more excuse to tear each other down. Instead we must use this tragedy as a catalyst to catapult us into a Higher Order of Being. We must align our values with our actions. If we do this, the lives of those who died will not be in vain.
My Faith in your ability to accomplish this mighty feat is beyond measure. I Love you, and I Trust you. Listen to the Divinity within your heart and you will know how to God Victoriously accomplish your facet of this Divine Mission. Be at Peace. Know that when we work together, Victory is Ours!
Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
New Age Study of Humanity's Purpose
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Christina Taylor Green 9/11/2001-1/8/2011

2011-01-10T07:42:00.000-08:00

Christina: Our hearts go out to you and the others who died last Saturday in Tucson. Our hearts go out to all those who knew and loved you and will miss you so terribly now.
Bless you and the other Good Souls who travel now to be in that place beyond our knowing.
Christina: You were so special and precious to Us because of your Beauty and Potential and how you showed that while still in your Lovely Childhood.
There has to be a reason that you could not stay with us any longer. May we understand that you were needed elsewhere and that you did not die in vain.
Everything in this Creation is reasonable but when reason no longer prevails and some who have lost contact with reality take it in their unreasoned minds to harm our most precious souls it is sometimes only through their brash and brazen acts that we can see clearly what is dear in Life and what we have lost.
So sad to lose you dear Christine: You and the other Good Souls who fell beside you. May we return to a time when Reason Prevails and where Love Light guides us and may you do the work you were destined to do and do it now in Heaven.
Love Light Smith

New Year 1/1/2011

2010-12-31T08:15:00.000-08:00

I am now presenting the design for New Year; 1/1/2011; then explaining the Numbers and Symbols.
This whole Image is a Redesign and there are several new innovations; The most recent of which are 2 new Symbols that I made today (1/1/2011): The Month and Year.

In the center of this design is the “Name Sign” for New Year. Name Signs are made by drawing lines on a Magic Square. New Year is simply two lines. The Numbers for New Year arranged around the Name Sign are Method/6/Life, Mind/1/New Beginnings, Soul/11/Light and Personality/8/Power.
As we transition each year into the New Year we always call it the same thing; the “New Year”. That means that this Name Sign and the Numbers associated with it are always the same.
Every year we approach (Method) Life/6 with our full attention and Nurture it. Naturally we think (Mind) of it as a New Beginning/1. Deep down in our soul (Soul) we want the Truth/11. The Soul seeks the Light. On a basic level, in our material lives (Body) we desire Power/8 and achievement.

The only thing that changes each New Year is the Year. It always goes up by 1. This year it goes from a 3 to a 4 Year. This small difference, though, affects every other Number in the Reading and from that point on, everything changes.
The fact that this Year is a 4 is very significant! We transition from an Open Hearted, Sociable and sometimes brainless, Completion and are now in a very serious, Hard Working, Disciplined, Structured and Creative 4 Year.
This will make a huge difference to all of us but for those of Us that are attempting to bring Enlightenment, it should help Us make Giant strides in the structure of our Work. Hopefully this will improve how our Work is Understood.

Below the date are the numbers for the Date Line.
Heretofore the Month and Year were not in Symbols and were not talked about much. I decided just today to change this so first of all I needed 2 new Symbols which I designed. The Month is represented by 1 of 12 numbers and this is simple to interpret. This Month is of course 1/New Beginnings, Leadership, Masculine, Ego, Oneness etc. The year 2011 is 4/Hard Work, Discipline, Creation.
Together with the Day/1, the 3 numbers are added together to make the Destiny. 1+1+4=6. Add the Sun Sign Capricorn/10 and you get the Way/16/7. Add the Day/1+Destiny/6+ Way/7=Star Sign/14/5.
Birthday/1/New Beginnings, is in the Diamond. Destiny/6/Life is in the Circle. In the Half Moon is Way/7/; so Logic takes the New Year to Life if we go about it in a Positive Way. The Star Sign is 5/Freedom and this is our Blessing from the Universe.
At birth the New Year has an energy of New Beginnings. This year we need to make sense. We need to dispel the confusion so that we can have the Destiny which is Life. We need Positive Energy and Logic if we if want to Nurture Life. The Star Sign is our Blessing from the Universe of Freedom. This Freedom is crucial but if we don’t work for it, it will not come. All of this has to be done in Positive Energy and out of Good.

Life Line is the 4 vertical Number Symbols on the left. The top Symbol Number is our Logic (Rational Thought). The Number for it is 7/Logic. Next down is Maturity and it is also 7/Logic. Next is Trail (the energy that surrounds on the Trail (through this Year). It is 9/Perfection. The bottom one is Field (where this Year ends up) and that’s 22/Master Builder.
Again we see a Logic and it is in the Rationality of Logic so we see that Logic is crucial this New Year. We should continue to be Rational as the Year Matures. Perfection surrounds us on our walk through this year and we should let it influence us. We end up in the Field as the Master Builder; it is the Important Work of Balance and Kindness in a Spiritual Union that fosters the Creation of a Very Important Work.

The Ollo Vine is the Beginning and End; the Feminine, Masculine and what they Create. The Birth Essence is 3/Completion: The Legacy is 66/Earth Spirit: The Creation is 2/Balance.
There are many interesting things about the Ollo Vine and in particular recently is the name change. I got tired of the word hello because of the word hell in it and we say it all the time so I started to think about a different word. There wasn’t a different word so I made one up that I like very much. That word is Ollo.
Ollo is the same backwards and forward and upside down and it looks good horizontal. It has a value of 18/9 and in Numerology 9 is perfection.
I thought it could mean good by as well as hello and it could mean beginning and end.
At first this line of 3 numbers had no name and then I thought Ollo Line sounded good but since it has a Feminine, Masculine, Prodigy scenario I decided to call it Ollo Vine
The Ollo Vine is a thing that has developed over time. Much of my system has been developed instinctively and the Birth Essence came from what I learned as the Balance Number. It is the first Essence and it has the Symbol of the Feminine so eventually I called it the Birth Essence.
The circle below the Birth Essence is a number I came up with that I originally called the Final Number because it was a total of the previous 13 numbers. The symbol developed into the symbol of the Masculine; the Bull. Eventually I named it the Legacy.
The idea of adding the Birth Essence, the Legacy and the Year came later and eventually I realized that the product of Feminine, Masculine and Time is similar to a Child so I now call it the Creation.

There is a Birth Essence from Completion. The Male Energy decides to leave behind a Legacy of Earth Spirit so it protects the Life Force. Together these two forces of the Divine Feminine and Masculine Create a Balance which is the crucial force necessary to restore the Earth and Heaven in the Balance of Kindness.

This is not static writing and it evolves and improves with age so if you’re interested, keep coming back and see how it changes.

Love Light Smith

Happy New Year 1/1/2011 Love Light

2010-12-27T13:02:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas 12/25/2010

2010-12-25T18:07:00.000-08:00

Total Lunar Eclipse On Winter Solstice

2010-12-19T09:47:00.000-08:00

Be Sure To Go Out and Gaze At This Event and Pray For Love Light to End hate and darkness.

In the US: (Early Tuesday morning)
Moon enters Total Eclipse at 2:40 am, Eastern time,
1:40 am Central,
12:40 am Mountain time,
11:40pm (Monday night) Pacific time…
The beginning of the eclipse starts an hour earlier.
AND Notice this Solstice date: 12 / 21 / 2001
(in numerology this is a powerful 3/3/3

Amazing Newmeralligical Shapes.

2010-10-20T22:49:00.000-07:00

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Top: 9 small Love Light Symbols. Center: Love Light Design with 3D Head, hands in Sky and Feet in Earth. Left Design: 3D Love Light with Pyramid Top. Right Design: 3D Love Light Engine with Pyramid Top. Bottom: 9 3D God With Us Symbols.

Love Light. This is a 3 Dimensional Image called The Love Light. It is color coded so the viewer can see how it is formed. The Pyramid on the top was added instinctively but if you look closely you can see how perfectly it conforms to the rest of the design.

Name Sign of "The Hidden Story Of Jesus"

Try to Look at This as 3D.

From a You tube Video of that Title.

God/Goddess; Masculine/Feminine; Love Light.

2010-10-13T18:19:00.000-07:00

There comes a point in everyone’s life when one big realization changes everything. For me this was when I became aware of The Goddess. I began to hear the voices of the people saying things like “Thank Goddess” and “Goddess Bless” and “Go with the Goddess”. When this happened everything began to make sense.
The Eureka Moment for me came on July 4, 2002 at the National Rainbow Gathering in Michigan. Because I grew up in the ‘60’- ‘80’s these Gatherings are Pinnacle Moments. I always knew that deeply held beliefs determined how we lived our lives and I knew that there is a kind of Religious Zeal behind a conscientious Life. This had always been God for me until Goddess became my focus. I even had a Sign come to me a couple days later to confirm that I was on the right track.
The sign happened on the 3rd day in the pre-dawn hours. I was walking along a path toward “Lovin Ovens” where I was camping and I saw something in the path. It was part of the path because it was a piece of the decayed wood that the Seed Camp Workers had used for the surface. It was still dark and I was looking down and a shape caught my eye. It was a piece of wood that looked like an Angel. I picked it up and when I looked at it I was amazed! It was a perfect statue about 9” tall and it was in effect, made by a Tree! I showed it to some people and one of them turned fiendish and wanted to carve on it. This was the first time I had to protect it.
When I began to really look at this figure I realized that it was a Statue of The Goddess. I was so excited about this that I showed it to everyone and while most people liked it there was one woman who wanted to burn it! It is astonishing how far the patriarchy reaches! This woman wanted me to burn it just because I wanted to honor Our Mother. That's when I realized that some people in the church still want to burn the Goddess and destroy Life. That was my Sign to keep Honoring The Goddess and Protect Her against false beliefs.
I was a Bible Believing Christian when I believed I was following the legitimate precepts of Jesus Christ but when I started to realize my Church was not really following Christ I quit going. Where once I saw mainstream religion as the “Right Way” I began to see it as opposing what was right. I saw that Religious People were not acting wisely toward the Earth and were not Just toward all People. I became Liberal or something bordering on Humanist but I don’t remember ever being cynical because I continued looking for the right answers.
Before my epiphany at the Rainbow Gathering I was already beginning to gravitate toward the Goddess. At first it was Our Lady of Guadalupe after a magical trip to the South West. Mother Nature was allied with the Nature Spirits that I was convinced inhabited the Woods around my home. I believed that we were entrusted with working with the plants, animals and Spirits around us. Finally at the Rainbow Gathering in 2002 I realized that it was the Goddess who was the Spirit over those who Loved the Earth. The Sign of the little statue of a Goddess made by a Tree was my confirmation to Honor The Goddess. She is The Holy Spirit that guides me.
When we look within the hierarchy of most organizations all throughout history it’s plain that there is a patriarchy. Men have run things for a very long time and as a result of this we live under a paradigm that justifies war and abuses the weak and defenseless. In this system where the strong rule there is a disregard for what’s right or wrong. In this system it has traditionally been Men who rule and Women are pushed aside. Today there are many Women in power so society believes that the Gender Gap is going away. The example of someone like Condoleezza Rice in the administration of George W. Bush made it plain that just because someone is a Woman doesn’t mean they are operating from the Feminine.
When Feminism came out as an organizing force Women set out to get equality but as time went on and more and more political power was gained they realized that wasn’t enough. That’s where the idea of Spiritual Feminism comes from. From the study and development of Spiritual Feminism came concepts that are still true. It is believed that every Man and Woman have both Masculine and a Feminine Poles within them. It was also believed that Male Energy was Clever and Strong and Feminine Energy was Caring, Sharing and Life. It was also seen that Male Energy acts in the moment and has neither memory nor foresight but Feminine Energy can remember the past and see the future. When I was learning about this and was being introduced to the concept of Masculine/Feminine Energy I also learned about Positive and Negative Energy, Shadow and Karma . All of these concepts seemed to fit into a pattern that eventually became obvious and convincing.
Because I was introduced to Numerology at the same time as The Goddess I had a way to test the theories I was finding. In my quest into the Divine Feminine many new concepts came out that were the result of seeking beyond what has been published.
When I no longer honored God and only revered the Goddess I was missing something. This was the case only until the Magic Moment I discovered Love Light and it became a Balancing force. That’s when I realized we need both God and Goddess to be in Harmony because we need to protect “The Lovely Things and Life.
I had been angry at God because to me he represented the patriarchy and all the Male centered energy that was destroying Life. I knew that Male Energy was Smart and Strong but it had no memory of the past or knowledge of the Future and it had become destructive. I knew that Feminine Energy was Love and it had Memory and Wisdom because it carried Life but it was weakened by exploitation. God seemed to be responsible for the destruction of Life instead of it’s Protector. How could Goddess foster Life if God didn’t protect Her?
When I discovered Love Light and I realized how negative energy affected everything I began to see negative energy as the real culprit. Now Positive Energy is what I stress in everything that concerns Love Light.
I began to see that if Masculine Energy was Positive it would Protect the Feminine. Positive and negative energy mean the same thing as Good and evil and can also be equated with Creation or destruction and Love and hate. It’s what motivates Us to either Heal or harm.
The Shadow is the force within us that is our bad side. It stays hidden until negative forces come into play that bring it out. It is the side of us that we are not proud of. It is the side of us that is counter productive and destructive. When we let pleasure become vice and addictions rule our lives we begin to see the strong and clever Male Energy using the Feminine Life Force for short sighted pleasure instead of caring for it. When this dichotomy is affecting an individual we see a someone with self destructive tendencies. The symptoms are endless but anything like substance abuse, unhealthy eating habits, or unsafe sex can be a part of it. When directed inwardly this can be self destructive.
Remember, we are still talking about Masculine/Feminine Energy in Positive/Negative Energy. Theoretically, then, if Masculine Energy is operating in Positive Energy it would be Protecting the Feminine Life Force. That would mean that we are taking care of our Health and protecting our Bodies. We are in effect Loving Ourselves. This is a dimension of Loving Ourselves and it goes beyond the physical. We don’t really take care of Ourselves fully unless we do it completely, in Body Mind and Spirit.
When we Love Ourselves we try to tell ourselves Good Things. We never direct negative language or thoughts back toward ourselves and we always use Good Positive thoughts. Good Mental Energy and Spiritual Energy is similar but we need to keep out negative spirits too.
Take this a step further and go into the realm of Relationships and how we treat each other. If we are taking care of those who are near and dear to us, we are practicing Good Energy. If not we are obviously practicing negative energy. When we Protect our Loved Ones it is Masculine Energy Protecting the Feminine. This includes not only protecting them Physically but also Mentally and Spiritually. So to keep them Completely Healthy we want to protect them from any harm whether it be Physical, Mental or Spiritual. This in effect is activated Love that connects the strength of the Masculine with the Wisdom of the Feminine. This Union is Love Light. Love of Wisdom; Love Light because when the Masculine Loves the Feminine it connects with it and gets Wisdom which is the Light. Love of Light!
Take this beyond our close relationships and into society at large and our associations with other people and with one group and another. It can be Churches and Clubs and Organizations. It can be Businesses and Cities. It can be International Corporations and Countries. The Dynamic is the same as Masculine/Feminine Energy being practiced in a Positive/negative way.
This Dynamic is not always Good. From the way we take care of our selves to the way corporations treat the people of the World it is the Same. The Planet is the Single Greatest Symbol of the Feminine Life Force and we have been abusing Her. She has been so abused that if we are not careful we will end up killing her and then we die too.
So the Dynamic of Masculine/Feminine Energy and Positive/negative Energy goes all the way to it’s ultimate conclusion where We as One, Unite With God to become a Force For Good and Protect Our Mother, The Life Force and the Earth and Ultimately Our Mother is Able to Give Us Back the Full Measure of Life on Earth and in the Here After.
Put simply that’s Love Light.

LOVE LIGHT 9/11/2010. HIGH HOLY DAY FULFILLED.

2010-09-18T14:50:00.000-07:00

Here is some interesting News that could have a bearing on the Cosmic Events having to do with the High Holy Days of 2010 and the Beginning of the Transformation.
It appears that the More Ancient High Holy Days have Gathered around and Converged Upon the Secret High Holy Day of Love Light which celebrates it’s High Holy Day every 9 years on this Date of Alignment; 9/11/3/5/11/9. This Alignment comes from the Date of Christ’s birth of 9/11/3bc and is also 9/11/3/5/11/9. This signifies the Month of Perfection/9, Year of Completion/3 on the Day of Light/11; the Way of Light/11 to the Destiny of Freedom/5, blessed by Perfection/9.
A Convergence of the High Holy Days of 2010 began August 11 with the Muslim High Holy Days of Ramadan and ended 2 days before Love Light on 9/9.
The Convergence of Ramadan is illustrated by the date it begins. August 11, 2010 which looks like this: 8/11/3/22/9/6. It's in the Month of Power/8, Year of Completion/3 on the Day of Ligh/11, in the Way of Perfection/9 to a Destiny of Creation/22 blessed by Life/6.
What strikes me about this Convergence is it’s timing when a Calendar based on Moon Cycles converges so intently on Dates determined by the Gregorian Calendar. Most years would have a big discrepancy but this year it’s a Convergence.
September 8 the Jewish New Year and “Days of Awe” began for the Jews as Rosh Hashannah. The “Book of Life” was opened and the most reverent High Holy Days for Jews began..
Eid al Fitr. Is the end of Ramadan, 9/9/2010.
9/11/2010: Two High Holy Days converge and seem to Anoint a 3rd High Holy Day; that of Love Light.
On 9/11/2010 a Secret High Holy Day takes place in the company of other High Holy Days. The Hindu High Holy Day of Ganesh Chaturthi and the High Holy Shabat Tshuva stand beside Love Light on this Triple Convergence of High Holy Days.
9/11/2010 Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the most popular of Hindu festivals. It is the birthday of Lord Ganesha who is widely worshipped as the God of Wisdom, Prosperity and Good Fortune. He is the presiding Deity of the Muladhara Chakra, the psychic centre in the body in which the Kundalini Shakti resides.
The High Holy, Shabbat Tshuvah, the Most Holy Shabbat of the Jewish year was also celebrated on 9/11/2010. While the Book of Life is still Open and Jews are Seeking Forgiveness from God for sins against him and against Mankind this Shabbat is performed as a Day of Atonement for which a Blood Sacrifice is thought to take away sins.
The High Holy Day of Love Light is raised up from the ashes of 9/11/2001 and struggles to see the Light of Day as the curse of hate and ignorance continues to hold her down. The High Holy Day of the Birth of Christ comes but once every 9 years. This year Love Light seems to grow to Greater Fulfillment into the Word of God as it‘s Added to the Book Of Life.
One Week later, as Yom Kippur comes to pass and again on a High Holy Shabat, the Book of Life is Closed on 9/18/2010.
9/22/2010: As Mabon takes place it’s the Autumnal Equinox that marks the Descent into Darkness. At Winters Approach the High Holy Days are over.
Love Light Transformation Begins as Christ Consciousness Grows and comes into it’s Own. The Glory Shines Round About and Makes Peace. God/Goddess. Messiah'd Us; Jesus and Mary Magdalene, Love Light, God With Us. Amen Awoman

Understanding The World in Difficult Times

2010-03-29T09:11:00.000-07:00

Numerology gave me Understanding. In 2001; only a week after 9/11 I happened into a Book Store in Chicago and found my first book on Numerology. It could not have been mere happenstance. It had to be Fate because nothing happens without a reason. I have found this whole experience to be Intensely Spiritual and Numerology to be a God Send..
In 2007 I discovered Love Light. That whole Year was a time of Intense Focus and Realization. As a result of the intervening years of work I now have an amazing vision to Share.
In Order to share all of this I have been refining it into a System that is concise and easy to understand called Newmeralligy. It‘s pronounced like Numerology and it is not just the Study of Numbers. I define it as the “The New Merging of All; the Study of.”. There is a real Freedom in this system that encourages Discovery and it is a logical connection to “The Source. No matter what your Core beliefs are this System would be Good for you. It, in fact, Profoundly Good!
So this New System is Newmeralligy and it comes from Love Light. The first lesson is here before you and is intended to be an Introduction. It’s Newmeralligy and it centers around Love Light. The two go together and that is the whole point of this effort. In this process of Newmeralligy you will learn Numerology, Discover Your Own Numbers and Love Light.
You and I and every one of Us is going through a Power Cycle at this Time. It’s called “The Eight, Nine Year Cycle”. In 2010 we are in the Third Year of it. It causes Us to fight against Enlightenment when it reacts with negative energy but if we open to Positive Energy we will gain Great Insights during this Cycle. Embracing this New Knowledge and putting it into Practice will prepare Us for the “Transformation” that’s coming.
The Love Light Code says that the Transformation will begin 9/11/2010. Something Unusual is about to happen. Whatever it is if we greet it with Love Light it will be More Positive. Soon We’ll Know.
God With Us.

Imprisoned Indigenous leader says ‘Free Mumia!’

2010-03-06T06:30:00.001-08:00

Imprisoned Indigenous leader says ‘Free Mumia!’
Published Mar 5, 2010 10:16 PM
Leonard Peltier was a leader of the American Indian Movement in 1976 when he was arrested and charged with the deaths of two FBI agents during a shootout at the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala-Lakota Nation. He has now been imprisoned for 34 years — one of the world’s longest-held political prisoners. Peltier sent the following message to an international teach-in held Feb. 13 in Philadelphia on the struggle to free death-row inmate and former Black Panther Party activist Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier
Greetings brothers and sisters, and thank you for attending this event to listen, learn, teach and organize. I am Leonard Peltier, a proud Lakota and Anishinabe American Indian activist, organizer and patriot. I am likewise, unfortunately, a fellow political prisoner in this “land of the free.”
I, along with my family, my supporters, and American Indians everywhere, know full well what the justice system of the United States can mean to the brown man, the black man, and any man or woman who dares to think or talk truth to power.
That we have been made targets in our own country should outrage every single man and woman everywhere, no matter the color, background or political leaning. That this country continues the barbaric practices of executions should be opposed by all people of conscience.
Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal
Whether or not you approve of capital punishment is irrelevant as long as minorities are executed with alarming disparities. Whether you approve or not is of secondary concern when people like Mumia Abu-Jamal, myself and many others are convicted and sentenced to die with evidence that would exonerate most any white man. As such, every single progressive organization should oppose the death penalty as we now know it.
This has not been a case of justice or the law, it has been politics, racism and control, and we should confront these issues long before we decide who to execute. As long as we have these inequities in our midst, we will continue to convict and execute innocents. Execute — let’s call it what it really is — state sanctioned murder! Why does America allow this brand of “justice” to exist?
That is a question that must haunt the soul of every true American patriot. For as long as it does, America can never be the bastion of freedom it has claimed to be, the light in the darkness it wants to be, nor the high ground of morality it hopes to be.
Pay attention to the names this government uses when it is opposed. The American government has called other countries “evil empire” and “axis of evil.” The rest of the world hears this and scoffs! Why? Because they see this country convicting, imprisoning, and executing innocent minorities and political liabilities while claiming to be a free society — because they see corporate personhood allowing the rape of the Earth and desecration of the sacred — because they see this country waging illegal war while claiming to love peace — and because they see this country propping up murderous dictators while giving lip service to human rights. The rest of the world sees all of this and wonders, is not America the real evil empire?
I, like Mumia, have been called a terrorist by my own government. Well, I never knew a terrorist who advocated the rule of law as we have. Some people need to find a new dictionary!
There may be other parts of the world which are breeding grounds for terrorism, but this government makes sure they have fertile ground to harvest. We are not the terrorists! I love my country. Progressive thinking people love this country. It is thusly our patriotic duty to respond to such government with righteous indignation! It is only when we allow a corrupt government to corrupt our very minds that a patriot becomes a terrorist!
As long as you are willing to work for justice, all political prisoners can still hope for freedom. Real power starts from the bottom and goes up, not the other way around. Free Mumia!
In solidarity,
Leonard Peltier
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Sharon Olds Poet Declines White House Invitation

2010-02-27T07:01:00.000-08:00

Sharon Olds Poet Declines White House Invitation

Here is an open letter from the poet
Sharon Olds to Laura Bush declining the invitation to read and speak at
the National Book Critics Circle Award in Washington, DC. Sharon Olds
is one of most widely read and critically acclaimed poets living in
America today. Read to the end of the letter to experience her
restrained, chilling eloquence.

Dear Mrs. Bush,

I am writing to let you know why I am
not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the
National Book Festival on September 24, or to attend your dinner at the
Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House.

In one way, it's a very appealing
invitation. The idea of speaking at a festival attended by 85,000 people
is inspiring! The possibility of finding new readers is exciting for a
poet in personal terms, and in terms of the desire that poetry serve its
constituents--all of us who need the pleasure, and the inner and outer
news, it delivers. And the concept of a community of readers and writers
has long been dear to my heart.

As a professor of creative writing in
the graduate school of a major university, I have had the chance to be a
part of some magnificent outreach writing workshops in which our
students have become teachers. Over the years, they have taught in a
variety of settings: a women's prison, several New York City public high
schools, an oncology ward for children. Our initial program, at a
900-bed state hospital for the severely physically challenged, has been
running now for twenty years, creating along the way lasting friendships
between young MFA candidates and their students--long-term residents at
the hospital who, in their humor, courage and wisdom, become our
teachers.

When you have witnessed someone
non-speaking and almost non-moving spell out, with a toe, on a big
plastic alphabet chart, letter by letter, his new poem, you have
experienced, close up, the passion and essentialness of writing.

When you have held up a small cardboard
alphabet card for a writer who is completely non-speaking and non-moving
(except for the eyes), and pointed first to the A, then the B, then C,
then D, until you get to the first letter of the first word of the first
line of the poem she has been composing in her head all week, and she
lifts her eyes when that letter is touched to say yes, you feel with a
fresh immediacy the human drive for creation, self-expression, accuracy,
honesty and wit--and the importance of writing, which celebrates the
value of each person's unique story and song.

So the prospect of a festival of books
seemed wonderful to me. I thought of the opportunity to talk about how
to start up an outreach program. I thought of the chance to sell some
books, sign some books and meet some of the citizens of Washington, DC.
I thought that I could try to find a way, even as your guest, with
respect, to speak about my deep feeling that we should not have invaded
Iraq, and to declare my belief that the wish to invade another culture
and another country--with the resultant loss of life and limb for our
brave soldiers, and for the noncombatants in their home terrain--did not
come out of our democracy but was instead a decision made "at the top"
and forced on the people by distorted language, and by untruths. I hoped
to express the fear that we have begun to live in the shadows of tyranny
and religious chauvinism--the opposites of the liberty, tolerance and
diversity our nation aspires to.

I tried to see my way clear to attend
the festival in order to bear witness--as an American who loves her
country and its principles and its writing--against this undeclared and
devastating war.

But I could not face the idea of
breaking bread with you. I knew that if I sat down to eat with you, it
would feel to me as if I were condoning what I see to be the wild,
highhanded actions of the Bush Administration.

What kept coming to the fore of my mind
was that I would be taking food from the hand of the First Lady who
represents the Administration that unleashed this war and that wills its
continuation, even to the extent of permitting "extraordinary
rendition": flying people to other countries where they will be tortured
for us.

So many Americans who had felt pride in
our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood,
wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the
shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach
it.

Sincerely,

SHARON OLDS

Patterns of repression against dissident political movements

2010-01-29T09:58:00.000-08:00

January 2010
Dear friends, families and supporters,
The last time that we wrote, we were only weeks beyond the 2008 RNC, and still figuring out how to navigate our case with a sense of collectivity and integrity. Now, more than a year after the fact, we find ourselves in a sort of limbo. Day to day, we don't feel the intensity of repression that we did in the weeks surrounding the RNC, yet the trial looms somewhere in the distance and we're not really free to move on. We return to court on February 2nd, and may come out of the hearing with a trial date certain. While it's hard to remain upbeat about the prospect, we hope to make the final push towards trial energizing for ourselves and our supporters alike, and we feel certain that a strong show of court solidarity will make a huge difference in the outcome of our case.
The past year has been difficult, both in dealing with our own situation and in watching as State attempts to subvert and disrupt anarchist movement gain steam, following well-established patterns of repression against dissident political movements throughout history.
In late 2008 and 2009, Ramsey County prosecuted more than a dozen felony cases resulting from the RNC. Abusing their unchecked power to slap on charge after unfounded charge as a way of coercing people out of exercising their right to trial, and with the constant threat of terrorism enhancements, prosecutors extracted numerous plea agreements from individuals who came to the RNC protests outraged at this oppressive system and willing to take a conscientious stand against it.
During the fall of 2008, well-known and controversial radical activist Brandon Darby was outed as a paid FBI informant. This happened as a result of his entrapment of Brad Crowder and David McKay, two young men who traveled from Texas to MN for the RNC protests. Though Brad and David both eventually plead guilty to federal charges of making and possessing Molotov cocktails, facts surrounding the case and testimony given during McKay's initial mistrial make it clear that Darby went out of his way to create the unlikely scenario in which the crimes were committed. Darby, whose crimes of conscience will go unpunished, has already robbed two people of their freedom, but the extent of his cooperation and the damage it has done to our community remains to be seen.
In April of 2009, Indiana residents Tiga Wertz and Hugh Farrell were arrested and charged with racketeering as a result of their work organizing against I-69, the US segment of the NAFTA Superhighway. I-69 will displace small farmers, wreak environmental destruction, and facilitate the movement of goods and capital at the expense of the continents' poor and working people. Tiga and Hugh are still awaiting trial, which will likely not start before 2011.
Late this fall, two friends and comrades of ours in Minneapolis, Carrie Feldman and Scott DeMuth, were subpoenaed to a federal grand jury in Davenport, IA, which is investigating a 2004 Animal Liberation Front action at the University of Iowa. Scott and Carrie were teenagers in Minnesota at the time of the ALF raid, and though they have no information to give about it, they refused to cooperate with the grand jury on principle. They were both jailed on civil contempt on November 17, 2009, and two days later, Scott was indicted under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA). He is currently out awaiting trial and Carrie remains jailed in Iowa, where she may sit for another nine months. Carrie and Scott's involvement in RNC organizing, their affiliation with known antiRNC organizers, and materials seized in RNC raids, have all been used so far in prosecutorial attempts to vilify them and their politics.
Scott is only the seventh person ever charged under the AETA. In February of 2009, four people in Santa Cruz, CA, became the first AETA indictees, accused of first-amendment protected activities including leafleting and chalking sidewalks. Last spring, BJ Viehl and Alex Hall in Utah were also charged under the AETA in relation to mink liberations. BJ recently plead guilty, citing the improbability of a fair trial in such a heavily conservative state, and will probably be sentenced in March. Alex is still awaiting trial.
The same day that we go to court here for our next hearing, Jordan Halliday will start trial for felony contempt of court, a charge he is facing after months of incarceration on civil contempt for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in Utah.
This fall, comrades from the Tin Can Comms Collective sustained a raid and two arrests at the G20 mobilization in Pittsburgh. After returning to their home in Brooklyn, NY, the two arrested were subjected to yet another raid, this time on their house. State charges related to the G20 were subsequently dropped under circumstances that suggest the existence of an active federal investigation of Tin Can's activities.
Needless to say, anarchists have taken quite a few hits this year. Yet these cases are only one manifestation of the systematic repression of movements for social change. Even as anarchists have yet again become a primary target of State repression, the U.S. continues its war on Black and Puerto Rican revolutionaries, and their allies.
In January of 2007, charges were brought against eight former Black Panthers (the San Francisco 8) for the 1971 murder of a police officer.
The case, re-opened with post-9/11 anti-terrorism funds, is based on information extracted through torture. Several of the the SF8 are former or current political prisoners. By summer of 2009, most charges had been dropped or drastically reduced in plea agreements. As of this writing, the last remaining conspiracy charge was dropped, leaving a single charge against Cisco Torres.
In recent months, the State of Pennsylvania has engaged in a new push for the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal, falsely convicted of the murder of a police officer in1982 and held on death row ever since. His supporters across the globe are mobilizing, yet again, to prevent this- our movements have kept him alive thus far, and it falls on us yet again to prevent his State-sanctioned assassination.
Meanwhile, the Puerto Rican independence movement- which has won the release of most of its political prisoners over the past decades- is preparing a final push for the release of two of the remaining three, Carlos Alberto Torres and Oscar Lopez Rivera.
At this moment, dozens of political prisoners sit in U.S. prisons and jails, many of them having been there for decades and some who may never get out. The State would have us believe that political prisoners do not exist in this country, which holds a full quarter of the world's incarcerated people in its prison plantations. It is our common commitment to a radically transformed world that they intend to subvert with every new arrest, detention and prosecution, and our only defense is an acknowledgement of the fact that this is happening day in and day out, and a commitment to fight it at every step of the way.
As we look towards what could be the final stage of our own case, we're left to ponder the impact of our work. It is our hope that our supporters also support every person named in this letter, and every target of State repression left unnamed. Whether we're acquitted or convicted come trial, the greater measure of our success will be the extent to which our case builds the movements to which we belong.
See you at trial,
the RNC 8
http://rnc8.org/2010/01/letter-from-the-rnc-8-january-2010/

WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE

2010-01-22T06:17:00.000-08:00

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From: Matthew W. Daloisio
Subject: [WAT] 42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol in Day of Action to Denounce Obama's Broken Promises on Guantanamo, America's Broken Laws, and the Breaking of Lives by Torture

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WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE

Press Release: For Immediate Release

January 21, 2010

42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol in Day of Action to Denounce Obama's
Broken Promises on Guantanamo, America's Broken Laws, and the Breaking
of Lives by Torture

Washington, DC: In a dramatic protest, 42 activists with Witness
Against Torture were arrested this afternoon at the U.S. Capitol. The
protest comes on the eve of the since-voided deadline President Obama
had set for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo.

Those arrested on the Capitol steps held banners reading "Broken
Promises, Broken Laws, Broken Lives." Inside the Capitol, 14
activists performed a "memorial service" for the three men whose
deaths at Guantanamo in 2006 were initially reported as suicides and
callously described as "acts of asymmetrical warfare" by military
officials. New reports provide strong evidence that the men may have
been tortured to death at a CIA secret prison in Guantanamo.

The ceremony brought the names of the men-- Salah Ahmed Al-Salami,
Mani Shaman Al-Utaybi and Yasser Talal Al-Zahrani-- into the Capitol
Rotunda, where deceased presidents have lay in state. "We perform this
ceremony to recognize the humanity of those whose lives have been
broken by our government's policies of torture and indefinite
detention," says Jerica Arents of Chicago, Illinois, one of those
arrested in the Capitol.

Witness Against Torture has called for an immediate, independent
investigation of the deaths, as it has called for the criminal
investigation of all those who allegedly designed, executed, and
carried out torture policies.

Most of the 42 arrested at the Capitol did not carry identification,
taking instead the names of men at Guantanamo through arrest and
processing. "Taking the name of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif is a
necessary and real way of bringing his story to Congress," says Joshua
Brollier, a co-coordinator with Voices for Creative Nonviolence in
Chicago, Illinois. "Adnan was tortured and continues to be held after
eight years without charge or trial. It boggles the mind and breaks
the heart. It's time for Congress and the Obama administration to make
and fulfill a plan for his release." Brollier and others from Voices
will continue in Washington through February 2, participating in the
Peaceable Assembly Campaign to pressure Obama administration and
Congress to explore alternatives to U.S. militarism.

The actions at the Capitol followed a march of "Guantanamo prisoners"
dressed in orange jumpsuits and black hoods that began at the White
House and stopped at the Supreme Court before going to Capitol
grounds, home to the U.S. Congress. "Congress has played a horrible
role in refusing to check the power of the president and in supporting
torture," commented Matt Daloisio of New York City, a Witness Against
Torture organizer. "But it was important to pass by all of the
government institutions that have failed to uphold justice and protect
the rule of law."

Members of Witness Against Torture began a Fast for Justice on Monday,
January 11-- the date in 2002 when the first men were brought to
Guantanamo under the Bush administration's "war on terror."
One-hundred fifty people from around the country joined the 12 day
fast, which will end on Friday, January 22, the promised day for
Guantanamo's closure.

"We were so hopeful last year," says Christine Gaunt, a grandmother
and third generation farmer from Grinnell, Iowa, who was arrested at
the Capitol. "But Obama has broken his promise to close Guantanamo.
I am acting today because I am horrified and ashamed that this illegal
prison continues to exist, and that those responsible for torture have
not been held to account. I am using my body to demand that my
government stop the insanity of torture and illegal detention."

Witness Against Torture is a grassroots movement that came into being
in December 2005 when 24 activists walked through Cuba to the
Guantanamo base to condemn the prison camp and torture policies. Since
then, it has engaged in public education, community outreach, and
non-violent direct action.

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Gaza Freedom March

2009-12-27T06:23:00.000-08:00

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Gaza Freedom March—Home at Last!

Jan. 7, 2010

I’m home now, writing from the comfort of my own bed, with its supremely comfortable mattress that doesn’t sag in the middle. Bless the invention of the laptop, that allows us to write in bed! I’ve hardly sat at a desk since the mid-nineties.

I’m sorry for the hiatus in these blogs—events transpired that made it seem advisable for us to get out of Dodge, as we say in the west—or in plain English, to leave Cairo for a few days, during which internet access was hard to find.

Before we left, we attended the New Year’s Eve candlelight vigil in the Mogamma plaza on Tahrir Square, and saw the New Year in with a large, peaceful gathering of our friends that was heavily watched by the Egyptian secret police, but not interfered with. The next day, we were at a spirited rally in front of the Israeli Embassy, which is high up in a ten-story building, its presence announced only by an Israeli flag on the roof. The Egyptian police have now established their pattern—they herd us into a protest pen, keep us there for a while, eventually let people out and when the demo is over, we leave.

For me the highlight of the day was a long conversation with Hedy Epstein, an eighty-eight year old Jewish survivor of the holocaust who is here with us in support of justice for the Palestinians. Hedy is small, with curling white hair and bright eyes and a ready smile, and tough in the fiber, as they say about hobbits. She went on a hunger strike when she arrived, and went off it only when her doctor ordered her to eat. She was in the melee with the Egyptian police in Tahrir Square, and managed to come through the pushing, shoving frenzy undaunted and unharmed.
Someone like Hedy makes it impossible for us lesser mortals to say, “I’m too old for this shit.” Over dinner, I heard some of her story, which she tells in vivid detail—the terror of a child on Krystallnacht, when Nazi thugs broke windows of Jewish businesses and homes all over Germany, of being attacked and vilified by teachers and the principal of her school, coming home and finding her father and uncle gone, her mother in hiding. She survived because her family was able to get her onto a kindertransport: the ships and trains that brought 10,000 Jewish children to Britain just before the onset of war. Her parents were sent to the camps in France and ultimately to Auschwitz.

She grew up to work with the U.S. Government in Germany, among other things, as a research analyst during the Nuremburg Trials, investigating the doctors who performed cruel medical ‘experiments’ on inmates. And out of her own pain and loss, she became an activist, fighting for civil rights and human rights.

We’re always on dangerous ground when we start talking about the Holocaust and Palestine in the same breath. As Hedy herself says, “Each experience is unique. You can’t compare them.” Yet there are resonances that are hard to ignore. I’m remembering being in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank when all the men were rounded up and marched off, how I felt sitting behind closed doors with the women left behind. We were taken in by one family who wanted us as witnesses to protect the son they’d managed to hide, a young student of psychology in his twenties who was still so traumatized by a former arrest and incarceration that he couldn’t leave the house on his own, work or study. I’m thinking of the night I spent locked in a room with a family, singing funny songs to the children to distract them from the sounds of the Israeli soldiers methodically destroying their home, ripping the stuffing out of the chairs and prying the paneling off the walls, in the name of a ‘search.’

True, Israel has not set up gas chambers for Palestinians, nor ovens. As Dov Weinglas, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, said, "The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger."

But when you have to start arguing over the nuances of oppression, about whether the number of dead constitutes a massacre or just a slaughter, whether your policies are really genocide or just sorta like genocide, you have left the path of righteousness.

On the last day, I snuck away from a demonstration in support of a court case Egyptian lawyers are bringing against their own government to stop the construction of the steel wall that will seal up Gaza’s last lifelines. I went to the pyramids, because I was determined not to leave Egypt without seeing the pyramids. I did the shlocky tourist thing, and rode a camel. And it was wonderful—to get out onto the stark desert and squint my eyes to block out the tour busses and just see camels moving over the sands with those pure shapes behind them, and young men racing Arab horses through the empty land.

And yet I couldn’t feel a spiritual connection there. Looking at those great blocks of stone, thinking about the immense numbers of mud bricks beneath, the human labor and effort in raising these mountains, I kept imagining the lives of the slaves. The Jewish people are my people, and this land is woven into our narratives. “We were slaves in Egypt” goes the litany of Passover. I build with mud myself—I know how much sheer, physical work goes into a small bench or a low wall. We were slaves, and we escaped, and the land of Canaan was our refuge. We were the victims of massive genocide, and the land of Israel was our consolation—at another people's expense.

From a heritage of pain, you can draw a number of different conclusions. You can say, “In a world of slaves and masters I choose to wield the whip rather than suffer the lash. ”You can say, “Never again will I let this happen to me or mine!

Or you can stand with Hedy and all those like her, and say, “Never again will I let this happen to anyone.” Not in my name, not to my benefit, not by my silence.

We are still wandering in the wilderness. Over a far horizon, we can sometimes catch a glimpse of a new Promised Land--a place without walls, without checkpoints, without prisons, without masters and slaves, us and them, our tribe and their tribe—a place where everyone is free. But we have a long journey still before we get there, and we do not know the way.

January 1, 2010

Keep us in your thoughts, my friends, and please visualize circles of protection especially for those who have taken leading roles in this work! update is below, Happy New Year!

We did it! Up until the moment we did, I didn’t quite believe we would, but we did!

Went to bed last night thinking, “Yeah, Starhawk, you’ve done this a hundred times, yawn, nerves of steel, sleep like a baby,” and of course I hardly slept at all, adrenaline racing, had to pee a hundred times. Got up this morning ahd rumors were flying around that the Egyptian security forces were blocking the hotels, so we got out quickly. Fortunately I had packed and organized my stuff the night before as that is the part of an action that is most stressful to me. Nothing makes me more crazy than needing to get out the door in a hurry and not being able to find some crucial piece of gear, and I nearly always can’t find some crucial piece of gear, due to that plague of Snatchers that follow me around, hiding my keys, lining their burrows with my socks and decorating them with my ATM cards.

Some of the Canadian delegation who are staying here were saying that police were outside—but that turned out not to be true. I was almost sorry, because Wendy had scouted alternative exits over the roofs of Cairo and what a story that would make! But I was happy enough just to get out and not be stuck inside all day. I can write novels another time.

Lisa had already left for a meeting at one of the hotels—turned out the security forces were blocking everyone into the Lotus, where the main Code Pink organizers were staying, but not the other hotels, including the one where the meeting was happening.

I decided to sit down below, however, and keep watch. Actually I didn’t see the need for going 9 flights up and probably having to walk back down all nine, and sitting in a smoky meeting where I wouldn’t be able to hear anything. There was a chair against the wall near the entrance so I sat down to wait. Actually, Cairo is a great place to people-watch and I had one of the most relaxing little bits of time I’d had here yet, watching the women in their various head=-carves and the men with liquid brown eyes that could have come off an old tomb painting. Eventually people from our march began to drift by, stopping to share news and rumors. One Policeman was watching the hotel, but I didn’t see any signs that groups of them were massing for a raid. But the rumors were flying—the action was on, it was off, the locations was changed, the time was changed..

Eventually Lisa and the women from the meeting came down. The plan was for shcok troops of women to be first out into the streets—for a couple of reasons. The first—the cops are less likely to brutalize women. Not entirely unlikely, but less. The second—to shift those old gender dynamics where the guys do the brave and dangerous things and the little women stay behind. The third—because these women are strong and smart and don’t run ego-dramas.

We began to filter around Tahrir Square. I was following Lisa who moves at a really fast pace. I am a slow walker but when I need to, I can keep up with her and she was in full-on battle mode and nothing was going to slow her down.

We all drifted into the area around the Museum where our plan called for us to gather unobtrusively and then flash-mob into the streets. I wasn’t sure this was going to work. Nobody was sure this was going to work—but it was the plan and at this point that was all we had. The police were out in force around the museum because we had organized this in classic nonviolent mode, openly and not secretly. That was a good thing, because communication has been so excruciatingly difficult when we are trying to simply tell each other something that adding security culture and secret codes on top of it would have made everything utterly incomprehensible to most of us, while the secret police would still have known what we were going to do. There they were…there we were. The clock was ticking—it was almost ten. An officer came towards Lisa, trying to move us further down the road. The traffic opened…and she took the space, running out into the traffic and unfurling a flag. We followed, and suddenly, from all over small groups of people were swarming and collecting and filling the road.

We began to march—for about ten yards. Then the cops surrounded us, and they were mad. They were pushing and shoving people, and I noticed a few run in and grab a guy who was filming with a video camera on a tripod. They had hold of him and were pulling on his camera and others were pulling on him so I ran over to do what I do—which is insert myself into the middle and sweetly get in the way. Between all of us we extricated him and his camera and now people were sitting down to hold the space. And there I was, sitting on the ground staring at the knees of a line of Egyptian riot cops. I had a little Talking Heads moment, you know the song, “And I asked myself…how did I get here?” Then the cops moved in and started grabbing people. They grabbed Michael from the media team and we grabbed him back and finally pulled him in toward us. He was holding his ribs..a woman grabbed my arm and we linked up.

Then I saw Lisa being grabbed by five big cops. They were pulling her away into the police lines and she was lying prone and being pulled by her wrists. I thought, “Goddess, they’re taking her away and there’s too many of them. There’s nothing I can do for her.” And then I thought, “Fuck that!” and leapt on top of her, grabbing her waist and lying over her legs. I can’t actually explain how I did that when usually it takes me ten minutes and a battle plan to get up, but adrenaline is a wonder drug.

Anotther couple of people piled onto me and her. The cops were really mad, but also confused. They kicked one guy and grabbed him really roughly to pull him off, but no sooner did they have him than someone else dove through five lines of police and launched himself onto the pile Every time they got rid of one person, someone else appeared. It was one of the most powerful moments of practical solidarity I’ve ever seen and I would have liked to savor it but almost immediately we were all being pushed, shoved, pummeled and pressed back onto the curb across the street. Our pile of people on the bottom half of Lisa got pushed one way—the top half of her went another and I lost her.

I ended up on the curb smack in front of the lines of cops trying to shove us back, along with a mass of people. I was happy there—holding ground when riot cops are shoving is one of the things I’m good at. Most of the cops looked a bit sheepish and ashamed of what they were doing, but one or two were triggered and angry and out of control. I saw one cop head butt a protester, others were beating and punching people with their nightsticks. They were pushing other people onto the curb and roughly forcing them through the lines into a crowd that was already so tight there was hardly room to move. I saw several of the women I’d trained and I just stayed there and grabbed them and pulled them through the lines of cops into our space. I felt a bit like a midwife, birthing them backwards, into the womb of our community now contained by a circle of cops on a wide stretch of sidewalk. Some of them were frightened, some were exhilarated. All looked happy to see me.

And then the tension eased. The cops formed their ring, we had our space, in the circle of Cairo’s largest, central square, and people were chanting “Free, free Palestine!” and singing “We Shall Overcome.” I looked over and found myself standing next to Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, singing, “We are not afraid, we are not afraid, we are not afraid today.”

Then I saw Lisa, safe and relatively unscathed although she had a hurt wrist and sore ribs. I gave her some homeopathic arnica and Bill Ayers gave her some chocolate. Carrying chocolate—that mark of an experienced activist!

We all felt great about the action. Against all odds, we had done what we set out to do—to say to the Egyptian authorities and the world, “if you won’t let us go to Gaza, we’ll simply start from here and walk.” If you want to stop us, you’ll have to physically stop us—we won’t comply with your orders. And if you physically stop us, then we will have brought Gaza to Cairo—we will dramatize for the eyes of the world the situation that the people of Gaza are in. This pen, this improvised prison in the central square is another annex to the huge, open-air prison that Gaza has become, where a million and a half people live in the most densely crowded conditions on earth, where the Israelis control the borders and decide who can get in and who can get out, rationing out the necessities of life, b;ocking the materials of reconstruction and the means of livelihood for the Gazan people.

So we held the space throughout the day, with songs and chants and drumbeats, with shared food and water and an improvised pee station. I even had a lovely nap in the sun, next to a beautiful French Algerian organizer with luminous green eyes.

And now the New Year has come, and I must sleep! May our new year be blessed with loving friends and strong comrades to strengthen us for all the work ahead the earth and for justice.

Gaza Freedom March Blog 6 December 30, 2009

We’ve moved from the Old to the New Testament—from “Let my people go” to “Left Behind!” Woke up this morning sure my choice to stay was the right one, but deeply regretting it anyway. Lisa, who was also offered a seat, and I were talking ourselves into good political reasons to justify why we could have gone, when she got a call. Code Pink and the Steering Committee of the Gaza Freedom March had just issued a statement saying that they’d made a mistake, and that they were no longer supporting the busses going. The busses were loading a few blocks away, we were told the scene was chaotic and Lisa rushed down there to do damage control while I stayed to do the morning briefing

By all accounts, the scene was a madhouse. People were weeping on the busses, others were crying “Shame! Shame!” at those who boarded. Some were getting off the bus, then back on, then off again. Father Louis Vitale, the starwart priest from San Francisco who has been arrested hundreds of times doing civil disobedience actions, got on, got off, got on again, and finally got off for good. Lisa helped chill the situation out, and people ended by holding hands and remembering that we are in this for the same goals.

The Gazan coordinators, who originally said, ‘Come!” were now saying “Don’t come—it’s too divisive. Stay together. Several delegations has pulled their representatives out. And I guess the crowning blow for Code Pink was when the Foreign Office released a statement that was not only counter to their agreement but an outright lie—that the hundred on the busses were the only ‘good’’ and truly peaceful demonstrators and that the Foreign Office had selected them. In the end, one bus went.

And then everyone pulled together and went on with the work. By the end of the morning meeting, new people were facilitating and work groups were formed. The hotels were buzzing with the energy of activists organizing an action.

I spent the day doing trainings. For the first one we crammed into the downstairs hall of the Lotus Hotel, tipping the attendant and eventually negotiating with the manager to let us stay just a little longer When we went around the circle, saying our names and where we are from, we had people from all over the world: Jordan, Bulgaria, Holland, Scotland, the U.S., Australia, Canada. For the second training we met out at the Mogamma, the big plaza on Tahir Square, with security guards thick around us and curious local people watching.

With all the work and chaos and stress, I found myself almost losing sight of Gaza. But the situation there is dire, and about to become lethal. The steel wall the Israelis plan to construct with financing from Obama’s administration will cut off the tunnels from Egypt. While the Israelis claim the tunnels are used to smuggle weapons—and that’s undoubtedly true—they are primarily a lifeline for food and the goods that Gazans need and cannot obtain because of the siege. If they are closed, people will be reduced from hunger into starvation, from poverty into abject misery.

Meanwhile other people hammered out a plan for tomorrow I don’t know if it’s a good plan or not. It has some risky aspects. If it works I may not have access to the internet to write for awhile On the other hand, the police could blockade us into our hotels and I’d have time to write a novel.

Wish us luck, safety, and success! More when I can…

Blog—GFM 4 12-29 Morning

So, back to yesterday. I never made it over to the French Embassy, where the French contingent has been encamped, surrounded now by the Egyptian police and not allowed to leave although people have been allowed to pass in food and water. Our encampment in front of the World Trade Center (yep, that’s what it’s called!) that houses the UN was actually a lively and spirited demonstration, with women dancing and an Italian clown parading and the student contingent playing with a gigantic Palestinian flag. Personally, I was fighting my Bad Attitude comprised of exhaustion, low blood sugar, unresolved grief and a recent loss in hearing that upped the volume of tinnitus in my left ear so that even a quiet conversation sounds like echoes in a wind tunnel and a loud demonstration is like the whole world just got tuned to a place halfway between stations on the radio. I was asking myself that dangerous question, “Don’t I have a real life somewhere and shouldn’t I be there, now, living it?” I’d brought my battered old doumbek but didn’t really feel like playing it, until two guitarists, an accordionist and another drummer joined a group of Italians singing “Bella Ciao.” It’s just not possible to stay in an evil mood when Italians are singing “Bella Ciao.”

So I went looking for something useful to do. The police had us surrounded and blocked in, and lines of people were standing in front of them, face to face, to keep them from pushing in the barricades further. In some sense all these confrontations are about space—political space to protest, spaces of freedom in which the people of Gaza might actually live their own lives. Right, I remembered, that was the reason I was there and not back home happily trying to unclog a blocked-up hydroelectric system in the pouring rain, We had created a micro-Gaza right there in the plaza, and again, that is the point of nonviolent action—to dramatize an invisible wrong and make it visible, put in the face of the world so it can’t be ignored.

Lisa was in the middle of the crowd running a spokescouncil meeting that she’d somehow pulled together. She has an amazing ability to work a crowd in the midst of clamor and chaos and somehow bring them all to some point of clarity. Plus she has a naturally loud voice and can make herself heard. Between the roaring gale going on in my left ear and my naturally soft voice being even more so due to the horrible air exacerbating my asthma, I just didn’t feel like that was the place I could do much. If the Goddess in her infinite wisdom had gifted me with a loud voice, not to mention making me slim and glamorous, I could have ruled the world. But she didn’t, so I just have to muddle along as best I can.

Before we came on the march, I’d been in contact with members of the Interfaith delegation about doing trainings for the marchers. No opportunity had yet arisen to do anything of the sort, but I went to check in with them. While we were talking, some kafuffle took place over at the line with the police. A cop hit a woman in the face, we were told. So we went over—but by then, other people had stepped up. One of the white-haired women from the Michigan Peace Team was walking up and down the line talking to the blank eyed officers in fine nonviolent style. Some of the Italians were being, well, Italian—loud and expressive, but basically, things were calm. But we brought up some more people to hold a line, facing the cops. I resisted joining it—I’m a Gemini, an air sign, I like to stay loose at these things and float around. But then a devastatingly handsome young man held out his hand to me and I couldn’t resist. So I ended up in front of these hard-eyed Egyptian security guys, with the grim expressions that reminded me that these are the folks the CIA gets to do their real torturing for them. But honestly, I was bored. So bored that I decided to make use of the time, if possible, to improve my Arabic. From my time in the ISM I had learned a few useful phrases: ‘thank you’, ‘please’, ‘tea without sugar’ and ‘Tank!’ Actually the first Arabic phrase I learned was ‘Fi jesh?’ which means, roughly, “Is the Army up ahead?” As opposed to a time in my life when I was much younger, and the first German phrase I ever learned was “I am really horny.” Ah, but that’s another story..

But knowing I was coming on this trip, I had downloaded some language-learning programs and listened to them long enough to learn to count to ten and to say, “I would like to eat something.” No doubt a useful phrase. I smiled at grim cop in front of me, held up one finger, and said, “Wehed?” His eyes locked on mine. I held up two. “Efnayim?” He ventured a smile, nodded encouragingly, and said “Taletha.” “Arbah” I replied, holding up four, and before I knew it the entire line of cops within earshot were grinning and nodding encouragement as I counted to ten, then patiently instructing me on to eleven, twelve, thirteen…There’s a music to the Arabic numbers that is quite hypnotic, and before I knew it I was up to a hundred, with my team cheering me on. Then we started over again, and over. They were all gazing at me with fond, paternal eyes, like a father looks at a promising child, and they stopped looking to me like potential torturers and started looking more like sweet young men doing a job that wasn’t really their choice to begin with.

Then they switched shifts, and I had to start all over again. But damn if it didn’t work just the same way with the new guard. The truth is, the personal sympathies of these guys are already with us, mostly. They aren’t subject to the same political pressures as Mubarak. The young ones in uniform are conscripts, just doing their time.

Ah—but I’m running out if I want to get to the French Embassy, the American Embassy where I’m told people are being detained, to go support the hunger strikers who will be vigiling at 2 pm—including Hedy Epstein, an 88 year old holocaust survivor, and start planning for tomorrow when we have decided to march toward Gaza if we have to leave from right here in Cairo. Let me just say that by the end of the day, after some food and some shifts in the organizing, I felt good again. Glad to be here, glad to be part of this, hopeful that whether or not we get to Gaza we will succeed in our true aim—to focus the world’s attention again on Gaza, on the illegal state of siege the Israeli’s are perpetuating there, on those who died and on the shattered homes and infrastructure which cannot be rebuilt because Israel will not let in supplies. I’ll do my best to keep writing and posting, but now off to do a bit of living.

Blog--GFM 3 December 28

At The End of a Very Long Day

Our situation is ironically biblical—never have I understood the story of Exodus so well. The irony is that in the story, it’s the Israelites petitioning Pharoah to let them go, packing their bags each time he indicates ‘yes’, unpacking them when he changes his mind and says ‘no’, ten times until in the end they leave in such haste they have no time to let the bread rise. Now, it’s the Israelites, or at least, most likely, the Israelis applying political pressure to the Egyptians to refuse us entry into Gaza. Indeed, even leaving Cairo has become problematic. Small groups have made their way to el Arish, but most have been stopped, some pulled from taxis, others sent back in busses from checkpoints

We had busses scheduled to pick us up at 7 AM in the morning—but we received word the night before that their permits had been canceled. We decided to go down to the bus station anyway and invite the press, demonstrating clearly that we were ready to go.

I really hate a demonstration that starts at 7 AM after a night of little sleep. But Juniper, Lisa, Geneva and I dutifully roused ourselves and grabbed a taxi down to the bus station. After wandering around a bit in an area of massive concrete overhangs, fumes and garbage, and crossing a couple of lethal avenues without mishap, we arrived at the area where people were holding banners and trying to wake up enough to chant.

I just have to say this here—I really hate political chanting. Makes my throat hurt and my ears sore. Mostly it’s rhythmically boring and political singing is sometimes worse. Well, old civil rights songs are great and heartening but John Lennon never wrote a more whining dirge than “All we are saying is give peace a chance!: Also impossible to sing in tune. “Imagine” is just about as bad, and longer. Drumming is some help but I’ve done the marching and drumming thing and it hurts my back. I especially hate it at 7 AM. But I endured a couple of hours of it, punctuated by some quieter moments when I could talk to people. In one of them, I interviewed Lynn Gottlieb, one of the first eight women ordained as a rabbi, who now preaches what she calls the Torah of nonviolence

In another, I met Alex, a red-haired activist I’d met years ago in Palestine with the ISM. Alex told me that Hisham, who used to run the Faisal Hostel in East Jerusalem where ISMers often stayed, was in town just for the morning in a hotel just down the street. He’d come to meet people. So as the demo wound down, Alex and I went up to see him.

I remember the first time I met Hisham, on the first trip I did with the ISM. I’d stayed a night in Tel Aviv with my Israeli friends and taken a bus to Jerusalem. I got a taxi from the bus station and couldn’t understand why the taxi driver didn’t seem to understand where the Faisal was or grasp what I meant by ‘Damascus gate’ of the Old City. Or why he got more and more nervous as we got closer, finally stopping at least a block away and nearly forcing me out of the cab Later I realized that, of course, he was an Israeli cabby, mortally terrified of driving into East Jerusalem and nearly as terrified of anyone in his cab who would ask him to. After I dragged my heavy bags over to the Faisal and up a flight or two of stairs, I was sweating and exhausted and when I saw the general level of shabbiness and grime, ready to turn around and go back. Then I saw Hisham, standing behind the counter, with a broad grin. “Welcome, welcome!” he said, with so much friendliness and warmth that I felt better immediately. I grew very fond of the Faisal, which had a wide screened veranda where we did trainings, and an every-ready pot of tea.

We took another slow, creaky elevator up to the sixth floor, walked into the restaurant, and Hisham stood up and gave me a warm hug. “Starhawk, welcome! Welcome!” he said After six years, he recognized me immediately. We sat with three young ISMers who had come from the West Bank the night before while they had breakfast and we shared news and political cynicism. There’s a certain dark, stoic humor that long term ISM volunteers tend to share, a grim cheer that comes after facing situations every day that seem like they can’t possibly get worse, and knowing they will get worse. I realized that I missed it. I miss my friend Neta and the two girls I helped her birth and her new baby that I’ve never seen. I miss the other incredible folks I knew there, dour Swedish Tobias who became so at home in Jenin; Ghassan Andoni, like the distinguished professor he is, teaching us the history of Palestinian nonviolence; tall, red-haired Irish Caoimhe who strode through refugee camps like a Celtic Goddess and was known to walk up to tanks and cover their muzzles with her bare hands. I had tears in my eyes, realizing that I’d never expected to see Hisham again, since the Israeli authorities now won’t let me back into Israel, which also controls all the entrances into the West Bank as well as Gaza.

I know that what I feel is just a little taste of exile, a homeopathic dose of the Palestinian experience. Knowing that just compounds the sadness, turns it into a bitter dose of depression and despair—because how can I even indulge in feeling something which is so dwarfed by the immensity of Palestinian suffering? I was born an American Jew six years after the holocaust—I grew up feeling that nothing that ever happened to me could possibly rank with the sufferings of my own people, the camps and the ovens and the mass graves. And I realize what I miss in that gallows humor mood is the relief that comes from stepping out of the morass of grief and guilt and guilt about feeling grief into what I call the zone of deadly calm, the place of pure action, where you just stop feeling and stop thinking and walk out and stick your hand over the muzzle of a tank.

Okay, this isn’t really about today’s action, how we took over the plaza at the UN building for most of the day, how I learned how to hypnotize an Egyptian policeman (get them to teach you how to count in Arabic—“Wehed, efnaim, taletha..”their hard eyes soften, “arbah, hamsah, seta” and suddenly they become smiling boys :saba, thaminiah, teysha, ashara!” ) how the French have held their embassy into the night, how people who tried to get to el Arish were pulled out of taxis and taken off busses, but I’m going to go ahead and post it anyway. Because it’s almost 2 AM and because I believe that we might learn something, if we understood what pain and loss and violence and guilt do to us. In the end, that pain, that grief, the weight of sorrow and the desperate relief from it can propel us to do a lot of different things: stand in front of a bulldozer, sit down in front of a tank, strap on a belt of explosives and blow ourselves and everyone around us up. Different acts, yes, very different choices. But how much do our choices come from who we are, and how much from what we encounter around us, when we seek for solace, what comes to hand?

12/27/2009
Still a bit dazed and confused from jetlag, I went down to the Lotus Hotel where Medea Benjamin and Anne Wright and many of the other organizers are staying. It is also peeling and seedy, and when people told me, “Thank you for putting your life on the line,” I didn’t quite imagine that the biggest mortal dangers would be elevators, with archaic wooden cages and exposed wiring and metal grates dating back to the Third Dynasty. Of course, that’s only if you survive the Cairo traffic. Crossing the street here is a bit like trying to dodge your way through a herd of stampeding mustangs.

So far unscathed, I got sucked into doing media work for most of the afternoon. About a hundred people went out to the Kasr al Nil bridge around noon—the bridge to the large island in the middle of the Nile. They placed cards and flowers on the bridge to commemorate the more than 1300 Gazans who died in the Israeli assault that began a year ago today, on December 27, 2008. The police eventually showed up and ordered them off the bridge, but didn’t arrest anyone.

The plan for the afternoon was to meet at 4 pm down by the Nile and take feluccas, the small sailboats that go up and down the river. On the boats, we could meet in small groups and then converge later for a larger meeting. We hurried down there (I spend a lot of these actions trailing after people who are younger, faster and slimmer) and eventually I jumped in a taxi with a few other women at Lisa’s suggestion. A knot of activists were surrounded by a thicket of cameras. The police were blocking us from getting on the boats, and shut down the rental place. But we gathered, a group of several hundred, which we had been expressly forbidden to do. Medea Benjamin, one of the Code Pink leaders, jumped up and made an impromptu speech. “Who here wants to take a boat on the Nile, like tourists do?” she asked. Everyone raised their hands. “Who here wants to go to Gaza?”

The crowd began cheering and unfurling banners and chanting “Free Gaza!” We lit our candles in cups and held them aloft. There were people from all over the world in the crowd—young students and old people, every imaginable mix of countries and races and religions. The spirit was strong, and as more and more police arrived, everyone remained calm. The crowd began marching back down the riverside, and then the police threw up a cordon and blocked us in. Lisa was trying to negotiate and persuade the head officer to let us march down back to the bridge and disperse there, but he wouldn’t go for it. The police were not in riot gear—most of them seemed to be in plain clothes, and their hearts weren’t realy in keeping us blocked in. They held hands to barricade us, and they kept smiling. People lifted up their arms and ducked under and got out, and from time to time they opened up and let people out, without much rhyme nor reason. Basically, they are personally in sympathy with our cause, and that’s working in our favor.

Eventually, they moved aside and let everyone go. People felt strong and empowered by the action. We had been told that the Egyptian government did not want us to protest in Cairo, to be interviewed by the press, to interact with Egyptians. And we had done all of the above.

Our cancelled meeting had been rescheduled and moved several times, but finally we had it outside, in the middle of Tahrir Square, a big central square in downtown Cairo, right out in the open. What I love about explicitly nonviolent actions, and what sometimes gets lost in the attempts we make to accommodate diverse tactics and security culture, is that in-your-face attitude we can adopt when we aren’t trying to hide what we’re doing. The authorities say, ‘you cannot meet in groups larger than six people,’ and cancel our permit for a building, so we meet in the center of town in the public square. We create a dilemma for the authorities—either arrest us, these hundreds of internationals with large bases of political support, or concede this political space.

The cops left us alone. But—all the busses that we’d rented for our attempt to go to Gaza tomorrow have been cancelled due to pressure from the government. Ordinary Egyptians, who live here, don’t have the privilege we enjoy and are not immune to threats.

The French contingent went en masse to their embassy, threatening to encamp on its lawn, and got them to intervene with the Egyptian government and they got security permits for their busses. Or so we’ve heard—I don’t know yet if the busses actually arrived or were allowed to leave.

With all the stress and continually changing conditions, I’m still deeply thrilled to be here. Under the clamor and the smog lies a sense of age and a whiff of ancient things. That river we’re walking besides is the Nile! I see a scraggly cat and think, ‘This is where cats come from!” I see a man in flowing robes and kaffiyeh who could have been standing there for a hundred years.

Tomorrow Anne Wright, a U.S. diplomat who resigned in protest against the Iraq War and who has become a dedicated activist, will take another delegation to the foreign office to continue their negotiations. Please keep up the calls and the writing. I apologize for the typo in the previous post—the website is:

www.gazafreedom.org

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/424/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1946

Your support is keeping us safe and will hopefully open the road to Gaza—not just for us, but for the people whose lives and health and freedom are blighted by this siege.

Open Letter to President Mubarak from the Gaza Freedom March

26 December 2009
Dear President Mubarak;
We, representing 1,362 individuals from 43 countries arriving in Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, are pleading to the Egyptians and your reputation for hospitality.
We are peacemakers. We have not come to Egypt to create trouble or cause conflict. On the contrary. We have come because we believe that all people — including the Palestinians of Gaza — should have access to the resources they need to live in dignity. We have gathered in Egypt because we believed that you would welcome and support our noble goal and help us reach Gaza through your land.
As individuals who believe in justice and human rights, we have spent our hard-earned, and sometimes scarce, resources to buy plane tickets, book hotel rooms and secure transportation only to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza living under a crushing Israeli blockade.
We are doctors, lawyers, students, academics, poets and musicians. We are young and old. We are Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and secular. We represent civil society groups in many countries who coordinated this large project with the civil society in Gaza.
We have raised tens of thousands of dollars for medical aid, school supplies and winter clothing for the children of Gaza. But we realize that in addition to material aid, the Palestinians of Gaza need moral support. We came to offer that support on the difficult anniversary of an invasion that brought them so much suffering.
The idea of the Gaza Freedom March—a nonviolent march to the Israeli Erez crossing– emerged during one of our trips to Gaza in May, a trip that was kindly facilitated by the Egyptian government. Ever since the idea emerged, we have been talking to your government through your embassies overseas and directly with your Foreign Ministries. Your representatives have been kind and supportive. We were asked to furnish information about all the participants—passports, dates of birth, occupations—which we have done in good faith. We have answered every question, met every request. For months we have been working under the assumption that your government would facilitate our passage, as it has done on so many other occasions. We waited and waited for an answer.
Meanwhile, time was getting short and we had to start organizing. Travel over the Christmas season is not easy in the countries where many of us live. Tickets have to be purchased weeks, if not months, in advance. This is what all 1,362 individuals did. They spent their own funds or raised money from their communities to pay their way. Add to this the priceless time, effort and sacrifice by all these people to be away from their homes and loved ones during their festive season.
In Gaza, civil society groups—students, unions, women, farmers, refugee groups—have been working nonstop for months to organize the march. They have organized workshops, concerts, press conferences, endless meetings—all of this with their own scarce resources. They have been buoyed by the anticipated presence of so many global citizens coming to support their just cause.
If the Egyptian government decides to prevent the Gaza Freedom March, all this work and cost is lost.
And that’s not all. It is practically impossible, this late in the game, to stop all these people from travelling to Egypt, even if we wanted to. Moreover, most have no plans in Egypt other than to arrive at a predetermined meeting point to head together to the Gaza border. If these plans are cancelled there will be a lot of unjustified suffering for the Palestinians of Gaza and over a thousand internationals who had nothing in mind but noble intentions.
We plead to you to let the Gaza Freedom March continue so that we can join the Palestinians of Gaza to march together on December 31, 2009.
We are truly hopeful that we will receive a positive response from you and thank you for your assistance.
Tighe Barry, Gaza Freedom March coordinator
Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK, USA
Olivia Zemor, Euro-Palestine, France
David Torres, ECCP, Belgium
Germano Monti, Forum Palestine, Italy
Ziyaad Lunat, Gaza Freedom March, Europe
Ehab Lotayef, Gaza Freedom March, Canada
Alessandra Mecozzi, Action for Peace-Italy
Ann Wright, Gaza Freedom March coordinator
Kawthar Guediri, Collectif National pour une Paix Juste et Durable entre Palestinens et Israeliens, France
Mark Johnson, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Thomas Sommer, Focus on The Global South, India

27 Dec. 2009
Gaza Freedom March—I’m in Cairo
So I’m here in Cairo, in a seedy but supportive hotel. The décor is peeling kitsch, but the beds are clean and the politics are good. To be honest, the part of these trips I hate the most is packing and getting ready. There’s the stress of trying to find my missing good pair of jeans, organizing all the details of our upcoming Earth Activist Training and instructing the people who will stay at my cabin on the vagaries of the hydro system and the four electrical meters, none of which work, wrapping presents and desperately trying to thwart the Snatchers, those little creatures that live between the worlds, stealing single socks, twitching your passport out of the drawer where you know you left it, burying your Iphone under the bedclothes—and helping to cook a Christmas Eve dinner for thirty people, “How are you?” “I’m a little fried—leaving first thing in the morning.” “Oh, where are you going?” “Gaza.” Now, there’s a conversation stopper! Then after dragging myself away from our lovely tree and crèche and crammed-full stockings on Christmas morning to slog through security lines and crunch myself into two-small airplane seats—once I actually get to a destination everything else seems relaxing by comparison, except possibly getting detained at the airport and sent right back again.

As long as that didn’t happen—anything else short of rendition and actual torture is bound to be fun by comparison. We had lots of people from the march on the various planes I was on, kind of shyly checking each other out in the waiting area—“Hmmn, a student with a bracelet in Palestinian colors, possible. A middle-aged woman who looks like a nun—maybe.” Somehow we found each other. I sat for eleven hours next to a young soldier on his way back to Iraq. He seemed so young and vulnerable, making all his last Christmas calls to his family. He has two other brothers in Iraq and another in Afghanistan, and his arms were all covered with squiggly military tattoos. On his other side was a vegan anthropology student also on her way to the march. “We’ve got you surrounded,” I told him.

Just before I left, I got a call from Lisa and Juniper who were already in Cairo. The Egyptians have closed the border in Rafah, and revoked all our permits to meet. Chances of our getting through seem dim, and the risk level of the adventure has suddenly climbed higher, as we may now be arrested just for meeting and demonstrating even in Cairo. But hey, why would that surprise us—just because for five months they’ve been negotiating with the organizers and telling them we will be let in.

After too brief a sleep, we had a meeting this morning in our hotel. Our big orientation meeting for this evening has been cancelled, its permit revoked. So we’re doing smaller briefings in hotels, and we have a couple of ‘soft’ actions planned for today. We have now heard the border will be open to Palestinians and Egyptians later this week—although no one has said it will be open to Internationals. Still, in various ways we will attempt to get in. I will keep you posted as I can. I have also opened up a Twitter account—seems like this is the sort of thing Twitter is made for. My user name is Starhawk17 (Starhawk was already taken, don’t know by whom) and my profile is http://twitter.com/Starhawk17 You can sign on to get Tweets and that will probably be the most up-to-the-minute news as we attempt to get in.

Okay, hope to get this out and posted. We really, really need your help today to continue pressure on the Egyptian embassies and government. Please go to the Gaza Freedom March website and contact the Egyptian Foreign minister, if you haven’t already. Check for solidarity actions in your town and please, please, join them if you can. The uncertainty that we are experiencing is just a tiny taste of what life is like every day for Palestinians who are prevented from traveling freely, from leaving Gaza at will and from getting home if they do manage to get out, from rebuilding their bombed and destroyed neighborhoods and the means of life. Thanks! Starhawk

Hello everyone! Rebecca Sang

2009-12-22T00:14:00.000-08:00

Dec 20, 2009

I just wanted to drop you all a note to let you know that Jason and I are
home safely in our little Berkeley hut, ready for a wonderful solstice on
the beach and almost over our jet lag.

This is the first one out of two posts I'm sending out from last week's
adventures. I'll do one more, and then consider my reporting from
Copenhagen done.

Thanks so much for your continued support and love.

Happy Solstice!
Riyana
*****
From: http://wildandserene.blogspot.com/2009/12/out-of-kettle-into-fire.html

Yesterday was the most powerful day yet for me here at Copenhagen. Jason
and Tom left early to go on a scouting mission at the Bella Center and take
a peak at the fences surrounding her, while I stayed home and wrote to you,
dear readers. ;-) I¹ve started to feel like I have a responsibility to let
y¹all know what¹s happening here, as much as I can. There¹s so much I don¹t
know and don¹t see, because there¹s simply so much happening every moment of
the day. Aside from that (and let¹s be honest here) I really don¹t have the
kind of skills that Jason and Tom do regarding fences and the like. If you
want to take down a fence, they¹re really the ones for your team.

After a rather long, meandering walk all over downtown Copenhagen where I
seemed to run into every ³Politi² in city but couldn¹t find a group of a
couple thousand drumming, chanting, yelling, dancing people, I was finally
directed where I needed to go by an kindly old reporter. (I was getting so
desperate, I almost asked the police where I could find my comrades. I
figured, out of anyone, they must know. Luckily it didn¹t come to thatŠ I
mean, please. How embarrassing. ³Excuse me, officer. Can you tell me
where the protesters are?²).

I found Jason with the Samba band, dancing and helping to hold the line
around them, who had linked arms and had formed a barrier of people around
the entire march in front of the column of police officers that walked along
side. A couple of moments later, Tom arrived with Jason¹s drum and soon we
were drumming down the street. The hand signals and rhythms are finally
getting more familiar, and I¹m starting to really enjoy playing around with
how I hold the drumstick to get different sounds on the drum without
dropping the thing every ten minutes. We were behind a large sound system
on a truck, so we alternated playing and pausing to allow the speakers and
music to be heard. Eventually, we made our way to a plaza near the Defense
Ministry.

Copenhagen has been all dolled up in its anti-climate change finery, some of
which seems genuine by genuine environmental organizations, and some of
which is greenwashing for very destructive businesses (kind of like those
Chevron billboards back home that say things like, ³I will unplug stuff
more² while they work to convert their Richmond refinery to process the most
toxic stuff on the planet). I¹m not sure what was planned for the rally
point, but what was very soon happening was that an enormous orange balloon
maybe a story tall and as much around that had been tied to the ground
as a measure of how large one ton of CO2 is, courtesy of some heinous
European corporation that I¹m not really that familiar with, was rolling
down the street. The police and the samba band, both equally laden down,
went running after the crowd of people that were playing with it. We
managed to catch up before they did, and started playing a jaunty tune as
the enormous orange ball rolled off onto a major byway of cars, followed by
the crowd, the band, and the cops.

After that moment, I felt the energy shift. As usual, Jason picked up on it
a moment or two before I did.

He was already looking around for an exit route. ³We should get out of
here,² he said.

³Do you want to leave?²

He didn¹t answer, and that, coupled with the fact that he said ³should²
instead of simply, ³Let¹s go,² told me he didn¹t. I didn¹t, either. I knew
that this was a potentially arrestable situation, but it was hard to ditch
out on the band in the midst of things. And clearly, at this point, the
band was directing the energy. Folks were crowding around us, following us
wherever we went.

After awhile, the police managed to get the enormous orange balloon away
from the folks and turned us back to the plaza, where we circled up and
tried jamming for a bit. But the police weren¹t having it. They kept
pressing us into a tighter and tighter area, and then out of the plaza and
down the street towards the bridge.

Bridges are classic places for ³kettling,² which is a sweet sounding word to
describe closing in on you on both ends of a march and then arresting
everybody within. Jason looked at me again, and said, ³We should leave.²

³Do you want to go?² I asked again.

He frowned. I knew that he was feeling the same way I was we still really
didn¹t want to go, even though we were clearly surrounded on three sides and
being pushed towards more cops at the other end of the bridge. I knew that
most likely if we left at that moment we could find away for two of us to
escape but not the whole band. It was either ditch them to stay safe, or
stay and take the risks.

that moment I realized that I felt remarkably okay about being arrested.
I¹ve heard a few horror stories, as you always do, but overall the police
have been remarkably chill here compared to the US cops. At one point
during one of the marches earlier in the week, a line of cop cars came
screeching directly into the Samba band in an attempt to split us in two. I
kept thinking they would stop before they got to us, but they kept coming,
straight into the drummers. I tried to skedaddle out of the way, but around
me, the other drummers were pushing back at the cop cars, yelling at the
drivers. A couple of police officers jumped out and pulled the drummers off
of their cars, tossing them into the street with slightly annoyed
expressions. Then they got back into the cars and left. They didn¹t beat
anyone, or tear gas anyone, or even arrest anyone. They just tossed us to
the side as if dislodging a vine that got stuck to your shoe and then found
someone else to pester.

Let me just tell you, if we¹d tried anything even close to that in
Pittsburgh, it would have become PepperSprayBurgh. You just can¹t do that
kind of thing with American cops without them going apeshit on you. And, in
fact, they might go apeshit on you even if you don¹t do anything like that
(although, in my experience, San Francisco police tend to be more mellow).

At another march, the samba band moved off of the approved route into
traffic on the other side of the street, and a line of cops filed in to the
middle to stop those of us who hadn¹t yet made it into the street from
following. As they filed in, drummers pushed past them literally pushing
them out of the way to stay with the rest of the band. Jason got through,
and then Kiki, this really sweet sambatista from Italy who¹s been very
friendly with us for the last couple of days. As I tried to follow, more
cops came, blocking the way. I stopped, but on the other side of the
street, Jason waved to me to come with. Without thinking, I ducked under
the cop¹s arm and then through, wondering if at any second I¹d feel his arms
pulling me back. But I didn¹t. Suddenly, there were more sambatistas
following me through, and then we were all together again, weaving among the
cars drumming and chanting. Again, no one was attacked.

So, as we were getting kettled in and my arrest seemed inevitable, I found a
strange calm came over me and decided to just keep drumming and enjoying the
music making for as long as it happened. Alright, I was probably going to
be arrested, and it was probably going to be cold for the eight or twelve
hours or whatever they were detaining people. But, there are much worse
things. I don¹t mind getting arrested, as long as I don¹t get chemicaled
and beaten, too.

We kept marching, out of the downtown area. At one point, Jason came up
next to me and expressed some concern we were headed right towards
Christania, and he was afraid that the peaceful behavior of both cops and
activists might end if they came onto that already contested little piece of
land. Still, that¹s where one of our major homebases is, and I¹m sure that
the warm lunch that would be waiting for us there if we did manage to make
it held some appeal. Aside from which, we were only half of the decision
making power, at most. The cops continued to block off many of the streets,
allowing us some measure of choice, but not much.

And then, suddenly, they were gone. They just turned around and left.

We were at the gates of Christania, at least two hundred of us, samba band
and dancers and people carrying signs and probably many of those who had
unleashed the giant orange balloon and sent it floating off into the
streets, and the cops opened up the kettle and disappeared. A huge cheer
went up among the crowd, and the band flowed into a circle and began jamming
right there in the intersection of the street, much to the chagrin of the
drivers of the cars around us, I¹m sure. People were dancing like mad and
cheering and laughing, celebrating their freedom. Relief, exultation, joy,
and victory permeated the crowd.

Later that night, Naomi Klein and two other speakers came to Christania to
talk about the next day¹s action, ³Reclaim the Power.² This is the big one,
the one where we try to disrupt the conference for a time. It seems like at
every major action we try to do this, ever since Seattle. It¹s a tradition
that no mass mobilization is complete without it, kind of like turkey at
Thanksgiving. And yet, I felt conflicted. The whole reason that I came
here is that I want the Copenhagen Climate Talks to be a success, to bring
about a world-changing powerful treaty. Disrupting the talks seemed
antithetical to that goal.

Listening to Naomi and Tadzio (an activist from London that I found very
inspiring) reframed the issues for me, though.
The gist of it is this: right now, the industrialized nations and
corporations are really pushing for market-based solutions at their worst
are unlikely to do anything at all to help our planet survive, and at best
would slightly help reduce CO2 pollution but at the expense of those nations
most likely to be harmed by climate change and that have already felt the
brunt of our economic policies. There are countries out there that are in
danger of literally being underwater soon, or having their food supplies
completely destroyed by climate change issues, and these nations have been
repeatedly ignored, lied to, and condescended to during the last several
weeks while those with money and power try to find ways to maximize their
profits with carbon markets and carbon sinks. The idea of the People¹s
Assembly tomorrow is to bring together the people in the streets with the
delegates, heads of states, and NGOs from the Bella Center that desire a
very powerful treaty to truly address the issue of climate change without
the influence of those with wealth who hold a deep desire to retain that
wealth at all cost.
The meeting with Naomi and Tadzio and Michael Hart, which Lisa facilitated,
was completely packed. There were hundreds of people in the large tent at
Christania, sitting on each other¹s laps, on the floor, standing, on the
rails of the bleachers, on the other side of the partitions. And everyone
seemed to hold their breath as suddenly, someone in the crowd, called out,
³What about the police? They¹ll attack us if we try this. Why should we
let them?²

After a moment, murmurs all around. Then, another voice called out, ³No!
We have to stay calm. We can¹t do that!²

Oh great, I thought. I can¹t wait until the undercovers bring this back to
their bosses.

Now, lots of murmuring, mixed with boos and cheers and a variety of
guttural, indecipherable to the non-European ear responses. Lisa grabbed
the mike. ³Alright, alright! Hold on just a second, everyone. Let¹s just
hold on a sec.²

The power and conviction in her voice seemed to work, at least for the
moment. People did quiet down. Naomi Klein spoke next, her voice
passionate. ³I know you¹re angry,² she said. ³We all have every right to be
angry. People are being hurt, and that¹s enough to make anyone angry. But
in this moment, we have to talk about what our intention really is here. We
have an opportunity here, a historic opportunity, to bring together
delegates from the climate conference with the people. And they won¹t come
if it¹s not safe. They won¹t be able to.²

There was a round of applause, but beneath that, still plenty of angry
murmuring. Most people, it seemed, agreed with her. But there were still
those that wanted to break windows, break cops, break all barriers.

Lisa told us later that its partly the denial of the role that violent forms
of protest have played in revolutionary movements that makes people who want
to engage in these forms of protest so obstinate when we have these sorts of
³tactical² conversations. The non-violent among us deny that the other
forms ever have merit, and that¹s frustrating to them. At the same time, in
this case more than ever, it was clear that we could not have a riot on our
hands if we stood any chance of success. We couldn¹t even have a
window-breaking kind of day, because there was no way that delegates and
heads of states would allow themselves to be affiliated with that kind of
thing. We needed everyone on the same page.
In this moment, what she said was, ³Tomorrow, we need to do what¹s smart.
We need to find creative ways to protest. This isn¹t about diversity of
tactics, though there is a time and a place for that kind of model. We¹re
not trying to say that one way is right and another way is wrong. We¹re
just trying to find a way that we can make this really happen.²

Tadzio stood up now. ³Listen, we have a codex,² he said. ³It¹s not a
concensus, I know, that everyone has agreed to. It¹s a codex that says how
we will and how we won¹t do things here in Copenhagen, and now is the time
to understand what that means.²

The murmurs slowly died away. It was clear to me that most people there
wanted to stick to strictly creative, non-violent forms of action, but that
some simply didn¹t agree. And I found it hard to believe that some sort of
³code of honor² would keep them in check.

Which made me wonder, at this potentially amazing moment in history, are we
going to screw it all up simply because we don¹t have our own shit together?
Because we are still using ego-driven, violent modes of thinking?

Lisa, however, didn¹t seem daunted by my worries. ³Historically, the black
bloc honors these kinds of agreements,² she told us later. ³If there¹s a
codex, that¹s what they¹ll do.²

I hadn¹t been always impressed by the black bloc in Pittsburgh, and found
myself skeptical. But she went on to say that in Europe, the radical Left
is different. There are those that break things and those that don¹t, and
they all have legitimacy here (unlike in the States, where people who engage
in property destruction and / or fight back against the cops tend to be seen
as total wackos that do nothing but put us back twenty years). Some of that
legitimacy, however, comes from the fact that they do honor their
agreements. ³Just look at the actions over the last couple of days. There
have been plenty of chances to get into rumbles with the cops and destroy
all kinds of things. There may have been a couple of broken windows on one
day, but no riots.²

As Jason, Tom and I headed off to dinner, just across the street from
Christania at a little gyro place, I mulled over her words. As we ate, I¹m
not sure who either Jason or the Indian fellows sitting at the table next
to us noticed a couple of blue Politi trucks pull up and turn down the
road towards Christania. Then a few more.

I was a little worried about Lisa, who was still there, but the others told
me not to be. After all, Christania is a huge compound of not only
activists but also many radical residents, who would not take kindly to the
police coming uninvited onto their property. Certainly they weren¹t going
to try to raid the place with three or four trucks of cops.

But then we saw another truck go by, a much larger one. It was the water
cannon.

We jumped up and went to the door. Soon truck after blue-sirened truck of
cops was turning down the road, lining the one we were on, everywhere. Cops
with dogs, cops on bikes, cops in riot gear. They closed off the street
that led towards Christania, but a side street still remained open, and
after a while of standing around watching the tear gas rise from several
blocks away, Jason, Bird and I decided to move closer in to see what was
happening. We ended up right up at the front gates with the press, which
actually, the cops didn¹t mind at all. They had ceased to lob cannisters of
tear gas inside and were now bringing in the dogs (dogs and gas don¹t mix,
its either one or the other). The rumor was that there had been some people
-- whether the residents or activists, no one seemed to know who had begun
to lob glass bottles at the cops as soon as the raid began. The rest of the
activists, many of whom had soon been in the tent dancing to a DJ, stayed
where they were many of them just kept dancing, refusing to let the police
ruin their night.

We waited around for a couple of hours until Lisa was released, then went
off to bed. It had been a long day, and tomorrow didn¹t seem like it would
be any more relaxed. We really were out of the kettle and into the fire.

The night before last malignant forces attempted to sabotage our big action
yesterday. Jason and I went over to the Rag space for the Rhythms of
Resistance meeting, having fully assimilated ourselves into their group for
this week and finally accepting that fate. We'd been invited to their
evening meeting various times during the week, but weren't necessarily as
excited to meet as we were to drum; but now, with the most critical
demonstration of our entire time out here, it seemed like we couldn't resist
any longer. And really, all joking aside, we wanted to be involved in the
planning of what our group was going to be doing -- not only because we
wanted to help co-create it, but in my case, because I needed to know what
level of confrontation the sambatistas were planning to go for.

Here's my little secret, one that by admitting I will forever degrade any
reputation I had of being a hardcore activist: when things get hot, I can't
handle it. I'm afraid of fighting with the cops: I don't want to have my
arm, or wrist, or ankle broken by a billy club. I'm afraid of being pepper
sprayed: every time I've seen it happen to someone, it looks like its really
terribly painful. And, I'm afraid of finding myself in some cloud of chaos
that invovles tear gas and crowds of stampeding people, and falling down and
being trampled. Over all, the whole energy of that kind of intensity is just
too much for me.

So, now you know. I'm actually not hardcore. I'm softcore. I like to go out
to these things, play a drum, chant, even yell a bit, and then go back to
where its safe and warm and police free.

In the past, this has made it occasionally difficult for Jason and I to be
buddies at actions, because Jason is actually hardcore. He doesn't get
afraid. He is always calm, strong, and present to what's happening, just
like he looks. He wants to stay in the fray when the fray happens (up to a
point), not to be violent, but also not willing to back down in the face of
tactics that involve pain and terror to get us to comply. The Samba band,
this week, has shown a similar attitude towards their interactions with the
police, which is tempered by the large surdu drums that some drummers carry
that make it fairly hard to run away at the last minute.

Anyway, I was very interested to see what level of confrontation the
sambatistas were planning for the Reclaim the Power Action. The action was
going to be divided into several "blocs" of people, roughly categorized by
the kinds of things they'd be doing during the action, which has a
connection to the kind of violence from the police you might be subject to
but does not directly translate as such.

The Blue Bloc was those people who were marching along the police approved
route, including a large contingent of folks from the Global South at the
front who were going to push through the police line, a wave of tightly
pressed together folks right behind them to continue pushing, a line of
various affinity groups chained together by interlocked arms around the edge
of the entire thing, a truck with a sound system to issue instructions to
the crowd, and, potentially, the samba band. The Green Bloc was a mobile
group leaving from a nearby train station that would move down a different
route towards the Bella Center, and enter it by some other means. There was
a bloc of autonomous groups that were planning to attempt to tear down the
fences, create distracting actions for the police, and swim across the
canals. There was a Bike Bloc that would be offering support to the other
blocs, going were needed. There was also a group from Chistania, which had
been brutally raided by the police the night before, who were planning on
going into downtown in the morning and breaking lots of crap as retribution..
The Chistania group wasn't really a part of the action; they were just a
bunch of angry kids trying to get back at the police, loosely affiliated
with us.

After much discussion, the Sambas decided to agree to the request by the
action organizers to join the Blue Bloc and help direct the energy of people
there. They also agreed to stay on the police-approved route unless the cops
stopped the march prematurely, at which point they were holding the option
of breaking off and heading to the BC by an alternate open route.

The whole time we were at the meeting, I kept looking out the window,
waiting for the police to show up. As I mentioned, the night before they had
raided Chistania and held everyone inside for hours, using tear gas and dogs
while residents threw glass bottles at them and barricaded the gates. Once
in a while, we'd see one or two blue Politi trucks pull up, but they¹d just
leave again.

Eventually, Jason and I headed back to the hostel. We took Lisa with us, as
some of the other more public organizers were having their homes raided or
had been arrested, and she was worried they¹d show up at her place and drag
her away if she stayed there that night.

That¹s when the malignant forces struck, taking us entirely by surprise. The
first was a fellow in the bed across the room from us, who snored loudly. I
keep trying to think of a way to tell you how loudly, but can¹t think of
anything. Loud enough that there was no way to sleep, at any rate. Possibly
loud enough to be heard several rooms over. We took turns going over to him
and nudging him gently, but all that did was provide a couple of minutes
respite before the barrage began again. Just as I¹d be falling into the
drugged-feeling doze that was substituting for real sleep that night, he¹d
begin again. SNORE. SNORE. SNOOOOOOR-RE-RE.

The second malignant force is the doddering old man in the bed nearest ours
that stayed up until after midnight packing and repacking his small duffle
bag, and then who woke up again sometime around four to do it yet again,
before going back to sleep. He claimed to need to be up early for a flight,
but we found him at breakfast the next morning when we went down, so it
obviously wasn¹t all that early.

The lack of sleep was killing us. We grumbled, we groaned, we heard our
frustration echoing in the tossing and turning of our other hostel-mates.
Tomorrow was the biggest action of the week, and we were being subtly undone
by two hapless roommates.

At some point, while Jason and I were quietly trying to convince one another
that it was the other person¹s turn to get up and deal with the snorer (what
also didn¹t help the potential for sleep was the fact that we were sharing
the lower part of a twin-sized bunk bed, so Lisa could have the top bunk),
he suddenly jumped out of bed, strode over to the snorer, and said loudly,
³You. Have. Got. To. Stop. Snoring. NOW.²

I wanted to groan outloud. Everyone knows that snorers can¹t help their
snoringŠ that¹s what makes the whole situation so terrible. All he¹d done, I
thought, was to further irritate our roommates.

But the snoring stopped.

Jason sank back into bed beside me. I couldn¹t believe it. I laid there with
my eyes open, waiting for the snoring to begin again. It did, but more
quietly. And soon after it began, the snorer woke himself up and turned
over. Just like that. I tell you what, that man is magic. I couldn¹t believe
it had worked.

We were nonetheless all very groggy the next morning when we woke up at
5:30AM to head down to Tanby station, where the Samba band was meeting the
rest of the Blue Block. Tom had volunteered to be one of the Samba ³Angels²
or ³Engines,² two equally illogical words to describe the people marching
alongside the samba band with linked arms to protect the band from cops and
other interloping elements.

I drank a mocha in the morning to help me with my sleepiness, and that,
couple with the fact that I was still feeling quite nervous about the
potential for police violence this day, made for a jumpy and antsy Riyana
that had to take frequent (and growingly more and more inconvenient) trips
to the little activists¹s room. Jason seemed simply excited, like most of
the band. We gathered together and formed our lines, and sooner than I would
have thought possible, we were marching down the street with a couple
hundred more folksŠ perhaps just under one thousand.

The police marched next to us, a line of cops and a line of trucks on the
side facing the Bella Center, like a wall. We just kept going. They were
clearly intent on stopping any break away marches going off in that
direction. We just kept going. The sound system truck, with Lisa on it, was
behind us. They were the ones who were going to direct the push when it was
time. Until then, it was just drumming and chanting and cops, like usual.

We got down to the Bella Center quickly, but I couldn¹t see much of it or
what was going on up ahead. I knew that the Green Bloc, the more mobile of
the two large blocs of activist, was supposed to be doing something
somewhere near us, but I hadn¹t seen one glimpse or heard anything about
them the entire morning. I also knew that Via Campesina and many of the more
militant European activsts were up at the front of the march preparing to
head the push through the police lines into the Bella Center, and that there
were hundreds of NGO and other delegates inside that were going to be
pushing out to meet us, but I couldn¹t see any of that. All I could see was
the band around me surrounded by the police, and all I could feel was the
pulsing of the samba music matching beats with the strong erratic stammering
of my heart. There seemed to be no Green Bloc, and no flood of Bella Center
attendees coming out to meet us.

A woman got on the mike and told us it was time for us to push for Climate
Justice, and that we were going to be moving slightly to the left and
forward, through the police lines. I tried to imagine this happening both
to visualize our success, and to get a sense of what she meant. I imagined
people pushing through the lines of the cops and ducking under their arms as
I had in the march the other day, easily, like salmon flowing through the
rocks in the riverbeds as they move upstream.

Jason frowned, watching the cops, who had heard the woman and were now
moving to buffer the left side of the march in response. ³Why on earth are
they announcing it over the loud system?² he asked. ³That¹s no way to get
this done.²

I didn¹t understand, either, unless they simply thought that getting
everyone on the same page was worth a few extra cops in the way. Still, it
didn¹t really make sense. At these big events, our biggest assets are our
unpredictability and ability to move without waiting for commands, without
leaders, like swarming fish. But we weren¹t doing that we were packing in
tightly, creating a wedge, and we were also announcing it to the police.

³Get ready it¹s almost time!² the woman yelled. ³We¹re going to push!
Push! PUSH!²

I prepared myself to move forward, towards the gate but suddenly, I wasn¹t
moving forward but to the left, very much to the left, propelled forward by
all of the people behind me. Jason was next to me. He grabbed my shoulder so
that we wouldn¹t be separated with an iron grip, and we both flowed forward
with the crowd, straight into the line of cops. My drum was crushed up
against me in the tide of people, and there were bodies up against me, too,
so much so that I knew it wouldn¹t be long before breathing became more
difficult. The pressure was like a birthing wave, the contraction that is
also the beginning of the opening. I knew that either the dam would burst or
that we¹d flow back again, flow open. It wasn¹t the kind of energy that
could be sustained.

And then there was a cry, and a surge, and a person was staggering backwards
while other people called all around, ³Make way! Make way!² Seconds later,
more people were staggering back against the crowd, closing their eyes or
covering them. A fine mist rose up from the front ranks where we intersected
with them. The cops were using pepper spray.

My heartrate went up again. I hate pepper spray, have hated it ever since I
first saw someone rolling around on the ground who¹d been hit in St. Paul.

The crowd surged forward again, threatening to pull Jason and I apart, but
he continued to grasp my jacket sleeve tightly. ³Don¹t fall!² he said.
³Watch your feet! I¹ve got you.²

Still the crowd pushed in on all sides, and the rim of my drum cut into my
leg. I raised it higher so that it would help create some space around me,
taking tiny little steps in order to keep my balance in the tumultuous surge
of people. The cops were still holding firm, and as we got closer, I could
see that they were pressed up against the trucks that had been behind them,
and that behind that, there was a fence. A line of cops, a line of police
trucks, and a fence. How on earth were we going to do this?

In fact, I realized, I couldn¹t do it. It simply was too much.

I leaned over to Jason and told him that this wasn¹t the place for me. He
nodded, ³This is where we are, though, so this is where I¹m staying,² he
said.

It used to be that I absolutely couldn¹t leave Jason during these heated
moments. After the RNC, the idea of leaving him and having something happen
to him was too terrible. But just before coming here to Copenhagen, I had a
dream where an ancient grandmother came to me and told me that Jason and I
had important, yet separate, work to do here. Since then, I¹ve been much
more able to do what I need and let him have whatever experience he needs.

So, he let me go. Another pepper spray victim was weaving through the crowd,
and I took him by the shoulder and started yelling, ³Make way!² to help him
through, following him out as I did so.

I met up with some more sambatistas at the edge of the crowd, and from this
perspective, could see what was happening much better: those people at the
front, who had wanted to be in confrontational positions with the cops, were
coming up from the right to try and get in to the wedge, while the bulk of
the march continued to press in from the left. It was like two rivers
streaming into one dammed reservoir, filling it up with people. Still no
Green Bloc people, and no one from the inside, though cheers from that
direction told me that there were definitely people there trying to get out..

In the end, the police line held. The cops had locked the Bella Center gates
and refused to let the delegates walk out, at first threatening them with
arrest and then beating them when they still tried to get to us. The Green
Bloc people hadn¹t even gotten past the train station doors before getting
arrested. It was left to only us Blue Block people, and it simply didn¹t
happen.

The energy was quite intense still, and I had to fall back again, this time
wetly crossing one of the canals as the police kettled in the bulk of the
crowd. I couldn¹t leave Jason, though. We had set up an emergency meeting
point nearby, but even that seemed too far away. Instead, I simply waited at
the bank of the canal, moving from here to there any time the cops insisted
that I do so, but keeping my eye on what was going on the entire time.

After awhile it seemed safe enough to go join up again with the samba group
and Jason and Tom, who had never left. The People¹s Assembly a meeting of
people from every continent began, to discuss the issues of global warming
and the solutions that we desire. Slowly, the people from inside the Bella
Center who had wanted to come out started to join us, having taken a long
journey to a train station blocks away and walked over.

Because my feet had gotten wet in the canal crossing, however, I couldn¹t
stay long. I felt disheartened and disappointed, anyway: disheartened
because yet again I found that I wasn¹t able to stick it out when the going
got tough and disappointed because I had really, really wanted us to be able
to get through the gates and meet the people from inside. It felt like it
could have been a Rosa Parks kinda moment, one with that kind of historical
power. I wasn¹t able to see, in that moment, that had we actually gotten
into the Bella Center, things might have been much worse. The police never
would have let us stay there, and their determination to get us out might
have made things much more violent. At the very least, there would have been
no People¹s Assembly. Only a very significant, yet purely symbolic, act.

I went back to the hostel and took a "nap" that turned into an all-nighter.
I was exhausted, and I didn¹t know what to think anymore. All over the news,
the reports were claiming that the entire Copenhagen Climate Summit was
falling apart: not only the massive protests in and out, but also that the
head of the summit was resigning and more and more countries were walking
out and such. As sleep claimed me, my last thoughts were, ³Why on earth did
I come here again?²

Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change

2009-12-18T10:15:00.000-08:00

Copenhagen Is Not Just About Climate Change -- It's About the What Kind of People We Want to Be
By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com
Posted on December 15, 2009

This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic corridors and crowded stalls, among impenetrable texts and withering procedures, humankind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to continue living as it has done, until it must make a wasteland of its home, or to stop and redefine itself. This is about much more than climate change. This is about us.

The meeting at Copenhagen confronts us with our primal tragedy. We are the universal ape, equipped with the ingenuity and aggression to bring down prey much larger than itself, break into new lands, roar its defiance of natural constraints. Now we find ourselves hedged in by the consequences of our nature, living meekly on this crowded planet for fear of provoking or damaging others. We have the hearts of lions and live the lives of clerks.

The summit’s premise is that the age of heroism is over. We have entered the age of accomodation. No longer may we live without restraint. No longer may we swing our fists regardless of whose nose might be in the way. In everything we do we must now be mindful of the lives of others, cautious, constrained, meticulous. We may no longer live in the moment, as if there were no tomorrow.

This is a meeting about chemicals: the greenhouse gases insulating the atmosphere. But it is also a battle between two world views. The angry men who seek to derail this agreement, and all such limits on their self-fulfilment, have understood this better than we have. A new movement, most visible in North America and Australia, but now apparent everywhere, demands to trample on the lives of others as if this were a human right. It will not be constrained by taxes, gun laws, regulations, health and safety, especially environmental restraints. It knows that fossil fuels have granted the universal ape amplification beyond its Palaeolithic dreams. For a moment, a marvellous, frontier moment, they allowed us to live in blissful mindlessness.

The angry men know that this golden age has gone; but they cannot find the words for the constraints they hate. Clutching their copies of Atlas Shrugged, they flail around, accusing those who would impede them of communism, fascism, religiosity, misanthropy, but knowing at heart that these restrictions are driven by something far more repulsive to the unrestrained man: the decencies we owe to other human beings.

I fear this chorus of bullies, but I also sympathise. I lead a mostly peaceful life, but my dreams are haunted by giant aurochs. All those of us whose blood still races are forced to sublimate, to fantasise. In daydreams and video games we find the lives that ecological limits and other people’s interests forbid us to live.

Humanity is no longer split between conservatives and liberals, reactionaries and progressives, though both sides are informed by the older politics. Today the battlelines are drawn between expanders and restrainers; those who believe that there should be no impediments, and those who believe that we must live within limits. The vicious battles we have seen so far between greens and climate change deniers, road safety campaigners and speed freaks, real grassroots groups and corporate-sponsored astroturfers are just the beginning. This war will become much uglier as people kick against the limits that decency demands.

So here we are, in the land of Beowulf’s heroics, lost in a fog of acronyms and euphemisms, parentheses and exemptions, the deathly diplomacy required to accommodate everyone’s demands. There is no space for heroism here; all passion and power breaks against the needs of others. This is how it should be, though every neurone revolts against it.

Although the delegates are waking up to the scale of their responsibility, I still believe that they will sell us out. Everyone wants his last adventure. Hardly anyone among the official parties can accept the implications of living within our means, of living with tomorrow in mind. There will, they tell themselves, always be another frontier, another means to escape our constraints, to dump our dissatisfactions on other places and other people. Hanging over everything discussed here is the theme that dare not speak its name, always present but never mentioned. Economic growth is the magic formula which allows our conflicts to remain unresolved.

While economies grow, social justice is unnecessary, as lives can be improved without redistribution. While economies grow, people need not confront their elites. While economies grow, we can keep buying our way out of trouble. But, like the bankers, we stave off trouble today only by multiplying it tomorrow. Through economic growth we are borrowing time at punitive rates of interest. It ensures that any cuts agreed at Copenhagen will eventually be outstripped. Even if we manage to prevent climate breakdown, growth means that it’s only a matter of time before we hit a new constraint, which demands a new global response: oil, water, phosphate, soil. We will lurch from crisis to existential crisis unless we address the underlying cause: perpetual growth cannot be accomodated on a finite planet.

For all their earnest self-restraint, the negotiators in the plastic city are still not serious, even about climate change. There’s another great unmentionable here: supply. Most of the nation states tussling at Copenhagen have two fossil fuel policies. One is to minimise demand, by encouraging us to reduce our consumption. The other is to maximise supply, by encouraging companies to extract as much from the ground as they can.

We know, from the papers published in Nature in April, that we can use a maximum of 60% of current reserves of coal, oil and gas if the average global temperature is not to rise by more than two degrees(1). We can burn much less if, as many poorer countries now insist, we seek to prevent the temperature from rising by more than 1.5C. We know that capture and storage will dispose of just a small fraction of the carbon in these fuels. There are two obvious conclusions: governments must decide which existing reserves of fossil fuel are to be left in the ground, and they must introduce a global moratorium on prospecting for new reserves. Neither of these proposals has even been mooted for discussion.

But somehow this first great global battle between expanders and restrainers must be won and then the battles that lie beyond it – rising consumption, corporate power, economic growth - must begin. If governments don’t show some resolve on climate change, the expanders will seize on the restrainers’ weakness. They will attack - using the same tactics of denial, obfuscation and appeals to self-interest - the other measures that protect people from each other, or which prevent the world’s ecosystems from being destroyed. There is no end to this fight, no line these people will not cross. They too are aware that this a battle to redefine humanity, and they wish to redefine it as a species even more rapacious than it is today.

George Monbiot is the author Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning . Read more of his writings at Monbiot.com . This article originally appeared in the Guardian .

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Close to 1000 arrested in Copenhagen: Lisa Fithian

2009-12-16T07:58:00.000-08:00

12/13/2009

Hey Folks many of you are sleeping right, but...

the police are really going for it.

Below is a ticker from http://nocop.italy.indymedia.org/ticker?page=2 that will give you a feel of the outrageous police action going on here - arrests are close to 1000 at this point and who knows how many more. Hundreds were arrested on the march, some at Christiania and more.

The CJA statement is first. I imagine a call to action will emerge soon!
I am alright as are the people I am with. Word is David Rovics is arrested!

Copenhagen police accused of violating human rights at UN climate summit
Posted on 12th December 2009

Danish police have indiscriminately arrested hundreds of climate justice activists during a climate change protest made up of 100,000 people that took place today in Copenhagen. Questions have been raised about the fact that the arrests occurred in a different time and place to where some trouble had momentarily flared earlier in the day. Journalists have been restricted from reporting at the site of the arrests since 1800hrs.
It’s estimated that 100 people are still being held on the road in extremely cold weather, cuffed and forced into seated positions in lines (1). They have expressed severe physical discomfort and have no access to water, medical attention or toilet facilities since 1530hrs. Many activists are reported to have urinated themselves while detained on the ground.

An estimated 200 have been removed from the site and taken away in coaches. Several people are reported to have fainted around 1945hrs.

Helga Matthiassen, who was detained for an hour before being released due to an injury she had recently sustained, said, “Of course we’re angry – people all over the world are angry about being lied to by governments who are making a corporate deal at the climate talks, and now when we try to protest against this on the streets we are randomly held by police.

“Not only have we been denied the right to protest, but our basic human rights have also been ignored in this ludicrous, staged police exercise. It seems Danish Police have a new motto: why just criminalise protesters, when you can dehumanise them too?” (2)

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December 12, 2009 23:54

#12dec09 Half of all Swedes are now released!
December 12, 2009 23:49

A source informs Modkraft that the people released from the climate prison are being taken by bus to Sjælør Station
December 12, 2009 23:43

According to the police barricades have been built and fires lid around in Copenhagen
December 12, 2009 23:30

Alternativeve media have published photos and videos from todays demonstrationapart from the ones on this site there are:video from indymedia italyhttp://nocop.italy.indymedia.org/node/372photos from modkraft.dkhttp://modkraft.dk/spip.php?article12191
December 12, 2009 23:26

#12dec09 One third of all detainees Swedes have now been released. Solidaritetsgruppen (The Solidarity Group) urge all released to get in touch with them at number 0046760188650.
December 12, 2009 23:20

#cop15 : Reports from people recently released from Valby detention centre document inhumane conditions inside described as "just less than horrific". The cages have been overcrowded and full for several hours so police have been handcuffing people to benches in the corridor. Some people have spend 5 hours handcuffed to benches without food or water. Also access to toilet facilities has been denied and people have been forced to wet themselves. Others have fainted whilst handcuffed in the corridoor for hours. Volunteers from the people's kitchens asked to be able to provide food for the hundreds of prisoners, since the authorities seem incapeable of looking after them, but this was refused. #arrests
December 12, 2009 23:15

#cop15 prison solidarity anti- #arrestsThere were 5 vans outside Stoberiet on Blagardsplads, 1 is left. Police stopping and searching anyone coming and and they have sealed off the square.
December 12, 2009 23:10

The atmosphere have calmed down at the climate prison - the have asked the protestors to leave the area - apparently several protestors are headning back towards the Nørrebro neighbourhood
December 12, 2009 23:03

#12dec09 The demonstrations-organizations has strongly condemned the police mass arrests of 700 people. Lymmelpaketet have already shown how legally unjustified law it is.
December 12, 2009 22:55

#cop15 prison solidarity anti- #arrests protest being pushed away from detention centre by police.

December 12, 2009 22:54

#arrest Parents against police brutality are shocked by the information that police have arrested almost 1000 protestors.According to Jeanet Perit from Parents against police brutality it is deeply shocking that the police are after quantity rather than quality.We can not grasp such a number of arrests, I bellieve that there ought to be a clear reason in order for the police to arrest. One can only wonder why the police choose to arrest a big number of people for something only a minority might have committed says Jeanet Perit
December 12, 2009 22:52

#12dec09 People being released from climate-prison in Valby, and instead of being released outside, they are driven around and released outside of town at different stations, so people can't gathering again. The police also harass solidarity people who are waiting for the detainees outside the climate-prison.
December 12, 2009 22:50

Reports from #cop15 prison solidarity anti- #arrests protest say police now using vehicles to start blocking people in, although people can still leave.
December 12, 2009 22:49

#12dec09 Solidarity demonstration has been attacked by riot police and is currently surrounded. People can still leave the place in groups of two or three people.
December 12, 2009 22:42

The Police is gathering in a tunnel near Vigerslev station - the protestors has pulled a bit back the groups are 25 meters apart
December 12, 2009 22:37

People have braken the police blocks at the solidarity demonstration at the climate prison - 1 arrested.
December 12, 2009 22:33

The copenhagen police department infiorms in a press release that they have arrested 968 people during saturday climate protests.The 913 were arrested at the opereation at Amagerbrogade - additional 55 people have been arrested near Christiania
December 12, 2009 22:30

#cop15 Prison solidarity protest has been charged by riot police after they 'dissolved' the demo and is now surrounded. People can still leave in 2s or 3s. People chanting "Free all prisoners".
December 12, 2009 22:20

Police have blocked the path of the prison solidarity demonstration. Many police in riot gear.
December 12, 2009 22:19

The Police have blocked the road heading to the climate prison with 20 coppers and 4-5 vans.It appears like the demonstration is allowed to Vigerslev station 25 meters from the prison.According to the reporter from Modkraft - the short distance between the demonstration and the prison makes it possible for the arrested to hear the music from the demonstration

December 12, 2009 22:12

It is a violation of democratic rights that the police so many people for something that they have not done nor particiapting in. - Says the spokesperson of the solidarity initiative200 have arrived at the climate prison at Retorvej in Valby.There will be speaches & music a banner is seen "Free all political prisoners"
December 12, 2009 22:03

#12dec09 Around 200 people gathered at Toftegårdsplads in Valby in a solidarity demonstration for the innocent detainees.
December 12, 2009 22:02

The demonstraton towards the climate prison is moving - Italian & german rallying cries are heard
December 12, 2009 21:55

200 people are gathered at Tofgårds Plads in Valby in protest against todays mass arrests.At the Climate prison in Valby which can "hold" 350 prisoners in metal cages busses are with arrested people are arriving and departing.Two busses full of protestors have jsut arrived.
December 12, 2009 21:55

#arrests Around 250 people on prison solidarity anti-arrests protest moving along Vigerslev Alle.
December 12, 2009 21:41

Climata Justice Action(CJA) have released a press release calling todays mass arrests for crimiilastion of peacefull demonstraters.-"CJA seems todays act as a criminilastion of the climate protests, CJA bellieves that the police action is a clear overreaction from the police.Climate Justice Action are co-arrangers of todays clima demonstration.According to Mel Evans:This police action is a complete overeaction from the Police, and it appear like a clear criminalistion to arrest more than 700 random demonstraters at the biggest climate demonstration ever held.
December 12, 2009 21:35

#arrests Reports of around 200 people at prison solidarity anti-arrests demo by Valby detention centre.
December 12, 2009 21:35

#12dec09 Police have begun to release some of the detained activists.
December 12, 2009 21:15

#12dec09 Many of the arrested activists are still on the buses and will probably have to sit until they are released. The climate-jail in Valby is full.
December 12, 2009 20:25

#arrest The Police blocade on Amagerbrogade has been dissolved, all the arrested aer either in the climae prison in Valby or on their way there.

MAGICAL SUPPORT NEEDED: 12/15/2009

Dear ones,

Tomorrow, thousands of people will attempt to get inside the perimeter of Bella Center where the COP 15 is talking place outside. Hundreds more who are accreditid are expected to join us from the inside in order to hold a parallel process of a people's assembly.

They have been pre-emptively arresting people who have been public about all the actions that are being done by climate justice action. Lisa has been quite public and she is hoping to remain free! We would all like to ask for your support in advance for pressure should they arrest her..

Our small but mighty cluster here is asking for your magical support for protection and to hold the way open so we can reach and go past the crossroads. 15 years of the COP has delivered nothing. Now is the time for a new way, solving this crisis from below.

Tomorrow we reclaim power to manifest a new world. Please add your energy, we need all the help we can get!

much love,

Lisa, Tom, Riyana, and Jason

12/17/2009:

Hello friends,

Yes we are ok. I am feeling a bit battered this morning, from heavy lifting in the streets and having to dive out of the sound truck when the police attacked it. My intention was to stay free and was successful at that.

There is a group of people who were targetted for arrests - I am amazed that I was not grabbed in light of the public role I played, perhaps it was a web of protection surrounding me. thank you to all who held that vision.

There were also about 250 who were arrested, tear gassed pepper sprayed and beaten. I am sure some of you have seen the images.

It was an amazing day, from both the inside and the outside we did what we could to converge for our assembly. We did hold a beautiful one outside just as we had envisioned it and ended with a powerful march that ultimately took us through the city center past the giant inflated earth branded by Siemans.

On the whole - the Reclaim Power action, was historic with many lessons to be learned, but first we must get our friends out of jail and all those injured healed!

Hey friends,

We had a powerful day yesturday, a bit rough at times, but beautiful as well. On the whole very postive for us. thanks for all the support back home!
peace,
Lisa

-----Forwarded Message-----
>From: kevin smith
>Sent: Dec 17, 2009 5:36 AM
>To: climate09-int@lists.riseup.net, cc-international@lists.riseup.net, cjn@lists.riseup.net
>Subject: [climate09-int] great 10 min video about Recalim Power on the Guardian
>
>they've done a great job on getting a narrative on what happened and included a fair amount of messaging too
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/dec/17/copenhagen-climate-change

Copenhagen by Rebecca Sang

2009-12-13T13:06:00.000-08:00

ARRIVAL: 12/12/2009

It’s late, way too late for us, we who have been traveling for twenty three hours and who’s biological clocks believe that its close to dawn, rather than a misty and cold evening. Our dinner weighs heavy in our bellies, the first real food we’ve eaten, and walking feels good in spite of how exhausted we are. Besides, Copenhagen almost feels like an overgrown and even-more-charming Santa’s village, fully dark at four o’clock, streets crowded with bikes and pedestrians but only a car or two, who’s headlights seem out of place among the crumbling stone buildings and cobbled brick streets. So many bikes! They whiz by in breathtaking bunches, swarm on sidewalks, throng in the streets like tribes.

Beyond its natural charm, Copenhagen has put on its eco-finest for the Climate Summit, with signs that read “Hopenhagen” and catchphrases urging a powerful change at the conference everywhere and large, beautiful demonstrations of alternative energies. It’s tempting to feel like we’ve stumbled into utopia. The occasional sirens and blue-lit “Politico” cars rushing by, followed by ambulances, reveal that there is also something fierce beneath the sweet surface. Most of the people here seem oblivious to it, wandering with hearty druken cheer down the cold street, enjoying their Friday night. There is a man playing bagpipes in front of an Irish bar for tips, surrounded by pale-skinned, slight Danish women, and a motley crew of rowdy young men hauling Christmas trees down the street and swinging them at each other. It feels sweet to be surrounded by their liveliness, even though my exhaustion makes it hard for me to feel much of my own.

Jason and I follow a trail of golden lights to an old church, one that has sat here for hundreds of years, remaining quietly stately and powerful even as the cosmetic stores and clothing boutiques and bars edge ever closer, their neon signs whispering that someday the candles that light our way will be forgotten, overpowered. The candles, flickering magically in the dark night, seem uninterested in such mundane matters. We follow them through the wide double doors and into the ancient chapel to an altar to Jesus, who’s head is ringed like Buddha’s with the golden halo of enlightenment. Without a word, we both kneel down, breath deeply, and begin to pray to him and to Mary Magdelene, who seems to have been forgotten in this church but who’s presence is so intimately, innately tied to his. I’ve never prayed to Jesus before, but here in this ancient church, I can feel his power and purity and the way he inspires so many to desire goodness and justice. It simply feels right. We ask them to come into us, to bring compassion and forgiveness and strength in the face of adversity to us during this week. And love. The love they felt for one another, the love they feel for their people, who are the people we will be in the streets with during the next seven days and the police as well, and many of the politicians and policy makers… Throughout the last couple of hundred years, so many have called upon these two loving bodhisattvas during their deepest times of need. Well, this is the eleventh hour and we must all come together to solve the troubles that we face – that’s what this summit, in its essence, is about. Even good Jewitch girls like myself. I’ve had issues in the past with the things that Jesus’s followers have done in his name, but now, in this time, I feel peace and love and unity praying in his church.
After our prayers to Mary Magdelene and Jesus slowly ebb to silence, we get to our feet and I slip a candle from a bucket near the altar into my purse, getting an intuitive hit that at some point this week it will become a major part of our work. Then we wander back to our hostel and make our way up the stairs to our room, which is a dorm we’re sharing with four other activists: a man from Germany, one from Canada, one from England, and one who slept the whole time. All men, except for me. The German fellow, who never told us his name, talked about working with the Black Bloc in Europe and gave us an anti-fascist flag from his homeland, “because you came all the way from America.”
“Fighting the nazis and fighting the corporations isn’t really that different,” he says. “Perhaps the corporations have a nicer face, but really, they do the same things – they kill so many, they suppress our freedom, the turn harshly against you if you try to speak out against them. We still have so many problems with fascists, even today. You still have problems with racism. It’s all the same.”
I tried to resist writing tonight, but its simply too exciting and too magical to put it off. We haven’t “officially” begun, and yet, its all happening. So much so, that I simply must go to sleep. I’m filled with curiosity and excitement for what lays ahead… and I really want to be over my jetlag so that I can be present for it.

Lotsa love,
Riyana

COPENHAGEN DRUMS: 12/13/2009

I’m being blown wide open. Alphonsus warned me that this would happen if I came to Europe to protest: “It will blow your mind,” he said. He didn’t mention that it might blow my heart and soul and sense of purpose apart, leaving veins of brightness shining among the shards.

I was at a gathering a couple of weeks ago and had a little tiny glimpse of what I’m feeling now. Someone I knew was performing “It’s a Wonderful World,” and something about that song, so unpretentious and heartfelt, and the fact that I was just beginning my moon blood, sunk into me in a way that it cracked the shell of my cynicism. How often, these days, do I let myself think or see that it’s a wonderful world? The skies of blue are clouded with gray smog, the red robins are dying. It’s hard. And yet, it’s still a wonderful world. In spite of all that is so very wrong with this world, and in spite of all that will continue to fester and deteriorate in the coming years even if we do sign a Climate Change treaty at Copenhagen and move powerfully and unhesitantly towards the solutions. This world is a miracle, and humans, too. I began to cry when I felt my heart cracking open, cry with both the beauty of the truth that I was hearing and the realization of how deeply I’d been feeling hopeless.

Tonight, sitting in a huge tent at Christiana listening to a circle of women create a song of birds and ancestors, humans and fey, the land and something otherworldly too, I felt my heart crack open just as it did that day that I allowed myself to see that the world was still wonderful. Using only Tibetan singing bowls and their voices, without words in any language known at this time, they filled the room with ancient beyond- time music who’s truth was all the more palpable because it could not be understood by my verbal-talking-self mind. I had just finished eating a bowl of (free!) couscous and lentil curry with Lisa, Tom, and Jason, who were already trying to figure out what action tomorrow’s action. Part of me knew it would be a good idea to start getting ready for all of that, but another part of me knew that I needed this immersion in song, needed it as much as anything that might happen in the streets.

It wasn’t only the bird-ancestor-land music that broke me open to possibility and hope, though – that was really simply the last unraveled stitch of my mask, you know, that one you wear sometimes that almost hides you from yourself. The whole day was Initiation, going bright instead of deep in too the depths of depression and despair.
The magic started with a crowd of hot pink drummers from Germany. We stumbled upon them early in the day, gathering on the side of the road like a ragtag magenta army armed with snares and toms and bass drums. Shyly, Jason and I approached and asked if we could drum with them. Our shyness turned out to be completely unnecessary: the band of twelve or so was part of a larger group called Rhythms of Resistance, a non-hierarchical drum troupe that spans many different countries in Europe and Africa. Their main premise is pretty simple: everyone can do anything in the troupe: play any drum, lead or follow patterns and marching periods, and everyone switches off. As we’d march down the street, someone in front would lead the troupe with a series of hand signals seemingly more complex than ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Just when I thought that I had it, someone would step up and start leading with a whole new series of signals, often incorporating the ones that I thought I had, and I’d realize that I still had no idea what was going on.

It was in one of these moments of self-doubt and frustration that a young blonde woman with dreds wandered over to talk to Jason and me, her demeanor notably friendly in spite of the destruction I was currently wrecking on the poor song we were playing. I felt like an ass, and asked if it was really okay that we continue drumming with them. “Of course!” she said, not even thinking about it. “You’re with the band now.”

Your with the band now. That’s amazing. Simply because you show up with a drum you just bought a couple of days ago and a desire to play.

I looked at Jason, and she caught the look between us. “This is nothing. Just you wait until the rest of the band shows up… they’re so professional.”

“The rest of the band?” I looked around at the band of drummers, which by this point had swelled to about fifteen or so. “Where are they?”

“They’re at another action, but they’re on their way. There’s… I dunno… maybe fifty more? Oh, here they come. See?”

I looked up. Sure enough, a group of hot pink and silver was loudly headed our way. Very loudly. In a couple of moments, our group doubled, then tripled. The rest of the march, all around us, was doing the same. We pulled off into a plaza next to the road that the march was going down and circled up so that we could all see one another as we played, and as we did so, thousands and thousands of people continued to pass us by: young women dressed as cows and pigs with signs that read, alternately, “fart,” “burp,” and “vegetarians against climate change;” a group of five or six people in khaki colored “bubble for one” costumes sponsored by Exxon and Chevron and the like; a group of clowns complaining that it was too cold anyhow; an amazing slate grey dragon carried by six people that danced dancing in the streets.

That’s when I first started to feel it: the cracking. Vandana Shiva was standing on the stage, though I couldn’t see her – I could only hear her voice echoing through the massive intersection the march had filled. “Welcome to Copenhagen!” her stately voice rang out, echoing across the cobblestone streets. “How does it feel to be marching with 100,000 people? Look around. These people care about the earth just as you do.”

I couldn’t see 100,000 people: I’m just one little human, and all I could see, everywhere I looked, were people. Crowds of communists with black and red flags, Friends of the Earth with blue flags, people carrying life jackets and cardboard cut outs of rescue tubes for when the waters rise – everywhere, people. The Rhythms of Resistance group began to weave through the crowd, using their signals and the power of their loud drums to get from one end of the plaza to the other, and still there were more and more people, with so many with creative expressions of their passion and anger and desire for earth healing that even listing all of the ones that I can think of doesn’t do it justice. I still don’t know if I can answer Vandana Shiva’s question. How does it feel to march with 100,000 people who love the earth, who care passionately about protecting her?

It feels like cracking open, I guess. Cracking open to hope – not light, fluffy, sweet hope but the serious kind, the kind that whispers, we might actually be able to do this. That’s the scary kind of hope – the kind that’s sort of like disillusion, except that instead of losing my idealism (a word so often confused with naiveté), I’m losing the cynicism that makes it okay to drive instead of ride my bike, and okay to sit home and zone out on the internet, and okay to put myself forward somewhat but not all the way, which I prefer, because if I don’t put myself out totally than I can’t fail totally and I also don’t have to fear being totally rejected by you or anyone else.

I’m tearing up as I write this. I’m not kidding. So much in our lives tells us that we’re doomed, or that we may as well not bother, or that we’re crazy for thinking we need to do anything at all, or that the only real heroes are the ones in storybooks or made-for-TV-movies. But let me tell you, I saw 100,000 heroes in the streets today, wearing super-hero capes that read “Climate Justice” and drums held together by duct tape and puffy bubble-for-one suits and black masks. I saw them march peacefully, but fiercely, from downtown to the Bella Center to have their voices heard. And I know, because Jason and I being here represents such a tiny percentage of the people in my community that care deeply about this issue, that the 100,000 people that I saw represent just a fraction of the people on the planet that believe that climate change is an issue that threatens the survival and wellness of all beings on this planet and who want to create sweeping changes to protect life on earth.

Eventually, it came down to us through the rumor mill that some of the march had been separated by the police and corralled onto a side street, and were being held there and possibly arrested. The fellow leading the troupe made an “O” over his head with both hands, and we circled up to talk about what to do next. As quickly as possible, he relayed the information and we broke up into affinity groups to discuss what we wanted to do. The results were surprisingly unanimous: we wanted to go there to support those being arrested.

We continued marching with the main march a little ways longer, and then as subtly as possible (considering the seventy-odd drummers and drums, some the size of a Great Dane) broke off down a side street and ran a block or two over, then cut back again and found ourselves – as we had hoped – on the other side of the police line. There were already some people there, watching and calling out for their friends to be let go. We circled up again, the sounds of our drums and our voices filling the air with a new vibrancy and authority.

BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM, “LET THEM GO!”

BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM, “LET THEM GO!”

BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM, “LET THEM GO!”

More people started to come, drawn by the drumming and the thick energy of the space. Their voices joined ours. “Let them go! Let them go!”

But as we continued to drum and play, the police presence also started to get thicker. At some point, I can’t say exactly when, I felt the energy shift – its something that happens at these mass demonstrations, I’ve noticed, ever since the RNC in St. Paul: I can feel the energy shift in a way that feels unambiguous, as clear to me as reading a street sign or sensing a car speeding up beside me on the road. Something is different now. Something is about to happen.
Jason came over to me just at that moment. “I think its time for us to leave,” he said.

I nodded. We grabbed Tom and headed off down towards the end of the street just as a police car drove up, then away. It seemed very likely they were about to “kettle” in the crowd that had gathered to support those in their first corral. Which almost made it harder, for me, to leave. I didn’t want to leave those I’d been drumming and making magic in the street with all day; but at the same time, I didn’t want to be arrested. Not here, now, for such a minor reason.

(We found out later that they arrested nearly 1,000 people today, including many of our drum troupe. Some have been released, but others are still detained, chained to benches and being denied food, etc.).

We joined back up with the rest of the march, where we stumbled upon a drum circle of a much different sort: a group of Native Americans, holding a sweat lodge in the open area next to the Bella Center, drumming and chanting. There’s more about today, but I’m about to be thrown out of the café, so this is what I’m going to leave you with: tonight, in Copenhagen at the end of a long night of protesting, I found myself immersed in the indigenous wisdom of the land I live on being used for the good of the earth, for the healing of this beautiful garden-planet. I don’t think you’ll see it reported anywhere else, these tribes that have come thousands of miles to speak for Her. But they are here. They came and spoke at Christania, too: but that’s another story, perhaps one I’ll be able to tell you about tomorrow. Until then, thank you so much for reading this, and please know how very grateful I am for all the love that you send and the work you’re doing at home.

FEELING A LITTLE HOT AND COLD ABOUT IT TODAY: 12/14/2009

Christania is like a place out of a anarchist-collective fairy tale: it
spans both sides of the canal running through the city, living spaces on one
side, the other side housing several cafes, the large tent that serves as
both temporary mess hall and workshop / speaker space, an art space, a
playground just about everything you can think of, all communally created
and owned. Last night, when we first walked the grounds lit by candles and
small yellow lanterns and watched the dark, mysterious reflections of the
trees reflecting in the black water, it seemed to utopian to be believed.
This morning when we headed over there for breakfast, the trash strewed
about and disrepair of many of the graffiti-covered buildings, brought it
down to reality in a good way. This place is not a fairy tale, but
really, a work-in-progress on this plane, in this world. Right in the
middle of the biggest city in Denmark, a colony of arts and sustainability
(they¹re working on it) and shared ownership; a world unto itself. As
you¹re leaving the compound -- which must be a couple of blocks square the
archway reads, ³Now entering the EU.²

A couple of days ago, when Lisa was briefing us about what was happening
here and where, she told us, ³Copenhagen is like a post-apocalyptic city.
When the shit hits the fan, these are the people that I want to be with me.²

We headed down to Chistania for breakfast in the tent, which, like all off
the collective kitchens, is completely donation-based
no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds (to get a sense of the generosity of
that, consider that our hostel charges 65 dkk, the equivalent of about $13,
for a continental-like breakfast. And that¹s cheap. Getting a hamburger
and fries at the little restaurant next door is about $20 US dollars, after
it¹s all said and done). As we ate, a fellow from Chistania was giving a
talk about their efforts to green the place in the workshop space next door,
followed by a Sunday morning sermon by a Unitarian-sort of preacher about
the oneness of all people and faiths, at their core. We listened for a
while and then Jason and I headed off to the Farmer¹s Rally while Tom broke
off to go to the Bella Center for a scouting mission on his bike.

I didn¹t realize we were looking for Rhythms of resistance the samba
drumming group we were with the day before until I realized, with
disappointment, that they weren¹t there. The farmer¹s action that we were
at, with speakers from agricultural people and indigenous folks from all
over the world but especially the global south, was one of two major actions
that day the other was ³Stop the Production,² an anti-capitalist action
that aimed to blockade and shut down Copenhagen¹s harbor. Although
potentially quite exciting, in my mind, any attempt to shut down a major
port with civil disobedience sounds a bit like walking into a pepper spray
shower. Aside from which, I¹m personally very interested in food justice
activism and working with folks from developing nations. Jason, it turned
out, felt the same, and so we had both forgone the blockade in favor or the
march. But, alas, it seemed we were the only drummers who had. There was a
large, very static-y, sound system on a truck for the rally, but nothing for
the march. In fact we soon discovered that there was no march happening at
all. The speakers spoke, and then we were all standing around in the park,
all dressed up and with no place to go and no drummers to drum with. We
didn¹t know how many of them had been arrested the day before after we left
them, but we knew that some definitely had been.

Just as we had grabbed our stuff to leave, a tiny whisper of sound a
pulsing, if you will started to tickle my ears, kind of like when someone
is talking about you nearby but you don¹t see them. I looked up. Jason
apparently didn¹t hear it yet: he was watching the cops at the side of the
rally, who seemed for the most part pretty bored and certainly very few
compared to how many US police would have been at a rally that size in
Pittsburgh or St. Paul. I wandered over to the edge of the plaza, and as I
did, I noticed the sound was definitely growing louder. It sounded like
drums.

Sure enough, as I got to the street I could see a fuchsia-tinged raucous
headed towards us. It was the band and, from the looks of it, the whole
50 or 60 person band, making their way towards us in full festivity and
intensity. The police seemed to notice it at about the same time: the samba
band was headed right towards us, taking over the street in spite of
whatever traffic had wanted to get through, lively and drawing quite a
crowd. Jason and I smiled in relief, strapped our drums on, and fell into
step with our tom-tom compatriots as they passed.

And then the march was happening. People just came some of them
particpants from the farmer¹s rally, some of them people from the street
and followed us. They were willing to go where we were going, wherever that
was. In front of us, samba dancers were dancing in the streets to clear the
way for the band. Behind us streamed people with flags of all colors and
causes and nations. And, of course, the cops were activated. The grabbed
their shit and started following along side us on foot and then by van.

They blocked the road in front of us with their vans, and like the sardines
in the ocean move like one creature, the samba band inverted in upon itself
to turn around and went the other way, and all the people followed. Down
the streets we marched, dancing and drumming, shouting for justice for the
campesinos and food for all, food that cannot be grown if our soils are
dried-out by rising temperatures and our water poisoned. At one point, the
police blocked the way again, and the person who was acting ³maestro² (band
leader) at the time put her hands in an ³O² abover her head to signal it was
time for a huddle. So we all huddled together in the street, with the cops
around us and the people waiting patiently. It¹s really quite amazing,
really. Here we are, leading a parade, when suddenly someone has news that
requires a decision to be made. So, because we operate by consensus, we all
huddle up to make a decision while everyone including the cops, apparently
waits.
The news was that the cops would allow us to go to the Klima Forum, that is,
the Climate Forum for the People, but no further. They were worried, it
seemed, that we were going to try to go down to the Harbor to support the
Stop the Production People. And indeed, some of the drummers did want to do
that. Others felt that it was pointless, as the word on the street was that
that action had already been kettled in and arrests were happening.

We decided to go down to the Klima Forum and stop for lunch. After lunch
(another communal kitchen experience, but this one not as peachy we waited
in two different lines for food that kept running out on us, outside, in the
freezing cold, for about an hour before finally getting lucky and getting a
bowl of soup) we gathered back up with the Rhythms of Resistance band, who
were planning a solidarity action for the people in the jail. Because the
people who had attempted to do a solidarity action the day before had been
stopped at a bridge quite far from the temporary prison, we decided to form
two bands one to meet with the main bulk of activists and go to the normal
way down to the prison and probably be stopped at the bridge again, and
another that would go to a different metro stop and walk around another way,
hopefully to get within earshot of the prison so that our compatriots inside
would be able to hear us.

Remembering how disheartening and depressing it can be to be in jail, I
decided that I really wanted to be a part of the smaller band, even though
it seemed more likely that band would run into trouble. Jason felt the
same, and so in spite of our rather mediocre samba skills (we still don¹t
really have any idea what those hand signals mean) we headed out with them
to the further Metro station to try and sneak around the side.

Unfortunately, we ended up at the wrong Metro station not just Jason and
I, but the whole second half of the samba band. It started to snow. We
gathered in our huddle on the train platform, trying to figure out if we
should head back to the main station and get on the train that would take us
to where we really wanted to go, or just join up with the main band, who
were only one stop away. Our scouts, sadly, were nowhere to be found but
word was that they were coming to meet us where we were. Some people wanted
to leave without them, to get as quickly as possible to where we were
originally supposed to go. Others wanted to wait for the scouts and walk to
our destination, even though no one really knew how to do that, and it
seemed likely that we¹d just end up stopped with the first group at the
bridge. Consensus started to break down. People started to get crabby in
the cold. And then the cops showed up out of nowhere and completely
surrounded us, shouting for us to keep our hands up where they could see
them.

In Denmark, cops can search you even there¹s no evidence of any sort of
crime or misdeed. They separated us by gender and frisked us, went through
our bags, checked our IDs, and took our addresses. (Luckily, they didn¹t
also check to see if we had train tickets, because none of us did.)

The police showing up only made people more crabby and uncertain. After
quite a long while with more huddling, we decided to head back to the main
march. By the time we got there, though, everyone was heading back. A
group of activists had been kettled in by the cops, and everyone else
(including the first half of the samba band) was going home. It felt like a
long, cold, frustrating night distinctly different from our Utopian
morning at Christania.

Jason and I went back to the Rag Center short for Ragnhildgade, which is
the name of the steet that its on which is another compound of activists
and communal kitchens and the main meeting space (it supposedly can house
between 1000-2000 activists). We grabbed another bowl of soup and headed
into the Spokescouncil, which was meeting to discuss Wednesday¹s ³Reclaim
the Power² action the biggest action of the conference, in some ways. In
some ways, Saturday¹s action with its 100,000 people was and is the biggest
thing we could do. But the Reclaim the Power action is big in its
confrontation of the Climate Change Summit. The meeting brought up all
kinds of questions for me, like, what is really my intention being here?
What kind of actions do I want to support -- those that attempt to
cultivate and nourish the work being done at the Summit, or those that seek
to disrupt it in order to bring more voices to the table? What is my
ultimate goal, that is, what would ³success² look like?

With these heavy questions, I went to bed. It was a long day, one full of
both the good and the bad, and I felt more than ready to close my eyes and
open myself to the wisdom and rejuvenation of the dreamworld for awhile.

PLEASE SEND YOUR MAGICAL SUPPORT TONIGHT: 12/15/2009

Hello everyone!

I'm sorry to have been silent the last day or two -- its been very intense
here, and I look forward to filling you in as soon as I can. Unfortunately,
its simply been impossible for me to sit down and write to you all as much
as I'd like.

Tomorrow (which is tonight for you!) we have the potential for a truly
magnificent, magical, historical moment (and I don't say that lightly). The
action that's planned involves bringing together the earth-loving activists
outside the gates and delegates and honoraries from inside the convention
hall, mostly from the Global South, activated youth delegates, and
earth-loving NGOs with influence with the negotiators from industrialized
nations. It could be the most amazing thing in my life. Or, the moment
could pass us by because of obstructions, violence, distraction, or just bad
luck.

Why are all these people planning to walk out of the conference hall and /
or disrupt the convention if they are as earth-loving as I claim? After
all, don't we want a treaty to come out of Copenhagen? This is a question
I've struggled with for a few days. I came here fully intending to support
the strongest, most legally binding agreement that could possibly come out
of this thing, and I still feel that way. The issue is that what's
happening in there is not that. There are without a doubt many people more
qualified to discuss this issue than I am, people who understand it more
fully (Amy Goodman and Naomi Klein immediately come to mind, I'm sure
they've got stuff on their webpages about it), but I'll try my best to
explain what's going on as I understand it just to give you an idea of
what's going on.

The gist of it is this: right now, the industrialized nations and
corporations are really pushing for market-based solutions at their worst
are unlikely to do anything at all to help our planet survive, and at best
would slightly help reduce CO2 pollution but at the expense of those nations
most likely to be harmed by climate change and that have already felt the
brunt of our economic policies. There are countries out there that are in
danger of literally being underwater soon, and having their food supplies
completely destroyed by climate change issues, and these nations have been
repeatedly ignored, lied to, and condescended to during the last several
weeks while those with money and power try to find ways to maximize their
profits with carbon markets and carbon sinks. These are the people that
will join us at the People's Assembly tomorrow, when we bring the voices of
those in the streets together with theirs inside the Bella Center.

It's a powerful working, and one that will involve thousands of people
putting their bodies on the line with creative, non-violent civil
disobedience including myself, Jason, Bird (Tom) and Lisa. Our hope is that
you'll send us your energy and magic tonight (your time) at 12am-5am, which
is 9am-2pm our time. If you can't do that, since we all know magic doesn't
work linearly anyway, do it whenever you can. We have three images that
might help you line up with the magic we're doing here, so if you can use
one or more of them, that might help bring our magic together in the most
potent way...
-- The "Portal" Rune that was developed a couple of years ago at California
Witchcamp, which essential looks like an "x" with a longer line running
through the axis of it. That extra line is the third road, the mysterious
way that opens all potential and possibilities. We need these portals to
open up in fences, in lines of obstructions, in the minds and hearts of the
people inside the Bella Center.

-- This part is from Jason, bear with my construction oriented perspective
on magical imagery. I am envisioning a stone foundation wall standing
apparently strong and prepared-- call this the cops. Earth will pour into
the dug out area around this wall-- this the activists (the earth moving)
coming toward and filling the gap up to the wall. The stones are a part of
the earth too, although when used as a wall they no longer move as the earth
moves. When the pressure is added only from the outside, perhaps the wall
will break and earth will pour through to the inside. Tomorrow, bless the
goddess, earth will pour into both sides (imagine the basement also filling
with soil). Representatives and delegates will come from inside to meet our
efforts (also earth moving). When earth fills both sides of the stone, it
no longer matters if it holds strong. It will become instantly a part of
the earth. When the activists from outside meet the allies from within, the
cops will transform into holding space for the peoples forum to exist,
regardless of intent or orders. All will be earth together. I ask that
this image be held and fed with what ever earth loving energy or magic you
will. Blessings. j

-- A silver spiderweb of protection over the four of us, connecting us to
all of you.

Thanks again and again for all that you do. We're so happy to be a part of
a magical community that cares for us in this way, and to be with you at
this amazing point in history.

Lotsa love,
Riyana, Jason, Lisa, and Bird

*****
Dear ones,

Tomorrow, thousands of people will attempt to get inside the perimeter of
Bella Center where the COP 15 is talking place outside. Hundreds more who
are accreditid are expected to join us from the inside in order to hold a
parallel process of a people's assembly.

They have been pre-emptively arresting people who have been public about all
the actions that are being done by climate justice action. Lisa has been
quite public and she is hoping to remain free! We would all like to ask for
your support in advance for pressure should they arrest her..

Our small but mighty cluster here is asking for your magical support for
protection and to hold the way open so we can reach and go past the
crossroads. 15 years of the COP has delivered nothing. Now is the time for
a new way, solving this crisis from below.

Tomorrow we reclaim power to manifest a new world. Please add your energy,
we need all the help we can get!

much love,

Lisa, Tom, Riyana, and Jason

An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore

2009-12-01T13:23:00.000-08:00

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Dear President Obama,

Do you really want to be the new "war president"? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, you are the new war president. Pure and simple. And with that you will do the worst possible thing you could do -- destroy the hopes and dreams so many millions have placed in you. With just one speech tomorrow night you will turn a multitude of young people who were the backbone of your campaign into disillusioned cynics. You will teach them what they've always heard is true -- that all politicians are alike. I simply can't believe you're about to do what they say you are going to do. Please say it isn't so.

It is not your job to do what the generals tell you to do. We are a civilian-run government. WE tell the Joint Chiefs what to do, not the other way around. That's the way General Washington insisted it must be. That's what President Truman told General MacArthur when MacArthur wanted to invade China. "You're fired!," said Truman, and that was that. And you should have fired Gen. McChrystal when he went to the press to preempt you, telling the press what YOU had to do. Let me be blunt: We love our kids in the armed services, but we f*#&in' hate these generals, from Westmoreland in Vietnam to, yes, even Colin Powell for lying to the UN with his made-up drawings of WMD (he has since sought redemption).

So now you feel backed into a corner. 30 years ago this past Thursday (Thanksgiving) the Soviet generals had a cool idea -- "Let's invade Afghanistan!" Well, that turned out to be the final nail in the USSR coffin.

There's a reason they don't call Afghanistan the "Garden State" (though they probably should, seeing how the corrupt President Karzai, whom we back, has his brother in the heroin trade raising poppies). Afghanistan's nickname is the "Graveyard of Empires." If you don't believe it, give the British a call. I'd have you call Genghis Khan but I lost his number. I do have Gorbachev's number though. It's + 41 22 789 1662. I'm sure he could give you an earful about the historic blunder you're about to commit.

With our economic collapse still in full swing and our precious young men and women being sacrificed on the altar of arrogance and greed, the breakdown of this great civilization we call America will head, full throttle, into oblivion if you become the "war president." Empires never think the end is near, until the end is here. Empires think that more evil will force the heathens to toe the line -- and yet it never works. The heathens usually tear them to shreds.

Choose carefully, President Obama. You of all people know that it doesn't have to be this way. You still have a few hours to listen to your heart, and your own clear thinking. You know that nothing good can come from sending more troops halfway around the world to a place neither you nor they understand, to achieve an objective that neither you nor they understand, in a country that does not want us there. You can feel it in your bones.

I know you know that there are LESS than a hundred al-Qaeda left in Afghanistan! A hundred thousand troops trying to crush a hundred guys living in caves? Are you serious? Have you drunk Bush's Kool-Aid? I refuse to believe it.

Your potential decision to expand the war (while saying that you're doing it so you can "end the war") will do more to set your legacy in stone than any of the great things you've said and done in your first year. One more throwing a bone from you to the Republicans and the coalition of the hopeful and the hopeless may be gone -- and this nation will be back in the hands of the haters quicker than you can shout "tea bag!"

Choose carefully, Mr. President. Your corporate backers are going to abandon you as soon as it is clear you are a one-term president and that the nation will be safely back in the hands of the usual idiots who do their bidding. That could be Wednesday morning.

We the people still love you. We the people still have a sliver of hope. But we the people can't take it anymore. We can't take your caving in, over and over, when we elected you by a big, wide margin of millions to get in there and get the job done. What part of "landslide victory" don't you understand?

Don't be deceived into thinking that sending a few more troops into Afghanistan will make a difference, or earn you the respect of the haters. They will not stop until this country is torn asunder and every last dollar is extracted from the poor and soon-to-be poor. You could send a million troops over there and the crazy Right still wouldn't be happy. You would still be the victim of their incessant venom on hate radio and television because no matter what you do, you can't change the one thing about yourself that sends them over the edge.

The haters were not the ones who elected you, and they can't be won over by abandoning the rest of us.

President Obama, it's time to come home. Ask your neighbors in Chicago and the parents of the young men and women doing the fighting and dying if they want more billions and more troops sent to Afghanistan. Do you think they will say, "No, we don't need health care, we don't need jobs, we don't need homes. You go on ahead, Mr. President, and send our wealth and our sons and daughters overseas, 'cause we don't need them, either."

What would Martin Luther King, Jr. do? What would your grandmother do? Not send more poor people to kill other poor people who pose no threat to them, that's what they'd do. Not spend billions and trillions to wage war while American children are sleeping on the streets and standing in bread lines.

All of us that voted and prayed for you and cried the night of your victory have endured an Orwellian hell of eight years of crimes committed in our name: torture, rendition, suspension of the bill of rights, invading nations who had not attacked us, blowing up neighborhoods that Saddam "might" be in (but never was), slaughtering wedding parties in Afghanistan. We watched as hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were slaughtered and tens of thousands of our brave young men and women were killed, maimed, or endured mental anguish -- the full terror of which we scarcely know.

When we elected you we didn't expect miracles. We didn't even expect much change. But we expected some. We thought you would stop the madness. Stop the killing. Stop the insane idea that men with guns can reorganize a nation that doesn't even function as a nation and never, ever has.

Stop, stop, stop! For the sake of the lives of young Americans and Afghan civilians, stop. For the sake of your presidency, hope, and the future of our nation, stop. For God's sake, stop.

Tonight we still have hope.

Tomorrow, we shall see. The ball is in your court. You DON'T have to do this. You can be a profile in courage. You can be your mother's son.

We're counting on you.

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com

Ten Years Ago Tonight; Starhawk

2009-11-30T12:07:00.000-08:00

Ten years ago tonight, I was sitting in a spokescouncil in a warehouse in downtown Seattle, surrounded by a sea of dreadlocked youth, preparing to rise at dawn and hit the streets the next morning. Was it that night or the next I went with my friends Margo Adair and Bill Aall with whom I was staying, to the late-night grocery store for some emergency vinegar to soak our bandannas in case of tear gas? Some of the memories have faded after ten years—although I won’t soon forget the caustic bite of some sort of intense Japanese wine vinegar that was all we ended up with—and as bad as the tear gas itself, in my opinion. But I recall that I wasn’t too worried. I hadn’t seen the police use tear gas on a political demonstration since the Sixties, and I didn’t really comprehend that they would.

Now I mostly remember snatches of images from the day: setting off in the morning with one of the marches, banners flying, giant puppets hovering above the crowd, drums thundering and feeling a sense of joy and liberation that never deserted me even in the worst times of the next few days. Our Pagan cluster dancing by the Union sound stage most of the day in one corner that stayed fairly quiet and peaceful. Rounding the corner to find smashed windows, burning dumpsters, casualties weeping on the curb from the tear gas—a new kind of war zone. Hearing that we had indeed shut the meeting down! Trying to facilitate a meeting that night with a thousand people at once pumped, traumatized, triumphant and fearlul, with someone running in at intervals to yell, “The cops—they’re coming this way! They’re tear gassing everyone, and they’re five blocks away!” “The cops—they’re coming this way! They’re tear gassing everyone, and they’re five blocks away!” “The cops—they’re coming this way! They’re tear gassing everyone, and they’re thee blocks away!” “The cops—they’re coming this way! They’re tear gassing everyone, and they’re right outside the door!”

The next morning, after the Mayor declared downtown Seattle a closed, protest-free zone, most of us headed down there to defy the order we considered unconstitutional and a violation of our rights. We sat down in the road, got arrested, and went to jail for the next five days. During that time, the talks we had set out to protest fell apart, as delegates from the global South, emboldened by our presence on the streets, walked out.

The blockade in Seattle was probably the single most successful political action I’ve been involved in over more than four decades of activism. It had a catalytic affect on the movement for global justice and it galvanized me into doing more street actions and mobilizations than any sensible middle-aged gardener really ought to do.

But Seattles—like those blinding moments in a love affair when the whole world stops, like those perfect poems that write themselves, like the song so catchy and beautiful it becomes a world wide hit, like the glowing day in the forest when you find the giant chantrelle, like any amazing, ecstatic, lucky peak experience, happen rarely. They’re the Black Swans, the unusual occurrence, the outlier. The daily grind of political activism is showing up, over and over again, with the same hundred people you’ve seen before. Getting yourself up off the couch where you’d much rather be, to march around feeling slightly foolish and chanting the same things you’ve been chanting since 1966. “Peace Now!” “Stop the Bombing!” “End the Occupation!” The effects, if any, of your actions are so far away and far removed that any sense of accomplishment or achievement is rare and abstract, and the chances of getting whacked, clubbed, trodden upon, hoarse from screaming, tear gassed, pepper sprayed, stun gunned, tasered, arrested, interrogated, deported, or facing other unpleasantness rise daily. The personal motto that carries me through these things is Garrison Keilor’s observation, that “things that are horrible for most people are good for writers.” And the sure knowledge that every freedom we cherish, every great change, every liberation of a slave or shift in conciousness or small increase in justice was won in just this way—in the streets by people who mostly felt at the time that they were losing.

We’ve got to do it. All those email petitions on the internet, all those phone calls are fine—but there’s no substitute for human beings putting our bodies in the way the operations of injustice and pounding on the gates of the exploiters and raising our living voices in outrage at stupidity and greed.

So tomorrow, on November 30, I’ll be joining my friends in the streets again, participating in another Global Day of Action around Climate Change, this one called by the Climate Pledge of Resistance folks at beyondtalk.net. I urge you to check them out, sign the pledge, and look for an action near you.

Why? Because climate change is galloping along faster than even grim scientists feared, and idiots and profiteers are preventing us from doing what we know we need to do to rein it in. And if we expect our politicians to do anything meaningful about it, at home or in Copenhagen next week, they need to be buoyed up on a rising tide of public clamor. That’s us, folks.

So I’m getting offline now and getting a good night’s sleep. I’m ten years older now—I’m not shopping for vinegar at two AM. For one thing, I’ve learned that lemon juice works just as well—which is to say, not very well at all—and smells better. But I’m not anticipating tear gas in the streets tomorrow—just a few hundreds or thousands of good friends who care enough about the world to keep on marching. And we will keep on marching—as long as it takes. Come join us!

Climate Pledge of Resistance
www.beyondtalk.net

www.starhawk.org

Peace Love Light. 11/22/2009

2009-11-22T09:41:00.000-08:00

7 Days left in the Peace 11/11/11 Campaign.
The Numbers for this 22 day is supposed to be strong in the Master Builder; however these times are very difficult without Positive Energy. The possibilities are great but in negative energy we just fall back into the old paradigm of self seeking that produces weakness.
As I have explained many times, it is not just the numbers that indicate what the dynamics are but that it depends on the energy that is put into them; Positive or negative.
The background to this is how an 8 Nine Year Cycle is affecting us. We are in an 8, Nine Year Cycle because we are in the 224th (2+2+4=8) Nine Year Cycle. In 2008 we began the 224th Nine year cycle since the theoretical beginning of the Gregorian Calendar. Just divide 9 into 2007 which was the last year of the last Nine Year Cycle and you get 223. Now we are in the second year of an 8 Nine Year Cycle. We came out of the 223rd Nine Year Cycle which was a 7. That indicates that we came out of a Logical (Positive)/confusing (negative) Nine Year Cycle and now we are in the second year of an 8/Empowering (Positive)/power over others (negative), Nine Year Cycle.
This is a very difficult time for cooperation because the mostly self seeking 8 is only interested in consolidating power for itself. It does not realize that True Power is when Power is Given, not when it is taken. Any group that seeks Peace should realize this. Peace is only possible in Positive Energy.
Love Light. We must have Love but how can we have Love without Light? To have Love we must have Truth. To have Truth we must be Free. To be Free we must have Truth. Without Freedom and Truth and Love we cannot have Peace.
It’s Love Light. Until we listen to the Message we are just spinning our wheels. Until we Live with Good Positive Energy we cannot have Peace. How can we live in Good Positive Energy? How can we Love all Creation? How can we know the Truth? How can we have Love Light? The Message is “have no self interest, Be Doubly Generous and Good to All”.
Impossible? Then so is Peace.
Charley