Love and peace, Woods
I confess to much difficulty getting excited about and into the upbeat expectancies of the holiday season. This is true partly because generally, I really don’t get in the swing of a nationalist calendar as a rule. Beyond, say, Thanksgiving, my favorite national day of celebration, I really don’t relate to the rest of what we call holidays, which are seldom holy for me.
In my soon to be published long e book with photos I call Dazzlephrenia, I have, near the end, a few works of thought, which capture my longing for some new holidays (when we can feel our lives as sacred), and when people from around the world, can gather en masse, for spiritual growth, human betterment, and evolutionary advancement.. They have the flavor of a whole new world I dream of.
my new pledge of allegiance
I have a new pledge of allegiance hanging very visibly in my studio. I bet many of my readers would take this new pledge also:
I PLEDGE
ALLEGIANCE
to the
EARTH
and all the
LIFE
which it supports,
ONE PLANET
in our care, irreplaceable
with sustenance and respect
for all.
(1992, byJanine Lamb, Lamb & Lion Studio, New Hampshire)
new holidays for transformation
One of the important things it took forever for me to learn and seems so fully obvious once said, is how important human willpower is to set our intention for attaining something we want. The power generated by devout prayer, the miracle a healer performs, the blossoming splendor of purple morning glories bathing in the morning light, the thumping of hearts and liveliness in every living being, and all the rest of the magnificence dancing around us in our daily lives are all part of the cosmic splendor and radiance of being alive. And remarkably, we humans in particular, seem increasingly more able to access and make use of this primal life-giving, flowering, nourishing, creative, intuitive, manifesting and miraculous power. Because so many more people are awakening to higher consciousness, we are witnessing what Eckhart Tolle is calling the “Flowering of Human Consciousness”. (We’re the “early flowers”) and the beginning, in history, when new collective powers are coalescing for good. We will be able to do even more remarkable and brilliant things, as we learn how to harness the stupendous potentials of our Einsteinian collective mind and soul.
When a flowering is underway it is as unstoppable as a healthy fetus determined to develop fully according to its inherent plan or built-in design. I used to enjoy calling it the bloom force. In those days, I used to think of the very sky and atmosphere turgid and pregnant with a new world in the making. This is the manifesting force I wrote about near the beginning of Dazzle; how is it we can truly wield an incomprehensible power when we want something so fully we can taste it, and become determined to do everything possible for attainment? Aligned with this cosmic fecundity, creative humans can make things happen, become virtual creators. When come-to-life conditions are favorably ripe for unfoldment, all that’s needed are the space-time coordinates to materialize and come to life. When we set a sincere and sufficient intention, we create a virtual garden for flowering, and surely some kind of life ushers forth.
One way we could easily contribute to human flowering is to adopt a few new special holidays on a worldwide calendar. My suggestion would be to use the Solstices and Equinoxes as perfect coordinates already globally in place for a few new global holidays I have in mind. We need actual times set aside, when we can power gather for good (add the power of our own personal strivings, capacity to fiercely love, and live soulfully, to that same power in everyone else, and let the best of ourselves and the others rub shoulders at one time, and see what miraculous events can be alchemized and galvanized as we learn to power gather en masse.
So four times a year, all humanity would agree to congregate together with an agreed upon emphasis or common theme for the common good, in a mood of romantic idealism, and dream and stretch ourselves into a better world. This would give humanity a means by which we can sprout and grow by rallying for the good stuff: peace, justice, the new consciousness, love, collective healing, the soul journey, celebration of the mysteries, end of suffering, whatever else is good for everybody, all life, and all those special beings of all kinds who will come alive after us. Another way of putting it is the world needs to be willing to put four days a year on the same global calendar. Is it not appropriate in the transition to more global citizenship, that we begin the new global calendar in the high spirit of accordance with basic human decency, celebrating our diversity, the sacredness of all life, harmony with nature, and the unbelievable blessing it is just to be alive?
I was grappling with the idea of the importance of getting life’s finest, most joyful, and exhilarating experiences on the calendar, so they can happen to us and we can experience them. If we had special days set aside for these sorts of ultimate things, then there would be a better chance of attaining them. We need time set aside for finding solutions; times for the joys and pains of learning and growing, tasting higher states of awareness potential in us, taking the giant leaps each life requires of us, living our passion, feeling more unitive with others, feeling One with them, being love itself at the same time, and celebrating the wonderment of having life. By some yet unknown energy and dynamic mechanism, the creative force, we can embody what we are and manifest material things from desire and will. It is all very magical, mysterious, and divine.
If the world agreed on this, it could become a passageway to a more humane world. In this sense, there need to be Days to Manifest. Call the first of these holidays: a Day to Grow, on the Vernal Equinox, a time to plant what we want to manifest, to become more than we are. The 2000 leap together. You got the idea?
The second might be a Day for Discovery, a holiday for personal exploration and creative discovery.
A third one might be a Day for Love, one day to be more giving and expressive of feelings and love’s importance in daily life, beside Valentine’s Day!
How about a Day for Justice, to concentrate our collective powers on matters of social justice and equality?
Many, many other very worthwhile themes are possible. The important part about this is to get days and times set aside on our calendars for worthwhile experience, and what is exceptional and unordinary. The unique goals, activities, rituals, traditions, rites, and observances could evolve with repetition and have all the pageantry and originality folks want to bring to them. I’m hoping people will really get off on the opportunity to begin a new rite of passage from scratch. This would make us myth makers.
What would happen if we decided to evolve in unison on a particular day? In concentrating our great human powers to love, expand beyond ourselves, to be highly sensitive, kind, and generous, and to evolve into a riper state of maturity and wisdom, to discover and embody more of what lies within our infinite potentials, could we discover a new societal means of transforming ourselves, improving our overall quality of life, enriching our moment to moment experiences of being alive, cultivating more of a Golden Age on Earth? I’d like to see what huge love fests and healing meditations and spiritual gatherings could co-create, for example. I dream of us evolving beyond ourselves, waking more, being more grateful for our amazing and mysterious lives, being more compassionate with all who live and each and every one becoming just a little bit more than we are now.
It’s time to evolve more. It’s time for humanity to learn how to evolve more consciousness and in so doing find its way to a greater savoring of life and more joyful states of gratitude for life. All that’s needed for this, is to simply let the enormity, beauty, and mystery of existence sink into awareness and shine through all else. There is a terrible shortage of gratitude for life in our human, especially Western, fast paced world. That’s what joy is all about: a heartfelt appreciation for our lives. Well, how about some new holidays which can help us to flower more of this sentiment?
The evolution sought takes nary a fraction of a second to go into effect, probably at the speed of light.
Please just commit yourself to this one single thing: go up a notch.
Resolve to evolve a little in the new millennium, go up a notch, and ask those you love to do the same. Use the power house of the new year as a gateway, as a power jump to a loftier, kinder world. Help make Earth ripple with new consciousness and the promise of a whole new world.
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