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Despite the widespread frustrations of our time, I believe we must live with hope. We are capable of making a profound positive shift in our thinking. The heart of this shift would be for us to conceptualize the 21st century as the healing century. Robert Theobald | read the Speech by Robert Theobald Ontario Arts Council -- January 1998
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Project Wadi Attir is a groundbreaking initiative of a Bedouin community in the Negev desert, establishing a model sustainable farm that leverages Bedouin traditional values, know-how and experience with "The Sustainability Laboratory's" signature approach to development. Some of these days I had the great pleasure to spend a few hours with Dr. Michael Ben-Eli, who is the founder of both the Lab and the holistic project Wadi Attir with sustainability principles, which are not only related to the Material, Economic and Social, but also to Life, and Spiritual Domains. He was a close associate of R. Buckminster Fuller, with whom he collaborated on research. INTEGRATED, HOLISTIC APPROACH The project was initiated by The Sustainability Laboratory in partnership with the Hura Municipal Council. It presents an integrated, holistic approach to development, relevant to the local community, to the region, and to other arid zones around the world. | read more about Wadi Attir | Buckminster Fuller on the oralab-Blog (german post)  Humanity’s fate is tightly linked with biological diversity – the variety of life on earth. Biodiversity is essential for sustainable development and human well-being. Convention of Biological Diversity
The examples are plenty: AN ECUMENICAL PILGRIMAGE
Maria and her four friends don't pray to the same god, but they all regain their strengths out of their spirituality. As the women want to give back and share their insights and wisdom they decide to build an ecumenical temple in Patagonia. A “postmodern Noah’s ark”. A seductive journey into a land where all utopias seem possible. PRIZE OF THE INTERRELIGIOUS JURY The french-argentine film "Madres de los dioses" (Mothers of the Gods) of filmmaker Pablo Agüero has won the Prize of the Interreligous Jury of the international documentary filmfestival «Visions du Réel» (Visions of Reality) in Nyon, Switzerland. This film is artistically utterly convincing and tells its story in a very subtle way. The jury explained their choice among others with the fact, that the film focuses on the search of the women and not on the closure, which is paramount for a dialog amongst different belief systems. When it comes to healing in our days I sometimes think that even the old and in former times daily used technics of healing and the daily handwork which might seam more practical but has a capacity to heal us too must be healed themselves or at least regained by us.
Renate Hiller co-director of the Fiber Craft Studio explains very well some of my own thoughts about using our hands in daily live more in a "healing" way and what kind of value, pleasure and even meditative energy we can gain from doing so: "I’m spinning wool with a stone spindle. This tool has been used probably for more than 30,000 years. And when we twist fibers into yarn we are actually creating a spiral. And the spiral is a cosmic gesture of creation." find the article Handicraft is "in" again (written in German) on the oralab Blog | Richard Sennett professor of sociology and winner of the 2010 Spinoza Prize in his book The Craftsman names the basic human impulse to do a job well for its own sake, and good craftsmanship involves developing skills and focusing on the work rather than ourselves. THE MAY MAGNIFICAT
May is Mary's month, and I Muse at that and wonder why: Her feasts follow reason, Dated due to season-  Mount Fuji INSPIRATION AND GLOBAL ACTIVATION The initiators of The Fuji Declaration along with their founding signatories and partner organizations invite the global community to celebrate the inauguration of The Fuji Declaration. The inauguration will be celebrated with three uplifting events leading up to the Symphony of Peace Prayers 2015 where thousands will gather to set in motion a Divine Spark Activation starting from Mount Fuji out to the world.
May 17th 2015 | Tokio -- Denmark -- Mt Fuji | Join the Global Link Network, watch the live webcast or join in spirit wherever you may be | more information Many of us have forgotten to esteem, to care and to visit their own temple within and receive impulses for their lives from there. At the same time they have forgotten to esteem and to bless those holy places and to stay in communication and connection with them. From the very beginning, pilgrimage-sites where places where people meet, communicate, cultivate connections and have a spiritual exchange. Brigitte Graß | channeling regarding the worldwide pilgrim-sites Pilgrimage-sites all over the world are places full of hope and spirituality, mostly found and built at natural places with an original emanation and high energy. At the same time pilgrimage itself has become just another business in the tourism game.  When we still had not covered the territory of Separation, when we still aspired to widening our conquest of nature, when the story of humanity's Ascent was not yet complete, we weren't ready to hear about union, connectedness, interdependency, inter-being-ness. ... Charles Eisenstein | on Reality Sandwich
Writer, speaker and author Charles Eisenstein of whome I have frequently written on the oralab blog is also editor of Reality Sandwich, which is an online magazine of ideas for the transformational community. Four years ago there he wrote an article called: The Three Seeds. For me it fits perfectly into my series of articles of the last days around Earth Day, which are all dealing with our attitude towards nature and mother earth and are showing that the seeds of Reunion are sprouting everywhere and transformation is taking place. After the above-noted quotation Charles continues:  "The realization of the aliveness of the non-human is the crack in the paradigm, a shift from understanding nature as passive, unfeeling, and mechanical, to seeing the non-human all around us as aware ..." Luanne Armstrong "Animals, plants, and even fungi are more 'aware' than people previously thought, which raises questions about how that might change our relationships with other living beings." So says the latest newsletter of the Global Oneness Project which aims "to bring the world to our classrooms". The website inspires students to rethink their relationship to the world through free distribution of stories and educational materials. The latest lesson plan is about 'The Consciousness of Nature', where it is been asked: |
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