Reiki ??? / You Are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring!

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Aloha Kakou. . .

 

I've worked in past with family in crisis as a mentor that have become like

family.  She recently contacted be after going through some difficulties and I

think best option for sending healing energy to her right now would be to place

her name with list that offers long distance healing.   I know there are a few

on-line but no longer have their addresses.  If anyone knows of any and could

let me know I would be most grateful.  I will also use the option of looking for

something local for her.  Many thanks in advance. 

 

Discussion of late has been great and I've saved quite a few of posts.  Link to

Sedona Journal and message from Grandfather on 'optimism' reminded me of this

great speech that was sent to me a few days ago.  For full article click on

link. 

 

Blissings to All!  In Light )'(  Skye

 

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http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18050.cfm

 

Paul Hawken: You Are Brilliant, and the Earth is Hiring

University of Portland, May 3rd, 2009

 

" When I was invited to give this speech, I was asked if I could give a simple

short talk that was " direct, naked, taut, honest, passionate, lean, shivering,

startling, and graceful. " Boy, no pressure there.

 

But let's begin with the startling part. Hey, Class of 2009: you are going to

have to figure out what it means to be a human being on earth at a time when

every living system is declining, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Kind

of a mind-boggling situation - but not one peer-reviewed paper published in the

last thirty years can refute that statement.  

 

Basically, the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers, and

we need it within a few decades.

 

This planet came with a set of operating instructions, but we seem to have

misplaced them. Important rules like don't poison the water, soil, or air, and

don't let the earth get overcrowded, and don't touch the thermostat have been

broken. Buckminster Fuller said that spaceship earth was so ingeniously designed

that no one has a clue that we are on one, flying through the universe at a

million miles per hour, with no need for seatbelts, lots of room in coach, and

really good food - but all that is changing.

 

There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in

case you didn't bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: YOU

ARE BRILLIANT, AND THE EARTH IS HIRING. The earth couldn't afford to send any

recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries,

night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take

the hint. And here's the deal: Forget that this task of planet-saving is not

possible in the time required. Don't be put off by people who know what is not

possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only

after you are done.

 

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is

always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and

aren't pessimistic, you don't understand data. But if you meet the people who

are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't

optimistic, you haven't got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are

ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in

order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. The

poet Adrienne Rich wrote, " So much has been destroyed I have cast my lot with

those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute

the world. " There could be no better description. Humanity is coalescing. It is

reconstituting the world, and the action is taking place in schoolrooms, farms,

jungles, villages, campuses, companies, refuge camps, deserts, fisheries, and

slums.

 

You join a multitude of caring people. No one knows how many groups and

organizations are working on the most salient issues of our day: climate change,

poverty, deforestation, peace, water, hunger, conservation, human rights, and

more. This is the largest movement the world has ever seen.

 

Rather than control, it seeks connection. Rather than dominance, it strives to

disperse concentrations of power. Like Mercy Corps, it works behind the scenes

and gets the job done. Large as it is, no one knows the true size of this

movement. It provides hope, support, and meaning to billions of people in the

world. Its clout resides in idea, not in force. It is made up of teachers,

children, peasants, businesspeople, rappers, organic farmers, nuns, artists,

government workers, fisherfolk, engineers, students, incorrigible writers,

weeping Muslims, concerned mothers, poets, doctors without borders, grieving

Christians, street musicians, the President of the United States of America, and

as the writer David James Duncan would say, the Creator, the One who loves us

all in such a huge way.

 

There is a rabbinical teaching that says if the world is ending and the Messiah

arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true.  Inspiration is

not garnered from the litanies of what may befall us; it resides in humanity's

willingness to restore, redress, reform, rebuild, recover, reimagine, and

reconsider. " One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the

voices around you kept shouting their bad advice, " is Mary Oliver's description

of moving away from the profane toward a deep sense of connectedness to the

living world.

 

Millions of people are working on behalf of strangers, even if the evening news

is usually about the death of strangers. This kindness of strangers has

religious, even mythic origins, and very specific eighteenth-century roots.

Abolitionists were the first people to create a national and global movement to

defend the rights of those they did not know. Until that time, no group had

filed a grievance except on behalf of itself. The founders of this movement were

largely unknown - Granville Clark, Thomas Clarkson, Josiah Wedgwood - and their

goal was ridiculous on the face of it: at that time three out of four people in

the world were enslaved. Enslaving each other was what human beings had done for

ages. And the abolitionist movement was greeted with incredulity. Conservative

spokesmen ridiculed the abolitionists as liberals, progressives, do-gooders,

meddlers, and activists. They were told they would ruin the economy and drive

England into poverty. But

for the first time in history a group of people organized themselves to help

people they would never know, from whom they would never receive direct or

indirect benefit. And today tens of millions of people do this every day.. It is

called the world of non-profits, civil society, schools, social

entrepreneurship, and non-governmental organizations, of companies who place

social and environmental justice at the top of their strategic goals. The scope

and scale of this effort is unparalleled in history.

 

The living world is not " out there " somewhere, but in your heart. What do we

know about life? In the words of biologist Janine Benyus, life creates the

conditions that are conducive to life. I can think of no better motto for a

future economy. We have tens of thousands of abandoned homes without people and

tens of thousands of abandoned people without homes. We have failed bankers

advising failed regulators on how to save failed assets. Think about this: we

are the only species on this planet without full employment. Brilliant. We have

an economy that tells us that it is cheaper to destroy earth in real time than

to renew, restore, and sustain it. You can print money to bail out a bank but

you can't print life to bail out a planet. At present we are stealing the

future, selling it in the present, and calling it gross domestic product. We can

just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of

stealing it. We can either create

assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called

restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we

exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to

get rich, it is a way to be rich.

 

The first living cell came into being nearly 40 million centuries ago, and its

direct descendants are in all of our bloodstreams. Literally you are breathing

molecules this very second that were inhaled by Moses, Mother Teresa, and Bono.

We are vastly interconnected. Our fates are inseparable. We are here because the

dream of every cell is to become two cells. In each of you are one quadrillion

cells, 90 percent of which are not human cells. Your body is a community, and

without those other microorganisms you would perish in hours. Each human cell

has 400 billion molecules conducting millions of processes between trillions of

atoms. The total cellular activity in one human body is staggering: one

septillion actions at any one moment, a one with twenty-four zeros after it. In

a millisecond, our body has undergone ten times more processes than there are

stars in the universe - exactly what Charles Darwin foretold when he said

science would discover that

each living creature was a " little universe, formed of a host of

self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of

heaven. "

 

So I have two questions for you all: First, can you feel your body? Stop for a

moment. Feel your body. One septillion activities going on simultaneously, and

your body does this so well you are free to ignore it, and wonder instead when

this speech will end. Second question: who is in charge of your body? Who is

managing those molecules? Hopefully not a political party. Life is creating the

conditions that are conducive to life inside you, just as in all of nature. What

I want you to imagine is that collectively humanity is evincing a 20 deep innate

wisdom in coming together to heal the wounds and insults of the past.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once

every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would

become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by

the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch

television.

 

This extraordinary time when we are globally aware of each other and the

multiple dangers that threaten civilization has never happened, not in a

thousand years, not in ten thousand years. Each of us is as complex and

beautiful as all the stars in the universe. We have done great things and we

have gone way off course in terms of honoring creation. You are graduating to

the most amazing, challenging, stupefying challenge ever bequested to any

generation. The generations before you failed. They didn't stay up all night.

They got distracted and lost sight of the fact that life is a miracle every

moment of your existence. Nature beckons you to be on her side. You couldn't ask

for a better boss. The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not

the dreamer. Hopefulness only makes sense when it doesn't make sense to be

hopeful. This is your century. Take it and run as if your life depends on it. "

 

 

Paul Hawken is a longtime friend of CharityFocus, renowned entrepreneur,

visionary environmental activist, founder of Wiser Earth and author of many

books -- most recently Blessed Unrest. Last week, he was presented with an

honorary doctorate of humane letters by University of Portland, when he

delivered this superb commencement address to the class of 2009

 

This is the commencement speech that every graduate in the United States should

read and absorb for it rings of truth and authenticity and it calls us to the

great humanitarian values of human behavior: Truth, Beauty, Justice, Love and

Faith and wraps them all in the last value, Service.