A Canadian friend today forwarded me an e-mail with this beautiful appeal by Clarissa Pinkola Estes:

My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking. Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn’t you say you were a believer? Didn’t you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn’t you ask for grace? Don’t you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.

Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D (c)

Author of the best seller Women Who Run with the Wolves – Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Epiphany – liquid protein varnish and glue on silk and cardboard, 36×36 cm, 1985

Before evening meditation my wife and I normally exchange some thoughts about the day. The last days she had felt some pain, some inflammation of nerves or the like after having worked a lot in our little garden planting flowers for next spring. Last weekend she had been at a seminar with Anton Styger about using the pendulum and there she heard him say: “You can ask the body, he knows best.” This was a thought she had been pondering upon the last days:

Our body is not just a machine or a “bag” into which we have been put at birth, but a highly intelligent being which communicates with you if you listen to it. With pain it says, pay attention, something is going the wrong direction. You can feel its needs, and you can even talk to it. (Of course, with serious problems you should talk to a doctor….)

Anton Styger uses prayers where he addresses the body intelligences and the guiding angels of organs. They have received lots of wrong commands from our side and have received shocks and experienced hardships in the past. These memories are stored in the subtle structure of the body and can be released. We also might have collected “astral waste” from other persons / the surroundings, which keep clinging to us. Clairvoyants can even see that in a number of cases earth-bound entities / deceased persons who didn’t believe in a here-after or were surprised by their death cling to the body and cause feelings of dullness or strain.

My wife and I talked about observations we had in this regard and our discoveries how to deal with them. She said: “I have discovered a new relation with my body.” And she had also been working with others helping to release pains and subtle burdens.

A famous drawing of Leonardo da Vinci

A friend from Posadas, Argentina, sent me an MP3-file of the very beautiful “Blessings of a Mother” by Snatam Kaur, sung in Spanish. I found it also on YouTube, here it is:

He also added the Spanish text – though I only understand it vaguely, it is beautiful. If you also don’t understand Spanish, you can copy it into Google translator, if you want to get more of the meaning.

Bendición de mi madre –  Mother´s Blessing

An inspiring video on changing one’s perspectives by considering others’ troubles when we are troubled by others. You can also see here the Spanish version.

A friend send me the following nice story:

A teacher decided to let her class play a game. She told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates. So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.

When the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had two potatoes; some three while some upto five potatoes.

The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for one week. Days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having five potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After one week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended.

The teacher asked: “How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for one week?” The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they went.

The teacher then said: “This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you imagine what it is like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for lifetime???”

So, let it go…. and refresh your mind for nice and happy things and thoughts to embrace life.

Potatoes – from Wikipedia

A sublime musical prayer to Devi, the Divine Mother, from the album “Sacred Names of Mother Divine” by Craig Pruess and Ananda, Heaven on Earth Music.

The 7 November is the 66th birthday of K. Parvathi Kumar and it is celebrated each year as the Day of Good Will. The Circle of Good Will, Switzerland, is inspired by the Circle of Good Will he founded in 1985.

September 2010 in the garden of our old apartment in Muri

As a little inspiration about goodwill work you find here a short extract on the global Good Will work and the service of Hierarchy, from my notes of the seminar on Cosmogenesis by Sri Kumar, January 2006, and a picture on the power of good will:

“So the groups are getting universal. You can’t create these groups, they have been prepared over centuries and they come again. We move in groups. Most of those who are in the groups have been in the groups of HPB. The masters are building a group who is not in the world, but works for the world. In all fields, social, health, economy, it is a global goodwill work. All those who have deep goodwill do this work, and the work will happen. That is the grand work done consciously or unconsciously. More and more great beings come to you. Think global, act local. Global thought you have to work out with such an intent to get it out….

As per the maintenance of the body, in yoga practice the body is also important for goodwill work. Every disciple is responsible for his body to be well kept. The masters like Kuthumi, Morya, Djwhal Khul, St. Germain, they are all outstanding in keeping their bodies shining, but none of them is equal to Lord Maitreya. You don’t find any kind of old age or sickness in his perfect body that exists on the physical plane. The Lord, wherever he goes, whatever his feet touch, the places get instantly sanctified. That is the beauty of the Masters. Even if they move away, their vibration remains there. The houses they visit get sanctified. They become centres for pilgrimage. In fact the Lord Maitreya only moves to sanctified places. It is only to sanctify the place where he moves to. All the yogis of the Himalaya and those who live around the sacred river Ganga always worshipped Lord Maitreya. During the dawn hours, we need to recollect all the great beings who work for our upliftment, especially Lord Maitreya.

Think of your master, his master, his master, the seven seers, then the pole star, then invoke the sons of mind, the sons of yoga. Immediately after the Kumaras we think of Lord Maitreya and the Hierarchy. They need to be invoked on a regular basis in the morning and evening hours. He blesses light to humanity in this postures (Sri Kumar shows the hands downward in a giving posture like in some pictures of Jesus) during the morning and evening hours. We may not be conscious of the support he gives until we gain the corresponding state. Even the yogis think of the Lord in the morning and evening hours, one of the most sublime beings that exist on the planet. He is ever ready to be a servant of the servers. He helps the groups who serve. He remains very obedient to the true servers, all members of Hierarchy are very obedient to true servers, true disciples. A server is one who has divinity in his heart and serves the world with an attitude that the world is no other than the form of the Lord. When everyone is served in this manner, only the Lord is served. Thus the Lord remains readily available for men.”

Extract of a picture I painted in August 1988, on the Power of Good Will

Many groups focus on the 11-11-11 for a joint meditation effort to lift up humanity. 24 September Sri Kumar wrote to me: “Please send the following to all. ’11-11-11 is a very important day. It is considered so by the Hierarchy. Please invoke the entire Hierarchy and stand in Their Light’.”

Some days ago I got the following appeal forwarded from a site called Evolutionary Leaders – in Service to Conscious Evolution, where they also launch an appeal for a world-wide meditation for Oneness, and evolutionary leap in consciousness. The have created “Global Care Rooms” where you can see where other participants are located through a beautiful representation of our Earth.

The appeal further says:
“Countless individuals around the world share the belief that humanity’s next evolutionary leap will be achieved by collectively serving conscious evolution. They support the need to build a global community, restore ecological balance and encourage social transformation that optimizes human potential. Let us together reflect upon our own individual and collective part of the evolutionary process. …
11-1-11 Meditation Intention: Our intention is to transcend superficial differences that divide us – race, religion, politics, beliefs, culture – to acknowledge, experience and honor the essential bond that unites us all as one interdependent organism.

We also intend to evolve in both consciousness and action so that each of us learns to perceive the whole, relate to others in wholeness, widen our definition of ‘we’ to be all inclusive and become evolutionary leaders for a peaceful, holistic, sustainable world.”

“The Blessing” – extract from a painting done in February 1987

Since the centre of WTT-Global in Einsiedeln, Switzerland will be dissolved in a few weeks – life lead the members who lived there to other places – I agreed to take all the books (English and German) to our home, while a member of our group will take care of the book orders. So yesterday I went to Einsiedeln to fetch the books.

The morning started with a glowing dawn, but later on the highway fog gathered and nearly the whole ride the weather was very grey.  When I took the way up the mountain to Einsiedeln, the clouds opened and a beautiful clear sky showed up.

In the centre there were already some boxes filled with books, and some more to be packed.

I first went around to take some final pics of the rooms which since February 2006 had served as headquarters.

The entrance

A picture of young Parvathi Kumar

A picture of Gayatri with a reflection of a window, like the opening into another dimension

A flower of peacock feathers

The outside of the building – not very attractive to me, but I liked the inner side.

A friend from the group then came and helped me packing the books and I took a TV for her into my car.

When both cars were filled, we did a good-bye meditation in the room where I had had several talks with Sri Kumar over the last years and where the executive board had often met.

It was a silent adieu, I won’t see the rooms again, and they will soon be emptied, and a family with 3 children will live there.

Afterwards I drove a bit around the nearby lake Sihlsee and visited friends, a couple living nearby on a mountain. It was a hearty exchange. The sun was hot like in summer.

Tomatoes on the balcony.

Back home again I carried the heavy boxes into our basement, emptied them and arranged the books on the shelves.

The whole journey made me think of the story in HPB’s Secret Doctrine, where there is a narrative how, at the end of a creation a certain group of beings, the Shisya, transport the seeds of wisdom through the dissolution state called Pralaya to a new creation…. I asked myself how the many good and inspiring books might find their ways to seekers who could make a good use of them. For the moment they slumber in the basement of our home. Time will show how things will work out. Always after a sunset and a night a new dawn will come.

Sunday evening we entered into the month of Scorpio, a most profound sign. When thinking of how to visualise its energies I reflected on its qualities, and then saw photos of the burning oil platform “Deepwater Horizon” which has sank last year in the Gulf of Mexico – an emblematic signal of Scorpionic qualities. In Spiritual Astrology Master EK says: “Secrecy is the key-note of the sign. Oil mines and hidden treasures are linked up with Scorpio. Wherever there is no possibility for the sunshine to enter and wherever there is constant darkness, there is the influence of Scorpio.”

And then he continued mentioning toxic substances being ruled by Scorpio and said: “Disappearance is the activity of this sign and the house. The disappearance of the light of the soul, through a gradual fall into matter-state is the process that occurs here. Suspension of consciousness, due to the predominance of the material plane on the higher planes is the activity. Death, loss of consciousness, fainting and coma are caused by the influence of this sign.”

The form of the divine Mother related to Scorpio is Kali, and so I searched for representations of Kali which would fit with the picture of the sinking oil platform. There was one drawing which fitted perfectly. So I started working on the picture. I first arranged the details in Photoshop, then printed it on paper and continued with working on details and colours. Afterwards I scanned the picture and worked on further details of the composition. The last step is printing the image on paper and readjusting the colours to increase the intensity to its maximum. It takes several prints until I’m satisfied with the outcome. When I was painting in the 80ies I was always trying to get most intense luminous colours, but it wasn’t possible due to the materials I had. Now, with the digital processing the pictures get a strong radiance.

The painting “Scorpio – The Dark Mother and the Consequences of Blindness” shows extreme contrasts – The fire-fighting vessels in front of the burning oil platform, then, in the fire, the Goddess Kali appearing in the dark circle, holding a caduceus topped by a skull. The destructions only touch the outer form, the inner truth remains. Man, however, trying to get the grip on the consequences of his greed, looses the game he started. Scorpio teaches through deep transformations transiting through death to a higher plane of understanding. May man learn through the self-generated catastrophes to respect nature and to cooperate with it instead of exploiting. You can see the picture also in the gallery “Images of Synthesis” and download a high-resolution version.

Scorpio – The Dark Mother and the Consequences of Blindness