This morning we were at the promotion function of the Officer’s School in the city of Berne, where our eldest son became a Lieutenant. It was military-ceremoniously, with brass music, flags, berets and military people and a politician giving addresses.

The left one with the blue beret is our son…

One military in his talk showed a mustard tube and humorously explained how you can bring the tube to squirt: with a hammer, by driving over it with a bicycle, or with strongly squeezing it. If you don’t want to have too much mustard on your sausage, you need a soft pressure. Without it nothing comes out. Then he addressed the newly backed lieutenants as “dear mustard tubes” and said that they had been pressed quite a lot so that something comes out which otherwise would remain inside. He reminded them that when they are pressing others they should always use the right dose, but not too much, in order not to hurt and spoil the others so that it doesn’t squirt…

Now they are tonight on the Officers’ Ball…

Yesterday a friend sent me the link to a 5-part Russian documentary film on Helena P. Blavatsky, the great messenger of light, with English comments. See also the booklet on HPB – Trailblazer for the Aquarian Age.

Today, 29th May, is May Call, the festival of group initiation, which Master CVV initiated in 1910. Since then it is celebrated every year. This year’s celebration of the World Teacher Trust is in Núria, in the Spanish Pyrenees, where we have assembled with about 350 group members from all over the world for a week of group living. These annual meetings are always very inspiring (see my post from last year).

The last days we had a lot of rain and heavy clouds. This morning, like in other May Call days, the sky is blue without any clouds, and it is very cold.

On the occasion of this celebration I would like to humbly publish the second cycle of the “Images of Synthesis“, which have been done between February and May 2010. You can download the whole series with music as a powerpoint or see them in an online slideshow.

Messengers of Synthesis: Master CVV and Master EK.

Yesterday we flew via Geneva to Barcelona, where group members of the World Teacher Trust from different countries were arriving. Several buses then transported the people to the Pyrenees. At the feet of high mountains we entered into a mountain train. Through a beautiful rock scenery we went up to about 2000 m height to Núria, an old pilgrimage centre, where the group living is going to take place. in a valley surrounded by high mountains, at a location without cars.A group member made a quick shot of the scenery with his iPod and posted it on YouTube.

Here are some lines from my notes of Dr. Kumar’s opening words yesterday evening:

Apart from living our individual lives we are developing the consciousness relating to humanity and the planet. A part of our being shall be dedicated to the well-being of humanity as a whole. Individual welfare no one needs to tell us how to work for it, but it has to be in tune with the bigger centre called humanity. Humanity is one centre, individual is another centre. The correlation between these two in terms of activity is what is to be worked out. Personal conveniences, personal profit, personal growth can have to be subservient to the well being of the surrounding beings and the group. The groupal welfare shall have to be in preference to the individual welfare, only then there is the related initiation of transformation.

Thinking of self-good only is no good. Common good and cooperation for common good makes the individual attune to a greater plan. Man has always been self-centred, he has to orient to the bigger centre called humanity, and next step into it. That is the path, from individuality to group consciousness and from group consciousness to that of humanity as a whole.

When we read or listen, it looks so nice, but when it comes to action we are worried about personal health, personal economics and personal growth. It is all just self-centred. The self-centred person cannot grow. Sacrifice of self-centredness is what is seen as sacrifice. Not worry too much about oneself, but towards those who are around oneself. Group in preference to individual growth. This cooperation can be expanded from the individual to the family to the group, to the bigger group and then ultimately the one group called humanity. There is a gradual expansion through release from self-centredness. The circumscription shall have to be obliterate. We remain ourselves and move forward. Let us have this basic recollection which is the basis of the group activity…

This morning started with a fire ritual and then we had an inspiring start of the seminar. For me these group livings are always like family reunions. The main purpose, however, is to go into deeper levels of silence and to come more into contact with the energies of the subtle worlds and aligning ourselves to them.

I today was at the annual meeting of a group of web people from Swiss NGOs. The meeting was at the offices of Greenpeace in Zurich and about 30 persons from different NGOs attended. This year’s topic was the use of Social Media / Web 2.0 platforms like Facebook and Twitter for NGOs. Some of the organisations were quite active in this field, while others observed with a certain scepticism or did not become active due to missing personal resources.

After the presentation of some campaigns run partly on Facebook there was a lively discussion about best practices and difficulties with the work. In general it was observed that it is quite difficult to get people becoming active besides click-activism in a social media campaign. It is also sometimes difficult to reduce complex situations to 120 letters – the language has to be very concise and pithy.

In the afternoon there was an input of Peter Hogenkamp, a person who is professionally working since years with blogs and social media, as a publisher and consultant. He started with a video: What the hell is social media? summing up in a frantic way ten reasons why you should get involved with Twitter and the like. He encouraged the use with many examples, but his style was frantic like the video – the nervous style of this media-junkie

A similar input in this NGO group made me start blogging 4 years ago and discussions let me to start a Facebook page for my office and for the Circle of Good Will. Now I just launched a Twitter account, only to reserve the address, as the speaker had proposed – what I’m going to do with it time will show.

What the hell is social media – from the video

We yesterday used the beautiful weather for a walk in a nearby hill area about 15 km away. The spring over there was still a bit back in comparison to the full bloom down here. Enjoy the impressions.

Sign post to the little village surrounded by tulips – the point of departure of our walk.

Mini-pigs enjoying the warm weather

Panoramic view over the hills to the skyline of the Alps

Sheep with its lambs

Two lambs in the sun

A green valley

Marguerite field

Flowers in the meadow

Sculpture of a cow with a little calf in front of a farm

Old timbered farmhouse with beautiful paintings on the wall.

Pigs sleeping in the sun

Gnomes working in a garden

The dog likes being ruffled

An old “Stöckli”

A friend sent me an amazing TV commercial video from Honda, done already in 2003. It shows a domino-effect of things moving and is a symbol of the inter-relatedness of events. It is done without digital tricks, happening like this. It took the team 606 time to try and 3 month before it was ok – just for this 2 minutes video. The recording costs were 6 million dollars, but it was a great success. Enjoy.

Photo: From the video (c) Honda

Today the sun enters into Gemini. In Gemini the energies received during Aries and Taurus are being distributed to humanity, to be used for activities of good will. The picture below shows this reception of energies from higher spheres and distribution. Gemini is a mental sign with a lively energy, and its ruler is Mercury, whose glyph you find on the right side. On the left sign is the glyph of our earth, which is specially related to Gemini and the development of a right use of mind through humanity. You can download the painting here in a high resolution in case you want to print it. And here you find the Letters on Spiritual Astrology, where there are some on the deeper meaning of Gemini.

15 May 2010: Gemini – Distribution

The Native American NPO “Golden Eagle Ceremonies” are doing today a day of conscious healing of planetary waters, also especially for the healing of the Gulf of Mexico waters spoiled now by the oil. A very good initiative.

Today was Ascension Day and Taurus new moon, standing for dissolution and new beginning. It was a good day for dispersing the ashes from the cremation of my mother-in-law. We went with our family to the place we had found last Sunday. It was again a cloudy day, the right ambiance for this occasion. It was a very solemn and enchanted ambiance, when the camphor fire and sandalwood incense were burning and the ashes were dispersed on a rock, while we intonated some mantrams. Here are some impressions from the place, the ceremony and the surrounding.