David Sparenberg's Posts - Peace for the Soul2024-03-29T04:38:00ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberghttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/986341037?profile=original&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=2j2gkzzkzmpxa&xn_auth=noTO POEMtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2020-02-08:5143044:BlogPost:2819372020-02-08T15:00:00.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>Here is a new & different video. It is me reciting one of my poems. It is not studio quality. The mic is only the one built in to the laptop. Still, please have a listen and let me know if you think I should do another one this way. So far I have received a lot of positive feedback, especially from friends in Ireland. Click link to access:</p>
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<p>Here is a new & different video. It is me reciting one of my poems. It is not studio quality. The mic is only the one built in to the laptop. Still, please have a listen and let me know if you think I should do another one this way. So far I have received a lot of positive feedback, especially from friends in Ireland. Click link to access:</p>
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</p>New climate change videotag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2019-11-27:5143044:BlogPost:2788202019-11-27T16:00:00.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
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<p> New video dedicated to ecosopher Arne Naess & teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Please view & share. Many blessings.</p>
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<p> New video dedicated to ecosopher Arne Naess & teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Please view & share. Many blessings.</p>Important new video address the ongoing Earth Crisistag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2019-05-28:5143044:BlogPost:2726692019-05-28T01:00:00.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Important new video address the ongoing Earth Crisis. Earth Crisis consists of 4 major components: Resource depletion & pollution, climate change, extreme species extinctions & the ecology of war. Please view this video & circulate widely. Click link below to access.…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Important new video address the ongoing Earth Crisis. Earth Crisis consists of 4 major components: Resource depletion & pollution, climate change, extreme species extinctions & the ecology of war. Please view this video & circulate widely. Click link below to access.</span></p>
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</p>Sharing new video: As we say, have a good daytag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2019-05-28:5143044:BlogPost:2726672019-05-28T01:00:00.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sharing new video: As We Say, Have a Good Day. Please view & share.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sharing new video: As We Say, Have a Good Day. Please view & share.</span></p>
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</p>DIGNITY - a poemtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2019-02-17:5143044:BlogPost:2678122019-02-17T20:40:42.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>Dignity by…</p>
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<p>Please read & share.</p>new video: ONE GREAT WARtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2017-01-16:5143044:BlogPost:2450412017-01-16T21:49:45.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/UuBSoUKiEr4">https://youtu.be/UuBSoUKiEr4</a></p>
<p><a href="https://youtu.be/UuBSoUKiEr4">https://youtu.be/UuBSoUKiEr4</a></p>new YouTube video to share...tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2014-06-16:5143044:BlogPost:2190862014-06-16T20:22:31.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>REFLECTIONS:</p>
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<p><a href="http://youtu.be/hZXfkqISXmI">http://youtu.be/hZXfkqISXmI</a></p>
<p> </p>sharing eco-animal videotag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2014-03-28:5143044:BlogPost:2137122014-03-28T02:00:55.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<div id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395507531546_11416">Remake of earlier video, Prayer of the Animals: <a id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421" href="http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" name="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421"><font id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2420" color="#0066CC">http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ</font></a></div>
<div id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395507531546_11416">Remake of earlier video, Prayer of the Animals: <a id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421" href="http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" name="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421"><font id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2420" color="#0066CC">http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ</font></a></div>sharing eco-animal videotag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2014-03-28:5143044:BlogPost:2135892014-03-28T02:00:55.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<div id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395507531546_11416">Remake of earlier video, Prayer of the Animals: <a id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421" href="http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" name="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421"><font id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2420" color="#0066CC">http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ</font></a></div>
<div id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395507531546_11416">Remake of earlier video, Prayer of the Animals: <a id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421" href="http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" name="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2421"><font id="yiv8037147371yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1395502134341_2420" color="#0066CC">http://youtu.be/6RS0DkFWGMQ</font></a></div>video sharingtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2014-01-21:5143044:BlogPost:2120952014-01-21T15:21:32.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>PEOPLE, new video created Christmas Eve and posted on YouTube. Please have a look:<a id="yiv4938235209yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388597107267_4656" href="http://youtu.be/Xk_cZ8-vIWk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" name="yiv4938235209yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388597107267_4656"><font id="yiv4938235209yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388597107267_4655" color="#196AD4">http://youtu.be/Xk_cZ8-vIWk</font></a></p>
<p>PEOPLE, new video created Christmas Eve and posted on YouTube. Please have a look:<a id="yiv4938235209yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388597107267_4656" href="http://youtu.be/Xk_cZ8-vIWk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" name="yiv4938235209yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388597107267_4656"><font id="yiv4938235209yui_3_13_0_ym1_1_1388597107267_4655" color="#196AD4">http://youtu.be/Xk_cZ8-vIWk</font></a></p>WHAT THE SHAMAN DOEStag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2013-07-11:5143044:BlogPost:2042842013-07-11T19:56:11.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>Bodies are articulations. The human body is one form of biotic speech, similar to yet different from the body of the jaguar, as to the body of the orca, as to the sable-feathered, light boned flesh of raven.</p>
<p>Through bodies, evolution, diversity, even Earth herself and guiding divinity, initiates communication. Such is why there are levels of motion and differences in textures and colors and sensitivities.</p>
<p>Faces are articulations too. The human face, structurally of a kind,…</p>
<p>Bodies are articulations. The human body is one form of biotic speech, similar to yet different from the body of the jaguar, as to the body of the orca, as to the sable-feathered, light boned flesh of raven.</p>
<p>Through bodies, evolution, diversity, even Earth herself and guiding divinity, initiates communication. Such is why there are levels of motion and differences in textures and colors and sensitivities.</p>
<p>Faces are articulations too. The human face, structurally of a kind, individuated into unique features with personality plasticity, is one form of biotic speech, similar to yet different from the face of the chimpanzee, as of the bison, as of the dolphin, the prairie dog, the panda, the white tiger and the pop-eyed green frog.</p>
<p>Everywhere to the alert participant there are shapes and languages. And where it not for exploitation and oppression, here on this teeming planet, life is such that there could be no poverty. To be deprived of a garden is serious enough; to be deprived of experience is torture, and violates freedom. For life has arranged itself in the natural abundance of shared habitation, recognition and relationships.</p>
<p>Out of all variables, the shaman is the singular who lives in the metamorphic and longs, even as a lover, for verticality—a recurring movement between the mystic ascent of flame and the mystic descending of constant water.</p>
<p>To shapeshift is to be more than multi-lingual. Eventually it is to hear and to feel, to become, and to speak in tongues. For shaman always there is no alive reality without otherness. No wisdom without the power of story. No vitality of soul without a beauty of songs.</p>
<p>Learn what the shaman does: To be an earth-walker is to emerge into the depths of dialogue and share mutuality with all creatures of creation. The poetic among us abide in humility; their postures are prayers of relationships. Their affinities are cosmic.</p>
<p>David Sparenberg</p>
<p>11 July 2013</p>ANGEL LOVEtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2013-05-13:5143044:BlogPost:2018442013-05-13T22:21:20.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Make love to the angel—first to the angel of your heart and soul, who is your living light and living fire. Then to the higher beyond, who out of the mystic gives you guidance and will shelter you in the saving grace of tomorrow. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">The one is as the miniature of the…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Make love to the angel—first to the angel of your heart and soul, who is your living light and living fire. Then to the higher beyond, who out of the mystic gives you guidance and will shelter you in the saving grace of tomorrow. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">The one is as the miniature of the other. But should you be tempted into promiscuity, be promiscuous in goodness—not only in goodness, but in piety too and in compassion. </span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">As the world is now, with oceans rising, blind are leading the blind and deaf are tuned into the preachers of death, who are shepherds leading many toward the perfect storm. Even those who smile and offer chocolates are deluded.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Earth is undergoing changes and with the Earth we too must change. Trust in the hour of truth what you can see into, and find your depth in what is deeper still.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Make love to the angel. Open your eyes to see the beauty and attune your ears to the stereophonic sighs and the song of songs. Through angel-love come to the One behind the veil, who casts the white shadow and creates in the erotic moment each angel possibility.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">Please—do not be drowned by helplessness, or keep yourself locked inside too long. Out of quiet kinship I long to tell you something intimate and thrilling: Now is the time; make love to the angel. And if you desire, with sweetest human aching, to be swept away, let the excesses of God overwhelm you.</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">David Sparenberg</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">11 May 2013</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: georgia,palatino;">For further writings, my two eco ebooks, LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS and THE GREEN TROUBADOUR SOURCE BOOK are available as Free downloads at <a href="http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56">http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56</a> . One title is Book of the Month, the other you can find by scrolling down a few titles in the OVI Bookshop. </span></p>MANY BLESSINGStag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2013-03-21:5143044:BlogPost:1989692013-03-21T16:10:26.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>You are the fragile perhaps forgotten the betrayed and the endangered, you are the vulnerable yet a vessel for wisdom-primordial and a life hidden from freedom over time. You are the uncertain and unknown neglected soul and a soul ambiguous. Yet you are a visionary a myth-dreamer dancer and a pathfinder of subtle dimensions and primal energies.</p>
<p>You are the “yes” and the shaman of mutual salvation, a monumental miniature of messiah and one light-breather meditating in the cavern of…</p>
<p>You are the fragile perhaps forgotten the betrayed and the endangered, you are the vulnerable yet a vessel for wisdom-primordial and a life hidden from freedom over time. You are the uncertain and unknown neglected soul and a soul ambiguous. Yet you are a visionary a myth-dreamer dancer and a pathfinder of subtle dimensions and primal energies.</p>
<p>You are the “yes” and the shaman of mutual salvation, a monumental miniature of messiah and one light-breather meditating in the cavern of darkness. Yet you are the menacing choice of wrong direction and yet you are the healing pivot of revolutionary turning.</p>
<p>May fire and water bless you with a heavenly magic. May prayers lend you wings for the uplifting and the re-enchantment of this Earth. May the day reward you and violence learn to fear your tenderness and the integrity of your gentle ways. May the day reward you and the horizon of promise, from the house of spirit, greet and caress your face. May you be remembered in the aching witness of strangers and may you be remembered in the laughter and longing of others.</p>
<p>May the day reward you, may this happen, and love be your only shadow.</p>
<p>David Sparenberg<br/>20 March 2013, Spring Equinox</p>
<p>from LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS, volume two, a work in progress. Volume one is available as a free download in the OVI Bookshop: <a href="http://www.ovilmagazine.com/cat/56">http://www.ovilmagazine.com/cat/56</a>.</p>FREE ECO EBOOK REACHES 30,000 DOWNLOADS!tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2013-01-31:5143044:BlogPost:1962562013-01-31T02:37:32.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>Hello to all friends! It was 2 months ago today that OVI published my <strong>LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS</strong> volume one as a free ebook download. In this brief 2 months there have been 30,000 downloads. If one of those is yours, thank you and a sincere wish that you and the book have made a healing and creative bond. If not yet: when? Below is a link. Presently, let me share a composition from the book as both invitation and enticement to read more. After all, it is about the Earth,…</p>
<p>Hello to all friends! It was 2 months ago today that OVI published my <strong>LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS</strong> volume one as a free ebook download. In this brief 2 months there have been 30,000 downloads. If one of those is yours, thank you and a sincere wish that you and the book have made a healing and creative bond. If not yet: when? Below is a link. Presently, let me share a composition from the book as both invitation and enticement to read more. After all, it is about the Earth, the present & future, and it’s free!</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4"><strong>LOVE SONG</strong></span></p>
<p>Awaken, o my beloved: rise up and do not be afraid. Find peace in affirmation of life and the gentle strength of abiding with this Earth. Suffering cannot be avoided. Ignorance invites the storms of cleansing. And there is a fire in the heart of creation that lives and longs to grow.</p>
<p>You have chosen the path of purity; although it is not possible to always be pure. Still you come walking in humility and courage. And Earth is everywhere an honest place, welcoming footsteps and the passage-touch of honesty.</p>
<p>Tell me this, as you meditate in warmth of the sun, feeling aware of home ground below you: How often are your cares and worries overcome by the desire of embrace? How often does a song inscribed with your signature issue like a warbling bird from your throat? And o my beloved, how often does the alchemy of love work its miracle in your body and soul, changing the poetry of silent atonement into the pulse beats of dance?</p>
<p>What’s that? You say you are not a dancer? Not so! For you have told me you are in love and this confession candles like a star from your heart.</p>
<p>See—I can see you. That is why I am holding out both hands and whispering into the circus music of the wind: Be done with fear. Change too is but a force breaking into patterns. Be afflicted with laughter. That is a bellyache that heals. And when the lightning strikes, tell thunder you are in search of freedom.</p>
<p>Everything that is, even the slowest stone, is in pilgrimage and adding—a breath or drop or grain, or leaf or feather—to the prayer of liberation.</p>
<p>This that I am saying for you now is a truth, which I keep finding, soft, in a green stem or silhouette of bird, or woven florescent into the humming intercourse of ocean with the shore. If there was not forever a child within us, would we not turn old as fossils and forget the moving radiance of beauty and joy? from</p>
<p></p>
<p><strong>LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS, volume one</strong>; free ebook download awaits you: <strong><a href="http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56">http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56</a></strong> . If it speaks to you, play it forward, sharing the link.</p>PEACE FOREVER YOUNGtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2013-01-07:5143044:BlogPost:1943912013-01-07T21:12:35.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">I pray today that there will be peace That peace will be a lasting breath inside of all living That peace will be deep breathing That peace will wing out in every direction traveling through the many colored spirals of time and space</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">I pray that stones will speak and wind will listen listing the heavy properties of stone into the warm light…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">I pray today that there will be peace That peace will be a lasting breath inside of all living That peace will be deep breathing That peace will wing out in every direction traveling through the many colored spirals of time and space</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">I pray that stones will speak and wind will listen listing the heavy properties of stone into the warm light of sun That tall trees will pray from roots of wisdom That watery darkness will respect tree-prayer And that Earth—abused elder all around and ailing—will find solace in our new humility and forgive and protect us Live Earth has a guardian angel</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">I pray today that there will be peace That if I am not gifted enough to add light to light I may be poor enough to add nothing to conflict That if I am not wise enough to suggest solutions I am foolish enough to treat every stranger as a friend That as I am not complex enough to be clever I may yet remain simple enough to be honest</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">I pray today that there will be peace Not weak peace which is sallow emaciated cold and compromised That vanishes quickly at the end of words That is dreamless groundless and conceived without a home That peace rather then that dreams in spectrums of senses is multidimensional that carries dreams to distant worlds That stands in bright circles of prayer as in green-fire That is beautiful and supply as limbs of lovers That is moved by desire That is hot with hope</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">Better to error on the side of love: Peace forever young</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">I pray today that there will be peace That the peace of this prayer will have many children That the children of peace will inherit the Earth</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">David Sparenberg</span><br/> <span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;" class="font-size-3">7 Jan. 2013</span></p>EACH MUST EARTH WALKtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-12-30:5143044:BlogPost:1944132012-12-30T02:08:05.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>This is what I have to say: practice quiet. Stop chasing your tail and substituting dizziness for natural ecstasy. Also: discipline yourself to move slower and sometimes to be still. Look, listen, feel—then think about what you are gathering.</p>
<p>Practice silence, but as part of being alert. Be subtle and be sensitive. Then when you know it is time to give your soul expression, be as definite as rolling thunder. Do not fear the storm of compassion denouncement. Such is in quest of…</p>
<p>This is what I have to say: practice quiet. Stop chasing your tail and substituting dizziness for natural ecstasy. Also: discipline yourself to move slower and sometimes to be still. Look, listen, feel—then think about what you are gathering.</p>
<p>Practice silence, but as part of being alert. Be subtle and be sensitive. Then when you know it is time to give your soul expression, be as definite as rolling thunder. Do not fear the storm of compassion denouncement. Such is in quest of justice. Do not be ashamed of compassionate affirmation. From your acts of beauty and your embrace of what is good the spontaneities of peace grow abundant. Therein is your beatitude.</p>
<p>Be in pursuit of freedom, but do not be possessed by things.</p>
<p>Live in the dynamics of truth-force and the connectivity of dialogue.</p>
<p>It is late, but not too late. If in integrity you respect life and honor creation, it yet may be that life and creation will respect and honor you.</p>
<p>Become a mirror and when you search within, there in the depths of buried treasure, behold the angel your heart longs for and your soul is nurturing and shaping into light.</p>
<p>Time is rough and time is heavy. Now, as the angel of death continues devouring the world, turn outward and set free the angel of liberation, fierce love and salvation. Together these angels of personhood are myriad and they are filled with power.</p>
<p>Each must earth walk in this gentle way—and soon—healing, and to stop the epidemic of nothingness.</p>
<p>David Sparenberg<br/> 28 December 2012</p>
<p>TOPPING 14,000 DOWNLOADS</p>
<p>On 20 December my friend & editor Thanos Kalamidas emailed from Helsinki telling me that the downloads for my free ebook LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS had topped 14,000: 14,000 downloads in three week, 14,000 in 21 days. Now the book has been named the OVI book of the month. It is up to others to decide how the number of downloads will grow. If you are one of those already reading—a BIG THANK YOU! If you have not claimed your copy of the book, remember it is free—A Gift Without A Price Tag—and you can download using the following link:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56">http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56</a></p>
<p>If the book speaks to you, please pay it forward and share this invitation and link with others.</p>UNION OF HEMISPHEREStag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-12-21:5143044:BlogPost:1932912012-12-21T03:41:50.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">What of us, salt of the Earth, the little folk, the people—no larger, no smaller, than the fragile fingerprints of God; of God who is not known as we unknown remain, oblivion-scaped in the bigness of the armored-armied, bubble bursting, bludgeoning world</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> …</span></p>
<p></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">What of us, salt of the Earth, the little folk, the people—no larger, no smaller, than the fragile fingerprints of God; of God who is not known as we unknown remain, oblivion-scaped in the bigness of the armored-armied, bubble bursting, bludgeoning world</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">To the North—Dylan, Springsteen, Paul Simon, Emmylou and… little Jackie Evancho sent to</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> remind us —to the South, Miguel Bose, Juanes, Marco Antonio Solis, Sasha Sokol and</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">she, the hipslinger of music, movement and Aphrodite who crosses borders of time, tides and tongues: Shakira! Shakira! Eros and</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">beauty are mischievous champions of happy and rebellious life. O </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">voices </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">sing the collective souls of teeming nation-peoples and plunge the ordinary at everyday into the bloodstream rich, deep purple dream and mist of mystery, unleashing, releasing, liberating unconscious passions of countless dreamers. Here</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">you many tongued and quartet-languaged union of more perfect hemispheres. You continents-pre-Columbian, you unlost discoveries, you restorations, you treasure coffers recovering from injustice—say:</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">will these</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">muscled-miracles of</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">surge and struggling motion roll on unto death-repetitious, unrecognized, uncared for, unheeded more? Or is there a healing wind set footing, lives, hurts, hopes, bundled joys, to rights; no longer lightly fingered but firmly placed within the heaven-palms of unity-democratized, and hearts of hearing, feeling and response? Enough…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Enough! Enough! Enough! Long too long have peoples of these Americas been left to suffering in our open blood to feed the snarling beast of greed, as everywhere. Say</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“Yes”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">by saying “No” say</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“No” where death and tyranny in main are spoken. Sow</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">new dawns with new horizons.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Not empires of fallen dust, not oil ravaged sands, not colonies of commerce, not armadas, not invading profiteers, enforced by neighboring bomb and guns, not prison-farms of private enterprise where labor is bought with beads and promises, and life is cheap. Sing</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">rainbows. Sing rainbow-seeds. O sing!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">you songsters, you troubadours of true love, of movements greensward, jungles, ice, snow, of roaring rivers and summer thunderings of enraptured flowers, of soaring peaks and praying meadows and forests filled of whispered tall tales of wild desires and piety. Sing for freedom, bread, for dignity. Not bales of slave whipped cotton. Not cargo ships of Caribbean rape. Not Montezuma’s blood encrusted gold.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Swell up awake</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">before the waters swell to swallow us. Stomp and</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">shout</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">before the storm-boom of Earth’s sore heartache bursts and breaks in lightning sheets, and tremors shake and rivet down and crash against us. Sing</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">without race,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">but in the grace of colors; dance, without borders, but flame like mortal in respect of life. Do, do, o do, the single deed-necessity more difficult for some, most natural to all: Stand.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Stand up and upright, stand together, hand in hand, and in the poor-pride bones of common-clay humanity—Gather, Greet, Embrace. …She</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">now is among as air is, wild</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">with rivers’ hair of young womanhood and he (Santana) like lover, drowned in the burning ecstasy of a village-vineyard guitar. Rock on! Rock</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">on</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">you Mississippi-Amazon, you Olympic-Andes, you Yukon-Yucatan, you O Canada, you Old Mexico, you post-colonial mojo, you</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">broken cisterns, you earthen jugs, you mended seams of morning memories. You are the one true currency. You are the coins of wealth and poverty. You are the breathing souls, the salt, the freedom songs, the</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">touchstone gold. Like pearls, like precious, deep sea pearls in the blessed hands of destiny.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">In the Fisherman’s hands—o union of more perfect hemispheres—o harbingers, o bringers-on of change.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">from <b>LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS: Episodes of a Sentient Soul, volume one</b>; free download: <a href="http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56" target="_blank">http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56</a></span></p>gifting free ebooktag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-12-02:5143044:BlogPost:1919952012-12-02T03:08:25.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">Hello! You are invited to claim a free ebook copy of my new book <b>LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS</b>: <i>Episodes of a Sentient Soul</i> by David Sparenberg, at the OVI Book Project.. This is an important spiritual & cultural text addressing our increasing ecological & humanitarian crisis. Please claim your free ebook copy using the following link:…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">Hello! You are invited to claim a free ebook copy of my new book <b>LIFE IN THE AGE OF EXTINCTIONS</b>: <i>Episodes of a Sentient Soul</i> by David Sparenberg, at the OVI Book Project.. This is an important spiritual & cultural text addressing our increasing ecological & humanitarian crisis. Please claim your free ebook copy using the following link:</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><a href="http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56" target="_blank">http://www.ovimagazine.com/cat/56</a></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">There is no cost and no obligation; the book is a free gift, a real gift, and a real giving between us. Have a read and then, if you will, please share this invitation with others—many others.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">In solidarity with the Earth, yours</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">david</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">ps: The OVI editor is Greek and is translating the book into Greek, available in Jan. 2013—if there are any Greek speakers receiving this invitation!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><u>early Review and Publication comments</u></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><b>Thanos Kalamidas – OVI Editor</b></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><b> </b></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><strong>You all know David; you have read his poems, his ideas. And he has managed to communicate with his words, his heart and his spirit with all of you. Now David Sparenberg is publishing a book with Ovi magazine reaching out and communicating with more hearts and souls.</strong></span> <br/><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">Prologing David’s book I wrote: “David says that there is hope. As long we connect our spirits and open our minds, remembering the forgotten calling. Remembering that we are all fundamentally connected with Mother Earth. And it doesn’t matter how much you agree or disagree, David starts the dialogue and with your participation you are already culturally connected. The rest …we can do together.”</span> <br/><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">And David Sparenberg’s “Life In The Age Of Extinctions” is such a calling. Read his book, take a slow breathe and start the dialogue with David and yourself just like he’s calling you to do.</span> <br/><br/><br/></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"><b>Professor Emanuel Papparilla, author of Europe Beyond the Euro and A New Europe in Search of its Soul</b></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;"> </span></p>
<p align="left"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">I wish to thank David Sparenberg for gifting the Ovi readership by generously sharing his visionary thoughts, and Thanos Kalamidas and all the other editors of Ovi for providing a megaphone by which David's prophetic voice, so urgently needed in our tragic times, can better be amplified.</span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">Anybody who reads this book will not be disappointed as long as they take care that the reading is accompanied by serious reflection on Sparenberg’s aphorisms.</span><br/><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">Since the very beginning of his welcome into the Ovi family, I have been impressed with my friend David’s holistic poetic visionary approach in describing the ecological plight of Mother Earth. I was immediately brought back to two other prophetic voices on which I have written in Ovi: Teihlard de Chardin (“Building the Earth) and Thomas Berry’s (Dream of the Earth) who went beyond rational philosophical concerns to existential concerns impinging on our very survival, and I thought to myself: this is exactly what is needed to reinforce and complement those former voices, concerns and aspirations….</span><br/><br/></p>
<p align="left"><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">David is undoubtedly an integral part of that transcendent dimension… Now, let those who have ears, let them hear.</span></p>SENDING A VOICEtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-11-09:5143044:BlogPost:1904422012-11-09T17:26:08.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am sending a voice</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">an ancient voice.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am standing here</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in morning light.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am sending a voice</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">an ancient voice.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am standing here</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in morning light.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sun</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">like a loyal friend</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">beautifully smiles on me.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Crows are calling</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">from the towering tops of trees.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I cast no shadow</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in the hour of awakening</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I walk in a dream</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">amid autumn hills.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">On the final summit</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">awaits a golden prayer.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">All through the night</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">ancestors have danced</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in the sacred hoop of creation.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Now</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am sending a voice</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">an ancient voice.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Now I am standing</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">in the love charm of morning.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">David Sparenberg</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">9 November 2012</span></p>NO TO HATE CRIMES, INTOLERANCE & VIOLENCEtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-09-14:5143044:BlogPost:1842862012-09-14T20:00:00.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3">I am dragging something out of my poetry closet to share (again) with each and all, a small contribution in words to healing the harm brought on by one arrogant fool. Let us all pray together for peace, understanding, and unity in diversity that reveals us as both one and many. -david</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">ALL FLOWERS</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">All tongues</span><br></br> <span class="font-size-3">that have hymned…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">I am dragging something out of my poetry closet to share (again) with each and all, a small contribution in words to healing the harm brought on by one arrogant fool. Let us all pray together for peace, understanding, and unity in diversity that reveals us as both one and many. -david</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">ALL FLOWERS</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">All tongues</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">that have hymned God</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">are beautiful.</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">All places</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">sanctified to the worship of One</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">are beautiful.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">All races</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">all deeds done</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">all faces that have shone with love</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">shine</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">and are beautiful.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">Harsh world</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">turn not away</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">into the hour of adversity</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">but flower</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">into God’s maturity.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3">All flowers…all flowering</span><br/> <span class="font-size-3">is beautiful.</span></p>
<p> </p>PRAYER OF HUMILITYtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-09-04:5143044:BlogPost:1830672012-09-04T01:00:00.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><i>Our father</i></p>
<p><i>who art in heaven</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p>
<p>our mother</p>
<p>who wanders among us</p>
<p>holy and homeless</p>
<p>hallowed be your names</p>
<p>(vessels</p>
<p>of essence, seedbeds</p>
<p>of archetypes and angels).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>May your dream of us</p>
<p>be fulfilled in the</p>
<p>earth-sphere as it is</p>
<p>in the creative imagination</p>
<p>and revealed to us</p>
<p>here within the miraculous</p>
<p>work of this living earth:</p>
<p>a prophetic…</p>
<p><i>Our father</i></p>
<p><i>who art in heaven</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p>
<p>our mother</p>
<p>who wanders among us</p>
<p>holy and homeless</p>
<p>hallowed be your names</p>
<p>(vessels</p>
<p>of essence, seedbeds</p>
<p>of archetypes and angels).</p>
<p> </p>
<p>May your dream of us</p>
<p>be fulfilled in the</p>
<p>earth-sphere as it is</p>
<p>in the creative imagination</p>
<p>and revealed to us</p>
<p>here within the miraculous</p>
<p>work of this living earth:</p>
<p>a prophetic promise</p>
<p>of reverence for life</p>
<p>and of peace</p>
<p>and of justice.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Give us this day</p>
<p>the maturity of simplicity</p>
<p>wean us lastingly</p>
<p>from crimes against creation</p>
<p>even the addictions</p>
<p>of violence and greed.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Even as we with</p>
<p>courage rare and rarer</p>
<p>humility</p>
<p>reach out to those</p>
<p>who lay down the</p>
<p>weapons of war and</p>
<p>open their lives deep</p>
<p>to bone marrow and</p>
<p>depths of their souls</p>
<p>to new commensality.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>For</p>
<p>yours is the</p>
<p>touchstone of liberation</p>
<p>and the anointment</p>
<p>of bio-democracy:</p>
<p>that all species</p>
<p>be protected from extinction</p>
<p>and all places</p>
<p>bearing the crucifixion of</p>
<p>time and habitat be</p>
<p>made re-genesis of the <i>numen</i></p>
<p>and in healing</p>
<p>restored to the holy.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>For ours</p>
<p>is the power of choice</p>
<p>as yours</p>
<p>is the baptism of glory.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>David Sparenberg</p>
<p>3 Sept. 2012</p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>“WE ARE THE STONES DANCING” – book review by David Sparenbergtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-08-06:5143044:BlogPost:1672222012-08-06T18:39:25.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>THOMAS BERRY DREAMER OF THE EARTH: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism,</strong> edited by Ervin Laszlo and Alan Combs, A Worldshift Book published by Inner Traditions, 144 pp, $14.95</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">What Arne Naess is to the foundations of Deep Ecology, Matthew Fox to Creation Spirituality and Theodore Roszak to a…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>THOMAS BERRY DREAMER OF THE EARTH: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism,</strong> edited by Ervin Laszlo and Alan Combs, A Worldshift Book published by Inner Traditions, 144 pp, $14.95</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">What Arne Naess is to the foundations of Deep Ecology, Matthew Fox to Creation Spirituality and Theodore Roszak to a popularization of Ecopsychology, so is Thomas Berry to Environmentalism and Eco-Theology. Berry stands forth as a beloved uber-champion of the Great World—the eco-shamanic, holistic, global alchemy of our time—as a leading worldshift and crisis necessitated re-Earthing pioneer, serious celebrant of the “spontaneities within us,” cosmologist and pathfinder, dreamer of responsibility, visionary of maturity, defender of biotic democracy. Berry referred to himself as a “geotheologian.” This volume not only showers accolades on the subject but shows how easy it is to love the man through his dedicated genius as well as his life of wonderment, humility and honesty.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Here is an impressive way of opening the door for the unfamiliar or revisiting the devoted work of Father Berry, an American monk of the Passionist order. The book, a small cornucopia, contains a significant forward and ten essays from engaged contributors. As Thomas Berry is personally highly regarded, I hasten here and delve directly into extensive quotations from the forward and the single essay chosen for highlight. I trust that my evaluation will provide a fertile parcel of common ground.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>THOMAS BERRY DREAMER OF THE EARTH</strong> is edited by Ervin Laszlo, twice nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Club of Budapest, and Alan Combs, professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Let me begin opening the pages with this from Dr. Laszlo’s Forward: “Clearly we are facing critical problems, but what is it that needs to be done? Berry’s advice remains clear and timely. Basically he tells us, ‘What we need, what we are ultimately groping toward, is the sensitivity required to understand and respond to the psychic energies deep in the very structure of reality itself…’</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“Accepting the spontaneities of the universe, calls for a vision that is dreamlike. Imagination functions most freely in dream vision, and so we tend to associate creativity with dream experience. ‘The dream comes about precisely through the uninhabited spontaneities of which we are speaking,’ says Berry. ‘In the beginning was the dream. Through the dream all things were made, and without the dream, nothing was made that has been made.’…”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of course it is to be understood that this dream—dream of Earth and dream of creation; the cosmic dream—is the divine dream. This in turn brings into reference one of the books of bodywork psychologist and physicist Arnold Mindell, <strong>The Dreammaker’s Apprentice</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Continuing from the Forward: “It is through a complex, continuous and subtle interaction that we maintain ‘our intimate presence to the function of the earth community and to the emergent process of the universe itself.’</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“Berry’s basic insight remains entirely valid. ‘The present situation is so extreme that we need to get beyond our existing cultural formation and back to the primary tendencies of our nature itself, expressed in the spontaneities of our being.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“The brightest glimmer of hope shimmering at the darkening horizon of the current global crisis is, in Berry’s words, that ‘the universe is revealing itself to us in a special manner just now. Also the planet Earth and the life communities of the Earth are speaking to us through the deepest elements of our nature’. ”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">To encounter the phrases, In the beginning was the dream; the primary tendencies of our nature itself; the spontaneities of our being, is to feel a deep excitation and arousal that engenders hope while even more impressively demanding dedication.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Next, the essay I have chosen to look into is <strong>INSCENDENCE—The Key to the Great Work of Our Time</strong> (pgs 42-71) by Bill Plotkin. Plotkin is a depth psychologist and wilderness guide, author of <strong>Soulcraft</strong> and <strong>Nature & the Human Soul</strong>.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The term Great Work may be familiar from alchemy and variations played out by Jung and his followers. Inscendence, however, is a word requiring definition. Plotkin (following Father Berry) give us this: “Inscendence”—as over against the otherworldliness of transcendence—is ‘sinking back into the source of everything,’ during which we no longer belong to the world in our old ways… There in the presence of ‘the source of everything’ we hope to be suffused by and informed by what Berry calls ‘the guidance and the powers of the Earth’.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">This has to do with Earth’s organically creative intelligence, of which we are told, “the dream of the Earth, the pull of numinous gravity, draws us down toward ‘the heart of the world.’ By means of this communion, we can re-member ourselves, enabling us, when ripened, to ‘rise up rooted, like trees’.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of the inner-downward-evolutionary-re-connectivity of Inscendence, as praxis in the world and with the Earth, we have this: “Inscendence practices…support the individual to cooperate with, to surrender to, the pull of the dream of the earth, also known as the call of the soul. This descent is experienced as a psycho-spiritual dying. We must die to our old ways of belonging to the world to enable us to uncover something radical, something new, something we could never have rationally deduced, something that our lives depend on.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">It is not possible to overemphasize the importance or urgency of this statement. As we look over the condition of the planet, who can deny the pressing of the issue, signs of a gathering storm, nearing horizon of an event of cataclysm, and the extremity of risk at which we are putting human existence and life itself? Even former skeptics in the scientific community are revising or reversing their prognosis due to accelerated environmental imbalance and changes.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Bill Plotkin also applies the defining of Inscendence to Thomas Berry’s reflections on the re-emergence of shaman and shamanism, that which in my own writings I have come to call green troubadour, eco-shaman and the eco-shamanic. Here then a further set of book quotations, beginning with Father Berry himself.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“More than any other of the human types concerned with the sacred, the shamanic personality journeys into the far reaches of the cosmic mystery and brings back the vision and the power needed by the human community at the most elemental level. The shamanic personality speaks and best understands the language of the various creatures of the Earth.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Plotkin pursues these thoughts: “So far in this passage its seems that he (Berry) meant the realm of vision to be the domain or mission of the presumably rare individual in a society, the shamanic personality. But then in the very next sentence, ‘Not only is the shamanic type emerging in our society, but also the shamanic dimension of the psyche itself. In periods of significant cultural creativity, this aspect of the psyche takes on a pervasive role throughout the society’…”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">“Whether or not the healthy societies of the past were replete with mature members who experienced and embodied revelatory vision, I believe, along with Thomas, that this is both possible and necessary in this century if we are to successfully reinvent the human.” (Reinventing the human at the species level is a major component in Berry’s Ecozoic challenge.) “Sustainable societies, at this turning point in human and Earth’s evolution, will come about through neither human rationality nor the vision of a few individuals alone but through the pervasive emergence of ‘the shamanic dimension of the psyche’. Although the vision of the one can catalyze the many, the vision of each is needed to build the new cultures.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Spontaneously I am inclined to shouting out an energetic, resounding (green) hallelujah of affirmation to the foregoing expression. Indeed, Bill Plotkin’s essay is superlative in a volume that is reader worthy and excellent from start to finish. Space does not allow me to do equal justice to the contributions from Joanna Macy, Duane Elgin, Stanley Krippner, Geneen Marie Haugen, Matthew Fox and the others. Rather, I must leave the now engaged reader with but scant few provocative quotations.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><strong>Thomas Berry:</strong> “Foundations of a new historical period, the Ecozoic Era, have been established… The mythic vision has been set into place… The dream dives the action. In the larger cultural context the dream becomes the myth that both guides and drives the action.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">And: “The greatest single need for the survival of the Earth or of the human community in the twenty-first century is for an integral telling of the great story of the universe. This story must provide in our time what the mythic stories of earlier times provided as the guiding and energizing sources of the human venture…. The three basic tendencies of the universe at all levels of reality are differentiation, spontaneous self-organization, and bonding. These tendencies identify the reality, the values, and the directions in which the universe is proceeding.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of course for a portable—and tender, joyous—touchstone of Thomas Berry as pathfinder and fellow Earth-walker, one need go no further than to recall the most enchanting and memorably of his discoveries and reflections. In these five words—a comfortable fitting into a human palm—Father Berry’s ecosophy: <em>“We are the stones dancing.”</em></span></p>THANKSGIVING WORD SOUNDtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-06-14:5143044:BlogPost:1631752012-06-14T19:46:58.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Whenever I come upon a pure talking stone, a bird’s feather, a shell from the surging sea, I take it up, I lift it up, I say the word-sound Hey-ya-tah-ho.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">I do not know if this is a word from one of the many languages of the Earth. Surely that is possible, but I do not know. Arising from my soul, honoring relationships, in my…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Whenever I come upon a pure talking stone, a bird’s feather, a shell from the surging sea, I take it up, I lift it up, I say the word-sound Hey-ya-tah-ho.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">I do not know if this is a word from one of the many languages of the Earth. Surely that is possible, but I do not know. Arising from my soul, honoring relationships, in my imagination Hey-ya-tah-ho means “This is.”</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">So whenever I walk up to a gift from nature, I take it up, I lift it up, I make the sound Hey-ya-tah-ho, I say to the Earth and Sky, “This is!” I say it slowly, lingering over each syllable.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Spontaneously and but for an instant there is a surge of power, a radiance of joy.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">The word-sound is but one half of my thanksgiving word; one of two bending poles of communion. When the sound exits from my mouth and goes out to Earth and Sky, Hey-ya-tah-ho, “This is,” is heard to the Earth Drum and beating of my heart. The other pole, the second half, is, “I too am here;” a silence prayer.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Earth feels this presence. Sky feels this presence. And I am at peace and in the way of belonging.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">My word-sound belongs of the moment, yet like rolling thunder it is vast, and it is ancient and outside of time. Ancestors dance in the waves of gratitude.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">David Sparenberg</span><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">12 July 2012</span></p>ONE ON THE EDGE OF SHADOWtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-06-07:5143044:BlogPost:1628322012-06-07T16:09:33.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey, turn around! If you want to know who I am, look and listen.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I no longer want to hear only what everyone is hearing. I no longer want to see what everyone else only sees. I wan to hear the primal voices, the ancient whispers, the songs and silences, ignored but waiting—sustained by heartdrums in choral…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hey, turn around! If you want to know who I am, look and listen.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I no longer want to hear only what everyone is hearing. I no longer want to see what everyone else only sees. I wan to hear the primal voices, the ancient whispers, the songs and silences, ignored but waiting—sustained by heartdrums in choral raindrops and solitary tumbleweeds. I want to see what is no longer visible but visits still in the hushness of dreams and recovers us in earth-heavy, midnight to morning, revelations.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I have chosen to be an outsider, one among many who has scouted the way back in.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But if you are not quick enough, be cautioned—I will be gone, riding off into the sunset on the back of a love-goat or straddling a medicine pony, with the magic turning of a leaf, or in the plaintive cloud-cry of a red tail hawk.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">So if you want to know who I am; the light of my eyes, the breath of my touch; know my name: One On the Edge of Shadow—whose throat is green and who dreams of thunders. Tomorrow I might yet be alive in wilderness or in the house of spirits. Afterward, you will not find me in the madness.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Catch up, friend, please, if you can; especially if you are world-lame or soul-wingless. I desire to make a picture for you, so you too can see what it feels like in full windblown color to belong, to live by honoring, and to walk in peace, without fear or enemies.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">David Sparenberg</span><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">D-Day 6 June 2012</span></p>BUT STILL...tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-05-13:5143044:BlogPost:1612222012-05-13T14:10:48.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><em><span class="font-size-3">To all of the good mothers, wives & lovers everywhere: a Blessed Mother’s Day.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of all the women of this world, you are the one who must be; through you the mystery and beauty of woman continues.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of all the mothers of this world, you…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><em><span class="font-size-3">To all of the good mothers, wives & lovers everywhere: a Blessed Mother’s Day.</span></em></span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of all the women of this world, you are the one who must be; through you the mystery and beauty of woman continues.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of all the mothers of this world, you are the mother who must be; through you the mystery and beauty of mothers and of mothers’ children goes on, traveling toward tomorrow like countless streams and rivers.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">O—look how Earth welcomes you as rain!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Of all the lovers of the world and all the dreams of those who are lonely in their soul’s longing for life’s miracle, you are the one most dreamed of and deep in the soul of longing. Even</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">should the night stars hide their eyes and morning breeze forget the song of day’s beginning, it would be a cause of much dismay and poets, caught in the fever of this strangeness, lament, cupping tears in their broken voices. But</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">all in all, all in all if</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">you were not here—suddenly like an eclipse of October moon—if Earth had never felt your footsteps, or sun never blushed before the eloquence of your eyes, what would I be in this fire of existence, in this snow of dismay, dressed so poorly in my rags of silence, with an anguished and a hollow ticking heart? Of all words,</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">words ever spoken now or before, flowing like stardust from the hosts of wounded angels, none shines like Bethlehem above your name—not one! Even, oh, even, even in</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">the depth of midnight when the shadow of a wolf gains more power on the Earth than the breath of heaven, I say to myself, “Each man must have his own belief, so as not to drift into nothingness and forget himself even sooner than his life is forgotten.”</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Only I no longer believe in the fictions and abstractions of the world. But still, still…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">I believe in you</span><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">in all of the world..</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">David Sparenberg</span></p>STORM WALKERtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-04-23:5143044:BlogPost:1581842012-04-23T02:50:16.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Flash forth in diverse forms!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Be as expressive as thunder and lightning Know too when to be silent and invisible for this too is of the mystery But do not fear yourself aligned and attuned in the rough and rapture of at-onement with the power and mystery of creation…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Flash forth in diverse forms!</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Be as expressive as thunder and lightning Know too when to be silent and invisible for this too is of the mystery But do not fear yourself aligned and attuned in the rough and rapture of at-onement with the power and mystery of creation</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Do not walk in the way of death or follow in heavy footsteps mechanical the half dead and those dispirited and death dreaming</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Break forth the sudden show that illuminates wind and roll in dark clouds over paint splashed meadows For where love needs on this ancient Earth there you are called to emerge in emergency as love’s fiery warrior</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">People dragging themselves compromised fear silence as much as fury and more than all else they quiver and hide from the force of truth</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Even a gentle soul like Gandhi embraced truth force and the maker of beatitudes who chose the lowly and little children suffered and died for love’s sake</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">When the storm of a darkness at noon comes over your horizon, you most called upon, storm-walker, do not crouch with cowards but join the dancers of nature who dare to weep themselves into laughter and spin light webs of re-Earthing over land and sea</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Even more than flow and balance, ever precious, creation cherishes joy and spontaneously rising the passing clear songs of acts of beauty Winnowing of one world but also sews fresh faces into the fertility of another season</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Who is more beloved of the desert than one naked and painted with the promises of cyclical prophecy and who dares to be called Rainmaker and Ghost Dance-Walker of Pollen</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Can you, my friend in honeyed solidarity, envision what these words seek for you to see Can you feel the coming-distant near and intimate ; can you hear the hymn of the living in the muscled drum-percussive of heartbeats</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">David Sparenberg</span><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">22 April (Earth Day) 2012</span></p>EARTH DAYtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-04-07:5143044:BlogPost:1572972012-04-07T15:18:42.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>Look all around—</p>
<p>it is beautiful!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Even heavy cloud</p>
<p>on the east</p>
<p>bears a promise of rain.</p>
<p>Many white birds</p>
<p>float on calm sea waters.</p>
<p>Blackbirds of trees</p>
<p>delight in the sky.</p>
<p>Here</p>
<p>under human feet</p>
<p>a green voice of the Earth</p>
<p>ascends</p>
<p>and is singing.</p>
<p>Lovely</p>
<p> </p>
<p>the daylight’s kisses… Look</p>
<p>—it is beautiful!</p>
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<p>David Sparenberg</p>
<p>4 March 2012</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Look all around—</p>
<p>it is beautiful!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Even heavy cloud</p>
<p>on the east</p>
<p>bears a promise of rain.</p>
<p>Many white birds</p>
<p>float on calm sea waters.</p>
<p>Blackbirds of trees</p>
<p>delight in the sky.</p>
<p>Here</p>
<p>under human feet</p>
<p>a green voice of the Earth</p>
<p>ascends</p>
<p>and is singing.</p>
<p>Lovely</p>
<p> </p>
<p>the daylight’s kisses… Look</p>
<p>—it is beautiful!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>David Sparenberg</p>
<p>4 March 2012</p>
<p> </p>BEFORE YOUR FACEtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-02-26:5143044:BlogPost:1547342012-02-26T15:59:29.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>If you are dreamed of<br></br>then you are gold in the alchemy of dreams<br></br>If you are imagined<br></br>then you are the sculpting of imagination<br></br>If you are touched<br></br>then heaven and earth are poetry<br></br>following the curvature of your motion<br></br>If you are loved<br></br>love is fulfilled in your body and soul:<br></br>the swollen cherry and the blood orange<br></br>in the bough<br></br>the light of night’s <br></br>infinite wheeling stars</p>
<p>When I listen to the quiet<br></br>embracing the peace of wild…</p>
<p>If you are dreamed of<br/>then you are gold in the alchemy of dreams<br/>If you are imagined<br/>then you are the sculpting of imagination<br/>If you are touched<br/>then heaven and earth are poetry<br/>following the curvature of your motion<br/>If you are loved<br/>love is fulfilled in your body and soul:<br/>the swollen cherry and the blood orange<br/>in the bough<br/>the light of night’s <br/>infinite wheeling stars</p>
<p>When I listen to the quiet<br/>embracing the peace of wild places<br/>suddenly I feel that<br/>you are whispered<br/>in the feathered breathing of angels<br/>Because of you<br/>I think like a mountain<br/>and am<br/>powerful and spiritually grounded<br/>Because of you<br/>I flow into<br/>the humble heartbeat of the valley <br/>and awaken <em>(before your face)</em><br/>in the love songs of creation</p>
<p>David Sparenberg<br/>26 Feb. 2012</p>SHADOWINGtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-02-12:5143044:BlogPost:1539412012-02-12T03:22:50.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p>Speak into your darkness. Do not be afraid of the echo when it returns to you. Are you sleepless because you have heard yourself weeping? There is so much still to be learned by playing with the games of shadows. Evolution is a mystery not soon to be mastered. And the wand of time is not skillfully in our hands.</p>
<p>Sometimes those who ascend the stairs of knowing seem small and on their knees, and their lips are silent. But how utterly disarming when a robin sings or leaf flutters…</p>
<p>Speak into your darkness. Do not be afraid of the echo when it returns to you. Are you sleepless because you have heard yourself weeping? There is so much still to be learned by playing with the games of shadows. Evolution is a mystery not soon to be mastered. And the wand of time is not skillfully in our hands.</p>
<p>Sometimes those who ascend the stairs of knowing seem small and on their knees, and their lips are silent. But how utterly disarming when a robin sings or leaf flutters and you follow the beauty in the eyes of the humble. Suddenly it is as if they are looking at God! Yet they appear no more in stature than children, bowing in a halo of smile.</p>
<p>What a long way more we have to travel and it seems as if we have not enough words even to depict twilight. Yet in the darkness names well up from the secret ancestral caverns of the soul and a person stays awake, cradled in nakedness, listening.</p>
<p>Breath separates silence as black keys of the unknown play like passing spirits on the bone white keys of life. When you are through with restlessness and fear save a small, innocent prayer for midnight. There, on the ribbon of dreams, know yourself blessed if the resonance rebounds and is your own; twice blessed if the sound of sighing that returns belongs to another.</p>
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<p>David Sparenberg</p>
<p>10 Feb. 2012</p>DAY PRAYERtag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2012-02-02:5143044:BlogPost:1530292012-02-02T19:52:14.000ZDavid Sparenberghttps://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/DavidSparenberg
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Do we dare to live the life of freedom, responsibility, maturity and the dialogical affirmation of mutuality? Do we dare to be the change we desire? Will we come together in the late twilight to be the sacred activism and the shaping of God into prayer that is an embracing compassion and our deliverance from the addictions of greed and violence, ignorance, hatred and fear?…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Do we dare to live the life of freedom, responsibility, maturity and the dialogical affirmation of mutuality? Do we dare to be the change we desire? Will we come together in the late twilight to be the sacred activism and the shaping of God into prayer that is an embracing compassion and our deliverance from the addictions of greed and violence, ignorance, hatred and fear?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Enter then together the pattern of biotic solidarity in the conversion of inner evolution into a spiritual and cultural revolution, of eco-sanity, participatory democracy and world peace, and worlshift toward a new and renewing commensality of generations, races, identities and species.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Through the defense of life, return to the sacredness of life. Through acts of beauty help to return us and Earth with us, to dignity and reverence; to the gypsy sojourn of belonging, and to the holy pilgrimage of balance.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Let us arise from here, in the hour of prayer, and Earth walk together. Let us stand, side by side, hand in hand, interfacing, in the strong Circle of Life. Let us quest—to discover and recover—the sublimity of wonderment and the solidity of trust.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Let us be and in our being learn to let be—neither cool or coldly or lukewarm, but with a heat of passion that connects us, de profundis, into the pathos of all.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">David Sparenberg</span><br/><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">2 Feb. 2012</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">Now please allow me to invite one and all to Free Previews of my most recent books:</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;">This invitation goes out in the spirit of Earth urgency and is a call for solidarity in the defense of planetary and sacred life in the contemporary age of extinctions.</span></p>