Platforms for Peace

Yesterday as I rode the train into London I quietly cried.  The famine in Somalia, the recent Tsunamis-Hurricanes-Tornadoes-Solar Flares, the radiation in our water, the blank faces around me, the riots burgeoning across the UK, it-was-just-too-much.  How is it, I wondered, that I am so completely committed to positive outcomes? In the face of humanitys' pain, I know humanitys' beauty.  It is all there together, and so exquisite in the mayayuga of its overarching balance.  We are coming into balance.  

In the Polarity model, unwinding trauma is a process of titration in which the charge of initial trauma is first activated in order to bring it to the surface.  Grounding and skills are then applied in order to allow the charge to neutralize.  A series of small activations and subsequent releases toward sattva (nuetral peaceful zero point energy) is a process engaged in over an hour or more, and possibly over weeks or months.  The scale of trauma our planet requires us to nuetralize is enormous.  It may take many earth changes, many riots, many upsets in order for peace to descend on the whole.  I know, based on my healing practice, that this is possible.  If one human can heal, we can all heal.  It is not beyond our grasp.  

Andrew Harvey, a scholar who writes beautifully and extensively about Mevlana Rumi, said in 2006, "Humanity is now terminally ill and can only be transfigured by a totally shocking revelation of its shadow side."  We have starved, maimed, beaten, killed, eaten, deprecated, and defiled ourselves for long enough!  My heart is screaming out.  Our hearts are screaming out.  It is time to dig out the roots of our collective suffering and create the platforms for peace which will allow us to collectively transmute our inner darkness into light.


Today, as I meditated and practiced yoga on the green at Clapham, as I danced and prayed my heart out with my spiritual community, I began to visualize working platforms for peace.  They start small, with the light inside the heart.  They grow from there, one heart-light pouring over huge areas and many heart-minds, they become manifestos which in turn become calls to action.  Action which is rooted deeply in inner guidance and strength, which gives voice and space to our birthright of healing.  


I believe without a doubt that humanity has the courage to face ourselves and to heal.  
I believe without a doubt that collective transmutation of our traumas from pain to peace is the source of our power to create a heaven and earth united. 
I am committed to that transmutation and I therefore take full responsibility for the nourishment and sharing of my heart-light.

As our platforms for peace emerge, as we co-create them with diligence and disgust and delight, we become the sweet prayer of life that is the birthright of every living being.  "The killing stops here." (Atanarjuat in The Fast Runner, a film well worth seeing, 2001.)