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No 179 / November 2001

Dear Friends,

Through the Australian pre-election exchanges we hear of the interlinking of our economy to the global economy, the aligning with international allies and the relating of local issues to the world context by comparison and alignment. Through these debates as well as through the expression on the world stage of various viewpoints and degrees of understanding, we can see a recognition of interdependency rising to the surface and the oneness of the human spirit beginning to express. At the same time there is a refusal to allow non-truth, partial truth or wrong assumption to guide planning and decision making. In spite of the unprecedented nature of the new war which has been unleashed on our world, there is a re-invigoration - an enlivening - of our sense of humanity, of our united identity. This unification aligns across existing power bases and against exclusive partisan views. It accepts responsibility for the effects of past errors, arising from limited judgement, and looks ahead to the future results of current action. This sense of oneness is not necessarily shared by all in positions of leadership and government but it is the highlight of the human groundswell, finding its spokesmen and representatives in any and all departments of human affairs, in all churches, cultures, races and fellowships.

A recent series of ABC programmes, called "A Force More Powerful", traced the rising influence of "people power" throughout the twentieth century. An informed public opinion has great impact despite apparently insurmountable opposition. It is consciousness that is changed. Even when external issues appear lost, our understanding, our values and priorities, shift towards what is more real, more true and more universally relevant than the previous petty and partisan views. The horrors of physical pain and death as played out in world events - and most dramatically in the past month - bring us closer to a living understanding of true values. The twin towers of the World Trade Centre saw a sharing in death by many nations, religions and peoples. It occurred in what would have been considered one of the safest places in the world. So it went right to the heart of those nations involved, of people generally, and thus right to the heart of humanity itself, like an electric shock to restore life. Had our complaisance slowed the momentum of life expressing?

To stand against the forces of destruction we must be prepared to sacrifice - to make sacred - the lesser life, the ordinary, personal life. We need to be ready to give up what is lesser for what is greater, so that our "lesser" becomes hallowed with meaning and significance. This has been the nature of man's journey and striving on the planet. There are great achievements to show for this, not least of which are the many freedoms that have been won back from oppression. All moves onwards. What was previously the goal, once achieved, becomes a burden for the next steps and must be replaced by a newer vision. Our sense of responsibility broadens as we realise we cannot be responsible for (respond to) the needs of individual people, groups or nations unless we respond to the whole of life that supports them.

A woman's comment in the Four Corners television programme about police corruption rang with a new awareness as she commented that the police supporting drug trafficking were supporting the sickness and death of the victims of addiction and so were no better than the terrorists we are fighting against around the world. A limited sense of loyalty had been exposed as it orbited an exclusive personal motive at the expense of the greater life - a limiting view on the part of those whose professed role is to serve the greater good. Destruction reverberates out from apparently small individualised causes and we can become responsible for more than our conscience can bear.

We see oneness expressing more and more clearly, and gradually we realise that we, as observers, are not what we observe. The more our vision encompasses, the more deeply are we connected with the one central point from which all emerges into expression - the more we are identified with life itself. Through all the diverse and ever-changing events of the world we carry a sense of persistent being. This sense is so integral and automatic that we forget it is constantly there - just like we forget that we breathe until some hindrance brings it to mind. And in this forgetting we weave "identities" for ourselves from the external world of effects. We suffer the illusion that we are our worldly successes or possessions. It may take a ruthless ripping away of these to remind us that we still have "being" even when all is lost.

The creeping impact of the world economic recession is causing a re-evaluation of our living. What was taken for granted as our individual due is re-assessed and the experience is recognised as a shared one. Then we realise that abundance is a shared quality only. We are told that: "The great spiritual achievement and evolutionary event of that age (the Aquarian age) will be the communion and human relationships established among all peoples, enabling men everywhere to sit down together in the Presence of Christ (the World Teacher or Coming One of many religions known under such names as the Lord Maitreya, the Imam Mahdi, the Bodhisattva) and share the bread and wine . .

Preparations for that shared feast . . are on their way, and those preparations are being made by the masses of men themselves, as they fight and struggle and legislate for the economic sustenance of their nations, and as the theme of food occupies the attention of legislators everywhere. This sharing, beginning on the physical plane, will prove equally true of all human relations and this will be the great gift of the Aquarian Age to humanity."

We have certainly been sharing the effects of separateness and materialism - we have shared death and privation. When we share we allow something to flow throughout the scope of the sharing. Ultimately we are sharing life, as everything we share is related to living and that "life more abundant" which the Christ brings into expression. The abundance comes in the extension through sharing - so that life abounds. That is how we allow abundance to manifest - through sharing. The more we give, the more there is. The story of the loaves and fishes is not so much a miracle as a statement of principle. We have only to share our understanding of it in order to bring it to realisation. The current economic models (which we share in supporting) are coming apart because we are beginning to share a new realisation. Our world recession is a symptom of a new unified human consciousness.

Sharing is automatic when we live oneness, when there are no "barriers in man's nature". The sharing we see happening throughout the world is a symptom and a triumphant affirmation of the externalisation of the inner oneness. This comes from the heart of humanity through the "ordinary" men and women who donate, give, share what they have - such as the donations to humanitarian agencies and appeals or time given by volunteers. There is certainly a will to share. It has only to be galvanised into global co-ordinated expression, into livingness. This sharing operates in all dimensions - spiritual sharing, life sharing, is our natural state of being. We have only to realise it into outer expression.

Early Bird Registrations are available for:
• The Two Day Introductory Workshop (12th & 13th January 2002) if registered by 3 November 2001. ($125 fee reduced to $100 for early birds. Manual $30 extra and Lunches $26 extra). To be facilitated by Dr Dorothy Maver, a leading innovative educator with teaching background in Health, Physical Education, Psychology and Philosophy at High School and University levels.
• The Five Day Advanced Workshop (TK1) (9th to 13th February 2002) if registered by 30 November 2001. $885 fee reduced to $785 for early birds. Lunches $65 extra). To be facilitated by Dr Maver together with Grethe Fremming and Rolf Havsboel, the Danish founders of TK. They are pioneers in the field and are well known in Denmark, Germany, USA, Switzerland and Australia for their foundational and innovative research and practice since 1983.

For information contact: Dennis Merrington, on mobile 0419 628 118 or email: dennisM1@bigpond.com, or
Gail Stanton on (02) 9958 4788 or email: gail_Stanton@bigpond.com .
The workshops will be held at "The Centre", 14 Frances Street Randwick NSW 2031 where accommodation can be arranged, if required, by calling (02) 9398 2211 or email centreac@bigpond.com

Transformational Kinesiology is a pioneering technique developed by the two Danish researchers utilizing muscle testing to work holistically with the energy system of an individual. It is a diagnostic and healing process that facilitates the individual's accessing their innate wisdom by assisting them to develop a conscious awareness of their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. It can be used to clear away subtle energy blocks from all levels of our being. TK is based on the Ageless Wisdom, the essence of all the spiritual traditions. It supports an experience of "conscious living" and is a process of Soul-centred counselling that works intentionally and gently. The ultimate goal is to awaken and expand an inner awareness and to support us in making those changes which will enable us to more fully express our unique potential. It recognises that everyone holds their truth within.