"17 tricks or Weapons of Massive Reconstruction for Global Amelioration"

I most humbly happened to have a really revelatory experience on October 29th during the global peace meditation thanks to all the true souls who focused on peace at that time..

That experience has resulted in well over 50 pages of writing which will eventually be published in greater permanence in a spiritual, political, and believe it or not, a somewhat humorous book. It's working title is "Peace in the Future," but that title keeps morphing on me.

The writing is inclusive of "16 tricks" or "Weapons of Massive Reconstruction for Global Amelioration." They are simple and easy and free and anyone can participate who is willing and has a minute or two to spare.

The second of these tricks is. . .

"-visualizing the planet bathed in a regal violet light at least once daily
("Purple rain, purple""reign". . .: ). . .

Consider involving oneself in Violet -Purple party for the short term anyway, (blue and red makes purple) by simply seeing planet bathed in a violet light of transformation and indeed consider both joining and ending the human race. Maybe start human party instead. Indeed life can be a party where all participants have equal access to the blessings that be." It is simply far higher in the visible spectrum than blue and the only true antidote for the "dreaded red."

Doing this is will simply help us all transcend intractably divisive dualism which is currently leading us nowhere, and causes all too many to despair.

Earlier and rougher drafts containing the first "8 tricks" are posted at the following links. . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5444610

http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=7341

The latter "8 tricks" are as follows and not previously posted on the web but have been forwarded wildly.

"-9th trick: Oh, I remember from many years ago, another old, though still verry effective trick. . .When one is by the water, one can snag a dark stone, and cradle it in one's hands. One can mentally project all that they feel upset about, and all resulting anger and frustration and assorted angst onto stone. One's hands may shake uncontrollably, depending on one's level of angst. Then one throws dark stone in water, and forgives stone as the stone hits surface of water. Then one finds white or verrry light stone. One projects upon that stone all that one is grateful for and loves. One's hands may shake again depending on breadth of appreciation of blessings in one's life. One tosses that in water and rejoices, when the stone hits surface of water.

"Prayers of gratitude are those which are most powerful."

Since in this writing, I've been so silly as to amend the words of honest Abe, and the Bible, pRes Bush, Hunter (RIP), Dylan, Blake, John Lennon, and even Humpty Dumpty's horses and men. I'm deeply compelled to amend this trick as well.

If you can find amethyst or any other purple stone (fluorite, sugilite, chaorite) or even something more commonplace, do the same with that stone, this time praying and projecting desire to neutralize dualism on planet (betchya all of your hands will shake.) And when the stone hits surface of the water, figure 8 or laugh, or dance, or start celebrating in any old way your sweet heart desires, our ever nearing proximity to photon belt. . . .Wooooohoooooo!!! we're just about there.
http://www.gogratitude.com/masterkey/

-10th trick. . ."Every time you hear stuff from media that makes your BS detector go ballistic, consider saying aloud "I co-create with spirit that the truth be revealed ASAP" and blast violet-purple light onto nearby screen or speaker." Enough with the "hypnogogic oligarchary."

Hey, if a dumb assed, unelected, incurious, inarticulate, corporate puppet leader can make up words, then so can I, and you can too. Let's get really creative and pester the media relentlessly. That is only if you've the time and inclination to do so.

-11th trick. . . For a while, consider, doing far better for others, than you would ever dream of them doing for you in a million years.

-12th trick. . .I stole this one from now reincarnated, though used to be, old "sleeping prophet" Edgar Cayce. Take baths. If you have no bathtub available, then bathe around. Aaaand don't tell me that you have no extra time for baths, as baths take about 15 minutes, showers take 5-10. No one is really that busy or all too important to do so. Cayce recommended 1 part baking soda to 2 parts Epsoms Salts for baths. That stuff is really cheap. and readily available. I add my fave oil (lavender). You can add yours. Ritual full immersion is an age old, time tried tradition for cleansing. Especially is so for sensitive sorts. It is great to do during lunations. That would mean, once every two weeks. It is alleged to release all sorts of accumulated psychic effluvia from body and is said to literally change PH thereof, yet I am not a chemist this time 'round. It certainly feels as such. I just know that when I take one, I invariably feel reborn, and am reminded that I too have a life, instead of thinking of troubles of others all the time as is my naturally inherent proclivity.

-14th trick: Be more collaborative, and only compete with own self's highest potential.

-15th trick: This one is from text composed shortly after 9/11. Ya know how alleged terrorists had "sleeper cells?" Declare you and your mates and perhaps your families to be "waking cells" and incessantly expand your horizons and philosophies.

-16th trick: Write to the International Criminal Court (http://www.icc-cpi.int/home.html&l=en ) regarding the Downing Street Memos (http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/) and how the US government refuses to investigate the war crimes it's committed so we just might require some international assistance to prosecute. You can write to the UN and the nicer Supremes if you so desire as well."

OMG, I just remembered yet another wondrous trick, this one is from a lady shaman and visionary activist who is most inspiring. (http://www.visionaryactivism.com)

Whenever a dynamic with another breaks down and reaches an impass, sit down and write them a letter, and don't hold back anything you feel. Then read the letter aloud, then burn it. As ever, be cautious with fire. I employ the use of plyers and a cast iron skillet when I do this. Then release the ashes into moving water. It's nice to do in nature, but a toilet or sink will do just as well. This is how one sends another a "spiritual fax." It is great magic as it moves the restrictions in the dynamic through all of the four elements and purifies the emotions and sends a great healing to both you and the higher self of the person with whom one is hassled.

But in reference to the 2nd trick, a seemingly related funny tale appeared in my "yocal paper" today. . .

http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20051223_pearl23.14c3fcd9.html (requires registration)

Clam craving led to find of rare quahog pearl

The deep-purple gem, about the size of a pea, was found by a Portsmouth couple during the big snowstorm earlier this month.

01:41 AM EST on Friday, December 23, 2005

BY STEVE PEOPLES
Journal Staff Writer
PORTSMOUTH -- Barbara Krensavage attributes the purple pearl discovery to her obsession with clams casino. Mikey Krensavage, 11, shows a ring featuring a rare purple pearl that his parents found while shucking a quahog. It could be worth thousands. Or millions. It was a stormy Friday afternoon, earlier in the month, when the latest craving hit. "I don't even like clams that much, but when I get this craving for clams casino, there's no stopping it," said the Portsmouth mother of two. "I had had them the night before -- but they made me feel so good, I went all the way out in the blizzard, with the trees falling down, to get more clams." She returned from a Newport seafood restaurant with about four dozen quahogs. Her husband, Thaddeus "Ted" Krensavage, an anesthesiologist at Morton Hospital & Medical Center, in Taunton, was in the midst of shucking the shellfish when he came across what looked like a rotten clam. "If it was an oyster, I would have thought about looking for a pearl," he said, "but I've never heard of something like that coming from a clam. I thought it was diseased or something."

He was ready to throw it away when Barbara walked in. On closer examination, they found a perfectly round, brilliant-purple pearl, about the size of a large pea. After a few clicks on the computer, they realized they had stumbled across a natural treasure. "We're finding out there's only a handful on earth," Barbara said. "We were excited, biting it and everything."
Ted said he's been trying to track down jewelry experts to determine the pearl's value, but the gem is so rare, it's been difficult. "If it's worth $10,000, we'll probably keep it, it'll be a family treasure," he said. "But if it's worth more than a quarter million, we might put it up for auction." THE VALUE of the Krensavages' purple pearl -- and dozens of other such gems that have surfaced across the country in recent years -- is tied directly to the fate of the Alan Golash brooch. Alan Golash is a Newport antique dealer whose partner bought a $14 brooch five years ago -- in a Bristol antique shop -- that may be worth up to $1 million. The piece features two purple quahog pearls, one of which is the largest known specimen of the rare gem anywhere in the world, according to Antoinette Matlins, of Woodstock, Vt., author of The Pearl Book: the Definitive Buying Guide.

"I keep hoping somebody is going to call with something similar, or comparable to, the Alan Golash brooch," Matlins said in a telephone interview yesterday, "but so far, nothing comes close. "But are rare and definitely valuable. How valuable is the big question mark. Until Alan's is sold, or goes on the auction block -- that will more or less set the parameters." Without seeing the Krensavages' specimen, Matlins estimated it might be valued in the thousands of dollars, though that number could shoot up after the sale of the Golash piece. "You might sell something now for $20,000 or $25,000, which seems like a huge amount for a single pearl," she said, "but then somebody might turn around and bid $1 million for the Alan Golash pearl. Then, the person who sold it for $20,000 or $25,000 would be kicking themselves." The Golash brooch -- which includes a purple pearl roughly twice as large as the Krensavage pearl -- is one of the featured items in the American Museum of Natural History's international pearl exhibit, now in Japan. The exhibition will move to Australia for much of 2006, and then to the Persian Gulf and London in 2007.
It is unclear when Golash and his anonymous partner would have the brooch removed from the exhibition to be sold at auction. Matlins said "they would be out of their minds not to leave it in the exhibition in the Persian Gulf," where it would attract the attention of "billionaire oil sheiks," increasing the ultimate selling price. THE PURPLE PEARL'S value is driven by its rarity. Some experts estimate that only 1 in 100,000 quahog clams contains a pearl, and 1 in 20 of those pearls is of gem quality. That puts the odds on the Krensavages' find at 1 in 2 million. And though it is undeniably unique, the quahog's purple pearl doesn't meet the scientific definition of a pearl. By definition, Matlins said, a pearl must come from a bivalve mollusk -- such as an oyster or mussel, which usually produce white pearls.

Such pearls are now generally manmade -- called cultured pearls. Worldwide oil production in the early 20th century created water pollution that rendered natural pearls virtually extinct.
Matlins said that, after Golash's story was publicized (including a segment on The Oprah Winfrey Show), she received dozens of calls from people across the country claiming to have purple pearls. Most were of inferior quality, she said, though some were valuable.
But she said she suspects many more people possess the gems, and simply don't realize their worth. "Here we have what is truly one of the rarest, most beautiful, and most precious of American gems, which is one of the best kept secrets in America," Matlins said. "And it's something that people only now are beginning to learn about, understand, and seek." In the Krensavage household, at least, Ted and Barbara will pay close attention next time they make clams casino. "We found this in a live clam," Barbara said yesterday, gazing at the deep-purple pearl, temporarily set in a gold ring. "We can authenticate and date this organic gemstone. We even kept the shell."

SPeoples@projo.com

In a somewhat unrelated tale. . .this is also from my text. . .

". . .A seasonal aside and humble request . . .my friend's son who just passed on in Iraq, was named Nikolas. Perhaps more mom's and dad's could consider no longer lying to their kid's about St. Nicholas in Nikki's honor, and in honor of all those other kids who's lives have been taken so unnecessarily. Attempting to fulfill the deluded and misguided fantasies and further enrichment of the PNAC for hegemony in that region is indeed, hardly a "noble cause" either.

People think it's funny to lie to kids about Santa. Well it's not. Stop telling little kids that there is in physicality a really robust, most Jovial and generous dude who lives on the North Pole, who manages to fly, powered by unwinged mammals around the entire planet, in one night and come down each and every chimney with toys for "every girl and boy." Look at it from their perspective. They know it's bull. Try to remember how it made you feel, when you learned that one of the most magical occurrences of the year was based on a total lie. . . ?

Our kids our smarter than we, and thank goodness they are. As the world we are bequeathing them will require great intelligence and wild imaginings, on all of our parts to ameliorate sooner for them. Maybe listen more than tell, with this brood.

Kids inherently know the difference between a spirit and a human being . They also know well the difference between a myth and a fact. Tell 'em that Santa Claus symbolizes the spirit of Christmas, which inspires great generosity in the hearts of everyone. Please do this at least in part, in Nikolas's treasured memory. And maybe fewer kids will assume that authority figures will always lie about both wars and magic. Maybe then, we'll have a whole lot more truth in the world.

And riddle me this, which is worse. . . lying about a foolish dalliance with one who was not even complaining and in fact, was bragging, versus being totally misguided about a totally malevolently bogus casus belli, resulting in innumerable deaths and incalculable damage and loss ?. . .

The more souls that visualize the earth bathed in violet-purple, the more quickly the lost souls behaving like misguided, greedy, lying, hypocrites, who govern and pronounce through fear, and incessantly deny all of their deceit and avarice, than I've ever before witnessed, will all lose their power, be exposed, and ultimately brought to justice.

Justice by the wayyy, according to what my curiously acquired, sparkled covered, and feathered "angelic & cosmic sledgehammer" tells me, is really only attained through rectification, redemptive deeds, and multitudinous restitutions. . . "

"Funny story: I was talking on stellaphone with lovely friend bella,, a while ago. We were talking about how * isolates himself totally from his general populous and constituents, and I asked her if she had happened to see the armored limo in which he rolled down Pennsylvania after the inauguration. It had so much armor, probably 5-10 inches all they way around it, that it appeared to look far more like a giant "bowling ball" than a motor vehicle. But kids still can't get armored vehicles or adequate body armor in Iraq.

The only funny part of it was, instead of saying inauguration, I accidentally and actually said, "during the "ignore your nation."" We both cracked up over my verbal faux pas. Another "bubble of hilarity" ensued that rivaled again and perhaps surpassed the "God didn't leave footnotes either," quip from so long ago. "

"Here is a joke my son made a while ago during a car ride. He was on a roll making up a litany of "mathamagicianical" stupid bar jokes, when I was trying to instruct him of something, which I'll share later . . .but my personal absolute all time fave of his jokes was and is. . .

"So-o-o. . .this amazingly miraculous energy, previously unavailable to humanity, walks into a bar. Bartender goes. . ."woh. . . ?" Everybody gets enlightened."

The total prankster kid reduced all my writing into a stupid bar joke, in one full swoop. I was laughing so hard that I missed our turn. He had to remind me of it. Too funny really. Perhaps we need new law: "do not operate motor vehicle with silly son cracking stupid bar jokes inside. : ) ""

May the Promise and Possibility of an Eventual, Inevitable, and Lasting Peace Envelope You and Your's this Season and Throughout Many Year's to Come.

Do you ever feel, when you are meditating, that you are, indeed, connected to all others in the world? This past year this concept has been shown to me again and again, in dreams and in the waking world.

Purple has been my colour for years, and is the colour of my birthstone, amethyst. So I find the Purple Ideas intriguing.

Silly son is a reminder that angels fly because they take themselves lightly-humor is part of living, and we should use it!

I will end with my own bar joke (though it isn't mine but an old old Sufi story):
We are all in a bar, and we are all intoxicated. Some of us, for reasons known only to God, finally wander out into the Light. We are struck with the beauty, the energy, the clarity and sobriety that is there, and don't want to leave. But a Voice softly says, "You must go back into the bar, for your time there isn't up yet. But go back with Remembrance."
And we return. The bartender sets up a drink, and we said, "No, not anger this time. Give me compassion instead. With a kindness chaser."

As I look around this drunken universe, I sometimes find those who are drunk on kindness, compassion, and love, and I rejoice, for I know I have met a fellow traveler on the Path. And I greet them as I greet you, hand over heart.

Salaam.

for such a lovely response and funny sufi bar joke.

Always is an extraordinary pleasure to come across someone with energy as refined as yours.

Salaam right back at you habib.

again, for a deeply moving, altering experience reading your work!

seeing the world bathed in violet-purple, always!


peace!

the merrier. . .truly.

and thanks

Be well, dear stella.

Beth