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May/June 2001
Damn Everything But The Circus e.e. cummings
Who's In Charge Here? "Since we are gods, we might as well get good at
it." said the slogan on Stewart Brand's original Whole Earth
Catalog. Some people, including God's own son, have been crucified
for daring to equate themselves with God. It remains,
nevertheless, one of the most theologically logical explanations of who
we are, as well as who God is. Christian fundamentalists claim that God
will not let us destroy the world, ("only God can do that"),
believing that everything is completely in God's hands, so why
worry! How does such an idea square with the clear historical fact
that God has allowed us to acquire and apply the most horrifying methods
of mutual self-destruction, resulting in the increasingly precarious
condition of our entire earthly environmental system? Will God - or maybe the aliens - jump in
at the last minute and say, "Wait just a minute!" You can't do
that to yourselves! I won't let it happen!" Don't count on
it. did God intervene during the holocaust to save his own chosen
people? No, and that's just the point. We have been gifted
with remarkable intelligence and responsibility. "To whom
much is given, much will be required." We must learn to
intervene on our own and each other's behalf, that's why we have this
tremendous freedom and opportunity to save the world. We're
it! The Eternal Powers That Be have trusted us that much! We
are literally able to create the future, and inescapably we are doing
just that, for better or worse, at every moment! So, yes, "since we
are gods, we might as well get good at it." And the sooner the
better! -- Bill Joyner a place where questions are scattered like
seeds--- Today is the day of
your life --Corita The
real circus with acrobats, jugglers and bareback
riders- Also an empty field transformed, and in
the tent artists and freaks, children and
pilgrims and animals are gathered in communion
-- us. --
Corita Kent Each
incarnation has a total lesson. You can't
get the lesson when you say, "I'm safe, I'm
only watching." You have to participate
you have to wring the sponge of each moment
completely dry. --Ram
Dass ...damn
everything that is grim, dull, motionless,
unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that
won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy,
that won't throw its heart into the tension,
surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the
round world, the full existence... --S.
Helen Kelley Who's In Charge Here?
(Part II) "Deus abscondis,"
the hidden God, who is unavailable to us in a tactile, immediate way,
this is the one who says to us, "It is expedient for you that I go
away." God becomes more absent so that we might become more
present. This transition of responsible participation is vital to
our maturation. Sometimes I go with my
3-year-old friend, Nicholas, to his gymnastics class, where he walks on
a somewhat tall balancing beam. If I hold his hand, as he prefers,
it only prevents him from being able to do this on his own. Confidence develops from
within as we are supported, encouraged and set free to try our own
wings. Who would not prefer, in some fear-filled corner of his or
her mind, to be forever protected from the risk of creative personal
& social development? But common sense, natural imperatives
and divine revelation direct us toward the far more rewarding goal of
actually creating the future for ourselves & for the world.
So, then, let the fun continue and re-begin, world without end.
Amen! -- Bill Joyner
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Love
is a rose, but you better not pick it; --Neil
Young Some
wonders will remain when comets &
planets & suns & worlds move on
through regions unknown. Love leads on
and never is in doubt. Secure within
and without. when
two souls meet their lights come together,
and a single light emerges from them to feel
the universal generations as a sea, and
oneself as a wave in it. This is the mystery... --Buber
--BJ
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Movie-Go-Round Bill Joyner 2001: A Space Odyssey
(1968 141 min) - After all these years,
it's so gorgeous, so lyrical, a truly magical, everlasting fantasy of
flight! It is paced with great elegance & leisure, almost deliberately
boring at times, but ever-ascending through familiarity into utter
strangeness! Thus are we transported beyond the sleek banality of
our futuristic machinery into a realm of mystery and dreams,
encountering, at last, our own incomprehensible selves.
then another year of seasons---
it is the school the garden our life is
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it only grows when its on the vine.
Hand full of thorns and you know
you've missed it. You lose your love
when you say the word "mine."
"What
does this little symbol mean?" some
have wondered. I'd like to claim, in
true Taoist form, that it means nothing at
all. But, in fact, I did first draw it as
symbolic of a bird in flight encircled
somewhat by a circle of necessity.
Over the years, it has opened up in a way
that expresses how I'd like the world to be,
safe & experimental, open & free.
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