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==Session==

==Session==

===Opening===

===Opening===

MUSIC: "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Eye_Is_on_the_Sparrow The Eye is on the Sparrow]" Carl: Solo, A Cappella

MUSIC: "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Eye_Is_on_the_Sparrow The Eye is on the Sparrow]" Carl: Solo, A Cappella

PRAYER: Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the [[presence]] of [[Jesus]], the Christ.

PRAYER: Matthew: Let us place ourselves in the [[presence]] of [[Jesus]], the Christ.

I tell you about joy, and yet I feel your heavy nature. Either you are suppressing your concerns or you are ignoring me. What is it? Where are your [[fears]] or concerns that make you feel so heavy-laden?

I tell you about joy, and yet I feel your heavy nature. Either you are suppressing your concerns or you are ignoring me. What is it? Where are your [[fears]] or concerns that make you feel so heavy-laden?

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Matthew: I may be a [[guilty]] party. I have immersed myself in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War this war business], only to try and [[understand]] it, and I'm trying to not carry it around like a house chained to my ankle, but maybe it is. I'm just trying to understand "insanity" and that's [[dangerous]] business. So maybe you're picking up on me, I don't know.

Matthew: I may be a [[guilty]] party. I have immersed myself in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War this war business], only to try and [[understand]] it, and I'm trying to not carry it around like a house chained to my ankle, but maybe it is. I'm just trying to understand "insanity" and that's [[dangerous]] business. So maybe you're picking up on me, I don't know.

Esmarelda: Well, I think probably all of us, to some degree, -- I think we're all concerned about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War the war situation], and people being killed - both of our country and the country in which the [[war]] is being fought. But I think it's also equally good that we are [[joyous]] as well, and that we can enjoy each other and feel lighthearted and laugh and still enjoy life, but it is difficult not to be concerned about the world situation right now.

Esmarelda: Well, I think probably all of us, to some degree, -- I think we're all concerned about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War the war situation], and people being killed - both of our country and the country in which the [[war]] is being fought. But I think it's also equally good that we are [[joyous]] as well, and that we can enjoy each other and feel lighthearted and laugh and still enjoy life, but it is difficult not to be concerned about the world situation right now.

Men-o-pah: I was reminded yesterday that the country is at [[war]]. Most of you know that I do some [[volunteer]] work at the airport here. I went in to do my shift yesterday. The [[traffic]] into the airport was backed up all the way down to the interstate, and the people, where I park my car, they were standing up and they were all over the place. They had a bomb threat inside the airport. It turned out not to be anything, really, but they [[evacuated]] the whole airport. Some camper had . .. I don't know how this happened, really. He had a little bottle of propane. It was empty and he wanted to get rid of it, so he put it in a trash barrel in the airport, of all things, and somebody saw him do it and, man, they rained on that guy! And at the same time, you know, they chased everybody out. There were people that had just come in on various and sundry flights and they didn't have time to get their luggage. They run them out. So it reminded very, very much that the country is at [[war]].

Men-o-pah: I was reminded yesterday that the country is at [[war]]. Most of you know that I do some [[volunteer]] work at the airport here. I went in to do my shift yesterday. The [[traffic]] into the airport was backed up all the way down to the interstate, and the people, where I park my car, they were standing up and they were all over the place. They had a bomb threat inside the airport. It turned out not to be anything, really, but they [[evacuated]] the whole airport. Some camper had . .. I don't know how this happened, really. He had a little bottle of propane. It was empty and he wanted to get rid of it, so he put it in a trash barrel in the airport, of all things, and somebody saw him do it and, man, they rained on that guy! And at the same time, you know, they chased everybody out. There were people that had just come in on various and sundry flights and they didn't have time to get their luggage. They run them out. So it reminded very, very much that the country is at [[war]].

Miriam: Did you feel fearful in that situation? Was your [[heart]] beating? Were you [[feeling]] scrambled? Or were you feeling calm?

Miriam: Did you feel fearful in that situation? Was your [[heart]] beating? Were you [[feeling]] scrambled? Or were you feeling calm?

Men-o-pah: I'm calm most of the time, and it didn't really bother me much. I knew that there was something happening, and I didn't really find out until I got into the place and . .. well, there was . .. I'm sure these GI's were part of the Reserve, the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard National Guard], and I haven't seen any GI's there since the [[911|9/11]]. They were there quite forcibly during that, and they were there yesterday, too.

Men-o-pah: I'm calm most of the time, and it didn't really bother me much. I knew that there was something happening, and I didn't really find out until I got into the place and . .. well, there was . .. I'm sure these GI's were part of the Reserve, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard National Guard], and I haven't seen any GI's there since the [[911|9/11]]. They were there quite forcibly during that, and they were there yesterday, too.

Esmarelda: They were there a week ago.

Esmarelda: They were there a week ago.

Miriam: Really?

Miriam: Really?

Esmarelda: I went to pick up Deborah and I heard it on the news that they had been called in. Ever since the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War war began in Iraq]. So they had been there.  

Esmarelda: I went to pick up Deborah and I heard it on the news that they had been called in. Ever since the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War war began in Iraq]. So they had been there.  

Miriam: I was thinking about what Anatolia said about the one sparrow, when he picks up to fly, the whole flock comes with him, and if one voice is [[singing]] with [[joy]] or his love for [[Our Father]], and you know, the joy is easy to [[resonate]] when joy is being resonated. Like, when I hear the choir sing, as Mother did today, I [[cry]] from joy, it's so wonderful! But then when all the voices are lifted up in, "Oh, no! What are we going to do?" and it's "Run for it!" and its Fear Fear [[Fear]], that is a hard time to sing. "What? Are you just going to sing [[peace]] and joy?" But I can [[imagine]], if all the birds were starting to fly, with [[fear]], if there were a couple of birds singing with joy, a couple of birds that were getting ready to take off and fly, would hear that thought. "Hey, maybe that's the deal." The images today were wonderful! The [[cradle]], the sparrow, the whole thing. I guess it's a matter of [[choice]].

Miriam: I was thinking about what Anatolia said about the one sparrow, when he picks up to fly, the whole flock comes with him, and if one voice is [[singing]] with [[joy]] or his love for [[Our Father]], and you know, the joy is easy to [[resonate]] when joy is being resonated. Like, when I hear the choir sing, as Mother did today, I [[cry]] from joy, it's so wonderful! But then when all the voices are lifted up in, "Oh, no! What are we going to do?" and it's "Run for it!" and its Fear Fear [[Fear]], that is a hard time to sing. "What? Are you just going to sing [[peace]] and joy?" But I can [[imagine]], if all the birds were starting to fly, with [[fear]], if there were a couple of birds singing with joy, a couple of birds that were getting ready to take off and fly, would hear that thought. "Hey, maybe that's the deal." The images today were wonderful! The [[cradle]], the sparrow, the whole thing. I guess it's a matter of [[choice]].

Esmarelda: Well, we all know Myra has been singing.

Esmarelda: Well, we all know Myra has been singing.

Myra: Well, of course, I'm [[feeling]] good, and of course I'm feeling [[joy]], but I'm not stupid, and I do think that there is a [[burden]] that people carry around with them because of what is going on in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War Iraq]. It's not only going on in Iraq, it's going on amongst all of our friends and [[families]], because you don't bring up the topic, willy-nilly, unless you know how people feel about it. How many times have we been called on in the last couple of weeks, when people in strong, strong [[support]], "Rah, rah, go kill," when is our [[responsibility]] to say, "Whoa, wait a minute," and be that [[voice]] in the [[wilderness]], which is not really my favorite thing to do, but I also, often in the last couple of weeks, "If not you, who? And if not now, when?" And so that is a [[burden]], and you don't want to start another [[crisis]]. You just want to open other people's minds to be able to see-the whole [[middle east]] is not filled with Saddam. There are people who treasure their homeland and have a right to [[protect]] it, and they are pictured to us as being [[demons]], and yet when I think, if somebody were coming into my [[home]] and they were four times bigger than me, I would be a little [[deceptive]] in my motives in protecting my house, so yeah, I think it is very important for us to be [[joyous]], and yet sometimes we are the only [[alternative]] voice of just quietly saying, "yeah, but there is another side of the [[story]]." And it's heavy.

Myra: Well, of course, I'm [[feeling]] good, and of course I'm feeling [[joy]], but I'm not stupid, and I do think that there is a [[burden]] that people carry around with them because of what is going on in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War Iraq]. It's not only going on in Iraq, it's going on amongst all of our friends and [[families]], because you don't bring up the topic, willy-nilly, unless you know how people feel about it. How many times have we been called on in the last couple of weeks, when people in strong, strong [[support]], "Rah, rah, go kill," when is our [[responsibility]] to say, "Whoa, wait a minute," and be that [[voice]] in the [[wilderness]], which is not really my favorite thing to do, but I also, often in the last couple of weeks, "If not you, who? And if not now, when?" And so that is a [[burden]], and you don't want to start another [[crisis]]. You just want to open other people's minds to be able to see-the whole [[middle east]] is not filled with Saddam. There are people who treasure their homeland and have a right to [[protect]] it, and they are pictured to us as being [[demons]], and yet when I think, if somebody were coming into my [[home]] and they were four times bigger than me, I would be a little [[deceptive]] in my motives in protecting my house, so yeah, I think it is very important for us to be [[joyous]], and yet sometimes we are the only [[alternative]] voice of just quietly saying, "yeah, but there is another side of the [[story]]." And it's heavy.

Paula: And you know, totally aside from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War the war] and all the problems, it's amazing how many different kinds of people there are in this world, and when we were in Southern Illinois, I found the warmest, the most wonderful [[group]] of people I think I ever met. I met all kinds of different people. There was a little restaurant in the nearby village of Vienna, called Dolly's, and everybody goes to Dolly's. They have good [[food]] and its inexpensive and everybody gathers around. Instead of sitting at a table for four people, you sit at a big table, which we did for lunch, when Bob and Pat, the people we stayed with, took me for lunch. And all of a sudden all of the [[farmers]] from around there . .. well, it's really funny. They were the original [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly hillbillies], and they murdered the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation King's English], but they had [[hearts]] of gold, every one of them. Weren't they, honey?

Paula: And you know, totally aside from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War the war] and all the problems, it's amazing how many different kinds of people there are in this world, and when we were in Southern Illinois, I found the warmest, the most wonderful [[group]] of people I think I ever met. I met all kinds of different people. There was a little restaurant in the nearby village of Vienna, called Dolly's, and everybody goes to Dolly's. They have good [[food]] and its inexpensive and everybody gathers around. Instead of sitting at a table for four people, you sit at a big table, which we did for lunch, when Bob and Pat, the people we stayed with, took me for lunch. And all of a sudden all of the [[farmers]] from around there . .. well, it's really funny. They were the original [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbilly hillbillies], and they murdered the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation King's English], but they had [[hearts]] of gold, every one of them. Weren't they, honey?

Men-O-Pah: They're my kinsmen! Of course I think they're wonderful. ([[laughter]])

Men-O-Pah: They're my kinsmen! Of course I think they're wonderful. ([[laughter]])

Paula: But you go from people like that to plain ordinary [[folks]] like the rest of us, all the way up to some of his [[friends]] with their Ph.D's and still and all they were still the same. This one gal, she and her husband were Barbara and Harold's best friends. She was the Assistant Dean of the University where he went. She has a Ph.D. There was none of this murdering the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation King's English] there but, as I say, I went from all these different types of people but every one of them was just the warmest, friendliest, kind people. And they took me right in as if I'd been right there among them forever.

Paula: But you go from people like that to plain ordinary [[folks]] like the rest of us, all the way up to some of his [[friends]] with their Ph.D's and still and all they were still the same. This one gal, she and her husband were Barbara and Harold's best friends. She was the Assistant Dean of the University where he went. She has a Ph.D. There was none of this murdering the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation King's English] there but, as I say, I went from all these different types of people but every one of them was just the warmest, friendliest, kind people. And they took me right in as if I'd been right there among them forever.

Elena: Don't you think it would be like that if we went to Iraq? They would be, you know, just [[normal]] friendly people there, beyond the table.

Elena: Don't you think it would be like that if we went to Iraq? They would be, you know, just [[normal]] friendly people there, beyond the table.

Elena: It's coming up. The end of May. And Willie and I want to go.

Elena: It's coming up. The end of May. And Willie and I want to go.

Men-O-Pah: I [[encourage]] you to go. I think, you know, that sometimes they lose sight of the [[spirituality]] that's associated with most [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States Native Americans]. Most Indians don't do much of anything until they talk to the Big Spirit. I know it's even so in our [[culture]] that when a man went out to [[hunt]], for instance, that he asked for permission to take the life of some animal that he was going to do so that they would have something to eat. And I've heard some of my brothers criticize my pow wow, "It's a place for show horses," but the beating of the drums down there. You know, they're all around that [[gym]], and there must be a dozen sets of drummers, and they get tired you know, and when one group gets tired, the next group picks it up, and so . .. but it does make your [[molecules]] bounce. Yeah.

Men-O-Pah: I [[encourage]] you to go. I think, you know, that sometimes they lose sight of the [[spirituality]] that's associated with most [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States Native Americans]. Most Indians don't do much of anything until they talk to the Big Spirit. I know it's even so in our [[culture]] that when a man went out to [[hunt]], for instance, that he asked for permission to take the life of some animal that he was going to do so that they would have something to eat. And I've heard some of my brothers criticize my pow wow, "It's a place for show horses," but the beating of the drums down there. You know, they're all around that [[gym]], and there must be a dozen sets of drummers, and they get tired you know, and when one group gets tired, the next group picks it up, and so . .. but it does make your [[molecules]] bounce. Yeah.

ANATOLIA: What you have done, in taking [[advantage]] of the [[moment]] provided, is [[shared]] not only with yourselves but with your brothers and sisters around the world who [[receive]] these transmissions, [[expressed]] your valid concerns for [[humanity]], your human [[joy]] in living, your experience at discovering the [[differences]] between you are not enough to separate you one from another when the spirit within you each makes that connection which allows you to all rejoice together that you have this commonality, and at the same time, to [[weep]] together for those who have it not, for those who are subjected to the warlike attitudes of those whose differences [[conflict]].

ANATOLIA: What you have done, in taking [[advantage]] of the [[moment]] provided, is [[shared]] not only with yourselves but with your brothers and sisters around the world who [[receive]] these transmissions, [[expressed]] your valid concerns for [[humanity]], your human [[joy]] in living, your experience at discovering the [[differences]] between you are not enough to separate you one from another when the spirit within you each makes that connection which allows you to all rejoice together that you have this commonality, and at the same time, to [[weep]] together for those who have it not, for those who are subjected to the warlike attitudes of those whose differences [[conflict]].

At least let it be known that THIS experience of the God/Father fragment part and parcel of your [[being]], has known through all time and all space and beyond, the [[existence]] of nothing but [[sublime]] bliss. This you can take to [[heart]]-and in the [[manner]] of speaking in your world, "take it to the bank" if that needs to be the [[expression]]. Regardless, be [[assured]] that this part of your being knows the [[eternal now]] as purity of light at heart and that all are one in this [[presence]].

At least let it be known that THIS experience of the God/Father fragment part and parcel of your [[being]], has known through all time and all space and beyond, the [[existence]] of nothing but [[sublime]] bliss. This you can take to [[heart]]-and in the [[manner]] of speaking in your world, "take it to the bank" if that needs to be the [[expression]]. Regardless, be [[assured]] that this part of your being knows the [[eternal now]] as purity of light at heart and that all are one in this [[presence]].

[[Imagine]] for a moment, if you were able to enter the [[energy]] field of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet violet]. If, for example, you were able to enter an African violet or natural violets in the field, and you were able somehow to enter that [[aura]] of [[color]], of vivid vibrating energy, that is the color of violet.

[[Imagine]] for a moment, if you were able to enter the [[energy]] field of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet violet]. If, for example, you were able to enter an African violet or natural violets in the field, and you were able somehow to enter that [[aura]] of [[color]], of vivid vibrating energy, that is the color of violet.

[[Imagine]] that [[presence]] and the [[feeling]] that you obtain from that energy field of violet. This is certainly not filled with [[terror]], with strife, with anguish, but on the contrary, all that is [[pure]], [[holy]] and at one and certainly peace.

[[Imagine]] that [[presence]] and the [[feeling]] that you obtain from that energy field of violet. This is certainly not filled with [[terror]], with strife, with anguish, but on the contrary, all that is [[pure]], [[holy]] and at one and certainly peace.