I am in the greater Naples, Florida USA area at the moment waiting to get out of the Southwest Florida International Airport prior to Hurricane Irma's expected landing, September 10, 2017. Well, I am not exactly at the airport yet, but I plan to get there later today and to fly out to Michigan where my family summers on Mackinac Island, a resort with historical relevance and only horse drawn carriages and bicycles. I hope you get a chance to visit both Naples and Mackinac Island sometime, each a little piece of paradise on earth.

Before I leave here, I take a few last furtive glances around my home: are the precious family pictures safe; do I have my insurance numbers and identifying documents, have I shut off the water and electricity, or rather, will my housemate?  He and a next door neighbor plan to ride it out here.

Decisions of such life and potential risk must be left to each individual.  No one can second guess the intuitive and reasoned knowing of another. Such freedom to decide is obvious under such circumstances, a freedom denied when under military obligation. When Irma's imminent landing here in Southwest Naples seemed unquestioned, I immediately sought to evacuate.  I went on line to book flights, but even as I was placing my credit card, the flights vanquished, then higher costs and less availability arrived  with each refresh. I finally got a confirmed flight 1:45pm Saturday, September 9.  I wonder whether the airport will even be open that late.  I plan to drive up today, even at the risk of lowering my full tank of gas (stations have already emptied out their fuel supplies).

It is errily still here in Naples, virtually no wind at all, very odd for a seaside gulf community. The day after I landed my ticket out of town, and many are not so fortunate, the weather reports began to see Irma moving more off to the East coast, hitting closer to Fort Lauderdale and Miami. My prayers go to all those in its path.  We are one humanity and at times like this our mutual survival and safety is top in all our minds. We speak to people we do not know.  We check in on neighbors; we reach out to one another. Oh, sure, we place our own safety and that of our own family first--a being human condition to be sure; but nevertheless in our deeper communal humanity, we understand no one --to paraphrase Romans 8:32--"...neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from (love)." Take care, my beloved ones as each face, every finger, all the hairs on your head I hold precious in my heart for all time.

Whatever comes next, no one can say. We will each face that moment of regret; nonetheless, forgive. We will see the dark and the light; hold compassion. We will laugh. We will cry. We will fight. We will surrender. Until, when it is all said and done, regardless, we accept we have each done our very best. And, in the end, we are simply grateful.MJOrr.com/Home I AM, Marsha Jane Orr, MS, MA, MEd

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Relationships Mirror Agape Love: A Heart's Life Laid Bare - A Way Of Love

Relationships Mirror Agape Love: A Heart's Life Laid Bare - A Way Of Love

Video: http://youtu.be/69B2KdiLvik

Relationships Mirror
Agape Love

a proposition that Author Marsha Jane
Orr, MS,MA,MED, explores in her prose, A Heart’s Life Laid Bare.
The mirroring dynamics of relationship, with its agape love,

can lead to spiritual
unity that extends beyond all time and place and person.

Cultural Creatives seek meaning beyond
the mundane to craft lives rich and alive!

 

Relationships Mirror Agape Love: A Heart's Life Laid Bare - A Way Of Love

Relationships Mirror Agape Love: A Heart's Life Laid Bare - A Way Of Love

Cultural Creatives seek meaning beyond the mundane to craft lives rich and alive!

Relationships Mirror
Agape Love, a proposition that Author Marsha Jane
Orr, MS,MA,MED, explores in her prose, A Heart’s Life Laid Bare.
The mirroring dynamics of relationship, with its agape love,can lead to spiritual unity that extends beyond all time and place and person.

 

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Love Webinar

Love Webinar: We invite you to join us to share how you are contributing to a way of love in the world

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Rhythms in the Life of the Child

Recap of a lecture by Eugene Schwartz

January 29, 1988

www.millennialchild.com

"Ears as a Sense Organ"

 Teachers' Study 

West Coast Steiner School

In his lecture on the “Rhythms in the Life of the Child,” Eugene Schwartz likens daily teaching activity to the body’s natural rhythm of inhaling and exhaling; heart pushing blood out; heart  drawing blood in; out putting  and in taking; “opening and closing off” which “is the basis of teaching, the basis of learning.” 

He explains the ear as a sense organ that exhibits this same basic quality of intake and output. Sound comes vibrating in air.  Schwartz explains how the ear drum is a delicate muscle, and he describes:

1. Muscles are as thickened blood, not quite organs but intimately connected to our circulatory system;
2. Therefore what we hear affects us in our circulatory system like a force of will coming into being.
3. Schwartz describes the ear, likening it to a tiny digestive system that regulates sound rather than food.

He describes the ear as an organ of balance which makes it possible for us to hear.  He notes however that listening, unlike hearing is an ‘activity that needs direction.”

So sophisticated, the hearing organ has aspects of a sense organ, a metabolic organ and also a rhythmic organ, therefore making a combination of thinking, feeling and willing, that is moving rhythmically all the time.

Two kinds of pressure bear against an ear drum, one from the ear and one through our mouth; the ear drum serves as a kind of regulator of pressure.

By way of explaining this connection, Schwartz gives an example.  Words I speak enter your ear through the auditory nerve and through to your Eustachian tube setting your larynx vibrating; so as I speak you speak; you are repeating my words.  This highlights the importance of the affect our words have on our own physical structure and the affect our speech and sounds have on others as well.

While adults may have a better capacity to prevent damage from sound, a young child’s organs are still forming.  Between 7 and 14, the larynx is almost beeswax, still soft, in an exceedingly receptive state, and being modeled at every moment.  This is why a child learns the mother and father’s speech so readily. In the beginning, we speak through imitation which sets our larynx aflutter and brings it into beautiful eurhythmic movement when beautiful speech is heard; and inharmonious movement when inharmonious speech is heard.  This holds for all sounds: voice, music, recorded sound, TV, etc.

In a classroom, students are in rhythmic exercise with the teacher, and the larynx of every child forms itself in the image of the speech of the teacher.

As the heart is formed in the fetus according to the rhythmic pulsing of the mother’s blood, the etheric heart is being formed "very, very much in consonance with the speech heard around it."

We know that even the most sheltered child is exposed to sounds "uttered not so much out of love or care but simple, ordinary, rather degenerated speech" of common talk.  This makes it all the more the responsibility of teachers to make their speech worthy of being emulated and also speech that will really form the larynx well.

THE END TIMES—2012 Predictions and beyond

There is talk these days about the ‘end times,’ a long time, enduring discussion about those looking out upon the world of gloom and doom.  It’s every where if you look there.

The magnetic polar shift, the speeding up of the earth’s spinning axis, the change in our gravity field, the tectonic  plate shifts, the magnetic line changes, the weather patterns creating hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and the like—all signs that something is amiss.

As such, human beings are prone to predictions, calculations, estimates, and forecasts in the interest of minimizing risk and maximizing gain. I seek them myself. We all seek safety, life sustaining precautions and a path of decision making that maintains our well being.  The I-Ching, ancient book of Change hexagram, SHOCK, describes a possibility.  SHOCK can happen anytime to anyone.  When it pervades, the goal, as described in the I-Ching, is to sustain SHOCK after SHOCK with the crystal chalice still in hand, laughing.

Harm, fear, death, loss—all elements of life’s experience we seek to avoid, defer, and escape altogether. No one can. These are the calls to our mastery that we are here to face with courage, determination, equanimity, calm, poise, strength, love and wisdom. These qualities are what the human being gains that endure through all time. We are so grateful for these opportunities to become ourselves and to show our true magnificence to ourselves and with one another. Have you noticed who we are at our best amidst our most trying circumstance? Being human is divinely inspired. I invite us to choose into what inspires us and away from our despair and overwhelm. I speak to myself.

Those who see the END TIME call all of us to become our true selves now. If life as you know ends tomorrow how has it been for you? Did you do what you wanted to do, love what you wanted to love, become the one you truly are meant to be?  Have you demonstrated mastery or just complained about how life is different than your hopes and expectations? Choose again, the END TIMES call to us!

Death and its accompanying rebirth are everywhere in our midst. We practice everyday with these concepts of eternity. Think back about the last time…the last time of anything you valued.  That was a death and you moved on into a new experience, that was a birth, a resurrection of sorts into new life.  We already well know how to die and how to be born again. Do it now, as if in the face of death.  Then you are really living.

What would it be like for you if there was no electricity, no fuel, no grocery store full of food? How would it be for you if water didn’t come from a faucet and waste didn’t flush away through a toilet? What kind of housing would be secure or required when building materials currently used are unavailable? Such reflections call us all to more self sustaining, natural life style that demonstrates a will to live and an independent approach that is more environmentally and globally sound. What economy would emerge in such circumstance? What health care is most viable? What mode of travel and communication could we create? How would we educate our children? How would we choose to live with our neighbours in community with others? These are marvelous reflections for innovation, creativity and rebirth.  We are on the cusp of magnificence with such thinking as it shifts our current paradigm, renders it obsolete and plunges us into a vast territory of new possibility and exploration. How could it really be if we created the life of our dearest dreams for all?

Why wait another minute until the END TIMES? Let our creations begin now, a stream of renewal and possibility never before seen on earth and we are it, creating together what is truly possible. We have seen it, we know it, now let’s simply become it. Step by step, day by day, we are the ones we are anew.