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Resistance
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Welcome
Report from Conway, Arkansas
Dreams of Resistance
Book recommendation
Resistance in the news?
Who’s Who in Resistance
Annette’s Poem
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Welcome |
Welcome
to the first issue of the Generosity Incorporated newsletter!
We intend this to be a teaching/sharing letter, where
we explore our knowledge and awareness of the Thirty
Principles of Form explained by Connie Kaplan in The
Invisible Garment.
We
hope to offer, in every issue, a story of discovering
how one of these principles lived through us, as well
as illustrations from various parts of our lives – our
dreams, our entertainment, and even the morning newspaper!
Robin
Moore & Tamar Frankiel, Editors
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Report
from Conway, Arkansas |
This
month’s principle is Resistance. Here is a story
from one of our dream sisters:
What
Resistance does is transform spiritual energy into a
form that can be used by people on earth; it takes information
and puts it forth in a way in which people can benefit.
Resistance intervenes and disrupts patterns of living,
opening us to new ways.
A group of friends in Conway, Arkansas had an experience of Resistance I want
to share with you. This is what happened:
Several
of us who had studied the principles of The
Invisible Garment were feeling a pull to “do” something.
It seemed we were being led/called to be open to an energy
that we experienced rumbling around in our bodies. At
a certain point it came to me that we could put together
a booklet that would give people useful ideas on how
to live in love and harmony with our planet Earth—simple
things we could do as individuals or families. We would
print it on recycled paper with soy-based ink.
The
group liked the idea, and we decided the booklet would
be a gift to the community; we wanted to give it away.
Gradually some people wrote articles, one edited, another
illustrated and did the layout, some contributed money
for the printing, and most of us are helping to give
the booklet away. I showed them to other dreamers, and
Connie Kaplan suggested Generosity
Incorporated pay for another printing and give them
to people who purchase something from the website. What
a great idea!
We
had opened ourselves to the energy of Resistance; this
energy flowed through us manifesting into a booklet called “For
the Care of Our Earth” that is now out in the
world to change our patterns of living and benefit the
entire planet. In fact, as we let ourselves be “transformers,” the
booklet took on a life of its own as it flowed through
us and into our community of Conway—and now to
all of you and beyond. A powerful experience!
Peggy
Hays
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Dreams
of Resistance |
We
can learn about the principles by examining our dreams.
Here are two dreams of Resistance:
I’m
hanging a poster on a stone wall surrounding a castle
on a hill. But I don’t look at the castle;
I’m completely focused on a small area at the
corner where I want to drive in a nail. It’s
difficult; the wall resists and bends a couple of
nails.
Finally
one goes through and the wall turns out to be just
plaster, which begins to crumble around the nail.
I decide to try a big nail, about 1” in diameter.
I pound it in, but of course it just crumbles more.
Now
there’s a hole. I can see where someone tried
to drive a shaft from the corner diagonally; the
hole is there, cylindrical, shaped about the same
diameter as mine.
Then
I see, beyond the thickness of the wall, light coming
in, and the ground. I wonder if I can just wedge
my nail in somewhere, so the ground and the balance
will hold it.
As
I do, I realize I’m pushing it into something
white and reddish with green sprouts coming out.
It’s a potato! I think, now that there’s
light, it might sprout out this side of the wall.
I imagine a vine growing around my poster.
The
dreamer first experiences “resistance” in
the ordinary sense - the wall resists the nail. Then
a shaft comes in from a different direction, “diagonally,” that
enables the dreamer to see light and growth. This is
how Resistance works: it deflects or redirects so that
we can see or experience in different ways.
Several
of us are together; we're experiencing energy in
new ways. I see energy moving in different designs
and formations--one is an X, another is a square--they
are neony, bright lights. I try to contact the source
of the energy on the telephone, and a voice says, "Hello." I
believe I have the wrong number. Then a man appears
and asks who would like to be trained. I say, "I
would."
The
dreamer, by saying , "I would," is expressing will -
but not personal willfulness ans in the common idea of
resistance. Tather, it is the will to surrender to the
processes of growth and learning.
The
dreamer is already experiencing new energy formations,
but trying to contact the source gives her a “wrong
number” - an apparent wrong direction. But then
a teacher appears - her effort to go deeper into Resistance
are successful.
To
find Resistance in your dreams look for references to
the work of the muscles ... to transformers ... to the
color black!
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Book
Recommendation: Against the Pollution of the
I, by Jacques Lusseyran |
Lusseyran,
blinded at age 7, became a leader in the French Resistance
Movement during WWII. This sightless state opened up
to him a "stream of inner light" which sustained
him during imprisonment in Buchenwald. He writes of his
blindness:
"If
there is one realm in which blindness makes us experts,
it is the realm of the invisible."
The
principle of Resistance lives through him in the transformation
of what seems to be a disability (blindness) into a gift
in his stand against the tide of Nazism.
--RM
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Resistance
in the News |
Ask
yourself regarding the following stories from recent
news items: Is Resistance appearing in its common meaning,
or in its spiritual meaning as a basic principle of form?
- Headline:
Episcopalians Resist Schism
Despite the threat of secession by some Episcopal churches in the US, Canada,
and elsewhere, many priests and laypeople are working to restore unity.
- Headline:
Pressure to Prescribe
An internist writes of resisting the pressure he receives from salespeople
from drug companies to prescribe antipsychotic drugs, even though psychiatry
is not his specialty.
- Headline:
Slowing a Tide of Pollutants
SMURFF, the Santa Monica Urban Runoff Recycling Facility, collects and treats “the
frothy flow that trickles out of a seaside metropolis from sprinklers, washed
cars and drained pools, beating with it cat and dog waste, spilled engine
oil, lawn chemicals, brake dust, bacteria and viruses. The liquid waste,
called ‘urban slobber,’ is filtered, sterilized with ultraviolet
light, and recycled to irrigate Palisades Park and a city cemetery, and to
flush the toilets at police headquarters ... Yet such farsighted ingenuity
remains the exception rather than the rule. SMURFF is the only urban-runoff
recycling plant in the country.”
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Who's
Who in Resistance |
Famous
people through whom Resistance came to life - these have
Sun in Resistance:
- Rosa
Parks
The civil rights activist who in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955,
refused to move to the back of the bus - sparking the Civil Rights Movement.
- Moses
Maimonides
His transmutation of Aristotelian philosophy made him the greatest medieval
Jewish philosopher, and caused a major controversy in the 13th century.
- Robert
Holbrook Smith
The medical doctor who, when facing his own alcoholism, realized that it
resulted not only from a physical addiction butalso a spiritual aridity.
The Prince of the Twelve Steps, as he is known, founded Alcoholic's Anonymous
and helped over 5,000 alcoholics without charge.
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Annette's
Poetry |
Annette
Hulefeld, a dreamer from Chicago, has written poems for
all the thirty principles. Here is her pièce de
résistance!
Resistance
Energy*Interference*Transformation
I'm a fireball of energy,
one who sees, names, disrupts, and shifts the energy fields
of
distorted, outdated, flawed thought patterns.
My gift
is inserting friction within a system,
a creative interface
to bring about a re-alignment of energies for a greater purpose
and
allow new forms to emerge.
In practical matters, I'm the one speaking truth in a family
naming dysfunctions, uncovering secrets and lies,
calling for accountability to form.
I won't talk in ethereal terms or encourage lots of fantasy.
My skill is problem solving, resolving arguments.
In emergency situations, I'm the one to call.
I have an intuitive sense of what needs to be accomplished.
In other words, my middle name is
" manifester."
Hopefully as I gain wisdom
my approach as "interrupter" will be centered in
humor, innocence, and compassion.
With spiritual practice, I may emerge as a spiritual teacher
As a divine resistor
I'm to bring Spirit into form and deliver form back to Spirit
In this way, those seeking connection with Source
will be helped.
Spirit
of Resistance
Today as you breathe into and through the muscles of my body,
May I receive your energy to shift
Thought patterns that cloud and distort truth
May I move and disrupt energy fields that stagnate the mind and create separation
from truth.
May I remember to interrupt family and cultural lies
with compassionate integrity
and
humor bubbling from an innocent heart.
May I reveal the power of accountability
to the planet, to all species, to Life itself,
remaining faithful and responsible
to
helping others
awaken
to the transforming energy
of
Source
Ahulefeld
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