Summer of Peace 2013 Global Attunement for Peace 2 (Sep. 21)

Summer of Peace 2013 Global Attunement for Peace 2 (Sep. 21) [0:00:00] Welcome friends to this Global Attunement for Peace. My name is David Nicol. I'm the Director of the Gaiafield Project. I'm delighted to have you with us on International Day of Peace for the second Global Attunement for Peace as part of the BeThePeace event. We're excited to be welcoming friends especially from Europe and Africa this morning. It's morning in the West Coast Pacific Time, that is. It's in the middle of the day for you. Welcome. We have over 530 mediation circles registered on the map for BeThePeace today in every single continent. So we're just delighted to be building this global field for peace on this very special day of the year, International Day of Peace. Last year, it was estimated that 280 million people around the world were aware of Peace Day and 27 million engaged in spiritual and religious activities like this one to observe Peace Day. So it's becoming quite the phenomenon around the world and a day where there's a very big field of peace is generated. So thank you so much for being part of it. This is the second of three Global Attunements for Peace that we're offering to help build that field. Final call would be at 12:00 midnight GMT, which is 5:00 p.m. Pacific in the US, 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. You're welcome to join us again for that. That will be bringing this field to a peak. So we are also featuring throughout the day a Global Care Room, which is an Internet site that has a rotating Google Earth map and your location shows up on it as a point of light. So when you're in the room, there's an audio player that has some mediation uploaded there from Deva Premal and Miten, musicians who've given us a beautiful mantra meditation. I encourage you to go there any time during the day. And in a moment, we will go to that care room together and just to spend the moments to contemplate the global field that's forming in the care room. So if you do have access to a computer and it's not opened already on your screen, I encourage you to do that. Go to bethepeace.com. You can just find the icon there and click on it to get to the care room. So for those of you who haven't done our attunement practice, I just want to describe how it will go. In a moment, after we've gone to the Global Care Room, I'm going to hand over to a friendly colleague, David Todd, to guide us into the practice. We'll do a short guided meditation then we'll go into the silence for 1

about 20-25 minutes. There's a second step in the process where we send the blessings from the practice out into the world. And then we open up the space for sharing for anyone who's on the call and it's a significant part of the practice where we really welcome you to share whatever visions or insights, guidance, might have arisen for you in the practice. And it's a way for us to share out in the world with each other and to contribute with them to the collective field. So we'll guide you through each step and that will bring us to the end of the call and we'll just have a brief close. So I do wanted to just take a moment to open up the lines to see where people may be calling in from, just to have a few moments if anyone wishes to say hi to others on the call, just to say hi, where you're calling from or any words of blessing at the start of call. Just press 1 if you're on the phone. If you're on the webcast, please type into the chat box your name, where you're calling from and any opening words of greetings or blessings and we'll just spend just a couple of minutes to bring your voices into it. [0:05:10] Okay. So I see we have [Participant]. Go ahead. You've got the mike. Participant: Yes, I'm in Kauai and it's at 2:00 in the morning here and I ended up being awake until now and I'm so glad to join everyone. Welcome. Thanks for being here so early in the morning. Welcome, [Participant]. Just touch 1 on your phone if you're on the phone. If you're on the webcast, just type where you're calling in from. We have [Participant] from South Africa webcast. Hi there, [Participant]. We have [Participant] from Buffalo. Welcome, [Participant]. We have [Participant] from Cape Town. Welcome, [Participant]. Okay, so we're just going to move ahead into our practice here. We have a number more comments coming in from the webcast but I would like to just move into the core of our practice. So we are going to spend just a moment here now in the Global Care Room. So if you do have access to a computer, please open up to the Global Care Room. You go to the Session Room tab, if you're not there already. Underneath the Google Earth map, you'll see a rotate button. Click that, if it's not clicked already so that the earth spins. On the top left, there's the audio player. We're not going to be playing that right now but I do encourage you to listen to that beautiful mantra meditation at some point. For those of you who don't have access to a computer right now or don't have the Google Earth installed on your computer, don't worry about it. We're not going to be here for long. I just encourage you to just visualize the 2

spinning Google Earth map that's beautifully lit up with golden lights that show people gathering from all around the world in shared intention. So for those of you who are there, let's just take a moment silently to contemplate this beautiful spinning planet Earth. We see lights lit up in Korea, Japan, India, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the US, Canada and just taking a moment to recognize that each one of these gold lights represents at least an individual or could be a whole group who shares your commitment, your intention to be the peace, to bring forth a culture of peace in our world from different cultures, different religions, different parts of the world, opening to this global consciousness, opening to a collective capacity to come together in shared intention for peace in our world. And I just invite you to be aware of the feelings in your heart that that may evoke, feelings of hope perhaps or gladness, joy, feeling that camaraderie and solidarity with people all over the world. I just invite you to allow those feelings, to let them grow. [0:10:00] Let us meet each other as those feelings expand as one global family, network of light, united in our love for the earth and our desire for peace. Okay, thank you. So please feel free to come back to the Global Care Room throughout the day. As I said, there's a beautiful mantra meditation. It's another powerful experience to be in the care room with others listening to that mantra meditation. And especially at our peak time again of 12:00 midnight GMT. Okay, so we're going to now move in to the attunement practice itself. We encourage you, if you're by a computer, to resist the temptation to be distracted during meditation. It would be good to turn off email programs just to give yourself a gift of fully being present undistracted throughout this meditation and have an hour of special opportunity to be in this field, this global intention on Peace Day. So I invite you to just bring yourself fully present to that. It's my joy to pass on to my friend David Todd in Tallahassee, Florida to guide us into our attunement today. Over to you, David. David Todd: Thank you, David. Welcome, everyone. Thank you for joining us in this meditation today. I want you to just begin by taking a couple of deep breaths. Be are aware of your self and any feelings that may be arising. Simply allow those feelings to be. Accept whatever is arising as part of your experience in this moment. 3

Allow your breath to move in and out through the heart, feeling your heart as the center of your being, the center of your energy field. Let your awareness come to rest in your heart and then through the heart. Simply present. Let your attention move from the heart to the earth beneath you. Feel your body's connection to the earth. Feel how the energy of the earth grounds you and supports you. Your awareness go deep into the earth, traveling all the way to the core. Recognize and see how the core of the earth, the center of the earth's energy field. Feel the resonance between that core and your own heart core. Be aware of the sun in the sky and the stars in the heavens. [0:15:00] Connect with that celestial light coming from the heavens. See and feel that light connecting to your body. Let that light come in to your body mixing with the energy of the earth. See and feel that light moving through your own energy field to cleanse and energize that field, bringing you the energy of the cosmos to your personal energy field. See and feel that golden light surrounding your body, creating the bubble by vibrating energy, bringing integrity to your energy field, coherence to your field, energizing the boundary on your energy field so that only those energies for your highest good connect with you. As you sit in that golden sphere of light, be present as your deepest and highest self. Feel your connection to any personal guides or teachers in that space. Get reconnected to all parts of yourself. Now, visualize your connection with the other people on this call, in network of light connecting all of us together wherever we are and attuned to each other and we can join together in a common space. Let's see and feel us coming together and sitting in a large circle, forming a group energy field. Feel the strong boundary on that field as we come into this coherent space together, joining our hearts and minds as one. And as we feel ourselves in this circle, these groups here, let's also connect in our feeling with all those who are gathering today around the planet, participate in this Day of Peace. Let us invite into this group field, into our circle, allies in the kingdoms of the earth and to the crystals and the minerals and rocks, all the plants and trees, flowering, bushes, any kind of living green organism, bringing their energy into our field. Likewise, bring in the energy and presence of the many animals and creatures, birds, reptiles, insects, mammals, those who walk on the earth with us. Connect with their life-giving presence. Feel their support. 4

[0:20:00] Likewise, invite into our circle the beings of light from the dimensions of spirit. Welcome their presence, their guidance, their support for our meditation. Finally, let's open to the cosmic and universal dimensions, universal source, the great mystery, all that is. We're going to do an exercise of peacebuilding together. As we sit in this circle with all of our allies, let's connect with the energy of the field of piece that has been built over many, many years and it is being cocreated today by all of the peacebuilding activities. Feel that field as the energy of peace. Let's all breathe that energy in and out of our bodies, in-breath, drawing that field of peace into our hearts; the out-breath, strengthening that energy without circle. That energy builds up and becomes stronger and stronger. Let's visualize it all becoming condensed into the center of the circle, into a single point of light. Feel that point of light being charged by all of the energy of this field of peace, all of our prayers and intention for peace and all of the support of the allies for peace forming this powerful point of light in the center of our circle. And feel the intensity of that light growing and more into form, becoming crystallized, this powerful point. Visualize the life energy of the earth surrounding this point of light forming an organic seed that will enfold and enclose this point of light. That seed taking shape, going stronger, vibrant, surrounding this big crystal of peace with the life energy of the earth. And finally, feel the love in your heart for the earth, for humanity, for those who are gathering with you today. [0:25:13] Bring the energy of that love into the center of the circle. Let your love surround this seed, point of light in the center of the seed, that your love nurtures the seed of peace. I want you to visualize connecting with that seed of peace, holding it in your hands. And see yourself traveling some place on the earth to plant this seed into the ground. It could be a place that is near where you are on the planet. It could be a place of conflict such as Syria. It could be a place of worldly power, the White House or another governmental building. It could be a place of spiritual power you are drawn to. It could be the center of the earth. Imagine your self going to one of these places and planting that seed in the ground. As we go into the time of silence, feel free to continue to plant these seeds around the world, imagining our silence as a blessing that will rain down our love and support on to these seeds wherever they find a home in the earth. 5

And now as we move into our silent meditation, bring these following intentions into that meditation: May these seeds of peace support everyone who is working for peace around the world. May these seeds of peace guide and inspire us in creating a true and lasting culture of peace on our planet. May peace prevail on earth. Now, let's sit in silence for 20 minutes or so until call us into the next space for meditation. [Silence] [0:28:38-0:47:40] Okay. Now, imagine these seeds that we've planted around the world. Imagine them releasing their light wherever they are, spreading this essence of peace all over the planet, touching and healing all those people and places that are open to receiving it. Okay, let's now open the call for sharing. So if you're on the phone and you'd like to share something, just press 1. [0:50:04] Raise your hand. We'll give you the mike. For the webcast, type your comment to the chat box and we'll read it out. When you start sharing, I just invite you to say your name. When you finish, just say thank you so we know you're complete. You find as well just to remain in the silence, just continue in that meditative space but the invitation is open for sharing. Participant: This is [Participant] in Tallahassee. I was part of the meditation last night and have done this before. I found today that I began by seeing this seed of peace being buried in many places just around the globe, a part of a grid of love and light. And soon I realized that this seed could be planted wherever there was a flag in the Global Care Room. So wherever people were gathered, seed was. Then I recognized that the seed was really alive in every person who was putting attention on peace today. So suddenly, the entire globe was surrounded with this beautiful multitude of light seeds and the seed also in the core of the earth was then connecting so that the seeds of light from the outside were sinking in and the light from the inside was meeting it. And as the meditation progressed, I soon began to feel the hotspots around the earth and they were particularly being given love and light and you could see 6

them in this sense clear. But the message was this light was never burning, never hot, never over stimulating but totally had the quality of healing and soothing. And just as I was feeling that, the line dropped and I recognized that, yes, there is challenge and at that point tears came into my eyes. It wasn't anyone else's. I wasn't taking on other people's feeling. It was just my own recognition of the sacrifice and the love that people have endured to conflict and continue to endure. So it was brief but it was an honoring of all those beings and creatures and places on the earth. And then again I returned to this sweet loving blessing, blessing, blessing of peace. Thank you so much. Bye. Participant: Okay, [Participant]. Yes, this is [Participant] in Kauai. I found that spontaneously almost all of the names of the states in the United States and almost all of the countries in the world, the names were just running through my mind, and I was planting seed on each one and then some of bigger ones, several seeds. Thank you. [0:55:05] Well, I think I just want to share a resonance with those two sharings. For me, I was drawn initially to plant in a local place, just near me, a tree, but I was drawn to plant it in the State Capitol Building in Sacramento and then have this sense that I could just with intention plant seeds in all the State Capitols throughout the US and in all the city capitals and their mayoral offices. And I just saw this network of seeds proliferating throughout the US. And then I felt drawn to planting seeds in all of the national capitals all over the world and started to feel that this beautiful feeling of planetary unity developing through the commonality of these seeds that contain all of our attentions of peace. They have the same energy infecting all of these capitals around the world. And then I felt drawn to plant a seed at the center of the earth and felt that all doing that together at the same time is very profound. Just as we're doing that, that's when the call dropped. And it's my experience that when there's a lot of energy in these practices that it can surge and overwhelming technology is not uncommon. But anyway, when we came back, I actually felt the energy still strong. I didn't feel a sense of loss from being interrupted and felt the ongoing capacity of this field and felt the seed in the center of the earth linking all the others. Very beautiful planetary experience. Thank you. 7

So I'm just going to read out a few comments coming from the webcast. Someone who I believe his name is [Participant] from The Netherlands: I notice peace's ever presence and only requires my attention to grow. [Participant] from Buffalo, New York: Love and peace now envelops every particle in the universe. There's only peace and love. The universe has never been so bright with love and peace. And [Participant] says: I wish to thank you for creating this BeThePeace center for all of us who are focusing on peace on the planet. This is needed at this time of change. We need this feeling desperately. I believe those of us who are focusing this way will be able to help turn the time. I particularly was focusing on the recent cities who have gone tragedy, planting seeds of peace there as well as so many other places of need. Okay, thank you, [Participant]. Okay, so [Participant] from Birmingham writes: I checked my coherence score and magnetic fields on the computer with the hot mass device and it was very high which means feeling all people together brought a strong magnetic field around me. I could feel the peace inside a lot of people. Thank you all. Okay, last call for comments? A few minutes left here. David Todd: David, I'll just add that I experienced something very similar to what other people had said. Last night, we did this meditation and I went to maybe a dozen places, maybe two dozen places that I was aware of and planted seeds. [1:00:10] In this meditation, I recognized that seeds could be planted all over the world in many of the same places that people have mentioned, state capitals, governmental capitols around the world. I invited and witnessed all the allies who were called in also planting seeds with us and there's just no way to count how many seeds were planted. It was just immense amount of energy being distributed around the world today. Very remarkable. Thank you. Participant: So [Participant] from the webcast says: Planting the seed in my own heart allows me to share its light wherever my attention travels. That's the beauty of these seeds. They are magic seeds. They can go in all sorts of creative places. It could be our own hearts. [Participant] says: I'm holding a light of peace in all the prisons in the world. Okay, and [Participant], you have the mike again. Thank you. Yes, I remembered that before I planted the seeds in the states and countries that there were like flower pots and I put the seeds in them and I put them on the dining tables of all the people in my family. There were about 20 different households that I put these pots in. And I also just wanted to say that I 8

feel very excited to see what is going to happen in the days and weeks ahead as a result of what we're doing, all the tangible results that we're going to begin seeing. I'm very excited about that. Thank you. Thank you, [Participant]. Okay, so thank you everyone for that beautiful practice. You're bringing your presence to it so fully and for calling back in after that disconnect, staying with us, those of you who did get dropped from the call. So let's just, as a way to close, I'd like to invite you into just another 20 or 30 seconds or so of silence, silent gratitude for each other, for the shared intention that we brought today to all the allies that we invoked to the great spirit himself. And just being in silent thanks as a way to bring our call to a close. [1:04:19] End of Audio Okay. Thank you, David, for guiding us into the practice. Namaste, everybody. Blessings to you. 2013 The Shift Network. All rights reserved. 9