Sometime last spring when I was half way through the DVD series around Frenchman Alexis de Touqueville‘s observations about the U.S. during his visit here in 1831 and 1832, from which he later wrote Democracy in America, I heard an inner voice I Trust say, “I need a vacation.” The warmer season was approaching, and so I began to methodically shut down what I had in motion, neatly stacking up materials I thought I would return to in the later fall or winter. Then one day Jim came into my personal room during this process, observing that he thought it would be good for me to get some of those piles out of my daily environment, and he would be happy to help me take them downstairs to the file cabinet he had moved there when he brought an electronic piano into his personal room. He added that he‘d be happy to bring materials back up if I wanted them later in the year. Since I agreed with his suggestions, downstairs they went.
Then I crafted and painted the clay pot of safety and peace I talked about earlier, that is now thumb-tacked on the door to my personal room—and in my imagination it‘s growing! After that I went through all my art materials to update myself on what I have, deciding (again at Jim‘s suggestion) to get a lovely wooden, portable tabletop easel. My first picture using it was of a chickadee, a tribute to an indigenous spirit-being male I greatly admire. The painting style I‘m currently using has many aspects of what I‘ve interpreted in my studies over the years of Japanese and Chinese visual expressions, which come from their Zen, other Buddhist, and Taoist belief structures.
A big emphasis for these past few months during my “vacation” has been to Go Direct, repeatedly given as divine guidance. This has meant to use my invisible inner Choice Selector from a position of Oneness and merge with what I want to Understand.
Moving to the immediate present. After I recently reread my website manuscript Within the River of Love, Translations and Applications, and then the subsequent blogs, I Realized I had already interwoven many perspectives about “The Land of Our Births.” Central to my perspectives is that We the People of the United States of America have now taken the energy designs and patterns that were set forth from the beginning of our nation and have played them out to their logical conclusions. From my point of view, that‘s what the spirit-being experiment for the past thousands of years has been all about, and what our United States of America experiment within the larger experiment has been all about. And now each of us as an individual has the opportunity to stand back in his or her Life, deciding and choosing which I, which matrix, which wavelength—and then effectively implementing their decisions. Will we choose, individually and together, to craft A New American Dream?
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