Network of Light

Network of Light Update

2009-07-24T06:19:00.004-04:00

For the next period of time, postings of articles by Julie Redstone that formerly would have appeared here will now appear on one of the two other Light Omega blogs - The Art of Being Present or The Essentials of Spiritual Purification. Postings by One World Community members can still be sent to Comments and will be published here as they are received.

Blessings of the light. We hope to see you when we return.

Self and Others

2009-07-22T16:37:00.002-04:00

Always, one may view the movement of consciousness expanding through the prism of what the self takes to be real. How real are you to yourself? How real are those you know to you? How real are those you don't know to you, but only read about, or hear about, or imagine about?

A measure of the movement toward the unified Consciousness of the One is how much the self experiences others as 'other' or finds reasons and rationales for rejection or separation.

Recognizing this, one must walk gently past obstacles, judgments, self-judgments, and avoidances to the heart of the matter which is one's capacity and motivation to love. Seek to be one with love in all things, and all obstacles will fall away.

Network of Light

2009-07-18T07:53:00.003-04:00

In a sacred world, there is nothing too small that is insignificant, and no one who is invisible. We hope to hear from you. The process is very simple - just send your message here.

One World Community - Anchorage, Alaska

2009-07-18T04:34:00.004-04:00

From: Adair MacKay

I want to say hello to friends I already know who participate in One World Community and Network of Light, and also to friends who I have yet to meet. I am writing from Anchorage, Alaska where I have been since April 1st of this year. I arrived here as a result of a spiritual calling that I received, and my life for the past few months has been very rich with opportunities to be used as a vehicle for human and divine love and truth. Julie Redstone, the creator of Network of Light, has been my beloved teacher since 1990.

I'm grateful for the opportunity, through this website, to be more visible. I look forward to reading posts from others, as well. In taking this step, I feel the potential for strengthening our divine identities, and for joining more fully as spiritual family at this profound moment in human history.

I AM has personal meaning to me as I introduce myself. My higher identity in God is getting stronger every day and with help from God, Julie, and many Beings from the Realms of Light, I find myself increasingly able to transcend limitations that keep me bound up in doubt and fear.

With love and great blessings to all, Adair

Cosmic Currents of Light

2009-07-16T08:42:00.000-04:00

From the smallest pebble to the vastest galaxy, the penetration of spiritual light reaches everywhere, for every part of the physical universe is simultaneously spiritual in its essence. It exists along dimensional frequencies of light that are specific to the location, consciousness and purpose of evolution of a particular planet, star, solar system, species, or universe. There are no exceptions, nothing that exists in form that is not also spiritual in its core.

Continue reading at - Cosmic Currents of Light.

What is a Name?

2009-07-15T10:15:00.004-04:00

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Gen. 1:5

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Names have vibrations - they convey energy both
on the personal level and on the level of the soul.

There are names given to us as children,
beautiful names, unusual names, karmic names
that connect us to the past of who we have been
and to the future of who we might be.

There are soul names that linger in the
shadows of consciousness that speak to us of our
point of origin before coming to the Earth and
convey to us a sense of home.

And then there are names that ring like a bell
in the air, that speak of our purpose for being here -
the one who does such-and-such .... he who stands for ....
These are the names of our calling
and they are deeply embedded in the soul.
They bring together our humanity and divinity
and help us to know that we are here to join them together.

Blessed are the names that bring truth,
for they connect the specific and transient
with the Nameless and Eternal.

Sounds of Healing

2009-07-13T01:33:00.010-04:00

Tibetan Singing Bowls

Singing bowls were traditionally used throughout Asia as part of certain types of Buddhist spiritual practice. Today they are employed worldwide by those from other spiritual traditions as well, for meditation, relaxation, healing, personal well-being, and spiritual practice.

Singing bowls were historically made in Tibet, Nepal, India, Bhutan, China, Japan, and Korea. The best known type are from the Himalayan region and are referred to as "Tibetan singing bowls."

One World Community - Monthly 'Network of Light' Meditation

2009-07-12T14:19:00.006-04:00

NETWORK OF LIGHT MEDITATION

An invitation to join spiritual friends in the United Kingdom and elsewhere:

9PM GMT, (5PM EDT) first of each month for approximately 20 minutes
(Or, closest approximate local time, wherever you are)

Founded in the work of Alice Bailey, Peter and Eileen Caddy, Sir George Trevelyan, David Spangler

The Pendulum

2009-07-10T09:26:00.002-04:00

The endpoint of the pendulum,
The direction turns,
A breath is taken in space and time.
This is the moment of God's inhale,
of life's pausing in silence
before the exhale can be made.

One World Community - From Indonesia

2009-07-09T03:15:00.002-04:00

This network is truly a blessing and a relief to me. I live in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. Diju

One World Community - A Voice for Peace and Unity

2009-07-09T03:14:00.001-04:00

Dear Friends of the Heart,

My name is Michaela DeAngelis. I live in Pelham, MA – with my husband Robert and my 19 year old daughter Chelsea. Julie Redstone is my Beloved Spiritual Teacher. Her love and her teachings are the heart and center of my life. I am deeply grateful for the love, beauty and healing that is possible in my life, through the depth of my relationship with Julie and her teachings.

I am very grateful for this Network of Light and One World Community. It is a manifestation of a deep longing in the depth of my heart and soul. I am looking forward to participating in this Community and Network of Light as they continue to grow. When I sit on Wednesday nights for the One World Meditation, I am very moved by the Light and Love that is available during that time. More and more in my daily life, I am able to have some experiences of feeling God’s Love and Light that is now more present on the Earth. I feel so blessed and grateful that this is more possible at this time.

Currently I work part-time as a therapist/social worker and I am helping bring into manifestation a beautiful and sacred organization called Avenues of Peace. Avenues of Peace is founded on the universal spiritual truth that ~

When one person suffers, we all suffer.
When we serve one, we serve all.

The mission and purpose of Avenues of Peace is to be a voice and vehicle of change and peace. To help deepen and embody the experience that we are all one – that we are all intimately connected, that each of us belongs to one planetary family.

Each day I strive and pray to become more of a pure channel for God’s love and the mission of Avenues of Peace. Many days, I am aware of how I fall short of who I long to be. To bring to life and God the depth of the love in my heart, to always have the courage and willingness to choose love. It is a humbling, challenging and ultimately beautiful journey – this journey of becoming more whole. I am so grateful for the healing that is possible now, because of God’s Light and Love that is more available to each of us a this time. I look forward to sharing more with each of you as this Network and Community continues to grow.

With love, gratitude, blessings and joy for this new beginning,
Michaela DeAngelis
Pelham, MA

Declaration of Independence - 233rd anniversary

2009-07-04T16:01:00.003-04:00

On July 4, 1776, an event took place of such spiritual, moral, and political significance, that the world has never been the same since then. Not only was it an event that captured the hearts of the patriots who lived within these new colonies of the United States of America, but one that claimed the attention of despots and dictators worldwide, for in this statement and in the events which followed, were commitments and vows that would forevermore illuminate the inner conscience of mankind in a way that had never before been expressed.

Here then is that document embedded in the history of the Republic of these United States as a living testimony to the spiritual and moral purpose that lies at her center:

One World Meditation

2009-07-01T15:13:00.005-04:00

One World Meditation - Music by Emile Koelink

What is Intimacy? - 2

2009-07-02T03:32:00.004-04:00

What is Intimacy? - 2

What Is Redemption?

2009-07-01T08:21:00.002-04:00

We live in a time of redemption, when God's light is bringing all things back to the Oneness from which they came, dissolving all that creates separation from love within the greater light of the One.

This is the nature of redemption - to bring back, return, transmute, and reunite elements that have become separated, both within the individual psyche and within manifested life as well. The purpose of redemption is reunion - to restore all things to their original wholeness.

In the larger sense, nothing ever becomes separated from the Oneness since there is nothing else but that. However, in an experiential sense and in a motivational and dynamic sense, there are people, emotions, energies, and forces that exist in a state of antipathy or opposition toward God and love. It is these forces, energies, emotions, and states of awareness, wherever they occur, that are being redeemed by light. And it is the heart that carries these motivations and emotions that is being returned to its primary Source.

The purpose of redemption is homecoming.

The goal is unity in love.

The time is now.

May all beings be blessed.

One World Community - A Heart Dedicated to Peace

2009-06-27T18:30:00.002-04:00

Dear Friends of the Heart,

My name is Robert McIlwain. I live near Amherst, MA, USA, with my wife Michaela and stepdaughter Chelsea. My spiritual life with Julie Redstone is at the center of my life, and I am profoundly grateful for the Divine light and love that nourishes and upholds our life and all life.

There is an extraordinarily powerful yearning in my heart for peace in the world, peace with the earth, peace between all people and all peoples. Toward that end I dedicate my life, manifested in smaller ways perhaps at the moment, but with great potentiality and trust in the promise of the future of humanity led by God – the Oneness that Is - joined together in love and service.

I know that new ways of being with one another, of governance and commerce, of love and caring for all people and the earth, will come into being, and that we are moving toward this as individuals and as a planet.

I am part of an organization called Avenues of Peace , founded through inspiration by Michaela and Julie, and supported by a board of directors. The mission is profound and beautiful, and is connected with the recognition of our oneness as humanity and the call in our hearts to serve one another. Earlier this week we sent out the first Avenues of Peace Newsletter with great joy, and as a prayer for healing for the world. We will share more as our work unfolds.

I send love to each of you participating in this Network of Light, and the blessings of my heart for this new beginning.

Robert McIlwain
Pelham, MA

One World Community - A Practicing Buddhist

2009-06-26T07:44:00.006-04:00

I am a practicing Buddhist and, when I chant, I chant for peace and happiness to all sentient beings. I also chant for the healing of Gaia. Namaste.

Marie LeFebvre

Send comments here. Please include your location as well as your name.

You Are Invited

2009-06-24T14:08:00.002-04:00

We would like to hear from you.
Who you are and where you are.
It is as simple as clicking here.
Help strengthen the bonds that bring
light and love to the planet.

Holding Suffering in the Heart of Compassion

2009-06-22T09:52:00.004-04:00

The question of suffering perplexes the human heart. How can we feel light and God and hold suffering at the same time? How can we hold it and not blame God? Or hold it and not sink into depression, despair, or anger?

There is a way, the way of non-exclusion, the way of love.

Non-exclusion is the path of truth. It asks us to look boldly at what is, both within us and within the world. It says that expanding wholeness and healing can only take place in the presence of honesty. It also asks us to not turn away from others because our awareness of their pain may bring us pain. It asks us to join with them and to find the means within ourselves to hold their pain in and with God as part of the Oneness.

The way of non-exclusion is the way of honesty. It is the way of abandoning denial, avoidance, withdrawal, rejection, and blame in favor of love.

Love that is held in God allows us to wrap pain in compassion. It allows us to cushion our response to it so that the primary response is openness and not rejection. A heart that is full of love can hold suffering. Instead of being submerged in the crying of others or of oneself, it is upheld by the inner assurances of love that there is nothing that cannot be borne where love is present. This must be true not only of one's own love but of God’s love as well. For pain always meets the question of "How can this be?" and "Why is this happening?" This is especially true when it is severe. Though there is often no answer to this question, in the presence of not-knowing one must trust the purposes of Divine love. One must also trust the capacity of one's own heart. Such trust cannot be fashioned out of the Will. It must exist as an experience of Divine presence and Divine goodness that comes through the deepening of one’s inner connection with the Source of life.

Love, both human and Divine, can hold pain in one of the many rooms of the heart. It does not drown in it because in each of the other rooms there is a source of light and of hope that uplifts the pain and allows it to just be. Where this is not true, then pain can become all-consuming. It can seem endless and impenetrable. It can feel like all that is.

This must be the goal, then - to feel both the pain and the light around it. In the presence of this light we are enabled to stand with others and to not leave them because it hurts too much. We are also emboldened to not leave a part of ourselves because that part hurts too much and we desire to seal it off from awareness. This common response to pain can be replaced by an openness to it, a willingness to hold it tenderly, a desire to embrace it with compassion. When these inner attitudes are in place, we are supported from within through the power of light and love to remain with whatever painful circumstance exists, holding it in the Oneness until it dissolves in the light.

Post-Katrina New Orleans (One World Community)

2009-06-22T08:55:00.008-04:00

For me, the photo (below) was, with the poetry I chose from the poet Nature Man’s work, to be what I felt an accurate portrayal of the feelings, depth of generational experiences, and ongoing cultural experiences of the community I have become a part of in post-Katrina New Orleans. I chose this particular verse of the poem not to inflict guilt but to to verbalize what I hear and perceive the African American community of which I have been welcomed into, to be speaking of, and feeling deeply within their hearts.

Whilst still living in the United States, it often feels in this area of the South - Louisiana, and in Mississippi - that I am in another time altogether. Yes, things look modern around me, but the energies of racism, old, old, racism that was practiced here first in slavery, then in lynchings, and Jim Crow laws, is still very prominent - now in more insidious and subtle ways. I see race based social engineering being practiced in the rebuilding of the city of New Orleans. One current example: the wealthy, predominantly Caucasian area of St. Charles Street is receiving recovery monies for Audubon Park, for new sidewalks, whilst in the 7th Ward in which I live, still looks of the early post-Katrina flood damage with empty gaping houses, torn up streets and sidewalks, empty schools, closed libraries, a lack of playgrounds, and children playing in front of mold ridden abandoned houses.

The reason I chose the particular verse that I did, is connected to the history of slavery here and the agony the people went through and continue to go through who suffer the greatest at the hands of injustice. Just this morning, at the African American Baptist church I attend with Nature, Pastor spoke with real pain in his voice about the racism he, his parents, and grandparents had to endure. How they were not allowed in the Woolworths to eat, or in the JC Penny Stores. As recently as 2005, when panicked African American New Orleanians tried to flee the city on foot from the rising flood waters, looking for food and shelter, they were met with guns at the bridges. People with guns, police and civilians, were trying to keep them out of their towns and forcing them back into the city. I have spoken with the man whose grandchildren were shot by the police for trying to cross over the Danziger Bridge during the flooding. 2 men died, one a mentally retarded man, and four were wounded. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6063982 This is the same man who tells me stories of his past, how when he went to buy his house in the Upper 9th Ward on the deed it said “not to be sold to colored people.” He fought it and then told me of what it was like to watch the Caucasian families leave the neighborhood when his family moved in.

The pain of racism runs deep here, a long opened wound. With President Obama in office, I perceive in the community a time where it feels safe now to speak out loud of the pain. I used to wonder at the anger of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, and whilst I have no desire to follow in their energetic path, and prefer the path of Martin Luther King, Jr., I now understand, through witnessing the roots of the powerlessness and helplessness experienced.

Text of Poem:

Forge from the Land of Liberty
Forge from the Love of Liberty
Say wasn't it We that went through Slavery
Still We Living in Agony
In Dis Land of Liberty.

Photo: Johanna Raphael
Poetry: Nature Man (Albert Pierre)

The Fifth Dimension

2009-06-20T08:54:00.009-04:00

There are different kinds of unity that live
within the human heart.

There is the unity of lovers who say
"I love you" and "I love you."
There is the unity of friends who say
"I am glad you are in my life."
There is the unity of families who say
"You belong to me" and "I belong to you."
There is the unity of souls who say
"I am with you always."

Now, a new kind of unity is descending
to the Earth.
It arrives from on high upon spirals of light.
It crystallizes in the heart as a new word
that must be spoken.
This word does not say "I" and "you"
for these are two.
It does not even say "we",
for these are two, also.
This new unity reveals to the deepest heart
that there are no longer two anywhere.
There is only one.
It says "You are me, beloved,
and I am you."
This is the voice of One.

Layers of the Heart

2009-06-17T16:46:00.009-04:00

The ways of the heart are multi-layered, like the colors of sediment in an ancient stone, or like the layers of sky that contain mist, clouds, and sun at one location, all at different levels.

Within one layer, we may find our hearts quite open to love, to share, to belong, to give.

Within another layer, we may find our hearts indifferent, detached, drifting - not connected to love's blossom, meant to be shared in each moment.

When we seek unity with others, we must seek it within all of our heart's layers - those that respond easily and those that have more difficulty being open. This is the way unity is created, and this is the way peace and harmony are created - through the more complete joining of hearts and the progressive melting of all separation and fear.

We cannot use words like 'love' and 'oneness' to represent how we feel unless we really feel that way. We may wish to feel that way and that is good. And we may feel that way in a part of ourselves, and that is good, too. But the oneness that calls to us at this time in human history is a oneness of the complete self - body, mind, heart, and spirit, each infused with the light and life of God - each vibrating in harmony with all others.

This is the calling, and we are already on our way as we reach toward it out of our own heart's responding. No limitation shall stand in the way, and all limitation shall dissolve more easily as we bring it into the light of awareness. In this way shall the Earth become one, as the layers of each heart become one in the Oneness of all.

How to Send a Photo to Network of Light via Flickr.com

2009-06-16T20:55:00.004-04:00

To post a picture on the Flickr/lightomega page for subsequent inclusion in the Network of Light, one needs to have or create a Flickr account.

The steps to follow are outlined here.

Welcome to the Network of Light

2009-06-13T04:56:00.002-04:00

One World Meditations was created in January, 2008, and since that time participants in 23 countries have been added to our mailing list, including:

United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia, India, Indonesia, New Zealand, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Kenya, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Philipines, Italy, Slovenia, Israel, Chile

The "Network of Light" blog is a new addition to the offerings of One World Meditations. It's purpose - to strengthen the connections between us, to establish a greater feeling of unity, and to allow the higher frequencies of spiritual light being absorbed during the meditations to find their way more fully into the physical dimension.

Sharing in this blog can take place on two levels - through staying current with the articles, stories, etc. you will find here, and through offering your own selection of inspirational poems, stories, artwork, and descriptions of you and where you live. These can be sent to us via Comments at One World Meditations.org and they will be posted on the blog itself. If there is an image you want to share, you can send it to our Home Page at Flickr.com (See instructions below). Our purpose is to inspire and uplift, and at the same time to share the great beauty of spirit that exists on the Earth among the many souls that are reaching toward their own spirit.

Please join us. Share what touches or moves you. Let us know who and where you are.

May all beings be blessed by the new light now available on the planet, bringing hope, peace, and a new beginning for humanity.

Blessings, beloved ones - Julie Redstone

About Images:
You may send images to the 'Network of Light' by opening a free account at Flickr.com and including both your message and image in a comment on our home page. The process for doing this is described here. If you have trouble with this, please contact us using that same Comments form.

Updates:
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You

2009-06-16T03:16:00.005-04:00

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