A Critical Time for the USA and Mother Earth - Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

A Critical Time
for the USA and Mother Earth
by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles

http://www.eraofpeace.org

This is
an incredibly powerful week. We began with Palm Sunday, and we celebrated St.
Patrick's Day. Now we will experience the Vernal Equinox, the Full Moon,
Passover, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Whenever there are so many
opportunities for Humanity to pause for a moment and focus on God, and the
various Spiritual Activities of Light taking place all over the world, the
collective Cup of Humanity's Consciousness creates a tremendous portal through
which the Light of God will flow to assist us all in our process of
transformation. This week is unusually active and our opportunity to add to the
Light of the world is being greatly increased.

From every Being of Light
in the Realms of Truth, Humanity is being guided to focus the power of our
attention on the vision of the New Earth in all her resplendent glory. In spite
of the saber rattling and war drums we are being bombarded with by the media,
every credible Lightworker is gently turning his or her attention to the mission
of cocreating Heaven On Mother Earth…HOME. This is our purpose and reason for
being, and it is why we volunteered to be on Earth during this Cosmic
Moment.

We have been training for aeons of time for this mission. Within
our hearts, we have all of the wisdom, strength, skill, courage and trust we
need to succeed God Victoriously. Our responsibility now is to utilize our
training. We must monitor our thoughts, words, feelings and actions daily and
hourly to be sure we are empowering only the patterns of Heaven on Earth instead
of the fragmented, fear­based thoughtforms that are being pushed to the surface
all over the planet to be healed and transmuted back into Light.

Every
world religion has taught us, in one way or another, that we are responsible for
the circumstances occurring in our lives. What we send out through our thoughts,
words, actions and feelings returns to us. This is true whether we are focusing
our attention on hate or love, poverty or abundance, disease or health, war or
peace.

There is a grassroots awakening taking place, and literally
millions of people all over the world are genuinely striving to create lives of
joy, peace, abundance, health and comfort for themselves and their loved ones.
The vast majority of the six and one-half billion people evolving on Earth want
the same thing. They want to know that their families are safe and that they can
provide food, shelter, security, health care, education and comfort for their
loved ones.

The majority of people sincerely care about other people, and
they want the best for Humanity and all Life evolving on Earth. Most people
truly desire to create a lifestyle that not only supports their basic needs but
honors the Earth as well. The people who are willing to deprive others of their
livelihood, security, prosperity, health, peace and safety for their own selfish
desires are a small minority. Those who are willing to kill people and destroy
the Earth for the sake of power and money are also a mere fraction of
Humanity.

It will help immensely if we all invoke the Flame of
Transfiguring Divine Love pulsating in every person's heart, and ask the Divine
Intelligence within that Sacred Flame to reveal the distortion and corruption in
their thinking process that allows them to justify harming another part of Life
for their own selfish gains. If, moment to moment, we focus the power of our
attention on the New Earth and all that means to us in the way of love, peace,
harmony, joy, happiness, abundance, health, beauty, limitless physical
perfection, fulfillment, spiritual growth, enlightenment, wonder and awe, we
will victoriously cocreate . . .

Heaven On Mother Earth-HOME.

On
June 9, 2002, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, from Ohio, gave a speech at the
Praxis Peace Institute Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia. His amazing message is
even more important today. In the face of the challenges facing the United
States of America and this precious planet, we should all take this message into
the deepest recesses of our hearts and respond according to our Inner Guidance.
Please, open your heart and allow the words of this profound speech to resonate
in the deepest recesses of your Being.

Spirit and Stardust
by U.S.
Representative Dennis Kucinich

As one studies the images of the Eagle
Nebula, brought back by the Hubble Telescope from that place in deep space where
stars are born, one can imagine the interplay of Cosmic Forces across space and
time, of matter and Spirit dancing to the music of the spheres atop an infinite
sea of numbers.

Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the Universe.
Matter transcends to return to Spirit. The interchangeability of matter and
Spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our Universe becomes the
soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self. The energy of the stars
becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and Spirit unite, and we
begin: One with the Universe-whole and holy from One source, endless creative
energy bursting forth, kinetic, elemental-we, the earth, air, water and fire,
source of nearly fifteen billion years of Cosmic spiraling.

We begin as a
perfect union of matter and Spirit. We receive the blessings of the Eternal from
sky and Earth. In our outstretched hands, we can feel the energy of the
Universe. We receive the blessings of the Eternal from water, which nourishes
and sanctifies life. We receive the blessings of the Eternal from the primal
fire, the pulsating Heart of Creation. We experience the wonder of life,
multidimensional and transcendent. We extend our hands upwards, and we are
showered with abundance. We ask and we receive. A Universe of plenty flows to
us, through us. It is in us. We become filled with endless
possibilities.

We need to remember where we came from, to know that we
are One, to understand that we are of an undivided whole: race, color,
nationality, creed, gender are beams of Light refracted through one great prism.
We begin as perfect and journey through life to become more perfect in the
singularity of 'I' and in the multiplicity of 'we,' a more perfect union of
matter and Spirit. This is human striving. This is where, in Shelley's words, '.
. . hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates.'  This is what
Browning spoke of, our 'reach exceeding our grasp.'  This is a search for Heaven
within, a quest for our eternal Home.

In our souls' Magnificent, we
become conscious of the Cosmos within us. We hear the music of peace; we hear
the music of cooperation; we hear music of love. We hear harmony, a celestial
symphony in our souls' forgetting; we become unconscious of our Cosmic
Birthright, plighted with disharmony, disunity, torn asunder from the stars in a
disaster well described by Matthew Arnold in Dover Beach: '. . . the world,
which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams, so various, so beautiful, so
new, hath really neither joy, nor love, nor Light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor
help for pain. And we are here, as on a darkling plane, swept with confused
alarms of struggle and flight where ignorant armies clash by
night.'

Today Dover Beach is upon the shores of the Potomac River in
Washington, D.C. Our leaders think the unthinkable and speak of the unspeakable
inevitability of nuclear war, of a nuclear attack on New York City, of terrorist
attacks throughout our nation, of war against Iraq using nuclear weapons, of
biological and chemical weapon attacks on civilian populations, of catastrophic
global climate change, of war in outer space.

When death, not life,
becomes inevitable, we are presented with an opportunity for great clarity, for
a great awakening, to rescue the human spirit from the arms of Morpheus through
love, through compassion and through integrating spiritual vision and active
citizenship to restore peace to our world. The moment that one world is about to
end, a New World is about to begin. We need to remember where we came from
because the path HOME is also the way to the future.

In Ohio, the city I
represent in the United States Congress, there is a memorial to Peace, named by
its sculptor, Marshall A. Fredericks, the 'Fountain of Eternal Life.' A figure
rises from the flames, his gaze fixed to the stars, his hands positioned
sextant-like as if measuring the distance. Though flames of war from the
millions of hearts and the dozens of places wherein it rages may lick at our
consciousness, our gaze must be fixed upward to invoke universal principles of
unity, of cooperation, of compassion, to infuse our world with peace, to ask for
the active Presence of Peace, to expand our capacity to receive it and to
express it in our everyday life. We must do this fearlessly and courageously and
not breathe in the poison gas of terror. As we receive, so shall we
give.

As citizen-diplomats of the world, we send Peace as conscious
expression wherever, whenever and to whomever it is needed: to the Middle East,
to the Israelis and the Palestinians, to the Pakistanis and the Indians, to
Americans and to al-Qaida and to the people of lraq and to all those locked in
deadly combat. And we fly to be with the bereft, with those on the brink, to
listen compassionately, setting aside judgment and malice to become peacemakers,
to intervene, to mediate, to bring ourselves back from the abyss, to bind up the
world's wounds.

As we aspire to universal brotherhood and sisterhood, we
hearken to the cry from the heart of the world and respond affirmatively to
address through thought, word and deed conditions which give rise to conflict:
economic exploitation, empire building, political oppression, religious
intolerance, poverty, disease, famine, homelessness, struggles over control of
water, land, minerals and oil.

We realize that what affects anyone
anywhere affects everyone everywhere.

As we help others to heal, we heal
ourselves. Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world
citizens in non-governmental organizations linking from numberless centers of
energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within
and across national lines. New transnational, web-based e-mail and
telecommunications systems transcend governments and carry within them the power
of qualitative transformation of social and political structures and a new sense
of creative intelligence. If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy
and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the
implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and
for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.

As citizen-activists
merge the world over, they can become an irresistible force to create Peace and
protect the planet. From here will come a new movement to abolish nuclear
weapons and all weapons of mass destruction. From here will come the demand for
sustainable communities, for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce.
From here comes the future rushing in on us.

How does one acquire the
capacity for active citizenship? The opportunities exist everyday. In Cleveland,
citizens have developed the ability to intercede when schools are scheduled to
be closed and have kept the schools open. Citizens can rally to keep hospitals
open, to save industries which provide jobs, to protect neighborhood libraries
from curtailment of service, to improve community policing, to meet racial,
ethnic and religious intolerance openly and directly.

Active citizenship
begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of
spiritual principles. I know. I have worked with the people in my own community.
I have seen the dynamic of faith in self, faith in one's ability to change
things, faith in one's ability to prevail against the odds through an appeal to
the Spirit of the world for help, through an appeal to the Spirit of community
for participation, through an appeal to the Spirit of cooperation which
multiplies energy. I have seen citizens challenge conditions without condemning
anyone while invoking principles of non­opposition and inclusion of those who
disagree.

I have seen groups of people overcome incredible odds, as they
become aware they are participating in a cause beyond self and sense the
movement of the inexorable, which comes from unity. When you feel this principle
at work, when you see spiritual principles form the basis of active citizenship,
you are reminded once again of the merging of Stardust and Spirit. There is
creativity. There is magic. There is alchemy.

Citizens across the United
States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace,
seeking nothing less than the transformation of our society, to make nonviolence
an organizing principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift
in our culture for human development, for economic and political justice and for
violence control. Its work in violence control will be to support disarmament
treaties, peaceful coexistence and peaceful consensus building. Its focus on
economic and political justice will examine and enhance resource distribution,
human and economic rights and strengthen democratic values.

Domestically,
the Department of Peace would address violence in the home, spousal abuse, child
abuse, gangs, police/community relations conflicts and work with individuals and
groups to achieve changes in attitudes that examine the mythologies of cherished
world views such as 'violence is inevitable' or 'war is inevitable.' Thus it
will help with the discovery of new selves and new paths toward peaceful
consensus.

The Department of Peace will also address human development
and the unique concerns of women and children. It will envision and seek to
implement plans for Peace education, not simply as a course of study but as a
template for all pursuits of knowledge within formal educational
settings.

Violence is NOT inevitable. War is NOT inevitable. Nonviolence
and peace ARE inevitable. We can make of this world a gift of Peace, which will
confirm the presence of universal Spirit in our lives. We can send into the
future the gift, which will protect our children from fear, from harm, from
destruction.

Carved inside the pediment, which sits atop the marble
columns, is a sentinel at the entrance to the United States House of
Representatives. Standing resolutely inside this 'Apotheosis of Democracy' is a
woman, a shield by her left side, with her outstretched right arm protecting a
child happily sitting at her feet. This child holds the Lamp of Knowledge under
the protection of this patroness.

This wondrous sculpture by Paul Wayland
Bartlett is titled 'Peace Protecting Genius.'  Not with nuclear arms, but with a
loving maternal arm is the knowing child genius shielded from harm. This is the
promise of hope over fear. This is the promise of love, which overcomes all.
This is the promise of faith, which overcomes doubt. This is the promise of
Light, which overcomes darkness. This is the promise of Peace, which overcomes
war.

For more information on how you can participate in the Department of
Peace, you may E-mail Representative Kucinich at:  [email protected] or [email protected]

Patricia
Diane Cota-Robles
New Age Study of Humanity's Purpose
a 501 (c) 3
nonprofit educational organization

Website: http://www.eraofpeace.org

FAX: 520-751-2981;
Phone: 520-885-7909

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