Rediscovering El Palomar downtown, plus growing organically with the Homeless Garden Project
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Rediscovering El Palomar downtown, plus growing organically with the Homeless Garden Project
Smart, sexy and hilarious, Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s The Liar is a triumph
Portland roots-rockers seek their Wilco nirvana
Local artist Andrew Purchin and Pakistan’s controversial Mohsin Shafi open cross-cultural conversation at the Radius Gallery
The Tannery grieves for Madyson Middleton
In Leo, we are on the Burning Grounds, given tests, standing in the fire. The crisis builds the fire of knowledge in our minds. Our God is a fire, Agni. In these sacrifices occurring in our families, towns, cities and world, a critical question arises: what is our response? When experiencing shocks, loss, devastation, exhaustion, and inexorable grief, we are in danger of losing our hearts. We don’t know how to respond. Leo is the heart of all that matters, calling us to maintain connection with our hearts, thus poised within the heart of all that matters, and to call forth our spiritual will of goodness. When we stand in spiritual will, we help the forces of light “seal the door where evil dwells.”
Here is a Mantra of Oneness; the Mantram of Unification. We recite it each day, together and from now on: The daughters and sons of men (humanity) are one. And I am one with them. I seek to love, not hate. I seek to serve and not exact due service. I seek to heal, not hurt. Let pain bring due reward of light and love. Let the Soul control the outer form, And life and all events. And bring to light the love that underlies the happenings of the time.
Let vision come and insight. Let the future stand revealed. Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone. Let love prevail. Let us all love more.
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