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Indigenous Peoples Across Amazon Bless And Affirm Message From International Indigenous Leaders Gathering in Canada in Sacred Fire Ceremony at Rio +20

An Indigenous Call for Urgent and Collective Action to All Members of the Human Family for Protecting and Restoring the Sacred
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

June 13, 2012

The spiritual foundation of the International Indigenous Leadership Gathering is based in the understanding of the fundamental oneness and unity of all life. All members of the Human Family are all part of the ancient Sacred Circle of Life. Since we are all part of the Sacred Circle of Life we are all Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth. This makes every Human Being responsible for the well-being of one another and for all living things upon our Mother Earth.
Therefore, whether or not the nation states, multinational corporations or international development agencies that surround us are willing or able to participate with us at this time, it is clear our Indigenous Peoples and Allies are moving forward in rebuilding and reunifying the Americas and beyond, through the Natural Laws and Guiding Principles that are inherent in our Indigenous World View and Legal Order that are based on a spiritual enduring, eternal foundation.
1. We have the ancient prophecies and the clear vision of a future of social justice and collective prosperity for the Americas and beyond that we are in the process of manifesting. This new global civilization that is unfolding, as promised by the Ancient Ones and the Ancient of Days, fully honors the Natural Laws and Rights of Mother Earth and the Unity and Diversity of Human Family. This New Spiritual Springtime foretold by our Elders is now unfolding globally, as sure as the sun rises every morning.
2. We have a strong, enduring and unbreakable spiritual foundation of cultural values and guiding principles that are empowering us to arise to our promised destiny, with greater strength and wisdom than ever before, after a great spiritual wintertime. This long spiritual wintertime was filled, at times, with the utmost human cruelty, violence, injustice, abuse, and physical and cultural genocide.
Despite these challenges, throughout the Americas and around Mother Earth, our Indigenous Peoples are reawakening to their spiritual and cultural identities and are healing our Sacred Relationships between ourselves, Mother Earth and all members of the Human Family.
3. Together, with our other Indigenous Peoples and other Members of the Human Family, we have the cultural, spiritual, scientific, technological, social, environmental, economic and agricultural capacities and wisdom needed to co-create and rebuild our Families, Tribes and Nations stronger and more unified than ever before.
4. Our Indigenous Peoples of Mother Earth have the growing collective social and economic capital, coupled with vast natural resources, to bring our greatest dreams and visions to reality. This includes fully protecting, preserving, and restoring our Beloved Mother as the sacred heritage of all generations, yet to come!
Furthermore it is crystal clear that these collective resources are in the process of empowering us to become a primary spiritual and economic force, not only in the Americas, but throughout Mother Earth.
We are now and are destined in the future to play a greater and greater role as key global leaders in wisely mandating the sustainable and harmonious ways Mother Earth’s gifts and resources will or will not be developed! We will insure that when the development of the natural resources of Mother Earth are not sustainable, no matter how much profit is to be made, they will not be exploited!
Our Sacred Places and the Healthful Life of our Beloved Mother Earth are not for sale and exploitation for any price!
5. We, the Indigenous Peoples of the Eagle of the North (Canada and the U.S.) have the material resources to directly support our Indigenous Relatives of the Condor of the South (Latin America) in developing their collective resources, as they choose. The Condor of the South equally has critical resources to share with the Eagle of the North. Our greatest strength yet to be fully realized is our spiritual and cultural unity.
6. By utilizing emerging digital communications technologies and corresponding green technologies and economies, in harmony with our vast, collective social, economic, cultural and spiritual capacities, we are manifesting, as promised, a future with social, environmental and economic justice for all members of the Human Family and our Beloved Mother Earth!
7. The primary challenge that stands before us as Indigenous Peoples and we as a Human Family, in rebuilding the Americas, and beyond, is disunity. This disunity has been directly caused by genocide and colonialism. This genocide and colonization has resulted in unresolved inter-generational trauma and internalized oppression that is in the process of being fully recognized and addressed.
As we move courageously and wisely forward, in greater and greater love, compassion, justice and unity, we are reconnecting to our enduring and unbreakable spiritual and cultural foundation for healing, reconciliation and collective action for “Protecting and Restoring the Sacred ” everywhere on Mother Earth.
With the realization of this spiritual and cultural foundation for prayerful, wise and unified action, all that is needed for our ultimate victory will gracefully and assuredly unfold at the right times and places, as foretold by our Ancient Ones.
Four Worlds Indigenous Guiding Principles for Building Sustainable and Harmonious Prosperity in the Americas and Beyond

The Sixteen Principles for building a sustainable and harmonious world community emerged from a 40-year process of reflection, consultation and action within Indigenous communities across the Americas. They are rooted in the concerns of hundreds of Indigenous Elders Spiritual Leaders and Community Members, as well as, in the best thinking of many non- Indigenous scholars, researchers and human and community development practitioners.

These guiding principles constitute the foundation for the process of healing and developing ourselves (mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually), our human relationships (personal, social, political, economic, and cultural) and our relationship with Mother Earth. They describe the way we must work and what we must protect and cherish.

We offer these Guiding Principles as a gift to all who seek to build a sustainable and harmonious Global community.

PREAMBLE

We speak as one, guided by the sacred teachings and spiritual traditions of the Four Directions that uplift, guide, protect, warn, inspire and challenge the entire human family to live in ways that sustain and enhance human life and the lives of all who dwell on Mother Earth, and hereby dedicate our lives and energies to healing and developing ourselves, the web of relationships that make our world, and the way we live with Mother Earth.

THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Starting from within, working in a circle, in a sacred manner, we heal and develop ourselves, our relationships and our world.

STARTING FROM WITHIN

Human Beings Can Transform Their Worlds
The web of our relationships with others and the natural world, which has given rise to the problems we face as a human family, can be changed.

Development Comes From Within
The process of human and community development unfolds from within each person, relationship, family organization, community or nation.

No Vision, No Development
A vision of who we can become and what a sustainable world would be like, works as a powerful magnet, drawing us to our potential.

Healing Is A Necessary Part Of Development
Healing the past, closing up old wounds and learning healthy habits of thought and action to replace dysfunctional thinking and disruptive patterns of human relations is a necessary part of the process of sustainable development.

WORKING IN A CIRCLE

Interconnectedness
Everything is connected to everything else; therefore, any aspect of our healing and development is related to all the others (personal, social, cultural, political, economic, etc.). When we work on any one part, the whole circle is affected.

No Unity, No Development
Unity means oneness. Without unity, the common oneness that makes (seemingly) separate human beings into ‘community’ is impossible. Disunity is the primary disease of community.

No Participation, No Development
Participation is the active engagement of the minds, hearts and energy of the people in the process of their own healing and development.

Justice
Every person (regardless of gender, race, age, culture, religion, sexual orientation) must be accorded equal opportunity to participate in the process of healing and development, and to receive a fair share of the benefits.

IN A SACRED MANNER

Spirit
Human beings are both material and spiritual in nature. It is therefore inconceivable that human community could become whole and sustainable without bringing our lives into balance with the requirements of our spiritual nature.

Morals and Ethics
Sustainable human and community development requires a moral foundation centered in the wisdom of the heart. When this spiritual foundation is lost, morals and ethical principles decline and development stops.

The Hurt of One Is the Hurt of All: The Honor of One Is the Honor Of All
The basic fact of our oneness as a human family means that development for some at the expense of well being for others is not acceptable or sustainable.

Authentic Development Is Culturally Based
Healing and development must be rooted in the wisdom, knowledge and living processes of the culture of the people.

WE HEAL AND DEVELOP OURSELVES, OUR RELATIONSHIPS AND OUR WORLD

Learning
Human beings are learning beings. We begin learning while we are still in our mother’s wombs, and unless something happens to close off our minds and paralyze our capacities, we keep learning throughout our entire lives. Learning is at the core of healing and development.

Sustainability
To sustain something means to enable it to continue for a long time. Authentic development does not use up or undermine what it needs to keep on going.

Move to the Positive
Solving the critical problems in our lives and communities is best approached by visualizing and moving into the positive alternative that we wish to create, and by building on the strengths we already have, rather than on giving away our energy fighting the negative.

Be the Change You Want To See
The most powerful strategies for change always involve positive role modeling and the creation of living examples of the solutions we are proposing. By walking the path, we make the path visible.
With Warm, and Loving Greetings of Solidarity,
Herditary Chief Phil Lane Jr., Chairman,
Four Worlds International Institute
4worlds@uleth.ca
wwwfwii.net – Telephone- 1-604-542-8991-Skype- planejr1234

Starting from within, working in a circle, in a sacred manner, we heal and develop ourselves, our relationships and our world

There has been an awful lot written and said about 2012 and 21st December in particular.  I read somewhere that there are 40,000 titles available from Amazon that have something to do with Mayan calendars, culture and the meaning 0f 2012.

Amongst younger folks in particular there seems to be confusion and actually fear being created over this  date.  The end of the World is nigh!  How many times have we heard that.  Apparently the crusades to Jerusalem were inspired by the fact that  notable scholars of the time were predicting the end of the World and the belief prevalent then was that the only way to insure going to heaven on Judgement Day was being buried in Jerusalem’s holy soil.

To be honest I haven’t read much about our impending doom simply because I don’t feel the need.  I met a very interesting man a few years ago from Guatemala who is  a time-keeper in the Mayan tradition.  He said to me that the West had jumped on this doomsday idea without having a correct understanding of his time-keeping tradition.  As far as he was concerned the end of time date that everyone is talking about is incorrect and actually it falls on the 5th January 2020 and it isn’t an end date but a beginning.  According to him the Mayan calendar has been running backwards-a bit like a countdown for thousands of years and the magic date everyone is talking about is actually day zero.  Its a countdown to a new and golden age when Humanity finally have the opportunity to get it right and learn and transcend the futility of War etc etc.  This will not happen overnight or on a particular day but take years, maybe centuries to manifest.  We are approaching the beginning and as in all the best new beginnings we have to rid ourselves of the old to make way for the new.  This helps to explain all the upheavals and changes we are experiencing on a global scale.

But what does it mean for you?  And me? Many of us are already feeling the effects of a change of energy-I am excited by the possibilities and very glad to alive at this time.  Large parts of the population are totally unaware of all the hype at all and will continue to live as they do now.  Those who have heard the news will react in various ways:

1. Skepticism-its all a load of New Age codswallop!
2. Fear-the end is nigh
3. Joy-this is what we’ve been waiting for
4. Boredom-I’ve heard it all before

Which camp do you fall into, if any?  Whatever your take on the subject, one thing we can be sure of, once 21st December 2012 has passed we’ll all be wiser with hindsight!

Dear Friends,

Someone once told me the percentage of DNA human beings share with trees.
Unfortunately, my brain has not retained the exact percentage, but I do recall it
being surprisingly high and an inspiring piece of data.

This incomplete fact has been weaving itself into my thoughts on the Holy Thorn
recently, as we approached and passed the anniversary of its vandalisation. A phrase
has been ringing in my mind – “Be the Tree”. It encapsulates how I can continue to
honour the life and teachings of our beautiful hawthorn.

A turbulent and challenging year followed the damaging of the Holy Thorn, not
difficult for any of us to recall ! A year in which I was asked to sit inside my
oldest wound and really see it and its far-reaching, unconscious effects, perhaps
clearly for the first time in my life. I did not realise I was “being the tree” at
the time because I was too consumed with my own inner machinations. I do not believe
I was the only one doing this either, perhaps you did this too? Perhaps you
uncovered your wound to your awareness, exposed it fully to the elements? Perhaps
you were “being the tree” too?

If I could be any tree, I would choose the Holy Thorn, though there are many
beautiful tree beings to honour and cherish. Even in its physically damaged state
it is whole and embodies with complete integrity a powerful healing premis. It knew
the truth about our wounds (however well they were hidden) and through its strange
and difficult story of late, it speaks the truth to us. It reveals us to ourselves
for the sake of our own healing.

I would also choose to be the tree because it perfectly blends the purest energies
of both the Old Religion (Paganism) and the New Religion (Christianity), without
detriment to either, with natural affinity to both. No confusion exists within it,
only within us. The tree stands as a harmonious embodiment of the sacred masculine
and feminine. The hawthorn faerie spirit is female and (for me) emanates just as
frequently from the tree as the Christ Energy. The Michael and Mary lines both run
parallel along Wearyall Hill and converge upon the Holy Thorn. The Holy Thorn also
incorporates another important polarity, that of “up and down”. The physical form of
the tree is as a conductor both ways for earth and sky energies. All reasons why the
tree has a powerful channelling ability, why it is a power spot and concentrated
focus for the flow of energy around the planet. I sense the tree can serve as a kind
of junction box or router for global energy. I do not believe mine is a unique
observation. I know others have understood this about the tree too.

Why would I not want to “Be the Tree” ? It represents everything I am trying to work
towards.

The last time I connected with the hawthorn at Equinox, the tree spirit felt at one
with itself, whole and “unharmed” despite its physical condition. The tree spirit
however felt semi-detached from the body of the tree. The faerie stood beside the
trunk and was making stellar connections. At this point some of the new sprigs had
been taken, but two small ones still remained.

A few days ago on Solstice morning, no evidence of new growth remained. In a sense
we were back where we started a year ago, with no outer signs of reassurance and no
certainty about the future. A cycle has been completed. A grief cycle. A healing
cycle in fact, for something has changed inside me at least. I sat with my wound, I
gave voice to it and shed the pain of that part of me and love came back and filled
the space. Love and acceptance. I remember one of the first messages the damaged
hawthorn communicated to me was about forgiveness and our need to be more pro-active
with it than ever and to turn over the forgiveness cycle more quickly, but no less
deeply. In retrospect, I spent valuable time in 2011, learning to acknowledge in me
those things in ourselves we all find hard to forgive – the perceived weaknesses of
pain and fear. It is relevant to remember also that the attack itself was a huge
projection of unendurable inner energy that had not been processed or forgiven. If I
learn the mechanism and possibility of self-forgiveness, only then do I know how and
why to forgive and accept others. In this opened space, others also have the chance
to forgive themselves and reduce the venting of chaotic and destructive energy. Do
not think I deem this an easy process, but the necessity of it as a mechanism for
change seems ever more clear to me.

Many wonderful sacred energies speak to us through the physical world and offer
themselves to us for our guidance and transformation. The Earth offers us her rare
and beautiful textbooks for gracious change all the time. And the very nature of
flow dictates that we not only receive, but give back with grateful thanks, care and
responsibility.

As I gazed at the tree this Winter Solstice, I noticed for the first time the
human-like wrinkles in the bark where the remains of the branches start to bend out
at the top of the trunk. They looked so human. They resemble the lines that are now
appearing on my own neck! I felt a pang of sympathetic connection and then almost
instantly – peace. In that moment of plain reality, the tree also seemed “emptier”,
but I cannot tell you what that really means.

What I then noticed was how the energy of the tree seemed more blended with my own
energy bubble. How the process it symbolised had played out within my own being and
was now “unforgettable” on a spiritual level, a positive healing imprint. This was
where the inner peace came from, even upon seeing no evidence left of new growth.
Both the masculine and the feminine tree guides danced together gracefully inside my
bubble.

The tree also seemed to be making a connection with Tibet. A mantra that I do not
recognise seemed to flow out of the tree and was accompanied by an image of Buddhist
monks and nuns chanting whilst looking at me square in the face. The day before I
had bought a double terminated Tibetan quartz crystal and I felt it wanted to go to
the tree with me. While holding it lightly upon the trunk in a vertical position,
the connection with Tibet began. I said prayers for the monks and the nuns and felt
that even now the tree is somehow weaving connections into the great cosmic fabric
of energy, and that the flow was both ways, like the double terminated crystal
itself. It seemed as though some form of preparation was going on for a year of
profound challenge in Tibet, and the possibility of change, perhaps in a way we have
already started to witness with the Arab Spring. Please direct love and healing
according to Divine Will towards Tibet, her incredibly brave and steadfast monks,
nuns and citizens who nurture the soul of their nation against all odds.

I also want to mention here an interpretation of events that perhaps I have not
emphasised as much as I might. The wounded tree also speaks to me quite clearly of
the rift that remains in the “family tree” of our spirituality in this country. I
cannot help but draw some conclusions about the work that still needs to be done to
heal the wound between Christians and those of an Earth-based spirituality. I am no
expert on the state of inter-faith harmony in Glastonbury (or anywhere else), but
this was a powerful reminder that more can be done to heal our wound. When I say
“Our Wound”, I do not attribute victim or perpetrator status to either side. People
from both sides of the divide have no doubt experienced both shadow identities down
the centuries. So the wound is shared, both sides have an energetic relationship
with it.

I was encouraged this year to experience an amazing cycle of Inkan shamanic energy
teachings, held within the rooms of a building built by Jesuits, which is now a
college of Theology and Philosophy. Present within our number were a few
participants from different Christian backgrounds. What a profound honour to learn
together in sacred space. Long may these harmonising opportunities continue.

Quietly reviewing the past year and the shifts I am grateful to have experienced,
the current state of the tree speaks to me more and more of great healing in the
midst of woundedness and BECAUSE of our woundedness, for every wound holds the seed
of a unique transformational possibility.

Having nearly come to the end of my 2011 journey and come through some very thorny
issues to a place of greater peace and possibility, I also feel I can let go of the
Holy Thorn as an outer symbol of faith and focus on being “akin” with her, wherever
she resides in the universe. The combined energies of the tree smile on us eternally
with gentle kindness and trust in our own transformational power.

My prayer for those of you seeking the kind of harmony within which the tree
embodies, is that you are able to trust in yourselves in the way the Holy Thorn
trusts in us. Believe in your ability to meet your potential through constant and
courageous inner focus, no matter the apparent assaults and distractions of the
external world. May we stand, as energetically complete and harmonious as the tree.
May we be conduits for the healing energies of the Earth and the Cosmos. May we be
blessed by the love and wisdom of the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine. May
we embrace the story of the Holy Thorn however it may conclude. May we find our own
powerful and unique ways to Be the Tree.

Wishing you all a blessed, joyful, restoring and peaceful holiday time and many
beautiful and transforming experiences in 2012.

With love from

Rosemary xx

WE ARE HERE AND OUR VOICES OUR HEARTS TELL THE MESSAGE OF ONE LOVE IN ONE LIGHT IN PEACE HARMONY & JOY ~

“It is not enough to have a vision. In order to have its power, you must enact your vision on earth for all to see. Only then do you have the power.”

- Black Elk, Lakota medicine man and visionary

HOPI PROPHESY

“When the earth is dying there shall arise a new tribe of all colours and all creeds. This tribe shall be called The Warriors of the Rainbow and it will put its faith in actions not words.”

- Prophecy of the Native American Hopi people -

SIOUX PROPHESY

“There will come a time when the earth is sick and the animals and plants begin to die. Then the Indians will regain their spirit and gather people of all nations, colors and beliefs to join together in the fight to save the Earth: The Rainbow Warriors.”

- Ancient Native American prophecy -

My Beloved Warriors, Below is our Manifesto:
The Rainbow Dream Vision of Hope ~
By the Intertribal Medicine Societies
of Turtle island ~ The Twenty Count: 1993-2012

PLEASE If it RESONATES Make copies of the Rainbow prophecy, and give or send them to people anywhere on the planet. Then let them be guided by their hearts to do the same until all planetary citizens are brought to life in the Rainbow dream, so that we may dream and work together for true peace! TY very much:) ?

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Turtle Island ~ Prophecies of The Native Americans 1993-2012

PART ONE ~
The distribution and giving back to humanity of the Twenty Count. In the Turtle Island lore we say it is the time of finding one’s path with heart. The time of seeking perfection, growth and development. Most importantly the time of trust and innocence, when mythologies of the world are revealing secrets.

PART TWO ~
The critical time. The time of the animal. The time of Tuwalananie, the dark force. The reason for this is that seeds of light have been planted and we are starting to grow and the teachings are starting to come out and all those ones who have taught partial truths, who have taught deliberate lies in history, are going to be threatened by the awakening of the Rainbow people because the Rainbow people exist in every country, in every nation, in every land.

The Dark Forces will be threatened and they will use their power and their power exists in technology. We are going to see new technology appearing which will be a tremendous threat to the survival of humanity. We must exert our influence by gathering together and sharing our ideas and plans for alternative power and for world peace. If we put a double amount of energy with what we are for, we can change it. We can change it.

PART THREE ~
The time of human to human communication The time the human family finally starts to become human. There will be more information brought out into open format than has ever been seen on this planet. We will re-establish contact in a very knowledgeable way with our ancestors from the stars. So mark that down because it will happen. The first contact will be with the Pleiades and will be totally acknowledged and will be known to all the world powers. The second contact will be with Sirius.

PART FOUR ~
When truth seekers begin to open the veil of the crack between the worlds, we will see our memory circles. Many of the leaders who are trying to keep us locked in the past, will not function today, will fall. Many teachers and wise people will be seen for who they are and they will be the farmers, the labourers and the gas station attendants because the tagashala will be fully awakened.

People will begin to link up with other people in gathering together circles. Many of these will be the so-called ‘common people’ and not the teachers you see up there now.

PART FIVE ~
The various winged serpent wheels will begin to turn, to dance once again and when they do the rainbow
lights will be seen in dreams all over the world and these rainbow light dreams will help awaken the rest
of humanity.
We will sit in a new circle of law. All civil and social laws will have to be in conformity with natural laws or the people will not accept them and they will have the enlightenment necessary to reject those laws. Science will once again become metaphysics. They will discover four laws that will help them jump to universal law and transcend the time-space continuum which is the limitation of the age and once again we will begin to take our power and to work with rules and laws that are cosmic laws.

PART SIX ~
We will once again see the way to continue a new dream. We will be given the road map back to the stars and we will see the star people come out of the illusion of their two-legged form and into their actual great sleeper-dreamer form.

A powerful time approaches humanity and its really hard for me to talk about it. I am a great dreamer but
I don’t know if I dream that large. We will see a real shift in planetary consciousness.

Many of the enemies of the humans will begin to drop away. We will totally gain the light of the great light wheel.

There will be one humanity, one planet composed of all the different ways of dancing in complete harmony in the great gathering together circle. All the seeds will be planted.

The Earth will have its true reality formed. It will join the sisterhood of planets, the daughters of Copperwoman and it will create within itself all forms of all things in harmony with the everything. We will see a whole new way of perfection. There will be plants on this grandmother earth that will give life and sustenance as never before seen. Starvation on the earth, all those things will be gone. There will be total balance and harmony.

PART SEVEN ~
The new race of humans will begin to design their new reality of life on this planet as they intended it
to be when they first came here from the stars. We will begin to establish this planet and use the
collective consciousness to hold the power of this space in harmony with the Great Circle of Twelve and all the planets. There is a whole lot I don’t even know. There is more that I am not supposed
to talk about yet.

The dream will be actualised and this planet will hold its space in the great council of planets and become a part of the universal enlightened sisterhood and brotherhood of humanity and keepers of the light circles. It’s happened on many planets and it’s expected to happen on a lot of other planets. There will be a moment when the population will be ‘the’ Population, and something great will happen. This planet will have its design of energy movement guided by all of humanity living here.

The Great Spirit will leave its seed and the egg of everything here on this planet and it will create itself 20 times over at the speed of light and this prophecy ends as I have been given it by the Grandmothers that I share with you now.

~~~~~~~~~
Love, Thunder Woman!

The Rainbow Dream Vision of Freedom ~ 1993-2012

We can change it. Put a double amount of energy with what we are for!

Rainbow Tribe

The sun rose on a magical new day…
Over the whole earth they came,
The people of every colour,
Sister, Brother, Father, Mother
Traveling over many a land
People of the Rainbow
Children of the Way,
with a fresh glow
Finding their way
Star within…
More and more joined,
a song for the soul…
A new way to live,
A new way to see,
It happened this way…
And a new song,
It came from within
If you can find the Star,
Within then you will find…
What is… What was…
And what will be… you see,
It happened this way…
from within,
The people of the Way
The Rainbow Tribe…

((((( ? ))))))

Thanks to Angel Sundari

Dear Friends,

I am sure the information below in the forwarded email from Philippa Glasson
will reassure you that the Holy Thorn will be with us for some time longer,
at least. Philippa sought confirmation from various local sources and
obtained a clearer picture. My thanks to you, Philippa.

I think this episode underlines the need for vigilence. The information flow
regarding the Holy Thorn had gone quiet, but this does not mean that our
concern had evaporated too. In the midst of this vacuum, John Coles acting
at his own behest, communicated his well known views regarding forms of
worship at the tree and was apparently also misquoted. This only suceeded in
creating confusion and alarm.

I feel our vigilence should be in support of clarity, though some may feel
it should be in support of idealogy. All of us wish I am sure that we could
erect an infalible wall of protection around the tree that keeps it safe
from malicious or thoughtless action. I spent an hour with the Thorn Tree
last night (Equinox) for the first time since the misquotations occurred. I
can confirm that two small sprigs of life remain, and I can see that one
larger, longer, very promising sprig and perhaps other sprigs have been
removed. I can also confirm that all the ribbons that adorn the railings
around the tree had been removed. A false impression is given that the
ribbons are themselves tied around the actual trunk, but they very rarely
are.

The tree’s energy felt still, peaceful, present and of great simplicity. Can
I say that it seemed “At one with itself”. Within that still beingness was a
strong sense of compassionate connection with the tree’s “children”, the
town and townspeople. The tree loves us (all of us), just as much as we love
it, though it is not limited by any aspects of attachment.

To our eyes the tree seems vulnerable. With our human love engaged we
perceive fragility and this can make reaction flare up in apparent support
of what we believe to be our emblem of particular spirituality. However, the
tree is a very special Healer and Teacher because it is, within its own
physical and energectic make-up, a perfect synthesis. It is fully faerie, a
dryad, a tree spirit in all the ways we know Hawthorne to be. It has also
wrought within it a genuine lineaage arising form its ancient exchange with
the Christ Energy. This means it can connect with everyone who approaches
it. Over the years it has communicated with me at different frequencies,
according to “where I was at”. I have met with the wild Faerie, but also the
Christ Energy within it. This means that people of particular faiths do have
very powerful experiences of the tree and initially feel that is speaks to
them through, and therefore upholds their own, belief system. You can
understand how the partisan conflicts arise. But if we are all experiencing
the same depth of connection, then none of us are wrong or right and we have
a space to lever open the doors of consciousness beyond dogma.

On Equinox night, the time of perfect balance between light and dark, the
tree reminded me that it embodies many perfect balances. It showed me that
it has a very strong celestial connection too. It conducts energy both ways,
from Earth to stars and from stars to Earth. If the spirit of the tree ever
leaves the trunk, it will not be homeless, it even has a home amongst the
stars.

The tree is less vulnerable than we fear. It is at one with its own being
and purpose. However, I do ask as always that we pray for the undisturbed
unfolding of its own divine purpose, whatever that may be. It’s physical
future is still uncertain, and you could say that, whether through harmful
acts, or the tree’s inner “choosing”, its life “hangs in the balance” at
Equinox. Let’s take the drama out of “hangs in the balance” and say instead
that the tree is in perfect balance, with itself, with us and with this
extraordinary time and place.

Remember, we too are “less vulnerable than we fear”. Let us pray to for the
“undisturbed unfolding of divine purpose” in our own lives. Our physical
future feels uncertain, whether because of chaotic forces outside us or
because of doubts and confusion within. Yet we have a home here amongst the
stars and the vast cosmic energies. The tree is us and we are the tree. It
is offering us so much right now. And it will do what it needs to do, to
give us the most powerful teaching and healing of all. I trust the tree,
whatever happens.

I also pray that every opportunity for communication within Glastonbury’s
spiritual communities is nurtured, so that we may find ways of lifting
confusion and creating awareness and peace.

Love and blessings to all and thanks again to Philippa,

Rosemary xxx