Last weekend people walked in concert in about 22 places around the world (including Bristol, Portland and Nerang). People from various walks of life, religious persuasions and races got up and walked together through city parks, along river banks, roadsides and trails.... walking for a world free of unnecessary, human-generated, fear -- the chronic, toxifying type of fear that permeates so much of our lives today... and that we needlessly perpetuate.
John, George, Gene, Andre' and Jo walked near Lake Champlain, Vermont.There was once, on a high mountainside in New Guinea, a forest that the local tribe considered sacred. For centuries nothing was killed or harmed in that forest. No negative thoughts or emotions were brought there. It was tended and served in a sacred manner according to the tribe. There were trails through the forest that people walked upon. The animals and birds of the jungle were completely unafraid of the people. Tree-kangaroos and possums would move about in plain view. Birds of all kinds would fly about and display to one another within a few feet of passing humans. It was a remarkable place, a rare thing but not unique. There have been other places like this around the world (in Africa, Europe, Asia, Australasia, the Americas), and although now almost vanished they can be given room to flourish again, if we want. If we want, the entire world could be such a place.
The kind of fear that the human heart transmits into the world today creates a quality of profound unease, or dis-ease, everywhere. However, if healed of this fear humans represent a unique and remarkable capacity for cultivating profound harmony throughout the world.
The great and vast depth of non-human existence is, I believe, living in wait for humanity to fill a space of conscious action sufficient to enable all of life here to achieve a degree of harmony that is not possible without the participation of the awakened, fear-free, human heart. I know this sounds kind of utopic... I'm just trying to give voice to a quality of existence that I know is true, though presently absent... not an idealized, dreamy, utopia but a life heart-rested into the very force of Life that mysteriously does and undoes all of who we are, all the time...
The sacred forests of New Guinea gradually disappeared as western influences came to the mountains, undermining and poisoning the age-old cultures with "coca cola" and every other western-born propaganda and distraction. Sacred trees were felled, the animals ran and hid, litter fell along the paths... and only the old people remembered.
The Vision of Fear-No-More is inherently spiritual, yet deeply wedded to the practicalities of a life -- every life. It is about remembering the sacred, nurturing it, seeing and serving it where it seems not to be. It is about living differently, permitting oneself to be sustained and granting life and sustenance to all others because, despite what we are told, there is ample resource and energy for every thing that exists...
Thank you to everyone who got out and walked somewhere. Don't think it doesn't make a difference. It has, and it will. I was honoured to walk with you. And look forward to hearing from you.
Stuart
