Uradiance

What if we built monuments not only for our own dead, but for those we have killed? Walls full of names of Afghans, Iraqis, of North Vietnamese and Japanese and Germans, of Native Americans and African slaves? Wars will only cease when we mourn the 'enemy' dead as well as ours, because he is a mother's son, a daughter's father. Then war memorials will become peace memorials.

I can connect to the world through Love, or I can connect to the world through Judgment. One or the other, not both. This choice is the last judgment. The world doesn't need my judgments, and neither do I. But the world desperately needs my love, almost as much as I do.

"I have said, Ye are gods." Psalm 82:6 The deepest Vision Quest is not to go alone into the wilderness, but to gaze into the eyes of another human being. We are not particles but waves of one another. In the fabric of consciousness, our essences intertwine. One aspect of awareness is Shiva , the separate solitary Witness. Our spiritual literature emphasizes this aspect because almost all of it, Eastern and Western, was written by monks. In the new age, the complimentary aspect is equally vital, if not more so. She is called Shakti , or the Holy Spirit . She is too wild for wilderness, too frisky for solitude. Shakti is the luminous ambrosial Spirit-dew who weaves the tissue of our inter-connectedness. Fibers of Shakti thread through our hearts, knitting them like droplets on Indra's web. This web is the virtual Sangha of pre-existent and eternal human community. That is why in the New Testament, the Spirit is described  as a "Cloud of Witnesses": a colle...