manifesto for men to the earth mother

( A manifesto for conscious men) by Arjuna Ardagh and Gay Hendricks, Ph.D.




Dear Woman:



I come to you today as a man committed to becoming more conscious in every way. I feel deep love, great respect and a growing sense of worship for the gifts of the feminine. I also feel deep sorrow about the destructive actions of the unconscious masculine in the past and present. I want to apologize to you and make amends for those actions, in order to bring forth a new era of co-creation with you.



As I become more conscious, I grow more aware of the play of masculine and feminine energies: within me, within you and in all of life. I know that we all have access to the full spectrum of these energies. I also have a growing awakening to the dimension beyond all dualities, free and open as the sky.



I commit to owning and stewarding a masculinity that honors and celebrates us as equals. I know that in order to truly honor you as a multi-dimensional woman, I must stand fully present in myself, and own the gifts I have to share with you. We can create great miracles together by nurturing each other in a conscious way, by treating each other with reverence and respect, and by worshiping the divinity expressed in both masculine and feminine energy.



I acknowledge that the religions of the past several thousand years have been mainly founded by and propagated by men. We have often acted as if we have the last word on God and the spiritual life, when all we have really known is the masculine expression of those things. As a result, we have suppressed more heartfelt, connective and inclusive spiritualities. I commit now to also honoring the spirituality of the divine feminine.



I honor your deep connection to the earth. As men, our relationship to our planet and its resources has often been motivated by competition, acquisition and domination. We mistakenly believed that expansion would protect us from encroachment, and in the process we violated the sanctity of the Earth and disturbed its natural rhythms. I commit to listening to the intuitive sense you have of how to heal our planet and make it thrive.



I honor your intuition and your profound capacity for feeling. As men, we have often devalued feeling and intuition in favor of a view dominated by data and logic. This way of being seemed necessary to move humanity beyond superstition and animalism, but in the process we lost much of the heart of life. I commit to respecting the arts of feeling, intuition and wisdom of the feminine heart, so that together we can integrate them into a balanced view of life, that honors and includes all wisdoms.



I honor the beauty and integrity of your body. When we nurture each other through our bodies with awareness and devotion, there are no boundaries to the love that we can generate. I feel sorrow that men have used your beauty as a form of commerce in prostitution and pornography. In the grip of lust we have often lacked the skills to ask gracefully for intimacy or to take ‘No’ for an answer. I take a stand against any form of enforced or soulless commercialization of woman’s beauty, and I respect that your body belongs to you.



I honor your capacity for peaceful resolution of conflicts, your ability to apologize effectively and forgive with grace. We men have waged endless wars over our disagreements. In the act of defending our lands and protecting our families, we became addicted to the fight itself. By contrast, it is rare to find an invasion or war instigated by a woman. I apologize for dragging you into these wars, and for the rape, murder, broken hearts and damaged families that resulted from them. We welcome your wisdom in creating a world that can get along without resorting to destruction.



I honor your capacity to listen to your body and its needs for food, rest and playtime. I celebrate your ability to pay attention to what is here, right now. As men, our preoccupation with goals and results often has burnt us out and made us unavailable for relationship. I know we have drawn you into this imbalance as well, so often frustrating your longing to connect. The time for a process-centred way of being is now upon us. I welcome your wisdom to maintain balance in our bodies, and in our ways of meeting.



I honor your sense of compassionate justice. In our justice system, men have dominated as judges and police, build prisons and revered the principle of punishment. I welcome you to work with us in bringing the return of the heart to our system of justice.



I also know that global economics have been dominated by the unconscious masculine, often living in a sense of lack and greed. As a result, many people have been left impoverished and disempowered. With your natural sense of nurturing and abundance, I know we can work together to create a truly caring global economics.



In apologizing to you for the hurts we men have caused you, I acknowledge that I and many of my brothers have also felt hurt by our mothers, our sisters, our partners and ex-partners. As a conscious man I am willing to feel those hurts fully within myself and release them. I forgive you for any ways you may have acted unconsciously, as I forgive myself and my gender for our own waking sleep.



From this day, moving forward, I vow to treat your heart as the sacred temple it is, and I commit to honoring the feminine in you and me and in my relationship to all life. I know that by leaving the past behind and joining hands in the present, we can create a synergy of our strengths. Together, there is nothing we cannot do.


Together, we can make miracles.

in tune

I love being in tune with the seasons.  I just found my moon and tide calendar but noticed it was from last year!  I uncovered my keeping time workbook and feel the delight of being able to tune into the energy of the day without a lot of meditative time or activity to figure it out.  I love how my appetite and energy taper as the sun sets.  I love sleeping like a bear through the late nights.  I love the rays of the sun when it's reached a particular angle.  I love the rainbows that shine through on otherwise gloomy days.  I love the small birds perching right outside my window as the morning begins.  the smell of wood in the air, sparkling ash and sitting in the hottub till i'm warm. 

Zhen Gan Xi Feng Tang - Yi Xue zhong zhong can xi lu

Huai Niu Xi (eadix achyranthis bidentatae)…30g



Zhi Shi (haematitum)…30g



Long Gu (os draconis)…15g



Mu Li (concha ostreae)…15g



Gui Ban (plastrum testudinis)…15g



Xuan Shen (radix scrophulariae ningpoensis)…15g



Tian Men Dong (tuber asparagi cochinchinsnsis)…15g



Bai Shao (Radix paeoniae lactiflorae)…15g



Yin Chen Hao (herba artemisiae yinchen hao)…6g



Chuan Lian Zi (fructus meliae toosendan)…6g



Mai Ya (fructus hordei vulgaris germinantus)…6g



Gan Cao (radix glycyrrhizae uralensis)…4.5g



Indications: dizziness, distension in the eyes , tinnitus, feverish sensation in head, headache, irritable, flushed face, wiry long forceful pulse, may be belching, progressive motor dysfunction of the body or development of facial asymmetry that occurs over a period of a few hours to a few days, severe dizziness, loss of consciousness, mental confusion.


For Liver Yang with yin deficiency. 

Inner - Neiting court yard = St 44

Inner - Neiting court yard = St 44

Flashcards about AOM Review!

Flashcards about AOM Review!

dumb meters

PG&E and other big CA utilities have finally been forced by the CPUC to provide Smart Meter radio frequency (RF) emissions data. PG&E's figures are alarming. They've admitted the meters on average send 10,000 pulses per day, per meter, and can transmit a maximum of over 190,000 RF pulses! They also stated the peak transmit power is not 1 watt as they repeatedly claimed, but 2.5 watts! Read More: http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=6030

Many people ask how to remove a Smart Meter from their house. Caitlyn Phillips, a Santa Cruz CA resident, recently had success with PG&E restoring an analog meter to her home. After her initial complaints to PG&E were ignored, she changed the meter to an analog with an electricians help. She then took her complaint to a CPUC meeting. Within a week PG&E replaced her meter with their own analog. This is a first of hopefully many more cooperative meter swaps: http://emfsafetynetwork.org/?p=6048

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/PG-E-s-Big-Confession-and-How-to-remove-the-dumb-meter.html?soid=1105614745583&aid=1LOOPiJ--Zs

Love & Loss: Días de los Muertos 2011 | Oakland Museum of California

Love & Loss: Días de los Muertos 2011 Oakland Museum of California

remembering Bob Kudrna

I miss you. I can't seem to delete your number from my phone. Is this silly? I know I won't be able to speak to you on the phone anymore. Somehow I still wanna dial. Leave you messages. I still want you to pick up. Most importantly, I want you to know how much you mean to me, how much I admire and appreciate you and honor the life route you've chosen. i'll miss your bowls, your sounds, your expertise, your wisdom. I only hope that I can encounter another kind gent like you and know what a "grand Piano" you are...never letting you forget that.

your understanding of the materials and vibration in syzygy with chakras and organ systems.

Tibetan healing bowls, charcoal, Jade, Carnelian, 24 K gold.

Khatchadoor with the rose quartz, heart chakra bowl

you, the most precious man. You the windsurfer. You the phd. you the story teller. you the sound healer.

you the motivated individual. you the man who left too soon. you, still making music.

Masha and Sylvisage just blissed after a session.

thanks for touching my heart and the hearts of many. I'll continue to miss you and honor your vibration, here and in heaven.

thanks for the incredible sound healing. you are one of a kind. I love you Bob. (ps. I would have married you, if I had known you wanted to marry someday.)

the best halloween samhain dia de los muertos ever

pumpkin carving with matthew and aming fulfilled my wildest fantasies of roasting seeds, spicy and savory and having a rich time with loved ones. we laughed so hard we cried. this year, i'm honoring my sweet kitten who is housebound because of a recent injury. And mogwai and louie most certainly approved of this design. M&A live in kensington, so we watched the sun set into a tangerine bisque, and then the pumpkin coloured crescent moon ascended over the skyline view which overlooks the golden gate bridge. We combined maple syrup, ginger, garlic, turmeric, all spice, cinnamon to make the most delectable and nutritious snacks. We shared stories of combined memories of previous years, honored our shadows, our ancestors, our neighbors, our communities, and simply the time and space we inhabit when we are with one another. We ate the delicate pulp not wasting any bit and laughed until our bellies hurt when M improvised with the hand drill. Life is so much like carving a pumpkin. You imagine a design. You work at it. You make mistakes, you recover from ultimately, you laugh and cry along the way, you make time for reflection. you delight in the finished product of your undertakings and appreciate those along the way by your side assisting you somehow...simply by being.

infinitely immeasurable

My KPFA Interview (MP3, Stream)

had a chance to hear snippets of this..

my favorite quotation: "I don't believe in matter."