Sabine Lichtenfels - Spiritual Work

To all Peaceworkers,

A group from Tamera, namely the core group of the PRV Middle East, is presently in the Westbank to meet with Sami Awad from the Holy Land Trust in Behtlehem and to visit our friends at the "Tent of Nations". With this Ring of Power we wish to extend our best thanks to them and send peace greetings to all friends and peace workers in the Mddle East.

The big question of whether peace is possible moves us again and again. What is our task? How can we act in the micro world to have a healing effect on the macro world? The forthcoming GRACE-Pilgrimage is intended to serve the deepening of these questions and issues. Do we have a vision of peace of the so called "Holy Land" where ever it will be?

Are we familiar with a peace vision for this Earth which is alive within ourselves at all times? I have chosen a text from Starhawk, the peace activist from the USA who for years has actively engaged herself in finding a planetary peace vision also for Israel/Palestine. In her novel, ""The Fifth Dimension", she descrives in very elementary and straightforward words the process of making the decision to live for peace. Very much is said in this text.

We greet Starhawk and thank her for her tireless work. We also thank her for the beautiful text she wrote about Tamera after her visit to the Summer University and we wish and hope for a longlasting cooperation with her.

The website of Starhawk: www.starhawk.org

Text of Empowerment:

(from the book: The Fifth Sacred Thing, by Starhawk)

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„…they had employed the National Guard, and troops were on both sides of the Telegraph Avenue, and barricades and above our heads helicopters were roaring. They used tear gas and the crowd was screaming and running about in panic and full of rage. My eyes were burning, and while I was running and a policeman was running after me I heard this loud sharp noise. They were firing into the crowd. I thought I would have to die. Suddenly I became very calm. I didn´t want to run away any more, so I slowed down and the policeman passed me and followed somebody else. If I had to die I wanted to do it with dignity, consciously, and so I started tp walk up the street slowly, towards the shots. All the others ran away. Around me there was only panic and movement but I was the silence in the centre. I went straight to one of the soldiers who it was going to kill.”

Maya was looking around ion the circle. But nobody moved. “He was young and approximately my age. His eyes were brown like mine and I saw that he was scared the way I was scared, too. We were both equal. Suddenly I knew that, and he also knew. I could see it in his face. His hands were shivering and he put down the gun. Then I knew what would really end a war.” (…)

Sentence of Empowerment: I am the silence in the centre.

With best wishes

Sabine Lichtenfels