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"I Once Was
Blind but Now I See: The Amazing Grace of Y2K"
http://www.mightycompanions.org/theconversation/amazing.html
Essay by Margaret Wheatley. Her website functions
as an online salon, bringing together a range of thoughtful and
compassionate responses. "As our teacher, Y2K can help
us confront the world that we made, and the beliefs that engendered
it. The modern Western mind has prized, among other values, independence,
control, and unrestricted growth. In creating this 20th century
world, we didn't notice that we were building systems so woven
together that eventually they would demand that we embrace new
beliefs and practices, those sensitive to a world of webs and
interdependencies. The web of life has been revered by most cultures
through time, but in the West we've been experimenting with something
quite different. How ironic that our divergent economic and cultural
beliefs led us to create a world that now requires our return
to more ancient beliefs." -- Margaret Wheatley
Y2K-Breakthrough Home Page
http://www.co-intelligence.org/y2k_breakthrough.html
"Y2K-Breakthrough Home Page. Let's use the
Year 2000 problem (Y2K) to make a better world, moving beyond
business-as-usual to resilient, sustainable communities; social
change; and personal and cultural transformation."
Face to Face with the Millennial
Glitch
http://www.co-intelligence.org/y2k_NewAge.html
"?What
a relief to discover that we don't have to solve Y2K on our own.
The help that we need is inherently here. If we work together
in the context of Love, our actions will evoke healings we could
not have foreseen. Reaching out to one another, crossing boundaries
that have kept us apart, maintaining our focus, speaking the
truth, devoting ourselves to the common good-this is the budding
of a new society.
Could
it be that a technological fiasco will propel us into a simpler,
more conscious, inclusive social order? Is the Great Awakening
truly underway? Let us act as if that were the case?"
-- Sarah Kettell Eames
Astrology & Y2K
http://www.AwareNET.com/y2k.htm
The nature
of Y2k decoded by astrology.
Urban Survival -- Y2k Chaos
http://www.y2kchaos.com/s35p113.htm
This website is run by a minister who doesn't pull his
punches. If you are an urban minister who is not quite sure how
Y2k could possibly affect the congregation, look here. He's offering
a very tough, pessimistic vision of what the future could be,
which is not to say that it couldn't happen that way.
Reaching the Church
http://www.y2kchaos.com/s35p84.htm
Various methods of persuading church members and
elders to consider how Y2k will affect them.
Thailand: Buddhist monks make sure they're
Y2k compliant
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/asiapcf/9903/29/thailand.y2k/index.html
"...Monks enrolled at Maha Mongkut Buddhist
University in Bangkok are preparing for the millennium bug. Such
skills are critical 'to help education and Buddhist business,'
their teacher says...
5759: IS HEAVEN Y2K COMPLIANT?
http://www.aleph.org/html/men_article3.html
Yom Kippur thoughts by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.
An Astrological Perspective --Y2K: Psychosocial
Disaster or Spiritual Transformation?
http://www.cogenesis.com/y2k/astrological.html
"...Just as the seasons inevitably appear, so the events
of this year will synchronistically reveal themselves for
each individual to uncover their own unique gifts and authentic
place in this new world..." -- Barbara Hamilton
West Kootenay Y2K Alliance SPIRIT
links
http://www.kics.bc.ca/~y2k/spirit.htm
"...This
page gathers together an odd assortment of links to sites that
have something to offer to the spiritual seeker, perhaps motivated
by the Y2K phenomenon. Little attempt has been made to exercise
quality control, since visitors are quite capable of making their
own discriminations, and we find the dharma where we may..."
UUY2k Home Page
http://www.uuy2k.org/uuy2k/
Y2k perspective for Unitarian Universalists.
Awakening to Y2k
http://www.cogenesis.com/y2k/awakening.html
Michael Brownlee's 8 steps in the awakening process
as it proceeds to creative action are well-stated and constructive.
His website expores many of the spiritual challenges of Y2k.
Lots of links on the pyscho-spiritual aspects that aren't repeated
in other websites.
Time and Y2k
http://www.tidesofchange.org/timeand.htm
A meditation on different ways of perceiving time as a
cultural construct, and how it affects Y2k thinking.
The Joseph Project
http://www.josephproject2000.org/
Widespread Christian Y2k project.
Survival links
http://www.newageinfo.com/bus/cymry/index.html
Y Tylwyth Teg's Welsh Witch Y2k survival links
Trickster at the Crossroads
http://www.levity.com/figment/trickster.html
Erik Davis on "Eshu-Elegbara, one of the orisha,
the West African deities that are worshiped in many related forms
across African and the African diaspora in the New World. While
he embodies many obvious trickster elements-- deceit, humor,
lawlessness, sexuality--Eshu-Elegbara is also the god of communication
and spiritual language. He is the gatekeeper between the
realms of man and gods, the tangled lines of force that make
up the cosmic interface, and his sign is the crossroads. In the
figure of Eshu-Elegbara, the West African tradition makes a profound
argument about the relationship among spiritual communication,
divination, and the peculiar chaotic qualities of the trickster.
But before we investigate Eshu-Elegbara's character, we must
first place him in the general context of orisha worship..."
If you are doing Y2k workings, this orisha may
be someone who you find active on the astral. We suspect Coyote
has a hand (paw? Stick of Acme dynamite?) in Y2k too. Consider
Mercury, Hermes, and any other communications deities in your
workings, and of course Chronos. The usual warnings about
working with unfamiliar pantheons apply -- if you don't fully
know what you are doing, DON'T DO IT! Or are you one of
those meddling magickal people who got us Hurricane Floyd
as an answer to the drought?
"Surfing the Indranet:Lance Daybreak's Digital Dharma
http://www.levity.com/figment/indranet.html
An exploration of postmodern Buddhism, the digital
dharma and the virtual Tao by Erik Davis, who interviews Lance
Daybreak.
"At this point I looked down and noticed that
my Sony had stopped recording. I tapped it against the heel of
my palm, rewound the tape, and discovered that I had missed the
last ten minutes of our discussion. I slammed it down on the
table. 'Piece of [****].'
'Machines make you angry sometimes,'he observed
with a grin.
'Sure. When I can't get them to work, or they won't
work, they [****] me off. I yell at my computer all the time.
Who doesn't?'
'Usually people direct anger towards creatures--other
people, their pets, even the God they imagine in their
heads. Do machines have selves?'
'No, of course not.'
'Then everything they do for you is selfless. How
could you not honor and respect that, even if they [****] up
sometime?'" -- from Surfing the Indranet.
"For many religions, this calendar craze is no concern
"
http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0911wha.html
A Wiccan, a Muslim, a Jew and a Buddhist
tell us that it is no big deal, this Y2k thing. Aargh.
As Gary North says, "Y2K-denial cuts across all
religious perspectives."
Wise2k.com -- Wisdom for the Y2k Era
http://www.wise2k.com/
Good links and articles of interest to those who can see the
connections between Y2k and spirituality.
An Audience with Gaia
http://www.earley.org/Y2K/audience_with_gaia.htm
Jay Earley's guided meditation that he uses in workshops,
used to help people "find their unique contribution
to resolving Y2K as an aspect of their life purpose."
Let your encounter with Gaia, spirit of the living earth, Goddess
incarnate in the whole of the planet, show you what your
talents and gifts are, and how to use them for the betterment
of all in this Y2k crisis.
What Every Church Should be Doing
http://www.garynorth.com/y2k/detail_.cfm/2992
Some practical steps that one congregation is taking.
Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Tibetan Buddhist "First
Light 2000"
http://www.kagyu.org/special/densal/highlights/hlt02.html
"...Imagine, if you will, that on the morning
of January 1, 2000, Buddhists from all over the world awake and
gather to offer practices and prayers for the benefit of all
beings
throughout space in the new millennium.These prayers will begin
at first light from the international date line and follow the
course of the sun as it illuminates the planet on this new day.
The first monasteries, centers, and practitioners will offer
prayers from New Zealand and Siberia. As the sun moves
west, their prayers will be joined by those of practitioners
in Australia, Japan, and China..."
Ulster
County Y2k Taskforce Community Forum October 21st.
Exploration
of how Ulster County religious organizations could be affected
by Y2k , and discussion of contingency planning for congregations.
Speakers TBA.. Will be held at 7 PM at Central Hudson meeting
room (behind Johnson Ford), Kingston. |
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