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Re: Read: shabbat shalom 10.11.06
Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Sabbath Morning ~ 11-11-06 ~ @12:01 PM
It is a dreary wet day here so I keep an inner vision of sunshine in my soul’s heart. For sure Summer is over now, the Autumn leaves are falling and cold Winter approaches.
I have a shift at Sally's from 4 PM to 12 Midnight. Then, I am going over to my new place ~ home? camp? sanctuary? ~ over my Cousin Mark's place to spend the night, Mark Chacon is my spirit cousin. We look alike, have known each other for a long time and both of us to be homeless dope fiends. plus, he is an animal rights activist and so we get along great.
He has a nice two-bedroom house on ‘D’ Street in a nice neighborhood. I already paid $325 Rent there for this month, the rent will be $425 per month and I still want to keep my sanctuary here, plus I have the key to Anna's place. So from once being homeless in the streets I have evolved to having three different places where I can lay my head, but where my computer/Internet connection is at there is my Command Post.
Even the whole concept of 'home' is kind of illusionary to me. Ideally, my eventual home will be in Heaven or at least in another sphere or dimension far far different from this one.
I will blog this Email Message when I click send above and kill two birds with one stone.
I still consider you my recovery sponsor, but to me that has become more of having a distant objective person not wrapped up in my day-to-day life who can give me timely guidance as time goes by about general issues in life, especially recovery.
To me, this lifetime has evolved into being one of healing from the past and trying not to get ill or get infections from other sources.
Before, as a sponsor, I had Brother Enrique, a recovering heroin addict who is the Secretary for CA @ Sally's and does a North Sac AA Meeting, but him and I had a parting of ways several months ago. At the time, I was criticizing Bill W. ~AA co-founder~ and he made a statement outside a meeting, but in the dining room, about me not knowing ‘anything’ about the AA Big Book and the Holy Bible when he got emotionally upset. Later on, we kissed and made up but the damage has been done and that really did give me a resentment.
He does not mix A.A. Big Book with the Holy Bible, while I know that it was Creator God's amazing grace that pulled me out of my chemical addiction, plus, being the self-appointed CASA Field Coordinator, I would find that really impossible to separate recovery from religion.
Keep in mind that my whole approach to recovery in general is a triune approach in the recognition that Creator God comes in threes formatted as follows:
1. Sobriety,
2. Recovery and
3. Liberty.
I recently wrote an Updated version of an earlier article called On the 12-Steps for Dummies and read it aloud at last week's Sunday CASA Meeting.
Blog Link=
http://casa-12steps.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-twelve-steps-for-dummies-by-peta.html
I got an unasked for applause from the CASA Group, but to me it is all really basic and generice. A lot of stuff I am writing these days is more a matter of cleaning up messes that having any real new stuff, though, that will come in time.
I strive to raise consciousness line-by-line, step-by-step, and precept-by-precept. Maybe this sounds gross, but I believe that the most people we can reach out to and come to agreement with on the basics then the fewer enemies we will have in the future. Call it minimizing any potential collateral damage.
At root, I have always had a social-political agenda working with CASA and it is not merely a sobriety-enforcing group. The central purpose of CASA is to promote our liberty in general as I am aware that it is social conditions that must be changed in order to dig out the roots of addiction that are deep in the ground of this sick insane society and it is these social conditions that constantly manufactures more and more drunks and dope fiends. The people of the United States are the largest consumer of drugs, legal and illegal, in the world. What is up with that?
WE have more money to spend on dope/booze in industrialized-civilized countries than do those of the
Third World, but I wonder why so many want to escape connected reality and get lost in a blur of medicated false escape? Addiction is a worldwide problem and we need to have a global overview that recognizes the face of addiction as a worldwide problem that has a great impact on all societies, all governments and all peoples.
In relation to what I term ‘the people’s liberation movement’ I believe that drug addiction has had disastrous effects on vanguard leadership that has been kind of glossed over and kept in the closet.
Remember Huey P. Newton was on crack and involved in a crack deal when he was killed!
More research still needs to be done or people need to come up and tell the truth about it all, but there are some good books out.
Check out!
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1524
My point is that I realize that my own chemical addiction indulgences retarded my personal participation in liberation efforts and just for today I have a handle on it, but like a hidden assassin the re-appearing of my addiction hides in the darkness of my soul ever ready to come out and pounce upon me. One must be on guard!
In the end on this lifelong journey there should be a self-realization that it is not about going somewhere else from where we are, but in being HERE NOW in our whole being as a humane being. In a way, there is no existing past or future, only what is HERE NOW. There is only this HERENESS and this NOWNESS. The journey ends where it began, within us, within our BEINGNESS. Thus, from our HERE NOW we work on our continued Spiritual Growth, Maturity and Liberty!
So for me the concept of ‘progressive recovery’ is not just another approach to recovery fabricated out of my fanciful fantasies to be added to the others, it is really a matter of personal survival as I wage people’s war with all the powers and resources at my disposal.
If I need to go it alone, I will go it alone. I must follow the dictates of my social conscience, of my humane consciousness and ultimately it is a delicate personal matter between the Divine Who holds the Ledger of Life and my own salvaged soul.
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Creed Of The Dreamkeepers~~
It is a dreary wet day here so I keep an inner vision of sunshine in my soul’s heart. For sure Summer is over now, the Autumn leaves are falling and cold Winter approaches.
I have a shift at Sally's from 4 PM to 12 Midnight. Then, I am going over to my new place ~ home? camp? sanctuary? ~ over my Cousin Mark's place to spend the night, Mark Chacon is my spirit cousin. We look alike, have known each other for a long time and both of us to be homeless dope fiends. plus, he is an animal rights activist and so we get along great.
He has a nice two-bedroom house on ‘D’ Street in a nice neighborhood. I already paid $325 Rent there for this month, the rent will be $425 per month and I still want to keep my sanctuary here, plus I have the key to Anna's place. So from once being homeless in the streets I have evolved to having three different places where I can lay my head, but where my computer/Internet connection is at there is my Command Post.
Even the whole concept of 'home' is kind of illusionary to me. Ideally, my eventual home will be in Heaven or at least in another sphere or dimension far far different from this one.
I will blog this Email Message when I click send above and kill two birds with one stone.
I still consider you my recovery sponsor, but to me that has become more of having a distant objective person not wrapped up in my day-to-day life who can give me timely guidance as time goes by about general issues in life, especially recovery.
To me, this lifetime has evolved into being one of healing from the past and trying not to get ill or get infections from other sources.
Before, as a sponsor, I had Brother Enrique, a recovering heroin addict who is the Secretary for CA @ Sally's and does a North Sac AA Meeting, but him and I had a parting of ways several months ago. At the time, I was criticizing Bill W. ~AA co-founder~ and he made a statement outside a meeting, but in the dining room, about me not knowing ‘anything’ about the AA Big Book and the Holy Bible when he got emotionally upset. Later on, we kissed and made up but the damage has been done and that really did give me a resentment.
He does not mix A.A. Big Book with the Holy Bible, while I know that it was Creator God's amazing grace that pulled me out of my chemical addiction, plus, being the self-appointed CASA Field Coordinator, I would find that really impossible to separate recovery from religion.
Keep in mind that my whole approach to recovery in general is a triune approach in the recognition that Creator God comes in threes formatted as follows:
1. Sobriety,
2. Recovery and
3. Liberty.
I recently wrote an Updated version of an earlier article called On the 12-Steps for Dummies and read it aloud at last week's Sunday CASA Meeting.
Blog Link=
http://casa-12steps.blogspot.com/2006/11/on-twelve-steps-for-dummies-by-peta.html
I got an unasked for applause from the CASA Group, but to me it is all really basic and generice. A lot of stuff I am writing these days is more a matter of cleaning up messes that having any real new stuff, though, that will come in time.
I strive to raise consciousness line-by-line, step-by-step, and precept-by-precept. Maybe this sounds gross, but I believe that the most people we can reach out to and come to agreement with on the basics then the fewer enemies we will have in the future. Call it minimizing any potential collateral damage.
At root, I have always had a social-political agenda working with CASA and it is not merely a sobriety-enforcing group. The central purpose of CASA is to promote our liberty in general as I am aware that it is social conditions that must be changed in order to dig out the roots of addiction that are deep in the ground of this sick insane society and it is these social conditions that constantly manufactures more and more drunks and dope fiends. The people of the United States are the largest consumer of drugs, legal and illegal, in the world. What is up with that?
WE have more money to spend on dope/booze in industrialized-civilized countries than do those of the
Third World, but I wonder why so many want to escape connected reality and get lost in a blur of medicated false escape? Addiction is a worldwide problem and we need to have a global overview that recognizes the face of addiction as a worldwide problem that has a great impact on all societies, all governments and all peoples.
In relation to what I term ‘the people’s liberation movement’ I believe that drug addiction has had disastrous effects on vanguard leadership that has been kind of glossed over and kept in the closet.
Remember Huey P. Newton was on crack and involved in a crack deal when he was killed!
More research still needs to be done or people need to come up and tell the truth about it all, but there are some good books out.
Check out!
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1524
My point is that I realize that my own chemical addiction indulgences retarded my personal participation in liberation efforts and just for today I have a handle on it, but like a hidden assassin the re-appearing of my addiction hides in the darkness of my soul ever ready to come out and pounce upon me. One must be on guard!
In the end on this lifelong journey there should be a self-realization that it is not about going somewhere else from where we are, but in being HERE NOW in our whole being as a humane being. In a way, there is no existing past or future, only what is HERE NOW. There is only this HERENESS and this NOWNESS. The journey ends where it began, within us, within our BEINGNESS. Thus, from our HERE NOW we work on our continued Spiritual Growth, Maturity and Liberty!
So for me the concept of ‘progressive recovery’ is not just another approach to recovery fabricated out of my fanciful fantasies to be added to the others, it is really a matter of personal survival as I wage people’s war with all the powers and resources at my disposal.
If I need to go it alone, I will go it alone. I must follow the dictates of my social conscience, of my humane consciousness and ultimately it is a delicate personal matter between the Divine Who holds the Ledger of Life and my own salvaged soul.
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Creed Of The Dreamkeepers~~
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.... But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
~ Australian Aboriginal Elder Lilla Watson
http://www.dreamkeepers.net/
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Prayers for Sanity, Safety and Serenity ~
Your Brother Peta
Sacra, Califas, Divided States of Amerika
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Your Brother Peta
Sacra, Califas, Divided States of Amerika
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Original Subject:
About...I misspelled Beduin once. Otherwise okay.
About...I misspelled Beduin once. Otherwise okay.
Linda Whittaker Email= olsvig2000@yahoo.com ; wrote:
Hmm, yes, I am still digesting the fact that my old home state of Minnesota just elected the first Musliim congressman, a black Muslim at that. Still same old Minnesota, I see.....gotta be liberal to balance out the John Birch Society over in Wisconsin.....
Linda
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"Peter S. Lopez de Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
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"Peter S. Lopez de Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
11:49 PM ~ I did a word search... Did not spot the error.
I cannot locate it but if you show me I can correct it at the blog spot. I am glad you approve. Blessings. Peta
I cannot locate it but if you show me I can correct it at the blog spot. I am glad you approve. Blessings. Peta
"... Beduin camp in our study area has been put in good order for the winter. It was nice to see Awassi sheep again. I worked with Beduin during my years in the Negev, on grazing effects ..."
P.S. Plus, despite my bitchin' I am glad Democrats took Congress and expect an upward turn for progressive politics inside the United States.
Re: Read: shabbat shalom 10.11.06
Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Just one error, I misspelled Beduin once. Otherwise okay.
thanks, editor,
Linda
"Peter S. Lopez de Aztlan" <sacranative@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hola Doctor Linda ~ Edit here then I will blog it with this Email, then, it will appear in draft form until I go to the Blog Edit to publish @
Prayers & Blessings ~Peta
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Linda Whittaker <olsvig2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:53:29 +0200
From: ìéðãä ååéèé÷ø linda whittaker linda.whittaker@npa.org.il
To: "Linda Whittaker" olsvig2000@yahoo.com
Hi everyone,
This has been a quiet, hardworking week personally, although there are major upheavals here in Israel as well as the elections in the United States. I've been focused on my own work and noticed the events only in passing......
{Continued @
http://shabbat-shalom-jerusalem.blogspot.com/2006/11/read-shabbat-shalom-101106.html ~~}
http://shabbat-shalom-jerusalem.blogspot.com/2006/11/read-shabbat-shalom-101106.html ~~}
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