1:00
PM
I cried tears of joy, when watching this short video
about "a
new spirit in Egypt"
It is so quiet in my sanctuary – even my landlord-family
has gone away for 3 days to Eilat (little Lior will performe
there with her belly-dance-group). We had such pretty little
interactions, for instance: Amit came in at 6 PM, with some
food, "can I stay with you a little
while?" What a radiating starchild he is, Amit,
who was still in his mother's womb, when
I came to live in the one-room-flat beneath the family.
Since his sixth birthday will be on Febr. 14, I already told
him, what kind of gift I have in mind for him: renewing the
paint of some furniture, especially my little wooden bench
(retrieved from a garbage place at Metzoqe
Dragot in 1998), which Amit's mother likes as much as
I do, and which, therefore, I lend her during the dry season
so she can place it in front of her door). Like his
father litte Amit is already a skilled artisan, and we rightaway
checked what paint I still have , and since we couldn't open
the tin-box, we forcefully drew a hole into it and poured
the content into a glass vessel. Then came Ofir, his father,
to take the rent for this month and I asked him for technical
advice concerning the painting-project. Also Lior had come
to my door, with another little dish of food, and we exchanged
info about my two birthday gifts for her on Jan. 29. (s.
above on Jan.27) My grate-full-ness for these landlords
is again overflowing.
It is also quiet cold , 15 degrees in my room, so that I
moved my little electric stove to a closer socket (thanks
to Ofir I have plenty of sockets in my one room!) .
I already walked to the pool in the morning, so that for
the rest of this one day at Arad, I can focus on finetuning
to my present in the presence of YOU, My Cosmic Self.
Since the planned "interactive" time of the last
6 days was not, what I would voluntarily stage in my life,
I know, that YOU had your intentions with this period, in
which too intense and not enough intense experiences and feelings
swept me along. I never was out of touch with YOU. Even the
two times, that I – strangely enough – let "Small
Ego" govern my attitude and behavior for a few minutes,
YOU let me "replay" on the spot
- though by then I hadn't yet received the great advice of
"Replay". And YOU even gave me
the chance to share what I had "done" with the young
woman, who attracted me into her drama for a few hours.
I'll begin my finetuning with this experience with Aya, though
it may not have been the most important in these 6 days:
[ I preceded this work with some sleep, and am still dead-tired
. And since I asked YOU to lead this finetuning and not let
me fall victim to my judgement pattern: "I should be
consistent and proceed orderly", I'll lie down again,
until Your voice will be so strong, that I return to this
work with zest-full-ness!]
13:45 It's not sleep
that Body wants as much as it wants to move and twist in all
directions. And then the reply to MS phrased itself (Febr.
10, 2011: since we are only just beginning to build trust
with each other, I'm not exposing our correspondence for the
time being: MS is a man, age 30, German-born, living in Texas,
who has been reading Healing-K.i.s.s. for over a year and
now feels, that he could become the kind of "Peer"
[see now, Febr. 17, the 4th
love song], for whom I longed,when
I set up my website in 2001
Godchannel, simplified and personalized
for myself and for my potential peers
who want to heal into wholeness
And now YOU guided me to the two wondrous songs, sung on
Itamar's Bar-Mitzva:
The first one : BROSH, "CYPRESS",
performed by Jonathan (guitar) and Yael (clarinet and singing)
I'll learn and sing it by heart and insert
it in SongGame,
This was the song, which Jonathan, Rotem and Yael rehearsed
rightaway, when we arrived at the place near Kibbutz
Netzer Sereni, where the Bar-Mitzva would take place,
[a
very interesting, intriguing historic place , that has different
names...] long before the guests would arrive. Even while
listening to the song the first time, I was completely taken
by it. Jonathan had arranged it for himself (guitar), for
Rotem (singing) and for Yael (alternating between singing
and playing the clarinet). Yael hardly opened her mouth, but
when I began to encourage her, her sister said: "she
is alright, she doesn't need help!" I felt shamed.
Still, when – much later – it came to the real
performance, and Yael, by chance, sat next to me, I gestured
to her, when she stood up to go to the front, how she should
open her mouth and face with full self-confidence. And this
she did: it was a pity, that Rotem didn't join in singing,
since she had to hold the mic for Yael – a pity less
because of the sound, more because of the symbol of a trio
– but since Rotem had her own show, I could take it.
In any case, it was fantastic, And now I found the lyrics,
I found 4 performances with Eviatar Banai (since I was told,
that they liked his style best), chose the clearest one and
recorded it on my digital recorder, so I can learn it, while
walking to the pool. Such wondrous lyrics, such woundrous
music, only the sound of the trio was not recorded to my regret.
Then I lay down again, palming my eyes and letting Body do
its work of integration of all I feel and think and sense.
I also looked for the other song, which gave meaning to the
entire celebration: two women of the "Learning Community"
had ornamented the staircases and the halls with flowers and
huge barks of trees, on which was written the chorus of this
song: Angel birds above you accompany
your steps,
It was sung by Sarit, a member of the "Learning
Community", to which Itamar and his family belong, and
with whom I had close contact, when - in 2002 - I taught them
Bible&Life.
The lyrics are deep, but the
tune I don't like enough to learn it.
Of course, I could tell YOU much about the beautiful celebration
and the not less beautiful party afterwards, with dancing
of the kids (28 of Itamar's mates) and some of the grownups,
including me. But this is not a diary. And real "finetuning"
is only needed for two events with my daughter:
One: she said to me - even twice at different times: "I'm
so happy that you bought this dress! It is extremely pretty
(see Learn&Live 15>Jan. 17, 2011), everyone talks about
it. Tomer said: "Savta
seems to have a real breakthrough!"
And though I suffered immensely
in those shoes, and accepted my daughter's boots, which she
had brought with her in case she herself wouldn't be able
to dance in her high heels, I was grateful to YOU, that you
had pushed me towards buying what I had never bought in the
last 15 years: a dress and elegant shoes.
The other issue, which needs
finetuning,
is actually a massive, compelling theme:
"I and my children".
See my
song for Immanuel:
Isaiah
8:16-18
My daughter was elated throughout the celebration
and when I drove home with her and three of her children,
and the next day, when we had a short
conversation in the kitchen and again when she drove me to
a junction, from where I could hitchhike. "Many
people were congratulating me regarding my kids!"
And, indeed, that are plenty of reasons
to be happy about these grandkids.
But for me it is more.
For me, the German-Christian born,
daughter of a Nazi soldier
killed by American soldiers in Sicily, in August 1943,
while millions of Jews were slaughtered and tortured
in Eastern Europe......
Still at Arad, on February
3, 2011
16:00 I thought of a sign which points towards
the integration of male mind and female feeling: In the BigBrother
Show, there is constant fighting among some women. Yesterday
three of them were seen in the "Confession Room",
each one separately, but the editor was alternating between
showing them: each one crying , each one judging herself harshly
for having anger let spill out so many hateful words. One
of them, Frieda, even said: "I
hate myself when I am like that!"
When seeing a person from the inside, every judgment falls
away. And only compassion stays. There was also some outside
reconciliation between the two women, who so far were the
worst enemies: Frieda and Dana. The problem is, that nobody
helps these women to move their feelings without damaging
themselves and others. And who teaches them, that not the
person who triggers them, is to be blamed, but that they themselves
are attracting triggers to point out holes in their wholeness,
which now want to heal?This is still perturbing me: that people
lack the most basic information. Why was I given it and they
were not? And why can I not pass the info on accept on an
obscure website? And only rarely face to face?
Which brings me back to Aya, and the cohabitants
of Lior
and Tzippi in a rented flat in Jerusalem, – Hanaani
and Shaqed. All Four are visited often by neighbors and friends
like Aya and Achinoam.
It was on my second evening, when I – in my constant
dilemma - "should I make myself available and risk to
trigger them, or should I be content with what I had achieved
already concerning Lior and Tzippi and simply stay in Lior's
room – chose the former. I heard Lior and Aya, Tzippi's
friend, and Achinoam, Aya's friend, in the room of Tzippi.
Tzippi had gone out to the very special "Soup-Restaurant",
where she works and where we had been the night before. Just
before Tzippi had finished her first treatment (a holistic
body-mind-soul method) of a friend in her room, "first"
meaning, that she now feels confident that she can minimize
her job as a waitress and build up her personal work as a
therapist. Before that friend was due, and before I went out
to travel to the graveyard of my mother, Tzippi came and showed
me two pretty cloths, which she wanted to hang up so as to
separate her bed etc. from a space for treatment, a mattress
on the carpet. When she demonstrated, what she had in mind,
I – a born "architect of the interior" –
showed her, how she could improve her idea a lot. She was
grate-full and was happy, that I had a part in her new way,
not only by supporting her determination and courage, but
also by helping her set up the exterior stage. After more
than 3 hours of treatment ("Tzippi
be careful with setting boundaries!") she left,
preparing the mattrass for Aya and Achinoam to sleep on, since
she would return only after midnight.
As I said, I heard the three young girls talking , went over
to them and asked, if I could join them. Lior said, "yes,
though" looking into the direction of Aya. Only
the next day I heard, that Aya had confided in her, that she
was afraid of me. But in that moment, she didn't want to object
to my quest and so I found myself a place among them. Soon
I observed myself getting into a real dispute [in
this case about the Dead Sea Sect and their purpose- see
in my book] – something which already at
the time of my marriage was so far away from me, that my husband
once screamed: "you are always
evading dispute, one simply cannot talk with you."
(Of course, if I had argued back, it would have been a disaster,
but my "Partnership-Way"
demanded from me to always look for the common interest, mutual
trust and equality of self-respect, and this does not go hand
in hand with disputes and arguments. I'll tell soon, how I
got out of that. Still, after some time, all three girls dispersed
and I went back to Lior's room. I felt, that I was not really
wanted after all, and I had no problem of ego with that, only
the dilemma, what YOU wanted from me!
Later that evening, when lying on Lior's bed, while she sat
at her desk with her laptop, and studying old clippings of
RUOW, which I had brought with me, I suddenly had an idea
concerning the "free time", which would await me
the next day, before I would have to meet my family at Modi'in
in order to drive with them to the place of the celebration.
Wasn't it "logical", that I should meet with my
brother-peer, Ya'aqov , at Modi'in? For some time I listened
to YOU carefully – after all there was no crucial reason
for interrupting the "freezing of our relationship"
on Nov. 4, 2010 for the sake of maturing and ripening "something".
But YOU encouraged me and so I took my mobile phone and went
to Tzippi's empty room in order to sculpt an SMS with utmost
caution.
It so happened, that Aya came in to use Tzippi's separate
bathroom, and when she came out again, she said to me: "Why
don't you join us in the livingroom?" I was surprised,
I was glad, I was doubtful, but I joined them : Hanaani, Aya
and Achinoam.
When there was an opportunity, I asked
Hanaani: "What did your
parents have in mind, when they gave you this strange name:
either "(God") had
compassion on me",
or as the diminuation of the name "Hanaan"? "It's
the first", he said and
added slowly: "I have great
difficulty with my name." Then
he quoted a short verse from the Bible, but didn't know the
source. What followed was so absurd, that I have to confess
it. The verse included the word "yesh",
which means "there is" (like:
"yesh li shem: there is
– to –me – a name", which
is the way of Semitic languages to say: "I
have a name").
I said: "Since
'yesh' is used only in the late biblical books, the quote
must be from Ecclisiastes (Qohelet)
or Proverbs."
In that moment Lior – who didn't
really feel like studying in her room – joined us and
I asked her to bring her laptop and find the Hanaani-verse
in the Bible. And lo – what a double amazing fact: the
verse appears in the very first book of the Bible, in Genesis
33:11, and is put in the mouth of Ya'aqov, when he urges
Esau to take the gifts, he, Ya'aqov, needed to give him, so
as to be sure, that Esau had no longer any resentment against
his cheaty brother and would not be his enemy, when Ya'aqov
would come back to their common homeland. [see
my 3 pages sequence of "Jacob wrestling with himself"]
"I know this story by heart!" I
said, "or so I believed!
The story of Ya'aqov and Esau is one of the two crown-jewels
in the fantastic treasure-house of "my" Bible
(the other is:
Cain and Abel).
When I was teaching grownups for many years, in Israel and
even for a semester in Berlin, it took me four double lessons
to teach this story, and now you, Hanaani, proved to me ,
that I skipped this immensely important verse:
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"Abraham",
from a workshop in Boston 2002
The reason you want every single thing that you want,
is because you think
you will feel really good when you get there.
But, if you don't feel really good on your
way to there, you can't get there.
You have to be satisfied with what-is
while you're reaching for more.
"GIVE YOURSELF A REPLAY"
Maureen
Moss, World Puja Newsletter
Beloveds, there are barely words to describe the times that
are ahead of us in 2011. No one will be able to use his or
her logic to make sense of anything we are about to experience.
There will be no time to think as the months ahead take us
to the very edges of our being, and the razor sharp edges
of duality.
No one will be able to
plan his or her life ahead of the absolute moment they are
in... believe it. Not one of us will be able to change one
iota of our life by changing anything in the world external,
though we might think we have. Those were the days my friends,
before, not now.
We stand vulnerable now,
like volcanoes, waiting for circumstances to antagonize an
eruption, to blow out everything that stands between us and
God.
Being armed with self-love,
and the ways in which to activate it in a nanosecond is essential,
if we are to withstand the many eruptions that lie ahead.
And, if we are to succeed in our ultimate goal of ascension
[into a higher frequency],
whose very underpinnings is self-love.
Asking for a replay
is a powerful way to activate self-love, and one you will
find useful in the months ahead.
On our heels, days are
coming of grace (big one on February 11, 2011) followed by
six eclipses and planets changing signs quicker than the speed
of light, along with minds and emotional bodies.
You may well redefine
the meaning of going out of your mind as you find yourself
going from feeling oh so connected, (to several dimensions
and God and everyone else on this planet at once,) to where
in God's name, is God? (Attempting to make a complete and
grand entrance into your, and everyone else's Divine
Footprint on this earth plane, is where.)
So when is it going to
stop? When we are in a resurrected state of consciousness,
having fallen deeply in love with ourselves and each
other.
Utilizing replay
is going to help you get there.
Each time you find yourself
in a moment where you are struggling to love yourself or another,
then give yourself a replay.
Whenever you notice
you have been harsh, critical and unloving toward yourself
(or any other, since it is one and the same) literally say
to yourself,
"I am giving myself a replay.
I am going to re-create this scenario, right now.
I am going to consciously act on behalf of myself
in a loving way, right now.
Through replay,
I am going to speak and act toward myself or another utilizing
my highest consciousness,
my I AM consciousness, right now.
No excuses. No delays.
I am going to
bring every part of myself
that has ever been in creation
into one Unified field of love, right now,
in spite of what I have said, thought or done,
even one minute ago.
I will not justify myself, nor blame any other,
any energy, any planet, any solar flare or internal flare
to move me out of love.
Period.
I will have a replay, right now."
To help you: whenever
an unloving act occurred that involved another, sincerely
ask that person to please give you the opportunity to replay
something you may have said in haste or in anger, resentment
or in fear. Be vulnerable. Be authentic. Be willing. It's
all part of self-love.
Two things happen when
another is involved and you ask for a replay. First, you intentionally
place yourself in a higher frequency field, as you have changed
energy, and second, without forcing anything, you create an
expanded awareness of a re-creative action for another to
feel into and implement for themselves. Can you imagine what
that consciousness and love could do to shift the planet?
Before you hit replay,
start by taking three slow and steady breaths in and out.
...
Without judgment, or justification
just notice what was created from you (by words, thoughts
or actions) outside of the space of love. And then consciously
re-create it as an action of great love, be it for yourself,
or another. Behave as the God that you are.
As you take this action,
you are setting up a new template of Divine behavior inside
of yourself, raising your frequencies above the planetary
adjustments and getting closer to zero point and resurrection.
After all, isn't that why you reincarnated over and
over again, for a replay?
Alrighty then, here's
where you choose the opportunity to replay in every moment
so you don't have to keep coming and going so often.
HARMONIC ALIGNMENT : TOWARDS THE GREAT
FEBRUARY 2011
Archangel Michael through Celia Fenn
....
Now, since many will be
feeling "symptoms" of the energy shifts, we will
share with you our perception and understanding of these processes
within your Being and your Bodies. At this time, the Galaxy
is coming into what we will call "Harmonic Alignment".
This means that all the various Levels and Dimensions of Light
are moving into a Harmonic Alignment of Light and Sound
that reflects the internal coherence of Divine Light. This
creates the most beautiful Celestial Tones and Overtones
throughout the Galaxy as the Galaxy aligns with her Twin Flame
Galaxy, Andromeda, and then aligns with the Cosmic Heart of
All Creation and Light.
Yes, Beloveds, a Grand
Process of Light, Love and Infinity, but
the same process is now taking place in your own bodies and
the various dimensions and levels. Your Physical Body and
its DNA is aligning with the Earth Codes and all the levels
of Physical Creation, while your Soul is aligning with Spirit
and all the levels of Cosmic Creation. These two processes
meet in the Heart, from where you feel and hold the Ancient
Wisdom and the Infinite Love that moves you through your evolutionary
processes.
At this time, you are
simply aligning all the levels of your DNA, to the point where
you have activated all thirteen "strands" or levels
of DNA available at this time. The thirteenth strand or level
of your DNA Light Codes connects you to your Cosmic Heart
or Origin, deep within the Cosmic Night of Creation's Memory.
As you make this ultimate connection of light, you access
all the Wisdom and Love of the Infinite Cosmic Creation. So,
it is little wonder that you may feel shifts and reverberations
of these processes within your physical being.
Now, you may say that
you do not, at this point, have access to these levels. You
may feel that you do not know any more than you did yesterday,
or last year. But, we say, Beloveds, that you
will not access this information with your mental body and
your finite minds. The mental body alone is not able to hold
this information, it has what you might call a "limited
capacity" for information storage, as it is confined
to events within linear time. This is, of course, the purpose
of the mental body, it was designed to facilitate experience
within third-dimensional linear time, it was never intended
to be the defining element of your existence.
... The Diamond Light
is like the "DNA" of the Cosmic Creator, it holds
the Infinite Love and Wisdom and Light of All that comes from
the 13th Dimension and carries the Tones and Overtones
of Cosmic Love.
In this process of Harmonic
Alignment, Beloved Ones, every level of your Being is in the
process of aligning with the Tones and Overtones of the Cosmic
Heart pulses. You are becoming Awakened and Conscious expressions
of Divine Love. ...
The Divine Feminine Energies
and the Embrace of the Cosmic Mother
Beloved Family of Light, as you have moved towards this process
of Cosmic Harmonic Alignment, you have been assisted by the
supportive Love and Nurturing of the Great Mother, the Divine
Feminine, through the waves of the incoming Shekinah
Light. ... Now, as you move into Cosmic Harmonic
Alignment, you begin to experience the Embrace and the Love
of the Great Cosmic Mother who was known to the Ancients as
Ma'at.
Ma'at is the One who holds the Cosmic Balance of All That
Is. Her name is pronounced "Mayat" or "Maia",
and her "children" are the Mayans, those who are
the Galactic Keepers of the Wisdom of Time and Balance. ...
The Symbol for this
Great Being of Light is a Feather!
This indicates that she is the "Lightness"
of Being
and that she Floats and Flows
with the Cosmic Winds of Creation. ..
To enter into her embrace
is to enter into the Heart of All That Is,
and to experience the Lightness of Being
and the Flow of Cosmic Time
within the "boat of millions of years"
as the Ancients called Planet Earth. ...
[see my
1989 song, "light Iam and I am light",
but so far it's been only theory....]
When Ma'at enters your
life she assists you to hold the balance in your Heart and
in your Being. She is Balance, and she assists you to manifest
that balance in your life. She assists you to maintain that
Lightness of Being and to Flow with the Winds
of Creation and the Cosmic Waves of Light from the Great Cosmic
Heart that initiate Creation and Evolution in the Light. Beloved
Ones, it is possible to ride these Cosmic Waves of
Light with the Elegance and Grace of a Feather in the Wind,
if you just allow yourself to be supported and all times by
Divine Love and Grace.
The
Incoming Waves of Light
and Expressing the Fifth Dimensional New Earth
... As we have said before, the key moment in this Spiral
of Creation will be on the 11th of November when the Earth
makes her alignment for the 2012 Event. But, the waves of
Light that will assist this process will begin to be felt
in the month of March that approaches. ... along with this
there will be an acceleration of the disintegration of the
old energy grids. This will manifest as renewed pressure on
the Economic System, for it is this system more than any
other that holds people in the old limitations of fear.
.... Remember always that
your power lies in your infinite being and your ability ...
to manifest that which you need. You are powerful and loved,
and you are Love.
So, by the Equinox of
March, you will be feeling the intensity of this Wave. And,
you will float like a Feather on the Waves of Cosmic Light
into a New Creation. New ideas will come to you, new
connections, new projects and new communities. For,
these Cosmic Waves are the Energies of a New Creation and
a New Earth. So, we urge you, do not focus on that which is
falling away, but focus rather on that which is rising and
coming into Manifestation - a New Earth and an Age of Light!
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Why was I so wrong about
the appearance of the word "yesh" in the Bible?
A word which I "once"
deemed so immensely important?
Why had I never paid attention
to Esau's "I have much"
and to Ya'aqov's "and
I have everything"?
And why did this verse come to my mind
after I sent that SMS to Ya'acov?
It also turned out – when Lior had
opened the
concordance to the Hebrew Bible on her laptop -
that "Hanaani" is a name, not even a rare name,
yes the name of a man who appears 3 times,
first as "Hanaani, the seer", Chronicle
II, 16; 7
then as "Hanaani, the visionary", Chronicle
II, 19:2
and then simply as "Hanaani", Chronicle
II, 20: 34
While I still tried to digest what
I had learnt, Achinoam, who so far - also when we still were
in Tzippi's room - had been focusing on knitting a woolen
cap for Aya, said:
"Names are important for you, right?"
and then talked about her own name,
Achinoam,
which has a pretty sound, but no meaningful association
(she was one of the wifes of King Saul
and later one of the wifes of King David...)
After a while of dedicating time to
this name, Lior asked: "What
about the name Aya?"
That was, when I let "small ego"
carry me away. Since I had taken the position of an interpretator
of names, I immediately rushed on to say, that Aya in the
Bible didn't have a positive meaning.
"How do I know? By chance some
time ago a woman , who lives in Germany, loves Israel and
has chosen to rename herself as "Aya", found "Aya"
on my website and wrote an e-mail to me. So together we checked
what she already had found out herself, until she wrote: "but
aya in Arabic is nice…" "
The Aya which sat in our circle, opened
her mouth and said softly: "Aya
in Arabic means "sign" or "omen". And
I like the bird "aya" ("though
it is a predatory bird?" Someone
asked ).
I felt ashamed rightaway, and from that
moment on dedicated my attention wholly to Aya, a very beautiful
young woman, half Yemenite and extremely charming and conscious.
Hanaani, by the way, had long since left the circle, and I
knew, that I had become too much for him.
The next day, when I had the chance to see thim sitting in
the open door – despite the rain – which I wanted
to pass, I said: "I would
like to see the drawing you made of me , when we talked about
your name." "Oh it's not your face at all, which
I drew. And in fact, now I'm sorry that I fisfasti (missed
out on) drawing your face, since
it's very spectial". I said
humorously: "Since you missed
out on me altogether, it doesn't matter! There will be another
time of meeting each other!" He
seemed to agree to my statement, but after a while, when I
was talking to someone else he said: "I
didn't miss out on you totally!" "That's right!
In the beginning you did not!"
I was glad, that YOU gave us this little
chance to be honest about what we felt towards each other.
And this lead towards a more important chance for a "REPLAY"!
During the night, which I spent alone in Lior's room, I felt
very judgmental towards myself concerning the two "ego-jumps"
towards Aya. How come? This was not me at all. Already 27
years ago Mona said: "I've
never seen a person with so little Ego like you."
But even if Aya has staged me as
"a trigger
for a hole in her wholeness that now wants to heal",
I still must take responsibility for
having been staged like that. So I asked YOU to give me a
chance to what I would now call "to replay those two
scenes".
At first it seemed, that YOU had not listened to my quest,
for when I first saw Achinoam, around 9
o'clock
in the morning and asked her:
"Where is Aya?" she said: "She
had to leave already!"
But then YOU did give me the chance. It
was after several significant talks with Lior –
and our pretty experience of going out into the central
streets of Jerusalem, passing by the "Talitha
Kumi" doorway
(she didn't know the story about Jesus' resurrection
of this "girl"
['talitha' in Aramic], nor
about the former orphanage (since 1860) and –
in the "Mashbir" of King George St –
buying a Boiling-Water Can , which I wanted to give
that community of students as a gift (they seemed to
waste much time on heating water on a gas-flame time
and again). Just when Lior parted from me to go to her
studies in the Sam Spiegel
school for cinema, Tzippi got up from bed , and
just then – Aya came back to the house of the
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After a last and short dialog with
Tzippi – who agreed wholly with what I pointed out:
"you also escaped a bit
from me, didn't you?" "Yes, I know, I know, I'm
in some kind of regression, I'm not in touch with my feelings
as I used to be. That's why you had to come here to remind
me", Aya joined us , and
I immediately used the chance for "REPLAY".
"Aya, I feel ashamed about two
scenes yesterday: when we were sitting in Tzippi's room and
entered a discussion about the Essenes, that Dead Sea Sect,
and their purpose, I suddenly realized that I was opposing
your knowledge with mine. And only when I saw, how you stood
up to me – and that's something I like very much –
I could let go and ask you instead about what you, Aya, could
teach me, concerning the Essenes, and concerning the 6 day
lonely walk on the "Shvil Isael", which you have
undertaken. Except that you said at one point, that what happened
to you during that lonely walk was difficult and you didn't
want to talk about it. So I understood, that you did not trust
us and could not take advantage of the opportunity to be really
listened to by me and by Lior. And that I had to withdraw
from you.
" But then you yourself invited me to join you and then
I made an even bigger mistake: When Lior asked ( why hadn't
I asked myself, by the way?), what about the name "Aya",
- instead of turning to you and listening to you, I spit out
my experience with that German Aya and all the research that
I had done about that name."
"Yes", said Aya, "it
hurt me, that you said negative things about the name "Aya".
This was the moment to ask for her forgiveness. "I'm
very sorry, Aya, and even though I then turned to you and
agreed with you about the pretty Arabic meaning of the name,
I know, that I had been insensitive towards you."
It was time for me to go (since I had fixed an hour with
Ya'acov at Modi'in, not knowing that he would be quite late,
and since the battery of my mobile phone was empty, could
not inform me – but the – a bit sad - story with
Ya'acov must not be told here and now…) and both Tzippi
and reconciled Aya wanted to accompany me to the busstation.
At some moment, when we were alone, Tzippi said: "This
was a very good process – that you could share with
her, where you erred!"
Yes, indeed! Even though it's "classical", that
someone attracts from me, what s/he is afraid of – I
am an aspect of her, since we are one, and she has attracted
me not only as a trigger, but also as the one, who helps her
heal the hole that was triggered!
The article "REPLAY" talks about unlovingness! I
cannot detect unlovingness in my thinking, feeling or behaving
towards other people. I only see myself as "the No. 1
–Trigger of the World', as my friend Tamir once said,
and I'm doing everything not to come into the way of someone
who might be triggered by me. But this fear, too, attracts
what it fears of. And when this happens, then I must put my
request to YOU: please, always give me the opportunity for
"REPLAY", the more so as I know, that such "REPLAY"
on my part not only puts to peace a situation of tension,
but is the way, another person can understand what I know
and what she yearns to know too, much better than by my theoretical
teaching.
Still on February 3, 18:17
Again – I lay down, palmed my eyes and let Body breathe
and yawn and moan and twist and turn, wriggle and worm. It's
finally pleasantly warm in my quiet room, quiet, as if there
was nobody else in the world but me.
And again I let YOU lead me to what I should finetune to.
The first thing I want to once again and totally become aware
of, is the "lekhi-lakh",
which I asked my two starchildren to decide on, "lekhi-lakh"
from Christa-Rachel.
I hinted at this step already during the phone-talks which
preceded my extra-ordinary visit in the "Community"
of the four students. Lior Oren was only eleven, when she
attracted me into her drama, while I was living
at the Eingedi Fieldschool, of which her father was the
director and who had agreed to give me refuge. And though
there were years of separation, she always came back to learn
and grow through me, but also with me, for there were times,
like when
I left the Walk about Love 2009, that she was the one who
supported me for hours and hours, not the other way round.
Tzippi was not yet 16, when she "found me", a day
after I began my period on "Rakhaf".
"You were preparing the ground
for putting up your triangle tent, with your
partners Tamir and Hagai Lev, and I heard you singing:
"Two are better than one".
[see
the song] And then you asked
me, if I already knew my vocation , and when I said: no, you
said: that's alright, my famous father-in-law,
Franz Rosenzweig once said, that "great men"
find their vocation not before the age of 27." We
laughed, when she re-told this story now and I said: "At
this accelerated time it will not take you until the age of
27, and moreover, both you and Lior already know somehow,
what your vocation is."
It was at least 2 years ago, when I first tried to mediate
between Tzippi and Lior, believing, as I believe today, that
they would make a wonderful team for healing themselves and
Creation. But they did not see each other. A month ago the
staging from their Cosmic Selves led them to live together
in the same flat, in the same community. And still my desire
was not fulfilled. Lior felt inferior to Tzippi, and "you,
Tzippi, simply don't see her!" But now it will
be different – please help! – they both understood,
that living in that "house", that community of Four
– with the other two, Hanaani and Shaqed, who probably
are also starchildren - will help them to melt away the fences
between them and to begin to support each other
and through this also teach her companions and the friends
of all of them, to learn to mutually support each
other. "You do not need
Christa-Rachel any longer! You now have each other and must
turn to each other!" I emphasized ever so often.
YOU even gave me a chance to talk to the fourth companion,
Shaqed, whom I had intuited rightaway as a fitting piece in
the puzzle of the Four, but with whom no exchange had taken
place during those 48 hours of my presence in "the house".
I don't recall, with what words YOU inspired me to make her
feel and understand that it was not by chance, that she was
living in this "house", and that it was the time
, that she would be honest with everyone about the pain and
anger she was often feeling (since only she and Lior take
responsibility for the household, for shopping, cleaning etc.)
and that Lior would help her doing that in a fruitful, not
in a destructive way. I also said about her name: "You
know, I'm living in a neighborhood that is called Shaqed,
almond! There is a biblical prophecy about shaqed!" "Really?
What does it mean?" "I don't remember now, but it
must have something to do with the fact, that the almond tree
is the first to blossom , even when it's still winter."
Now, when
I looked up the prophecy it wasn't a "good"
one at all, but a warning, actually the very first prophecy
- Jer.
1:11-12 - given to Jeremia, after the assignment
as prophet was forced on him. My student sermon at Heidelberg
University in 1962 was about what was called "Jeremia's
initiation" ("it's
the best sermon, but since you don't mention Jesus,
you are not allowed to hold it in the church but only
in the classroom with your co-students!…).
I don't remember, if the verses about the almond were
still included in the text I was given to interpret.
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Still on Febr. 3, 2011, 18:51
Now is the time to talk about another REPLAY. In this case
it was me who had to give as much opportunity as possible
for the REPLAY of others with concern to me.
Since we are all one and anyone's unloving behavior towards
me is my concern just as it is the concern of the one, who
is triggered and therefore behaving unlovingly, I
ask YOU now, to help me to be extremely exact in my finetuning.
Perhaps I'll first tell a scene, which seems to be a REPLAY
on my part, but actually belongs to what I'm calling "giving
others a chance to replay their behavior towards me".
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It had to do with Jonathan,
the firstborn of my daughter, ……..for
the day of his recrution on Nov 29, 2009 -(See
about my process with this recrution) I
had written him a paper letter, in which I had invested
many, many hours, and to which I had attached a check
of 300 NIS. Efrat saw the envelope and asked: "Are
you sure, this is his address! Better ask his mother!"
So I asked his mother and she gave me another
address. Yet – the letter and check never arrived!
Nor did a short SMS exchange show me, that he was
interested in either letter or check. I let go of
both.
Now I met Jonathan again, for the first time after
at least 15 months. His father had brought him by
car from a military basis , far away in the western
Negev. "You would like
it there", was his only sentence to me,
referring to my love for the Desert, but also hinting
at his utter dislike for that place. When I mentioned
towards my daughter: "There
is such pain in his eyes", she affirmed,
that the place and his work there as a medical were
desolate, and that he also had separated from his
girl-friend. "At this
age a boy needs love, love in his life, there's nothing
to be done about!" his mother said.
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My attempts to interact with my grandson during the Bar-Mitzva,
were of poor success. And when we all sat together in my daughter's
home after midnight to attend Itamar's unwrapping of the gifts
and blessings and checks he had received, I noticed, that
it was difficult for Jonathan to see, "that
every year the Bar-Mitzva celebrations become more pompous
and the gifts ever bigger". I made the mistake
to say: "Did you see the satiric
program: "a lovely country",
where last week they had a clip about the Bar-Mitzva inflation?"
Only my daughter responded – dryly – "we
were angry at the show [because
some racism in it] and did not
continue to see it". I was grateful that she didn't
fall into the trap of being triggered this time, as she had
some 10 minutes earlier, when I was explained what an "I-pod
for touch" was (the gift from the family branch of Itamar's
father). "There are 32 Giga-bytes
for songs, movies, television, Internet, dictionaries etc.
etc.!" I uttered a sound of amazement: "tsss!"
and my daughter got so triggered (exactly the same way as
my late sister in earlier decades...) and screamed: "what
do you mean by 'tsss'!" "that they develop things
like that!" I explained and that is what I meant.
What she had feared was, that I meant, "what
a waste of money on a gift for a 13 year old".
She relaxed and from then on was even more careful with not
letting herself get triggered by her mother, and I, of course,
did the same – as I had done during all the hours of
being in each others' presence – to be a cautious as
possible with uttering any comment at all, but on the other
hand also to prove, that I didn't feel an outcast, but as
a member of the family. Both, my daughter and I, had to play
like acrobats in a cirque. But that's what we had become aware
of , when we had that short conversation, for the first time
in her house, on December 12, that famous day of storm and
rain…
For the first time after seven years I stayed overnight in
this house. I went to sleep in Yael's room, and got up at
seven, since she had told me, she needed to take things from
her room before school. At eight Yael as well as Rotem were
already out of the house, and seeing Jonathan asleep on the
sofa (like a soldier without even a proper blanket), I sat
at the kitchen table, hoping I would find the balanced solution
for my going away – not too early, not too late, and
with the right person. Rotem, who had another appointment
with the army about her future two years in the army –
after the "Year of Service" in social work
(in Jerusalem, in a project that is called "ba-kehilah"
= "in the community", which is work with children
of poor neighborhoods) seemed to hint at the opportunity,
that we could travel to Tel-Aviv together. But though I would
have liked to be available for Rotem , too, I decided to give
her mother a chance to be with me at least for a short while.
At 8: 30 Itamar came up from his room, and soon after also
his father and elder brother were moving around. After some
cautious questioning I understood, that Jonathan wanted his
father to drive him not back to the base in the desert, but
only to Lod trainstation.
This would have been the perfect chance for me to go back
to Arad by train and bus. But they did not suggest anything,
and so I decided again, that I should stay on , in order to
be a little bit with Itamar, and then to give my daughter
a chance.
But I also gave myself a chance, just before Jonathan left:
"Jonathan, you know, that my letter
to you, in which I had invested so much time, never arrived,
and I feel certain, that it was not supposed to arrived, since
it might have been "too heavy" on you. If in a few
years you'll want to read it – I've saved on the computer,
what could be saved of this creation. But now I at least want
to give you the money, and with a little interest!" "No,
leave it!" he said in a tired voice. But I urged
him and he took the 380 NIS, I offered. I was at peace only
when his mother later told me, that she knew that he would
very much appreciate this "giving him attention".
From which I understood, that she herself appreciated it.
This – together with her appreciation of the dress I
had bought , and the very fact, that I bought it for this
occasion, - and the appreciation of the camera, which I bought
for Itamar, was the first time that she not only praised me
for something, but actually related to something I had done.
Thank YOU!
Now Itamar told me about the "Lego"-spaceship ,
that his uncle, his father's brother, had brought him from
Zurich (he explained, why it's so much cheaper to buy "Lego"
abroad) , and finally opened the box and started to construct,
though he actually had wanted to go to school. "My
friends said, they would kill me, if I wouldn't come today".
During this time – perhaps an hour and a half I felt
again "lack of intensity", though there were a few
tiny chances of valuable interaction with Itamar. Still, it
wasn't easy. But then his mother got up, was around in the
kitchen, cooking coffee for herself, and actually sat with
me for a little while and then, when driving Itamar to school,
also took me to a junction, which was convenient for me. She
even would have taken me to Lod trainstation, if I had wished
that. But I preferred to hitchhike, especially since finally
the sky was blue again and all the rain-soaked fields and
forests gleamed in strong colors.
All this time I was aware, that this was – thinking
in human terms – the last opportunity of being with
this family in Modi'in. There are no "events" ahead,
no reasons to come in contact with each other. But I feel
at peace and whole with this. We succeeded!!!!!
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