 Dear Friends,
We've just been reading Diana Cooper's new book, The Silent Stones. It's her first novel, inspired by a vivid dream she had in 1996. She's woven a great deal of spiritual teaching into it, including the idea that the earth is covered with a network of communicating lines along which, in ancient times, spiritual wisdom and guidance used to be radiated for the benefit of all mankind. Nowadays, though, this network has largely been taken over by dark and negative forces, which have impregnated it with fear, materialism, greed and hatred.
Not good news... and it made us think. Wherever fear and other forms of negativity have any foothold in our minds, we both strengthen this dark energy, and give it the power to influence us. Not exactly what we would like to think we are doing, eh?
But if we are really honest with ourselves, we have to admit that thoughts of fear, anxiety, doubt, irritation, stress, worry, suspicion etc are often whizzing around – if not in the foreground, then at least in the background of our minds. So, inspired by Diana Cooper's words, we have decided to do something about all those background niggles. This last week or so, whenever we've noticed one, we've been replacing it with a simple statement of our true intention: ‘We want this place to become a beacon of light’. After all, that is what we want, isn't it? It's just that we need to align every part of ourselves with that aim, instead of only the ‘easy to get at’ parts. And we've noticed that, because it's our true intention, it seems to have the effect of dissipating many a negative thought before it even has a chance to become fully conscious. Hey! Another blow for the revolution! And an important side effect is that now, all those background niggles and resistances don’t take our energy away so much any more.
So now we can be grateful for any vestiges of inner negativity we happen to observe, because every time we notice one it's a signal to us to reconnect with our core intention: ‘We want this place to become a beacon of light.’ And if all of us turned our bodies, our homes and our places of work into beacons of light, what a blaze that would be!
So..... thanks Diana!
Books For Giving
We were really happy with your reaction to our new Books For Giving scheme. It is lovely to think that the world-saving ideas in Thom Hartmann's The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight will now be disseminated among so many hundreds of people. Once we have chosen a book for inclusion in our Books For Giving scheme, we plan to keep it available for as long as possible. This month's Book For Giving is Byron Katie's Loving What Is. Why have we chosen it? Because the four simple questions she invites us to ask ourselves actually have the power to free us from the tyranny of our thoughts. A great gift indeed.
With much love from all of us,
Geoff, Ann, Martyn, Jackie, Emma, Sarah, Regina, Irina, Penny, Sandra, Belinda, Mary, Derek, Eddie, Louisa, Jon, Sam, Tobi & Pat
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 09-Jul-2002
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