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PEACE IN AMERICA ... PEACE AROUND THE WORLD
by Deidre and Michael Madsen

In honor of all the peace movements, projects and campaigns around the world ... in honor of the surge of peace in millions of loving hearts ... in honor of those who work on their inner issues and come to peace within themselves ... in honor of all who pray and send blessings of love and hope to those who are unaware and struggling in life ...

We offer this page, once posted after 9/11, once again on the net.

ON THIS PAGE:
AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN HEROES ... WOOF!
CREATING PEACE
INCREDIBLE WTC PHOTOS/GRAPHICS
TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
HOPI NATION MESSAGE FROM THE ELDER
GLOBAL REIKI HEALING
LOVE FROM NYC
ODE TO AMERICA
ADD YOUR PRAYER FOR PEACE

In honor of Nikki and all beLoved German Shepherd dogs, in the line of duty whether here in the States or abroad in war-torn countries, we ask you, "PLEASE visit this website ... AMERICA'S FORGOTTEN HEROES!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO NIKKI'S PAGE

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To Create Peace, We Must Become Peace

In reviewing some of the teachings of Bio-Geometry and the knowledge of the ancients ... the key to bringing about peace may be more simple than we think.

The number 7 is a power number that is attuned to Spirit. 

To create a carrier wave vibration and to bring something into manifestation that is in harmony with "Spirit" simply say the intent 7 times. This creates the carrier wave of the intent which then manifests it into reality.  So, with this in mind, simply having the intent of peace...but with the knowledge that each of us must first become peace. Clearly state 7 times ... speak it out loud:

I AM Peace
I AM Peace
I AM Peace
I AM Peace
I AM Peace
I AM Peace
I AM Peace

As each of us begin to resonate with that vibration, and as more and more begin to resonate with that vibration....critical mass can be reached (rather quickly I think) and as we all know, life changes! :o)

- Author Unknown

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SUNRISE
THE TWIN TOWERS, NEW YORK

This picture of sunrise over lower Manhattan was taken by a guy [no name given] returning on a cruise this past summer (July 28, 2001). (Submitted by Ruth)

He writes:  As I watched the beautiful skyline of New York City float past me I noticed the sun was about to line up just behind the twin towers. I was lucky enough to snap the picture at exactly the right moment. If you look at the sun rays it is almost prophetic. - a little spooky.

Photos/graphics thru Zalome

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May this encourage Americans on a day like September 11, 2001

Widespread but only partial news coverage was given recently to a remarkable editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television Commentator. What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record:
 

"This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up, and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes.  Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans.

I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10?

If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios.  You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon - not once, but several times - and safely home again.

You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here.

When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke.

I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.

Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."
 

This is one of the best editorials that I have ever read regarding the United States. It is nice that one man realizes it. I only wish that the rest of the world would realize it. We are always blamed for everything, and never even get a thank you for the things we do.

I would hope that each of you would send this to as many people as you can and emphasize that they should send it to as many of their friends until this letter is sent to every person on the web. I am just a single American that has read this, TRIBUTE TO THE UNITED STATES.

From Raymond Trudeau
Saturday, September 15, 2001
 

(Thank you, Raymond, for sending this to so many ... and, thank you so much, Gordon Sinclair ... I pray many Americans have the chance to read your editorial; it will warm their hearts and give them hope and encouragement. - 'tween)

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Now, the whole of the world of the sickness diminishes the Peace and Seeds of Hope.  However, with Prayer, I still believe we WILL unite as the Human Family and Pray this Evil out of our world.

The Hopi Elders have instructed us to live very carefully.  And we must not pick up our Bows and Arrows in these troubled times. Of course this is our first reaction.  However, everything the Elders have ever taught is that Humankinds lives are decided by our loving Prayers to the Creator along with the Spiritual leaders of the World.

Please look to our Traditional Hopi Web Page: http://www.timesoft.com/hopi

Our elders have left us much wisdom and a way of grace and a path to Peace.  I pray to you all that you find something in their world and words that touch the Human Heart.  Set a side our words of war and help us pray.  Not only for the Living but all those whom have gone before, and especially the Dear Families and Loved ones that so innocently were disregarded.

My prayer is for somehow for all of us to find the peace we pray for, that all the TWO Hearted peoples some way be touched by the spirit of the Holy Ancestors, Creator, God, Mother Creator or whatever your prayer is dedicated to.

We must keep our prayer vigils and come together.

Kc4behopi@aol.com

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Please unite with us to send Reiki for the dead and injured and all those affected by the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Also send Reiki for all related future events and to heal the planet.

Let us unite at this time of great need to create a continuous wave of Reiki and prayer around the world.  Please Reiki every hour on the hour, wherever you are, as many times as you can or simply send it continuously.

To make it more effective, you could add a prayer such as: "May the greatest and most powerful Reiki energies in the Universe work together to heal this situation and to create World Peace" or you could use another prayer or affirmation of your choice.

As you send Reiki, you could meditate on the all the others worldwide who are sending Reiki and allow yourself to merge with this great Reiki stream.

To send Reiki for World Peace, you may wish to click on the link below and print out the World Peace Grid and send Reiki through the image, or through the image on your screen.  Whatever method you choose, please send Reiki as frequently and as regularly as you can.

World Peace Crystals Grids:  Click on the link below or copy and paste it into your browser.
Reiki.org/GlobalHealing/northandsouthp.html

This email has gone out to 25,000 Reiki people worldwide.  Please circulate this email to as many other Reiki people as possible.

Thanks for your help,
Your Reiki friends at
The International Center for Reiki Training
Reiki.org

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I returned last night from New York City, and what I have seen has touched my heart. The city is different.  Still lively and exciting, yet different.  A fusion has occurred on September 11, and I call this a fusion of Love. The city has become gentle.

I walked the streets, I rode the buses, I took the subways, and not once did I hear an unkind word or a raised voice.  There is a gentleness now.

A heavy, disheveled woman enters the bus I am riding.  She stands at the front with a dollar bill in an outstretched hand and asks if anyone has change. I watch men dig into their pockets, women into their purses. One man asks how much she needs to ride the bus.

Barriers came down on September 11.  The color of the skin doesn't matter anymore.  The age, the poorness -- these don't matter either.  In New York City today, there is a gentleness.

On a subway platform a woman asks me whether she should take Train A or C.  I do not know, but a woman, and then another, offers advice.  A man wearing a business suit also offers advice. All are strangers, yet, it does not matter. They have a common desire to help the woman.

I think the tragedy of September 11 has fused Love into the entire nation. What other explanation can there be for a man living in Seattle to jump into his car and drive four days nonstop to reach New York City, a city he has never before visited, in order to help?

In my city, so many people rushed to give blood that the news media had to daily broadcast a request for many to go home and return the next day.

Stores ran out of American flags to sell, and so the newspaper in my city printed a flag for people to put on the windows of their homes and cars.

In my city, people were asked to donate bedding and blankets for rescue firemen and policemen sleeping in the streets of New York City.  So many responded that the news media had to ask people to stop.   I spoke to a National Guard woman returning home from two weeks at Ground Zero and she said that furniture stores in New York City donated chairs for the National Guard and some New York City restaurants freely served hundreds, thousands of meals to the rescuers.

Television showed an elderly woman in my city waiting with her dog to be called to New York City to help with the rescue efforts. Everyone wants to help in this moment of crisis.

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Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about.

The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.  After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!".

Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Sylvester Stallone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert.

I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests.

I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human?

Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy.

What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion.

Only freedom can work such miracles!

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(End of the editorial in the Romanian newspaper.)

Barbara Wolf found this Romanian newspaper editorial at PLANETNEWS@aol.com.  She added, "I think sums up what I have been trying to say ... there is something about America that is strange and wonderful and full of Love at this moment of crisis."

We at 'tween share her sentiment, seeing amazing unity throughout our beloved America - across barriers, lines, race, creed and color.  We are eternally thankful for living in these times, having the glorious opportunity to experience the true human spirit ... one of boundless, limitless awe-inspiring love ... in action (and, in New York City, the Big Apple, too).  What an inspiration to us all.

Love,
Deidre and Michael

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Please participate in the One Million Prayers of Peace for the Middle East
Click Dove to Add a Prayer of Peace

A Million Prayers of Peace
to be presented in
Afghanistan, Iraq,
Israel and United States
People everywhere are asking what they can do to help
heal the wounds created by the September 11th terrorist
attacks. Please consider this to be a tangible, prayerful
response that will be felt around the world.

James Twyman's Emissary of Light!

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