Meaning of Memorial Day

by Nicolette Beard on May 31, 2010

in Other Worlds

The spir­i­tual facts of Memo­r­ial Day are lit­tle known.

When a few women placed flow­ers on the graves of sol­diers who died dur­ing the Amer­i­can Civil War, Union and Con­fed­er­ate, there pur­pose was to heal both the liv­ing and the dead. By hon­or­ing both sides of the con­flict, they cre­ated a con­struc­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion line between the dead soldier’s loved ones AND between the two war­ring parties.

Acknowl­edg­ing the pain and sor­row to all who had suf­fered was the begin­ning of a deep heal­ing process and the first in time of war.

Few among us have not lost a loved one. Many feel as though there’s “unfin­ished busi­ness” with a father or mother, brother or sis­ter, once they’ve died. On Memo­r­ial Day, we can estab­lish spir­i­tual con­tact with those who have passed over, not just sol­diers. This can bring heal­ing to our­selves and to those who have departed.

Take a moment to cre­ate a memo­r­ial obser­vance of your own this May 31, 2010.

1. Send real love to the per­son who has died and let him know that he or she is still loved.
2. Tell him that you want to for­give him and that you have for­given him.
3. Ask his for­give­ness and, from the bot­tom of your heart, visu­al­ize that he has for­given you.
4. If he left debts, try to pay them so that he is relieved of any anx­i­eties.
5. Try to view the mis­takes he made in life as a les­son for you, so that you won’t make the same mis­takes but, instead, live the virtues he exhib­ited.
6. Dur­ing this spir­i­tual memo­r­ial trib­ute, promise to take care of those whom he left behind.
7. Finally, try to actu­al­ize his dreams. Many peo­ple build schools, pub­lish books, spread free­dom, in honor of their mother or father.

To com­mu­ni­cate our for­give­ness, grat­i­tude and sac­ri­fice is the great­est gift we can send to Higher Worlds. In releas­ing our loved one, we release them from their attach­ment to the phys­i­cal world and send them on the beau­ti­ful path to the Sub­tle World.

Source: Other Worlds, Torkom Saray­dar­ian, pp. 488–490.

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Gemini: Festival of Humanity

by Michael Beard on May 28, 2010

in Art, Healing, Heart

When I started to write an arti­cle for the full moon of Gem­ini, I went to Google to fol­low the thread of an idea that I had. The Gem­ini full moon is called the Fes­ti­val of Human­ity. It is a cel­e­bra­tion of all our pos­si­bil­i­ties to cre­ate a new and beau­ti­ful world and, even­tu­ally, to live as One Humanity.

When I went to Google, I had no idea what won­ders and visions for the future of human­ity were in store for me. Before I put in my search term, I clicked on the Google logo, the one designed by chil­dren in one of the con­tests that they have. Then I clicked on the first list­ing “Doo­dle 4 Google” and went to the regional finalists.

Wow, our future is in good hands.

One 9 year old had this pic­ture fol­lowed by his explanation:

google-doodlers-doves-earth

What a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of One Human­ity. I love how he uses the word, must, as if this is the demand of the com­ing youth.

This next pic­ture is from a 6 year old who titled it “Music Brings Joy to the World.”

google-doodlers-mother-earth

Sev­eral are ded­i­cated to bring­ing har­mony between all nations and all reli­gions. Many are focused on car­ing for ani­mals and heal­ing the planet Earth.

Gem­ini is sec­ond ray, the ray of love. The Hier­ar­chi­cal ruler of Gem­ini is the Earth. Gem­ini has a very close con­nec­tion to the planet Earth and to Human­ity. These chil­dren under­stand the mean­ing of the Fes­ti­val of Human­ity and that love and car­ing will heal the Earth.

The above doo­dles are two of the Google4Doodle 2009 win­ners.

Their mes­sage, how­ever, is timeless.

Read more about Google’s Doo­dles inspir­ing his­tory.

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