{"id":96258,"date":"2017-07-31T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=96258"},"modified":"2017-07-31T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T09:41:57","slug":"an-invocation-for-our-time-this-consecrated-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/07\/an-invocation-for-our-time-this-consecrated-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"An Invocation for Our Time: This Consecrated Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you not see them<br \/>\nthe ashen ones, the grey ones<br \/>\nthe starving orphans , the seduced innocents,<br \/>\nthe decimated specters of conflagration,<br \/>\nall the beings trampled in degradation<br \/>\ncrowding our collective shadow field?<br \/>\nGo find them. In this, this<br \/>\nconsecrated hour of human becoming find your estranged,<br \/>\nyour lost and abandoned family<br \/>\nand embrace them into the vital marrow of your life.<br \/>\nKiss them until the ashes of their betrayal turn from grey to red<br \/>\nand the blush of love blows through<br \/>\nthe one soul, the one life of all<\/p>\n<p>Do you not feel them<br \/>\nthe slicks of poison, the necrotic plastic<br \/>\nthe ocean&#8217;s dead-zones, the cancers, the tumors<br \/>\nthe die-offs, the daily extinctions<br \/>\nthe breath of life suffocated on a genocidal scale?<br \/>\nDo you not feel them in your own flesh and blood?<\/p>\n<p>Go heal the pain. In this, this<br \/>\nconsecrated hour of human becoming feel your rivers,<br \/>\nyour lakes, your mountains, feel their freshness, their pure life force<br \/>\ncoursing your veins, opening your heart to the one Mother,<br \/>\nthe one soul, the one life of all.<\/p>\n<p>Do you not know them<br \/>\nthe guardians of the moment, the secret listeners<br \/>\nthe agents of truth, the instruments of soul awakening-<br \/>\nconsciousness raising-\u00a0 light resurrecting power of transfiguration<br \/>\nin the center of your own compassionately ripened awareness?<br \/>\nGo manifest this power.\u00a0 In this, this<br \/>\nconsecrated hour of human becoming<br \/>\nsing the communal choirs of collaboration<br \/>\nshowering our wounded world with the<br \/>\ndivinely feted audacity to celebrate<br \/>\nthe one soul, the one life of all.<br \/>\n_______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/James-O\u2019Dea.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-96259 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/James-O\u2019Dea-e1501493950432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"97\" \/><\/a><em>James O\u2019Dea is author of<\/em> The Conscious Activist, Cultivating Peace, Soul Awakening Practice <em>(June 2017) and other acclaimed works. James is a former President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Washington office director of Amnesty International and CEO of the Seva Foundation. He worked with the Middle East Council of Churches in Beirut during a time of war and massacre and lived in Turkey for five years during civil upheaval and coup d\u2019etat.\u00a0He has taught peacebuilding to over a thousand students in 30 countries. He has also conducted frontline social healing dialogues around the world. He is a member of The Evolutionary Leaders group and on the Advisory Board of The Peace Alliance and Kosmos Journal. James also mentors emerging leaders. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Laszlo New Paradigm Institute. James is both an activist and mystic.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you not see them<br \/>\nthe ashen ones, the grey ones<br \/>\nthe starving orphans , the seduced innocents,<br \/>\nthe decimated specters of conflagration,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}