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Dianne J. Moore -- author of  A MAZE OF GRACE,  Dianne is also a social worker, and spiritual visionary who teaches people how to build on their positive twelve powers.  These inherent strengths include attributes, such as, courage, creativity, faith and intuition.  Embedded in rich autobiographical narrative.

Jessie Wolf Hardin -- is a Contemporary Spiritual Teacher, Environmental Educator & Storyteller.   JESSE WOLF HARDIN (once known as Lone Wolf Circles) is an acclaimed presenter, and the author of numerous books including Full Circle: A Song of Earthen Spirituality (Llewellyn, ‘91) and Kindred Spirits (SwanRaven, 2000). His two decades worth of public appearances and published works have helped define “Deep Ecology” in this country, while influencing the formation of a new ecological ethic. (Granite Publishing)

Robert Ghost Wolf -- is a celebrated author of four books and continues a career as an accomplished multi-media artist.  As a Real Life Indiana Jones, Robert enjoys a unique passion for life, possessing many gifts, and talents, which have earned him recognition for his work the world over.   Robert has been a featured guest on many national television shows including NBC's Ancient Prophecies, Fox's Strange Universe, UFOAZ and Arizona Today, and is well known to the Coast to Coast Radio listening audience.

Notes & Thoughts By W. G. Black Ph.D. - Founder of Gakati'yi

"To give and to receive are one in truth." 

This statement is the title for Lesson 108 in the Workbook for Students of A Course in Miracles. I have found it to be one of the most challenging parts of working with the material in the Course. It is also one of the most instructive and rewarding lessons. I share my struggle with you in hopes you may benefit also. I am  receiving as I give to you. 

A key to understanding its meaning lies of course in the differences between the world of illusions and the world of truth. It is in the world of truth where giving and receiving are the same. We are all aware and perhaps somewhat exhausted with all of the differences, contrasts and struggles in the world of illusions.  We are familiar with the "haves versus the have nots," the current "losses" in the stock market, the gains and losses all around the world at various times, and the feelings of loss that so often go with systems of taxation. 

Phil Laut wrote the book, Money Is My Friend. Phil has an MBA from Harvard, did well in business but found things lacking in his life.  He became a rebirther and counselor and found much reward therein.  He received much as he gave. He has developed the idea that mankind developed five limiting beliefs to explore. They are the belief in lack, limitation, loss, scarcity and deprivation.  He views these beliefs as the core of our "death belief system" on earth.  In contrast, of course, abundance, prosperity, infinite supply and overflowing blessings are the core of our "life belief system." The point of emphasis here is that we have a choice...we can and do choose to make these beliefs, explore them to the maximum many times, and, the good news is, we can choose differently. We can release a belief in lack and change to a belief in abundance, and all kinds of changes come about in our lives. I enjoyed reading the other day about Henry Ford and the choice of color for the cars being manufactured. The customers were beginning to complain about a LACK of choice.  His famous reply was, "They can have any color they want just so it's black." General Motors offered more choices, and Ford Motor Company almost didn't continue due to his "monovision."  Today the abundance of choices among automobiles is "mind boggling." Phil Laut assists his clients in changing their five limiting beliefs to abundant ones. That is a major change toward understanding that giving and receiving are the same, but even that can remain in the world of illusions and be only a contrast of illusions. 

We must go even higher to achieve the "consciousness of sameness" presented in the Course.   "True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body's eyes behold. It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there. ---This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. ---Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place."

We will receive as we give. Let us practice briefly. Think of what you would give to another today.  Peace of mind, quietness, gentleness are suggested in the lesson. To someone specific or to everyone, "I offer peace of mind." We will receive as we have given. Another statement from another part of the Course matches these so well: "All that I give, I give to myself." Give love today, and you will receive as you do. I am grateful for all that I have received by sharing these Notes and Thoughts with you. Thank you for receiving. 

(We request and welcome your responses to Notes & Thoughts. email: gakatiyi@hotmail.com)

Good Knight Campaign 

Wounded Granite Hill H.S. Teacher Related to Violence Prevention Advocate 

Washington D.C. Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt (ret), President of the Good Knight Child Empowerment Network Inc. and Jacqueline Cooper, Co-Executive Director, are available for interviews surrounding the latest California school shooting incident and to discuss a nationwide solution, time tested, that is available to schools on how to prevent future violence. Two presentations of  this award winning program--entitled the Good Knight Violence Prevention Program--was given on Tuesday, March 27th, 2001. The first presentation at the Auten Road Elementary School at Hillsborough, New Jersey.

The Granite Hills High School shooting on Thursday, March 22, proved to be a bitter pill for James Zumwalt to swallow. For less than two months after he became president of an organization dedicated to ending school violence, he learned his cousin, Fran Zumwalt, was one of the two teachers at Granite Hills who were wounded by a student firing a shotgun. A long-time advocate for violence prevention and volunteer with the Good Knight Child Empowerment Network, Inc., James Zumwalt commented, "Although I have been working on the problem of crime prevention for a while, I--like so many Americans--have been lulled into a false sense of security, believing school violence would never really directly affect my family. I was naive to think so. Until this recent violence, I had failed to share information with all my family members on how to prevent such violence. The Good Knight Program is a powerful weapon in a somewhat limited arsenal of available programs we have to sensitize children to violence, teasing, bullying and understanding the motives of those who are committed to doing violence. My late father, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Jr. (ret), once said, 'Only a nation prepared for war can prepare for peace.' That is what is required now to protect our children--we must implement an effective program in our schools to curb violence so they can take comfort in knowing a school zone and a 'combat zone'--contrary to today's headlines--are not the same thing." 

Zumwalt is available for interviews about the adoption of the Million Knight Campaign Initiative, introduced into Congress by Congressman Albert Wynn (MD-D), to activate over one million volunteers nationwide this year to offer crime and violence prevention programs in schools, community centers and neighborhoods. The goal of the Campaign is to locate corporate sponsors for the free giveaway of the Good Knight Safety Videos for the volunteers presenting this program nationwide. Statistically, it has been shown that over 50% of all crime can be prevented if one knows the behavior of would-be criminals prior to their approach. 

"A leading psychologist in the Maryland school system believes that hosting a Good Knight Crime Prevention Program in schools may well have prevented a number of these tragedies," suggests Zumwalt. The Good Knight Crime Prevention Programs are simple but effective programs that any youth and adult can present. The Initiative combines peer mentoring, community service, and volunteerism to solve a needed problem in our community. This crime prevention program has been recognized nationally by Parade Magazine, "48 Hours," and "America's Most Wanted" as one of the most effective and innovative programs in the area of crime prevention. The program has also received the 1999 President's Service Award Silver Medal in the area of Public Safety. 

To obtain more information about the Good Knight Programs please visit www.goodknight.org. To view an ongoing Good Knight Program on March 27th by the founder of the Campaign, Sir Edward Jagen, the Blue Knight, or to schedule an interview of Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt (ret.) or Jacqueline Cooper, please call 301-595-8989. 

Good Knight Campaign 
11001 Rhode Island Avenue 
Beltsville, Maryland 20705 
Contact: Gwen Gregory, Good Knight Campaign 
Number: 301-595-8989 

www.goodknight.org 

Jim Keep Up the Good Work!  

To Learn more visit the:  www.goodknight.org 

May you have a Blessed Holiday!!

We Welcome Granite Publishing and  3 more of their Unitarian Authors, who we will introduce in the next issue to the LightStream Network.

Reflections: 

  -BonnieJ.Ryan

I’m on the home stretch of my first year as an elementary school teacher.  Last weekend I received a call from a seventh grader who needed help on a school project.  “You busy today, Miss Bonnie?”  Of course I couldn’t be too busy for Travis!  He is my friend.  He was a fourth grader when his grandmother asked if I could help him with his schoolwork.  I was a white woman living alone in an African-American community and his grandmother had welcomed me to the neighborhood.  I missed my own children, grown and scattered across the country, and was more than glad to have a young person sitting at my kitchen table again.   Through two summers and two long winters Travis came nearly every evening.  I helped him with his homework, but it was Travis who was the teacher.  He led me to my “second calling.”  He helped me understand that I needed children in my life.  Not as a parent…I am more than pleased to celebrate the freedom of having grown children who are self-reliant and fiercely independent…but as a friend, as a teacher, and as an elder in the community.

            As a teacher, I find that most of my students are starved for adult attention.  Children are desperate for someone to listen to them.  Too many children are dropped off early at school, spend an hour or more in “pre-care,” seven hours in a classroom with one adult whose attention is divided among twenty other students, and then another couple of hours in “after-care” until they are finally picked up by tired, stressed, over-worked parents who just want to get home, grab something to eat, watch some TV. and go to bed.  Who will listen to the children?  Who will talk to the children?  Who will help our children find their way in the world?  Where is the “village”? 

            Two images come to mind.  A recent magazine article described the current most booming housing market in the U.S. as developments targeted toward “active, empty-nesters” who want to live in communities with other adults who enjoy active pastimes and do not want children around.  In vivid contrast, I recall standing in the courtyard of the jailhouse on Robbin Island where Nelson Mandella was imprisoned and listening to a man who had been a fellow prisoner recall their experience.  When asked what was the most difficult thing about being in prison all those years he responded, “We missed the children.  We never saw any children.”

            Give yourself a gift of joy and spend some time with a child! 

     REASON'S

People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do.

When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly. They have come to assist you
through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up or out and force
you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now time to move on. 

When people come into your life for a SEASON, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real, but only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. 

Thank you for being a part of my life.

Submitted by Dave Hall

  Center for Cellular Health
Cellercise@aol.com

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