From Santa Barbara, early evening -- with your music from http://www.livestream.com/franciscanabbeyofpeacecompassion?t=565717 streaming though -- "We pray 4 peace in Israel, etc." -- thank you for your friend request.

I was here a night or two ago, first looking at your pages -- and tonight wanted to take more time.  Very sweet piece of music I am hearing right now...

"an enclosed monastic"

Well -- an interesting phrase.  I spend a lot of my time "enclosed" as well, here in this fortress apocalypse -- though today I was out there on the Cold Springs trails, in that very light mist.  A lovely Chinese guy way up there with his lady commented that he had just seen a rainbow.  That was sweet and kind, and he was so happy that I understood him.

Just putting this briefly -- I think it's simply true that I have been influenced by many of the same things that have influenced you -- and I might have done exactly the same thing had God made it possible, or opened those doors.  In the mid-1980's, I was dreaming about "the international online church of origin" -- with my funky little computer running in my old pickup camper parked outside of Jane's, the piano player from the salvation army.  And I wrote a lot about such things -- and a few years later, did build UCS -- United Communities of Spirit -- at http://origin.org -- the first domain name I bought, and seemingly a prize -- in my cyber-spirit vision of integral union around common center...

And you -- are clearly a strong devoted interspiritual activist.  Interspirituality -- yes, I resonate to it in just the ways you do, I think, or very similar.  I read about and admired the Essenes.  I did all I could do to follow St. Francis.  I love his prayer.  And I built many other interfaith projects, until I consolidated many things into Interspirit about 2002, at http://interspirit.net -- such as http://interspirit.net/spirit -- 11,000 quotations there from 600+ books

And now, today -- I am involved in this "Shift" process -- particularly through this "birth2012" concept, because I am connected with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Conscious Evolution.

You -- it seems to me -- are simply radiating the communion, in a very graceful way.  I in my somewhat staggering way -- tend to be "held back" -- as Barbara Hubbard described it, in her recent talk at La Casa De Maria, to the "women religious" there -- who do admire and love her....

I feel that there is a kind of explosive potential -- something like the Shiva energy -- that wants to come through us with great creative force -- and powerful network integration.  The project I have been doing this year -- is "circle2012" -- at http://circle2012.net -- but it's still mostly quiet.  This vision emerged for me at Easter of this year, after mostly fasting for the period of Lent -- http://circle2012.net/tx/vision.cfm

But all of this stuff remains as something like coiled potential -- so much of it, but awaiting the magic enfirement, some crystal anointing emerging through its own inexplicable timing.  So, for me - continuing patience -- and probably more and fiercer mountain hikes, as I drive these penitential things into my flesh, absorbing and containing the "divine coil" -- the kundalini -- the capacity to act -- and to dance...

Thanks for your vision, your radiance.  Maybe we'll talk some time about the Cosmic Christ, and how we can serve and empower it through collective resonance....

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