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THE SPIRIT OF CIRCLES UNITING

WE ARE ALL THE CENTER OF A CIRCLE
AND OUR CIRCLES OVERLAP TO MORE OR LESSER DEGREES ALREADY
UNDERSTANDING THIS, WE HAVE SIMPLY TO AFFIRM OUR CONNECTION
AND ACT OUT OF THIS AWARENESS
FOR THE SHIFT WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE IN THE WORLD, TO BE

A CIRCLE CONNECTS WITH ANOTHER CIRCLE AND ANOTHER
BECOMING THE SEED AND FLOWER OF LIFE
THIS IS THE SACRED GEOMETRY OF CREATION
VIBRATION COMING FORTH AS ALL LIFE
FROM THE HUMAN ZYGOTE TO THE GREAT STAR NEBULA

CIRCLES UNITING is a global connectivity project designed to direct consciousness to our essential Oneness, by empowering people everywhere to create their own circle projects and link them together as one continuous celebration of life. What we make of it will move us into our higher destiny as human beings, conscious co-creators with Creation itself, one family of the Earth.

The Spirit of CIRCLES UNITING has been growing in and as us for millennium. For me, it was what birthed A Circle of Women and The Art of LIVING Coalition, the Great Sun Circles and annual International Women’s Day events that we as an extended wisdom community co-created across greater LA from 1991 to the present. And it is the message I've carried with me these last four years, living in over 60 places in five countries.

I envision CIRCLES UNITING as a kind of global cultural exchange which will turn humanity onto itself and bring forth a new Renaissance – the Cosmic Renaissance – broadcasting the story of our Awakening to our greater selves through intercontinental celebrations sharing the music and mythos of all people. The next generation of Live Aid, Hands Across America and the World Peace Flame, now ongoing and designed to move and sustain everyone in actively participating.

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MOVING INTO THE GREATER WE

The image I keep seeing and would like to share with you, is that of a circle within a circle.

The smaller circle in the center is the “me” or the small “we” - which represents anything we ordinarily associate with ourselves individually and collectively in terms of our day-to-day existence, our family, our work, our community, basically our comfort zone, what we see as the “what is” of life, our dreams and schemes from the stand-point of having to make things happen ourselves.

Added to that is a basic principle of the art of living which has to do with affirming our connection and acting out of this awareness. It is what I call “me plus One” or “we plus One.” Applying this principle is the “plus factor” which allows us to move into the greater “WE". It creates the additional space, and provides the momentum for our lives to flow more abundantly.

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WHY WAW?

Over the course of my Circles Uniting tour I've met many remarkable people, and had the opportunity to experience so many wonderful ways of communicating and being with one another. The name I chose for my blog - Waw! Waw! - pronounded Wow! Wow! translates as Yes! Yes! in Woloff, the tribal language of my dear friends from Senegal, the Baay Fall, who I got to know while living in Amsterdam. When I learned "Waw," it seemed to say so much with so little about what I feel to be true when we simply say Yes to life and appreciate the magnificence. So, if anyone asks you what languages you speak, now you can include that you speak Woloff. WOW! Here's something curious to consider - maybe we've been speaking Woloff all along.

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AN ARTIST OF LIFE VIEW OF THE TRANS KAROO

“We don’t see many Americans on the train,” says Mr. Dawie Breet, the burly Afrikaans train manager who serves as my host for the 26-hour trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg called the Trans Karoo. No surprise, considering the 10,000 mile distance from my home of the last 25 years, Los Angeles. I am happy to be the eyes for my friends at home, privileged. It is a big world out here and too easy to become myopic within a big country such as the U.S. or, according to Mr. Breet, a small country set so far away like South Africa.

I am asked many questions on the train about being an American, by Mr. Breet, by the all black staff in the dining car where I spend much of my time looking out through the large picture windows, by the two couples who are traveling in the coupe next to mine, on their way to Krueger National Park - one of whom, it turns out, know Beth and Charles Hutchinson, the parents of my friends Annie and Lesley who I spent the previous month living with, between their homes in Cape Town and Saldanha Bay in the Western Cape.

It has been a long time since I oriented to the world according to politics and hierarchies, so I can say little in response to the questions I am asked about the men who appear to head our country except that their ways are of a past that is dying and much of what we see on the surface is their attempt to hold on. The shifts that are most poignant have already taken us beyond borders - technology that allows me to be connected with people on every continent via the internet, to write this article on the road, to be your eyes in this moment; the youth who have grown up in a new Africa where the pure and sane voice of Mandela set the intention for “a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.” and is continually rekindled in this country now 10 years into its shared experience of democracy.

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AN ARTIST OF LIFE DEFINED

an artist of life:

behaves daily in ways that support and enhance life
plays a pro-active, creative role in sculpting his reality
is courageously dedicated to being herself
“walks his talk,” and willingly accepts responsibility for his thoughts and deeds
lives her dream
has a rich and fulfilling existence
is fully present in the moment
loves himself and acts out of what is best in himself
passionately infuses love and vitality into everything she does
is grateful to be alive
measures his success by a balance of the personal and professional, societal and spiritual
thrives on change
assesses situations in terms of challenges and opportunities rather than problems, and works to find viable solutions
is resilient and open to more than one “right” way of doing things
is authentic and honest with herself and others
embraces differences while affirming our essential connection
treads softly on the earth
honors and respects the freedom of each individual
extends compassion to all living things
is committed to doing “the best he can” to live these principles
teaches by example

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Frankie Biography

For more than a decade Frankie Lee has been providing the foundation for the greater connectivity that is so much needed today in this world where six-billion people are challenged to move beyond "us and them" and rise up to our higher humanity.

Through the two powerful alliances she formed - A Circle of Women in 1991 and The Art of LIVING Coalition in 1996 - she has served as a torchbearer for a new social consciousness, impulsing hundreds to actively co-create and thousands more to actively participate in large and small community-based gatherings, media projects, social actions and networks of relationship.

Aware, as the Dalai Lama (who is the subject of her first Artist of LIFE documentary portrait) states, that, "A genuine change must first come from within the individual, before he or she can make significant contributions to humanity," Frankie Lee has dedicated her life to this purpose - refining herself to fulfill the powerful leadership role she steps into today as the front person for the Coalition and host of the ground breaking global television series she created The Art of LIVING - A Mystery School for the 21st Century.

The show, together with the rest of her innovative participatory media and work with TAOLiving Coalition, is a synthesis of her nearly two decades on the forefront of experiential learning, the media and human consciousness. Frankie Lee's personal journey brought her in touch with a great many remarkable people to whom she now refers as artists of life - from pioneers in brain-mind research to practitioners of centuries-old traditions which have enduring relevance today. She saw a story unfolding - one of promise and of hope - that was little evidenced in the media but which she made the commitment to contextualize and make accessible.

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Time of Transformation

"I was returning from the Rainbow Ranch with my friend and mentor Will Sampson when he suddenly veered the car to a screeching halt. Before us lay a mound of bodies, dead ahead in the intersection. I told Will to let me out to investigate. As Will drove off into the distance, I noticed rapid sniper fire for the first time. I remember having to tell myself to duck, though I felt no sense of personal danger. And, despite the hostile confrontation bulleting all around me, I was acutely aware there were really no 'good guys' nor 'bad guys' with which to contend.

"As I made my way across the intersection, I realized Will's body lay on the bottom of the mound -- Will alive and dead in one moment? There was little time to ponder, as terror stricken people scrambled in every direction and huddled in doorways for protection. I found myself comforting an hysterical young mother and her small children, when two Native American spirit women appeared.

"One was young and very beautiful, with long black braids, the other ancient beyond time. Both had sacred necklaces for me. The younger woman gifted me hers first, then the wise old woman, and as she did these words were spoken, 'The Time of Transformation is Now.'

"The Time of Transformation is Now. This is the time which native prophesies throughout the world have long foretold, the time when the rainbow peoples, red, yellow, black, and white will unite as one family in peace. The Earth has been taxed to her limit, and there must be an awakening to secure the future for our children and generations to come. And so it is that the caretakers of the Earth, the native peoples, are sharing 'secret' teachings for the first time with non-native peoples."

The account above is of a dream I had a decade ago, while sleeping in front of an open fire at the Rainbow anch in Ojai, California. You might know Will Sampson as the big Indian, the giant silent presence in uckoo's Nest with Jack Nicholson. He also played the Native American medicine man in Poltergeist II, The Other Side, which is how we met. I was the unit publicist on the film.

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Frankie Biography

For more than a decade Frankie Lee has been providing the foundation for the greater connectivity that is so much needed today in this world where six-billion people are challenged to move beyond "us and them" and rise up to our higher humanity.

Through the two powerful alliances she formed - A Circle of Women in 1991 and The Art of LIVING Coalition in 1996 - she has served as a torchbearer for a new social consciousness, impulsing hundreds to actively co-create and thousands more to actively participate in large and small community-based gatherings, media projects, social actions and networks of relationship.

Aware, as the Dalai Lama (who is the subject of her first Artist of LIFE documentary portrait) states, that, "A genuine change must first come from within the individual, before he or she can make significant contributions to humanity," Frankie Lee has dedicated her life to this purpose - refining herself to fulfill the powerful leadership role she steps into today as the front person for the Coalition and host of the ground breaking global television series she created The Art of LIVING - A Mystery School for the 21st Century.

The show, together with the rest of her innovative participatory media and work with TAOLiving Coalition, is a synthesis of her nearly two decades on the forefront of experiential learning, the media and human consciousness. Frankie Lee's personal journey brought her in touch with a great many remarkable people to whom she now refers as artists of life - from pioneers in brain-mind research to practitioners of centuries-old traditions which have enduring relevance today. She saw a story unfolding - one of promise and of hope - that was little evidenced in the media but which she made the commitment to contextualize and make accessible.

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