TAOLiving founder Frankie Lee Slater
is presently traveling in the United States.
To correspond with her via e-mail, click below
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Malibu Surfside News
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On April 4, 2004 I departed Los Angeles, my home for most of the last 25 years,
to launch the Circles Uniting Tour. With the understanding that all great
undertakings begin with the first step, the tour began with my acceptance
of an invitation to travel to South Africa and participate in a blessing ceremony
for my friend Ann Hutchinson and her husband Tim Duncan's son Jethro who
I was asked to godmother.
The dream I have for the world is an Awakened Dream and Circles Uniting
is part of a matrix that is designed to help orchestrate the shift that is
presently called for, by providing the connecting bits that will more greatly
facilitate flow.
The natural unfolding of Circles Uniting is to grow into a unitative force
in the form of an ongoing Live Aid, We Are the World and Hands Across America,
simply by affirming the essential connection that already exists and
is represented in the cosmology of overlapping circles, with each of
us being the center of a circle and our circles overlapping to more
or lesser degrees.
This understanding of the Circle technology was gifted into my life when
my mentor Will Sampson encouraged me to attend a Native American gathering
hosted by the elder Albert Lightning in Alberta, Canada in the summer of 1985.
I've sat in hundreds of council circles since, including thousands of
people, and am dedicated to taking the spirit of inclusivity it embodies out
into the larger world so that every one feels included and is supported
in taking action.
This is a challenge as the perception, culled by centuries of conditioning,
is one of separation, whether it be by individuals in terms of family, community
and small-self identities or countries vying to hold on to the pride of national
identity.
The greater truth is that we are One and we are all in this together. The
challenge is to exercise conscious volition - the very gift of being human
- to override the reactive behaviors that would keep us in the false perception
of "us" and "them."
What I have witnessed over the course of my Circles Uniting journey, in
practically everyone I meet, is a kind of recognition that we have been being
prepared for something, and an opening to the greater possibilities.
I was present when South Africa celebrated 10 Years of Democracy, I was present
as Europe moved into a greater level of unity that is taking us beyond
the man-made demarcations that served the thought of "power over." I was
fortunate to go beyond America as it experiences the sad legacy of carrying this thought
to dissolution.
I am here simply to contribute my part to the greater.
Please enjoy our website where you can read
more about The Art of LIVING Coalition and what we're creating in the way
of participatory events and conscious media for a more conscious world.
Thank you for your good works and I look forward to exploring what we are
here to create together.
To stay up-to-date with Circles Uniting and let us know what you're up
to creating, please refer to my blog Waw Waw!
Once there, you can also register to be on our mailing list.
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