A Prayer To Humankind
A poem of the heart
by Manitongquat

HEAR, O HUMANKIND, the prayer of my heart.

For are we not one, have we not one desire, to heal our Mother Earth and bind her wounds?

And still to be free as the spotted Eagle climbing the laughing breath of our Father Sky,

to hear again from dark forests and flashing rivers the varied ever-changing Song of Creation?

O Humankind, are we not all brothers and sisters, are we not the grandchildren of the Great Mystery?

Do we not all want to love and be loved, to work and to play, to sing and dance together?

But we live with fear. Fear that is hate, fear that is ambition, competition, aggression, fear that is loneliness, anger, bitterness, cruelty, fear that is mistrust. envy. greed. vanity. . . and yetfear is only twisted love, love turned back upon itself, devouring itself, hating itself, love that was denied, love that was rejected .

. . and love. ..Love is life - creation, seed and leafand blossom and fruit and seed, love is growth and search and reach and touch and dance, love is nurture and succor and feed and pleasure, love is pleasuring ourself, pleasuring each other, love is life believing in itself.

And life. . . Life is the Sacred Mystery singing to itself, dancing to its drum, telling tales, improvising, playing and we are all that Spirit, our stories all but one cosmic story that we are loved indeed, that perfect love we seek we are already.

That the love in me seeks the love in you, and if our eyes could ever meet without fear, we would recognize each other and rejoice, for love is life believing in itself.

O Humankind, we must stop fearing life, fearing each other, we must absolutely stop hating ourself, resenting Creation .... Life,O Humankind, life is the only treasure. We are the custodians of it, it is our sacred trust.

Life is wondrous, awesome and holy, a burning glory, and its price is simply this: courage . . . we must be brave enough to love.

Hear my heart's prayer, O Humankind, trust in love, don't be afraid. I love you as I love life, I love myself, please love me too, love yourself, for perfect love, as a wise one said, casts out all fear.

If we are to live, there is no other choice, for love is life believing in itself.

Above all, let us set the children free, break the traps of fear that history has fashioned for them, free to grow, to seek and question, to dance and sing, to be dreamers of tomorrow's rainbows, and if we but give them our trust they will guide us to a New Creation, for love is life believing in itself.

O Supreme light,
lead us from untruth to truth,
from darkness to light and from
death to immortality

From the unreal lead us to the Real,
From darkness lead us to Light.
From death lead us to immortality

Om shanti , shanti , shanti om !

"Let us feel and obey the urge aroused by the great need of healing the serious ills which at present are affecting humanity; let us realize the contribution we can make to the creation of a new civilization characterized by a harmonious integration and cooperation, pervaded by the spirit of synthesis."

-- Roberto Assagioli

I first stumbled upon Psychosynthesis in 1996 . I was going through some kind of " crisis of meaning ". Interesting how "when the student is ready the teacher appears ". I was depressed, burnt out, physically and emotionally exhausted yet a little spark inside me urged me to explore this method, both as a way out through the darkness and as a platform on which to start re- buiding my life.

Psychosynthesis is transpersonal psychology, the human journey toward personal wholeness.

Conceived by the Italian psychiatrist Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974), who studied under Freud and Jung and took what he learnt further.

Psychosynthesis is often called " psychology with a soul " and is concerned with the realisation of individual potential. Psychosynthesis takes a holistic approach to the human being including body , feelings , mind and soul.

This is how Roberto Assagioli describes psychosynthesis:

" Psychosynthesis is a method of psychological development and self realization for those who refuse to remain the slave of their own inner phantasms or of external influences, who refuse to submit passively to the play of psychological forces which is going on within them, and who are determined to become the master of their own lives'.

-Roberto Assagioli

Psychosynthesis links :

PsykosyntesAkademin, Stockholm. ( This is where I trained )

http://www.psykosyntesakademin.se/

The Psychosynthesis & Education Trust , London

http://www.psychosynthesis.edu/

(The Trust for Furtherance of Psychosynthesis and Education is a registered educational charity, and the longest established psychosynthesis centre in Britain. )

The Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis

http://www.aap-psychosynthesis.org/

( a professional organization dedicated to the dissemination of the ideas and spirit of psychosynthesis throughout the world. )

Once upon a time there were ants and an elephant.

The ants worked hard day and night and built fanatstic ant hills and the little ants were so proud of their work.

The was a problem though, for ever so often , an elephant would come by and trample all over their home on their way to the watering hole and so the little hardworking ants would have to have to start all over again.

awwwwww

Well this went on for a while until one day they got fed up and the leader ant called all the ants to a meeting.

" Now listen here chaps , this thing with the elephants has gone on far too long. Something must be done."

" we quite agree , " said the ants " but what can we possibly
do against the big elephant. It's hopeless "

" We'll kill him, that's what ! said the leader assertively

" if we all work together, we can succeed, and besides I have a cunning plan." tonight when the elephant is asleep, we'll creep up on him, all of us .. and when I give the signal you all sting as hard as you can - that should do it! "

Right .. said the ants and so it was that when night came and the elephant lay down to sleep,the army of ants crept up and onto the unsuspecting elephant.The leader raised his hand and gave the signal NOW !!!!! and they all stung as hard as they could

But ..

The elephant rose and shook himself and all the ants fell off

Awwwwww

Only ONE ant remained, and his name was Emil and little Emil was hanging on to the elephant's neck with all his strength and far far below cama a cry from all the ants in unison

" STRANGLE HIM , EMIL .. STRANGLE HIM !!!! "

Ìs it too late ?

Naaahhhhhh I don't think so !

The point of power is NOW !

Thanks to John Brougher, content editor of FreelanceSwitch.com for creating this video.

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