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Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse, Portland, OR
Glee Lumb 2011 |
I am a Quaker mystic. I have received these messages in worship. These are the writings that have come after. I am an artist and I often worship when I create. They are not all together clear and I am not a professional writer.
Put the spirit back in the body. Connect all bodies to one another. Behave like an organism, as one, with
compassion and love. Connect the human
organism to the Earth organism. Put the Earth
organism in its place in the universe.
Survive all together as one.
Written on the wall of my art studio in pencil to relieve
the message.
“The old soul is looking at me through a soul that is everyone.”
“The ancient Indian grandmothers are looking at me and they are happy
for me.” [Referring to the joy of the changes to come}
“Let the faster current pull you into the vast ocean of the living
dream.”
“I told myself that there were barriers to experiencing God/Spirit of
all things. I saw that they [barriers]
had never been, only believed in steadfastly on my behalf eons ago. I am everything and I am nothing at the same
time.”
August 2013
“It is all acting in unison.
Even the chaos is included. I am
listening to, nay, hearing, vibrating to the goodness of all tings. I did this on purpose. I am seeing through the water, as water. I write because I know that I am allowing
myself to get very big. This has to be
done. It is not about mind as it [mind]
is finite, this resides in the body, of which the mind is one with. It is being flesh composed of energy. I am here, I am this because it is part of
the eternal pattern of intention my form is intentional because all patterns
are a part of the whole that includes everything. I am rooted here by the notion of containment
in the vessel of love that is “home”. I
want to be here. “ (I create this
illusion of my body and its boundaries each day because I love this illusion,
like I love my home, like I love the earth as my home) (I am allowing myself to go to the beyond and
farther beyond, yet knowing I am here all the while because it is all one, it
is part of the knowing)
This is me speaking through my body as I have allowed myself
to become water. As water, I am
everything and I am this at the same time.
I am trying to speak words of myself and my earthly existence as I
channel the knowing of water, which has no experience of this anchored “home”
of the body. The boundaries, the barriers
of the body are essential to our existence, but the water is constantly giving
us, a humans, the experience of oneness.
It is simply a matter of awareness.
The awareness of water is peaceful, connected, ever flowing, ever
moving, greatly powerful in its gentle power.
If we were to be this way at all times, there would be no self, no
boundaries, no hate, only unity, being one another and being everything living
around us and in us.
This knowing is leading me to understand that the way we
relate to water in our daily life as an organism (humanity), could be treated
differently, from the perspective of water, that which cannot be owned or
contained.
Once water is made still, it is poison to us. We need to know this. It is the emotions of the water, in whatever
way we can describe it in words, that are felt when we have awareness. Water takes on our emotions (Dr. Emoto) and
becomes the mirror of ourselves and plays out our intentions. It is the ultimate sensitivity to our
treatments. It is like a child who knows
our true feelings and intentions, who responds to the feelings and intentions
we feel even when we are unaware.
So, our feelings of fear or joy around our shared resources
are felt by all of us. We have a shared
knowing, all of the living organisms on the earth, when one is hurt we all
hurt. We feel it and it comes to
us. It is of the way of water. The water is communicating to me a “way”. Its way.
The way of water is much like the living water of
Christ. It is upside down. The least is most the most are least. Not on purpose. It’s just equal in the way we all have water
present in us and it continues to move.
It contains energy. It holds
electricity. It exists in many
forms. It acts like a living thing, but
yet cannot die. We have no ego when we
are water. I am like that. When I let myself see as water, my ego goes away.
The ego goes away completely.
There is no need for the individual, for our separateness. There is no need to hoard resources to ensure
my survival. I will survive in all
things. I can never die if I am like
water. This notion only takes away the
fear not the urge to live. It is my joy
to live when I am holding space in this body.
The aquifers deep under the earth want us to know about
this. Quakers have a way of worshiping
when focusing on the light of god in everyone that is the way of water, the way of the organism of the earth
connecting us all. It is like silent
worship. We have a message to bring to
the world right now and we are not recognizing our connectedness. We may
be recognizing it, but we need to look to the side of the ideas and notions
that seem obvious to us and become big together. To become one entity and to speak like one
organism, each knowing and loving all of the parts we see as individual. It may seem mentally unhealthy in America to
feel this way. It’s understandable. It is the paradigm in which we are
functioning. It is our illusion. Yet we are more like a great redwood. We appear to stand alone, but no tree stands
alone and neither does the redwood exist as a lifeless object. So, to do away with the analogy, no one
person is alone and the experience of sitting quietly with ourselves in worship
yet hearing for the still small voice that has a message for the whole is our
spiritual source. This is an expression
of god’s presence.
I continue to see visions and hear messages about how the
changes to come in our society and to our systemic functions are only a matter
of a paradigm change. Like what Jesus
was communicating. That our choices of
how many resources there are to go around (loaves and fishes), the forgiveness
we grant one another and to ourselves, and
the way we relate to death and life are just a matter of belief. Believe in me, he says, and you will have
everlasting life, fear will drop away.
Believing in Christ’s way and Christ’s returning energy is to see like
water, to be everywhere all the time, to be the one god. To be one.
To be made of the same material and to be powerless is to powerful,
flowing together, and tapping into this whole that is beautiful and loving.
August 29, 2013
Being led to water.
There is a sense that, …DANG! I
am sitting here at the Café Vita and now I can hardly swallow! My country is intent on violently attacking
Syria as a punishment for violence on its own people. I see so clearly that this is a case of not
seeing plan C. Regardless of the
intentions however deep and nasty, let’s focus on the right and long lasting
solution. Why aren’t Quakers visible,
open, loud, and asking for the use of diplomacy? Are we paralyzed, trying to get it perfect
before we launch it?
[Back to water]
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| Glee Lumb 2012 |
Okay, now I am looking for a think tank and a grant to work
out a legitimate vision of what it would look like if water use was set up in a
way in which it could never be owned. Do
we look to the Native American groups?
It’s like the management of the National Parks. We just have no idea what it looks like to
completely set things free and give them back.
This is a dangerous idea.
I am seeing a zeitgeist of people and artists who are experiencing
water as a calling: photographers, activists, fine artists, art in public
places. It reminds me of the scene in
close encounters where the people have been captured in a helicopter and
realize, partially due to the spiritual awareness of the French man who is in
charge of the project and seeing that artists have been called there to the
site of Devil’s Tower, Wyoming. They
have no idea why, only that the vision is imperative. There is a call for me to come to Portland,
and plan a water symposium declaring water a sentient entity with rights, that
it should be set free. It wants to be
set free.
