singing truth

holy land is everywhere.

 

holy land is not just one place.

 

what makes this land holy is the same essence that

denies the borders of countries, that holds true to the

arbitrary nature of these human fantasies

 

and says

 

my country is just a smaller piece of what is bigger than me

all that space above my head and this whole planet beneath my

body, and the elements in it that make up my body,

true for all sentient beings.

 

and love

 

creates the bonds that matter, bonds between beings that carry their

matter, their bodies with them as cloaks that do not mean to distract away

from a miracle inside each person that life created

life as source, life as source,

 

and love

 

is more important and powerful than any phenomenon can name

and love knows that the land is holy, and that toxicity will not just leave,

that we must cleanse our ways to stop offending that which

earth - North

air - East

fire- South

water- West

brought to us like in the story

of white buffalo calf woman

 

the two leggeds are meant to understand

no one place is to be valued higher than another, that

leads to a disproportionate appreciation among all of us

for places with arbitrary lines drawn,

 

love

 

tells us we must level it out, balance ourselves

with our sight. we must undo the poisonous

place holders of colonial mind sets and

 

start

 

all

 

over

birth and happening

moments pass as leaves fall,
the peace was wanted
yet not enough
not exciting enough
not amazing enough
so the peace went away
the chaos and disorder came back

because the peace knew it was unwanted

she did not know peace
was enough like a human
she thought peace happened, just became itself
through birth, like a human

she could breathe and know what was true
but that did not matter
the poetry pushes itself out of her pores
and her skin was pulsing in ecstasy
how she wished she could describe the state
she was in
the states she had been in
but all the words she had picked up
from colonial languages
not the ancient mother tongues
were not original enough
not unique enough to convey the vivid true
highlighted bright truth inside them insistently

she could not wrap her words around experience and deliver
it in a speech
no matter who or what the speech was destined for
she wished and hoped against the brick walls
of being stuck here
feeling that the walls were made of chaos
the same kind that chased the
beautiful perfect peace away
and the humans overwhelmingly misunderstood
so many experiences involving peace.

let go
she thinks
breathe it out
she whispers
I will reveal so much to you
she thinks
in peace, in the calm
she knows
I will teach you
she whispers
will you listen
she wishes

Sacred Space- update

I wrote about this awhile back and now it is time to update what I think. Since I was brought up by people who on a regular basis, created sacred space in a particular way, I needed quite a bit of distance, for example, to spend years not practicing this way.

What do we do specifically? We call on the powers of the four directions as they correspond to Earth /Air/Water and Fire. It is too much to explain it on here, just know it is  a type of ritual creation that can feel like a good, tight container for magic to happen.

Since I grew up in such an unconventional way, I find it nice that I can pick and choose what to use and what to teach and who to teach about this kind of practice.

The main rule, and there are very few rules, is to harm nobody and do as ye will. If you can follow that credo, I know you are more ready for the rest of what follows


will update more soon.....

Vigils for all the killing and pain

There has been senseless violence and killing that has been all over the news in the past week.

Beirut, Kenya, Paris. Also, war still goes on constantly. Many kinds of wars insist on being around.

The way I see it, you have a sphere of influence. Once that sphere has completed itself, you need to let go the pain, let go the fear, let go the addiction to paying attention to that which cannot be changed.

If you are close enough to these situations, tend to the living, that they may be comforted in their hours of need. If you are near by these places, bury the bodies and say your respects. Then, do everything in your power to make this world better, to know what you can heal and what you cannot and do all you can, accepting what you cannot do.

Then, when all is said and done, we move on. We do not sink into despair, we do not lose hope. Our species has always dealt with our ugly, aching shadow. We have always had violent ones among the more consistently peaceful. It is time to stand with the peaceful, act with justice, demand justice everywhere from everyone.

And it is not time to give up, to write off humanity. There is still a great amount of good shown from and shining in many, many, many folks young and old.

Pro-Creativity in the land of Massive Consumerism

This year, for the holidays I am giving all the people in my life on Solstice and Christmas 2 poems. I know it seems kind of 8th grade, but writing poetry has been a source of great joy or at least it has been consoling.

Lots of folks do not like poetry and I get it. I rarely read poetry and as a teacher once said, it is a rich diet. I write it but I do not read much of it. The gift of these two I will give are in the spirit of DIY, anti shopping, pro creativity and all of that.

 The people do not have to like them but I hope they will understand that now in my 30s I would rather conjure a present from the fairly prolific list of poems I have under my belt than buy little trinkets nobody needs and hardly even likes.

I have been fortunate enough to get really positive feedback about my writing, thus boosting my confidence and make me want to do what I will do this year.

I encourage others to get on this boat. Not buying gifts is a great way to go. It is often less trouble than you think and if more of us did this we would have fewer contributions to consumer culture and more spontaneous and fun creative alternatives.

What is the planetary healing arts enterprise?

Our motto and mission statement:

"We practice the elimination of exploitation of all kinds"

This means in no uncertain terms that each person shall contribute as little or as much as they feel good about and is healthy for them. There will be no shaming, no telling folks what they should do, only sincere and heartfelt contributions. Amazing and real change cannot happen if people feel pressured by themselves or by others. Imagine, for a moment, will you, how different, and how much better our lives would be if we lived this way in all regards? It would take some real getting used to but I bet once we implemented this sort of way, we would not look back.

I created the idea for the enterprise for all practitioners of the healing arts to begin to identify the effects and realities of their good work with other people, animals and plants. The way this will happen is to identify those with knowledge of websites to create just one website where people can find other folks of like mind and like practice and close the very wide gaps created by wealth and elitism and classism. All who register or get involved will us will be asked to open their minds about currency and trade for what they do. In this manner, money will take on lesser value, and alternative methods of payment are options for those who have less and for those who have almost nothing. Why should there be such suffering when those who do healing arts could stop it?

My vision is that this site will be accessible and intelligently monitored to protect people from internet predator types so that it is a virtual safe space in that sense. Have I thought through all of the particulars and specifics yet? No, I feel for now that coming up with this is enough.

The community organization has been explained on this blog a bit and it is meant to be a template that other people can use, change, add to, so it becomes as useful and meaningful as possible.

"to start" and "close"

"to start"

speaking from my heart

in a stream of consciousness

means all that builds up in

that emotion organ, that full chakra

gets a release from sitting too still

about to spill, and what a release this is

coming from the heart center, you feel all that which wishes

to align inside

all you felt you had to protect and hide

streaming your consciousness from

your heart is always a good place to start

"close"

dressed in a fabric of unexpressed joy and grief
she wandered with lust

his arms were not a blanket
but nothing else would
wrap around her correctly

cheeks flushed with a memory
her hands make light work of this

sometimes she worked from a distance
fearing what would happen when she was close

close enough to feel
the skin
the breath
the heartbeat

close enough to know the rest of the rhyme
way before the expected time

Read all about it! A record label in the spirit of transparency!

New info. on Imaya's Modalities Record label--

What is a contract with this label and why is done so differently?

As a participant of this record label, you will be in charge of recording, producing and playing

your music. This will be for now, a labor of love. As a representative of this label, I offer support and

encouragement, through this process. You may contribute as much or as little as you want and this

contribution should be driven by desire to create beautifully, as mentioned, labors of love.

I will choose to destroy contracts, and as founder I have that power, if a participant is knowingly

causing harm, physical, spiritual, mental or emotional to any other human being. The destruction of a

contract will be done in writing and is always final.

This is a fairly easy expectation to adhere to, so take heed now before making mistakes later. The

record label is an extension of the Community Organization, and then it connects to the Planetary

Healing Arts Enterprise.

Here is a credo we go by, "We practice the elimination of exploitation of all kinds"

In other words, we do not push, hurt, harm, force any one in any way for any reason, including

ourselves.

I encourage musicians and artists of all kinds to reject any label or other kind of management that

continues making old mistakes with exploitative actions and vocalizations.

Contact me for more info!

julianamiller3@gmail.com