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Sacred Nature (Related pages explain where HTF Home School is 'coming from')
Whenever you dance,
wherever you dance, dance to heal the earth!
Dancing is power. Dancing is prayer. Some say that all is dance.
Maybe. Now there's a big dance coming, a dance to heal the earth. If
you're reading this, you're probably part of it. You take part
whenever you do whatever you do to help heal the earth. When you
recycle. When you choose to show love, to fight for justice, to
bring healing, to bring out what is good in others. When you avoid
cruelty and dishonesty and waste. When you are outraged. When you
speak out. When you give. When you consider the generations to come.
When you protest to the oppressors and encourage those who feel the
cutting edge of injustice. And, of course, when you dance. There is
a tree that all the prophets see, and whenever you let your love
show, you make the flowers grow.
Soon this dance will be done in a big way, in the old way, on sacred
ground. All living things will take part. If you want to, you can
take part. No one is twisting your arm. You can stop any time you
need to, and start up again whenever you're ready. If you've read
this far, you probably know what I'm talking about. You've probably
been doing it in one way or another for a good while. Soon will be
the time to make no bones about it! Cut loose!
Anytime you dance,
anywhere, whether at a party or in church, dance to heal the earth!
Let your feet beat a healing rhythm into the earth. Let your feet
beat a strengthening rhythm for those who struggle the hardest. Let
your feet beat a life-giving rhythm for all peoples, regardless of
race or national boundary, regardless of whether we're human or
whether we're the trees, the air, the fish, the birds, the buffalo,
the bear, the crow. We come out of hiding, we come back from the
dead, and we dance, and our dance is a prayer, and our songs and our
rhythms and our breath give life.
Is the music they're
playing some mindless jingle? Never mind, as long as it's not bad
music, and you can dance to the beat! Make your own words, and make
the words a prayer. A prayer for the end of exploitation, a prayer
for the end of lies, a prayer for healing, for justice, for life.
Remember your prayer-song, feed it and let it get strong and pass it
along. Dance and pray, whenever you dance, dance to heal the earth.
Have you seen anything?
Wear it out! Make it so that all can see what you see! Take a white
T-shirt and mark it with your dreams. Is there anything you'd like
to tell the world? Take your shirt and mark it with your song! This
is the way it has been done, so you can do it too. Use any color
except black (there are reasons for that that will become clearer
later), and you'll probably find that a loose, pure cotton T is most
comfortable for dancing in. Cos this is an actual dance, you dance
hard, you sing and breathe hard and sweat. Wear it when you plan to
go out dancing, to dance to heal the earth.
Some people do this
dance while fasting, and dance for several days straight. But even a
few minutes of dancing helps, and joins with all the other dancing
going on, everywhere on Earth. Not everyone can fast these days.
Besides, you never know when you're gonna dance, and you have to eat
sometimes! But if you plan to dance, hold off eating till later, or
just have a little. It's easier to dance if you don't have a hotdog
weighing you down.
Some people say, do not
do sacred things where people are drinking and partying. But all the
universe is a sacred place. It really doesn't matter what others are
doing, you can make a place sacred wherever you are, with your
intention and your prayers. Some people use smoke to make a place
sacred; a cigarette or incense stick will do fine. You can dance to
heal the earth anywhere, even a party or a bar! The earth is
everywhere, so you can dance anywhere to heal her. Only one thing.
Please hold off drinking or using any other intoxicants till you're
done. It works better that way.
The Lie has gone far enough. It spreads and makes everyone sick. Now is the time for this dance to begin. It, too, will spread, and it will bring healing to
all. In the beginning, they say, God put a rainbow in the sky, to
let us know that Spirit never forgets. Now is the time for us to put
a rainbow across the earth, to let God know that we, too, remember.
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