Happy to Be Alive

What a great time to be alive! As I'm writing this blog post we are starting to bring in the new year, and that is very exciting. 2008. Wow! It's going to be 2008 and this year could be the most exciting year in the whole history of humanity. People around the planet have woken up to the global warming problem and are starting to embrace solutions. We are on the brink of some of the most exciting discoveries in how to live and develop as a species. And most exciting of all, whatever we may discover on any day of this year can instantly be swept around the world into the consciousness of billions of people through the amazing communication tools we have at hand.  

I feel like I have spent most of my life, and (really) we as human beings have spent most of our existence, struggling with how bad things are and waiting for doom to strike. But suddenly I feel the curtains are falling open and a clear, shining, positive path is before us.   I feel like we have been hypnotized by the negative: all the news, and wars, and the realities of environmental problems. Not that these things aren't true, and real, and dangerous, but that the fear it generates has stolen the better part of our brains and souls and left us immobilized and separate.

As the veils drop from my eyes, I see that we aren't the victims of society, but the creators of it. The way we talk with each other, the things we hold as valuable and true, the things we dream about: these are the things that create society. If we call ourselves to our true and noble natures we can start to see that we can use our greatest consciousness to start creating our society and culture on purpose, and with an amazing and uplifting positivity.  

I love to follow the news, read inspiring books and magazines, and watch creative movies. I've learned lately about electric cars, and even cars that run on compressed air. New technologies are being created at break-neck speed to make solar energy accessible. People are starting to look at the wind and see energy. Young, creative minds are bursting forth with incredible ideas by the day. Women are planting trees in Africa by the millions! Arabs and Jews are helping each other on the subways.  

The great advantage of a population of over 6 billion worldwide is that there are more geniuses alive today than any time in the history of humanity: more enlightened people, more poets, more dreamers and visionaries. And we can see each other online, talk to each other cross-country, chat late at night on our computers. The more awareness, love and light we bring to this process, the faster we can sweep positive change across the globe with a revolution in consciousness and culture.  

That's why it is so important for us to come together to dance as often as possible. When we dance we create a field of human consciousness. We create interconnections of the heart and mind. If we choose consciously to develop and evolve, and even make that development a value for creating a positive future, then we will start to generate an electric current of change that can transform the world.  

As dancers, we started feeling this early in December at Lava where the group generated a new term: Oxygen Positive! By this we mean coming together in a way that is not just carbon neutral, but to make our gatherings such a positive creation that we are giving back to the entire global situation more than we take. We can create oxygen, and positivity and the energetic force that is necessary to awaken our neighborhoods to the point where the individuals involved can will start moving in the right directions for change.  

The solutions for all the worlds problems are either at hand, or on the verge of creation. It's our job as mystical brethren to co-create a culture that will accept the solutions as they are brought forward. The Dances of Universal Peace are a part of Murshid Sam's global peace program. We are the creators of this program, and responsible for it's execution! We are marching in the light of God.  

I hope to see you all at our next Lava celebration and then at Wilderness Dance Camp in August. At Wilderness we will use our innate Divine Curiosity to inquire into the human ability for highest participation in the evolution of our world.   If you'd like to chat with each other, and us all about all this.

Please come to OxygenProject.com where we have put together a website with chats, and blogs and all sorts of stuff so we can begin participating right now. We are also putting together action groups for creative car-pooling and other oxygen positive activities at camp. Please email us, chat with us, and feel free to call us any time with ideas. We are on fire.