This morning, I arrived at the building site after the crew. Rather than going to the adobe building, I went into the peace chamber to offer my morning prayers. I am working to make sure I keep that calm space at the center of my time on the mesa. I arrived at the building site just in time to get video of the crew lifting the ridgepole into place!
When the crew took a break for lunch, I headed back to the home in Abiquiu Village where I am staying so that I could attend a weekly meeting with people who are organizing the Compassion Games and Eleven Days to Prove Peace is Possible, which concludes on the United Nations International Day of Peace on September 21st.
Being involved in some of the international work has brought Elisa and I back full circle to the early days of Joseph's vision of the peace chambers. After Joseph had the vision, he felt that he needed to go to the "body in charge of world peace" to get their blessing. So, sometime around 1988-1989, Joseph presented his idea for the peace/ sound chambers to a committee of the United Nations (UN). Elisa was in attendance at this meeting! After his presentation, Joseph did get a letter expressing support from the UN, and it was something that he valued.
Someone who played a role in getting Joseph to the United Nations was Betsy Stang. Betsy was the builder and first caretaker of the peace chamber at the Wittenberg Center, in Bearsville, New York, just outside of Woodstock. Betsy did extensive work at the UN advocating for Indigenous Rights, peace, sustainability and women's rights. Under Betsy leadership, the Wittenberg Center was given consultative status with the UN, not an easy status to achieve. Betsy was also a founding member of the United Religions Initiative's Global Council. She was close to a number of elders, including William Commanda who carried a Wampum Belt and the Seven Fires Prophecy. In 1993, the Wittenberg Center hosted something called Cry of the Earth at the UN. Check out the video below. Betsy passed into spirit in February of 2019. Her work and friendship was so valued that she is memorialized on the URI website at this link.
I feel that it is important for the House of Mica community and the entire International Peace Chamber Community to remember our roots at the United Nations and to support the International Day of Peace and related efforts. I believe that Joseph would want us to do so, especially now when some world leaders are distancing themselves from the valuable role that the UN can and must play in bringing about peace.
After the meeting, I drove back to the work site and found that most of the rafters were put in place! I happily took lots of pictures that went into making the video at the top of this blog post. A storm was brewing and when I came back to the place I am sleeping, there was a beautiful rainbow embedded in a reflection of the sunset. Quite a sublime day.
When the crew took a break for lunch, I headed back to the home in Abiquiu Village where I am staying so that I could attend a weekly meeting with people who are organizing the Compassion Games and Eleven Days to Prove Peace is Possible, which concludes on the United Nations International Day of Peace on September 21st.
Being involved in some of the international work has brought Elisa and I back full circle to the early days of Joseph's vision of the peace chambers. After Joseph had the vision, he felt that he needed to go to the "body in charge of world peace" to get their blessing. So, sometime around 1988-1989, Joseph presented his idea for the peace/ sound chambers to a committee of the United Nations (UN). Elisa was in attendance at this meeting! After his presentation, Joseph did get a letter expressing support from the UN, and it was something that he valued.
Someone who played a role in getting Joseph to the United Nations was Betsy Stang. Betsy was the builder and first caretaker of the peace chamber at the Wittenberg Center, in Bearsville, New York, just outside of Woodstock. Betsy did extensive work at the UN advocating for Indigenous Rights, peace, sustainability and women's rights. Under Betsy leadership, the Wittenberg Center was given consultative status with the UN, not an easy status to achieve. Betsy was also a founding member of the United Religions Initiative's Global Council. She was close to a number of elders, including William Commanda who carried a Wampum Belt and the Seven Fires Prophecy. In 1993, the Wittenberg Center hosted something called Cry of the Earth at the UN. Check out the video below. Betsy passed into spirit in February of 2019. Her work and friendship was so valued that she is memorialized on the URI website at this link.
I feel that it is important for the House of Mica community and the entire International Peace Chamber Community to remember our roots at the United Nations and to support the International Day of Peace and related efforts. I believe that Joseph would want us to do so, especially now when some world leaders are distancing themselves from the valuable role that the UN can and must play in bringing about peace.
After the meeting, I drove back to the work site and found that most of the rafters were put in place! I happily took lots of pictures that went into making the video at the top of this blog post. A storm was brewing and when I came back to the place I am sleeping, there was a beautiful rainbow embedded in a reflection of the sunset. Quite a sublime day.
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