Days of Prayer and Meditationby June RouseLast month, the final paragraph of the column, My Current Opinion - Solution (a monthly letter from The Monthly Aspectarian publisher Guy Spiro) stated: "Meditate, pray, communicate, teach, learn . . . and in any way possible seek to raise consciousness in yourself and in those around you. Critical mass has already been reached on one crucial issue. It can be reached on the others. Imagine what a critical mass of love will accomplish." In synchronicity, three separate calls for the power of global prayer and meditation were delivered to the editorial office as we prepared this December issue for you.
The three dates are
Science of Mind magazine invites us to "join with millions of others throughout the world on December 31, at noon Greenwich Mean Time, to pray for world peace...Each family, group, church, temple, synagogue, organization or individual is asked to send out love and light -- through meditation, prayer, song, or whatever form of worship is most meaningful -- and to visualize our planet as peaceful, harmonious and balanced. This should be a sacred, holy and joyful hour of expressing our desire and willingness to live in the spirit of cooperation, peace and goodwill toward each other and toward the Earth." Their guidelines suggest that individuals or groups spend at least one full hour in a healing meditation. Participants are further encouraged to spend an hour in meditation on the last day of each month during 1997, saturating the world with light and love.
The School of Metaphysics writes that the Universal Hour of Peace, during the noon hour GMT (6AM CST) on January 1, 1997, "is a synchronized effort to unite the world's people in peace. It is only now as we approach the third millennium that we can realistically envision everyone on the planet being informed of such an endeavor." They ask participants to "join people of all nations as we create a Universal Hour of Peace by dedicating our thoughts and deeds to peace.
GaiaMind call for global meditation and prayer on January 23, 1997. This date is based on the "exceedingly rare and archetypally appropriate planetary alignment, a moment in time expressed in the heavens as a perfect six-pointed star. This pattern comes on the exact day that three outer planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune are conjoined together for the first time in almost two hundred years. Not since the Renaissance have all five outermost planets been so harmoniously arrayed. On January 23rd, this cluster of planets will center on the first degrees of Aquarius, joined by the Sun, with the Full Moon opposite them all. Therefore, perhaps this pattern may be a symbolic representation of the long heralded dawning of the Age of Aquarius."
In the words of the poster of the School of Metaphysics,
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