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Peace Talk June 2012

This Week

Tuesday 7:30 pm - "Messiah" Training class
 
Friday 7:30 pm - Drumming Circle
 
Saturday June 16th - Work Day - Rebuild Sweat Lodge
 
 
** THIS MONTH **
 
Thursday June 21st 7:00 pm - Thursday Night Sweat Lodge
 
 
 
 ** COMING IN JULY **
 
July 7th- Fire Ceremony
 
July 7th- Saturday Night Sweat Lodge
 
July 14th - Work Day for Sun Moon Dance
 
July 20-23 - Sun Moon Dance
 
 
 
 

Workday- Rebuild Sweat Lodge

Rebuild Sweat Lodge Workday
Saturday June 16th- 10am
 
It is time to renew our sweat lodge structure.  we would love to have you come share the experience with us.
 
The area around the lodge and the Peace Sound Chamber will be part of the work to be done as well.
 
If  you would like this work day to count towards a dance credit, let us know in advance and we will be sure that you get credited.
 
We need:
Hands to do the work
Old blankets,
quilts,
sleeping bags (NOT nylon),
etc.
Help in the kitchen to feed the workers
 
For more information please contact:
Steve Citty (865) 300-4424
or Perry Robinson (865) 428-3070
 

Contact us regarding Work Day

Work Exchange

Work Exchange Contributions
(alternate way to pay for Dances)
 
Want to dance?
 
This year the council has been given the teaching that it is time to return to the original contribution rates given to us by Beautiful Painted Arrow. (See article here).
 
Most of the feedback we have received has been positive as Dancers (both past and current) have acknowledged the power of the teaching in their experience.
 
At the most recent council meeting, rates of exchange for work contributions were set and several work day opportunities have been established with more to be announced later this week.
 
The work exchange rate is $15 per hour. You will need to work a minimum of 4 hours on a given day. Generally we work no more than 10 hours in a day. This will not include a lunch, so you will need to bring your own light lunch.
 
Please contact the Dance Chief or Coordinator if you are interested in contributing towards your dance in this way.
 
New Roof on Chamber
Projected to take a few 8-10 hour days, you can work one or more days.
Dates: To be announced later this week
 
Rebuild Sweat Lodge
Projected: 8-10 hours
Date: June 16th 10 am
 
Grounds Maintenance
Projected: 4-10 hours
Date: In addition to scheduled work days (see Calendar) you may contact us with your available days and we will try to accomodate, pending our schedules.
 
Maintenance projects include:
Mowing
Wood gathering and splitting
Gardening
Trash hauling
....and more
 

Contact us regarding work exchange

2012 SunMoon Dance

2012 Seymour SunMoon Dance
 
 
July 20th-23rd
led by :
 
Nan Citty
Steve Citty
 
Register Core Shamanism
 
This will be the 15th year that Steve has led the SunMoon dance at the Center For Peace. Nan has led the dance with him for 5 years.
 
Are you called to Dance?
 
Is there a little bit of unrest that settles in when you think about dancing a visionary dance? Do you immediately begin to think of reasons that you "can't" take the time or spend the money to dance? Do you just wish everyone would quit bugging you about dancing, only to realize that no one is bugging you about it?
 
Be still, be quiet and without judgement of yourself or your situation feel in your heart whether you are being called to dance.
 
We want you to know that dancing is not an easy thing to do; it is not easy to commit the time and resources (money); it is not an easy breezy four days; it is not easy to explain to significant others in your life why you are dancing.
 
IT IS NOT MEANT TO BE EASY.
 
 BUT it is not easy to live a life wondering "what if?"; not easy to live a life without striving to explore all possible potentialities; not easy to explain to your heart why your head is controlling your Spirit instead of the other way around.
 
2012 
 
If you have ever thought about dancing the SunMoon Dance, this is the year to do it.  There has been much talk, not only in our community, but also in the mainstream media about the Mayan calendar and the significance of this year 2012.
 
None of us knows what, if anything may come to pass this December when the Mayan calendar ends. We do know that energy flows where attention goes, and in a large part the attention of the world has been on the transformation that may be coming in this year.
 
This is an opportuinty to explore all the possible potentialities of your being and be supported by the energy of millions focused on transformation.
 
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind...  Romans12:2
 
Renew your mind through the effort of the Dance, and Spirit will transform you in ways that you can not imagine for yourself.
 
 
 
There is never a charge for ceremony, but there is a contribution required to maintain the the Dance and the Center For Peace.  It is not our intention to exclude anyone because they cannot pay the requested contribution. Several ways to meet the request have been provided, including work exchange and some limited scholarships. Please contact Steve or Nan for more information.
 
If you are called to serve, you may register as a Helper and we will contact you with our needs.

SunMoon Dance information

"Messiah" Training

 
Tuesdays 7-8:30pm
 
"In September of 2009,  I began leading a weekly seminar at the Center for Peace around the subject of 'Messiah' Training.  These are on a continuing basis [until they are not] and everyone is invited to participate.
"If you have read and liked such books as Richard Bach’s ILLUSIONS and/or are intrigued by the teachings of A COURSE IN MIRACLES and/or follow the visionary path taught by people like Joseph Rael, you already may have been studying up on this subject – already a 'messiah in training'.  
"Please do not let the language throw you!  These times together are very little about doctrine, demands, or nice ideas and much more about self discovery, personal power, and mutual support."
 
Perry Robinson

More Information on Messiah Training

Fire Ceremony

Fire7th of each month, 7 pm
           ~ led by Katy Koontz

The purpose of the FIRE CEREMONY is to heal and purify both the planet’s physical oceans and the oceans of cosmic thought.
At 7 pm local time, fire elders light ceremonial fires at  each of the Peace Sound Chambers around the world. Those present watch the fire in silence until it burns out, giving to it what we want to transmute in our lives and staying open to the messages and teachings it brings.
 
All are welcome. We suggest you arrive around 6:45 pm.

Donations are appreciated.

Fire Ceremony Information

Sweat Lodge

Sweat lodge
Women's Lodge
June 9thth 7:30pm
led by Margarita DiVita & Tamy Brown

Thursday Night Lodge
June 21st 7pm
led by Steve Citty

Saturday Night Lodge
July 7th 7pm
led by José Gonzalez 
 
A sweat lodge or "Purification Lodge", is an intensely rewarding experience. By entering the womb of Mother Earth (the lodge), we seek purification and a deeper spiritual awareness through prayer.
Generally speaking the experience is to deepen spiritual awareness. The steam, heat, and darkness intensify prayers and personal introspection. The lodge leader (pourer), with help from the fire tender, hold an energetic space of safety and security while setting the intent of the lodge. The medicine of the lodge leader and of each participant helps to enrich the lessons of the lodge.
There are composting toilets in the meadow. You may change clothes in these toilets or at the Peace Sound Chamber. There is no nudity in our lodges.

Suggested Items to Bring:
 
• Two Towels
• Men are requested to wear swim trunks, gym shorts or something similar.
• Women are requested to wear a skirt or dress. (Something for inside the sweat that is modest and you don’t mind getting muddy.)
• Change of clothes (Preferably long sleeve and covers all of the legs to keep from getting the feast area dirty).
• Covered Dish for the Feast.

It is appropriate to bring tobacco, a small gift, or monetary gift for the fire-keeper and lodge master, both of whom offer their services to the people as a gift.
Cash donations are used to support the Sweat Lodge.  We use lots of wood for the fire; supplies like herbs (sage, tobacco, cornmeal, etc.), drinking water, and more. If you are feeling abundant, a donation would be appreciated. 

There is never a charge for Ceremony. If you are not feeling abundant, PLEASE do not allow this to prevent you from coming.
 

More sweat lodge information

Drumming Circle

Every Friday @ 7 pm
~led by José Gonzalez and Tamy Brown

Drumming is a powerful, sometimes dramatic, way to break into other levels of our mind.  Sensitive instruments can measure the way that drumming affects the brain waves.  That’s the reason for tens of thousands of years the shaman has journeyed with the drum.
This drumming is not specifically for journeying; but you get to use it whatever way you wish – including having a good time doing it!
So, on Friday of each week, bring your drum, and come join us.
Donations are appreciated.

2012 Dance Schedule at Center For Peace

Dances at the Center For Peace have been one of the major activities that we hold each year. The complete dance schedule for 2012 follows.
 
You may click on the dance name to be taken to the web page for that dance where you will get further information and will be able to register.
 
After you register, you will be taken to a page where you have the option to make your dance contribution by PayPal. AND new this year, once you have registered for a dance you can click on the "make a payment" button at any time to make incremental payments on your contribution by PayPal.
 
If you choose not to use PayPal, you can send your contribution by check to the Center. Be sure to put the name of the dance in the memo line.
 
 
March 23-26 “For the One” Dance 
 
May 25-27 Web of Life Dance 
 
July20-23 SunMoon Dance 
 
 
August 24-26 Star Dance 
 
August 31-September 3 Hollow Bone Dance 
 
September 21-23 Drum Dance 
 
December 1-2 Long Dance 
 
 
 

Perry's Ponderings

 
"Why Now"?
 
by Perry Robinson
 
In recent months the Tuesday evening “Messiah Training” group has discussed some interesting videos (THRIVE  and I AM) and books (among them Peter Kingsley’s A STORY WAITING TO PIERCE YOU and Kathleen McGowan's books:  THE EXPECTED ONE, POET PRINCE, and BOOK OF LOVE).  
 
A dear friend of ours wrote in an email to me regarding these latter books:  “I have a question that has not been answered, only asked: What about the time element? Why such a quest, and why the wait? Why now?”
 
You know me:  I had no better sense than to try to answer.  The following is based upon what came to me in my email answer to her question. -- 
 
“Why the wait and why now?”  Because, like the turning of the cosmic clock of the galaxies, the movement of human consciousness – because it is always by free choice – is maddeningly slow and plodding.  
 
EXCEPT . . . once in a while there is a kicker in that movement. Like that special click of the mantle clock that signals it is getting ready to strike the hour, sometimes humankind in it’s seemingly blind choosing suddenly starts buzzing and getting set for a cosmic “trigger point”.
 
The trigger itself may be a planetary alignment, a lunar or solar eclipse, a meteor shower, or a comet pass takes place . . . or a Mayan calendar comes to an end.  And, because of the centuries and millennia of human striving which led up to that moment, all the energy poised behind the pain, hurt, and fear explodes like “jet fuel”, propelling humanity into the next stage of our unfolding way.
 
The incarnation we remember as Jesus provided a relatively recent (in galactic time) glimpse of the goal we as human beings have been moving toward through the corridors of time. Does this idea draw anything from our love and honoring of Jesus? God no!!! It reminds us that he kept saying, “Change your mind” and “Follow me!” For two thousand years he has been here “in our face” saying “change your minds” and “follow me” and offering the “keys of the kingdom”. 
 
It is always personal. It doesn’t matter what anyone else does with Jesus. When I really see, Jesus, who he was, what he did, I see what God is offering to ME. And, by the way, Jesus is not the only one.  There have been masters (male and female) throughout human history who have shown us who we are, how we can be, what we can do, etc.  In them “the acorn sees the oak tree and meets its destiny!”
 
Now, “why now?” Because – 
 
It is finally a little bit safer than ever before.  Because of the internet the tyrants no longer have any place to hide!  The whole world is watching!  (Most of those who have put forth information from these sources for the last 2000 years have been, literally, killed. On some level, many of you and I are but a few among thousands of people who have what seems to be soul memory of what has been done to us who dare to “know” anything other than what the “church” permitted us to – not “know”, but – “believe”.  Since only the “church” can “know”.)
 
Our human curiosity and expectancy has driven us to “sniff down these trails”.  And a “pack” of “blood hounds” has emerged to lead the chase.
 
These authors may not have every detail correct. This is not about journalistic reporting, any more than it is in the Bible. This is about reaching into the soul and finding there the best and the highest that our soul can remember . . . and writing it down. (One of the reasons I have delayed so long to write down what I remember, is my determination to “get it right” as in:  the very best and highest that my soul can remember! How can I do that, when it is still unfolding???
 
I am 76 years old now and I know the time is approaching when I must “download” all this stuff into whatever form I can give it.
 
But the only real answer to the question is: BECAUSE IT IS TIME.
 
The most deeply indoctrinated of the dogmatic religionists knows in the deep heart of heart that there is a whole lot more. It is no more possible for the dogmatic to deny the radiance of our being than it is for the drunkest alcoholic in the gutter; because God placed the radiance there. We can delay our recognition of our radiance for another 150,000 years; but we cannot erase it! It is not of our own making, thank God!  It waits patiently for us individually to be willing to accept it and embrace it. 
 
That instant of recognition is the veil-shattering moment for each of us individually.
 
But we are more.  I am individual; yet I am a part of this collective, massive, yet singular LIFE, which is neither limited to the human species nor even to Planet Earth!  If ALL-THAT-IS is really ALL-THAT-IS, then I am a part of THAT and so are you.
 
Jesus said at one point “. . . if these were silent, the very stones would cry out!”
 
That is where we are in this year 2012 in human history.  That is now.
 
There is the pressure of thousands of years of brokenness and human strivings. There is the pressure of our science, philosophy, inspiration, hope, and aspirations. There is the march of seismic, meteorological, volcanic, tidal energies. There is the weight of oppression which has kept it necessary to keep these treasures (and many others, by the way) hidden, lest they burn the eyes of the beholders and cause another person to be burned at the stake!
 
The alignment of the cosmic clock, the tension on the spring of human consciousness, the lubrication of all those tears (of joy as of sorrow), the academics scratching old itches, the mystics seeing the unseen, the death and disappearance of species after species, even the poison sludge in the depths of the oceans . . . the whole singularity of the universe is poised waiting for that click of the mantle clock, which is distinct from the normal tick. When we hear it, we all know what is coming, we turn our eyes to look at the little door in the gable of the clock, ready for it to spring open, the bird to pop out, sing its song and strike the hour . . . .
 
Yes, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, everything can change. It is a promise.
 
The “New Heaven” and the “New Earth” is emerging; because we are finally ready to welcome it!  I believe we already have rounded the corner.
 
The non-existence of the emperor’s clothes is now very obvious to all.
 
The excuses of us “unworthy” humans are, likewise, becoming now obvious for what they were.
 
Inhumanity will show itself clearly in the illuminating radiance of a new humanity poised and waiting to step forth as the shining ones.  We have known they were “there” and have been expecting “them”, without accepting the fact that WE ARE THEY, HERE; and, like the acorn seeing the oak tree, we are now seeing our destiny!  Doom and gloom is so not it!  The SEED God placed in each of is in the process of sprouting.  Like the acorn, which gives up its form in becoming the oak, we may be changed in form – many of us may seem to die sprouting! – but what a gift to be here now!  What joy for the acorn to make way for the forest!
 
(During the formative years of the Center for Peace I saw a silvery statue of a man and a woman as they emerged from the “pool” and stepped up in “superman-taking-off” pose as if to fly – the Shining Ones!  This new humanity! it made me wish I were a sculptor.)
 
Twenty-five years ago I was “told” the reason the world’s population had swollen so much was that so many souls desired to be present for this moment.
 
“Why now?” Because it is time for this universe and its humans to chime the hour; and we are here and a part of it.
 
WHAT A TREAT!!!!!
 
That is “why now”.
 
At least, that Perry’s version; and I’m sticking to it!
 
Love and Blessings!  And, Dear Friend, thanks for asking . . . see what you started?
 
 

 

Contact Perry

In This Issue

This Week

Workday- Rebuild Sweat Lodge

Work Exchange

2012 SunMoon Dance

"Messiah" Training

Fire Ceremony

Sweat Lodge

Drumming Circle

2012 Dance Schedule at Center For Peace

Perry's Ponderings

Calendar at a Glance
 
JUNE
 
June 2nd 7pm
led by José Gonzalez
 
June 7th 6:45pm
led by Katy Koontz
 
June 9th 10am
Women's Sweat Lodge
led by Margarita DiVita
 
June 9th 9am
contact Steve Citty
865-300-4424
 
June 10th 10am
Council Meeting
You are welcome to come.
 
June 16th 9am
contact Steve Citty
865-300-4424
 
June 21st 7 pm
led by Steve Citty
 
 
 
JULY
 
July 1st 10am
Council Meeting
You are welcome to come.
 
July 7th 7:30pm
led by José Gonzalez
 
July 7th 6:45pm
led by Katy Koontz
 
July 14th
10am
 
July 20th-23rd
led by Nan & Steve Citty
 
 
Work is Worship
“Work is Worship”
 
Work/activity is one very clear way to celebrate our selves as part of the community by which we are being fed spiritually. And it is always a lot of fun. Time seems to alter into a process rather than a taskmaster and friendships are born and nurtured by our community participation.
Bring gloves, appropriate clothing, water and an open willing attitude. If you have any special skills, please let us know so we can best use your talents. Of course, we will first take care of the pressing needs, but there is a lot of work to be done and all your talents are valuable.
We provide lunch. (So kitchen help is also appreciated.)
Contact:
Perry 865-428-3070 or
Steve 865-300-4424
Chanting in the Chamber
The Peace Sound Chamber is available for chanting, vision quests and ceremonies of many different types.
You are encouraged to come to the chamber and chant, drum, meditate or simply sit (the chamber Spirits love it); please check first that there is not something already scheduled.
 
Please call at least two weeks in advance to reserve our facilities as usage requires council approval.
Council Meeting
 
This is the gathering of the board of directors to discuss new ideas, future projects, and events.  Feel free to come with suggestions and comments.
 
June 10th 10am
July 1st 10am
 
-Visitors welcome Note new time.
 
For more information, call the Center at (865) 428-3070.
Directions to the Center
Directions
 
 
Council Members
The Center for Peace is a non-profit religious corporation in the State of Tennessee. Donations to the Center for Peace can be claimed as deductions from income for income tax purposes.

Active Council Members of the Center for Peace:

 
Marti Ackerman
Belmont, NC
704-906-9464
 
Nan Citty
Knoxville
865-405-6809

Steve Citty
Knoxville
865-300-4424

Margarita DiVita
Jefferson  City
865-475-3799
 
José Gonzalez
Seymour
865-300-3439
 
Dona Hodges
Sevierville
865-805-8372
 
Ed Hodges
Sevierville
865-951-8924
 
Sandy Palmer
Seymour, TN
865-304-0765
 
Barbara Rector
Knoxville
865-789-9955
 
Jeanne Robinson
Seymour
865-428-3070

Perry Robinson
Seymour
865-428-3070

Center For Peace • 880 Graves Delozier Road • Seymour • TN • 37865

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