Roskind: Healing of the Nations August 2003
Greetings,
Everyone
We
have just returned from 3 weeks of camping in Northern California and
Oregon, where we visited various gatherings and met with many people. First, we
went to the Oregon Country
Fair which was like going to a huge hippie
pop-festival with a roots/reggae patina. Lot's of drumming circles, some
reggae. Then we went on to the World Music Festival in Grass Valley. Again
a very good vibe, with musician from all over the world. The emphasis was more
on the music than the message. At night there were large drumming circles at the
campground.
We meet with Bob
Platt, who held his "International
Forgiveness Day Celebration" in Golden Gate Park
featuring reggae group Culture this last weekend
(www.forgivenessday.org).
We also met with Jim Dincalci who teaches forgiveness workshops
(www.forgivenessfoundation.org).
We spent a week at Mt. Shasta where we met with Kerrie Wilson who is putting
together a solutions-oriented festival to take to colleges
(www.phoenixvoyage.com).
She is working with Ereana Reil Nygard who works with the traditionalist Hopis
and she is teaching solutions in sustainable living systems
(www.livingsystems).
Then, after catching Culture in Santa Cruz, we had a booth at the San
Francisco Caribbean Festival, where we made some contacts with Sharifah
Ishan and Aeeshah and Kokomon Clottey who run the
Attitudinal Healing
Connection (AHC) in Oakland, CA
(http://ahc-oakland.org/),
a non-religious, non-political community based organization with the mission of
"eliminating violence from the lives of our children, our community and our
selves." They are interested in having us and Abijah bring our "One Love/Fire of
Forgiveness Concerts" to the Bay
Area.
Though we could
not attend, Abijah, along with our Jamaican friends Sharon Chambers and Sister
Chirya, went to Oxford, England to do a One Love Concert for
The Living Values Educational
Program
(LVEP) Annual
Conference
(www.livingvalues.net). This
organization teaches values to children
worldwide.
Through all
of this, it confirmed to us that there are a few but growing number of people
committing to heal the planet all in their own powerful way with Oneness from
the heart. All are working on changing consciousness into a more loving,
human-oriented direction knowing that it is this change that will eventually
lead to solutions to many of the problems and injustices we now face. It is not
a large group but a large group is not needed. People are hearing the message
and responding. It is
growing.
What's next?
We are planning the "One Love: Healing of
the Hopi Nation" on the Hopi reservation in Sept
or Oct. It is part of their 1100-year old prophesy that their tribe would begin
a healing before a global healing would begin. Also planning to bring the vibe
to Fayetteville, Arkansas as well as the SF Bay Area this fall. Also planning
more concerts in Jamaica and,hopefully, a large free concert in Kingston on Bob
Marley's birthday featuring many conscious reggae artists. More details to
follow as well as a new Website with more info plus video footage of the One
Love
Concerts.
:
We will have a booth and be speaking at Camp
Reggae
(www.campreggae.com)
in the Georgia-Tennessee mountains August 29-31. Join us if you
can.
One
Love and stay in touch,
Robert, Julia &
Alicia Roskind
Authors of
Rasta Heart:A Journey Into One
Love and
The Gathering of the Healers:The
Healing of the
Nations
www.onelovepress.com
roskind@boone.net
Posted: Tue - August 5, 2003 at 03:09 PM