Earth Day on Good Friday 2011

At the recent Kamayan para sa Kalikasan Forum held last 3rd Friday, April 15, 10:30am-2pm, at Kamayan-EDSA, the forum session practically on the eve of Holy Week this year, all the participants in attendance stood up, joined hearts in a collective act of reflection and Contrition and prayer for atonement along this 11-year-old global Poem/Prayer of Earth Synergy (translated into over 15 languages, first prayed in unison in ceremonies held in six countries during Earth Day 2000, and repeated every year since then).

We suggest that this also be done by families and groups in solemnity in appropriate venues anytime within that weekend from Earth Day/Good Friday to Easter Sunday. Let's all take this collective act of prayer very seriously. This prayer deserves that measure of respect.

A Giant Leap for Humankind

For Earth Synergy
in the new millennium
nations of the world
come together as one,
in body, mind and spirit,
to stand in reverence
before the rest
of the bio-diverse
citizens and elements
of our living planet Gaia,
to take full responsibility
for past and present
environmental destruction,
and to lovingly commit
a conscious synergy of efforts
to rescue and heal,
conserve and exalt
our Mother Earth.
.
This is a giant leap
for Humankind
right back to the bosom
of our home planet,
undoubtedly a euphoric
historic event
that heralds
a new way of life
for all Earthians,
as we enter the new
millennium.

Amen.*

Written by a Filipino environmentalist in October 1999; translated into Bengali, Danish, Filipino, German, French, Japanese, and Swedish, before Earth Day (April) 2000. By now the translations number about 20. A multi-nationality solemn ceremony, called "Handshakes and Hugs for Earth Synergy," was created along with the poem and centered on the sharing of personal responses to it and a chorused recitation of It. Versions of this ceremony have been held in at least six countries during Earth Day 2000, and in more and more places during commemorations of Earth Day (April 22) and World Environment Day (June 5) all these past years. Usually just recited in unison, "Amen" can best be sung, along the Spirit of "Sing Out (our Love, Peace, Joy) 2011", now on its last preparatory month.

*Instead of mere chorused proclamation of firm afirmation, let's Sing out ths "Amen!" To start learning the "Sing Out - Amen" song for the "Sing Out 2011" global initiative, let's familiarize ourselves first with Amen song's repeating melody pattern. Click here and listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9dyBOtQ70k

Then bring back this blog on-screen by pressing at the Facebook tab and then at the blog's link to bring back this blog page, with the music still playing out. Look at these words now to see how the "Sing Out 2011" themes would replace the alternating purely-"Amen" lines. Reading on the blog and listening to the background, sing out loud for a dozen cycles (here is one such cycle)...

Aaa-men -- Aaa-men -- Aaa-men -- Amen -- Amen!
(Siiiing Out - Ouuuur love -- Peeeeace joy -- Sing Out -- Sing Out!)
Aaa-men -- Aaa-men -- Aaa-men -- Amen -- Amen!

Try to get two or three other people to sing with you. That's it. You've started learning the song.
Next, try teaching this song to some other people in your immediate circle... you may use the Youtube link

Ding Reyes
Readdingz. April 21, 2011

Unheard of until some mere decades back...

I FELL ASLEEP last night (April 16, 2011), thinking about some concepts that came to be accepted by many people just very recently -- "win-win"; "feminine principle"; "back to nature"; "servant leaders"; "corporate social responsibility"; "paradigm shifts"; "holistic healing"; "inter-faith unity"; "social enterprise"; "gender harmony"; "deep ecology"; etc.
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.....More such concepts, including diametrical opposites of what had prevailed for centuries over the thinking of entire human societies, will likely emerge in the next few decades, years, weeks!
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.....The new concepts will likely emerge, spread, challenge, and, finally, replace the static, separative, and vertical mind-sets and be openly supportive of spiritual and heart-centered decision-making, and will be openly hostile to justifications greed.
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.....The Academe and its institutions will surely be challenged to address these instead of conveniently ignoring or dismissing them. To retain its respectability, such challenge will have to be met in earnest -- fair and square.
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.....The entire process will surely hasten the march of Consciousness Evolution of HUMANITY OURSELF.
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.....My subconscious mind "slept on it" for a dozen dark hours, and, finally, I AWOKE TO A BRIGHT NEW MORNING, overjoyed over the idea that Humankind would soon reemerge as fully awakened in this world and, thus, as fully human!

Ed Aurelio C. Reyes / 'Ding'
Readdingz, April 17, 2011
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I dare challenge you now: 'Thimk' of 'Ourself'!

'Thimk' of 'Ourself'

hanging still, quietly,

in that old library

the sign spelled out

what it wanted me

to commence doing

right immediately:

'THINK!' it demanded,

quite unsuccessfully.

the sign was later on

replaced with a new one

‘THIMK!’ it yelled out,

and awoke my brain

to some playful mood,

streams of thoughts

were laughing, dancing,

fast billowing all around!

then, i saw

a similar sign

that made grammarians

red-faced

and raving mad.

.

‘OURSELF,’ it said,

as writ

by a ‘thimker’ of some wit,

insisting the word

to be fit.

he’d challenge

and change

the human world with it!

Makati, April 24, 2007

[Included as the third poem

in my mini-book of English poems,

'Ding Reyes Writes 30 WISHPERS Poems and More,' published in 2007.]

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Only a lived consciousness of Human Oneness, as stated by the young Filipino sage Emilio Jacinto, can help us comprehend the truth of our collective self, and this is the Truth that will set us free: WE ARE ONE! Let's all spread the word and its Truth!

Let's trace SingOut2011 back to Baguio in 1966!

SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY 2011!
traces its history to the Spirit of Sing Out folk song festival in Baguio City all the way back 45 years ago in May 1966.
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Sing Out '66 was organized and staged by the Baguio International Club. Looking back enables us to celebrate the decades of advance in Human Consciousness as we come well into the Age of Aquarius, the Age of Conscious Human Oneness! We invite young and old generations of our brothers and sisters in Baguio City, in the northern Philippines, to enjoy claiming lineage to both the Spirit of Sing Out '66 and the Spirit of Synergetic Recovery and Renewal after the "Big Quake" of July 1990 devastated and demoralized that bustling city.

Recall and relive the Spirit of Sing Out Baguio '66! Click and on embedded links:

http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/sing-out-our-lpj-in-2011.html

Listen to specific songs (or similar sounds)… and trace this history we can all be proud of, Click here and on embedded links:

http://readdingz.blogspot.com/2010/12/spirit-of-baguios-sing-out-1966-folk.html.

Forty-five years later, we now have SingOut2055, a global synergy initiative from the Philippines. Click here and on embedded links:

http://sing-out2011.blogspot.com/2011/03/april-final-month-of-our-preparations.html.

SING OUT our LOVE, PEACE, JOY!!!
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Imagine each of us singing out our own love, peace, joy within the context of SingOut2011. Imagine all of us doing that, with happy voices together... That would be a Great Leap to Celebrate the Historic Shift of Humankind to the state of Synergy from Conscious Oneness (SYCONE, pronounced as "seek one").

The time for the Happy Leap of Humanity draws near. This year, 2011, is on the very eve of that historic year of happy human transformation, transforming the human home planet and transforming the collective human consciousness itself. Human Evolution marches on!

We ask you to share this blog message to all your friends who now live in Baguio or who were once part of that community and its inspiring legacy. Let's ask them stand together to take a bow as we all applaud their Sing Out '66 and their Spirit of Synergetic Recovery and Renewal after the "Big Quake" of July 1990.

--Ding Reyes, lead initiator, SingOut2011
secretary-general, Pamahayanang SanibLakas ng Pilipinas
and executive convenor, SYCONE-Humanity

Poem/Prayer for Earth Synergy (at Kamayan forum April 15, 2011)

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At the Kamayan para sa Kalikasan Forum on 3rd Friday, April 15, 10:30am-2pm, at Kamayan-EDSA, the forum session practically on the eve of Holy Week this year, let us join our hands and join our hearts in an act of Contrition and prayer for atonement along this 11-year-old global Poem/Prayer of Earth Synergy (translated into over 15 languages, first prayed in unison in six countries during Earth Day 2000, and repeated every year since then).

A Giant Leap for Humankind

For Earth Synergy
in the new millennium
nations of the world
come together as one,
in body, mind and spirit,
to stand in reverence
before the rest
of the bio-diverse
citizens and elements
of our living planet Gaia,
to take full responsibility
for past and present
environmental destruction,
and to lovingly commit
a conscious synergy of efforts
to rescue and heal,
conserve and exalt
our Mother Earth.
.
This is a giant leap
for Humankind
right back to the bosom
of our home planet,
undoubtedly a euphoric
historic event
that heralds
a new way of life
for all Earthians,
as we enter the new
millennium.

Amen.

Written by a Filipino environmentalist in October 1999; translated into Bengali, Danish, Filipino, German, French, Japanese, and Swedish, before Earth Day (April) 2000. By now the translations number about 20. A multi-nationality solemn ceremony, called "Handshakes and Hugs for Earth Synergy," was created along with the poem and centered on the sharing of personal responses to it and a chorused recitation of It. Versions of this ceremony have been held in at least six countries during Earth Day 2000, and in more and more places during commemorations of Earth Day (April 22) and World Environment Day (June 5) all these past years. Usually just recited in unison, "Amen" can best be sung, along the Spirit of "Sing Out (our Love, Peace, Joy) 2011", now on its last preparatory month.