A December 21, 2012
MANIFESTO "If the world is ending and the Messiah arrives, first plant a tree, and then see if the story is true" - Rabbinical Teaching
by Don Oscar Miro-Quesada Supported and aligned, guided and inspired, awakened and welcomed, we stand at a new beginning as prophesied by our Original Peoples of the Americas. Beyond the well-known astronomical alignments, upcoming equinoctial precession and never before witnessed convergences of history, people, place, nature, and cosmos, we are now living a time of great personal and planetary responsibility. In the words of Spanish philosopher Jorge Luis Borges: "Nothing is built on stone, all is built on sand, but we must build as if sand were stone." We are being gifted a dreamt of historical interlude for evolving beyond our survival based individual obsessions. We are being called into a re-Membering of ourselves as a consciously unified force for change upon Gaia. What lies ahead for humanity once December 21, 2012 fulfills its present 24 hour cycle is not a research project, not a panacea, nor a question hoping for an answer. Rather it is simply an evolutionary process, a natural unfolding and flow of our divine essence at this particular time, a flow that begins with our first breath and may not end with our last. As humans we are inextricably bound to an ongoing river through which flows the emergence of a universal sentience that has no name, yet we persist in naming: Solstice, Yule, Kwanzaa, Channuka and, most recently, the end of the Mayan calendar. In the flow, merry or not merry, we meet and part and meet again. Yet our meetings are potent, vital, stirring, and can be life aligning, can be profoundly life transforming as the current 2012 visionary convergence has the potential to be. I believe it was Rupert Sheldrake whom I heard once say: "The way we envision the world can restore its soul, and the way in which the world is ensouled can restore our vision." Quite sage advise for a world so desperately in need of experiencing the primacy of