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Dr. Jean Houston's presence is warm and familar like your second grade teacher. Adorned in a long velvet sparkeling coat she emmenates an air of majesty. Dr. Houston echoed my own thoughts and feelings, but from an angle of extensive research and experience. She says, we've lived the good times...we're living the great times. To reach a fully realized society we must first actualize our individual human potential. As the most importzant people to have lived we are choosing the fate of everything— to die or to grow.
What qualites of the mind/body/spirit must we cultivate to achieve a planetary society?
We need passion, deep listening, music, women, and vision.
A partnership that's never existed is rising— the union of male and female forces. In her conversation with the Dalai Lama he says, "The women of the West will make the change."
While studying African communites, Dr. Houston learns the way they resolve disputs and come up with new ideas is not much like the linear presentations and papers we are accoustoum to creating. Instead they create through music, dance, and singing.
Engaging the audiance, Dr. Houston starts a call and response.
Ay ya ya ya
Ay ya ya ya
Ya ya ya hayYa ya ya hay
Art allows us to tap into the structure of the universe shining light on the way things are made. When we enter into this creative space of flow everything is avaiable to us. Dr. Houston speaks of Balinesse culture where people do not just create art they become it. It is in these "leaky margins" that divine knowledge is accesable and we align with a power beyond ourselves.
Dr. Houston quotes author of the Yoga Sutra, Patanjali saying,
"We access all information by becoming it through the focus of our intention."
With enthusiasm and confidence she closes by telling the invigorated audiance: "Be not afraid, we are made for these times."
~ Emily Casey
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