PKD
musician and performer | philanthropist | partner of being

My understanding of the nature of meditation, as I have come to understand it:

Meditation is a substantive, concrete answer to the question, “What can I do?” Meditation, especially collaborative meditation, can be an act of service for our communities, cities, country, and for the world, setting into motion the energies of our individual intentions, thoughts, and aspirations. Through carefully guided meditation, we can ground and set into growth and evolution the principles and values we seek to realize in our society.

JCW
sustainable existential artist | cartographer of the unseen | partner of being

We stand at a crossroads of our future – a future that calls for being-centered leadership in our own lives, in our nations, in our world. We stood at a parallel earlier crossroads 100 years ago when our humanity faced a decision of self and society through two world wars. At the threshold of great liberation, the twilight between dusk and dawn produces great tests of spirit where past and future meet to reveal, resolve, harmonize.

We stand today in such a clarifying moment, in kinship and continuity with those who chose humanity with conscience and compassion in the embers of world destruction. Through the catalyzing evolutionary forces of contrast set in motion at points of world decision, our humanity rises to the occasion again and again with a next unfolding of its brave heart and expansive spirit.

So let us bring our hearts and spirits together in meditation for our future as a work and wellspring of courageous conscience, compassion and confidence in the forces of good shaping our world.