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November 1998
Mideast '98 Light Link Report
| The first Mideast Light Link network gathering was held in late October, 1998
in Neve Shalom / Al Wat Salam, an Arab-Israeli Peace Village near Jerusalem. Forty of us -
Palestinian, Israeli, American and Cypriot light workers - came together to get
acquainted, explore avenues of cooperation, strengthen communication and work toward
creating a new vision for the Mideast for the Third Millennium. |
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The tremendous pain, suffering, fear and frustration of both the Palestinians
and Israelis was acknowledged and honored. There was no attempt to gloss over the current
reality in the region and the experiences of some participants who had participated in
violent extremists organizations, both Palestinian and Israeli, and who had been jailed
and tortured by both sides. |
| Only time will show what the long term results of our gathering were, but some
results were immediately apparent. There wasn't much talk of ET's, Earth Changes, Y2K or
Secret Governments. There was a lot of talk of opening our hearts, transcending history
and creating a new reality. |
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Many participants from the region had lived through the
nightmares of their darkest fears, and emerged with heart and hope intact. It gave us all
a deeper understanding and appreciation of the true meaning of the "New Age." |
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| As we saw former enemies tearfully embrace in acknowledgement of their
essential Oneness; as we saw the excitement of two young men: one Palestinian and one
Israeli, bonding in friendship and planning a joint film project for peace; as we saw two
mothers - one Arab and the other Jewish - making plans to visit one anothers families and
participate in joint outings with their children; at that point we knew that we had
already stepped into the 21st Century, the Third Millennium, The New Age. For those four
days we were already there, living it. |
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The history of the region is a concentration camp of dogma, fear and
frustration in which the political leaders and most people are still imprisoned. But for
those four days in October, a handful of visionaries came together, created a time
machine, and touched down into a potential future in which the prisons of the past were
only archaic relics of a nightmare long forgotten. -Michael Lightweaver |
 
  
 
  
 
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