Tag: Conscious Living

  • Tao of the Traveler

    A lovely, sweet animated creation. Journey with the traveler, the soul, to rejoin Creator. The traveler is you who says, ‘Be still and know thyself’.  Created by  Geoff. 

    ~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

  • Creator

    a poem by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

    Sunrise Majesty - Photo by Light.    ©2003-2008 Bonnee Klein Gilligan. All rights reserved.

    No matter what religion

       Creator dwells within

       and God has never left us

       he can’t… you see, he is us

       and all Creation too.

    You say that God made pain

       I reply he didn’t, he made

       emotions, mind and spirit.

    It’s we who choose the outcome

       of how we feel and what we think

       our happy, sad or worried

       comes from us alone.

    How I respond to others

      or even to myself

       is my responsibility

       not God’s, not yours nor others

       it is mine alone my friend

       and yours alone as well.

    God called us ‘human beings’

       he says ‘Just be… my children… play’.

    But we take that play and twist it

       and call each other names

       we poke and hit and banter

       until we feel the shame.

    We hurt ourselves my friend

       not God nor other either.

    God called us ‘human beings’.

       we call us ‘human doings’

       for the being part escapes us

       in our daily life of doing.

    God’s gone missing in existence

      from our minds, and words and lives

       and we blame God for our suffering

       and we blame God for our pain

      and we blame God for every other thing

        in life that brings us shame.

    It is we who have created that

       not God nor other either

       we put everything outside of self

       when it’s us that’s the creator.

    God loves us beyond reason

      and allows our will and folly.

    For this is how we grow and change

      and choose again a different play

      a different game, a new response.

    It can’t remain the same for long

       for this is how we grow our soul.

    It’s through our pain we change

       or stay the same and suffer.

    So it’s a choice to stay the same

       as well a choice to change.

    God loves us and supports our choice

       with majesty and might

       he doesn’t even mind it much

      if we only choose to fight.

    For he knows one day we’ll get it

       and we’ll change our haughty ways

      and move back again to love and peace

       for our eternal days.

  • The Angel Sophi El

    The Angel Sophi El © 2008 Bonnee Klein Gilligan. All rights reserved.

    The Angel Sophi El by Bonnee Klein Gilligan

    Sophi El is from the angelic order of Thrones. She is the Angel of water and of the silver ray. Sophi El works with emotional issues purifying and cleansing them from the energetic/physical system. Call upon her anytime you want additional energy to help rid yourself or another of emotional baggage. Original 9 x 12 pastel drawing was commissioned in 1997.

    Giclee prints available at Spirit Art Gallery.

  • Change Please!!!

    The girl who silenced the world at the UN for 5 minutes.

    Severn Suzuki a 13 year old Canadian who formed ECHO (Environmental Children’s Organization) speaks from her heart to the UN. Her message is powerful and thought provoking.

    Severn says, ‘I’m frightened for my future. I’m here to speak for all generations to come. I’m afraid to go out in the sun now because of the holes in our ozone. I’m afraid to breathe the air because I don’t know what chemicals are in it. You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. If you don’t know how to fix it, please stop breaking it."

    But she says so much more. It leaves one pondering if indeed our children’s children will even have a habitable planet to live upon.

    In the late 1960s I joined with tens of thousands of other young people in Pittsburgh, PA in a peaceful demonstration. We chanted and sang for several hours with exuberant naive hopes of ending the war. Because of our efforts the park was renamed ‘Peace Park’. Our message wasn’t just about the end of war. It was also about love and respect for each other. The Vietnam war did come to an end eventually. But war didn’t! How many wars have there been since? Our message of peace was forgotten. Peace is a collective worldwide vision. It’s about love for all of humanity and a peaceful worldwide coexistence. Peace sustains us. It is something we carry forward through generations. Peace is a lifestyle. If we don’t live in peace we could ultimately destroy all of humanity and the planet.

    As I see it the same message is brought forward again in our Green movement. Living green is about love and respect for ourselves and the planet. Green is a collective worldwide vision which sustains us. It is something we carry forward through generations. Respect for humanity and our eco-system. Green is a lifestyle. If we don’t live with this respect we will destroy our eco-system and ourselves ultimately.

    Severn’s message was given in 1992, 16 years later have we got it? In 2008 we have powerful spokespeople for climate change and perhaps we can turn things around. But we’ll only do that if we all jump on board and make changes in our world, governments, societies, businesses and family.

    Change begins with me… so I’m doing what I can at home and at work and writing this blog to let you know what I’ve discovered.  And I trust my little bit is enough…

    ~Bonnee Klein Gilligan

  • The Illuminated Chakras

    Beautifully animated and produced. This work of art leads one on a journey of awakening through the chakra and energy system.

    The segment shown is the 7th or crown chakra. It it part of a 28 minute video called ‘The Illuminated Chakras‘ produced by Anodea Judith and animated by Alex Wayne. Won best animation at the 2004 New York Independent Film Festival. Spectacular!Hope you enjoy the journey.

    ~Bonnee