Thank you for this lovely witness. I just had my 70th birthday, and
as I contemplate this new decade for me, and what next in regard to service,
your comments and those of the OE Community represent precious guideposts.
I appreciate the time you took to articulate the role we still have to
play.
A special thanks to Marshall and Jack for this
profound discussion, encouraged by others on this list serve.
I strongly agree with the sentiments from both Marshall and Jack. For me,
I find myself still in the Abyss, in the ' no longer and not
yet place.
Some years ago now the Packhard
family visited Australia and we got to discussing the Other World charts
and their extraordinary legacy for humankind.
I did write and ask them to send us the package
that they had worked on. I wonder if that work is still available or
perhaps even in the Archives, y'all.?
I was very fascinated by chatting with George
and Elise. Australia is a very secular and yet deeply spiritual continent,
undergirded by the Indigenous culture, which runs deep into the veins of us old
folks.
I won't belabour history for those of us at the
first ITI in Singapore' 69; and the enormous spiritual effect that
ITI had on us all,including the 3 Aboriginals and the 20 pink Australians and
all of the SE Asian participants present.
Some Church people like Jim and others
had already been quietly building relationships with the indigenous community
well before that ITI.
At the turn of the year, I will be sitting down
with our Minister and describing to her the depth and breadth of the Other World
Charts, and their significance for the present and future of our civil/
global society.
Our fondest greetings to each one of you,
and may the inauguration of your next President have elements of hope and
grace and forgiveness within the symbolic event, and thereafter.
Transformation does happen, through any and many means of grace.
We are praying so. Those of us within the
bounds of Christianity do trust that this is so. Lately our dear
Muslim friends are holding ' have a plate of hummus' as a kindly gesture
to those of us who say yes…
The future is still open for us to create my
dear colleagues, and at 80, I am trying to quietly do my little bit. Jim ,
87, is too, as a ' passenger at the back of the bus.' He still
has paid his ticket though!
Passing on
the tools that are in our kitbag- is where I am sitting. For the
next thousand years, eh Jack!
Blessings without number on your
lives….
Isobel Bishop.
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