H.U.G. PEACE

I am trying to simplify this so it is easier for you to send comments. Please send them directly to Talia at talia@hugpeace.com or post them to this page of the site. We will then publish them in this section with a reply if one is requested. -John

I spent some time reading Talia’s blog — I enjoyed it on so many levels; not just the strength of Spirit conveyed, but a sense of kindredness in terms of her/your deep love and respect for the animals God allows us to journey with through this life. The essay on Dharma was really soul-stirring; I totally get it.

Dearest Talia,

If my little book has ignited your fire to write like this, I have achieved a great success.

A great reader is an imaginitive participant, and observer of life, someone who can leap in between the words and breathe them into life. The affair between the writer and the reader and the reader and the writer is as intimate as the Lovers, more so because the writer bares her soul and the reader holds it sacred.

 And history is in the making in every event, not just in the Presidents, and Kings, and Battles, and Constitutions, but in the dreams of the housewife washing up and the longings of the man for the woman at the coffee shop and the emergence of children and how they play with the world their parents have created and the footprints in the soil that the old ones leave behind.

It is the little things that make us smile and make us cry and make us hold our breath and read faster to turn the page and find that it turned out all right and we are all safe.

Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou, XXXXXXXX

Talk soon,

Good night,

God Bless.

W, X

Bless you, the reader, for you have made my book come alive.

Fairwell Zelda and congratualions on your crossing over the rainbow bridge
into the open fields, cool streams and loving companions awaiting your arrival on the other side. It was an honor to have experienced your unconditional love and gentle kisses that you so generously shared with us all during your stay here. I will always think of you with warm memories and heart-felt gratitude for the love, happiness and laughter you brought to 315 Water st. Your spirit will be missed, but I count you as one more being I can’t wait to see when I too cross over that bridge and meet up with you again to romp the fields in the kingdom of heaven.
As for you Miss Dharma, happy homecoming to a very blessed dog, to have found her way into the most wonderful dog paradise you will ever find on Earth (at least that I know of). It is here you will experience more love, companionship, food and freedom then you ever knew possible. Of course there is a reason you were chosen by Zelda, to carry on where her presence left a huge void. I can’t wait to meet you and to experience all that you have brought with you to enrich our lives and to make it just a bit greater. Enjoy your new home.
With great love to you and to all the dogs of the world.

Rachel

Talia,

this is such a beautiful tribute to Zelda.
What a special being she was! I am glad you
got to have her company in your life for a while.
She, too, was very blessed.

Shoshauna

Dear Cathy,

     Thank you for your kind words about my courage to write for HugPeace, regardless of what others’ may think, (if only I knew) as most people don’t comment. Especially not in the matters of honesty that you commented, using your own painful “past” experience as an example. I applaud you for this, and feel, precisely, that by looking “head on” into the matters of our past, grave and otherwise that have come to shape us, can we ultimately move forward into the present of new beginnings. Writers, as you are, have somewhat of a duty to come to an understanding with their pasts, clearing the deck, so-to-speak, so they can create new materials that enhance our living for today that carry us over into a more promising and rewarding future. The language of our past is universal, because we all have a past, who can learn from one another because of our uniquely different experiences and perspectives. When you get to the point where you can greet your past with love and forgiveness, or joy, should that be the case, is when we begin creating today’s that blend into the well-being of our tomorrows, because one thing leads to the next in ongoing life, and we all collectively contribute to the melting pot with our thoughts.The problem has been that the pot has been murky with an unresolved past.

   It has taken very little courage for me to create and write Humanity for United Global Peace. It was either that or go crazy with my own repression of matters that are dear to me, for instance, my strong love for God. It is in defense of God, more than anything else, who has taken a beating and is blamed for just about everything, in fact, I think some people can hardly stomach the fact that I use His name as much as I do, (namely, in our household, John, who isn’t quite sure he even believes.) As well as a strong desire to see that the oppression and degradation of our pasts can finally come to an end, so a new life can begin for our evolving humanity. This is my understanding of what’s to come, New Life, which is why I write. I am merely a messenger.

     Therefore, with gratitude and pleasure, I feel honored to speak on behalf of God, who works through me, expressing a truth, as only I can know it, because I am my own experience, giving it a shot into cyberspace because the knowledge spills over into all of humanity, who, new to us all, are much more than we have ever been led to believe in ourselves, who are divine and mighty, who I am one with. That’s all.

    As a matter of interest to you, John and I were talking in the hot tub, only a few nights ago, about the matter of writing about our pasts, which he has a tendency to do. His ‘Notes from Underground’ are all about the past, as he says, because he needs to work through this stuff. And that is all good and fine, because, to me, it shows that the person is ready to greet the past with wisdom and move on. There is nothing wrong with our past, or expressing it to ourselves or with others, when it’s done with a desire to finally be okay with it. 

     Be well, you, who are always wise to me, and thank you for sharing.

     Love,

     talia

The  world is manifest in a spectrum of Light, extrapolated out along the frequencies between the blackest hole to the brightest star. When you can see along the whole spectrum your eyes are open. When you shine in the Light you are painfully aware of life in the blackness, and the miseries there. The very fact that you are in the Light means that you will see the pain of the world with pity, sadness and compassion, for all those not yet in the Light. It is our vision of the world in love and peace and harmony that creates it for all those who can’t. We must keep our dreams true, like you, dear Talia.

Wendy, http://www.wendysalter.com

Thanks so much and love the site- 

I also found A Course In Miracles to be too Christian-based in its language, but once I stepped past the language and ‘translated’ into words more familiar to me it made a lot of sense and I was able to read it.

One woman I know replaced every instance of ‘Son’ with ‘Daughter’… she didn’t feel right saying things like, “I am a son of God.”

But as the intro to the course says, it is but one of many paths that all lead back to the same place (ourselves).

Here’s the link to a Squidoo lens I think would be helpful for those interested in studying any spiritual text (although the lens is written in the context of ACIM):

http://www.squidoo.com/UnderstandingaCourseinMiracles

-Chirs

Thank you, Chris, for responding to my forgiveness piece. I think you may be the first person that I don’t know that’s responded to this website. I like that, and now I’m getting to know you!

About your comments of The Course In Miracles. For those that enjoy daily spiritual study and study groups, I think the Course is a beautiful body of work to read and ponder and discuss. There’s a lot there, not only about forgiveness, but about love, which made me realize when I was reading it, that it should be required reading, as the course states it should. There is much to glean from ACIM in these three-volumes, and much to embrace. Actually, like Gary Renald, I kind of viewed it as a New Testament to the New Testament, and think there’s probably far more worth and value in the course than there is in the Bible, that is dated, dated, dated, being written as it was so many years ago by men who didn’t necessarily know what they were doing. Doing what they thought was best at the time, I suppose, but, come on, two thousand years have passed. We’re headed into universal life, taking in new messages from many sources, let’s get with it, already! I was reminded by your woman friend’s feeling of need to replace Son of God statements with Daughter of God statements, because I did the same. Mostly, I said Daughter of God to myself, unless I was exasperated by it, which was often, and then I’d say Daughter of God out loud, for impact. It bothered me that in our current times when women are still struggling for equality, especially in the 70s when this writing came through, that we weren’t being acknowledged by name. Why, I wondered, couldn’t Jesus even do this?  It doesn’t matter now, what matters is that we embrace love and forgiveness and go home.

The best to you, always

Love, talia

Dear Talia, I’m wondering how politics fits into your spirituality. I’m very concerned about my beloved Poland. Love, Basia 

Hi Basia, dear friend,

Thank you for asking me this question regarding my views on politics. It’s nice to have a question, again, and so I appreciate being asked. While you and I have enjoyed many hours together in friendship, I cannot think back on a time when the two of us ever had a political discussion. Our connection, for as long as I can remember, other than when we talked about our children when they were growing up, because we practically raised them together, living across the street from one another as we did; our talks have been about spiritual matters that benefit us all. And now, how fun, without boring anyone else, we get to talk about our grandchildren! There is no one that thinks more like me in terms of my spirituality than you do, and so I thank you and am grateful for your conversation, friendship and understanding. It’s meant a lot to me, and still does.

I have no comments around politics other than I am aware of who’s running in this latest presidential campaign, with some knowledge of what these candidates stand for and represent, but little interest other than that, because politics is a part of the old world that I am no longer interested in. The unhealthy state of the world is not a political problem, a social problem, or an economic problem, but rather, it’s a spiritual problem, because we have forgotten who we are, which is divine and loving gods, who will heal the world when we remember this truth. This is my interest. I have always been concerned about the unrest in the world, its cause, and now, that I understand the cause better, I’m vastly interested in the solution, which is why I created Humanity United for Global Peace, that can be accessed through this website @ www.hugpeace.com.

Therefore, I know no more about politics than what I just told you, although, considering that politics is still one of the human conditions today that we abide by, that I am well aware of that I am a part of, because I live on the planet with the rest of you, I do consider politics before election time, make my best decision according to what I know, and then I go and vote, because I can. I will admit that I desired for Hilary Clinton to become our next President, because finally, finally, finally, after so many hundreds of years of our countries being politically governed by men, there was finally a woman running for President of the United States. Hallelujah, Praise the Goddess, it was about time! I was delighted by this prospect, and attracted to what Hilary stood for from the beginning when I began reading the few biographies that were out there on her life when she became a first-lady. For whatever reasons, I am much more interested in the wives behind the men who run our countries than the men, because the women of the world are the eternal rocks that intuitively nurture life, not only for our children, but for our animals and men (kind of in the same category). Bill Clinton was wise to enter into a long-term relationship with Hilary, because she cares, not only for Bill and social justice, but she cares deeply for the whole world, like a mother cares for her children, like Hilary still cares for Chelsea, as grown as she is, which is protectively, which is what the world needs right now, and has always needed.

To begin caring about one another, deeply and lovingly, in a kind manner that addresses us all, leaving no one out on the streets cold and hungry, or unwanted and unloved is what will resurrect our spirits. Getting back to love, which is who we really are, because love is all there is, makes the hate and fear of our lives an illusion that will soon be dispelled.  To love each other as worthy gods in the remembering of love is the agenda for solution. We all belong to the whole body of one, no matter where we live or what we practice, because we’re all apart of the one family of God, who are beginning to wake up, without borders or divisions that have separated us because we have different colored skin, and practice different cultures and religions. One day we will recognize this as our diversity. We are all one is the new message of today, and politics doesn’t meet this criterion.

None-the-less, politics meets the needs and standards of what the people of today still desire, which is to have someone else lead the way. It has been this way for a very long time, but it will not always be this way. The New World that Humanity for Global Peace represents will be a universal space of brilliancy and freedom for a universal humanity, unabashedly acting out of love and self-expression, made up of a self-governing species.

As for your beloved Poland, I’m afraid I don’t know of the situation taking place there, because I don’t follow the news. I shall put light and love around Poland now, and more before I go to sleep, as I will put light around the globe. You can do the same. Be well, think well, and thanks for writing.

Hi Talia,

Some people are definately not ready to be awakened. We have to respect that and let them go at their own pace. It is God’s plan. You can impart the knowledge but if people aren’t ready they won’t be pickin’ up what you are puttin’ down. It doesn’t mean you can’t go forth and hope that people will awaken, just that you should let go of your desire and attachment to them doing so. I love that you have a kids corner. I will have the girls add to it later today when everyone is awake (and I mean that in a literal sense it it 7am!) love you into eternity,

Vandana

Hey talia, its eli! i love your blog, come check out mine. http://www.liberalpeace.wordpress.com. today me and zoe biked down to your house and talked with john. love you, Eli

Hi, Talia! 
 
Forgive me, dear lady, for not responding to your blog with something worth saying, and/or worth considering. You’re right– the subject matter is new to me, and a little bit mind-boggling; I honestly don’t speak the language at this point in my spiritual development. I know I don’t have any of the answers– and at this point I realize I don’t even have the questions!! Still, please know that I have very much enjoyed reading what you’ve posted so far. You’re already helping me to come closer to these issues, and I really appreciate what you’re doing. 
 
Marilyn 

Just finished your peice on forgivness~ Really nice to have a place to turn for alternate opinions , on handling such subjects- Turning to ones own immediate family for heart felt advice, sometimes leaves us knowing how we received our education in lifematters ,whether thru observation, and perhaps can understand, the reasons we keep handling things the same old way~despite knowing deep down, this isnt our best road to go down.
Anyway, you have given me much to think about , and am hoping I can get there, someday (to where you are)~ On Forgivness-

Dear Talia,

What an honor to get to be friends with you and John and your beautiful dogs, it is so good to find kindred spirits working for a more harmonious world.  I am honored to be called a lightworker and feel that it is a wonderful title filled with anticipation of ever evolving as a good person.  I appreciate such faith in me and feel lucky to have a clear name-mantra to help give focus.  Lightworker.  I resonate with the feeling of clarity and purpose that it gives.  We can be a Lightworker Collective!

Blessings,
Andree (writing as Andie Andrews www.andieandrews.com)