Topic 53 of 96 [news]: Farm folks and the World Trade Center attack
 Response 1 of 5: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Sep 22, 2001 (22:56) * 34 lines 
 

To: "terry@tvnight.org"
Subject: RE: WTC - How do you feel?

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Hi Paul, Carol Nelson here. I am in south Florida
baby sitting my grandchildren. We drove down
The Farm last week through hurricane Gabriella.
My Daughter Kim McCusker and her husband Paul
are in NYC, ground zero. They are
part of the search and rescue team deployed from the
Miami-Dade Area. They are both highly trained K-9 search and
rescue fire fighters.They have been there about a week already
and will probably not retutn until the end of next week.
So we are getting first hand info on a daily basis. Not Good!

I have a friend that works around the block on Broad street.
She called me after the first hit and we were on the phone
when the second plane hit. You could hear and feel it thru
the phone lines.

I heard Michael Gavin's cousin was in one of the bulidings
and is missing.

All the talk of WAR is so bad. So hard to hear and think
about. All I can do is continue to pray for peace.

Peace
Carol

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 Topic 53 of 96 [news]: Farm folks and the World Trade Center attack
 Response 2 of 5: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Sep 22, 2001 (22:57) * 55 lines 
 

Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 15:23:33 -0700
From: Gerald Wheeler
To: Paul Terry Walhus
Subject: Re: WTC - How do you feel?

it is now about midnight sept. 21, 2001...autumn equinox, i am in
oakland california, i just finished watching the a's beat seattle in
the first game of a three game series, between innings i flipped over
a channel to watch what most everyone else that was watching
television tonight was probably watching, the fund-raiser and tribute
to those who died ten days ago in the attacks on the wtc and the
pentagon and the final plane that was brought down most likely by a
group of courageous passengers who took on the hijackers and crashed
that plane in a field in pennsylvania, so many heroes keep emerging
from the center of the tragedy, and what a powerful assembly there on
the tv, i am moved by the sense that we as a nation, for the first
time in my memory, have been brought together like never before, and
it's real and it's full of power and authenticity and i catch a
glimmer of something inside of me that suddenly says that america
really is worth saving, and i let that glimmer grow into more of a
flame and i see that for all of its' faults, there just isn't
anything or any other place like this place and the freedom that it
provides everyone of us who share its' soil...i think about what to
do about achieving justice and how it is a good idea to take the time
to let things settle in the mind and calm that which cries out for
revenge, because revenge is knee-jerk and full of anger and confusion
and does not offer real satisfaction because its' results are uneven
and because an uneven response creates more suffering...i think about
who or what the enemy really is and i come to the conclusion that the
enemy is not the taliban or hezbollah or the islamic jihad or osama
bin laden or fundamentalist christians or fundamentalist jews or
fundamentalist moslems or jerry falwell or yassar arrafat or north
korea or chevron oil or suicide bombers or the bible or the
koran...it is evil...the real enemy is simply evil, evil in whatever
form and shape it may incarnate into at any time or place, and i
think about how it is imperative that we learn to recognize evil in
all its' forms and whenever and wherever it appears, and that we take
sufficient care to respond in ways in which its' effects are
cancelled and diffused, and this applies to the everyday, right under
our nose kinds of evil, out to the broader, affecting all of humanity
kinds as well, and that how we respond will determine the outcome of
events in the future, and i think about what that means to me
individually and i am reminded of how grateful i am that i have a way
to get calm, that i learned how to meditate thirty years ago and try
to practice on a regular basis, oh it doesn't always prevent one from
getting caught in the cross-fire but sometimes it seems like it helps
slow down the bullets so that you can see where to not step,
non-action thru action, and makes you aware that everything begins in
the mind, everything, so the key is to tame the fury of the mind, and
transform pain and hardship into compassion and real strength by
doing so, we individually hold the answer to our situation but to see
that clearly we must first conquer the fury...om mani padme om!
--all the best, gerald wheeler

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 Topic 53 of 96 [news]: Farm folks and the World Trade Center attack
 Response 3 of 5: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Sep 23, 2001 (20:03) * 41 lines 
 

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Brady
To: Paul Terry Walhus
Subject: Re: WTC - How do you feel?

Hello Paul,

Thank you creating a forum for people to post
different ideas. I have been very disturbed by the
developments over the past two weeks and needed to
hear some people speak with a voice of reason while
the media and Government beat the drum of War. I
think America needs to take a long look in the mirror
and try to understand why people would want to do this
to us. We have always had a heavy-handed, arrogant
approach to the rest of the world when it comes to
"our interests" - the latest display being when we
walked out of the conference on human rights in
Durban, South Africa. The War, I am afraid, may be
inside us - we have never come to terms with our
brutal past(and present), and sooner or later it will
catch up with us. I also think we need to be very
careful how we respond to this latest attack in order
to avoid setting off a pattern of violence that could
drag on for years to come. To go blindly bombing
Afghanistan will not solve the problem, and will just
get more innocent people killed - some of which are
already starving to death. I do support the
extradition of those responsible and have them brought
up on War crimes. We may never be able to rid the
world of terrorism because it is a faceless entity. I
believe the best approach would be to try change our
relationship with the rest of the world. As Ghandi
said: "Be the change you want to see in the world" - I
try to remind myself to do this. I hope you're
well...

Hope and Peace,

Steve Brady
Occidental, Ca

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 Topic 53 of 96 [news]: Farm folks and the World Trade Center attack
 Response 4 of 5: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Sep 23, 2001 (20:04) * 23 lines 
 

Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:41:24 -0500
From: Kathleen Rosemary
To: terry@tvnight.org
Subject: Re: WTC - How do you feel?

Now is the time

According to every teaching I honor, and The Farm founders' vision, the
vibration of Love and Peace is the strongest force in the Universe, and
we as humans have the capacity to affect the planetary vibration by being
generators and amplifiers of this vibration. Studies on the power of
prayer, such as The Isaiah Effect by author Greg Braden, say that the
power is in the emotion, the passion, behind the conscious intent, and
visioning the effect as already created. This belief was held by the
Essenes, the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and by Tibetan Buddhists
from ancient times.
This is the greatest opportunity in the history of the planet. More
humans are alive on Earth than ever before, and are linked through the
media and Internet. Unique in the history of mankind, this time of
devastation and world-wide prayer can, if we keep our focus on our own
inner peace and on universal love, create the quantum leap into the time
of peace that we all deeply want to see on Earth. Let's do it!
Kathleen Rosemary, on The Farm

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 Topic 53 of 96 [news]: Farm folks and the World Trade Center attack
 Response 5 of 5: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Sep 28, 2001 (08:37) * 7 lines 
 

From: Suzanne Hope Suarez

Still stunned. Life becomes more precious as we are forced to contemplate
our own mortality. Such an incident is too stark to "grok." Let us live and
appreciate life. I want to express my love and respect to everyone my
current life, my husband, my daughter, to my old Farm friends and to my old
friends at San Francisco Zen Center. Suzanne Suarez

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