Last night, I listened to Dot Maver, Executive Director of The Peace Alliance and Foundation, in a conversation with Michael Peter Langevin, author and Latin American scholar, discuss "the way to global peace" on a World Puja streaming audio. I highly recommend this website to the propeace community; you have to join to get in, and some of the navigation is less than obvious, but what you will find there is well worth the extra browsing.

There is no death line, DFM3333. Believe that, and you have fallen prey to the fear mongers. Peace is not linear - it is multi-dimensional, and it truly IS inevitable. It will manifest, with or without us. And there is no first step, second step, next step, last step - there is only the step you are able to take right now, whether that's a dream or a letter to the editor or an act of civil disobedience. Dot called it "intentional living." Keep adding your dreams to the dreams of the millions who have the same dream, and the blessing and power of peace will be yours - in due time.

"We" didn't stir "the Middle East" to hate us - most of us do everything we can to stir love and trust, not hate and fear, and most of them love and trust us in return. And this applies in particular to the Israel/Lebanon situation. I hear the sympathy that Israel's over-reaction to the kidnapping of two soldiers has inspired, but "wiping Israel off the map" is not the answer; most of the Israeli people do not approve of the actions of their government just like us. Most people all over the world, in fact, are taking a new pledge: I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, a healer of misery, a messenger of wonder, an architect of peace. (Diane Ackerman)

I am so heartened by the brave actions of Lieutenant Watada and the rest of the AWOL soldiers. Do you remember, just one short year ago, when the peace movement consisted of abashed young people who thought their parents had copped out and angry elders who thought the younger generation was asleep? How many rants did the "progressive media" publish about the apathy they thought they saw? Were peace and love dead? I don't think so!

I'm surprised at you, Rainbow Brain; you are the last person I ever thought would dismiss the power and relevance of our longing and dreaming of peace. Last night, Dot said, "When we pray, we talk to god. When we meditate, we listen to god. When we act, we are one with god." To be the co-creators of the enlightened age, the collective "we" - all of those in the peace movement - must pray, meditate, and act - all three in balance. That we don't have *Peace Now* simply indicates that it's not quite time yet.

Langevin's research on the ancient mystics and shamans - not the ones we learned about in school, but the Ones, the gods and goddesses who dwelt on our planet many millenia ago and from whom we are descended - suggests that the dawning of the Fifth World is only about six years away, and that the transition will begin in just a few more months. We're on our way. "We are that which we seek," says Dot.

On the weekend of September 30th, at Langevin's 2012 Ascension Symposium, visionaries such as Barbara Marx Hubbard, Peace Award recipient at The Peace Alliance conference one year ago, will be ushering in the winds of true, fundamental change in the way we relate to the universe, while the mainstream peace movement (what a concept!) will be darkly demonstrating for impeachment in Charlotte, NC, and I will be recharging my spiritual batteries next to nature in the Shenandoa Valley. That's what I mean by balance, dragontribal3.

One person can't do it all, but each person's efforts are valuable, so let's all do what we do best to actualize the world of our dreams and yearnings. The action I would like the propeace community to take in preparing for this change is to help the "alternative" peace movement launch the Eleven Days of Global Unity and Forgiveness that start on September 11th. Sure, I know what else happened on that date five years ago, but if you truly believe, like me, that "what we focus on expands," let us Take Back the Day by celebrating the centennial of Gandhi's satyagraha, and on the eleventh day, September 21st, the International Day of Peace, let us all participate with whomever happens to be in our immediate vicinity, in the global Peace Wave that will circle our planet and hold it gently and massage it like the rest of the cosmos does.