Centuries ago, a man appeared on Onondaga Lake in a white stone boat. Arriving at the shore, he told hunters,
"Peace is the desire of the Holder of Heavens. The word I bring is that all people shall love one another and live together in peace."


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This time may one day be referred to as
The Battle of What Shall Be upon the Earth
And if it can be won... it won't be fought
With guns and bombs, with chemicals and swords
But with the weapons of the Soul and Heart,
With Truth and Beauty, willingness to Love
And go beyond the fears that we had thought
Must limit us and make us powerless
To claim our birthright and embody Peace
That transcends conflict at its very source.
So do we pray that it may come to pass.

 

The main story in the book 'Return of the Bird Tribes' is the Native American history of 'the Great Peacemaker' Deganawida. Inspired from youth with a vision of uniting 5 warring tribes together in peace he spent many years visiting the council fires and speaking on behalf of the Great Law of Peace that unites all of us as one family.
After attempts to kill him because the warriors saw him as a troublemaker who was weakening their resolve to fight, he eventually succeeded, and many hundreds of years later when the white men arrived the 5 tribes were still enjoying a truly democratic system of government.

Further down this page you will find information about a new movement called NonViolentCommunication that works with deprogramming our violent use of language so as to really communicate what we are feeling and wanting.

You will also find shocking information about how the military war machine in the U.S.A. has been using nuclear weapons in the middle east and other conflicts. This is not just immoral , illegal, and unnecessary, but actually - by the dictionary definition of the word - 'insane' as they are poisoning the biosphere for many thousands of years.


In the last century humans have reached a crisis point in evolution. You have taken from the Pandora's box of science the knowledge of how to destroy yourselves, and potentially your entire world. It is inevitable that any species that develops technology will eventually discover this ability, and there is no way that you can go back. Even were you to dismantle all your weapons and somehow eradicate the knowledge of how to build them - you would eventually discover them again.
The fault lies not in your science or even in your weapons, but in yourselves. If you do not solve this problem, if you do not change/awaken/evolve to a new way of being, then it is only a matter of time before you consummate your nightmare and destroy yourselves along with all that you have loved and cherished.

The apparent process of evolution by natural selection has finished for your species. There is no way that genetic adaptation could possibly keep up with the pace of technological change. Therefore a new process that could be called 'Conscious Evolution' has begun.

You have all been born into a world where the great majority of people are hypnotised and believe in stories that are not real. Stories that are told to them by authority figures who subconsciously fulfill the role of parents to

Conscious evolution requires more than simply a mental willingness. More even than a decision of the heart to seek its wholeness. It requires going beyond your cultural conditioning and even beyond your own definition of yourself as an individual.

It requires transcending the incredible illusion of separation to become a conscious part of the whole of existence.
This is what you truly want, and you know there is no other way.
This is a remarkable time, and astonishing things are possible on both the personal and planetary levels.

Whether we recognise it or not - to live in a world where the madness and terror of war rampaging out of control is a background of unresolvable pain in all of our lives. It is the ache of unawareness into which we have all been born. But even if war has been the norm for as long as you can remember - it does not mean that it will be that way forever. It is very possible to live in a world without war!

It is only through identification with the illusion of separation that conflict arises. Peace is the natural state of being. Truly, you are not separate from the whole of existence and its Source. Your body is intermingled at the molecular and atomic level with your environment. What to say of your thoughts, emotions and soul?
And yet, your separation is a 'real illusion' no doubt, and subject to all of illusions laws. Do not identify with it and bind yourself to its limitations. You are an infintesimal drop of the Ocean of Infinity, and within you is an infinite spark of the Conflagration of God.

Peace is your natural state, and yet for as long as you can remember your world has always been at war. War between tribes, war between individuals, war between the governments of nations: all of it caused by identification with the temporal self, the false sense of 'I', the ego of the body/mind. This is the nightmare that the masses of humanity have been trapped in for thousands of years. This is the sleep from which we must all now awaken or die.

We invite you to join us beneath the Great Tree of Peace
whose roots spread through the whole Earth
without regard for border lines on human maps.
Join with the great assembly of those souls who know
that we are all Children of the One Earth and the One Sky.
Use the tools available on this site to empower yourself
to be more effective as an emissary of Peace.

Speak the Truth gently to all who yet suffer from the great Fear
that it is not possible to live in harmony with all beings.
Offer them the vision of what yet may be
when we awaken to the One.

Click here to join the BirdTribesNetwork by making your free Homepage at the Community Portal and hold the vision of peace for a troubled world

Click the graphic below for today's online reading from A Course in Miracles

Click here for the complete unedited original URtext of "a Course in Miracles" which is one of the most profound texts on forgiveness ever received in human language.





Soldiers in the field of battle, hear these words within your hearts
whispered by the Truth within you, for in you flows the blood of stars -
Know the dream of war is over, and a new day soon shall dawn,
and no-one knows what yet shall be
when we awaken to the One.

This is the miracle of life burning so bright within our eyes
that everything becomes a star in the great Universe.
This is the miracle of Love burning so bright within our hearts
that every one becomes a sun, and Peace returns to Earth.

Oh bright is the vision, brightly woven from the light
with words rightly spoken, bring the seeds of new life.
Bring the seeds of the One Tree, and plant them deep within the minds
of all these sweet Dreamers and Weavers of Light.

'Bright is the Vision' from Jewels & Flames by Dan Vantari

War must end. The time has come when weapons of mass destruction can no longer be acceptable to human societies. This must surely come as no surprise, and yet it is remarkable how often you forget its importance and focus on other things such as the need to recycle plastic bags! There can be no planetary awakening without the end of war being accomplished. All other problems will be almost trivial if this one is solved. To end war requires, and yet paradoxically also allows, the whole healing of the human heart.

We invite you to become a member of the BirdTribes and to take a stand for Peace. We do this through many different avenues. We use Sacred Geometrical Art, websites, CDroms, and the AbundanceSystem to infiltrate the mainstream warrior mentality with the vision of living in harmony. We honour the Great Law of Peace and the Peoples who preserved it through the centuries as an example to the world.
We acknowledge that fear and greed and ignorance still terrorise this world and we do whatever we can to help our Sisters and Brothers by bringing about a new consciousness that transcends conflict at its source.

We invite you to join the Network
and help co-create the possibility of Peace.






John Lennon
(9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980 )

Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too,
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can,
No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man,
Imagine all the people, sharing all the world.

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one,
I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.


~ James Twyman - Peace Troubadour ~
"I believe that each and every human being on Earth has both the responsibility and the privilege of viewing themselves as Divine beings with the power to bring about peace."

The following is an excerpt from 'The Art of Spiritual Peacemaking' by the master Jesus speaking through James Twyman

Are you ready? What other question need I ask of you? And what answer will you give, now that it has been asked? Will you step forward, or back? There is no other choice. You have tried to hold still, but the days of waiting are now behind you. Are you ready to accept your mission, the one that was given to you before you were born? Are you ready to bring peace to all beings by BEING peace? Say YES! Say it loud enough that you may hear it. No one else need know. Only you. Only your soul.

You have been called to be a bearer of peace in this world of dreams. There is a reason for this. You want to wake up from this world, and it is the only way. Do you understand this? The only way for you to awaken is to awaken others. And yet, no one needs to wake up but you. Think about this for a moment. No one needs to awaken but you. Why, then, do I say that you must give this to receive it? It is so simple. Because you are only giving to yourself. There is no one there but you to give or receive.

Are you ready to see this, to know it, and to love it? If so, then you are ready to heal the whole world by being a Spiritual Peacemaker.

Visit James Twyman's website here

The chain reaction of evil - wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
Martin Luther King Jr

"Under the shade of this Tree of Peace ... there shall you sit and watch the Fire of the League of Five Nations. Roots have spread out from the Tree of Great Peace ... These are the Great White Roots, and their nature is Peace and Strength. If any man or any nation shall obey the Laws of Peace ... they may trace back the roots of the Tree ... They shall be welcomed to take shelter beneath the Great Evergreen Tree. "

Deganawida - The Peacemaker

Painting adapted from one by Oren Lyons the Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan, Onondaga Council of Chiefs of the Hau de no sau nee, ( also known as - the 'People of the Long House',  the League of 6 Nations, the Iroquois Confederacy. )

"So then, what is the message I bring to you today? Is it our common future? It seems to me that we are living in a time of prophecy, a time of definitions and decisions. We are the generation with the responsibilities and the option to choose the The Path of Life for the future of our children. Or the life and path which defies the Laws of Regeneration.

Even though you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we in our canoe, we share the same River of Life. What befalls me, befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this River of Life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision. "

"The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason;
only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name."
"I want peace: 'I' is ego. 'Want' is desire. Remove ego and desire and you have Peace."
Sai Baba

 


A 10min meditation on nuclear madness - using footage from1951. Though the film may seem naive, it is an unfortunate reality that there are now approximately 20,000 nuclear weapons on the planet, and also 2,000 nuclear reactors. It has become unfashionable to consider what you would do if you were anywhere near a nuclear explosion. Since the end of the Cold War we have almost forgotten that it is an ever present possibility. Let us pray that we will find a harmonious pathway to transition to a compasionate and sustainable global society.

"Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation,
depends one one single factor:
humanity must make a moral about-face."
Pope John Paul II

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Albert Einstein

No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.
~Salvador de Madariaga

- Depleted Uranium in the Human Body -
"What are you doing? That's the only basis for peace in your heart. What are you doing?" Rosalie Bertell


If you do not realise that there have been at least two nuclear wars since the 1950s then you have missed a rather important fact of modern history. If you search the web and watch the videos of the effect this has had on birth defects in the Middle East prepare to be shocked.

This movie is a 10 min interview with Dr Rosalie Bertell Phd, GNSH, epidemiologist. Click here for the text of her earlier book " No Immediate Danger, Prognosis for a Radioactive Earth"
We have a few videos of Dr Bertell on the GalacticLightWeaver disc as she is one of the most qualified and experienced scientists in the field of global environmental radioactivity and toxicity and a person of obvious integrity and dedication to the truth. You will find many more related videos on the website snowshoefilms.com

"If you really deal with it at a deep level its very painful - but that's also where you are also most effective - if you're willing to accept the reality as it is." Rosalie Bertell.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix

War is a defeat for humanity.
~Pope John Paul II

"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. "
Abraham Lincoln

"One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one."
Agatha Christie

Peace is a popular concern. Millions of people - more than ever before in our short history - are prepared to join peace marches. The people of the world are even being referred to as the third super-power - but is it enough?
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"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. "
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"There never was a good war or bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin

"There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders "
Ralph Bunche

"Either war is obsolete or men are."
R. Buckminster Fuller

"He who walks with peace walks with Him."
The Holy Koran

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds."
Anton Chekov

"Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future."
Jack DuVall

"Humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war."
Martin Luther King



~ Non Violent Communication - NVC ~

NVC is a much needed insight into human behavior and teaches techniques for developing effective and compassionate communication.

Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D., founder and director of education services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), is a traveling peacemaker. He visits about thirty-five countries every year to meet with people in places riddled with conflict, violence and suffering. It’s his job to promote reconciliation and peaceful resolution to situations that most people see as hopeless or impossible. Israel, Palestine, Ireland, Russia, Rwanda, Burundi, Nigeria, Serbia, and Croatia are some of the international hotspots he visits to help angry, bitter and hostile people learn how to identify their unmet needs and find connection to themselves and to each other.

Here are some articles about NVC

Click here for a pdf file "Key Facts About NVC"

Click here for a pdf file of an interview with Gandhi's grandson Nonviolence_Arun_Gandhi_TMeyer

Click here for an article titled NVCPower_Relations_MKashtan

Click the picture below for a 10 minute video clip interview with Marshall from the forthcoming documentary, BEYOND BELIEF, directed by Jim Lemkin. Visit WalkingAtTheEdge.com and click on Beyond Belief. © 2006 Jim Lemkin & Horse Mountain Institute."
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For more info on NVC please visit CNVC.org
and NonViolentCommunication.com

~ More Quotations ~

Michael Franti - “Today we are in a war against war - music is our power.” 
“Power to the peaceful!”

"My commitment is to truth as I see it each day, not to consistency... Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it...
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. "
" If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner." Nelson Mandela

"I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute."
"All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons."
Dali Lama


"The age of nations has passed - we must shake off old prejudices and begin to build the Earth" - Teilhard de Chardin

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