I’ve been working with a village of Tuareg for ten years, in a small people-sized support operation. They live in the Sahara desert, a day away from the historic city of Timbuktu in Mali.
We restocked their goats and camels after a terrible drought, helped them dig a new well and build a small village school.
But now I need to pull out – I can’t continue with things I used to be able to do. But I don’t want to abandon them.
So this pod tells the story, and about the dilemma of a humanitarian with a need to pass this on.
With love, Palden
Thanks to Constanze Küppers in Germany for prompting me to make this pod
This is a change of course. I’d like to take you on a spiritual humanitarian mission to Gaza, in this weekend’s meditation on a rather strong newmoon. It’s here, as a podcast, and it takes around half an hour:
Something prompts me to share this with you. It’s something I’ve been working with for years, and with others (such as https://flyingsquad.org.uk ). It’s spiritual humanitarian aid and inner work to help progress things in our world.
I’ve worked quite a lot in Palestine itself, and that’s why repeatedly I suggest connecting with real people there, whether online, in meditation or by actually visiting. They’re just like you and me. Here’s an audiobook about life in Palestine when I was there twelve and more years ago, in better times than now – it explains a lot: https://www.palden.co.uk/bethlehemblog.html
So many feel deeply frustrated that they can’t do anything much to help people in and around Gaza and the West Bank.
This is one way to work with this feeling, to make something of it. It’s good to make the best out of a bad situation. This is one thing Palestinians teach the world: how to hang in there.
If you haven’t done this kind of thing before, then follow this guided meditation as a starting place. I encourage you to be imaginative, to follow your own way and path, to develop this over time, and to be fully human with the people you meet on journeys such as these. It’s an energy-exchange.
You can do it on your own, or you’re welcome to join the Sunday Meditation each or any Sunday – it’s free, with no complication.
It’s simply a circle of good souls in various countries who meditate together each week. I have a feeling it would be good for the group to work with Gaza for a few weeks. https://palden.co.uk/meditations.html
This is special. With love. Palden
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