Liebe FriedensarbeiterInnen,
das Netzwerk um den Ring der Kraft wächst täglich an. Im Mai 2002 bat mich Sabine Lichtenfels um Unterstützung in der Betreuung der vielen Briefe und Anfragen und bat mich vor allem auch die homepage zu betreuen.
Ich möchte mich hiermit nun dem Netzwerk einmal vorstellen, damit Ihr wißt, mit wem Ihr es zu tun habt.
Mein Name ist Janka Striffler. Ich lebe seit 1997 in dem Heilungsbiotop I / Tamera in Portugal. Ich bin damals mit meinem Freund und Vater unserer 1½ -jährigen Tochter hier angekommen - auf der Suche nach einer Möglichkeit unsere Liebe zu vertiefen, unserer politischen Anteilnahme Ausdruck zu verleihen und unserer Tochter ein Aufwachsen in einer "neuen Kultur" zu ermöglichen.
Somit arbeite ich seitdem an den verschiedensten Plätzen innerhalb der Gemeinschaft mit. Ich engagiere mich in dem Aufbau einer Kindergemeinschaft, in der schulischen Ausbildung und im politischen Friedensnetzwerk.
Der Ring der Kraft schenkt mir jeden Tag eine neue Sichtweise auf das Leben und eine tiefe Dankbarkeit. Zum Sonnenaufgang sitze ich hier unter dem Eukalyptusbaum und denke an die Menschen in anderen Kontinenten, deren Lebenssituationen und deren Einsatz für den Frieden.
Wieder fällt ein Eukalyptusblatt vom Baum!
Wenn jede/r Einzelne Ihren/Seinen individuellen Einsatz in der Friedensarbeit leistet, dann summieren sich die Kräfte ebenso, wie sich die schmal geschwungenen Eukalyptusblätter vor mir auf der Erde sammeln. Man stelle sich vor, was da an Energie zusammenkommen könnte!
In diesem Sinne verbinde ich mich jeden Tag aufs Neue mit meiner Vision für den Frieden und dem Ring der Kraft. Möge er vielen Menschen neue Hoffnung schenken.
Danke und viele Grüsse
Janka Striffler
Institut für Globale Friedensarbeit /IGF
Monte do Cerro
P - 7630 Colos
ring-der-kraft@sabine-lichtenfels.de
www.ring-der-kraft.com
www.igf-online.org
Sabine Lichtenfels - Mitbegründerin des Tamera Peace Village - ist als
eine von 1000 Frauen für den Friedens-Nobelpreis 2005 vorgeschlagen !
http://1000peacewomen.org/de/html/nominierte/treffer.php?ID=629
oder: http://www.igf-online.org/?id=185
28.1.2006 - An den Ring der Kraft
Bethlehem, Saturday, January 28, 2006
It is three days after the Palestinian Elections and the victory of Hamas. Most reactions from inside Palestine, from Israel, Europe, the US, the whole world focus on the results of the elections, and not the democratic process and smooth functioning, the peaceful transfer of the authority. And hardly anyone is looking for the reasons of these results.
For me in fact it is of highest importance to understand why the Palestinian people voted for Hamas. In my opinion, there are several reasons:
1) The failure of the peace process – the so-called peace process of the last decade did not produce any positive change in Palestinians’ daily life. Even after the election of Abu Mazen, accepted by the Israelis as moderate candidate, Israel still claimed that there is no Palestinian partner for negotiations and refused to improve the restrictions on our life. We are still living in three cantons in the West Bank and all the Palestinian cities are disconnected from each other.
2) The corruption - the trust in Fateh as the leading political party in the Palestinian Authority has been lost after years of corruption. Many Palestinians wanted to punish Fateh by voting for Hamas.
3) The double measures from the US and the EU on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. When Israel kills 10 Palestinians or violates human rights, they voice very soft criticism, but if a Palestinian group kills any Israeli, all the US politicians and the EU condemn and punish the Palestinians accusing them of terrorism.
Palestinians feel that whatever they do, they will never reach the level of support that Israel enjoys from the US and Europe, because the power of the Jewish lobby in the United States and the feeling of guilt from the Europeans towards the Jews and the fear from the accusation of anti-Semitism.
4) Since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, the UN is discussing in almost every assembly meeting and Security Council the rights of the Palestinians and there are tens of decisions about the Palestinian rights and respecting Palestinian human rights, though these decisions have no effect at all. At the same time, UN decisions on Iraq, Sudan, Libya, or Bosnia are implemented by force. Israel is always an exception, so the Palestinians lost trust in the UN.
All in all, because of the above many Palestinians lost trust in the peace process, in Fateh, and in the world.
For Palestinians it seems that there is no worse situation than the present one, what worse could happen? Palestinians show their disappointment and protest their difficult and worsening situation by voting for Hamas. They lost trust in the ‘democratic’ world; they lost hope in changing their situation through one-sided negotiations.
In my opinion, it is important to give the desperate Palestinians hope and prove to them that the democratic world is against occupation, against violations of human rights, and of Palestinian human rights in particular. The world should be against checkpoints and daily humiliation of Palestinians, against confiscation of land and demolishing homes.
The question remains why the world stands up now to demand Palestinians to change, while they never demand from Israel to change their treatment of the Palestinians, to stop building an apartheid wall separating between students and their schools and families from other parts.
I am not writing to defend Hamas or to criticize the democratic world. I feel pain because I cannot help my people to have their freedom without violence because there is not enough support from the world for our non-violent struggle and peace education. I do not think that nonviolent struggle can succeed in Palestine without strong support from abroad, by pressure on Israel to respect Palestinian human rights, to humanize us in their laws, education and the military orders, which make Palestinian life hell.
There are still peace movements in Palestine, and the majority of Palestinians want peace based on justice, respect and equality.
Noah Salameh
24.1.2006 - An den Ring der Kraft
Hallo Ring der Kraft Team!
Ich liebe den Gedanken von Gemeinschaft. Wenn Menschen sich gegenseitig schätzen, Vertrauen zueinander haben oder sich sogar lieben (z.B. körperlich) wird das Leben doch gleich sosehr lebenswerter.
Aber geht das denn auch in Freiheit, ohne Änderungen, Verstümmelungen an uns selbst vollziehen zu müssen? Können wir denn nicht auch einfach auf "große ICHS" und "kleine Egos" und vor allem "göttliche Subjekte" verzichten und ganz real und ehrlich sein? Bequemer ist\'s natürlich \"dem göttlichen Selbst die Regie zu übergeben\", als in der Realität von Angst und Trennung Vertrauen aufzubauen.
gez.
Ein Freund des Gemeinschaftsgedankens und der Freiheit
18.1.2006 - An den Ring der Kraft
Liebe Dikshafreunde,
Immer mehr Menschen öffnen sich der universalen Liebe und setzen sich aktiv für den Frieden ein.
Damit wirken auch sie mit an der Vision Sri Bhagavan-Ammas einer in Liebe geeinten Menschheit.
Sie alle verdienen unsere besondere Unterstützung durch direktes oder Ferndiksha.
Eine dieser entschlossenen Friedensgruppen – falls Ihr sie nicht schon kennt - ist das "Heilungsbiotop Tamera" und der "Ring der Kraft".
OM SAT-CHID-ANANDA
Henner Ernst Ritter
Facharzt für Psychotherapeutische Medizin
PADMA - Institut für Holistisches Heilen und Wachsen
Institute for Holistic Healing and Growth
Stuttgarter Str. 125
70469 Stuttgart
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)711 812950
Fax +49 (0)711 812947
h.ritter@padma-institut.de
http://www.padma-institut.de
13.1.2006 - An den Ring der Kraft
Liebe Sabine Lichtenfels,
eben las ich (erst) Ihre Botshaft vom 26.12.2005. WIe gut ich Sie in allen Punkten verstehen kann, auch im Punkt der "Ungeduld", warum geht es nicht schneller.... wann immer ich das voriges Jahr meinen Kollegen in Schottland erzählt habe, da sagten sie mir immer, dass es so wichtig sei "to keep the flame up" und unser Energielevel hoch zu halten. Das können und müssen wir den Leuten schenken und es ist ein wichtiges Geschenk. Mir hat das immer eingeleuchtet und meine Ungeduld war wieder auf Normalmaß gesunken.
Danke für Ihre mahnenden Worte auf die "Kleinkriege" zu verzichten. WIr hatten Marshall Rosenberg hier in München kurz vor Weihnachten, auch seine Botschaft war die gleiche. Es tut so gut zu wissen, dass es Menschen wie Sie gibt und wir alle zusammenhelfen durch diese Zeiten der Veränderung zu segeln.
Ihnen für dieses Jahr alles nur erdenklich Gute.
infinite abundance, infinite health, infinite energy, infinite hope, infinite peace
Dagmar Berkenberg
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world"
Mahatma Gandhi
Dagmar Berkenberg
World Peace Prayer Society (NGO)
Randorferstraße 9
81673 München
Tel: +49 89 435 690 66
Fax: +49 89 688 29 28
http://www.worldpeace.de
4.1.2006 - An den Ring der Kraft
Liebe Sabine;
dieses Mal hat uns (Theo und mich) der Kraftsatz besonders beruehrt: Wir fahren im Moment kreuz und quer durch Marokko und ich muss sagen, hier begegnen uns wirklich MENSCHEN. Soviel Freundlichkeit und Hilfsbereitschaft sind uns so flaechendeckend selten begegnet, auch der liebevolle Umgang mit Kindern (besonders auch von den Maennern) ruehrt uns taeglich: Das ist womoeglich wirklich die Praktik des Koran?
Viele lichtvolle Gruesse aus Erfoud an alle Tameraner und Friedensarbeiter,
Julia und Theo
3.1.2006 - An den Ring der Kraft
Liebe Sabine Lichtenfels und Team,
ich habe in dem letzten Jahr voller Bewunderung ud Anteilnahme mitbekommen, wie Du/Ihr nach einem Weg für den Frieden sucht und für ein neues Bewusstsein, das diesen in unsere Köpfe und Herzen transportiert.
Vielen Dank, dass Du/Ihr uns daran teilhaben lasst. Es ist eine wichtige Arbeit, die überaus wertvoll ist für mich und für viele Menschen, die sie mitbekommen.
Möge Euer Weg weiterhin gesegnet und geschützt sein und möget ihr weiterhin unsere Herzen und unsere Gedanken erreichen - sie nähren und selbst genährt sein von unserer Solidarität und Anteilnahme.
Vielleicht gibt es ja doch bald eine Umwälzung auf der Erde (möge es eine Gute sein).
Irgendwann komme ich wieder nach Tamera und dann würde ich mich gerne mit Dir, Sabine, ein wenig unterhalten.
Viele liebe Grüße,
Monika
2.1.2006 - An den Ring der Kraft
Liebe Frau Lichtenfels!
Wieder einmal ist es mir ein großes Bedürfnis, mich für die jedes Mal herzberührenden Texte zu bedanken. Sie (und der Gedanke an Tamera) haben mich schon oft wieder auf den Weg zu mir geführt. In ihnen liegt stets soviel Hoffnung, soviel Freude und Herzlichkeit, auch wenn der Inhalt oftmals s c h w e r ist. Und sie machen Mut, ES auch selbst, im eigenen Leben umzusetzen. Ihre Vorbildwirkung, liebe Frau Lichtenfels, ist ein ganz großer, leuchtender Wegweiser, dem ich gerne in meinem inneren Raum folge und dem ich gerne im Außen folgen würde. Letzteres drehe und wende ich noch immer hin und her, in der Hoffnung, die richtigen Impulse für ein Durchstarten zu erhalten. Und ich übe mich (manchmal sehr ärgerlich) in Geduld, obwohl ich weiß, dass man auch die nötige Kraft entwickelt haben sollte, um nicht gleich beim ersten Gegenwind zu straucheln. Doch ganz tief drinnen weiß ich, dass ich diese Kraft habe und dass ich sie für eine gute Sache einsetzen werde. Manchmal geht der nächste Schritt ja ganz schnell – darauf hoffe ich.
Ich wünsche Ihnen und allen Ihren Helfern ein kraftvolles Jahr 2006,
alles Liebe,
Gabi Pölzler
30.12.2005 - An den Ring der Kraft
Liebe Sabine und alle anderen Friedensarbeiterinnen!
Danke für den "Ring der Kraft", den ich immer aufgeregt gelesen habe. Liebe Sabine, vielen Dank für deinen immensen
Einsatz und auch allen, die mit gepilgert sind.
Für 2006 wünsche ich dir/euch erst einmal Ruhe und dann viel Kraft, Gesundheit, uns allen und für die Erde FRIEDEN!
Herzlichst Marlis aus Hildesheim
30.12.2005 - An den Ring der Kraft
Liebe Sabine,
vielen Dank für Deine regelmässigen Sendungen. Ganz besonders hat mich beeindruckt, was in Anata möglich wurde. Eine Schule in Sigüenza/Spanien, 40 km hier van Brihuega entfernt, wo eine Zenschülerin von mir wirkt, nimmt Kontakt mit der Schule in Anata auf.
Ich wünsche Dir für das kommende Jahr ganz reichen Segen, Kraft und Licht für die Verarbeitung des Geschehenen, für die nächste Etappe und für das Projekt in Tamera. Vielen Dank für Deine Inspiration, mit der ich mich sehr verwandt fühle.
Von Herzen Annemarie Schlüter
Dear Peace Workers,
the network around the Ring of Power is growing daily. In May, Sabine Lichtenfels asked me to support her in taking care of the many letters and questions we receive, and especially to take care of the homepage. Now I want to present myself to the network, so that you know who you deal with.
My name is Janka Striffler and have lived in the Healing Biotope I / Tamera (Portugal) since 1997. At that time I arrived here with my friend and father of our daughter aged 1 ½ years. We were on a search for the possibility to deepen our love, to express our political engagement and to support the possibility for our daughter to grow up in a "new culture".
Since then I have worked in various places within the community. I am now engaged in establishing a children's community, teaching in the school, and within the political peace-network.
Every day the Ring of Power gives me a new way of looking at life and a deep gratitude. At sunrise I sit here under the eucalyptus tree and think of the people in other continents, their life situations and their commitment for peace.
Another leaf falls !
If every person acts on his/her engagement in peacework, the power will increase just like the leaves on the ground around me.
Imagine the energy that could come together!
In that sense I connect myself everyday, anew with my vision of peace and with the Ring of Power. May it also give many people new hope.
Thanks and many greetings
Janka Striffler
ring-of-power@sabine-lichtenfels.de
www.ring-of-power.com
www.igf-online.org
http://1000peacewomen.org/de/html/nominierte/treffer.php?ID=629
or: http://www.igf-online.org/?id=english
28.1.2006 - To the Ring of Power
Bethlehem, Saturday, January 28, 2006
It is three days after the Palestinian Elections and the victory of Hamas. Most reactions from inside Palestine, from Israel, Europe, the US, the whole world focus on the results of the elections, and not the democratic process and smooth functioning, the peaceful transfer of the authority. And hardly anyone is looking for the reasons of these results.
For me in fact it is of highest importance to understand why the Palestinian people voted for Hamas. In my opinion, there are several reasons:
1) The failure of the peace process – the so-called peace process of the last decade did not produce any positive change in Palestinians’ daily life. Even after the election of Abu Mazen, accepted by the Israelis as moderate candidate, Israel still claimed that there is no Palestinian partner for negotiations and refused to improve the restrictions on our life. We are still living in three cantons in the West Bank and all the Palestinian cities are disconnected from each other.
2) The corruption - the trust in Fateh as the leading political party in the Palestinian Authority has been lost after years of corruption. Many Palestinians wanted to punish Fateh by voting for Hamas.
3) The double measures from the US and the EU on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. When Israel kills 10 Palestinians or violates human rights, they voice very soft criticism, but if a Palestinian group kills any Israeli, all the US politicians and the EU condemn and punish the Palestinians accusing them of terrorism.
Palestinians feel that whatever they do, they will never reach the level of support that Israel enjoys from the US and Europe, because the power of the Jewish lobby in the United States and the feeling of guilt from the Europeans towards the Jews and the fear from the accusation of anti-Semitism.
4) Since the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, the UN is discussing in almost every assembly meeting and Security Council the rights of the Palestinians and there are tens of decisions about the Palestinian rights and respecting Palestinian human rights, though these decisions have no effect at all. At the same time, UN decisions on Iraq, Sudan, Libya, or Bosnia are implemented by force. Israel is always an exception, so the Palestinians lost trust in the UN.
All in all, because of the above many Palestinians lost trust in the peace process, in Fateh, and in the world.
For Palestinians it seems that there is no worse situation than the present one, what worse could happen? Palestinians show their disappointment and protest their difficult and worsening situation by voting for Hamas. They lost trust in the ‘democratic’ world; they lost hope in changing their situation through one-sided negotiations.
In my opinion, it is important to give the desperate Palestinians hope and prove to them that the democratic world is against occupation, against violations of human rights, and of Palestinian human rights in particular. The world should be against checkpoints and daily humiliation of Palestinians, against confiscation of land and demolishing homes.
The question remains why the world stands up now to demand Palestinians to change, while they never demand from Israel to change their treatment of the Palestinians, to stop building an apartheid wall separating between students and their schools and families from other parts.
I am not writing to defend Hamas or to criticize the democratic world. I feel pain because I cannot help my people to have their freedom without violence because there is not enough support from the world for our non-violent struggle and peace education. I do not think that nonviolent struggle can succeed in Palestine without strong support from abroad, by pressure on Israel to respect Palestinian human rights, to humanize us in their laws, education and the military orders, which make Palestinian life hell.
There are still peace movements in Palestine, and the majority of Palestinians want peace based on justice, respect and equality.
Noah Salameh
10.1.2006 - To the Ring of Power
I searched for more information for the 99 names and I had found this.
I think It is beautiful.
http://www.arthafez.com/Gallery/99_Names_of_Allah/Thumbnails/01.htm
enjoy!
4.1.2006 - To the Ring of Power
Thanks for this one!!! (ring of power letter)
Yesterday when going to the spring I fell down from about 2 meters hight and broke something in my knee.
There was nobody around... but this sentence from the ring of power poped up to me : None of the difficult things that occcured to me, I took to be attacks towards myself. They have always been thereasons to learn.
And then I left self pity aside just rested on the earth and breathed until it became better...
So it was very useful and helped...
Thanks!!!
Sham-ba
3.1.2006 - To the Ring of Power
Dear Sabine,
Am so sorry for long respond, but this thing return to my personal situation, first Happy Birthday to you & happy new year for all of you Tamera group.
I wish the peace will fly & landing in our hearts & open our minds on ahats going on? In the world I hope the eyes will open to find clearly vision for our futures.
Peace & love around you.
Hamdan-Palestine
31.12.2005 - To the Ring of Power
Dear Everyone from the Peace Pilgrimage in Tamera and
Israel/Palestine,
Time has passed for me to absorb and digest everything I experienced
in that month of November 2005, and here, from a slight perspective,
I share my experience.
"Grace" Political Pilgrimage came into my life to conclude my two
years of nomadic "wandering", and to direct me into a clear
direction of work in my life: contributing what I can towards
cultivating a culture of peace here in Israel.
It brought to my consciousness the knowledge that both sides of this
conflict are suffering - both us Israelis and the Palestinian
people. In this suffering, which includes fear and hatred of each
other, we are seperated. My personal separation included my
avoidance of understanding and knowing what was going on. I was like
and ostrich with my head buried in the ground. Since the first
Intifada I had given myself the excuse that I am contributing
towards peace by cultivating my inner peace and peace within the
small inner circle of my life, and that there was nothing more that
I could do besides that, and meditate and pray for peace. Now I
know that this is not enough.
I joined the pilgrimage after reading the website and feeling that I
resonated with the vision of the Peace Research Village. It reminded
me of a distant vision I had 18 years ago in Sinai, which recently
came up for me again, as my highest vision I have for my life, still
now: "To co-create a Peace Village".
From the first day in Tabcha, Yair Dallal's "Zamen El Salaam"
touched on those chords of my soul that long for peace. Each day of
walking, throughout the pilgrimage, I was daily brought back to that
spiritual frequency of peace, and I felt more clearly that
standing/walking/talking and DOING for peace is my soul's purpose
and sacred contract. The emotional experience I went through at that
realisation, and also at the realisation of the extent of the
suffering of the Palestinians due to the Israeli government's
injustice towards them - came the recognition that I personally have
to take responsability and do work in the field of peace.
My fear of entering the West Bank as an Israeli was not entirely
without a basis. But what made me enter that morning was waking up
to the singing of the Muezzin to Alla, and having the first thought
in my mind as I woke up: "God is One". It was a delicate state of
wavering between trust and fear, but I decided to enter. That first
day was scary for me, and the night was spent trembling with fear.
But the next day it seemed that something was released. Something
overcome. I felt peaceful walking through Tul-Karem, especially
under the umbrella of the Peace Pilgrimage (and wearing the
Tamera "good luck protection" pendant that Vera gave me to wear for
the day.). Fais's warm welcome in his home and playing with the
children there was a good experience. But the second night was
another night with no replenishing sleep, plus a strange dream that
told me to leave the West Bank because it was dangerous for me.
Whether it was a warning dream or yet another fear to overcome, I
felt I needed to rest my nerves from all the recent emotional
turbulance, and so I left the pilgrimage to return back into Israel
to rejuvenate. When I returned to Anata, I felt much stronger to
continue until the very end. The days of PRVME core group meeting
was a confirmation to hold on to that old dream.
After the PRVME meeting in Ein Karem, I went to Anata to Muhammed's
place, where the border control had parked their jeep in his
courtyard. That was probably the most dangerous day I had yet -
dodging stones and teargas in the battlefield that his courtyard had
become. But something within me remained calm and strong in the
situation, despite it all. It didn't prevent me from returning to
Anata again, with Dhyan, Hila, Catherine and Adrien to propose to do
activities with the children. The project didn't take off in the
end, but I remain in contact with Muhammed.
The experience of the Pilgrimage has swept me on to a path of
searching for what my contribution towards peace can be. It brought
me to see the urgency of taking responsability of the change in my
own consciousness, of not buying into the fear and separation, but
rather to cultivate the peace and unity. I feel quite driven, and
there is not turning back to being an ostrich with my head in the
ground. My intention is strong, although my steps are slow in
finding my way. I am getting there.....
I have since been to listening circles of Israelis and Palestinians,
meetings with people regarding peacework, and have been surfing the
net for what is happening in the Peacework sphere. I just returned
from a convention called "Speaking Art" which was about Dialogue
between Jews and Arabs through the arts - theatre, music, dance etc.
I taught a Yoga/Creative Movement class to a group of young Arab
girls aged 9-14, who play "football for peace" against teams of
Jewish girls, and made contact with their team leader, who was
interested for me to come and teach in the community centre of their
neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. I also made contact with a few Arab
women (one from Shuafat Refugee Camp) who were interested in
learning Yoga. I am thinking of going to a few places to teach
groups of Arab women, and possibly form a mixed Jewish/Arab women's
Yoga/Dance Meeting Space, to encourage the creation of bridges
between the cultures.
Also, after the pilgrimage, I realised that in order to do Peacework
(which will probably be voluntary), I needed to do some peacework in
my own life and connect to reality on earth in the way of a job and
a home. So I committed myself to a job in Raanana, where my parents
live - a dance choreography project for groups of dance students,
and also am opening a Yoga class on the same day, so I have an
anchor once a week, as a start. I am sure that once I start I will
open more classes. I still haven't decided where to find a home, but
that will happen soon, and I am lucky to have my parents home as a
temporary base. Jerusalem seems to be pulling me, because of the
many options of Arab neighbourhoods there, but I will see what will
be.
I owe you all from Tamera a very deep gratitude for the privilege of
taking part in this incredible transformaing experience. I have been
enormously inspired by you all, and I pray for the strength to
continue with this surge of energy I have received from you all, to
contribute in my way towards building bridges and sowing seeds of
peace. Thank you so much for everything. I will be happy to
contribute what I can towards the PRVME.
God Bless you all, you beautiful angels. You are doing holy work.
May Peace Prevail on earth. Happy New Year of 2006 to you all.
Love and Light,
Lisa
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