BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Vienna X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Vienna BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4024228:Event:22629 DTSTAMP:20260516T114249Z SUMMARY:Earth Healing Day - Join the \"OM\" Heard 'Round the World DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin the \" OM\" Heard 'Round the World\nby: Mike Gill ette\n\nIn the past few months we've seen our share of stories about m ankind harming Mother Nature. Now comes something refreshingly differe nt: a day for restoring our relationship with the planet.\n\nEarth Hea ling Day is an event for people who \"care deeply for the fate of the Earth, and want to be good stewards.\" Its organizers have chosen Sund ay, August 15th as a day of collective focus on healing and cleansing the planet.\n\nHow will it work? The idea is for people to take an hou r, from noon to 1pm, to pray, meditate, chant, and generally share a l ove for the planet. Just like \"the wave\" circles around a stadium at a football game, this energy and love will ripple from time zone to t ime zone, wrapping itself around the earth for an entire day.\n\nTo fa cilitate this plan, the group has built a website, www.earthhealingday .com , inviting people to take part. The site offers visitors everythi ng from instructions on how to host an Earth Healing Day event, to a s cholarly history of the term \" OM.\" Visitors will also find recordin gs of guided meditations, time-zone maps, and the group's goal stateme nt. While the event is spiritual in flavor, the site's authors take pa ins to make clear that it's non-denominational in nature, and open to people of any and all backgrounds.\n\nPerusing the site, one is treate d to inspirational quotes, such as this one from Gandhi: \"A small bod y of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their missio n can alter the course of human history.\"\n\nThis is undoubtedly true . But a skeptical, or even doubtful, mind might ask whether the \"powe r-packed hour of dedicated focus for Earth healing and cleansing\" the group envisions can produce this kind of effect. Perhaps surprisingly , recent history suggests the answer is \"yes.\"\n\nIn a well-document ed case, 4,000 practitioners of Transcendental Meditation convened in Washington, D.C. in the summer of '93. For eight weeks they meditated, collectively intending to bring a positive, calming influence to the area. The statistics from the time proclaim their success, as the viol ent crime rate dropped a whopping 23% over the period.\n\nAn explanati on for the change might be found in another quote from the site, this one from Albert Einstein: \"The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we ca nnot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.\"\n\nIn other words, the solutions we need may come precisely from turning awa y from the problems surrounding us, and toward our highest, best capac ities.\n\nThose interested in joining such an effort should visit www. earthhealingday.com today to begin \"creating a collective mind and vo ice to offer Earth a new beginning.\"\n\nFor more information visit ht tps://lightgrid.ning.com/events/earth-healing-day-join-the-om DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20100815T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20100815T130000 CATEGORIES:meditation LOCATION:worldwide WEBSITE:http://www.earthhealingday.com URL:http://www.earthhealingday.com CONTACT: ORGANIZER;CN="Myriel RAouine":https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/Myrie lRAouine ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/ file/get/2836075135?profile=original ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="judith a nnoni":https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/judithannoni ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Dr. Sohi niBen Shukla":https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/DrSohiniBenShukla ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ralf - R amanand":https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/RamNath ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ulrike P ugganig":https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/UlrikePugganig ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Sunspirit smiles:https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/KathleenCole ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN=Hilda:htt ps://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/Hilda ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Ishema, Carol Suchecki":https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/CarolSuchecki ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Myriel R Aouine":https://lightgrid.ning.com/profile/MyrielRAouine END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR