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"Change has come." US-President-elect Barack Obama has inspired millions of people with these words, regardless of how his politics will turn out. For example, a group of artists ("The Yes Men") published a fake issue of the New York Times with visionary headlines like: Iraq War Ends. We will know how big the movement has become when we can really mean these words -- in all their depth, and worldwide: "Change has come."

The change that Mother Earth needs, just like all her inhabitants do, is a worldwide coexistence without borders, in truth, trust and mutual help, with fulfillment in love, and a life without the exploitation of nature. We cannot wait any longer. Some of us were confronted with just how necessary this change is on our visit to the Colombian peace village of San José de Apartadó.
http://www.sos-sanjose.org/index.php?id=en

Eventually it will not be presidents and parties who bring this change about. Taking a closer look, we see that change already has started in many places. Tamera in Portugal is on the way to becoming such a planetary healing center. In this newsletter you will read about the current developments of Tamera and its peace work worldwide.


News from Tamera:
Global Grace Day: On November 9th, groups and individuals worldwide participated - from Katmandu to Nairobi, from San Francisco to indigenous villages in Colombia - and opened up for the thoughts of Grace: "Where there was pain, let healing awaken. Where there was anger, let the power of change emerge."
On the website www.global-grace-day.com you can find the complete meditation text by Sabine Lichtenfels as well as some short reports, pictures, and videos of the activities. You will see that some amazing things happened in the name of Grace.

You have two more chances to visit Tamera this year: "Tamera Introduction and Study Days in the Advent" is ten days of communal learning and celebration from December 6th to 16th. You are invited to spend this time in the Guest Center of Tamera, to get to know the vision and the life of Tamera, to be inspired by it, and to have it impact your life perspective, activities and surroundings. We also expect Tibetan friends from Dharamsalla during this time. More about the Advent Days at: www.tamera.org/index.php?id=517
And for the first time we are inviting guests to celebrate New Year's Eve with us - from December 27th to January 6th in Tamera and at the ocean for a special, deep and inspiring way to start the New Year. More: www.tamera.org/index.php?id=519

Grace-Pilgrimage in San José de Apartadó in Colombia: More than twenty co-workers and students from Tamera and nearly 150 people from Colombia and other countries took part in the Grace Pilgrimage near the peace village of San José de Apartadó from October 1st to the 6th, led by Sabine Lichtenfels, Benjamin von Mendelssohn, and Padre Javier Giraldo of Bogotá. More: www.tamera.org/index.php?id=520
The complete diaries of the journey can be found here: www.grace-pilgrimage.com

Next Permaculture seminar with Sepp Holzer in January: In October, during the last permaculture workshop with Sepp Holzer, a new water landscape was created in Tamera. The former valley garden was rebuilt into an ecological model for food autonomy and the recultivation of destroyed landscapes. The next seminar with Sepp Holzer will be from January 28th to February 4th, 2009, when interested people can learn how to build water landscapes, ponds, wet and dry zones, and biotopes for natural purification. Everyone who knows Sepp Holzer knows that this will be an intensive learning time about very practical and comprehensive ecological thinking and action.
More seminars with Sepp Holzer in 2009: April 12th - 19th, June 3rd - 10th, September 25th - October 2nd, and December 2nd - 9th. More at: www.tamera.org/index.php?id=480
see also : http://www.wiserearth.org/user/PeterKoll

Plans and projects in Tamera: The first three-year Monte Cerro Peace Education will come to an end on April 30, 2009, when it will be time to evaluate the peace study and to find new concepts for the future. From January to April students and co-workers will live together and have an intensive community time.
The financial structure of Tamera is also being changed. It will be more decentralized and oriented more toward self-sufficiency. We will tell you more in a few weeks.
More: www.tamera.org/index.php?id=521

Many networking trips during this Fall took Tamera coworkers and students to different countries. Tamera was represented on four continents. Some examples: www.tamera.org/index.php?id=522
Tamera co-workers were seen e.g. at Bioneers Conference, in Findhorn ecovillage in Scotland, in Damanhur - ecovillage in Italy, in Kenya - interviewing Wangari Matthai from the Greenbelt Movement, and of course in Bogota and San Jose de Apartado in Colombia, in Iceland - at Global Ecovillage Educators for a Sustainable Earth - preparing the next Ecovillage Design Education in Tamera next May, and more trips e.g. to Hawaii - Youth Leadership Training, ...
http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=522L=0

We want to deeply thank all those who helped by their invitations, their generosity and their hospitality to make this journeys possible. The friendships have deepened by this and made it possible that Tamera is growing into the world.
Heartful regards!
The Tamera-Community
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Peter Koll Tamera]]> Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:54:00 EST http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/529095 November 9th "Global Grace Day" - worldwide http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/515821 Text of Meditation, Sabine Lichtenfels


Where there was pain, let healing awaken.

Where there was anger, let the power for change emerge.

Where there was fear, let safety and trust grow.

Where there were enemies, let the awakening of mutual compassion begin.

Where there was oppression, let freedom reign.

Where nations were divided, let sympathy for planet earth lead to shared responsibility.



We have come as a reminder:

If we want planet earth to survive, then all the walls of separation must fall,

the walls between peoples, between Israel and Palestine, between Europe and Africa, between the so-called first and third world,

and likewise with the walls that we have erected in our own psyches, the walls between the genders, and the walls between humans and all creatures.



We have come as a reminder of the original beauty and truth of life:

Every living being has a right to be free and to unfold,

a right to love, and a right to genuine truth and trust.

Let us set examples for overcoming violence wherever we are.

Let us stand up for life and for love so that fear can vanish on earth.

Let us form a worldwide circle of power to safeguard all creation.



May this prayer or something better come to be.

Thank you and Amen.


http://www.global-grace-day.com/

contact :
info@global-grace-day.com

meditation :
global-grace-day.com/index.php?id=4

event :
http://www.wiserearth.org/event/view/2561d4f320e03d8cf77407984f5a5f2a
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nbsp;Tomorrow, Oct 1st, a group of around 500 people will start a peace pilgrimage through the rainforest of Colombia, led by Padre Javier Giraldo (Colombia), Sabine Lichtenfels (www.the-grace-foundation.org) and Benjamin von Mendelssohn (www.prvme.org). The participants are inhabitants of the peace village San José de Apartado, but they are joined from people all around the globe. They come from Israel, Palestine, Europe, USA and other countries of South America. (More information: www.grace-pilgrimage.com) I want to greet them with a quote of the book “Future without War” by Dieter Duhm: Sun Bear, a native American tribe elder said once: ““Sometimes I dream that I am at a place where small groups of people are approaching over a hill. We all embrace each other and call out: “Brother, sister, you have survived!” All “isms” have disappeared. We no longer say: “Which religion do you belong to? To what do you belong? None of this is of importance anymore.” - Peter Koll




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nbsp;supporting and helping young people to create a healthy planet. Peter Koll Tamera Team - Peter Koll




]]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:09:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496005 November 9th "Global Grace Day" http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/488021 What is the Global GRACE Day?

GRACE is the power that may overcome all violence because it is at home in the hearts of all human beings. (Sabine Lichtenfels)

The Global GRACE Day is a special initiative by a growing movement of individuals all over the world. The movement cannot and should not be identified with a specific group or organization; it is an expanding movement of those who have started to develop the quality of GRACE in their hearts. You will recognize them not by their signs and signals, but by the way they behave, act and talk.

One core figure in this movement is Sabine Lichtenfels, peace activist and cofounder of the peace research centre Tamera in Portugal. She is one of the most fascinating spiritual teachers of our time, connecting political actions with female peace knowledge in a unique way. She leads international pilgrimages through crisis areas and is the initiator of the “Global Campus,” an education program for young peace workers which will eventually have bases on all continents.

GRACE activists around the world on the Global GRACE Day read a meditation that Sabine Lichtenfels “receives” each year on a special place in a special way. In 2008, the words will come to her while she is leading a pilgrimage in Colombia with more than 400 participants, together with Padre Xavier Giraldo, Benjamin von Mendelssohn and inhabitants of the peace village San José (Colombia).

In 2005 Sabine Lichtenfels held a meditation in Israel/Palestine in front of the separation wall near the small village Baqqa al Garbye. In 2006 she gathered a group in Berlin, Germany in front of the Holocaust Memorial. In 2007 she was again in Israel/Palestine, where a night vigil took place in Bethlehem. More than 120 international peace workers joined this event in Bethlehem and about 70 groups participated with their own actions all around the world. More information about the past events: http://www.grace-in-bethlehem.net

In 2008 Sabine Lichtenfels will do the meditation in Guatemala.

The meditation serves as an energetic and spiritual sign that we, as humanity, can no longer accept both the inner and outer walls built on a global scale.

More and more groups and individuals worldwide are joining the Global GRACE Day with their specific actions. Whatever they do, they agree on following points:

1. The action is held in the name of GRACE. Whoever wants to take part commits to study thoroughly what is meant by GRACE. (See the text “What is GRACE?” below) We also recommend reading the book, GRACE. Pilgrimage for a Future without War by Sabine Lichtenfels, where the idea and effectiveness of GRACE is described within the context of peace activities in the Middle East.)

2. At some time during the event, the specific meditation text by Sabine Lichtenfels is read out loud and thus serves as the common bond between all participants.


Why November 9th?

Throughout history, November 9th has seen both the force of cruelty and the power of liberation. On November 9, 1938, known as the "Reichspogromnacht" (Crystal Night), synagogues were burned and more than 30,000 people were forced into concentration camps. On November 9, 1989, the Berlin wall, acting as a barrier between two ideologies, was finally taken down.

Many peace movements around the world now use this day as a day of remembrance and as a day of opportunity to create a common peace power that no longer allows cruelty and separation between humans and our planet.

Whoever wants to join the actions of the Global GRADE Day initiative is invited to do so and to contact Anna Bandini: info(at)global-grace-day.com

Once more: Please study beforehand what it means to act in the name of GRACE.
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nbsp;Solar Intelligence for the 21st Century One of the main activities at Monte Cerro is building the Solarvillage on a 5 hectare part of the property at Tamera. A Solarvillage is a settlement model for a future community or peace village. It can be generalised and can be established at any place on earth that has a fair amount of sunshine. The model that has been planned so far is a largely self-sufficient settlement for 50 people. It guarantees a self-sufficient supply of water, self-sufficient food production and a self-sufficient energy supply. These energy technologies, go far beyond today's commercial solar systems. Here, people from all over the world could be trained. http://www.solarpowervillage.i... sent by Peter Koll, Tamera Team In the Solarvillage, of which the first prototype is to be created in Tamera, two basic models of future existence have been brought together: a social and a technological model. - Peter Koll




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nbsp;Practical seminar Series for Holzer Permaculture First Seminar: October 5-12, 2008 Ecology is the central theme in a model for a global Peace Research Village (PRV) especially at a time when destruction of the landscape, hunger and desertization are rampant. In close cooperation with the permaculture expert, Sepp Holzer, we want to find answers to these issues. Therefore in Tamera (134 ha) a permaculture and water landscape has been developed to offer answers to the following social and ecological questions: How does a non-violent and ecologically compatible village model look for the human being to live on planet earth? How can one heal the water situation so that there is enough water for everyone and the fertility of the soil can be improved? How do human beings, animals and plants co-exist in cooperation and harmony? How does one develop a regionally self-sufficient food supply? http://www.tamera.org/index.ph... - Peter Koll




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nbsp;Colombia: Pilgrimage to the Peace Village of San José de Apartadó GRACE Pilgrimage - Caminata por la Vida www.grace-pilgrimage.com by the Grace Foundation, in cooperation with the Universidad de la Resistencia, the Peace Village of San José de Apartadó and the Peace Research Village Association. Walking Together for Peace Peace Pilgrimage 01 - 05 October 2008 Creating Knowledge for a Peace Culture Educational Camp 07 - 17 October 2008 For 5 days a group of approximately 400 people from all over the world will Walk for Peace in Colombia. - Peter Koll




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]]> Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:08:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496025 Support the Peacevillage San Jose de Apartado http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/460171 Help to spread the information !
Thank you !

Approximately 400 people will go on a Peace Pilgrimage from October 1st to October 5th, 2008.Peace workers from Israel, Palestine and many more countries - including representatives of the “new South American spirit of resurrection” from Mexico, Ecuador and other countries - will be led by Sabine Lichtenfels and Padre Javier Giraldo, together with experienced regional guides. The idea for this pilgrimage grew out of the long standing cooperation between the Peace Research Centre Tamera, Portugal, and the Peace Village San José de Apartadó. Together with the inhabitants of other Colombian Peace Villages, they will show with this peace action their commitment to build up a global peace force which no longer stops at national borders.The pilgrimage will pass through villages and hamlets surrounding San José, where, due to their remoteness, people live near military posts, police headquarters and other significant locations of the rebellion, totally unprotected between the fronts of the civil war. The goal of the pilgrimage is to become familiar with the threat to which Colombian peasants are exposed, to develop peace strategies, and to strengthen the Ring of Power – a confraternity for a future without war!

every donation has an effect :
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Peter Koll
TameraTeam
]]> Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:11:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/460171 Tamera - Holzer Permaculture - Seminar Series http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/459025
First Seminar: October 5th - 12th

Ecology is the central theme in a model for a global Peace Research Village (PRV) especially at a time when destruction of the landscape, hunger and desertization are rampant. In close cooperation with the permaculture expert, Sepp Holzer, we want to find answers to these issues. Therefore in Tamera (134 ha) a permaculture and water landscape has been developed to offer answers to the following social and ecological questions:
How does a non-violent and ecologically compatible village model look for the human being to live on planet earth?
How can one heal the water situation so that there is enough water for everyone and the fertility of the soil can be improved?
How do human beings, animals and plants co-exist in cooperation and harmony?
How does one develop a regionally self-sufficient food supply?

In October of this year a continuous series of seminars for Holzer permaculture begins. It will be practical learning based on current projects. Interested and experienced people are warmly welcomed to co-create and mutually brain-storm.

First seminar:
“Development of retention space, mixed seeds, and the symbiosis of interaction”
October 5th - 12th
Presentation: Sepp Holzer and the Tamera Ecology Team

During the seminar the following core issues will concern us:
How does one build water retention spaces?
How does one build high beds and terraces which form the basis of the Holzer permaculture?
How can one develop and continually increase the fertility of the soil and the entire biotope?
How does one best use the symbiosis of interaction between the various mixed cultures of fruit, vegetable and helper plants?
Which type of green fertilizers and mixed seeds are beneficial to this process?


Second seminar:
“Water Landscape and Aqua Culture”
January 28 – February 3, 2009
Presentation: Sepp Holzer and the Tamera Ecology Team

General information:
- Content is liable to change due to weather conditions.
- The third seminar will take place from April 13-19, 2009. Content not yet determined.
- The seminars can also be attended individually.
- The cost of each seminar in the series, including board (vegan) and lodging
(in visitors’ huts with participant’s own sleeping bag), is EUR 850.—;
additional charge for single and double rooms at the Guesthouse.
- Enrolment: e-mail office@tamera.org, Tel. +351 283 635 306

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]]> Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:28:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/459025 Message to Tamera of HIS HOLINESS, the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/452199 To the Summer University of Tamera

It is good for the whole world, for the beings who inhabit it and the environment in which they live, if we are able to achieve peace and harmony. For this reason positive leadership is very important and today´s youth are the leaders of the future.


As individuals it is particularly important that we develop a kind heart, a sense of love, compassion and respect for others. However, we do not have to try to generate these feelings afresh because they arise naturally in us as human beings. What we need to do is recognise these positive qualities within us and work to develop them.

When it comes to being kinder to the natural environment, we need to remember that the world is not just a large rock, but more like a mother´s womb, a living vessel that supports life. It is like the body of all beings, therefore we must take care of it.


I send you my prayers that as a result of attending this Summer University you may all be inspired to work enthusiastically for peace and the welfare of others in whichever part of the world you may live.

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]]> Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:08:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496033 review Summeruniversity Tamera : opening speech http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/445033 Watch the opening speech of "Be the Change - Youth for a Future without war" here :
http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=-t4n_3tBiQ8watch_response .
And look at reviews, interviews, weblogs and slideshow of the past event :
http://summeruniversity.tamera.org/
We´ve prepared a follow-up event :
4 weeks : Basic Course - Peace Village, Community, Ecology :
http://www.tamera.org/index.php?id=474

Peter Koll
Tamera Team
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nbsp;400 people will go on a 5-day-peace-march in Colombia in the peacevillage San Jose de Apartado, Caminata por la Vida - Grace Pilgrimage 2008, - Peter Koll




]]> Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:07:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496039 Caminata por la vida - Grace Pilgrimage 2008 http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/418803
by the Global Campus, Tamera, Portugal, in cooperation with the Universidad de la Resistencia,
Colombia and the Peace Village of San José de Apartadó, Colombia

“Walking Together for Peace”

The Colombia Pilgrimage Appeal invites you to support this peace action.

Approximately 400 people will go on a Peace Pilgrimage from October 1st to October 5th, 2008.
Peace workers from Israel, Palestine and many more countries - including representatives of the “new South American spirit of resurrection” from Mexico, Ecuador and other countries - will be led by Sabine Lichtenfels and Padre Javier Giraldo, together with experienced regional guides.
The idea for this pilgrimage grew out of the long standing cooperation between the Peace Research Centre Tamera, Portugal, and the Peace Village San José de Apartadó. Together with the inhabitants of other Colombian Peace Villages, they will show with this peace action their commitment to build up a global peace force which no longer stops at national borders.
The pilgrimage will pass through villages and hamlets surrounding San José, where, due to their remoteness, people live near military posts, police headquarters and other significant locations of the rebellion, totally unprotected between the fronts of the civil war. The goal of the pilgrimage is to become familiar with the threat to which Colombian peasants are exposed, to develop peace strategies, and to strengthen the Ring of Power – a confraternity for a future without war!
A media team will accompany The Caminata por la Vida – Grace Pilgrimage 2008.

“Creating Knowledge for a Peace Culture”

Following the pilgrimage an Educational Camp is to take place from October 7th to October 17th in San José de Apartadó. This event will mark the start of the Global Campus. In cooperation with the Campesino University of Resistance (Universidad del la Resistencia), participants will learn ecological and technological strategies for sustainability and self-sufficiency, for social knowledge, for conflict resolution and community development for peace villages, for social sustainability as well as non-violent resistance – knowledge that is needed to develop stable, nonviolent and self-sufficient peace villages.

The teaching staff of the Educational Camp consists of:

Sabine Lichtenfels, founder of the Global Campus; Co-founder of the Peace Research Village Tamera, Portugal
Padre Javier Giraldo, Jesuit Priest, Human Rights Activist, mentor and tutor of the Peace Village of San José
Jürgen Kleinwächter, Physicist, Inventor, Specialist for decentralised solar energy, Lörrach, Germany
Sami Awad, Teacher for Non-Violence; Head of the Holy Land Trust, Bethlehem, Palestine
Gloria Cuartas, Human Rights Activist, Bogota, Colombia
Benjamin von Mendelssohn, Founder of the Peace Research Village Middle East, Tamera, Portugal, and others

The Caminata por la Vida – Grace Pilgrimage is an international peace action “in the Name of Grace.”
It is a concrete peace action as well as an exemplary initiative for the development of a global peace force for a future without war. We invite you to participate in the pilgrimage and the subsequent Educational Camp, and also hope you will support this action by financially sponsoring the participation of Colombian pilgrims.

The Peacevillage of San José de Apartadó
Eleven years ago the inhabitants of San José de Apartadó, located in the Northern part of Colombia, joined forces and founded the Peace Village. Between the fronts of the civil war they maintain non-violent resistance against murder and eviction. During these years more than 170 inhabitants of the village – women, men and children – were murdered by the military, paramilitary and the guerrillas. They suffered food blockades and energy shortages, and were attacked in many other ways. The Colombian government has so far refused to protect the village effectively; quite the opposite, President Uribe suspects them of cooperation with the guerrillas, thus declaring them to be outlaws. What is happening to San José is happening in this or in a similar way to many places on earth. It is a war of the armed forces, a war for power and natural resources against peasants and villagers who want nothing else but to live and work on their land. However, despite all attacks and threats, the inhabitants of San José carry on, practice the spirit of reconciliation, and work their fields.
Their vision is: a Colombia without war and displacement; a positive future for their children; a self-determined life in dignity; and a command of ecological, technological and social know-how for a sustainable life. Meanwhile they have found friends and partners all over the world supporting this vision. They have become the symbol for the hope of peace in Colombia. At least fifteen other Peace Village have sprung up. In 2007 the Aachen Peace Prize was awarded to San José de Apartadó followed by a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.The Peace Research Centre Tamera and the Peace Village of San José de Apartadó have been maintaining amicable relations for many years. Inhabitants have repeatedly visited Tamera and participated in the Grace Pilgrimage in Israel/Palestine. Andrea Regelmann and other members of the Colombia Team regularly visit the Communidad de Paz in order to help them with the school, the development of a health facility, and the installation of solar energy.

The leadership

Padre Javier Giraldo is a Jesuit Priest from Bogotà and a Human Rights Activist. For many years he stands up for the fate of the four million displaced peasants of Colombia. Because of his engagement and his clear commitment to truth and humaneness, he has lived under permanent threat of death for many years. Eleven years ago he encouraged the inhabitants of San José to found a peace village and helped them create the charter they live by. Since then he acts as their advocate and as the permanent mentor of the Comunidad de Paz.

Sabine Lichtenfels is a theologian, author, one of the “1000 Women for Peace” and co-founder of the Peace Research Village Tamera, Portugal. In the years 2005 and 2007 she led the Grace Pilgrimages through Israel/Palestine with up to 180 international participants. With her evolved knowledge of community she knows how to handle conflicts among different groups of people and how to turn antagonism into friendship, mutual understanding and solidarity.
In February 2007 she visited the Communidad de Paz as a guest and participated in an international meeting. This was when the idea of the Caminata por la Vida – Grace Pilgrimage was born. Sabine Lichtenfels coined the term “Grace” expressing a peace worker’s ethics.

“GRACE is the commitment to end it where ever you are rather than fuelling it. In the name of GRACE I am always looking for a non-violent solution, a solution which creates justice and healing and serves everyone involved. Judgmental behaviour is never an answer, instead, at times, voicing clear distinctions where ever they are necessary.GRACE says: I am willing to end war and to understand by which means this can be done and I am willing to put myself in the service of this solution.”
(quote from the book “GRACE – Pilgrimage for a Future without War” by Sabine Lichtenfels).

The Campesino University of Resistance
The University was founded by various Peace Villages and Human Rights Peace groups. They convey the knowledge needed by campesinos, displaced persons, Indios and human beings living under the threats of war, to enable them to found and develop self-sufficient communities capable to defend themselves non-violently and to work their land in order to feed themselves.

The Global Campus
The Global Campus is a worldwide net of educational initiatives in the formative stages. In cooperation with its partners – the Holy Land Trust, Palestine; the Barefoot College in Rajastan, India, and the Peace Village San José de Apartadó - the Peace Research Village Tamera, Portugal, is to pass on peace knowledge at different places in the world with the intent of developing peace villages.
The subjects of study are permaculture, decentralized solar energy, low-cost architecture (clay buildings), conflict resolution and non-violence, as well as healing work and the release of traumas lodged in the core areas of the human being - namely love, sexuality, partnership and spirituality. Walking hand in hand and how you can participate!

The development of a global perspective for a future without war is based on the direct solidarity between human beings of the “first” and the “third” world – including financial solidarity. We therefore ask you to financially support the Caminata por la Vida – Grace Pilgrimage.
When the total costs of the action – including transport, food, organisation, technical gear and the travel costs for speakers (no speaker fees) – are divided by the number of participants, it adds up to EUR500 per person.

Adopt one (or more) pilgrim(s) and become his/her or their sponsor!

With each sponsorship of EUR500 you open up the possibility for one pilgrim from Colombia to participate!

Your participation in the Caminata por la Vida – Grace Pilgrimage is sincerely welcome! International participation is essential for all actions in Colombia. Only international escorts can protect the Columbian peasants and displaced persons from violations from the police, the military, the guerrilla and/or paramilitary groups. We therefore invite a limited number of international participants to take part in the Caminata por la Vida – Grace Pilgrimage.
For you the pilgrimage may turn out to be a special experience, a challenging time of personal growth, a time of awakening to the world situation and of becoming aware of your own power for change. It is a special experience to be hosted by the courageous people of a peace community, to experience their care and hospitality, their knowledge, their power of vision and to share their unbroken joy of life despite the attacks and threats they suffer.
The participation fee for the pilgrimage and the educational camp amounts to EUR 1.500 excluding your flight or any other travel costs. With this contribution you also finance the participation of two Colombian pilgrims.

Walking hand in hand – this motto is an invitation for direct financial solidarity.

Those who wish to support this action may transfer their donation to the following accounts:

Switzerland
Account Holder: Grace Foundation – for the Humanisation of Money
Bank: Freie Gemeinschaftsbank Basel
Account no.: EK 3524.6
Clearing no.: 8392
BIC: RAIFCH22XXX
IBAN: CH73 0839 2000 0000 3524 6

Germany
Account holder :Friedens-Forschungs-Dorf e.V.
Bank: Deutsche Bank Berlin BLZ: 100 700 00
Account no.: 814 78 60 00 IBAN: DE09 1007 0024 0814 7860 00
Reference: Donation for Columbian Peace Village (donation receipt possible)

To register your participation in the pilgrimage and/or educational camp please contact Andrea Regelmann at the following addresses:
Email address: info@sos-sanjose.org

Postal address:

Institute for Global Peace Work / Grace Foundation Monte do Cerro
P-7630 Colos,
Portugal
Telephone: +351 – 283 – 635 – 484
For more information: www.sos-sanjose.org

invitation letter (english):
http://www.sos-sanjose.org/uploads/media/S.L._Globaler_Campus_2008_engl._01.pdf
invitacion en espanol :
Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartado
http://cdpsanjose.org/?q=node/82

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]]> Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:07:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496041 GLOBALIZATION OF PEACE AND HEALING OF THE EARTH http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/417591 THE CONCEPT OF GLOBAL HEALING BIOTOPES

(TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY STEN LINNANDER)

DIETER DUHM
TAMERA, MAY 2008


The apocalypse lies in the heart of the cells,
engraved in the genetic core of humanity,
as a result of a five-thousand-year-long era
of war and separation, violence and fear.
Our task is to change the core
with the help of a new code of life.

Humanity has reached a dead end street, which, if we continue down this road, can only lead to a catastrophic end. Forty years ago people were full of the illusion that everything could continue to go well, but today this illusion is gone. The number of human beings and animals that are killed every day has risen immeasurably and keeps on rising daily. In order to save life on earth and be able to look forward to a future worth living,we need a new starting point,a new mindset,a new essence in the innermost part of the whole.We need something that changes the entire organism ofhumanity.

To change a living system, we must change its operational center, its center of information, its genetic code. If one succeeds in inserting a new set of information at a central location,the entire system changes.The earth is such a system.The end ofglobal destruction is not a question of the exterior balance of power, but of the genetic information that is inserted into the overall organism.The organic world oflife functions according to the principles ofhomeopathy,which means that the overall organism is not changed by mega-systems but by micro-substances. An intelligent desire for overall healing definitively avoids the “gargantuan-mania”ofour time.

A future without war is a real possibility;it is contained as a possibility in the “implicit order”ofour world.We must create the necessary inner and outer systemic conditions in order to take it from the implicit order to the explicit (manifest) order. Relatively small groups,distributed across the earth,will suffice to give evolution a new direction.
The current globalization ofviolence can only be stopped and overcome by globalizing a new power of peace that is “stronger than all violence.”The creation of global peace requires a fundamental change in our forms of life, forms of love, forms of economy, forms ofvillages,forms ofthought and forms ofbelief.In the beginning,these new forms must be developed and tested within small pilot projects and research centers,before they can manifest globally. Global healing work therefore requires such centers.We call them “healing biotopes.”It is not the futurological super projects that are being planned today, but the small planetary models that take into consideration the innermost issues of human beings that will create the change needed today.
Healing biotopes are places where all those involved - human beings, animals,plants, nature spirits and cosmic beings - live together in joint evolution and cooperation. Old fears and separation are replaced by trust and contact.The reestablishment of TRUST is one of the most central tasks of planetary renewal. Healing biotopes are greenhouses of trust. Nonviolent cooperation, in solidarity between human beings and all fellow creatures,is a foundation for the coming era.

In order to reach this goal, we need to develop a way of living together that is free of fear and violence. The main area of crisis in our times lies in the relationship between human beings.Several thousand years ofwar history have deeply shaken the relationship of human beings to one another. The legacy of collective suffering has resulted in the creation ofhuman structures ofhatred,distrust,fear and propensity to violence, blocking all attempts toward peace.A collective trauma has imprinted itselfon the genetic core of humanity as a whole.Within the framework ofglobal peace work,we are now faced with the task of dissolving this traumatic core and the energies that are bound up in it and giving them a new, life-affirming direction. This is not individual therapy; it is a transformation of the deepest archetypal forces and images of the soul. The life images that have been characterized by thousands of years of persecution, separation and deprivation must be transformed into archetypal powers ofreunification,abundance and love; the matrix of separation must be transformed into the matrix of unity and a sense of belonging. The great transformation that is just beginning will not end before the powers ofreconciliation and solidarity with all beings have been fully imprinted into the mental, spiritual and bodily structures ofour existence,our brains and the nuclei of our cells. Humanity needs a new code of life. The genetic material must be reconditioned toward peace - not through technical genetic manipulation,but through new experiences in the great space ofour earthly-cosmic existence.

At the core of healing biotopes there is a new relationship between the sexes. The collective trauma relates especially to these relationships. Behind the anguish of unfulfilled love relationships and unfulfilled erotic dreams,there is a latent (or open) war between the sexes, which today claims more victims than traffic accidents. The world is suffering from lovesickness. Millions of lovers and married couples would give anything to experience again the joy that they shared with each other in the beginning. The unfulfilled longing for Eros, love, trust and a feeling of home is the core issue that lies behind all the facades ofour time.There can be no peace on earth as long as there is war in love. One of the most central tasks involved in the creation of a new culture is the dissolution of the trauma between the sexes and the restoration of an honest, happy life together between men and women. Only then can the subliminal potential of hatred be dissolved, so that children can grow up in a future worth living. We can only speak of “healing biotopes”when this,the most difficult point,has been fulfilled,at least in terms of intent, and when people are courageous enough to create new perspectives for the erotic core ofhuman culture.
In the living tissue ofthe earth,healing biotopes are small acupunctural centers with a few hundred inhabitants, who in their own lives are able to realize the new planetary forms of villages. The success of such models will determine if we can hope for a real future without war.

The new centers are very complex systems. Evolutionary success does not depend on strength but on complexity.The things that have been separated for a long time must be reunited with each other: Eros with religion, science with spiritual experience, archaic world consciousness with modern cosmology, indigenous tribal culture with modern organization, and female sources of knowledge with ecology and community. Art and ritual will come together,opening up the shared source from where they came.
A high level ofcomplexity means a high level ofsynergy.The healing effect ofthe new centers is not tied to any individual approach, but to the synergy of the whole.
Interdisciplinary work,based on mutual communication and transparency,is one of the preconditions for these new research communities. Ethics, being the connecting moral bond of the human family, will rediscover its authentic source in the truth and in being there for one another in functioning communities.The first thing that must be learned is to live in functioning communities. This was the first task of the project that we established thirty years ago - and it still is today.

The new centers are largely self-sustaining.Within the framework ofan economy with a high degree of self-sufficiency, new technologies are used in the areas of energy, information, water and food. The necessary knowledge is already largely available; the models have been developed and tested for the last thirty years, and they must now be combined in a productive way.The solar village that is being created in Tamera/Portugal (with the new solar technology ofJuergen Kleinwaechter) is a multifaceted attempt in this direction. It is to be combined with the ecological aquaculture and permaculture that have been developed by Sepp Holzer. Further developments will be added. Here, no doubt, further research is needed - as well as research money!
Healing biotopes are global research centers in which concrete peace research is conducted on the basis of living communities - thus the term “peace research village.”
This “peace”is meant to be global.Correspondingly,great emphasis is placed on creating models that can be generalized. Here, globality means generalizability. As soon as some core points and guidelines for the new villages of our planet have been found, a global field effect will arise on its own. The planetary organism then integrates the new information. In the social and cultural areas we get what Rupert Sheldrake called “morphogenetic field creation” in the area of biology. Comparable centers will be established at many places on earth.It is from a network ofsuch centers that the coming planetary civilization will emerge.
A new humane world can only arise through a fundamental change in the human being. It is not the technical mega-systems of current future planning, or colonies on Mars or floating cities that will bring peace. Instead, thanks to their highly complex structure and integration, and their activation of the powers of life embedded into the universal order oflife,it is small futurological models oflife that will change the genetic structure of the biosphere. They are the acupuncture points within the global organism ofthe earth.Ifsomething new occurs here - as in the acupuncture ofthe body - the whole shifts and changes.

In the name of love.
In the name of the children.
In the name of all living creatures.

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Institute for Global Peace Research (IGP)
c/o Tamera,
Monte do Cerro
P-7630 Colos,
Portugal
Tel: +351-283-635 484
Fax: +351-283-635 344
Email: info@dieter-duhm.de
WWW.DIETER-DUHM.DE

BOOKS BY DIETER DUHM:
- Future without War. The Theory ofGlobal Healing.Verlag Meiga.
- The Sacred Matrix. From the Matrix ofViolence to the Matrix ofLife.Verlag Meiga
- Eros Unredeemed.Verlag Meiga. (Not yet available worldwide,please contact the IGP)
- Is Peace Possible? Project Declaration 1
(Brochure.Free download from: www.dieter-duhm.de )
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]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:07:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496045 latest news "Be the Change - Youth for a Future without War" http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/397899 As we are growing everyday - it´s an exciting preparation time - I would like to present an updated list of confirmed participants of our summeruniversity 2008. As you see we will have a very inspiring 10-day living model, creating solutions for the future and creating heartful meetings.
Right now we´re more than 300 participants.
We´re expecting more than 400 people who will join the event !
Peter
Tamera Team

Young people of the Peace Community San Jose de Apartado, Colombia

Jurgen Kleinwachter - physician, inventor, developed the concept of the "Solar Power Village"

Sami Awad - Trainer for nonviolence, director of the Holy Land Trust, Palestine
Ahmad Alazzeh - Holy Land Trust

Manitonquat - Native American storyteller

Don Jose Carmen - Mexican ecologist

Yair Dalal - Israeli musician of world music

Avi Agababa - Israeli percussionist

Patch Adams - doctor, clown, peace activist, USA

Next GEN delegation, Findhorn / Great Britain

Hernan Braveheart – Peruvian healer, shamanist and peace maker

Tibetan delegation
Lama Jamphal- director of education dept.of Gyuto Tantric University
Tenzin Nyendak – his secretary
The venerable Chemy – Karmapas secretary for foreign affairs
Gelek Khedup

Sahara Baby Jazz Band, Portugal

Mark Ackermore – founder of the Earthville Network, USA

Delegation from Nepal – UNESCO youth

Adi Gordon - Israeli Basketball player

Ibrahim Issa - Hopeflowers School Bethlehem, Palestine

Auroville delegation, India

Damanhur delegation, Italy

Delegation of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, Israel

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]]> Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:06:00 EDT http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496047 Implementation of Futurological Centers (via Blog) http://Tamera.tigblog.org/post/496049 Blog
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