by Deborah Henry Hintze on August 14, 2010
Every once in a while a great TV movie comes along like Rome, The Tudors and The Pillars of the Earth.
Watching The Pillars of the Earth, based on the historical novel by Ken Follett about the building of a cathedral, I am drawn into a fast moving and griping story starting with the first Henry of England in the Dark Ages. I am left wondering why the human race has killed the cathedral builders, and condemned the great artists and thinkers. Too many great visionaries have been fought, too many hands have been cut off and too many steps backward have been taken in our history.
The Pillars of the Earth educates and enlightens us with a realistic view of life in the Middle Ages, and a look into the deep centuries old search of man’s collective soul.
One can only hope now to raise the pillars of the human spirit in the same way we once triumphed in the physical world by the construction of the marble and glass masterpieces of the cathedrals. The lifting of the spirit takes a different kind of strength than the building of the chiseled and carved rock spires and windows of light in the Dark Ages. Now is the time to raise our awareness and look beyond physical indulgences of the moment that cost years of energy, and look to the creation of abundance through the love of the seventh generation and the part of us that continues on into eternity. When we learn to give more than we take, the world will be put back in balance.
Who can not feel it’s time to move forward and solve some of our deep rooted problems? The evil of greed, hate, and violence have gone on long enough. The cauldron of the universe has steeped our alchemy into the next phase of transformation. May we rejoice in the distilling of our spirits and take joy in the turning of ashes to gold.
by Deborah Henry Hintze on July 20, 2010
Now is the time to stop using dangerous fuels and change our use to wind, solar and sustainable energy. If we use fossil fuel at this pivotal point in our history, we ourselves are responsible for the harm that coal mining and oil drilling do to our environment.
We work the black seam together and build machines that we can’t control.
This is a beautiful request for clean energy from Sting.
“We Work The Black Seam”
This place has changed for good
Your economic theory said it would
It’s hard for us to understand
We can’t give up our jobs the way we should
Our blood has stained the coal
We tunneled deep inside the nation’s soul
We matter more than pounds and pence
Your economic theory makes no sense
One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
The seam lies underground
Three million years of pressure packed it down
We walk through ancient forest lands
And light a thousand cities with our hands
Your dark satanic mills
Have made redundant all our mining skills
You can’t exchange a six inch band
For all the poisoned streams in Cumberland
One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
Our conscious lives run deep
You cling onto your mountain while we sleep
This way of life is part of me
The is no price so only let me be
And should the children weep
The turning world will sing their souls to sleep
When you have sunk without a trace
The universe will suck me into place
One day in a nuclear age
They may understand our rage
They build machines that they can’t control
And bury the waste in a great big hole
Power was to become cheap and clean
Grimy faces were never seen
But deadly for twelve thousand years is carbon fourteen
We work the black seam together
Listen to Sting Sing The Black Seam on youtube.
