Letters From NYC

I spent this first day of the Iraqi war for the most part in solitude, sorting out my feelings. On the one hand, I have no love for dictators like Saddam Hussein who perpetrate horrors on innocent people. On the other hand, there is little to like about the naked use of power as wielded by the current Bush administration. I took a walk on the beach and ended up drawing a dozen large peace signs in the sand and on the paths so that others coming later that day could share the feelings of this moment.

This evening I was restless, overwhelmed with the news. Having recently put my synthesizer studio back together, I worked on some meditation music. Finally I knew what to do, and I put up these new pages and links, dedicated to peace. This is a project that began after 9/11 with letters written by my friend Marc in New York. It evolved into a larger project. Once again, Marc's writing is the centerpiece for these new pages, and as before I have included other writers who add their depth and perspective to the current issues of global power.

We are in an interesting time, where the old paradigm of military might is being confronted by a new emerging spiritual consciousness among the whole peoples of the globe. On some level, this conflict is a necessity. As a baby chick finds strength to survive in the struggle to break free of its shell, so too the energy to shed the old paradigm must be forged in the struggle against the old. These pages are but one small part of the greater global efforts now underway to reach this new level of human consciousness, but each individual awakening contributes to the movement of the whole.

Jeff Finder

3/21/03

Marc’s letters

12/10/02: Lecture notes

2/4/03: Season for nonviolence

2/21-25/03: Paving the way to peace: parts I,II,III

2/26/03: Not all black and white

3/4/03: There but for the grace of God go I

3/11/03: A Call to Love

3/20/03: Manifesto of Peace

Additional voices

An American diplomat’s letter of resignation