Bradley Grove Hyson

There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself, though it is always secretly there. It is what illuminates our minds to see beauty, our desire to seek possibility, and our hearts to love life. Our passion for life is quietly sustained from somewhere in us that is wedded to the energy and excitement of life. This shy inner light is what enables us to recognize and receive our very presence here as blessing.  The gift of the world is our first blessing. The even greater blessing is our presence here together, as mirrors and magnifiers of each other’s light. Whenever you give a blessing, a blessing returns to enfold you.

John O’Donague

I can’t look at this picture and not bear witness to an absolute MIRACLE!!!  Pure, innocent, ego-less, Sacred & AWAKE.  This is how we enter the world.  What happens that has us lose such preciousness?

At the root of SO MANY problems is Maya – wrong ideas or illusion.  We lose sight of the fact that we are human beings FIRST – and divisions of race, creed & country are all man-made, psychologically imposed concepts.  When we see ourselves as members of the same, singular human family, why would we ever intentionally cause harm?

Along with the breathtaking beauty & magic life offers – also comes disappointment, heartache, wounding and trauma.  Spiritual Warriors FIGHT to remain open hearted to the wonder, transforming challenges, in the furnace of our hearts, to forge EVEN MORE compassion, EVER GREATER Love, and Awakening FURTHER STILL to the infinite & timeless essence of our Being.

One of the greatest forms of activism I’ve discovered in the heaviness of these times is the power of JOY.  I’ve decided NEVER to yield my free will to choose my state of Being over the unskillful behavior of others.  I am master of my domain & captain of this vessel.  I’ve also not seen that suffering over others suffering makes a difference.  Some believe that in the oneness of the energetic sea of consciousness, it actually fosters fear & all that comes with it – tension, stress, fatigue, indecision, doubt, contraction, etc…

I invite you to NEVER let your light go out & rekindle your flame at Earth Alive 2025.  All information on the gathering & registration can be found RIGHT HERE.  Along with the vitally important inner work we do, there’ll be lots of time for FUN & PLAY.  There could be games, music & singing, perhaps even a little dancing, and for sure CELEBRATION of the precious BLESSINGS that are our lives as part of this Sacred Living Earth.  PLEASE SHARE with anyone you feel could use a little support.  Some scholarships & financial aid are available to those in need.

We send you our deepest Love & Blessings and look forward to being with many of you soon.

The Earth Alive Team

When I don’t know what else to do, I pray, send Blessings and ask for help.  PLEASE, make it a priority to CALL our Senators & Representatives & ask them to PRIORITIZE getting food relief into Gaza NOW!!!  This is not about choosing sides or assigning blame, but appealing to our shared HUMANITY to end a solvable, man-made catastrophe causing unbearable suffering & costing lives, especially of innocent children.

We can find our Senators @ this website: https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

and our Representatives @ this website: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Most have multiple locations/office and, as in the squeaky wheel gets the grease, calling them ALL helps emphasize this point.  One staffer told me we can call/e-mail as often as we want & every contact gets recorded/logged.  For those willing, calling Sens. & Reps. beyond our own districts and states matters too.  We hope to marshal the political will to end the starvation & death that was predicted & is now unfolding.  Information is all over the place but here’s one that speaks to a good snapshot – Drs. unable to work, journalists leaving, children & infants dying, etc…all due to hunger.  It’s just too heartbreaking to bear:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/24/gaza-starvation-israel-restrictions/

BLESS US ALL

“As the Ocean gives rise to a wave, so too does Earth give rise to us.”

Dearest Ones,

It is a great honor & privilege to extend this invitation for you to join us at Earth Alive ’25 on August 22-24.  All information on this Sacred gathering, including registration, can be found RIGHT HERE.

My wife bought me a T-shirt that says “Bird Loving Tree Hugger,” and while I get the levity, I’m also aware that whenever we spend time in nature, we’re surrounded by infinite, unfathomable and profound complexity & connections – MOST of which we don’t understand.  Trees communicate with each other, plants communicate with insects, and animals communicate within & across species.  When I hug a tree, it’s about exploring the boundaries of access to this communication & intelligence. Read more

Please take a few minutes this weekend to show support & solidarity with our Ukrainian brothers & sisters.  Little things can have big impacts & it’s important we ALL help our family & friends see with clarity & counter disinformation.  UKRAINE IS THE VICTIM PERIOD & FULL STOP!!!!  May we at least be COMPASSIONATE & SUPPORTIVE as we’d want reciprocated were OUR homes & communities destroyed, OUR children kidnapped & displaced, OUR elderly parents forced to live in war zones without utilities & unable to move, OUR wives & daughters sexually assaulted, OUR husbands & sons tortured, murdered, or OUR soldiers executed.

We speak up not only for the Ukrainians, but for RUSSIANS who are ALSO victims of the same cruel dictator.  BBC estimates 167,000 – 234,000 Russians killed – most from poor, rural areas, exponentially more injured & disabled, thousands imprisoned and millions fleeing persecution.  Displaying a Peace sign in Russia gets you jailed.  US/Russian dual citizen Ksenia Karelina, a former ballerina, was sentenced to 12 years for donating $50.00 to Ukrainian relief efforts.  Ask US basketball player Brittney Griner about Russian prisons.  Alexei Navalny sacrificed his life, his beautiful wife & 2 children losing their husband & father, to speak out against such injustice.  Let’s support a JUST & LASTING Peace that honors Ukrainians and assures their safety.  A few simple suggestions include:

• Changing our Facebook homepage image
• Displaying lawn or window signs or flags
• Purchasing bumper stickers
• Calling our congresspeople & letting them know WE SUPPORT UKRAINE https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
• Donating to a relief charities – especially vital now that we’ve frozen all US aid, here’s an NPR list I found https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082992947/ukraine-support-help

As with any crime, the MOST IMPORTANT people informing our views should be the VICTIMS.  The Kyiv Post, The Kyiv Independent, Meduzza Russia, Novaya Gazeta Europe, and the Institute For the Study of War are just a few resources I’ve learned from.

Let me hold the door for you.  I may have never walked a mile in your Shoes,

but I can see that your soles are worn and your strength is torn

under the weight of a story I have never lived before.

So let me hold the door for you. After all you’ve walked through, it’s the least I can do.

 

                                                                             Morgan Harper Nichols

I stand PROUDLY with Ukraine, HUMBLED by the COURAGE of its’ citizens and EXTRAORDINARY leadership of President Zelensky.  My parents raised me not to scold, demean or insult victims of abuse, assault, rape or murder.  Let us not miss the forest for the trees in recognizing Ukraine is the VICTIM of these and too many other gut wrenching, unbearable crimes against humanity. Read more

Join WORLD MEDITATION DAY as proclaimed by the the U.N. General Assembly – Saturday, December 21, 2024 at 8:00 AM & 5:00 PM in your time zone. Join meditators in all parts of the world to meditate together for Inner, Outer & World Peace. Governments, Spiritual leaders, and practitioners of ANY MEDITATION PRACTICE are invited to participate. In this simple way, a wave of harmony and positivity will circle our planet as together we all celebrate World Meditation Day.

The 1^st meditation will begin in New Zealand at 8:00 AM, an hour later – in the next time zone to the west, and so on around the entire world.  At 5:00 PM, meditators will follow the same procedure beginning their afternoon meditations. By including morning & afternoon meditations and moving westwards hour by hour with the sun, World Meditation Day will actually last for 32 1/2 hours, concluding after 5:00 PM in Hawaii.

I invite us all to support this BEAUTIFUL endeavor amidst these complex times we’re living in.  All details can be found at https://worldmeditationday.world/

Love & Blessings

Brad

I can feel everything and survive. What I thought would kill me, didn’t. Every time I said to myself: I can’t take this anymore — I was wrong. The truth was that I could and did take it all — and I kept surviving. Surviving again and again made me less afraid of myself, of other people, of life. I learned that I’d never be free from pain but I could be free from the fear of pain, and that was enough.

Glennon Doyle, Untamed

My BeLoveds,

I would like to offer a GREAT BIG VIRTUAL HUG & tell you that I LOVE YOU, not because of anything you’ve done or not done, but to honor the inherent worth, dignity & respect I believe should be afforded us ALL as human beings.  I know for many this is a HARD TIME!  I offer these thoughts with Love – may they help.

First, remember to regularly practice BREATHING DEEPLY.  This can have a calming impact on our system and is ALWAYS a good practice to cultivate deeper patterns/habits so we’re more likely to do so naturally & automatically – even when we’re not thinking about it.

It is important & absolutely OK to feel our feelings – ALL OF THEM – sadness, grief, anger, etc.  It’s also important to ensure our safety while doing so and not cause harm to ourselves or other others.  Conversations, journaling, nature time, exercise, art, dancing, making music, crying, laughing, crumbling paper or leaves, breaking twigs, pounding pillows, are but a few of the safe outlets for expression.  The grieving process is not necessarily linear, and we may move back & forth through waves of emotions, but I assure you as we stay with it, our emotions will change, evolve and eventually pass.  REACH OUT to those you Love & let them know it and ask for support – family/friends/spiritual communities, or even professional assistance if needed, etc.

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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

Rabindranath Tagore

Special Thanks to Bob Roth, Director of the David Lynch Foundation, for sharing.

I am VERY PROUD to share my friend Jim Merkel’s award winning documentary SAVING WALDEN’S WORLD. It features societies that accomplished many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals decades ahead of 2030 targets, including greatly reducing poverty & enhancing gender equality by, among other things – UPLIFTING & EMPOWERING WOMEN!!!  I’m honored that 2 of my original songs are included in the film’s soundtrack. You can find more, including where it’s showing at http://savingwaldensworld.org/.

For those nearby a special screening with several of the filmmakers on hand, will be held in New York City Monday, September 23 @ 7:00 pm at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema at 87 Lafayette Street, NYC with a post screening party till 10 PM. Tickets are limited so secure your tickets here.

“Nobody sees a flower – really – it is so small – we haven’t time – and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.”

Georgia O’Keefe

There’s a field of being, a larger truth that’s simply beyond words and ultimately unknowable in its’ entirety.  Life is profound, mysterious and precious.  In our most challenging times, it can be helpful to remember that which is timeless, eternal, Sacred – like the vastness of the cosmos, the Magic of stars, and this Miraculous Living Earth.

On the Spiritual path, we must work to nurture the essence of our true nature – our own inner children, through practices like play, laughter and a healthy sense of humor – especially in difficult times.  Russian activist Alexei Navalny was a true master at this, heroically maintaining his sense of humor despite the unimaginable conditions of his imprisonment.  While we know it’s healthy to acknowledge our pain, allow space to grieve & process, and seek support, it is also important to maintain perspective.  This, in and of itself, can be healing & transformative.  As difficult as some of our challenges are, we’re certainly not the 1^st generation to go through things.  Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl suggests:

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

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