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Welcome to Reiki, Johrei, Macrobiotics: POWER TOOLS -- a site devoted to empowering ourselves and each other! It seems that's what life is about, that's why we all came here to this planet. Transformation, Evolution, Enlightenment, Self-realization -- pick your favorite word! We are here to realize our true identity. Of the countless pathways available to us for spiritual awakening, for becoming conscious of our oneness with all of Life and with its Source -- this website is devoted mainly to three, namely Reiki, Johrei, and Macrobiotics.
My name is Don Beckett. Born June 20, 1953. Raised on a cattle ranch in Colorado, in a white-stucco house, by loving parents and a sister. With a green lawn and a vegetable garden, a strawberry patch, a gravel road going past. Along the road was a hillside full of ground squirrels and, at the bottom of the hill, a lush pasture where we kept the riding horses. The grass in the pasture came up to the horses' knees. It was fed by a small, vivacious stream of clear water that came from the north and also provided a home for countless frogs and ducks, and for muskrat and sometimes beaver. A welcoming environment for meadowlarks and blackbirds and others; for dragonflies and butterflies, and for all sorts of other insects, flying and crawling. Just upstream from the ground squirrels, directly below the house, was a stand of giant cottonwood trees. They grew right beside the creek, and were a haven for doves and magpies and owls. Across the creek was a field of alfalfa, and there was another one just down from the house on the side opposite the road. The only neighbor in sight was three-quarters of a mile away "as the blackbird flew" (we didn't have crows). I grew up feeling the whole world was my playground. It seemed I could see the whole world, just by stepping out the door of the house! If not from there, then certainly from the top of the hill behind the barn (on the other side of the road): a world of hills and pastures and fields and sagebrush, and distant mountains, all under a dome of sky so blue and clean, it could bring tears to my eyes. Everything was Earth and Sky, no buildings anywhere blocking the horizon. It was a beautiful and magical world, and I wanted to learn all about it. I spent days and months and years playing along the creek, climbing and sitting in the cottonwoods, exploring upstream and down with my closest friend, our collie (named Lassie, of course!). I often climbed the hill behind the barn and sat there talking to God. Other times I annoyed my sister (6 years older) with frogs from the creek. My sister went to a tiny, one-room schoolhouse a mile down the road. When I was 5 years old, I was allowed to start school myself. We had the greatest teacher in the world: my sister and I and 8 or 9 other kids -- grades 1 through 8, all in a single room maybe 20 feet by 30, with a potbelly, coal-burning stove. The greatest teacher in the world, a woman who turned my natural love of learning into absolute reverence for learning. I had only 2 years there, then the school was closed and all of us were sent to school in town, 11 miles away. My world was suddenly and drastically changed! From then through high school I lived in 2 worlds, country-world and town-world. From a high school of 300, I went to a University of 30,000: a student population a hundred times as large, surrounded by a metropolis of millions. My world was now asphalt and concrete, glass and brick and steel -- where a glimpse of Earth meeting Sky was a rarity. Ever since then I've spent much more time in cities than out of them. Besides Colorado, I've lived in Oregon and Utah, Arizona, Mexico, Bali, and nowadays Hawai'i. Here things are much more countrified again. By mainland standards, even the so-called cities are hardly recognizable as such (on Kaua'i and Hawai'i, at least; I've not been to the other islands yet). Even in downtown Lihue or Hilo, Nature is always a cradling presence. Kaua'i has Lihue, Hawai'i has Hilo, and almost everything else is wilderness, most of it inaccessible by road. Doors and windows are seldom shut here, and stepping outside is stepping literally into the hand of God. The panorama is Earth and Sky again, as in my childhood -- and Ocean. It still surprises me to be riding down the highway and see a huge, wide band of ocean looming over the horizon! To me the idea that any of this -- Earth, Sky, Ocean -- not to mention the precise inter-workings of them all, plus the myriad of other life forms interwoven in our world -- the idea that any of this could have arisen spontaneously and by chance (from where, from what?) is way beyond incredible. Undeniably there must be a Source, and a very intelligent one. Much more intelligent than we humans, who have succeeded mainly in killing ourselves and our fellow beings, and contaminating our resources and our planet. Just as undeniably, we cannot continue much longer in this way. The reality of the Universe will simply not support it. The messages are everywhere: it's time for us to wake up and wise up, to align ourselves with whatever great intelligence created this world. OR ELSE..... Or else what....? OR ELSE NOTHING..... We'd rather not think about the Or Else.....and that's really quite intelligent of us. Because what we think about is what we bring into being! CLICK HERE to find out exactly how this works --- | |||
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"Honolulu Sunrise" photo
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