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Harvesting the Fruits of a Simple DreamHedy and Yumi Schleifer
What started with a simple dream: "We travel the world and teach Imago in all the languages that we speak", has unfolded into a reality bigger than we could have ever fathomed. We planted an Imago seed and it has blossomed in many places: Austria, British Columbia, Israel, Germany, South Africa, Namibia, Switzerland, Sweden. There is no force bigger than "a good idea whose time has come".
Some poignant memories are indelibly marked in our mind. Imagine a Moslem couple from Nazareth in traditional garb, sitting next to an orthodox Jewish couple from Jerusalem. Envision a Jewish man crossing the bridge to "visit" and learn to be present to the bursting rage of an Arab man. Just take a moment and hold in your heart the picture of an Afrikaans therapist tenderly cradling in her arms a black South African......or an Afrikaans Christian man and a Moslem Indian woman "holding" each other's disparate, mixed and powerful feelings about "Freedom Day", commemorating the anniversary of the new, inclusive South Africa. Travel with us to Austria, and witness an Austrian man in dialogue with his Jewish colleagues about his deeply buried anti-Semitism, coached by a German therapist, daughter of a Nazi perpetrator, who now feels she is freed to assist her father to die in dignity. Watch a moment on video tape, in Tswana, one of the 11 African languages, when a man suddenly "gets" that his one room tin tenement house "IS" the sacred space-between, and that he has no right to hit his wife and vomit on the ground. In gratitude, he and his wife walk miles to bring the traditional chicken as a gift for their coach, a black Sangoma or Shaman. Let your soul embrace the pregnant encounter of an Israeli man holding a sobbing German man, son of a Nazi father, who for the first time is expressing his buried guilt and shame.
Our new dream is also simple: "Nations celebrate their embrace of the space-between them". We are envisioning a Summit Meeting in Jerusalem on November 11th, 2012.....at 9 o'clock in the morning. Mark your calendars. As we are all becoming increasingly aware of: "Energy follows attention". Only 3% of the population must embrace a new consciousness for the "tipping effect" to create exponential growth. We look forward to celebrate together in Jerusalem!
Hedy and Yumi
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