411 update #GlobalPeace2021 Jerusalem Peace Pole Ceremony, UCSB Eternal Flame to Tree of Peace (Sun15Apr 12-2pm)
April 11, 2018, planning update, For Immediate Release
For more information contact David Williams, (805) 708-0252
RE: Santa Barbara Eternal Peace Flame and UCSB Tree of Peace Ceremony, Sunday April 15, 2018
At Noon this Sunday April 15th the prototype for a Global Peace Pole, offered as the Santa Barbara Peace Pole for Jerusalem, will be featured in a ceremony at the UCSB Eternal Flame Memorial Peace Monument outside Buchanan Hall, to empower the success of its mission to unite the three holy faiths of Jerusalem in peace. The history of the UCSB Eternal Peace Flame will be related with participants joining minds to further the installation of this open source model Global Peace Pole in both East and West Jerusalem as soon as possible.
At 12:30pm participants will carry this Global Peace Pole in a procession from there to the UCSB Tree of Peace on the greenbelt at the Northwest corner of Storke Tower, in respect of the Great Law of Peace it symbolizes, for a half hour or so circle to offer prayers, comments and ideas for the success of the Jerusalem Peace Pole mission.
This is the second in a series of three Spring 2018 UCSB Tree of Peace Ceremonies for this purpose, with the third on May 5.
The first one took place with seven participants on the March 11th seventh anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. Participants included Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo who added the “Three Faiths of Jerusalem United in Peace” symbol to the Santa Barbara Peace Pole for Jerusalem prototype and read her mayoral proclamation for the occasion, text copied below.
That ceremony was convened with an opening prayer by Chumash Elder Art Cisneros and conducted by Mayan Sacred Calendars Keeper and Crystal Skull Guardian Jose Munoz, founder of the World Peace 2021 Movement per the Mayan “Prophecy” of the Jade Princess from the year 1444 promising world peace by the year 2021.
This Global Peace Pole model was displayed at last weekend’s Santa Barbara Lucidity Festival on the altar of the hemp Dream Catcher installation depicting the Mayan Sixth Sun Sacred Calendar for the next 26,000 years starting December 21, 2012. It featured my Rainbow Uprising Lattice structure as its centerpiece, which Jose said he would take with him and set up wherever he goes in future. A duplicate will be made and displayed at our May 5th UCSB Tree of Peace Ceremony.
Text of Mayoral Proclamation:
Santa Barbara
Proclamation
COMMUNITY TREE OF PEACE DAY
March 11, 2018
Whereas, the UCSB Tree of Peace was planted in 1985 as a symbol of the Great Law of Peace, the foundation of the Iroquois Confederacy after which American Democracy was largely patterned, and
Whereas, the City of Santa Barbara recognizes the importance of finding forward-thinking solutions to local peace issues with a global perspective, and
Whereas, the Community Peace Council of Santa Barbara supports Santa Barbara’s peace-seeking efforts by promoting personal peace, local peace, and global peace while encouraging participation within the local community.
Whereas, on March 11, 2018, the community is invited to participate in the UCSB Tree of Peace Ceremony, including a Prayer Ceremony recognizing the 7th Anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, and the installation of the “Three Faiths United” symbol on the Santa Barbara Peace Pole for Jerusalem,
Now, Therefore, I, Cathy Murillo, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Santa Barbara, California, do hereby proclaim March 11, 2018, as COMMUNITY TREE OF PEACE DAY in Santa Barbara and encourage everyone to strive for peace within themselves and promote peace within the community.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Official Seal of the City of Santa Barbara to be affixed this 6th day of March, 2018
/signed/ Cathy Murillo
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The Eternal Flame Memorial Peace Monument was gifted to UCSB by the graduating class of 1969. It features three plaques with quotes from Martin Luther King, President John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. We are proposing to add a plaque on May 5th quoting Cesar Chavez, “Si Se Puede!”.
The gas fueling the flame was turned off in 1970 as a gesture of support for a solution to the “energy crisis” declared that year.
When I first encountered it, unlit in 1983, I resolved to see it relit and recognized globally as an important symbol of the global human desire for world peace.
To that end I conducted a prayer ceremony at the unlit monument with the first version of the ecumenical Peace Pole for the White House created in 1980, and asked the Daily Nexus to help promote the idea.
Afterward, UCSB Chancellor Robert Huttenback conducted a ceremony and relit the flame with strong participation from the Black Student Union. Because the wind kept blowing the flame out the gas was shortly turned off again.
After Barbara Uehling became UCSB Chancellor, I organized a ceremony which she conducted when the monument was jointly relit by Santa Barbara Mayor Sheila Lodge and the Mayor of Yalta USSR as part of the Santa Barbara Yalta Sister Cities initiation events. Subsequently, in a ceremony in De La Guerra Plaza, Mayor Lodge installed on that peace pole the US and Soviet crossed flags Sister City lapel pin that was widely distributed during that time. Shortly afterward the USSR dissolved.
The same problem continued with the wind blowing the flame out, so the gas was turned off again.
A year or so later Chancellor Uehling agreed to the request to fix this problem after Chumash Elder Sky Eagle Victor Lopez in his late lifetime offered there his prayer that the flame would be relit permanently.
A device was installed by the UCSB Facilities Department with an electric spark every 30 seconds or so to relight the flame when the wind blew it out.
This was done in time for the biggest ceremony there to date, in January 1990 when it was relit with the Hiroshima Peace Flame which was afterward carried across country that year to the United Nations by the Global Walk for a Livable World. With the blessing of Chumash Elder Pilulah Khus, the flame was installed by a Hiroshima atomic bombing survivor after a procession across campus carrying the flame in a lantern from the Tree of Peace Ceremony conducted by Mohawk Chief Jake Swamp, founder of the Tree of Peace Society of the Iroquois Confederacy. The original Tree of Peace ceremony was conducted about a thousand years ago by the great Peacemaker of the Iroquois Confederacy whose message of the Great Law of Peace ended centuries of bitter warfare among them and spiritually united five indigenous nations to produce hundreds of years of peace and prosperity, expanding to over a hundred tribes, which declined only under influence of the European invasion.
This was the concluding ceremony of a week of events to initiate the Rainbow Uprising of Consciousness Campaign to propagate the Message of Peace symbolized by the Tree of Peace, and the Hopi Declaration of Peace authored by Hopi interpreter Thomas Banyacya who took part all week but had to leave before the Tree of Peace Ceremony to get to Moscow in time to participate in the Global Forum there.
There is a two hour video edit of those events on YouTube called Rainbow Uprising Campaign, ending with a half hour talk at the eternal flame by actor Jon Voight about his experiences with the Chumash, Hopi, and Iroquois spiritual leaders. There he discussed the Hopi Prophecy about opening the door of the “House of Mica” (the United Nations) which was fulfilled in October of 1991 with the help of one of the participants that week, Zen Buddhist Monk Yusen Yamato. Reverend Yamato is a fellow practitioner of the Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo universal medicine word drumming mantra practice, which was also taken up by Mahatma Gandhi in leading the Indian nonviolent spiritual political revolution to success.
Yamato is the initiator of the United Nations 50th Anniversary Global Peace Walk of 1995, to promote “Global Peace Now!” as the universal human resolve, for which I was the main organizer and on-the-road arrangements coordinator along with Chumash fire keeper Wonono Rubio and Rainbow Family Elder Felipe Chavez, carrying and sharing the booklets given us by the UN with the global indigenous leaders’ messages delivered at its General Assembly for the first time, on December 12, 1992, after “the door was opened”. We departed from the UN on the January 15th MLK birthday and ended in San Francisco on June 26, the 50th anniversary of the initial signing there of the United Nations Charter “to end the scourge of war for the future generations”. On the way, the Mayor of Taos New Mexico proclaimed that city as the first Global Peace Zone, to help propagate the message of “Global Peace Now!”
About two years ago, going to the eternal flame to offer a prayer, the flame had again been turned off for some reason during the significant construction under way nearby on campus.
After an appeal to Chancellor Henry Yang with an explanation of the situation, he had the flame turned on again with the electric sparks set more frequently to keep it lit.
Our ceremony this time on April 15th will feature the Global Peace Pole model inspired by the 1978 introduction to the United States of the ecumenical peace pole ceremony by Reverend Yamato to broaden its outreach, with the Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo calligraphy and adding other cultures’ symbols of the Message of Peace. This was inspired by the precedent 2200 years ago in India of King Ashoka, who renounced warfare and violence after a bloody campaign uniting the Indian subcontinent under his rule. After accepting the Message of Peace symbolized by the Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo essence of Buddha’s teaching, he built many peace monuments, peace pillars and stupas throughout his realm to memorialize the Message of Peace, which led to a period of 500 years without warfare, crime, or violence in that whole area.
The Rainbow Uprising Peace Pole was created in 2015, displaying that calligraphy along with the symbol of the Great Law of Peace associated with the Tree of Peace, and the symbol of the Hopi Declaration of Peace. This is now being expanded into the open source Global Peace Pole by adding three more symbols, the Tree Faiths United symbol affixed by Mayor Murillo on March 11th, the Spiritual Unity Symbol created by India’s Sathya Sai Baba, and the symbol of Peace, Love, and Patience, from the Mayan Sixth Sun Sacred Calendar per Jose Munoz’ blessing after our March 11th ceremony.
Our ceremony this Sunday coincides with Reverend Yamato’s arrival in New York to participate in the Opening Ceremony of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues taking place from April 16-27, as a descendant and representative of the indigenous Ainu people of Japan (Nippon, meaning “Origin of the Sun”) who have suffered under the Asian invasion as the indigenous peoples of America have suffered under the European invasion. Previously that land itself was called Yamato, meaning “Great Harmony”.
For a Spiritually United Nations,
Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
Om Sai Ram
Torahkum!
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Faithfully Yours,
David<3
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