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Lessons From India’s Successful One-Year Anti-Farm Law Protests

April 8, 2022 Carol Leave a comment

A huge convoy of vehicles camping out in the capital and other major cities to protest in action what was imposed without democratic consent; thousands of men and women from all walks of life giving up their day jobs to follow the convoys, determined to help out in any way they could; mainstream media and governments demonizing and demeaning the protestors, painting them ignorant, led by outsiders – impossible they could be doing all this by themselves…

Governments stubbornly refused to recognize that where significant dissent exists, government must be a process of compromise, not imposed – “the majority” can also be a tyranny.

**India’s Farmers End Anti-Farm Law Protests after a year..**.

Sound familiar? Yes, but this was not the Canadian Freedom Convoy of truckers protesting vaccine mandates and other issues in Canadian politics. This happened in a huge democracy, far, far away…

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Welcome To Silk Road Visions

Carol Leigh Rice Victoria BC

Welcome and blessings to all who visit here!

You have arrived at the website of Carol Leigh Rice, MA, psychic, astrologer, Aquarian, student of shamanism, former academic (political science) and devoted mother.

I like to think of this as my online garden…I like to come here just for my own inspiration as much as to offer passers-by a small oasis in this busy world…

I find it uplifting – and steadying – to write about and explore the worlds of meditation, psychology, healing, and the exciting and validating new frontiers in new physics, medicine, and DNA.

These days I am studing new, westernizing Shamanism and its potential transformative role in astrology but also in the relationship we have with our DNA, which I have been led to believe encodes the karmic patterns of our Akashic Records. DNA as living softeware codes both physical and spiritual inheritance within the chain of our lifetimes. In this marvellous role, DNA also links us to the shared karma of family, community, ethnicity, gender and nation.

Much of what I write here comes out of my 50+ years of channeled psychic readings similar to Edgar Cayce’s Life Readings, full of information about past lifetimes, how karma works, how we bring certain plans into each new life, and so on…

So my blog is a place – for myself and for all who pass by – of contemplation, new ideas, and renewal, a way to keep exploring the higher truths as we travel the Road of life.

For these are all that count, in the end. What we take with us when we go will be how much we have loved, and how much we have learned. All else is chaff, blown away in the cosmic winds.

As I describe in Silk Road Visions: Back Here On Earth, I see our many lifetimes here on Earth through the metaphor of the ancient Silk Road, journeys repeated but never the same, always moving through the shifting, sifting sands of a History we all make together.

Kitaro, Silk Road (From Silk Road Suite) Live in Madrid

And, lastly, I write about the political. I felt “called” to the field of political science from the moment I set foot in the halls of academia. As I write here on Silk Road Visions, we are part of a human community, we travel together, for better and for worse.

We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, and we do not leave here until we know and practise this.

How we live together and share power and knowledge is the art and tradition of political science.

For those who find these things interesting, my master’s thesis was done at University of Victoria (1992) and seems as relevant today as it was back then – the title speaks for itself.

The entire thesis can be found and downloaded at UVic Library under Comparative Strategic Culture and the Use of Force, Space and Time in International Relations: Chinese Foreign Policy as Protracted War

Feel free to contact me at Carol at Silk Road Visions, Victoria BC

On the Spiritual Path

The Path gets narrow as we wind higher, and lonely, as fellow pilgrims turn back. No Book, no Church, just the Light. CLR

Kitaro * Caravanserai

Caravans and Shifting Sands

We are part of a great Cosmic Web, a web sprung to life in the internet highway where we connect in our millions around the world each day…We are never alone, and never lost, for we are in exactly the right place, in the right time, wherever we are.

Each person in our life is there because we share with them some thread of meaning woven into our connections, however large or small. We call this karma, which is something much more than “just desserts” for deeds done; karma is the teacher, the guide, the Road itself…

Nations, which we build together, have karma too, and often whole peoples reincarnate together in more than one historical time. In the study of history and political life we may meet ourselves, for we leave our threads woven in Silk Tapestries of nations and peoples as well as within our own lives.

From these larger Stories come memory, meaning and belonging, carefully preserved in the Book of Life which belongs to every Soul.

I see the spiritual path as one which for most of us leads into and through a busy, very-human world. We set forth anew through the Morning Gates, with hope in our hearts and our heads held high. We travel together in our caravans – our families and nations, our friends and our foes.

We jostle along with our laughter and love, with our strife and our sorrow – it’s all good, yours and mine. Yet we look for the distant horizons too, and we listen to stories we weave from our deeds, precious silk from our time on the Road.

For the deeds of this world, and each life we live – come once and are gone, entrancing, ever-changing, like the dunes of the shifting sands.

Sacred Feminine

She was a Temple to the Goddess, and men defiled her, but in the mists as they lay dying, it was She they remembered, She who guided them Home. CLR

Kitaro * Dance of Sarasvati Great Goddess of India

Get Creative!

Dune * Litany Against Fear

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death
that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past
I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Litany Against Fear – a Bene Gesserit teaching, passed to Paul Atreides by his gifted, rebellious mother, Lady Jessica – later Reverend Mother.

Dune * Prophecy and Prescience

“Prophecy and prescience – How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered questions?

Consider: How much is actual prediction of the “wave form” (as Muad’Dib referred to his vision-image) and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy?

What of the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife?”

From: Private Reflections on Muad’Dib by the Princess Irulan (Dune)

The Gift of Life

I lift myself on High
Dissolving, holy Wafer that I am,
In the Chalice I was given,
Sacred waters of my Life.

The Journey * Back Here On Earth

Thoughts on the spiritual life, how easy it is for us to wander, to lose interest in, lose strength for, the Road.

Thinking too, how little that matters to the Soul Who breathes through us, our Higher Self, always here, always loving, patiently awaiting our moments of return…

To Ukraine, With Love

Glorious Sunflower, Symbol of Joy, Hope and Freedom For Ukraine

Light At Dawn

“Forget your perfect offering. There are cracks in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

Topics On Silk Road Visions

Uranus * From Songs of Aquarius

It is Dusk. I slip in through the gates of the Ninth House, free once again. Here, as always, I find you, beloved Uranus, Stargate to Higher Mind, Sky Ship on whom I sail to Far-Away Space and Time…As night falls and you call to me, I leave Earth and all that I know, to come to you, oh Shaman mine. CLR

Buffalo Dreaming

Thank you, my Buffalo Friend, for your gifts of protection and abundance. Let me always see you on the Great Plains of my Soul. To what grace do I owe this wonder, and this blessing, that you have come? CLR

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