Universal Hour of Peace 20 Hour, 12 Minute Meditation

the story continues reported by Jesse Aaron Kern

Here are the words that came to Dr. Barbara Condron following reading the Universal Peace Covenant with the East Coast (United States of America) in the 11 o'clock (pm) hour.

Last Poem of 2011
By Dr. Barbara Condron

The Dome is like a new Heaven with stars close enough to touch
Air is still, even the guides hold their breath
The moon chases clouds across the cerian sky
Where the wind sings our song of peace
To choirs of angels on land, in air, and in sea
Everything is bathed in the shimmering glow of our work today.
We have calmed a sea of discontent
We have healed the sick at heart
We have raised the consciousness of those who sleep and think they are awake.
We have spoken in every tongue by remaining true to our own.
We have changed the world by changing ourselves
and no thing will ever be the same again.
Peace is with us all ways
because this day, peace prevailed on earth.

December 31, 2011, 11:30 pm, 20 Hour, 12 Minute Meditation


This year, to honor humanity’s movement into 2012 and its transition into a new era of unity consciousness, a 20 Hour, 12 Minute Meditation occurred concurrently with the Vigil in the Upper Chamber of the Peace Dome. Starting at 5:00 AM on Saturday, December 31, 2012, the meditation concluded at 1:12 AM on Sunday, January 1, 2012. At least one person was meditating continuously through out this entire time. From Doctors of Metaphysics, who have graduated from the School of Metaphysics course of study, down to advanced students and graduate teachers on campus, these lead meditators ensured the continuity of the meditation by meditating for one-hour intervals. Other students present who practice meditation on a daily basis, joined in as well to amplify the meditation and its power of inner alignment.

The 20 Hour, 12 Minute Meditation was a unified experience that all School of Metaphysics branches across the Midwestern United States held as a celebration of the Universal Hour of Peace this year. On the campus of the College of Metaphysics, it was observed concurrently with the 24 Hour One Voice Peace Vigil in the Upper Chamber of the World’s Peace Dome.

“This is the first time continuous meditation has been introduced into our annual New Years Peace Vigil,” related Dr. Condron. “I can foresee its transcendent effect upon all of us to meet whatever comes, so we may transform what first looks like crisis into the impetus for quantum leaps in human consciousness toward the divine. For all who are participating and supporting this effort, may your effort return to you in like kind manifold.”

Indeed, everyone who participated in the meditation event was changed. “My first meditation was at eight o’clock AM.  I allowed myself to be the instrument for the Peace Covenant to move through,” Dr. Sheila Benjamin, a recreational therapist from Tulsa, Oklahoma, relayed. “In the beginning of my practice I could feel the vibration of the planet moving me. As I harmonized with it I was able to become still. Towards the end of my meditation I became the Buddha sitting in the meditation position. It was like a holographic experience.”

When the mind is aligned, time flies. Linear horizontal time is transcended and the vertical, present moment is all there is. “My meditations were spacious and simple,” said Dr. Paul Madar. “The hours that I meditated seemed like a few minutes.”

For some, meditating multiple times within the short span of a day brought changes that were mental and emotional. “I’m so thankful to be completing 2011 and entering 2012 with this meditative initiative,” Heather Hunt, a College of Metaphysics student, relates. “Several times today I have been unexpectedly overcome with gratitude in such a peaceful and complete way that, as if on an exhalation breath, it suddenly became more of a natural state of being.”

Physical shifts in the body were also balanced during the meditation event. “I started out with a headache today, and the more I meditated the better I felt,” College of Metaphysics student Scott Hilburn tells. "I felt a shift in myself – more open each time I meditated. I am interacting with people more and experiencing much joy and love for the all the students and teachers here at the College of Metaphysics and the entire world.”

Because the energies of the Peace Dome act as a mental broadcasting station, connection with other parts of the world are experienced and felt. “Being at the College of Metaphysics during the 20 Hour, 12 Minute Meditation has been amazing,” Heidi Morrison, an administrative assistant with Edward Jones from Des Moines explained. “The energy is palpable…so much of it is flowing and swirling in us, around us, and out of the Peace Dome to you and all over the world. I am blessed to be a part of this and have grown deeper in myself and also in my feeling of connectedness with all of Creation.”

In the Peace Dome, the meditators range of experience on this day spanned from advanced to absolute new beginner. “I must say I am quite new to the whole meditating experience. It was just three nights ago that I learned how to meditate,” Uhlich explains. “I am realizing my meditations are neither good nor bad, they just are. This is by far the most profound experience of my life!” Being willing to have new, expansive experiences causes one to grow at an accelerated rate.

In preparation for the day, Dr. Condron received into her mind an illustration of the simultaneous nature of the Peace Vigil and the 20 Hour, 12 Minute Meditation (see picture). An infinity symbol (the number eight turned sideways) with the left circle being a three dimensional Fibonacci spiral clock with more than twelve hours on it to show the hours of the Vigil on December 31, while the right circle was a flat faced clock to show the final four hours of the Vigil on January first. The hours were blocked and colored blue with the names of each hour’s lead meditator written in the block to show the Meditation event, while a pink line flowed throughout the illustration to show the timeframe of the Vigil across the entire day. Receiving such mind pictures to illustrate thought forms is a benefit of an aligned mind that has meditated daily for over thirty years.

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