In thinking about the invitation to share our perspective on the Global Silent Minute Community what came to heart was the phrase:
“The Revelation is Oneness and nothing else.”
When we speak of a Global Silent Minute Community we are aware that this initiative launched in 2019 – and its radiatory growth to 2025 – is a mere fractal in the One Community of Life within the infinite chain of being throughout all kingdoms of nature – mineral, vegetable, animal, human and super-human – on Earth.
The Global Silent Minute grew out of a deep resonance with the purpose of the original Big Ben Silent Minute launched by Wellesley Tudor Pole in World War II with its intention to provide an opportunity daily for those on the other side of the veil to consciously cooperate to defeat evil and bring an end to that war.
Beyond the war, Wellesley Tudor Pole grasped the significance of the power of meeting daily “hearts across distance” around the world and across the veil, in Silence: an opportunity for the Forces of Light to work vigilantly as a spiritual army using spiritual weapons – in particular the power of united thought – for evolutionary purposes on behalf of the Common Good.
In New Era Community (275) it is said:
“When calculations become complex and Infinity is obscured, then will be remembered anew the simplest principle: from heart to heart – such is the law of fraternity, community, fellowship.”
Let us remember the simplest principle or law of community: heart to heart.
The Global Silent Minute Community works with the Doctrine of the Heart working “outward from it, not inward toward it” (Heart, 339). It’s our point of identification.
We offer New Era Community 136 as a point of reference as we realize that as humanity we are operating from a point of realization of evolutionary impulse in the Heart in this moment with the shift from Pisces to Aquarius – rather than any compliance to an external command.
The Global Silent Minute as an initiative is the realization of an inner impulse, and its power – its vitality – is in the fact that people have responded to the realization of an inner impulse, not an external command. It is a Call that activates the will to act from internal inspiration rather than complying with an external idea.
We participate in one simultaneous minute with intention and shared purpose, calling for Global Cooperation, Peace and Freedom, in recognition of the revelation of our time: Oneness in Communion. Embracing this service has brought the realization that the intentional gathering in Silence is action; is labor; and is revealing the power of Silence. Silence as Action in Sacred Unity.
It is just one moment every day and just like it is important to care for the Cosmos in each blade of grass (New Era Community, 92), it is essential to take a moment to be in sacred unity in community. Through this experience we realize we are citizens – not only of the Earth, but also – of the Universe.
The micro, the macro – the one and the same – through comprehension and apprehension in the heart. As builders of Life we are urged to:
“…find new words, forged by new necessity. Realization of the newness of each hour will provide the impulse.”
New Era Community, 118.
We could say realization of the newness of each daily minute in Silence will provide the impulse. We are encouraged to apprehend the power of the “new call” that can be applied in the life of every day.
We know that the Agni Yoga Teachings come to life as they are wrought out in the furnace of our being.
Humanity has so many experiments of living and working in community because we realize on some level that we are striving to assist Earth to realize her sacredness within a greater Community.
The great shift occurring for humanity is in consciousness, from separateness to synthesis, from a siloed approach to life to an approach of realized unity and interconnectedness. We have an opportunity to support this shift in consciousness as we offer our life in community to the realization of the Oneness of Life.
In closing we offer the final statement in New Era Community:
“Toiler, when the energy is transmuted into an ocean of light, does thy consciousness quiver or expand? Toiler, is thy heart fearful or exultant when before thee looms Infinity?”
Dorothy J Maver and Wendy J Thompson, co-founders, Global Silent Minute