An opportunity to send the Light! Here is a Light request from Steve Beimel in Japan in response to an email from John Morton (which is also below). Please send Light your Light and Love to Japan.

Dear John,

I just saw footage of the town we had visited together with J-R, on the Zen of Spirit Tour in Northern Japan on local TV. We had local entertainment with taiko drum players in the dining room of the hotel. You referred to it below: “a coastal town that had endured a very devastating tsunami in the distant past.”

It turns out that the huge tsunami wall that they had constructed to keep out tsunami was not nearly enough to protect them this time, and the town was destroyed once again.

Please send Love and Light to Taro Town and its residents, both those surviving and those on the other side.

Love,
Steve

And from John Morton:

Here is a good reminder for us all today and any day while upon the earth. I heard a national network news report tonight that the earth’s axis had been shifted by a few centimeters. PTS did a Zen of Spirit trip several years back during which we visited the Sendai area of Japan including a coastal town that had endured a very devastating tsunami in the distant past.
Love and Light,

John

Placing Light columns is a way to integrate into your daily life and routine a specific awareness of Spirit. When you do this, you are using your spiritual energy in positive action that can bring positive results to the physical level. It is wonderful when more and more people are willing to say, ‘I’m a Light bearer. I’ll bear Light wherever I go.’  As a spiritual being, you have inside the ability to call forth and bring forth the Light of God into any environmental situation and to transmute the negativity into a positive gain.  As just one example of this, to help stabilize the earth, you can ask that a column of Light be placed into the center of the earth and then radiate to the north and south poles.  This can help areas that are prone to earthquakes.” – John-Roger”

Here is a Moment of Peace from Japan. Nathaniel Sharratt writes:

In this moment of peace (from the Zen of Spirit trip to Japan in 2001), in the last half, we take a boat ride along the coast of Japan where the Tsunami hit, and end the video in Sendai, which suffered massive devastation….Light to our friends in Japan!

And this from Esprit Travel staff:

We want to thank all of you who have contacted us about our staff and friends in Japan and let you know with heartfelt relief that everyone there is fine and have been reporting in on what is going on in the country.

While we are a little swamped working with current exigencies of rebooking and adjusting client itineraries, we may be a little slower to respond to your inquiries, especially for travel that is not in the immediate future.

Of course, we are monitoring the situation closely. Flights to Narita and Haneda are starting to resume today. Tokyo is already moving back towards normalcy, having very minor damage, although there are still aftershocks being experienced. You Californians probably know about that! The subways were working yesterday and are getting back to their normal schedule. We have heard from our hotel contacts and all of the hotels have power and are working to comfortably accommodate their guests.

Kyoto and other countryside destinations were not affected at all, nor were areas further south and west such as Naoshima Island, Hiroshima and Kyushu. Since the situation throughout the country is so tightly integrated, especially the train system, that is the infrastructure system that we are watching in order to provide specific recommendations for travel.

We will be updating our Facebook page regularly with information, so you may check it here: http://www.facebook.com/EspritTravel

Many of our friends and clients in the US have asked how they can help. In addition to your prayers and statements of concern, you may want to support some of the many efforts underway to assist financially. Since we are not experts in this area, we suggest you check here for charities through which you can make a donation:

Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=content.view&cpid=1221)

Finally, the best way to support the Japanese during the upcoming period is to share your experience of the rich and vibrant culture that you encountered during your time in Japan. The Japanese are a people of great honor and dignity and they will surely persevere through these difficult times and continue to welcome us and our guests into their hearts and homes.

Warm regards,

Elaine and Nancy

And, from Japan –
Steve, Chizuko, Keiko, Masa, John