Kryon often speaks of the New Jerusalem as a metaphor for the new world, yet he has also spoken of the physical Jerusalem as the place where the new world will begin. Recently, Jan Tober described the channeling where she and colleagues witnessed the swirling vortex of Jerusalem becoming transformed, thus allowing for a process of peace to take hold there. And just in the past few days, out of blue, I have seen references to a connection to Jerusalem that surprised me. In a November Q'uo channeling, through Carla Ruekert, the seeker suddenly said towards the end of the session that he felt a special connection to the Dome of the Rock, the mosque built in the 7th century, over the Temple Mount. The rock over which the mosque was built, on the site of the Temple, refers to the "even hashtiya," Hebrew, for the foundation stone -- the foundation stone of the world. Also, a person on the Crimson Circle board, describing the after-affects of a Reconnections healing, mentioned having been transported, etherically, first to Jerusalem and then elsewhere.

What is going on? Are many people sensing this connection to Jerusalem? My connection must go back and back and back, and now, in the time of the Great Shift I am back, drawn like a rubber band, to use Kryon's phrase at the 2000 Tel-Aviv channel. Now I live just down the hill from the wonderful promenade opposite the Old City wall with its magnificent view of the golden Dome of the Rock, and I go there often. We only recently moved to this neighborhood and I wonder whether one of the reasons is that I could often see and contemplate that scene. I wonder, I wonder. I wonder about much more than I have answers for.

In summer 2002, after a Course in Miracles exercise, I saw an aura on the hills north of Jerusalem and I just knew that I had to work on the Jerusalem Peace Park idea. Where did that idea originate? Not with me, but with Archangel Ariel), through Isaac George. In February 2002, AA Ariel says the following:

For those who are not aware of it, the center of the whole matrix, a major zero point spot on the Planet, is Jerusalem. And this piece of real estate is, in our estimation, in order for your Planet to know peace it must become a Peace Park that is part of an international community. Now, will that happen in your lifetime? Yes. Will it happen during the next two years? No.

(In Kabbalah, Ariel is the angel of Jerusalem.)

When will that time come, that time of peace, and must it first happen in Jerusalem?
I don't have too many glimpses into the future, most of them come from our interdimensional friends, such as Kryon, Tobias and Ariel. Kryon says there will be peace here in 2008. Tobias actually gives us a date for the Great Shift, "September 18, 2007, a date of completion, and a date of transformation." And does it begin here, in Jerusalem?

In all events, I have actually had the feeling that being among those who work on bringing the idea to fruition is why I came in in the first place, and during a very dark time, during World War II.

After that epiphany of sorts, summer of 2002, I wrote up a manifesto regarding the Jerusalem Peace Park. It has undergone many changes and will probably continue to do so. Here it stands at present:

Jerusalem Peace Park

Jerusalem may eventually become the city of peace, as implied in a version of its Hebrew name, yet for aeons the duality that inheres in the current Hebrew name appears more apt. So many wars have been fought over Jerusalem. So many peoples have sought it as their own. Today, Israel has sovereignty and it is its capital. But another nation, the Palestinians, eye it as their potential capital and show little sign of compromise.

Physically, the city has much beauty. Perched in the mountains, it is located between the green area in the west and dry desert in the east. Its magnificent panoramas in both directions, especially to the east towards the mountains rising beyond the Dead Sea plane, make it very special if only geographically. Whatever it is, many believe it to be the center of the world and that is the reason for so much of its troubles.

The status of Jerusalem is a major issue in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and between Israel and the Arab and Muslim worlds. Many on each side believe it should belong to them alone. Finding an innovative solution for Jerusalem's troubles would eliminate a major stumbling block on the way to a peace settlement between Israel and the Arabs, and since the issue of Jerusalem reverberates beyond the local conflict, a solution could significantly lessen international tension.

Let Jerusalem be presented to the world as a peace park, the Jerusalem Peace Park. More important than the practical steps taken there to promote peace, is that Jerusalem be the peace park for the entire world. I am not proposing that Jerusalem be capital of the world, absolutely nothing political is involved here. Politics has tended to bring woe and waste. I am proposing that Jerusalem be the world's island of peace and in that way the apolitical, nonpolitical, center of the world. Can we do it? Can we birth a new paradigm?

Like any movement, the Jerusalem Peace Park endeavor begins in the hearts of a few people. Time will tell if it does indeed grow into a movement of mass consciousness. I believe it will. Do you?

When the idea becomes widely accepted a snowball effect can occur that will show even those most hell-bent on the idea of, "it's mine and not yours," that the realization of a supra-sovereign Jerusalem Peace Park is the only way. It is crucial that the idea not placed under the auspices of any interest group and open to all with no tags, political or ecclesiastical.

The concept of the internationalization of Jerusalem has been raised in the past, but an internationalization run by a committee of officials appointed by foreign governments with the more powerful and influential states having dominance is out of the question. Jerusalem, as the Peace Park presented to the world, would be run by its inhabitants. The local residents know and love the city, for them it is not just an object of veneration. Jerusalem is real and has to be administered and have its problems hammered out by people who know its stones, who buy their groceries here, who send their children to school here. But since Jerusalem at this juncture of history must be presented as a Peace Park to the entire world and be supra-sovereign, there is a need for an international advisory committee, but of people who love it, not those appointed by governments or religious bodies which, sadly, still think primarily, if not solely, in exceptionally narrow terms of national, ecclesiastical, or oligarchic interest rather than the highest benefit of humanity. If Jerusalem is to point the way towards the transcendence of parochial interests the advisory committee would be composed of people of great cultural maturity.

Solving the problem of Jerusalem can have a great impact on the entire world: if
Jews and Arabs can solve what appears such an intractable problem, why can't others do the same? If Jews and Arabs can stop killing each other why can't others? Thus the most important effort needed to alter the current strife-ridden status of Jerusalem is consciousness.

Novel ideas often engender fierce opposition. When the 1930s theory of there being more than one galaxy in the universe was put forward the negative reaction was fierce; it was a replay of the ridicule of the 1912 theory of plate tectonics which was generally accepted only in the 1960s. Examples of ideas that once seemed preposterous (the world shaped like a ball rather than a pancake, Earth being a planet among others) and are today universally accepted are legion. There is always a clash between those who wish to remain in the perceptions bequeathed by previous generations and those willing to think — and believe — otherwise.

Many people will lean towards the idea immediately and embrace it with enthusiasm, others who reject it because of inherited notions may eventually come around when they realize it is in their own best interest. When Jerusalem is a supra-sovereign peaceful city owned by the entire world the universal benefits will be so obvious that opposition should wane.

For such a fundamental change is to occur in the city's status, Jerusalem must be based on a novel kind of sovereignty, a universal sort of sovereignty, a bubble of unique sovereignty. This can be accomplished by the creation of a new dialectic, one that leads, not to synthesis, but to a new, third, way, a neothesis, something fundamentally different from the accommodations and compromises of the past and which points a way out of the current parochial morass — and not only in Jerusalem.

Maybe the idea of supra-sovereignty just needs that push of consciousness. It's all a matter of belief. The structure of the world and all its workings are anchored in belief. Change your thoughts and you've changed your life. Enough people changing their thoughts can change the world, they can make peace break out in five minutes. And when that happens, the dispensation of enmity and belligerence will seem so archaic as to be incomprehensible. Let it begin in Jerusalem. Perhaps it has to begin in Jerusalem.

Let's get the ball rolling. Please contact me, jpp2007@netscape.net

The writer is a citizen of Jerusalem, Earth

Note what Kryon says in the fourth quarter 2003 q&a:

The "New Jerusalem" will be such a contrast to the old one that historians will say, "How could a place with such a violent history be the portal of peace on Earth?" This is the potential in Jerusalem. It exists as a "portal to the way Earth will evolve." So far, it has been death and more death. The potential is that it
can become the model of "peace and more peace." Can this really occur? Yes.
It will take time, but the energy being delivered to the planet from now to the year 2008 will make a difference. Watch the players change. Watch what the children will do.