I remember the day the US went to war in Iraq. It was Spring Equinox, just like it is today; a momentary point of balance in Earth's journey around the Sun. Day and night in equal measure. It was a day I decided to begin a series of video-documented rituals under the name of “Axis of Equal”, little prayers of peace to polarize the machinations of the warlords and all they command.

I have performed and documented this personal ritual twice a year ever since, always with the intention that it become progressively more and more collective – perhaps even vastly collective. I look to my generation and to our children to make it happen.

My generation, the ME GENERATION, those of us born in the decade following WWII. We aimed for the stars, we climbed to the Moon. We brought you the Beatles, Woodstock, Flower Power and more. We proclaimed Big Love and brought the Viet Nam war to a halt.

Now, we must find a way to bring the War on Terror to a close. The warlords would have our countries bomb their way forward under the cause of the War on Terror but this is just another devious way of duping and controlling the masses through fear. War IS terror and its first casualty is always truth. It will never lead to true and lasting peace. We have to find another way.

In the wake of the war that destroyed his homeland, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hahn provided the world community with a clear and lasting rallying point when he declared “There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”

Being peace, here and now, is the way forward and on the anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, I invite you to join with me in a symbolic act of solidarity in peace by balancing an egg on its end, sometime on this day. Don't think you can do the egg balancing part? See how easy it can be by watching the following documentations of earlier Axis of Equal ceremonies:

Axis of Equal on Google Video

AXIS OF EQUAL I

AXIS OF EQUAL II

AXIS OF EQUAL III

AXIS OF EQUAL IV


AXIS OF EQUAL 2007: SPRING EQUINOX