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Carolyn Baker - interesting reading to contemplate
Something is festering in the psyches of the formerly middle class of this nation-something far more ominous than burgeoning public assistance and food stamp applications or mushrooming meth labs. If the subprime mortgage massacre had occurred in a vacuum, the dirty little secret might have been kept a bit longer, but juxtaposing it with Peak Oil, skyrocketing food prices, wacky weather and debilitating droughts, not to mention proliferating pink slips, it daily becomes embarrassingly obvious that Jim Kunstler was spot-on when he uttered his infamous declaration in the documentary, "The End Of Suburbia" that "the entire suburban project is the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world."
Warren Buffett sees "long, deep" U.S. recession
BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States is already in a recession and it will be longer as well as deeper than many people expect, U.S. investor Warren Buffett said in an interview published in German magazine Der Spiegel on Saturday.
Wisdom to Contemplate When the Challenges Get Rough
The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. She prayed feverishly for God to rescue her, and every day she scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming. Exhausted, she eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect her from the elements, and to store her few possessions..
One day, after scavenging for food, she arrived home to find her little hut in flames, and soon there was nothing left. The worst had happened, and everything was lost. She was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. "God, how could you do this to me?" she cried.
Early the next day she was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island. It had come to rescue her. "How did you know I was here?" asked the weary woman of his rescuers. "We saw your smoke signal," they replied.
It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain, frustration and suffering. Remember this the next time your "hut" seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the grace of God.
Dolphins Know Each Other's Names
“We know that dolphins’ brains are nearly as large and complex, relative to body size, as those of humans. They have evolved to be intelligent and that implies being able to communicate,” she said.
Dolphins may, however, be just the first of many species where individuals are found to have their own names. Other researchers have already found evidence for highly developed language skills in parrots, crows and primates.
Great apes, such as chimpanzees and orang-utans, have been a popular subject for research because they are so closely related to humans.
Honeybee Colony Collapse to Devastate Food Companies, Result in Food Scarcity
'The Emergence of Colony Collapse Disorder
In late 2006, beekeepers in the United States began to notice that unusual numbers of honeybees were dying during the winter. Beekeepers reported losing between 30 and 90 percent of their bees, in contrast to the usual 20 to 25 percent.
The phenomenon, which continued through last winter, remains unexplained. Some of the potential reasons being investigated for the honeybee die-off are poor nutrition, invasive mites, diseases or toxins, air pollution, or a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, in which bees abruptly desert their hives and die (i.e. they go on strike). In general, human beings have a very poor appreciation of all the services "provided" by Mother Nature, including the removal of CO2 from the air by plants, the turning of soil by worms, and of course the free pollination of crops and orchards by honeybees and other insects. Full article here>>> Mike Adams from Natural News
'As go the insects, so go humans.'
Natural News is a fabulous site and well worth a read.
Jill Taylor's inspirational talk on the brain
On February 27, 2008, I was invited to give an 18 minute presentation at the TED conference
in Monterey, CA. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design - three wide-ranging subject
areas that are, collectively, shaping our future. Every year, 1300 of the world's leading thinkers
and doers gather together for four days of networking, education and exposure to new ideas.
Past speakers and performers have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Paul Simon, Richard Branson,
Frank Gehry, Philippe Starck, James Watson, Billy Graham, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, and Bono.
However, TED is about much more than famous names. It is about passion, laughter, beauty,
and ingenuity. It is about ideas capable of changing the world, and I was given 18 minutes to
share my personal story and an idea that I believed was worth spreading. My experience at
TED was both phenomenal and life transforming. See for yourself by visiting www.TED.com.
Karen Armstrong Authority on comparative religions
“I say that religion isn’t about believing things. It’s ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in
a way
that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.”
Karen Armstrong is one of the most provocative, original thinkers on the role of religion in
the modern world. Armstrong is a former Roman Catholic nun who left a British convent to
pursue a degree in modern literature at Oxford. In 1982 she wrote a book about her seven
years in the convent, Through the Narrow Gate, that angered and challenged Catholics
worldwide; her recent book The Spiral Staircase discusses her subsequent spiritual awakening
after leaving the convent, when she began to develop her iconoclastic take on the great
monotheistic religions.
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Physics of Change - Greg Simmons
Already, in just the first trading day of the year, crude oil broke through the $100-a-barrel mark for the first time ever! Meanwhile, gold rose above $860 an ounce to an all time new high!!
Here is why these are just the beginning of a wild year:
IN 1976, WE DECLARED PERELANDRA a nature sanctuary and research center. It is dedicated to the discovery and practice of nature's principles of balance as taught by nature. Our primary focus has been in areas of co-creative partnerships we humans can potentially have with nature — such as gardening, agriculture and health. The direction and timing at Perelandra have been set by nature and this in itself has been a tremendous learning process for us. Nature's sense of timing and direction tends to defy our sense of logic! The research and work that has gone on here is a result of careful listening to nature's input as to what is to be done, step by step.
Since beginning my work with nature, I have seen proven over and over that if we are going to reestablish ecological balance and live as an active contributor rather than a challenger to that balance, we are going to have to look to nature to teach us, give us answers, and help us pull out of our present ecological downspiral. If ever there was a time to create a conscious and active co-creative partnership with nature, it seems it is now.
Machaelle Wright
Leonid Sharashkin is writing his doctoral dissertation on the spiritual, cultural and economic significance of the Russian permaculture gardening movement, at the University of Missouri at Columbia. He is also editor of the Ringing Cedars Series by contemporary Russian author Vladimir Megre -- influential books on humanity's spiritual connection to Nature and practical ways to re-establish this connectedness through gardening. Ringing Cedars
Miracle Minerals
The answer to AIDS, hepatitis A, B and C, malaria, herpes, TB, most cancer and many more of mankind's worse diseases may be with us. Many diseases are now easily controlled. More than 75,000 disease victims have been included in the field tests in Africa. Scientific clinical trials have been conducted in a prison in the country of Malawi, East Africa. The Malawi government produced identical 99% cure results.
MMS does not cure disease but it kills the pathogens, viruses, bacteria, mould and fungus in the body that stops the immune system from doing its job. It also kills free radicals that have a low pH in the body which is the cause also of many diseases, cancer, lymphoma, lymes disease, lupus and a host of others including diabetes and arthritis.
Plan 9 from outer space In January 1979, The New York Times reported that despite repeated, feverish denials, the CIA had indeed investigated the UFO phenomenon: "CIA Papers Detail UFO Surveillance" screamed the headline. The report is said to have so upset the then CIA director, Stansfield Turner, that he reportedly asked his staff: "Are we in UFOs?"
Mystical Man Blog ...Signs
I know there has been much speculation about signs that suggest that our civilization is coming to an end and I feel it's important to comment on that.
Robert Shapiro - Mystical Man
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D. was a Swiss-born psychiatrist and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying, where she first discussed what is now known as the Kübler-Ross model or the now famous Five Stages of Grief. They include:
1. Denial : The initial stage: "It can't be happening."
2. Anger : "How dare you do this to me?!"
(either referring to God, oneself, or anybody perceived, rightly or wrongly, as "responsible")
3. Bargaining : "Just let me live to see my son graduate."
4. Depression : "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"
5. Acceptance : "I know that I will be in a better place."
Celtic Gardens Ritual and Meditation - Anchoring the Bliss
Autumn/Spring Equinox
~ Candle Ritual
Position a candle at eye height and light it.
Gaze into the flame at the tip of the wick for 5 or 10 minutes.
Allow the room to disappear.
Clear your mind.
Trance.
A doorway may appear at the wick after about 10 minutes.
Hold your attention there at the doorway or on the flame within the flame.
If thoughts appear, just let them drift by and refocus on the flame.
Then after these 10 minutes,
close your eyes and imagine the flame
visible in your third eye.
As you gaze at it from within your third eye space,
bring the image of what you desire to become - your new self -
into this space.
Hold this image of your new self
and let it evolve and reveal all its flavours to you.
If unrelated thoughts come up - just refocus.
Step fully into your New Illumined Life.
Continue with eyes closed anchoring how it feels to be this new self
for another 10 minutes or so.
Continue embroidering your new self.
When your transformation is fully anchored - open your eyes.
Draw a symbol that represents you -
now transformed
and display it in your home.
You are transformed as your new self shines
with power
and translucence.
Your symbol is the reminder of this transformation.
Look at your symbol daily to confirm your new self
until it is completely anchored in your life.
Scrupulously monitor the changes.
Celebrate the changes that have been made in your life
~ all your reprogrammed decisions and attitudes support your bliss.
To illumination!
Cedar
We have a tradition at Celtic Gardens to plan our new season's Dreamings on the solstices and equinoxes. It is Summer in the southern hemisphere and winter in the northern hemisphere. You may like to join us in contemplating the following excerpt from Volume 1 of the Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East attributed to Emil's Mother...
"We have to look upon three events. One that happened long ago, the one that typifies to you the birth of the Christ Consciousness in man, the birth of the Babe Jesus. Then the one that we can see coming when your great nation accepts and realises the Christ Consciousness. Then we love to turn to the third and last, the greatest of all splendours, the second and last coming of the Christ within, when all know and accept the Christ within, and live and unfold in this consciousness and grow as the lilies frow. This is the At-one-ment."
Food Riots have Begun
Almost half of the individuals of the world live on less than $2 per day. There has always been enough food grown - the problem has been the greed of those controlling the food and the people. Soon however, certain foods will disappear due to myopic farming practices in places, disastrous climate changes, genetically modified seeds and poisonous soil and water.
Indeed throughout much of history on Earth, millions of people have had too little food and water to sustain healthy life and I believe the problem of food and water shortages will soon affect regions on the planet that were previously abundant. I do feel that these and related problems will get much, much worse and this is just one of the reasons that I have been encouraging readers to grow and preserve as much as their own food as possible.
Food Inflation
What the World Eats
Seed Vault in Norway
WITHIN a large concrete room, hewn out of a mountain on a freezing-cold island just 1000 kilometres from the North Pole, could lie the future of humanity.
The room is a "doomsday vault" designed to hold around 2 million seeds, representing all known varieties of the world's crops. It is being built to safeguard the world's food supply against nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes and the ensuing collapse of electricity supplies.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near the town of Longyearbyen (population 2,075)[1] in the remote arctic Svalbard archipelago. The island is about 1,120 kilometres (700 mi) from the North Pole.
I think it prudent to have your own seed vault and I encourage communities, regions and states to follow Norway's lead.
Drought destroys rice production in Oz
The Deniliquin mill, the largest rice mill in the Southern Hemisphere, once processed enough grain to satisfy the daily needs of 20 million people. But six long years of drought have taken a toll, reducing Australia's rice crop by 98 percent and leading to the mothballing of the mill last December.
Some Consequences of the US Led Invasion of Iraq
"Five years on, the 2003 US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq has left a devastated country
and people. While dictatorships always come with their unique problems - and Iraq was no exception
and neither was it unique - prior to 2003, the majority of Iraqis had access to basic facilities, ranging
from education, health, food and other basic infrastructure. Today, Iraqis have access to barely an
hour of electricity daily, if they are fortunate; the cost of fuel has skyrocketed, despite Iraq being
the second largest producer of oil in the world; potable water is lacking, resulting in a variety of illnesses
through the consumption of untreated water; unemployment stands at around 40-60%; there is a
severe shortage of basic medicines and health care; children's education has been severely disrupted,
with an entire generation of psychologically traumatised children; there is a sharp increase in the number
of widows, orphans and street children; and the displacement of thousands upon thousands of families,
both internally and externally, is surely the greatest tragedy of the 21st century. The new government -
if its a real government - has proved that it is incapable of protecting its citizens - the violence and
bloodshed continue unabated, despite all claims to the contrary. Sectarian tension and distrust initiated
by militias, which did not exist prior to 2003, have affected the livelihood of Iraqi society. Freedom of
movement is impossible today. Bands of militia roam the streets, and safety and security for Iraqis is
but a haunting memory. The perpetrators of this crime of such great magnitude, resulting in the loss
of innocent lives and the loss of livelihood of an entire sovereign nation, must be held accountable
and justice must be done. Contrary to popular belief that Iraq would disintegrate further if the occupation
ended, as often stated by those who support this war of aggression, the occupation of Iraq must end
before any real reconstruction and reconciliation can take place. Iraqis should be left to chart their
own destiny, while they take their rightful place among the other nations of the world."
Dr Salam Ismael - Doctors for Iraq - March 2008
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