Holistic Healing
Climate reality/Reducing the use of
fossil fuels.
We all see that our lives are changed unalterably. The systems we have used do not work and they never will so we now HAVE TO FIND NEW WAYS OF LIVING AND BEING. Supermarkets, motor cars, banking are all becoming obsolete and the quicker we accept this, and find a new way of living, the better.
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Let me tell you a story. It is the story of the chicken and the egg. Today there are two way of farming eggs. One is battery operated farming and the other is free range chicken farming. To produce one battery egg takes approximately 25 factories. We need the motor factories to produce the tractors to plough the field to plant the chicken food. We also need trucks, to truck the food to factories to be processed into chicken food along with the fish waste, macerated baby chickens, and various other waste foods that I would rather not know about, to our chickens. Once this is in the form of “chicken food” it then needs to trucked to the chicken farms. We need Iron and steel factories to produce the sheds, cages, fencing etc. used in battery farming. And so it takes a minimum of 25 factories to produce one egg.
Where as, free range chickens, use about 5 factories. They still need fencing and some equipment. So the moral of the story is assess everything you do, buy, create, by the number of factories needed and how much trucking it takes, and in this way reduce your carbon footprint. But apart from the carbon footprint we cannot practise this kind of cruelty any more. We have to learn compassion for the earth and all its creatures if we are going to survive.
Where as, free range chickens, use about 5 factories. They still need fencing and some equipment. So the moral of the story is assess everything you do, buy, create, by the number of factories needed and how much trucking it takes, and in this way reduce your carbon footprint. But apart from the carbon footprint we cannot practise this kind of cruelty any more. We have to learn compassion for the earth and all its creatures if we are going to survive.
Supermarkets, operate on trucking all their supplies from one side of the country to the next, airfreighting stock in, they rarely use locally grown or manufactured stock. So have a huge contribution to the carbon foot print. And every town has three or four supermarkets. If we were growing our own food, not only could we barter, we reduce our carbon foot print by not using our motor cars to go and buy our food and we raise the quality of our health by firstly, eating organic food, and secondly the exercise we get by growing and caring for our own food. We also then know what is actually in our food.
The suggestion that hospitals have their own greenhouses and grow their own veggies is brilliant. We feed jello and appalling food to sick people and expect them to get better. Good Nutrition is the basis of our health.
The suggestion that hospitals have their own greenhouses and grow their own veggies is brilliant. We feed jello and appalling food to sick people and expect them to get better. Good Nutrition is the basis of our health.
Do not go looking for work
-Create work.
MAT in McGregor.
McGregor is situated at the convergence of many leylines, and has numerous ancient ritual sites. So we honour our piece of this sacred space, with meditation, prayer and healing, Before, we moved onto the site we had a special ceremony to bless the land.
The ceremony was led by Ghyll Kincaid- Smith a Priestess of the Diannic Order. I was given custodianship of the land as we cannot own land. We also made a pact with the creatures of the land, that we would honour each other, I would not harm them and they will not harm me we will all live peacefully together. Everyone coming to the ceremony brought gifts which have been placed in the foundations of the house. The intention here is to give folks a sense of connection, peace, fulfilment, and healing.
Also to create a space for healing on whatever level the healing needs to take place.
The ceremony was led by Ghyll Kincaid- Smith a Priestess of the Diannic Order. I was given custodianship of the land as we cannot own land. We also made a pact with the creatures of the land, that we would honour each other, I would not harm them and they will not harm me we will all live peacefully together. Everyone coming to the ceremony brought gifts which have been placed in the foundations of the house. The intention here is to give folks a sense of connection, peace, fulfilment, and healing.
Also to create a space for healing on whatever level the healing needs to take place.
Ghyll Kincaid Smith
"February
the month of Love”
In contemplating what to write about for the month of February, the month of love with its Valentines day etc, I realised that the romantic love, nice as it is, is not what is important for me any more. As I study improving the quality of my life, I know that what we all need to do is to learn to love ourselves. To honour ourselves firstly, looking at what we feed our bodies, what chemicals we expose ourselves to, harming and making ourselves ill. We cannot divorce the environment from ourselves. When we love the one, we love the other.
In honouring ourselves we automatically start honouring the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms. When we start seeking out clean spring water, in glass bottles, rejecting toxic water, objecting to the pollution of air, buying products that are organic, we set stands for industry and agriculture to also clean up their acts. When we read the labels on products and put the products with chemicals back on the shelves we silently make statements that begin to make a difference, and not only are we learning to honour and love ourselves, but this flows over into the planet around us. I find this process of becoming a purist very exciting and the affect on my mind and body is astounding. As I have green juices, eat raw live food and discard carbs, sugar and chemicals, I find more and more, the compliments are “how good I look.
“Liam, my four year old grandson said: “If you plant a seed and love it, it will grow up and up, and if you dance for it, it will grow up and up and up......”
These little ones understand loving and cleaning up the planet better than we do, we being very stuck in our ways.
These little ones understand loving and cleaning up the planet better than we do, we being very stuck in our ways.
We are being called to shift to a new level of consciousness, and products with no chemicals or pharmacuaticals, are becoming more and more plentiful. Choose these.
When we insist on organically farmed food, our honouring ourselves flows over into the way we treat soil, the water and animals. As we cannot continue abusing ourselves, so we cannot continue abusing the air, water, and earth, and like young Liam we can dance with life.
When we insist on organically farmed food, our honouring ourselves flows over into the way we treat soil, the water and animals. As we cannot continue abusing ourselves, so we cannot continue abusing the air, water, and earth, and like young Liam we can dance with life.
Loving yourself first, raises the quality
of air, water and earth.
Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent
Why are the world's older trees disappearing?
Gloriously grand, gnarly and twisted, big old trees are the kings of the forest, providing food and shelter for humans and animals since the dawn of time.
And they make pretty nifty places to build treehouses too!
But now scientists say these ancient giants are under threat. According to a report published recently in the journal Science, death rates have increased alarmingly among trees between 100 and 300 years old.
“Start QuoteThey're being cooked by higher temperatures or being burnt in fires”
Prof David LindenmayerAustralian National University
Swedish forestry records dating back to the 1860s were the first hint that researchers found of the scale of the problem. A 30-year study of Mountain Ash in Australia showed that big trees were dying at 10 times the normal rate in years when there wasn't a big fire.
The problem, they say, is global. The causes varied.
"We're seeing mass mortality in many systems," said Prof David Lindenmayer from the Australian National University.
Bigger means weaker From California's Yosemite National Park, to the African savannahs, to the Brazilian rainforest, the older bigger trees are being lost regardless of climate and environment.
"They're being cooked by higher temperatures or being burnt in fires. We don't always see the differential, that the older, bigger trees are more prone," said Prof Lindenmayer.
Across an agricultural landscape like Australia, there are many bigger older trees visible. But, according to Prof Lindenmayer, the positive appearance is deceiving.
"Not one of these trees has been able to reproduce successfully, because of grazing," he said referring to the damage done to saplings by hungry cattle and sheep.
"We have 5-10 years left where they are still producing seeds, we need to control the grazing process - we need to work with land owners."
As well as logging and farming, humans are also introducing new species that are proving deadly to big trees.
"We are changing the world in so many ways at once," says another of the authors, Professor Bill Laurance of James Cook University.
"We are moving organisms and disease and pathogens - all over the planet weeds and other exotic species are proliferating like crazy!"
Anyone who has been keeping track of the ash dieback story in recent months would probably agree.
Good man bad manIn many cases it is the combination of factors that is proving toxic for trees. In the western part of the US, pine bark beetles have thrived, partly because of changing temperatures.
"The populations are building up because they would normally be killed off by winter," said Prof Laurance, "but the winters are becoming so much milder they are proliferating and in some cases are wiping out entire forests."
But while the presence of humans has been a major factor in increasing deforestation and the clearing of land for farming, the absence of humans can also be a threat to trees.
A report about the Peruvian Amazon says that farmers are leaving rural areas for jobs in the cities. The authors argue that this actually increases the threat of fires damaging trees.
"When you have more fallow land," said lead author Maria Uriarte, "and fewer people around to work at control, that combination generates those big fires."
Plant, plant and plant trees we can never plant enough,
Plant fruit trees, plant shade trees,plant pretty trees, just
plant trees.When it comes to trees, we just can't seem to do right for doing wrong.
And they make pretty nifty places to build treehouses too!
But now scientists say these ancient giants are under threat. According to a report published recently in the journal Science, death rates have increased alarmingly among trees between 100 and 300 years old.
“Start QuoteThey're being cooked by higher temperatures or being burnt in fires”
Prof David LindenmayerAustralian National University
Swedish forestry records dating back to the 1860s were the first hint that researchers found of the scale of the problem. A 30-year study of Mountain Ash in Australia showed that big trees were dying at 10 times the normal rate in years when there wasn't a big fire.
The problem, they say, is global. The causes varied.
"We're seeing mass mortality in many systems," said Prof David Lindenmayer from the Australian National University.
Bigger means weaker From California's Yosemite National Park, to the African savannahs, to the Brazilian rainforest, the older bigger trees are being lost regardless of climate and environment.
"They're being cooked by higher temperatures or being burnt in fires. We don't always see the differential, that the older, bigger trees are more prone," said Prof Lindenmayer.
Across an agricultural landscape like Australia, there are many bigger older trees visible. But, according to Prof Lindenmayer, the positive appearance is deceiving.
"Not one of these trees has been able to reproduce successfully, because of grazing," he said referring to the damage done to saplings by hungry cattle and sheep.
"We have 5-10 years left where they are still producing seeds, we need to control the grazing process - we need to work with land owners."
As well as logging and farming, humans are also introducing new species that are proving deadly to big trees.
"We are changing the world in so many ways at once," says another of the authors, Professor Bill Laurance of James Cook University.
"We are moving organisms and disease and pathogens - all over the planet weeds and other exotic species are proliferating like crazy!"
Anyone who has been keeping track of the ash dieback story in recent months would probably agree.
Good man bad manIn many cases it is the combination of factors that is proving toxic for trees. In the western part of the US, pine bark beetles have thrived, partly because of changing temperatures.
"The populations are building up because they would normally be killed off by winter," said Prof Laurance, "but the winters are becoming so much milder they are proliferating and in some cases are wiping out entire forests."
But while the presence of humans has been a major factor in increasing deforestation and the clearing of land for farming, the absence of humans can also be a threat to trees.
A report about the Peruvian Amazon says that farmers are leaving rural areas for jobs in the cities. The authors argue that this actually increases the threat of fires damaging trees.
"When you have more fallow land," said lead author Maria Uriarte, "and fewer people around to work at control, that combination generates those big fires."
Plant, plant and plant trees we can never plant enough,
Plant fruit trees, plant shade trees,plant pretty trees, just
plant trees.When it comes to trees, we just can't seem to do right for doing wrong.
Happiness
I truly believe we create our own happiness
enjoy finding and creating it.
I truly believe this is the happiest man I have ever come across, may we emulate him.
