Happy Birthday Texsy

 

Texsy would have been thirty four years old today if she wasn't run over by a maniac back a couple of years ago now.

Today I thought about her and thought how she had been showing me that her spirit is alive and well and recently I saw this in Dalby when we were away.  I think Tex would have loved what we are doing trying to save the precious water and that her spirit lives every single time I touch this part of our reality.

 

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Beltane or Beltain /ˈbɛlteɪn/ (also Beltine or Beltaine) is the Gaelic May Day festival. Most commonly it is held on 30 April –1 May, or halfway between the spring equinox and the summer solstice. It was observed in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. In Irish it is Bealtaine ([ˈbʲal̪ˠt̪ˠənʲə]), in Scottish Gaelic Bealltainn ([ˈpjaul̪ˠt̪ˠɪɲ]) and in Manx Gaelic Boaltinn or Boaldyn. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals; along with Samhain, Imbolc and Lughnasadh.

Beltane is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature and it is associated with important events in Irish mythology. It marked the beginning of summer and was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect the cattle, crops and people, and to encourage growth.

Special bonfires were kindled, and their flames, smoke and ashes were deemed to have protective powers. The people and their cattle would walk around the bonfire, or between two bonfires, and sometimes leap over flames or embers. All household fires would be doused and then re-lit from the Beltane bonfire.

Doors, windows, byres and the cattle themselves would be decorated with yellow May flowers, perhaps because they evoked fire. In parts of Ireland, people would make a May Bush; a thorn bush decorated with flowers, ribbons and bright shells.

Holy wells were also visited, while Beltane dew was thought to bring beauty and maintain youthfulness. Many of these customs were part of May Day or Midsummer festivals in other parts of Great Britain and Europe.

As a festival, Beltane had largely died-out by the mid-20th century, although some of its customs continued and in some places it has been revived as a cultural event. Since the latter 20th century, Celtic neopagans and Wiccans have observed Beltane, or something based on Beltane, as a religious holiday. Neopagans in the Southern Hemisphere often celebrate Beltane at the other end of the year (~31 October–1 November). From Wiki
 
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The practices of modern Druids

At Dawn in Urunga by the rivers

 The practices of modern Druids typically take place outside, in the daylight, in what is described as "the eye of the sun". In some cases, they instead perform their rites indoors, or during the night. Most Druids perform ceremonies within a circle around an altar or central fire. Neo-druids often meet and practice in groups called variously "groves" or "henges."

Sometimes they meet at stone circles and other megaliths which are pre-Celtic, but which since the romantic revival have been associated in the popular imagination with the ancient druids. At the Summer solstice, a Neo-druidic ritual is notably held at Stonehenge in England. Another particularly sacred place is Glastonbury in southern England. In parts of the world beyond the range of the original Celtic tribes in Europe and the pre-Celtic megalithic cultures, modern Druids seek an understanding of the sacred qualities of landscape and place^.

When performing rituals, some modern Druids wear ceremonial cloaks and robes, which in some cases imitate the Iron Age style of the Celts. In some orders, robes or tabards of different colors are used to indicate the grade of the druid within the order. In the case of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, the colors blue, green, and white are respectively assigned to these grades. Some modern Druids also use ritual staves, a symbolic magical instrument long associated with both Druids and wizards generally. Many modern Druids do not adopt any ceremonial garb.


In the 1990s and early 2000s, the use of sweat lodges became increasingly popular amongst Druids. Originally a practice performed by members of certain Native North American groups, it was adopted into Druidry as a part of a widespread perception that in order to learn about ancient European culture and religion, Druids would have to draw from indigenous cultures and religions from across the globe that were more in touch with the natural landscape. Within Druidry, sweat lodges are considered as "initiatory and regenerative opportunities to rededicate oneself to honouring the Earth and the community of life." 
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Clive Palmer and his Real Story!

The real story!

Wheel of the Year

Pink Dawn at Urunga

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals in contemporary Paganism. It consists primarily of eight festivals based around the solstices and equinoxes, known as the quarter days, and the midpoints between, known as the cross quarter days.

Within Paganism, many festivals are celebrated. They can vary considerably in name and date amongst specific traditions, however the eight festivals of the Wheel comprise the most adhered and important annual celebrations. They are a unifying feature of modern Paganism.

The Wheel has been important to many people, both ancient and modern, and its festivals are based to varying degrees on folk tradition.

The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals in contemporary Paganism. It consists primarily of eight festivals based around the solstices and equinoxes, known as the quarter days, and the midpoints between, known as the cross quarter days.
Within Paganism, many festivals are celebrated. They can vary considerably in name and date amongst specific traditions, however the eight festivals of the Wheel comprise the most adhered and important annual celebrations. They are a unifying feature of modern Paganism. The Wheel has been important to many people, both ancient and modern, and its festivals are based to varying degrees on folk tradition.

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Festivals

River Festival getting ready to 'feste'

The word fest derives from the Middle English, from Middle French word festivus, from the Latin word festivus. Festival was first recorded as a noun in 1589. Before it had been used as an adjective from the fourteenth century, meaning to celebrate a church holiday.

The etymology of feast is very similar to that of festival. The word "feste" comes from Middle English, from Middle French, from the Latin word festa. Feast first came into usage as a noun circa 1200, and feast was used as a verb circa 1300.

A festival is a special occasion of feasting or celebration, that is usually religious. There can be many different types of festivals, like Halloween, Saturnalia, and Christmas.

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Pleides visible in the early morning sky in Urunga

 A shark in the stars: astronomy and culture in the Torres Strait

By Duane Hamacher

Technology has, without doubt, expanded our understanding of space. The Voyager 1 space probe is on the brink of leaving our solar system. Massive telescopes have discovered blasts of fast radio bursts from 10 billion light years away. And after a decade on Mars, a Rover recently found evidence for an early ocean on the Red Planet.
But with every new advance, it’s also important to remember the science of astronomy has existed for thousands of years and forms a vital part of Indigenous Australian culture, even today. As an example, lets explore the astronomy of the Torres Strait Islanders, an Indigenous Australian people living between the tip of Cape York and Papua New Guinea.
Torres Strait Islanders are a Melanesian sea-faring people whose traditional country comprises 48,000 square kilometres of shallow waters and more than 250 islands of differing geological formation, of which 14 are inhabited.
Culturally, the islands are divided into five groups, represented by the five-pointed star on the Torres Strait flag:

Torres Strait flag. Wikimedia Commons

• Top Western Islands
• Western Islands
• Lower Western Islands
• Central Islands
• Eastern Islands

There are two distinct language groups:

• Meriam Mir, part of the Papuan language family, is spoken in the eastern islands
• Kala Lagaw Ya, part of the Australian language family, is spoken in the western, central, and northern islands

Islander culture stretches back nearly 8,000 years, when rising sea levels flooded the land bridge between Australia and Papua New Guinea at the end of the last Ice Age.
Islanders in the northern and eastern island groups are primarily farmers. Those in the western groups rely heavily on hunting and fishing, and those in the central group rely mostly on trade with the other island groups.

Torres Strait and islands. Wikimedia Commons

This shows us that while Islanders share a common way of life, they are a diverse people spread out over a diverse geographic region with very long ancestral links to their country.
Torres Strait Islander culture is closely linked to the stars. They inform Islander laws, customs and practices that are recorded and handed down in the form of story, song, dance, ceremony and artefacts.
Islander astronomy also contains practical information about the natural world, which is essential for survival and cultural continuity. Islander culture is linked to Tagai – the creation deity that is represented by a constellation of stars that spans across the southern sky.

Tagai’s story

Tagai was a great fisherman. One day he and his crew of 12 were fishing from their outrigger canoe. They were unable to catch any fish, so Tagai left the canoe and went onto the nearby reef to look for fish there.

Tagai. Glen Mackie

As the day grew hotter and hotter, the waiting crew of Zugubals (beings who took on human form when they visited Earth) grew impatient and frustrated. Their thirst grew, but the only drinking water in the canoe belonged to Tagai. Their patience ran out and they drank Tagai’s water.
When Tagai returned, he was furious that the Zugubals had consumed all of his water for the voyage. In his rage he killed all 12 of his crew. He returned them to the sky and placed them in two groups: six men in Usal (the Pleiades star cluster) and the other six Utimal (Orion). He told his crew to stay in the northern sky and to keep away from him.
Tagai can be seen in the southern skies, standing in a canoe in the Milky Way. His left hand is the Southern Cross holding a spear. His right hand is a group of stars in the constellation Corvus holding a fruit called Eugina. He is standing on his canoe, formed by the stars of Scorpius.

Tagai, today

Islanders today still consider Tagai and astronomy to be an important aspect of daily life. Tagai is important for navigation, as the Southern Cross (his left hand) points in the direction of south.
The stars tell Islanders when to plant their gardens, when to hunt turtle and dugong, when the monsoon season arrives, when the winds change, and many other important aspects of daily life.

Deep exposure of the Southern Cross – Tagai’s left hand. Wikimedia Commons

For example, when Tagai’s left hand (the Southern Cross) dips into the sea, Islanders know the wet season (Kuki) is about to begin. The rising of Usal and Utimal (Pleiades and Orion) in mid-November tells Islanders that turtle and dugong are mating and that it’s time to plant their gardens in anticipation of the coming Kuki season.
The shark constellation, Baidam, is made up of the stars in the Big Dipper, part of the constellation Ursa Major (the “Big Bear”). When these stars appear in the north over New Guinea, Islanders know the mating season of the shark is starting and that they should plant banana, sugar cane, and sweet potato. Lunar phases inform the Islanders of the best times to fish.
Islander astronomical knowledge is deep, and we are currently trying to better understand it for the benefit of future Islander generations.


This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article.

About Duane:

Duane is presenting on cultural astronomy in the Torres Strait at the Astronomical Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting at Monash University on July 11.
Further reading:
The Stars of Tagai
The Torres Strait Islanders: custom and colonialism
Visit Duane’s blog Australian Indigenous Astronomy.
Duane Hamacher does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.

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Periodic table

http://www.chemicalelements.com/ 

FACTS ON GOLD FOR EXAMPLE:
Date of Discovery: circa 3000 BC
Discoverer: Unknown
Name Origin: From the Old English word geolo (yellow)
Symbol Origin: From the Latin word aurum (gold)
Uses: electronics, jewelry, coins
Obtained From: crust of the earth, copper ores

A chemical element is a pure chemical substance consisting of one type of atom distinguished by its atomic number, which is the number of protons in its nucleus. Elements are divided into metals, metalloids, and non-metals. Familiar examples of elements include carbon, oxygen (non-metals), silicon, arsenic (metalloids), aluminium, iron, copper, gold, mercury, and lead (metals).

The lightest chemical elements, including hydrogen, helium (and smaller amounts of lithium, beryllium and boron), are thought to have been produced by various cosmic processes during the Big Bang and cosmic-ray spallation.

Production of heavier elements, from carbon to the very heaviest elements, proceeded by stellar nucleosynthesis, and these were made available for later solar system and planetary formation by planetary nebulae and supernovae, which blast these elements into space.

 The high abundance of oxygen, silicon, and iron on Earth reflects their common production in such stars, after the lighter gaseous elements and their compounds have been subtracted. While most elements are generally viewed as stable, a small amount of natural transformation of one element to another also occurs at the present time through decay of radioactive elements as well as other natural nuclear processes.

The history of the discovery and use of the elements began with primitive human societies that found native elements like copper and gold and extracted (smelted) iron and a few other metals from their ores. Alchemists and chemists subsequently identified many more, with nearly all of the naturally-occurring elements becoming known by 1900.

The properties of the chemical elements are often summarized using the periodic table that organizes the elements by increasing atomic number into rows ("periods") in which the columns ("groups") share recurring ("periodic") physical and chemical properties. Save for short-half-life radioactive elements, all of the elements are available industrially, most of them to high degrees of purity.

Hydrogen and helium are by far the most abundant elements in the universe. However, iron is the most abundant element (by mass) making up the Earth, and oxygen is the most common element in Earth's crust. Although all known chemical matter is composed of these elements, chemical matter itself is hypothesized to constitute only about 15% of the matter in the universe. The remainder is believed to be dark matter, a mysterious substance that is not composed of chemical elements, since it lacks protons, neutrons or electrons. From Wiki
 Dark Matter:

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Talk to the Animals!

Talk to the Animals!, a photo by Eminpee Fotography on Flickr.

Talking to the animals and expecting an answer is the kind of love the universe needs desperately ... the kind that breaks out of all of the constraints of normal and lurches on to places that are less traveled.

What is the Dreaming in Indigenous Australia?

Scarred Trees are important sign posts

‘The Dreaming’, an English term coined by Francis Gillen in 1896, was adopted by Spencer & Gillen

(1899) to refer to a period in the religious mythologies of the Northern Arunta people in the Northern Terri-

tory (Dean, 1996).

This term is frequently misinterpreted, as it has nothing to do with dreaming in the context of sleep. According to Dean (1996), the Dreaming is viewed by some Aboriginal groups (e.g. the Tiwi and Wuradjeri) as the period during the creation of the world when totemic ancestors came into being, representing a past reality.

For other groups, it represents a past, current and future reality, either concurrently parallel to our own reality (e.g. the Ooldea and Warrabri), or within our own reality (e.g. the Murinbata and Mardudjara).

In some cases, such as during ritual ceremonies, the past can become the present, so the term ‘Dreamtime’ used in an all-encompassing sense is not accurate, as it denotes a linear timeline, separating past, present, and future.

While oral traditions are a component of the Dreaming, they cannot be thought of purely as mythology. In a general sense, the ‘Dreaming’ is the embodiment of Aboriginal culture, which includes the songs, stories, and oral traditions, dance, art and ceremonial practices, laws and traditions, magical practices and religion, and a complex social structure.

Traditional knowledge is handed down primarily through oral tradition and typically involves a moral charter. Much of this knowledge is considered sacred and secret and is not shared with non-Aboriginal people. Even within the community, some information is secret to men, some is secret to women, and some is secret only to initiated individuals.

This is all part of a complex social structure that has been an integral aspect of Aboriginal cultures for tens of thousands of years (cf. Ross, 1986).|

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Activism : This is how it is.

 

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Crop Circles

Crop Circles: A true Enigma plus other phenomena of our times.

Megan Heazlewood has been working as a registered nurse in the operating theatres with 35 years experience. Megan is an artist and for much of her life has been interested in science, philosophy, ancient history in particular arts and understandings of the ancient world.

"I have been researching all aspects of The Crop Circle Phenomenon for 13 years. In 2006 and 2007, I decided I had to visit the UK where the most prolific and complex designs appear mysteriously in fields of any kind of crop.
What I experienced , witnessed and filmed on several occasions there, and what I have learned from researchers and the crop circles themselves has changed my life profoundly."

Based on her 13 yrs of research Megan will be revealing an accurate representation of what crop circles are and are not, much of which will be grounded in the science which has been carried out particularly by plant biophysicists on the plants and soil within and without crop circles.

It is an established fact that hoaxing is not the answer to this phenomenon. Science has proven this. Results have been published in peer reviewed scientific journals.
*The many theories on what possibly plays a role in the creation of crop circles.
*The history of the phenomenon.
*Hoaxing and the media.
*What many hundreds of people have commonly witnessed and experienced in and around crop circles including my own personal experiences.
* Some very compelling evidence to support the idea that there is profound meaning in symbolic and mathematical form. A universal language, which is conveying to humanity, at the very least a most elegant and prodigious art form.
*What else could be understood by those paying attention?
Insights from researchers of diverse backgrounds and disciplines.

"I understand peoples incredulity. I started off a skeptic myself. This phenomenon has been treated very badly in the public domain, and I contend that there has very little accurate information if any at all released for public consumption. So come along at least to hear something new. Come and see for yourself what we have been causing ourselves to miss out on. At least a most uplifting and inspiring art form. Bring your natural sense of curiosity, and your note pad. Much information given will be referenced for you to verify for yourselves.
I can guarantee that you will leave the meeting amazed and with filled with questions which you will want answers to."

$15 Entry at the door at the Bellingen Memorial Hall  on Sunday 21st July 2013

Phone Megan Heazlewood on 0414759918 for further information.

http://cropcircleenigma.yolasite.com/cropcirclespage.php

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Eve of Destruction

When I got home the other day from being in the Gas fields of Tara Queensland a friend met me at the Vegetable shop and he told me that the Earth was up for an extinction event.  The Ring of Fire was heating up in a way that was unique and bothersome.

Land mark on the Warrego Highway

Then I was going back over my radio show requests and I note that this song Eve of Destruction was requested back in the middle of June by one of my stalwart listeners.  I missed this.  I think I was meant to play this on the show today instead and that is why I missed it.  

Just before I ran into him I was talking in the car with my friend I was with and her new Grand daughter had just been born the day before and her name is Evie.  Another Eve.   My friend told me about Crop Circles being discussed at Bellingen on Sunday at the Memorial Hall.  I am so very interested in this and I will be promoting this on my show today.


https://www.facebook.com/events/545955258783478/?ref=22



Listen and watch here:

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THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION 

 - Singer Barry Maguire -

The eastern world it tis explodin',
violence flarin', bullets loadin',
you're old enough to kill but not for votin',
you don't believe in war, what's that gun you're totin',
and even the Jordan river has bodies floatin',
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Don't you understand, what I'm trying to say?
Can't you see the fear that I'm feeling today?
If the button is pushed, there's no running away,
There'll be no one to save with the world in a grave,
take a look around you, boy, it's bound to scare you, boy,
but you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Yeah, my blood's so mad, feels like coagulatin',
I'm sittin' here, just contemplatin',
I can't twist the truth, it knows no regulation,
handful of Senators don't pass legislation,
and marches alone can't bring integration,
when human respect is disintegratin',
this whole crazy world is just too frustratin',
and you tell me over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

Think of all the hate there is in Red China!
Then take a look around to Selma, Alabama!
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space,
but when your return, it's the same old place,
the poundin' of the drums, th pride and disgrace,
you can bury your dead, but don't leave a trace,
hate your next-door-neighbour, but don't forget to say grace,
and you tell me over and over and over and over again my friend,
ah, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.

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Wishing Wells

The sky is clearly seen in the water at Urunga

 
Wishing wells come to us from European folklore. The term is used to describe wells where it was thought that any spoken wish would be granted.

The idea that a wish would be granted came from the idea that water housed deities or had been placed there as a gift from the gods, since water was a source of life and often a scarce commodity.

To the Germanic and Celtic peoples, springs and wells were sacred places. Germanic peoples were known to throw the armor and weapons of defeated enemies into bogs and other pools of water as offerings to their gods.

Water was seen to have healing powers and so wells became popular for drinking, bathing and simply wishing over it.

Some people believed that the guardians or dwellers of the well would grant them their wish if they paid a price. After speaking the wish, one would drop coins into the well. The wish would be granted by the guardian or dweller of the well, based upon how the coin would land at the bottom of the well. So, it was potentially lucky to toss coins in the well, but the result depended on how they landed.

Ancient Norse mythology tells of Mímir's Well, which was known as the "Well of Wisdom." Mímir is the Nordic god of wisdom. His Well at the roots of Yggdrasil, the "World Tree," could grant infinite wisdom - provided you sacrificed something you held dear. Odin was asked to sacrifice his right eye. He did so, throwing it into the well to receive the wisdom of seeing the future and the understanding of why things must be.

Our contemporary tradition of dropping pennies in ponds and fountains stems from this. Coins can be placed there as as symbols of hope, the desire for change and gifts for Deity to show appreciation.

[Thanks to Lisa for inspiring this post!]

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Fighting the corruption on all levels is taxing.

 

Fighting the corruption in this country that is evident in all levels of government and in large business ventures and small insignificant councils like the one I live in. Investigated by ICAC means there was some corruption afoot with this said council.

Centrepay refusal back in 2000 shot one General manager in the foot and not they are about to do this again and try for a trifecta...  Maybe they love the idea of council going to Coffs Harbour.  I can hear the excuses now.  Less people to ask questions.

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Out west where they think no one cares!

Out west of Dalby Queensland near Tara, there is just yet another example where the government and mining companies are desecrating sacred spots of the indigenous peoples of this land.

What was all of the "Sorry" about?  Why is there a register of these spots if it is ineffective and is failing to save these places?  I am so annoyed and my spirit cried out in both sadness and anger.

The man I met out there was a gentleman and the land owner and his name is David McCabe.  He was desperate to see these places protected on his land.  All of the years he has owned there he has had respect for this special place and knew to stay away.  He told me all about this. 

He was unsure what to do at first because of the fact that it was a woman's place and he was a man,  but he needed to do something to save it.  The mining companies had crept in closer and closer and had now already fallen one of the scarred trees on his land.   He was gutted.  

In desperation he made phone calls and contacted and indigenous group in the city in Brisbane,  they took all of the details and no one came. The mining companies took more and killed the creek opposite to where these trees are.  A took one of the scarred trees off at the base and there was no need as it was no where near the well.  

There is a spot that is known as the "wells" where there are deep holes in the flat rock near the creek and there the woman would harvest ochre of all different colours and when finished they would place a stone back on top to keep animals from falling in.  I have a picture of these places.

I promised this man I would do something and now I am sending this to my friends and my brothers and sisters with a spirit heart to intervene here and get justice ...  This is not on and what ever indigenous person or persons who sign off on its desecration as has happened in many other places is corruption on many levels with out even visiting the spiritual karma this is causing for us all. 

This is the Ochre Wells in the Flat Rock

The First Scarred Tree

The Second Scarred Tree

Close up image of the tree above

An image of the top of this tree

Dave... he is desperate for them to be saved and he is a white man.  He has always known these places were special he said.  I am so honored he showed me and I said I would do something to help.

This was a nearby Road Sign in the area for recognition purposes only.

This is how the land is ending up when the mining companies have had their way!

Please go to this page to see the message about the Yidake. 
I put it all down so it was not forgotten. Our drift is in the air but the questions can you catch it?

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Out the back of the Great Divide.

It isn't the kind of place you just drive past.  It's just that little bit too far for that.  This is what the mining companies are banking on too.  They are hoping they can get this nightmare up and running before the greater part of Australia wakes up to what the situation is.

The situation is desperate to say the least.  The environment is being torn up like a rotten sheet for the rag bag.  The trees and the forests are being bulldozed flat at an alarming rate.  The animals are in distress and in decline already and this is only hastening their demise.

Over the past two years I have sadly watched the country known as Australia decline so fast it even frightens me.   I am not easily frightened and I am alarmed.  I have concerns because largely the population see everything on an economic level and not on a cultural level where the environment takes first place and its rightful place at that.

The planet sustains us all and we are as a population very removed from what is actually real.  If you cannot feel a tree when you stand next to it then you are disconnected already.  

Taking your shoes off and standing barefoot on the earth and feeling the resonance creep through your mortal body is astounding if you have lost the touch and want to rekindle this.

We in Australia have a serious crisis on our hands with regards to spiritual aspects of the land in culture.  The mining companies are colluding with corrupt government officials to sign off on the desecration of sacred sites all over this great land at the present moment and I am very alarmed by this behavior and I cannot stand by and allow this to happen.

I intend to keep lobbying to stop this action and to save these places as should have been done since the beginning instead of the corruption that has been pushed under the carpet by government.

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Apple CIder Vinegar

Vinegar / vinagre

 All you need:

• 8 ounces hot water
• 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar (if you really like vinegar you can use 1 1/2 teaspoons)
• 2 teaspoons honey

Mix everything and drink it down! Enjoy!

If you have any issues with your system creating too much acid and causing arthritis, a dose of Apple Cider Vinegar and water each morning has been known to help.  I have seen a definite improvement in all who have used this remedy.

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Last Stand at TARA Queensland

Dayne's Party ...   on the Weimbilla Estate.
This estate is where the blockies live.  It is there slice of Australia they have decided to go live on and carve out an existence for their families out of the business of city life.

Sadly though out here the fatality statistics are worse than in our cities with all of their hotels and cars and so called city issues.  Out here in two weeks, six young people lost their lives on the roads here.

 

Ash Grunwald has written a song called the "Last Stand" and it is directed at the Csg Mining and the absolute desecration of the land that is going on way out the back where no one sees what they are doing.

The local people are under seige with their water issues with the fracking wrecking their bores and then there is no water for anything.  You cannot drink poisoned water.

ASH GRUNWALD

We are here now and its Saturday night and Ash is playing his heart out on stage with Kevin Borich and varies other stars who are absolutely sympathetic to the cause of saving this land from the brink of hell.

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FAMILY is a big One! this is The Fouth House.

The moon is the ruler of this house and its all centered around family and nurture and how one would see things.

Too many of my family to mention, My Grandmother Matilda is in the middle.

The Planets that are in the fourth house reflect your family orientation and your ability to be able to look back into the dim past and discover who you are from this.  It also depicts how you experienced your father or how you didn't experience your father if this is the case.

The Fourth house is referred to as the Imum Coeli: Family, Home, Origins, Heredity, and the Father.

I some sometimes wonder because I have NO PLANETS in my forth house is this why I have no family around me and why I was abandoned as a child?  I am not whinging, just wondering.

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"...public opinion deserves to be respected as well as despised"

G.W.F. Hegel, 'Philosophy of Right'
http://www.sauer-thompson.com/

Public Opinion was not respected here.

This group is about changing public opinion and some would despise this.

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An Engineer's Aspect: Nikola Tesla - "Man's Greatest Achievement"

I found this so fascinating and I am quite sure that Mr Tesla subscribed to the understanding of the Hermetica from all of his writing I have witnessed and so because of this, it is Re blogged here from an excellent informative blog:

An Engineer's Aspect: Nikola Tesla - "Man's Greatest Achievement"


This editorial found in the Newspaper Archives from 1930, not only includes a tribute to babies and mothers, it also includes a statement about "Man's Greatest Achievement" written by Nikola Tesla, himself.

San Antonio Sunday Light, Editorial-City Life Section, San Antonio, Texas. Sunday, July 20, 1930.

MAN'S BRAIN OUTWEIGHS ALL
Copyright, 1930, by N. Y. American, Inc. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
ALL that you see piled up in the scale, on the right of this picture, was once a misty unreality, in the brain of some newborn child.

Many marvels are upon the powerful rivers, volcanoes, oceans, the flashing lightning, the tropics' heat, and the cold of the poles.

But all is as nothing compared with the power and possibilities locked up in the brain of a newborn child.
* * * Read Nikola Tesla's statement on this page.

You will delight in his thoughts and speculations, based not on mere imagining, but on thorough scientific training and 'scientific' genius.

When Mr. Tesla suggests that man in the millions of years ahead of him might change the size and shape of this planet, and choose for himself its direction through space, he speaks not lightly.

Mr. Tesla, is one of the real scientists and inventors of his age. More than thirty years ago, sitting in Delmonico's old restaurant in New York, at 26th Street and Fifth Avenue, he raised in his hand a small wine glass, and said: "The power that holds together the molecules and atoms in that glass, if it could be released, would run the machinery of the biggest factory in the United States." That seemed wild imagining then. It is taught to children in school now. Everybody knows that the force holding together the electrons within the atom, as they revolve around the nucleus, trillions of times in a second, is great beyond our imagining.
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To the great majority, however, abstract science is painful, and even conservative speculation as to what may come tires and appalls us.

But it requires no scientific training, no "peering into the atom," or weighing of distant universes, to realize that a little baby, kicking up its heels, a few hours old, is, in its possibilities, the most important thing that ever appears on this planet.

Well may the mother look with intense pride on the tiny face. No man can exaggerate the possibilities there.

The spinning jenny that clothes the world was once in the brain of a little baby named Arkwright.

The light of the world, taken from the clouds and locked up in a small bulb, was born in the brain of a baby named Edison.

All the skill of engineers, scientists, surgeons, industrialists, merchants, is due to small babies that good mothers give to the world.
* * * And the humble baby, born poor and obscure, often has, in the race for fame and usefulness, a far better chance than the baby we call "better born."

A small, long, blue-eyed baby, born in a wooden cabin with a dirt floor and no windows, ended slavery in the United States. The power that ended it was given to him by his mother, Nancy Hanks. Upon the day that Abraham Lincoln first opened his little blue eyes and looked around, he had that power.

Every mother should remember, with hope and pride, that there is no limit to the possibilities of the baby upon her knee, and the little children around her.  In them is the hope of the future.
  * * * The millions of mothers, some of whom would not understand all of the things that Mr. Tesla says on this page, know ONE thing, more important than ALL that any scientist has ever said, namely, that love is the greatest power in the world, and that the greatest, most important love among earthly beings is the love of a good mother for her helpless child.

"Love can hope, where reason would despair."

Reason might well despair, looking at a sickly little baby, the big head taking more than
its share of blood, legs and arms thin, its little hands so feeble.

But in such babies, the mothers of the world see boundless possibility, and hope without limit.

Every newborn child, to its mother, is a genius.

And, "Mother is the name of God, in the lips and hearts of little children."
  * * * This picture, an admirably expressed tribute to the mind of man, emphasizes the power of the human brain, an aggregation of molecules and atoms, the atoms tenuous particles of electric force. But far more interesting to the average mortal than all that science sees, in the energy and accomplishment locked up in the brain of a child, is the fact that the child is a product of human affection, its success reflecting the love of the mother. That mother love is the power back of all other power, the power that moves the human race forward, and creates everything that means progress away from the dark cave and its brutality, toward the sunlight of real civilization.

Dickens said, "It must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall, occasionally, be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers."

The qualities of the mother are reflected in the child, in its success and its usefulness. Whatever the son does, the mother also does.

Any tribute to the genius of humanity as a whole, the undeveloped power of a newborn child, to any thing that is human, is a tribute to motherhood, the creating force to which the world owes all that it has.

Richter said: "Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother hath not made all other mothers venerable."

And Lord Langdale, a good son, said: "If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam."
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Here you have a baby in one scale, the wonders of the world, its inventions, railroads, skyscrapers, ships, factories, in the other.

And the child weighs it all down. To have the picture so is no exaggeration. All the world's wonders are inside of that little skull, and all the future progress of the world that will spread over hundreds of millions of years, is written, and hidden away in the productive power of the mothers.

"It hath not yet been shown what we shall be." And as the marvels are revealed, one after another, the mothers will create them in their children, and the children will produce them from their brains.
  * * * From the ox-cart to the flying machine, from the dugout canoes to the submarine, everything worth while is a product of thought.

Man is "fearfully and wonderfully made." He should know and appreciate it, and endeavor, in a BIG way, if possible, in a SMALL way if the big way is not possible, to be worthy of the opportunity given to him.

HONOR YOUR MOTHER, USE YOUR BRAIN, and everything is possible.

MAN'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
By Nikola Tesla. WHEN a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world.

The waves of sound, heat and light beat upon its feeble body, its sensitive nerve-fibres quiver, the muscles contract and relax in obedience: a gasp, a breath, and in this act a marvelous little engine, of inconceivable delicacy and complexity of construction, unlike any on earth, is hitched to the wheel-work of the Universe.

The little engine labors and grows, performs more and more involved operations, becomes sensitive to ever subtler influences and now there manifests itself in the fully developed being--Man--a desire mysterious, inscrutable and irresistible: to imitate nature, to create, to work himself the wonders he perceives.
* * * Inspired to this task he searches, discovers and invents, designs and constructs, and enriches with monuments of beauty, grandeur and awe, the star of his birth.

He descends into the bowels of the globe to bring forth its hidden treasures and to unlock its immense imprisoned energies for his use.

He invades the dark depths of the ocean and the azure regions of the sky.

He peers into the innermost nooks and recesses of molecular structure and lays bare to his gaze worlds (unreadable) remote. He subdues and puts to his service the fierce, devastating spark of Prometheus, the titanic forces of the waterfall, the wind and the tide.

He tames the thundering bolt of Jove and annihilates time and space. He makes the great Sun itself his obedient toiling slave.

Such is his power and might that the heavens reverberate and the whole earth trembles by the mere sound of his voice.
* * * What has the future in store for this strange being, born of a breath, of perishable tissue, yet immortal, with his powers fearful and divine? What magic will be wrought by him in the end? What is to be his (unreadable) deed, his crowning achievement?

Long ago he recognized that all perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, of a tenuity beyond conception and filling all space--the Akasa or luminiferous ether--which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles, all things and phenomena.

The primary substance, thrown into infinitesimal whirls of prodigious velocity, becomes gross matter; the force subsiding, the motion ceases and matter disappears, reverting to the primary substance.
* * * Can Man control this grandest, most awe-inspiring of all processes in nature? Can he harness her inexhaustible energies to perform all their functions at his bidding, more still--can he so refine his means of control as to put them in operation simply by the force of his will?
* * * If he could do this he would have powers almost unlimited and supernatural. At his command, with but a slight effort on his part, old worlds would disappear, and new ones of his planning would spring into being.

He could fix, solidify and preserve the ethereal shapes of his imagining, the fleeting visions of his dreams. He could express all the creations of his mind, on any scale, in forms concrete and imperishable.

He could alter the size of this planet, control its seasons, guide it along any path he might choose through the depths of the Universe.

He could make planets collide and produce his suns and starts, his heat and light. He could originate and develop life in all its infinite forms.
* * * To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world, his crowning achievement which would place him beside his Creator and fulfill his ultimate destiny.