Tangent

I squeezed my own orange juice yesterday morning, not from our oranges, but from the Tangellos (mandarin-grapefruit cross) we got from Emma’s Grandma’s place near Mildura a few weeks ago. Lots of seeds but the taste was worth it!

I found a potato in the tub of spuds and we put it, sliced, on the BBQ with the fish and it was really tasty!

I’ve been eating a fair few nectarines and thinking about what to do with the rest of them as they start to ripen, you can pick soft ones from the tree now! We’re thinking stewed nectaries, maybe dehydrate some of them, freeze a few more. The fresh ones are much better cold, tho eating them fresh and hot is interesting.

The peaches didn’t fare so well, we got a few but it was a bit too hot as they were ripening and many of them cooked on the tree and had bugs in them. I am surprised that I’m enjoying the nectarines more than peaches and not from availability.

The apples are starting to get big and one fell in my bunny proofed section of garden under the orange tree and within a couple of days it was a tiny bird pecked core! No wonder the birds love our place so much, the feast on our fruit! I’d rather they left the strawberries more, i don’t mind sharing but we’ve only had a handful of the 20+ berries that have fruited.

I feel really blessed to have this food from my garden but it’s alot of work and it’s a bit tricky learning to deal with bugs and other nasties when you want to raise them naturally, no chemicals for me thanks! I’m learning what grows where and how to protect the plants from some of the things that want to eat them, and find nice surprises like a handful of rasperries, hiding under the leaves, not visible to birds! And the potato was a nice surprise too.

The joy of having food to eat in your own back yard is such a treat, despite the challenges, like empty rain water tanks, and its’ not even February! I used mains water for the first time this year. Praying for rain amid my gratitude for the long and sporadic harvest!

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“One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic.”-Martin Luther King Jr.

Thoughtspeed: The Speed of Thought in Free Space

by Owen Waters

Old ideas give way to new ones. Old barriers, sooner or later,

crumble and fade away.

One idea that is crumbling today is the idea that nothing in

the universe can go faster than lightspeed. This will be

replaced by a recognition that thought travels millions of

times faster than lightspeed – at the the speed of thought

in free space, or thoughtspeed.

In the early Star Trek series on television, the mission of

the Starship Enterprise was to explore the universe and boldly

go where no one has gone before. The Enterprise was able to

exceed light speed; quite considerably, it would seem, as it

was supposed to have traveled to the edge of the Milky Way

galaxy in just a few hours. The cruising speed actually

required for such a feat is millions of times lightspeed.

Science fiction is often a medium for possibility thinking.

The possibility of humans touring the galaxy and beyond seems

eminently reasonable. After all, human potential is, by design,

unlimited. There is no way in creation that the universe can be

just a set of pretty lights that we never get to explore!

Today, the shift towards recognizing thoughtspeed is just

beginning. Faster-than-light phenomena are being observed by

today’s physicists when they see the effects of subatomic

particles communicating with each other. When a subatomic

particle bumps into another one, they become ‘friends’ and

carry on communicating with each other. The fact that they then

become separated by millions of miles does not reduce their

willingness to communicate. When something happens to one

particle, it lets the other particle know about it and, in

pure empathy, it reacts in a like manner.

We know from the work of insightful pioneers like biologist

Rupert Sheldrake that telepathy works, but how fast does it

work? As thoughts are non-physical, they certainly are not

limited by lightspeed. The question is, how much faster than

light is the speed of thought in free space? It is likely

millions of times faster, and possibly billions of times

faster.

In the 1940s, aircraft were limited to the speed of sound

until they found a way through the sound barrier and were then

able to travel at supersonic speeds. One day, when our

spaceship propulsion drives are capable of accelerating ships

to lightspeed, we will find a way for them to break the light

barrier.

Then, we won’t be just looking up at the night sky any more.

We’ll be flying through it, going where no one has gone before.

*If you enjoyed today’s article, forward it to a friend!

They will appreciate your thoughtfulness.

This article was written by Owen Waters, author of

“The Shift: The Revolution in Human Consciousness”

Available in hardcover or via immediate download at:

http://www.infinitebeing.com/theshift

The Invitation

(This is the poem the book I’m reading is based on. It’s rocking my world right now.)

by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to
be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, ‘Yes.’

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

This from a friend in Massachusetts about how to reframe the story of 2012 toward a positive future based on strong communities and connectivity instead of perpetuating fear and isolation.

A movie called 2012 is about to send unhelpful images and predictions.
It’s a different level of disaster movie because it’s about a time
period just two years away. As we move toward the actual year of 2012,
it matters how we hold our visions and how we build our local
communities.

That movie could add to numbness and hopelessness, and we don’t need
more of it, but if we get other conversations going, we can hear many
voices of possibilities to bring us together and suggest how to move
forward. People are already painfully aware of social and ecological
breakdown. Strong media images can spread the destabilizing virus of
fear. That’s a virus we can do something about.

In the early 1980’s a movie about the aftermath of nuclear war called
“The Day After” was shown on TV. Knowing that this movie virus was on
its way, local meetings were organized in advance around the country
called “The Day Before” so that people could connect and change the
kind of grim isolation the movie depicted.

Weekly, here in western MA, a group of people gather to talk about
2012 as a time that is pregnant with possibility. The suggestion is,
wherever we are, that we stir up conversations about 2012, surface our
hopes and fears, and discuss the kind of 2012 we want to be part of
creating.

This is a time period when we need encouragement. I heard voices like
this in our discussion and want to pass them along.

* What if 2012 is an opening?

* What if you focus your attention on your intention to be part of a
positive force?

* What is one action that you can do right now that lines up with your
visions for making  things better?

* What kind of community future do you want to be part of?

* How can you visualize the people all over the world who send you
encouragement?

* How can we make room inside ourselves for more consciousness and new energy?

* What if there was a door that you could open at any time that gave
you daily help in living from the values you cherish most?

Let’s offer each other empowering questions and messages of grounded
hope and spread them like flower seeds.

When a seed is starting out, it doesn’t need a rock placed on top of
it. Disaster predictions are like that rock. Our lives have meaning
when we are able to plant ourselves in a larger story. What story do
we want to have holding us?

I’m glad for the cooler weather, even if it won’t last long.
I’m sad that my seedlings mostly have not survived. Only sunflowers and one other broccoli has managed to endure the heat and the hungry and ravenous earwigs! I won’t let this stop me, I will try again, but need to deal with the earwig problem first.
I don’t like the idea of having to kill them but it’s them or my plants!
I’d much rather grow my own spinach, broccoli, zucchini, tomatoes, lettuce, carrots… than buy them.

Another impact of the heat wave is the creek level. It’s been very low for quite a while, and some parts of the creek have become stagnant, I don’t want to watch it dry up but it’s a reality I have to face.

Wishing for rain for my garden and for the creek.

I once was an angry greenie

I’m now a champion for corporate transformation

I see my partners in creating a new future in those making decisions about how we use earth’s resources

Making choices about how we do business today, mindful of tomorrow

You are my partners in creating a future that allows our grand children’s great grand children to enjoy life fully,

Knowing their grand children’s great grand children can also be assured a liveable and fulfilling existence on earth

Our choices today will determine the future for all life on the planet.

I don’t want to tell you what to do, how to achieve sustainability, I’m not here for that.

I’m here to broaden and deepen your perspectives so that your choices will allow for that future for life on earth.

Let’s work together, learn from eachother,

experience,

process,

participate,

facilitate,

generate…

corporate transformation.

I think this is a very important communication, check it out.

I also have a profound respect for the authors. Fantastic they’ve come together to deliver this!

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The Obama Administration has asked the “Evolutionary Leaders” to communicate about what is transpiring on the planet, and how we can change the course of the unprecedented events that are challenging this planet. This is
a window of opportunity that must be taken! A deadline was given for this information to be conveyed to the Obama Administration.

The Evolutionary Leaders like Deepak Chopra, Gregg Braden, Michael Beckwith and many, many others, gathered together to write up the information to present to the Obama Administration. They are also asking us to sign a petition to show the Administration how many people are in favor for these changes to occur. They need 100,000 signatures. We need your help to reach that number and beyond! Below is the information presented to the New Administration.

The petition link can be found
here:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/248704259

By the Evolutionary Leaders

The human family is in the midst of the most significant transformation of consciousness since its emergence in Africa over one hundred thousand years ago. Consciousness has been evolving for billions of years from the first cell to us. We are becoming aware that through our own consciousness the universe can know itself. This awareness reveals incredible new potential for our individual and collective humanity.

Simultaneously, we are the first species on this Earth aware that we can destroy ourselves by our own action.. This may be the greatest wake-up call to the evolution of consciousness since the origin of Homo Sapiens. We now realize that we are affecting our own evolution by everything we do. This knowledge awakens in us the aspiration to become more conscious through subjective practices including meditation, reflection, prayer, intuition, creativity, and conscious choice making that accelerate our evolution in the direction of unity consciousness and inspire us to deeply align our collective vision.

THE CHALLENGE

At this juncture in human history, urgent global crises challenge us to learn to live sustainably, in harmony and gratitude with one another and with the living universe. The changes required of humanity are broad, deep, and far reaching. Only by acting swiftly and creatively can we birth a planetary culture that will bring well-being to every form of life in the Earth community. The good news is that a compelling new story of our potential as a whole human species is emerging–a story of collaboration, citizen action, dialogue and new understandings propelled by unprecedented levels of democratic freedom, multicultural exchange, and access to communication technologies. It is nothing less than the story of our collective evolution.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR ACTION

We recognize that the inner and outer aspects of life evolve together. A dramatic awakening in consciousness will involve an equally dramatic shift in outward aspects of our lives. In particular, we see the following as vital opportunities for our conscious evolution, both personally and collectively:

Cultivating a Paradigm of Aliveness: We regard the universe as deeply alive and conscious by nature. In a living universe, our sense of subtle connection and participation with life around us is the basis for a compassionate and cooperative approach to living.

Educating for an Evolving Consciousness: Awakening consciousness is the foundation for all the change we seek to see in the world. We can work to elevate our capacity for conscious reflection and creative action in our personal lives as well as our collective lives as communities. We must support research and educational strategies that optimize human capacities and explore the nature of consciousness.

Restoring Ecological Balance: The balance of planetary ecosystems is fundamental to our survival. We must reverse the pollution of our global commons-the water, air and soil that nourish all life. We must encourage the proliferation of clean, renewable energy sources and expend all necessary resources toward mitigating the effects of climate change.

Encouraging Conscious Media: We must find innovative ways to use the new electronic media as the mirror of our positive evolutionary story, investing in their capacity to reach across differences of generation, culture, religion, wealth and gender to build a working consensus about our collective future.

Engaging in Social and Political Transformation: More sustainable ways of living will require the support of a more conscious democracy and vibrant civil society from which more enlightened leaders will emerge. All individuals should be encouraged to use their gifts to create participatory, responsible and compassionate models of governance.

Working for Integrity in Commerce: Conscious businesses that are aware of the scope, depth, and long-range impacts of their actions are key to achieving sustainability. Business must become an ethical steward of the Earth’s ecology and consciously establish an economic basis for a future of equitably shared abundance.

Promoting Health and Healing: The science of mind-body-spirit health has demonstrated the profound connection between the health of a whole person and the health of the system in which he or she lives. Whole systems healing, respecting both traditional knowledge and modern sciences, must be supported in physical, social, and spiritual domains.

Building Global Community: The new story is about all of us who share
this planet. Together, we can create a culture of peace that eliminates the need for armed conflict, respecting and appreciating the glorious diversity of our human family.

YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VITAL

Our group has done its best to articulate possibilities for the evolution of consciousness at this crucial moment in time. Please reflect on this document, feel what resonates in your being and calls forth a response on your part. We invite you to discuss it with others, continuing this global conversation by adding to it the wisdom that is uniquely your own.. Together, let us co-create a new narrative of conscious evolution that is a call to individual and collective action, birthing the most significant transformation of consciousness in history. Join in the Call to Conscious Evolution by signing the pledge now.

The petition link can be found here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/248704259

FOUNDING SIGNATURIES

ChopraCenter, Carlsbad, California , July 26, 2008 and Michael Beckwith, Joan Borysenko, Gregg Braden, Rinaldo Brutoco, Thomas Callanan, Deepak Chopra, Mallika Chopra, Dale Colton, Gordon, Dveirin, Duane Elgin, Leslie Elkus, Barbara Fields, Debbie Ford, Ashok Gangadean, Kathleen Gardarian, Tom Gegax, Charles Gibbs, Kathy Hearn, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Bruce Lipton, Judy Martin, Rod McGrew, Steve McIntosh, Lynne McTaggart, Deborah Moldow, James O’Dea, Carter Phipps, Wendy Craig-Purcell, Carolyn Rangel, Rustum Roy, Peter Russell, Gerard Senehi, Emily Squires, Brian Swimme, Diane Williams, Marianne Williamson, Tom Zender.

I hope you will join me today and sign the petition and forward this information to your contacts. Thank you for your time and
consideration.

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If you are a parent, like children, work with children or plan to have children please have a look at the video .

I have recently spoken with the author, Robin Grille, who told me about this 7 min video/slide show that encapsulates the concepts of this book.

Parenting for a Peaceful World (The Author’s website is at the end of the video.)

I see something much deeper here. The potential to change the course of history, to be intentional about how we raise our children, how we educate them, and how we regard them as the future. Sure, we know that children are the future but this book demonstrates it with far more detail in history and research, modern brain science, as well as offering his own recipe for creating a peaceful world in the specific early childhood developmental stages. This information allows us to take love to a whole new level for the human family.

This book profoundly moved me and i highly recommend it. I am not a parent but i feel responsible to future generations and this book offers them such a monumentally important gift. Contact me if you can’t find the book easily. I have ordered a box from the author. In Canada & the USA the book is just about to be released, contact New Society Press to order. (Pre-orders get 20% off)

After a lengthy deliberation we finally chose to join the ranks of the land owners. Entering a new phase as the stewards of a little bit of land in Coburg North. Renting for 18 yrs casts a gloomy light on land lordship, not to mention my lefty perspective.
Thankfully i’ve grown beyond being anti-everything and am now looking at the question of how to be a responsible land owner.

I’m pleasantly surprised at how much I am enjoying little things like feeling free to laugh loudly, without worry of displeasing neighbors who might gossip to the landlord. In this case I am the land lord, i’m the one accountable. It’s so liberating to no longer be under the thumb of someone else, someone else’s land.

I despise the system that creates this dynamic and feel for all the renters who don’t share the privilege of having a home to call their own. How can I hold this privileged position in a way that honours and respects the struggle so many people face? And challenges the status quo, creating a new future?

What kind of home owner do I want to be? One who grows food & shares with my neighbors, one who grows australian native plant species where i’m not growing food, one that chooses to spend excess funds on things that reduce the environmental impact of our home. Solar panels, HRV system, gray water set up etc. At last these are the things I can support now that I’m a home owner. It’s a lot of work but there are many joys.