It’s been a while since I have mentioned the film ‘Avatar’ but I feel the need to write this short but not so sweet post to you. Many people I know who watched the film, or should I say ‘documentary’, understood as I did the underlying message. The message that we are beating Our World to death for the sake of what? A better life, I don’t think so. The life we are creating is causing more destruction and suffering which far outweigh any of the so called benefits. The only people who are really benefiting are … well, I don’t need to tell you who they are do I! But even for these people and organizations the benefits will be short lived.
If you are one of the few who didn’t understand or doubted this message, please watch this video … The Real Avatar story, the story that is being re-enacted in far too many places around the globe – Our World, the World of generations to come …
I won’t say any more, I’ll let your heart talk to you instead.
The reason I have not posted here for a while is because I have been creating, or should I say, getting back to reality. I have virtually cut myself off from technology apart from where it is a necessity in modern day business, the occasional post to my friends on Facebook and being (very) selective about which television programmes I watch. In fact the television has hardly been switched on and it is under threat of being turned into a plant container!
I felt I needed to get away from the pressures, and in most cases garbage information that technology bombards us with every minute of the day; unnecessary and often unsolicited emails, texts, phone calls, reality TV shows that are nothing like the reality I want to live in, soap operas spreading doom and gloom to people who can barely cope with the pressures of their own lives let alone what these shows throw at them, negative and often blown out of proportion news programmes and politicians, advertisements from the companies destroying our world wanting us to buy more of their destructive products …. I could go on but writing this is giving me a headache and I think you can add your own reality busters to the list if you care to.
When I mentioned to my friends what I was doing (or not doing) the first response I got was, “you can’t shut yourself away and hide from reality!” Well, after a few moments of stunned silence I explained that what I was doing was getting back to true reality, the reality of Nature (hey, you can’t get more real than nature, can you?), the wonder of the things I see, hear, smell and touch every moment of every day. I see the natural good in so many things and so many people. I see reality as it stands before me and appreciate it for what it is, yes, even the not so pleasant things. Like light and dark there are contrasts/opposites in everything, that’s the way the world is made and it is these contrasts that give us the power of choice, the power to create our own reality.
My friends it seems have made the choice to accept man-made reality as the truth: wars, political scandal, public hanging (yes they still occur everyday, read a newspaper and someone is being hanged for getting a divorce, being overweight or for just not fitting into a media made category), again the list is endless and I don’t want another headache!
We all have the choice to create our own reality, we are born creators, and I just want to live in my own reality and not someone else’s, whether you agree with it or not, that is the privilege of choice. So if you wonder where I am hanging out these days you know where to find me …. in reality!
For many years I always believed that a coincidence was simply that, a coincidence. And I know for a fact that millions of people are still of that opinion. However over recent years through the process of change I have learned to think about why I believe something to be true or not, rather than just accepting what 99% of the time is what the society I was brought up in has told me what is true and what isn’t. Coincidences are just one of those many things that once given some thought can’t just keep happening, something must be behind them, making them happen.
I’m not going to go into the whole system of creating, the ability to make things happen or sending thoughts out to the Universe; although I strongly believe know these things to be true as a teacher of them I am as yet just a novice. But on the subject of coincidences let me share with you something that happened to me today, nothing big, just something that got my thought processes going again (it’s often the smallest things that happen that have the biggest teachings connected to them,but which we so often miss).
Last night I was reading one of the books in the ‘Ringing Cedars’ series and there was mention of the biggest, most powerful book of knowledge ever written, a book that everyone has access to (I will not go into any great detail so as not to spoil the books for those of you yet to read them) and it later explains what this book truly is …. a book of Nature, where the answers to everyone’s questions are freely available.
If I were to describe this series of books very simply (almost impossible) I would have to say that they are sequence of Questions and Answers on many of the so called ‘meaning of life’ questions we all ask from time to time. But the answers are not given on the page, they are given in the emotions that you pick up from reading them, creating a thought process so that when the answers comes it is your own answer … the result of your own thought processes. Anyway as usual I am rambling, let’s get back to ‘coincidences’ shall we; this great, all knowing book of nature got my thought processes going but I couldn’t fathom it out, I had some thoughts of course but no ‘eureka’ moment happened.
Today I was sorting through some old books, for no reason at all, I was just going through them when I came across an old gardening book I probably hadn’t looked at in over two years or more. It’s called ‘The English Flower Garden’ by W. Robinson and is the seventh edition, printed back in May 1899 and rather than getting on with what I was supposed to be doing (obviously something I didn’t fancy doing otherwise I wouldn’t have been sorting out my books for no reason – spooky!) I made myself a cup of coffee and settled down to take a closer look at this book I had just rediscovered.
I flicked through the pages and on the first page that opened was a piece of verse by Douglas Jerrold which I have reproduced here ….
“A garden is a beautiful book, writ by the finger of God; every flower leaf is a letter. You have only to learn them – and he is a poo-dunce that cannot, if he will, do that – to learn them and join them, and then to go on reading and reading. And you will find yourself carried away from the earth by the beautiful story you are going through ….. And then there are some flowers that seem to me like over-dutiful children; tend them but ever so little and they come up and flourish, and show, as I may say, their bright and happy faces to you.”
Now, don’t tell me that was a coincidence and not a natural thought process in action!!
The Leaf And The Tree by Edna St.Vincent Millay, a beautiful poem which to me explains the wonders of Natures ability to love, sacrifice and nurture itself in order to grow, a gift that mankind, itself a part of Nature, has forgotten how to do …..
When will you learn, myself, to be
a dying leaf on a living tree?
Budding, swelling, growing strong,
Wearing green, but not for long,
Drawing sustenance from air,
That other leaves, and you not there,
May bud, and at the autumn’s call
Wearing russet, ready to fall?
Has not this trunk a deed to do
Unguessed by small and tremulous you?
Shall not these branches in the end
To wisdom and the truth ascend?
And the great lightning plunging by
Look sidewise with a golden eye
To glimpse a tree so tall and proud
It sheds its leaves upon a cloud?
Here, I think, is the heart’s grief:
The tree, no mightier than the leaf,
Makes firm its root and spreads it crown
And stands; but in the end comes down.
That airy top no boy could climb
Is trodden in a little time
By cattle on their way to drink.
The fluttering thoughts a leaf can think,
That hears the wind and waits its turn,
Have taught it all a tree can learn.
Time can make soft that iron wood.
The tallest trunk that ever stood,
In time, without a dream to keep,
Crawls in beside the root to sleep.
Mankind is fortunately awakening to the reality of self love and is relearning what it needs to do to live eternally. We must love, trust and believe in ourselves to be able to grow, regenerating ourselves into stronger more powerful beings, to sacrifice our past and to nurture our future. Only by loving ourselves can we love and appreciate others and every living thing around us, only by sacrificing some of the love we have for ourselves can we expect others to share their love with us. That shared love is like the leaf falling from the tree to feed the trees roots, giving the tree the strength to grow and regenerate and begin the cycle over and over again. So take a tip from Nature, love and trust yourself, sacrifice a little and share some love with everything and every person around you.
Well, it’s happened again, I’m reading a book and I’m astonished and amazed at the resonance I’m getting from it.
Those of you who know me well will probably not be surprised by this because the book is “Anastasia”, the first book of the Ringing Cedars Series,which tells the story of entrepreneur Vladimir Megre’s trade trip to the Siberian taiga (forests) in 1995, where he witnessed incredible spiritual phenomena connected with sacred ‘ringing cedar’ trees. He spent three days with a woman named Anastasia who shared with him her unique outlook on subjects as diverse as gardening, child-rearing, healing, Nature, sexuality, religion and more. Those that know me will already be aware of my strong ‘spiritual’ bonding connection with Nature and Gardening.
This wilderness experience transformed Vladimir so deeply that he abandoned his commercial plans and, penniless, went to Moscow to fulfil Anastasia’s request and write a book about the spiritual insights she so generously shared with him. True to her promise this life-changing book, once written, has quickly become an international best-seller and has already touched the hearts of millions of people world-wide.
An amazing thing about me actually reading this wonderful book is that for well over a month I have been receiving messages and signs in various guises that I should buy it (Buy It!! – I’ve bought the whole set!!) but kept putting it off because I vowed to myself that I would stop getting every book I get recommended. I’d had enough of reading self-help ‘Guru’ type books and I thought that “Anastasia” was just another one of those. But then my good friend Debra Oakland of ‘Living In Courage’ told me during our regular chats on Skype and then sent an email telling me that I just had to read it, that I should trust her on this and that I would realize why as soon as I opened the book. Now, when Debra speaks to me like that (and she does quite often – Bless Her!) I listen and take action. As usual Debra was right!
So here I am recommending this book to anyone and everyone who hasn’t yet had the delight of reading it. You can find out a whole lot more interesting information about the books, and buy them from at the ‘Ringing Cedars’ website.
However if like me you have an account with Amazon you can buy them from the following links Amazon UK Site and Amazon USA Site (I found they were cheaper at Amazon, but you might want to check first in case the prices have changed). Please do get yourself a copy I’m positive that you will enjoy and delight in the adventure as much if not more than I am.
Regular readers of this blog will already be aware of the courage and determination of Cat, and how she and her music is an inspiration to all that know her. Knowing what Cat has been through in the past few months it has amazed me at what she has managed to achieve, but it just goes on and on! Cat is showing even more ‘All Love Cat’ love by donating a percentage of the sales revenue from her latest EP ‘Unconditional’ and her new audio book ‘All Love &’ to CNIB. CNIB provides community-based support, knowledge and a national voice to ensure Canadians who are blind or partially sighted have the confidence, skills and opportunities to fully participate in life.
You can read more about Cat and her support of CNIB here and you can check out her music and book at her great new website www.catforsleyonline.com. Please take the time to take a look at Cat’s site and to support her in any way you can in her efforts to spread some love, happiness and awareness to a very worthy section of our world’s community. Thank You and Bless You Cat!!
The weather here in Poole is gorgeous, the sun is smiling, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing and the trees are spreading their shady arms ….
Summer by Alexander Pope
See what delights in sylvan scenes appear!
Descending Gods have found Elysium here.
In woods bright Venus with Adonis stray’d,
And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade.
Come lovely nymph, and bless the silent hours,
When swains from shearing seek their nightly bow’rs;
When weary reapers quit the sultry field,
And crown’d with corn, their thanks to Ceres yield.
This harmless grove no lurking viper hides,
But in my breast the serpent Love abides.
Here bees from blossoms sip the rosy dew,
But your Alexis knows no sweets but you.
Oh deign to visit our forsaken seats,
The mossy fountains, and the green retreats!
Where-e’er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade,
Where-e’er you tread, the blushing flow’rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
Oh! How I long with you to pass my days,
Invoke the muses, and resound your praise;
Your praise the birds shall chant in ev’ry grove,
And winds shall waft it to the pow’rs above.
But wou’d you sing, and rival Orpheus’ strain,
The wond’ring forests soon shou’d dance again,
The moving mountains hear the pow’rful call,
And headlong streams hang list’ning in their fall!
But see, the shepherds shun the noon-day heat,
The lowing herds to murm’ring brooks retreat,
To closer shades the panting flocks remove,
Ye Gods! And is there no relief for Love?
But soon the sun with milder rays descends
To the cool ocean, where his journey ends;
On me Love’s fiercer flames for every prey,
By night he scorches, as he burns by day.
Perhaps we tend to too easily forget the suffering that women in particular have to suffer in this modern day world of ours. We get so wrapped up in our own personal everyday lives that these things get pushed to the back of our consciousness, something we will think and do something about tomorrow. Well, tomorrow is nearly here, and it’s time we all started to at least start planning for it’s arrival or tomorrow will be an other opportunity missed.
Why should we (us men in particular) concern ourselves with the plight of so many women in so many painful and dangerous circumstances? I will let the ‘A Safe World For Women Campaign’ explain it fully to you, but let me make my own point of view to you for a moment.
When I look back at my own lifetime the most influential people I have met have been women. They are the creators of life, love and compassion and in most cases it is the woman that holds their family together. Women are so closely attached to Mother Earth, they are a part of her, that they have a closer sense and appreciation of life than most men ever will. So if for no other reason than to give them the respect and gratitude that they deserve we should give them our full and devoted support.
If we are going to turn this planet Earth that we all live on together into a peaceful, loving and compassionate world we need the energy and vibrancy that only women can provide, so we must do what we can Now by supporting and taking action with campaigns like ‘A Safe World For Women’. Heck, I haven’t even mentioned the moral human obligation we all have to take care of each other, whether we be a man, woman or child we are all entitled to the same level of loving kindness and appreciation.
Enough from me, watch this video and then go visit the ‘A Safe World For Women’ website, endorse the campaign and give your support for tomorrow, today!
If you care please share this post and/or the ‘A Safe World For Women’ website with your friends – Thank You.
Kathryn Lamberg is yet another of my talented friends on Facebook. Kathryn lives in Port Jefferson, New York and is a Massage Therapist, Yoga and Meditation instructor. Music for healing facilitator with the Tadasan, Center for Natural Healing. Facilitating healing through therapeutic massage, playing her baby grand and via the spoken word, gives her and others so much joy!
As well as Music for Healing Kathryn loves Poetry, Dance, Yoga, Meditation, playing and composing music for piano, Nature walks, cooking, baking, journaling, herbology, nutrition, natural healing, the list is almost endless, what energy she has! One of Kathryn’s poems caught my eye and mind, it resonated with the way I feel when connected (as always) with Nature and in my minds eye, took me on a lovely summers country walk. It made my senses feel alive!
So, having got Kathryn’s kind permission, I am sharing her words with you here …
‘Listening In’ – by Kathryn Lamberg
Walking in green grass
as afternoon blends
it’s garish colors of
hot oranges
loud yellows
blood pulsing reds–
to a more meditational
hue, of soft purples,
even green, and blues.
thinking of how i felt
when i first met you:
my impressions
hardly based on anything-
just breathing in your aura:
a swirl of sweet clementines,
soaked in mayberry wine-
with one white lotus flower
within hollowed out oak.
room for rain to fall,
space for stars to dance-
a place for souls to talk,
to saturnize- not theorize
as words from hearts do
spin soft yarns, to touch
textures, simple weaves,
staying true. to ancestral voices
being drawn in, painted in shimmering
cimmaron, cranberry bogs, hydrangea
silver blue, shining in darkest night.
heat making blossoms heavy,
closer to kissing ground cover
looking up at sky’s canopy,
harmony happens–
when we side-step-
get outta the way,
just stay,
listening in
to stars dancing.
I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did and if you would like to read more of Kathryn’s work why not look her up on Facebook or visit her Blog at Kathryn Lamberg Healing.
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