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injoy<br />

in<br />

always<br />

free<br />

integrate<br />

inspire • initiate • indulge • insight • injest • inspect<br />

COME<br />

said the flower<br />

to the bee<br />

AWAKENING<br />

is stress a signal for<br />

awakening<br />

JULINBAH<br />

YOWARL<br />

RAINBOW COR-<br />

ROBOREE<br />

HEART to HEART<br />

ODE TO CHRIS<br />

WATER<br />

DRAGON<br />

predictions<br />

HEALING<br />

FOODS<br />

issue nineteen • autumn 2012 injoymag.com


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THE BANGALOW RUG SHOP<br />

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editor’s note<br />

For me, the quality of being <strong>InJoy</strong> comes<br />

from just feeling good about what we<br />

do, what is happening and who we are,<br />

- to one’s self and others. It’s not about<br />

achieving high levels of happiness or<br />

a string of elated experiences—it may<br />

be a sense of deep serenity, breaking<br />

through the last stage of grief when you<br />

finally let go, or when you overcome a<br />

personal limitation that kept you from<br />

being your true self… <strong>InJoy</strong> can express<br />

itself through an unknown feeling that<br />

makes you tingle all over. People feel<br />

that when they sing, dance, love,<br />

meditate and watch children shine<br />

when they smile and laugh… elders<br />

holding hands still remembering the joy<br />

of sharing intimacy. There are so many<br />

ways to be in joy... be in.. be joy.<br />

Speak of beautiful things, focus on best<br />

outcomes, happenings and memories if<br />

you must go back and remember that<br />

everything is perfect as it is—and be<br />

sure of one thing, change will come...<br />

and love.<br />

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let go of emotions<br />

worn out notions<br />

mental commotions<br />

and poisonous potions...<br />

bhadrena x<br />

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Happiness comes through<br />

doors you didn’t even<br />

know you left open.<br />

who’s <strong>InJoy</strong><br />

Ever notice that the<br />

people who are late are<br />

Bhadrena Rose<br />

often much jollier than<br />

the people<br />

Pop Walker<br />

Aunty Annabel<br />

John Douglas<br />

Starseed Garden Nursery<br />

Scott Alexander King<br />

Tara Green<br />

Paul Fass<br />

Dev Lengjel<br />

Donna Grey<br />

Murray Dreschler<br />

Kim Falconer<br />

Leslie dvd reviews<br />

Kim Falconer astro insights<br />

Osho House - session review<br />

. . . always blessings and gratitude to <strong>InJoy</strong>’s Information Angel in Sydney, Robin Bee<br />

who have to<br />

wait for them?<br />

You may be only one<br />

person in the world,<br />

but you may also be the<br />

Lismore City Printery<br />

•<br />

. . . please let businesses know when you find them <strong>InJoy</strong>.<br />

editor@injoymag.com<br />

PO Box 215 Mullumbimby NSW 2482 Australia<br />

contact Bhadrena Rose on 0403135372<br />

now online<br />

injoymag.com<br />

website design : Pete Robinson and Bhadrena Rose<br />

world to one person.<br />

Don’t cry because it’s<br />

over smile because it<br />

happened<br />

and a happy person is one<br />

who can enjoy the scenery<br />

on a detour.<br />

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Up Close and a little bit personal . . .<br />

Denise Chadwick<br />

Sky Wesolowski<br />

Biba Burgess<br />

• Business, career, passion?<br />

Bringing peace and harmony to<br />

people and places through energy<br />

healing, crystal and sound therapy. My<br />

passion is also writing; inspired by the<br />

elemental realm to encourage a love<br />

of nature.<br />

• 3 words describe yourself...<br />

Like a merfairy<br />

• What do you cherish the most?<br />

In February I got to bottle-feed and<br />

connect with a pretty-faced wallaby<br />

called The Beautiful One. She gently<br />

rested her paw on my lap and gazed<br />

deep into my soul.<br />

• What does joy mean to you?<br />

Chocolate.<br />

• When in need, what is the remedy for<br />

your soul?<br />

Meditating on the beach after a good<br />

cycle ride out with nature. I encounter<br />

some amazing creatures and that<br />

always helps.<br />

• If someone wrote a biography about you,<br />

what do you think the title should be?<br />

From Grey to Colour.<br />

• What did you do on Australia Day 2012?<br />

Sent peace and love to this special<br />

land and its people, especially those<br />

for whom Australian Day was not so<br />

happy as mine.<br />

• Business, career, passion?<br />

Trading hemp. Regenerating<br />

rainforest. Annoying many people.<br />

• 3 words describe yourself...<br />

Stubborn • Persistent • Patient<br />

• What do you cherish the most?<br />

My family. The love and respect my<br />

wife and I share and watching all my<br />

children grow and become.<br />

• What does joy mean to you?<br />

Being in the moment. There is a kind of<br />

lightness of being realising that we are<br />

at the time and place we are meant<br />

to be.<br />

• When in need, what is the remedy for<br />

your soul?<br />

Stopping everything and taking a<br />

big deep breath. A good walk on<br />

Coorabell ridge at sunrise will calm<br />

most states and puts things in a<br />

clearer perspective. Walk just about<br />

anywhere (especially in nature) does<br />

work miracles.<br />

• If someone wrote a biography about you,<br />

what do you think the title should be?<br />

Story of an Aries struggling with his<br />

archetype.<br />

• What did you do on Australia Day 2012?<br />

Try to imagine an Australian flag no<br />

one wants to burn.<br />

• Business, career, passion?<br />

As an artist my passion is to create<br />

beautiful meaningful paintings,<br />

jewellery and photographs drawing<br />

inspiration from ancient cultures and<br />

symbology.<br />

• 3 words describe yourself...<br />

• What do you cherish the most?<br />

Colourful • Passionate • Creative<br />

My beautiful daughter and the ability<br />

to appreciate beauty and share that<br />

with others through my work.<br />

• What does joy mean to you?<br />

Feeling free and light.<br />

• When in need, what is the remedy for<br />

your soul?<br />

The sound of the ocean and the<br />

running streams in tranquil places<br />

where I can be creative.<br />

• If someone wrote a biography about you,<br />

what do you think the title should be?<br />

“Dancing with the lightning”.<br />

• What did you do on Australia Day 2012?<br />

I didn’t know whether to be happy or<br />

not, but I had a good time planting<br />

trees and attending the vege garden.<br />

to see more of these colourful creations . . . Biba Burgess Artist Facebook page<br />

reproductions & limited edition prints are available and during my website development you can contact me . .<br />

. bibaburgessartist@gmail.com<br />

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THE TIME IS NOW<br />

It is a wonderful thing that after a six-month unavoidable and<br />

unexpected break <strong>InJoy</strong> is spreading through our community<br />

again… and beyond.<br />

I love making <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> and connecting with you all.<br />

I was looking for an enthusiastic yes when I resumed creating <strong>InJoy</strong><br />

first launched in 2008 and what I received from most existing advertisers<br />

and some new was - “Oh yes please, we have really missed it…”<br />

The true value of <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is recognised through the most<br />

common feedback I hear … “Oh I know that magazine, I love it,<br />

makes me feel good… where can I find a new one.”<br />

<strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is all about sharing… people’s stories, pictures,<br />

memories, dreams, passions, interests… it’s a place to feel people’s<br />

voices through the words and pictures they choose to share.<br />

<strong>InJoy</strong> advertisers are as much a part of the story as is the content<br />

and imagery. These advertisers deserve recognition as their trust<br />

and community values are strong and true enough to inspire them<br />

to invest and support our voices through advertising, making <strong>InJoy</strong><br />

possible.<br />

Thank You.<br />

This thirty-two page publication has great quality and integrity and<br />

is always free and available to anyone… everyone.<br />

I encourage you to frequent <strong>InJoy</strong> advertisers... blessings to all.<br />

<strong>InJoy</strong> has been much of a love job for me for the last three years.<br />

The returns have been great, miraculous and soul serving. Now it is<br />

time to open more doors and welcome all you new advertisers who<br />

have had the thought about being <strong>InJoy</strong> before... now is the time.<br />

Call me on 0403 135 372, send a text or leave a message<br />

or email editor@injoymag.com<br />

If support flows in then <strong>InJoy</strong> will return for WINTER 2012...<br />

if not then thank you, this is a divine journey...<br />

with all my heart<br />

Bhadrena Rose<br />

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COME<br />

said the flower to the bee . . .<br />

by bhadrena rose<br />

These days a buzz of a bee<br />

can send a garden into<br />

frenzy as flowers eagerly<br />

wait to be pollinated.<br />

Blind sighted by desire,<br />

flowers farthest from the<br />

buzz lash out with the<br />

sharpest edge of well-razored<br />

leaves and this harshness can<br />

force the more delicate breeds<br />

to shrivel back and wilt…<br />

even before they get to<br />

bloom.<br />

Another flower<br />

joins the challenge,<br />

barging at the bee<br />

with more scent than a<br />

humble bee can handle.<br />

Mesmerised and confused<br />

the bee bounces off many<br />

flowers, distracted from<br />

integrity, lost in competing<br />

signals… pollinating here<br />

and there.<br />

Other flowers can be<br />

contaminated by the chaos as<br />

petals are pulled and stems<br />

twist stories into plots of<br />

poison.<br />

Too many antics over<br />

centuries of seasons can<br />

push a species beyond<br />

decency, until on mass the<br />

flowers seem to be ripping<br />

up their roots that once held<br />

them in place—now rushing<br />

at bees until they are trapped<br />

or flee…<br />

This analogy is for contemporary women, and girls blossoming into womanhood—<br />

and for men who want to remember heaven’s scent.<br />

Once there was a natural time when flowers happily gathered in the garden together.<br />

Seduced into gentle movement by the wind’s breathe they reach up to flourish under<br />

the sun’s golden glow, emanating a spectrum of colour across the landscape.<br />

Together they existed to create an enchanting space… as can a<br />

single flower standing alone. A kaleidoscope of colour, texture, size<br />

and shapes. Young buds dangling from the stems of open flowers in<br />

their glory aspire to share their beauty . . . soon.<br />

Time is cyclic, bees will come and go. Flowers are always<br />

attractive when in bloom and a bee’s instinct will lead<br />

him to the flowers he wants to pollinate. Different flowers<br />

draw certain bees close, this is the nature of things… a truly<br />

mysterious force.<br />

No one knows why less bees follow the natural way these days.<br />

No one really knows who were the first flowers to pull up their roots and<br />

rush from the garden… setting an unfortunate precedent in their<br />

flurry.<br />

The garden has had many seasons of unrest since that first<br />

shift. Historical records and reason have justified the many<br />

changes… and still the bee does come, propelled with<br />

nature’s destiny in his jeans… whoops, genes.<br />

But these days he must maneouver a range of unfavourable<br />

tactics and unfortunate temptations to find flowers who still<br />

holds heaven’s scent… and are willing to share. Sadly much<br />

of the garden has been corrupted and what an approaching<br />

bee may find is often a shame.<br />

Flowers too commonly pull at other petals, vying for yet<br />

another position. Some rip away their own roots and<br />

give chase. There are flowers who rip at other’s roots and<br />

these are not always the likes of venus fly traps—no even<br />

the most alluring bunch can be less than sweet.<br />

And then too very young blossoms begin to prance out in<br />

front of the bunch, guided by the sway of wilting violets still clinging to seasons from<br />

long before. And nearly all flowers incessantly flap their petals in the breeze and this<br />

unnecessary chatter may become as a strangling vine smothers a sapling.<br />

The need to propagate and control the garden’s growth can become obsessive and<br />

the static from these flowers can overpower the buzz of an unsuspecting bee… or<br />

drown the crescendo of crickets at dusk.<br />

and<br />

The chase, tactics, unnecessary competition and unwanted<br />

jealousy—all these unfortunate qualities lace the modern garden…<br />

and this is not the saddest part of this fractured fairytale.<br />

The greatest shame I see is young blossoming buds who wiggle<br />

with allure before their petals have even opened…<br />

buds filled with tomorrow’s beauty are being distorted<br />

misguided before they emanate their own divinity.<br />

And what do the young bees do now?<br />

If you can write a great ending for this story, please email no more than 500 words to:<br />

editor@injoymag.com<br />

I plan to publish the best one I receive in the next edition... WINTER 2012<br />

Send it in before April 10 th 2012<br />

Maybe I’ll find a prize too<br />

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health& wellbeing • • • •<br />

Integrate<br />

Is Stress a Signal for Awakening?<br />

by John Douglas © 2012<br />

Stress is our body/mind’s natural response to a hectic modern<br />

lifestyle. It’s a message to slow down. It begins as a whisper<br />

in the body and gets louder and louder till something<br />

eventually snaps: tense and tight, muscles contracted and<br />

jaw clenched desperately trying to stay in control. Thoughts<br />

begin to churn out of control, tumbling over each other and<br />

often we are focused on the future, all the things we need<br />

to get done… or the past, something we feel incomplete<br />

about or regret, wallowing, resistant and often are driven by<br />

those reoccurring thought about ourselves… “I’m worthless,<br />

life’s hopeless, I’m a terrible parent… and no one loves me<br />

because I am unlovable”.<br />

Stress can be conscious and also unconscious… and our<br />

compulsion to keep it all together, just keep going at all costs<br />

is because we are afraid of what might happen if stop or<br />

simply let go.<br />

Everyone suffers from tension and stress on some level at<br />

some time, it ebbs and flows through our systems. It is our<br />

teacher and our lesson is to manage our stress levels so to<br />

create a healthy lifestyle. Unchecked and unmanaged stress<br />

can accumulate as toxins in the body and in the nervous<br />

system and can lead to a whole range of dis-ease and can<br />

lead us on a downward spiral.<br />

Choice One • Have Another Latte<br />

Keep driving the machine (your body/mind/nervous system)<br />

onwards to complete everything and meet the pressures<br />

from the outer world. Coffee has become the popular drug<br />

of choice in the industrial world because it works like a credit<br />

card. It gives us access to energy we don’t have like a credit<br />

card gives us access to money we don’t have.<br />

Choice Two • Simply Stop<br />

Take a deep breath. Close your eyes and go inside. Stop and<br />

feel. Feel the tension. Take some time out. Sip a relaxing tea<br />

instead of something stimulating. Focus inwards. Prioritise<br />

and rearrange your schedule and make some space for<br />

yourself. Share with a friend, laugh and discharge stress.<br />

Then you can return to your day refreshed with renewed<br />

energy… your cycle of stress needs to be broken for a new<br />

perspective to enter.<br />

Choice Three • Disengage Completely<br />

Go for a walk, swim at the beach, get a massage, lie down<br />

and just be still for a moment, switch off your phone, unwind<br />

in water, make love . . . smile.<br />

For most of us stress has to reach an acute level before we<br />

deal with it. The insidious aspect of this cycle is that we live<br />

with rising ebbs and deeper flows, thinking we can handle it<br />

all, that we are on top of it until suddenly we ‘loose it’ and feel<br />

completely out of control and fall apart.<br />

The strange thing is that often the more tense we are the<br />

harder it is to stop and unwind. It’s almost more painful to<br />

stop than to keep going on auto-pilot. Sometimes when we<br />

stop we may have to face feelings we have been avoiding.<br />

Always keeping busy can be a great distraction from deeper<br />

feelings.<br />

Managing stress is an exercise in awareness. It is a journey<br />

that has the capacity to eventually take us home if we find<br />

the right path. It really is all about the choices we make and<br />

finding balance between doing and being… when we master<br />

being we master our life experience.<br />

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Too much doing, too much working, too much talking,<br />

too much thinking, too much driving, too much time on<br />

the computer, too much worrying, too many unfelt and<br />

unresolved feelings. We experience pressure at work, pressure<br />

at home and this can set up an unhealthy cycle. Instead of<br />

feeling supported and nurtured at home by our family we find<br />

ourselves confronted and struggling around control, then<br />

we can feel guilty, blaming, ashamed, victimised, resentful…<br />

and more exhausted. This is the toxic cycle of stress. It leaks<br />

out into every aspect of our lives like battery acid, corroding<br />

everything we hold dear.<br />

Remember we do have choices. We can listen to our body<br />

that constantly giving us little signals. We feel it in the eyes,<br />

we feel it in the shoulders and the neck and the back. We feel<br />

drained or agitated. We do have a choice…<br />

It seems successful people are busy and so many of us become<br />

obsessed with packing in as much as possible in a day. For<br />

now onwards we all need to give ourselves permission to<br />

take some time to recharge and relax in between our busy<br />

schedules.... turn the phone, computer and TV off, unplug


your thoughts of the outer world and unwind, reflect, relax<br />

and hold space for our inner selves.<br />

A good barometer of our stress levels is whether we are<br />

able to stop and listen. Listen to your breath, listen to the<br />

sounds of nature… and listen to the silence.<br />

The breath is a very simple and powerful tool. A few<br />

conscious breaths will turn our attention inside and return<br />

us to the here & now. This is a significant shift because<br />

when we are stressed we are not present. It is this sense<br />

of here & now presence that is the key to transforming our<br />

awareness. It’s important for each of us to find our own<br />

unique way or ways of accessing this sense of our inner<br />

sensitivities and our place of inner peace. Meditation.<br />

Dancing. Swimming. Martial Arts. Surfing. Walking. Yoga.<br />

Massage. Commune with nature. Listen to music. Making<br />

love. Relaxing in hot water. Playing… there are so many<br />

ways to choose from.<br />

For me the sauna takes me home every time. My tension<br />

dissolves easily in the heat, toxins are released rapidly My<br />

body relaxes at a very deep level, tense muscles melting<br />

in the heat, stressful thoughts dissolve as my attention is<br />

drawn inward and I am left feeling serene, recharged and<br />

present with my life. It works every time.<br />

And of course my favourite place for this is KIVA SPA, an<br />

oasis of peace nestled in the heart of Mullumbimby... see<br />

our colour advertisement on page 30 of this edition.<br />

Ultimately when we are stressed we are stuck in our ego, in<br />

our story, in our separateness. By shifting our perception,<br />

redirecting our awareness, taking a few deep breathes…<br />

from here we can begin to allow, to accept things as they<br />

are, to see your cup always half full and feel connected<br />

abundant and grateful so you can be at peace and trust<br />

the natural ebb and flow of life.<br />

“Emotional adversity is just like the weather,<br />

let it move through.” Matthew and Terces Engleheart<br />

Integrate<br />

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Starseed Gardens invites locals and<br />

visitors to come and relax in tropical gardens, wander<br />

and be nourished by exotic and lush plants for sale,<br />

find fantastic information about Hemp Farming and<br />

rejuvenate at our traditional tea house.<br />

The Starseed Gardens Nursery is open<br />

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the trials and results in our beautiful gardens.<br />

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Join our mail list for our 2012 calendar of events that<br />

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Integrate<br />

health& wellbeing • • • •<br />

Welcome to the next<br />

evolutionary stage of<br />

ANIMAL<br />

DREAMING...<br />

a bit of history first...<br />

On a warm day in February 1998,<br />

Scott and Trudy opened a little<br />

healing centre in Woori-Yallock, a<br />

small incidental country town in<br />

Victoria’s Yarra Valley.<br />

‘Circle of Stones Healing Lodge attracted<br />

a loyal cluster of customers interested in the<br />

different healing modalities and meditation<br />

classes the centre had to offer. Scott’s readings<br />

and workshops and the thrill of having an esoteric<br />

shop in the Valley that sold spiritual books and<br />

crystals really put this business on the map.<br />

And as is the way when something is ‘right’, Circle<br />

of Stones soon outgrew the little cottage it was<br />

born into and moved to Main Street Warburton,<br />

a town celebrated for its healing energies, the<br />

crystal-laden Yarra River, the snow-capped Mt<br />

Donna Buang and its population of natural<br />

therapists, healers, psychics and teachers.<br />

approach to life helped brand<br />

the well recognised name<br />

‘Animal Dreaming’ and<br />

anchor it as a company of<br />

high integrity, spiritual honesty<br />

and grounding.<br />

The next chapter ...<br />

If you haven’t come in to meet<br />

us yet... across from the cinema in<br />

Jonson Street . . .<br />

Welcome to Animal Dreaming Byron Bay, the<br />

new home of Scott’s work: the new shop, the<br />

new look, new books, new events, retreats<br />

and workshops, a new ever-growing circle of<br />

friends, new healing modalities, services and<br />

experiences . . .<br />

and most importantly, Welcome 2012,<br />

a new and exciting time of unity, healing and<br />

shamanic understanding that encompasses<br />

everything Animal Dreaming represents and<br />

has to offer.’<br />

Scott Alexander King<br />

Our shop quickly became a popular destination<br />

for many of the tourists who flock to Warburton<br />

each year) and it was here Scott wrote his bestselling<br />

book, ANIMAL DREAMING. Here the seed<br />

was planted and since our work is growing into<br />

a strong, powerful and enduring Oak Tree.<br />

Selling Circle of Stones ten years later, we moved<br />

our family north to the beauty of Byron Bay and<br />

again opened a retail shop that continues the<br />

tradition of offering ethical trading while offering<br />

a beautiful range of hand-dug Madagascan<br />

crystals, spiritual books, incense and local art,<br />

with popular workshops and readings based on<br />

my books (of which now there are now several).<br />

My philosophy and our nature-based spiritual<br />

Scott Alexander King is a shaman, visionary and<br />

zoomancer – an individual that examines the habits<br />

and appearance of animals to help explain or reveal<br />

the future path of other people. He is the author of,<br />

among others, ‘Animal Dreaming’, a shamanic field<br />

guide that offers insight into the wisdom of over 200<br />

indigenous and introduced Australasian animals<br />

and the international best-selling ‘Animal Dreaming<br />

Oracle Cards’. Scott is available for interviews,<br />

workshops and seminars. He and his family live in<br />

NSW’s picturesque Northern Rivers and have a retail<br />

shop in Byron Bay. To learn more about Scott, his<br />

books, his work and his shop . . .<br />

. . . visit: www.animaldreaming.com<br />

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Have you ever wanted to know what animal<br />

spirits are walking with you as guides,<br />

totems, teachers or healers?<br />

Well, why not book a reading with Scott<br />

Alexander King, author of the book,<br />

ANIMAL DREAMING, and the ANIMAL<br />

DREAMING ORACLE CARDS.<br />

Visit Scott at his shop.<br />

Animal Dreaming is located at 109 Jonson<br />

Street, Byron Bay, or you can phone to book<br />

a private reading, consultation<br />

or attend one of his inspiring workshops.<br />

02 6680 9899 ANIMAL DREAMING www.animaldreaming.com


Integrate<br />

EGG WHITE<br />

as a first aid remedy<br />

A young man sprinkling his lawn and bushes with pesticides wanted to check the contents of the<br />

barrel to see how much pesticide remained in it. He raised the cover and lit his lighter; the vapors<br />

inflamed and engulfed him. He jumped from his truck, screaming. His neighbor came out of her<br />

house with a dozen eggs, yelling: “bring me some eggs!” She broke them, separating the whites<br />

from the yolks. The neighbor woman helped her to apply the whites on the young man’s face.<br />

When the ambulance arrived and when the EMTs saw the young man, they asked who had done<br />

this. Everyone pointed to the lady in charge. They congratulated her and said: “You have saved his<br />

face.” By the end of the summer, the young man brought the lady a bouquet of roses to thank her.<br />

His face was like a baby’s skin.<br />

healing miracle for burns:<br />

Keep in mind this treatment of burns which is included in the method of teaching beginner fireman.<br />

First aid consists to spraying cold water on the affected area until the heat is reduced and stops<br />

burning the layers of skin. Then, spread egg whites on the affected are.<br />

One woman burned a large part of her hand with boiling water. In spite of the pain, she ran cold<br />

faucet water on her hand, separated 2 egg white from the yolks, beat them slightly and dipped her<br />

hand in the solution. The whites then dried and formed a protective layer.<br />

She later learned that the egg white is a natural collagen and continued during at least one hour<br />

to apply layer upon layer of beaten egg white. By afternoon she no longer felt any pain and the<br />

next day there was hardly a trace of the burn. 10 days later, no trace was left at all and her skin had<br />

regained its normal color. The burned area was totally regenerated thanks to the collagen in the<br />

egg whites, a placenta full of vitamins.<br />

Pass it on. Sent to <strong>InJoy</strong> by numerous sources, so it must be a good one!<br />

‘Yesterday we obeyed kings<br />

and bent our necks before<br />

emperors...<br />

But today we kneel only to<br />

truth, follow only beauty...<br />

and obey only love.’<br />

Kahlil Gibran with Bhavik Pankaj Thaker<br />

‘When you realise just how<br />

perfect everything is you will<br />

tilt your head back and<br />

laugh at the sky.’<br />

Buddha<br />

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Integrate<br />

health& wellbeing • • • •<br />

6 steps to create your<br />

own organic permaculture<br />

garden<br />

Tara Green©2012<br />

NaturalNews Organic gardening avoids the<br />

use of chemicals to make plants grow or<br />

protect them from insects, relying instead<br />

on natural gardening principles used for<br />

thousands of years. Permaculture organic<br />

gardening goes a step further and also<br />

emphasizes growing plants sustainably,<br />

working with rather than against the grain<br />

of the natural environment. Permaculture<br />

organic gardening is growing in<br />

popularity as more people realize that it<br />

offers an inexpensive and relatively lowmaintenance<br />

way to grow their own fruits,<br />

vegetables, herbs and flowers.<br />

1Choosing a location<br />

Observe your property at different times<br />

of day. Consider which areas receive the<br />

most sun, which are in shade for much of<br />

the day. Depending on where you live, if<br />

sunshine is a scarce commodity, you will<br />

want to expose plants to receive as much<br />

as possible. On the other hand, in desert<br />

regions, you will not want your plants to<br />

be in the area most likely to be parched by<br />

sun exposure. Also think protecting your<br />

garden from the paths where strong winds<br />

tend to blow through your property. Even<br />

a small property will have microclimates --<br />

notice these and plant accordingly to give<br />

different plants either more sun or more<br />

shade according to their preference.<br />

2 Selecting plants<br />

Avoid disease-prone plants which require<br />

time-consuming chores such as spraying<br />

and pruning by the gardener. Select<br />

plants which will thrive in your area rather<br />

than those which will require extra labor<br />

on your part to protect them from the<br />

environment. As far as possible, select<br />

plants which serve multiple purposes,<br />

such as fruit trees which will put forth<br />

blossoms in one season, fruit to pick in<br />

another, and provide shade for when<br />

you want to sit and enjoy your garden’s<br />

natural beauty. Native plants are also<br />

more likely to attract local pollinators such<br />

as bees, and to draw butterflies so that<br />

your garden contains even more natural<br />

beauty.<br />

3 Making a home for<br />

your plants<br />

Raised beds require less physical effort on<br />

the part of the gardener and also benefit<br />

plants, providing better air circulation,<br />

more protection from spring chills and<br />

improved usage of water. Raised beds<br />

also mean a small permaculture garden<br />

is an option even for apartment dwellers<br />

and others with little available space since<br />

you can rely on containers and vertical<br />

gardening principles.<br />

4 Feeding your plants<br />

One of the key concepts of permaculture<br />

organic gardening is to avoid waste.<br />

Having a garden gives you a means of<br />

re-using natural waste such as eggshells,<br />

apple cores, coffee grinds as well as yard<br />

waste which many people throw away. You<br />

can either purchase or make a compost bin<br />

to turn this organic material into gardening<br />

gold which can be used to help your plants<br />

grow.<br />

5 Watering your plants<br />

Modern gardeners who do not follow<br />

sustainability principles tend to draw<br />

heavily on piped-in water resources, often<br />

using hoses and sprinklers to make plants<br />

which require abundant water grow in<br />

a desert climate. Permaculture organic<br />

gardening tries to use natural water as<br />

much as possible, maximizing the use of<br />

groundwater and rainwater. Rain barrels<br />

allow you to collect rainfall and extend its<br />

use over longer periods of time.<br />

6 Protecting plants from<br />

pests<br />

Eschewing the use of chemicals does not<br />

have to mean a garden full of pests. You<br />

can use companion gardening principles,<br />

growing plants which deter pests near<br />

those which attract them. There is also<br />

a natural synergy between some plants<br />

which means planting them near each<br />

other increases your yield. Also, just as<br />

some herbs have a medicinal effect on<br />

human health, they also offer benefits to<br />

plants which grow near them. For more<br />

information about companion planting,<br />

visit http://www.appropedia.org/CCAT_<br />

companion_planting and http://www.<br />

gardeningknowhow.com<br />

If you have space and live in an area where<br />

it is permissible to keep poultry, chickens<br />

can make a wonderful addition to a<br />

permaculture garden. If they are permitted<br />

free-range for most of the day, they will<br />

consume many pests. Chicken manure also<br />

contributes beneficial nitrogen to the soil<br />

of your garden.<br />

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learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/035038_permaculture_gardening_how_to.html#ixzz1nlS6a7yd


Integrate<br />

Discover an obscure,<br />

inexpensive,<br />

Arugula<br />

easy to use<br />

Tasty Superfood<br />

by Paul Fassa<br />

NaturalNews There is yet another cancer<br />

preventing cruciferous vegetable that few<br />

know about. It is perfect for salads or pesto.<br />

Uncooked, the nutrients and enzymes are<br />

preserved. It’s a green called arugula. It’s<br />

health benefits exceed most other greens.<br />

Unlike most cruciferous veggies, arugula<br />

tastes good raw. Preparing arugula is easy.<br />

The dark green leaves let you know arugula is<br />

high in chlorophyll. Chlorophyll molecules are<br />

similar to red blood cells.<br />

Cooking greens to cause them to slightly<br />

lose their bright green luster degrades their<br />

chlorophyll content and intact chlorophyll<br />

helps prevent DNA and liver damage.<br />

The elusive but important vitamin K<br />

family is found in arugula. Vitamin K2<br />

is important for bone absorption of<br />

calcium and not so well understood<br />

is vitamin K’s contribution to<br />

cardiovascular health.<br />

Vitamin K also<br />

minimises brain<br />

matter calcifications<br />

that often result in<br />

Alzheimer’s disease.<br />

Most of the<br />

plaque that forms<br />

inside arterial<br />

wall surfaces is<br />

calcification from<br />

calcium that bones<br />

and teeth don’t absorb<br />

and vitamin K helps keep<br />

calcium from collecting in<br />

the bloodstream and other<br />

soft tissue.<br />

Arugula is high in fiber, which aids digestive<br />

elimination. Vitamin B complex is rich in arugula with<br />

high amounts of folate, the natural source of folic<br />

acid. Arugula is high in vitamin C, A, and P. In addition<br />

to magnesium, iron and copper content is strong in<br />

arugula as well.<br />

Additionally, the phytochemicals in arugula contain<br />

lots of sulfur compounds, which enable the body’s<br />

cells to detox further by helping the liver create more<br />

glutathione. Glutathione is the master antioxidant that<br />

is created by the liver if the right nutrient precursors are<br />

available. It is difficult to find a more nutritious single<br />

plant food than arugula. Though sometimes cleaned<br />

and packaged, buying arugula in fresh bunches with<br />

their roots is optimum. Do your own cleaning. Arugula<br />

bunches resemble fresh spinach bunches.<br />

Arugula should be eaten often to obtain and maintain<br />

its benefits. To make it easier, arugula tastes better<br />

uncooked than all other cruciferous veggies. Mixing<br />

arugula with other greens in salads are obvious easy<br />

choices.<br />

Pesto is another tasty choice for consuming<br />

arugula raw with its nutrients intact.<br />

You can make a pesto using arugula<br />

combined with the traditional basil<br />

leaves and/or cilantro. Cilantro is<br />

recognised as a detoxifying<br />

agent, especially<br />

effective for eliminating<br />

mercury.<br />

All pesto mixes<br />

include lots of leaves<br />

of your choice, a few<br />

pine nuts or walnuts,<br />

some fresh garlic cloves,<br />

sea salt, grated parmesan<br />

cheese (optional), and lots<br />

of cold pressed olive oil all<br />

blended in a food processor.<br />

When you get a thick, porous<br />

texture, apply the pesto to pasta or any other<br />

food, even sandwiches.<br />

Whatever isn’t used can be sealed and<br />

refrigerated. A thin topping of olive oil inhibits<br />

oxidation. Here’s a recipe example to get you<br />

started. Substitute or include arugula/ cilantro<br />

with less or no basil.<br />

read more : http://www.naturalnews.com/033604_arugula_superfood.html#ixzz1YRXCE7WF<br />

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Integrate<br />

health& wellbeing • • • •<br />

personal experience:<br />

Recently a friend of mine had forty<br />

white-tail spider bites... goggle it<br />

and have a look at the effects of<br />

one, intense!<br />

The miracle remedies and healing<br />

agent some of you may know<br />

about, I didn’t but now I do I want<br />

to share it with everyone...<br />

aloe vera<br />

bandaids<br />

I have tried them myself and they<br />

are very soothing and waterproof<br />

for half an hour or so.<br />

process...<br />

Cut a large thick piece of aloe vera<br />

and slice across the leaf to the size<br />

you need. Split this open along the<br />

skin and using a sharp knife take a<br />

slither of gel from inside the leaf to<br />

the size you will need to cover the<br />

wound, as thin as possible.<br />

Remove all the moisture by<br />

pressing the slither inside a paper<br />

towel. Apply to area and sit still<br />

while it draws to your body.. if it<br />

slides or slips just repeat the paper<br />

towel part of the process and then<br />

reapply and be patient.<br />

When it does attach you’ll have<br />

created a natural, hygenic, soothing,<br />

healing band-aid that won’t<br />

fall off till you wash it off.<br />

Yes, to remove use water and rub<br />

the edges with a cotton pad until<br />

it releases. Be brave.<br />

in touch<br />

first-hand experience of healers, sessions & therapies<br />

You may have caught up with the owner/operator Minas at the<br />

Starlight Wellbeing Expo’s Healathon in January where he was<br />

giving away free massages. You may also have been one of the<br />

recipients of more than 50 free treatments that were offered by the<br />

Team from Osho’s House at their Healing Centre Open Day.<br />

If you missed out here is an update of<br />

What’s New at Osho’s House Healing Centre.<br />

The Team at Osho’s House is now made up of<br />

Carine who is a therapeutic massage therapist and reiki master,<br />

Helena who is a remedial massage therapist and offers health care<br />

rebates, Kobie who is remedial massage therapist also offering<br />

health care rebates and specialising in craniosacral treatments,<br />

Minas who is a massage therapist and reiki practitioner, Fiona who<br />

is a tarot reader and psychic healer, Jodie who does soul retreival<br />

and shamanic healing and Julie who is the creator and facilitator<br />

for “journey in colour”<br />

workshops.<br />

The Healing Centre has<br />

also taken on the sales of<br />

a new product which is<br />

the SAMANVAYAPURE<br />

skin care range based<br />

on Ayurvedic principles.<br />

The product is made<br />

and produced by a local<br />

Minas, Carine, Kobie, Helena.<br />

Not in the picture are Fiona, Jodie and Julie<br />

girl in the Byron Shire. Also still on sale are the colourful cards and<br />

paintings from Julie’s range of “journey in colours”. You will also feel<br />

at one with the divine sacred geometry works on display. Minas says<br />

the only products we sell are ones we make and we don’t make wild<br />

claims about any of them other than to say we use them ourselves.<br />

The Healing Centre’s facilities include an infra-red sauna which<br />

promotes detoxification, burns fat and regulates blood pressure.<br />

Special package deals are available<br />

combining massage and sauna sessions.<br />

Check out their Facebook page for more information,<br />

pictures and latest news<br />

http://www.facebook.com/oshoshouse<br />

Phone: 02 6685 6792 or 0411 114 344<br />

1/30 Carlyle St (across from tennis courts) Byron Bay<br />

www.byron-bay.com/oshoshouse<br />

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The next ‘Kids Village’ will be at the Julinbah Yowarl Festival March 16-20<br />

The program will includes... ‘Art with Living Plants and Herbs’, ‘Green Smoothies and Yoga for Radiant Health’, Live<br />

Sing Alongs by ‘Lewis Parter’ and others, ‘Aboriginal Art and Dreamtime Stories’ and see GGK article and recipes on<br />

page 19 of this issue of <strong>InJoy</strong>...<br />

the community would like to thank Paul & Mam for all the light they bring<br />

to the streets of Byron... after dusk on weekends you can be enchanted by<br />

byron star lights, a special place at the top end of Jonson Street.<br />

www.byronstarlights.com<br />

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17<br />

- MEDIA RELEASE -<br />

Jubullum Community presents<br />

JULINBAH YOWARL<br />

RAINBOW CORROBOREE<br />

16 th -20 th March 2012<br />

The Bunjalung Elders from Jubullum Community<br />

near Tabulam NSW invite everyone to come<br />

and camp at the majestic Rocky River for another<br />

Julinbah Yowarl or Rainbow Corroboree.<br />

This cultural experience has been evolving<br />

over the last 2 years into a successful family-friendly event,<br />

bridging people of many cultures.<br />

Celebrating the oldest culture in the world will be the local<br />

Warlah-Bal Djunagun Dance Troupe, who are the hosts<br />

and have been dazzling the audience for the last three<br />

Corroborees with their Dance and Ceremony.<br />

There will be performances from<br />

other Indigenous Artists and Dreamtime Art on displays.<br />

Proceeds from this event go directly to the improvement of the<br />

Corroboree Ground and facilities<br />

as well as the development<br />

of an Indigenous Culture/Language School on the site.<br />

The Musicians from a wider Northern NSW community<br />

and far beyond continue to generously<br />

support this Community Fundraiser<br />

and this March we are on for another musical feast:<br />

Dubshack, Fyah Walk, Murray Kyle, Mystic Beats... and more.<br />

For the second time the event is hosting Kobya,<br />

bringing the invigorating sounds of<br />

Mozambique into the Australian Bush.<br />

The Rainbow Chai Tent and other market stalls<br />

will offer some food and refreshments for sale.<br />

There is no alcohol welcome or for sale and other intoxicants<br />

are also not welcome.<br />

An exciting addition to the<br />

March 2012 Corroboreel are new two spaces :<br />

Happy People Chill<br />

and Falafel Lounge Cafe<br />

both offering a unique audio visual experiences<br />

in the tradition of the Cyber Tribal Exodus Festival.<br />

Byron Movement Orchard and Dome shows<br />

tangible visions of a Sustainable Future<br />

The gathering is an opportunity to connect with others<br />

through sharing Art, Lore, Language, BushFood Workshops,<br />

The Mystery Dingo Tours Walkabout… and more.<br />

It is also an invitation to have the ultimate camping experience<br />

and connect with especially enchanting land<br />

only two hours scenic drive from Byron Bay,<br />

through Casino towards Tenterfield. Follow directions from Plains Stations Road<br />

off the Bruxner Highway.<br />

entry: $50 – children under 15 free<br />

For media interviews and for more information<br />

please contact Sky on 0266871706<br />

or email skyhemp@gmail.com<br />

the majestic Rocky River


Indigenous Matters<br />

It’s about our tomorrow, but today you and I can make a positive diffference.<br />

Pop Harry Mundine Walker and Aunty Annabel Walker<br />

pictured with great grandson RJ are Elders of the Jubullum<br />

community on the beautiful Rocky River, Tabulam New<br />

South Wales.<br />

Pop and Aunty are warm-hearted people who share and<br />

care for their family of four generations and the mob in<br />

and around their community, and they also share culture<br />

at public opening and events... you may have been<br />

privileged by their presence, story and dance at the Byron<br />

Spirit Festival in Feb 2012. They visit schools, prisons,<br />

community halls and churches to help bring culture to all<br />

people.<br />

Their giving nature makes my heart sing.<br />

Pop Harry is a member of the Bunjalung Elders Council<br />

Aboriginal Corporation and he is a cultural heritage<br />

knowledge holder, Elder and mentor for the Warhlabal<br />

Tribe of the lower Rocky River.<br />

Pop is highly respected in the Jubullum community where<br />

he teaches the language and way beyond his community...<br />

all over Australia people recognise and love Pop Harry and<br />

Aunty Annabel for the way they welcome all people and<br />

share Aboriginal culture with so many.<br />

Pop has made a beautiful six disc DVD boxset where he<br />

shares his stories with you, language, place, history and<br />

Aboriginal culture.<br />

It is called Poppy Harry Mundine Walker.<br />

This is for all the people they do not get to meet on their<br />

travels. It is a first-hand true account of Aboriginality... It is<br />

a treasure and you can purchase this boxset for $80 (plus<br />

postage).<br />

If you email editor@injoymag.com I will personally arrange<br />

your delivery and way of payment.<br />

Recently Pop and Aunty took ten to the Byron Spirit<br />

Festival in Mullumbimby and we put them on a stall and<br />

within minutes of Pop mesmerising the audience with his<br />

story of the GURRAMAN - with kangaroo dance told by<br />

Lewis Walker - there was only one left.<br />

These DVD’s are a valuable resource for all schools, home/<br />

families and anyone interested in Aboriginal culture and<br />

ways of being living with this land.<br />

And... I am delighted to announce that Pop has offered to<br />

share his stories and wisdom in the next edition of <strong>InJoy</strong><br />

<strong>Magazine</strong>... as the feature for Winter 2012.<br />

<strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> is a portal for community and people to<br />

connect and share their stories and so I would also like to<br />

connect with the community here —<br />

with respect and love, Bhadrena Rose<br />

Before I make a hundred phone calls to speak to a few<br />

people who will most likely lead me along miles of red<br />

tape... I felt to reach out to the private sector of our<br />

community—to the people who read <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>.<br />

At Aunty and Pop’s request we share this story with you;<br />

“In 2011 when Brisbane had those big floods we had<br />

big floods here too. SES helped us at the time with<br />

bad emergencies but after that we got no help. Other<br />

people got help, we saw that in the newspaper but we<br />

lost everything. The church gave us the land but the<br />

house was so bad it had to be taken away.<br />

We need a house for our family and we even have our<br />

great grand children with us, which is wonderful. They<br />

dance and speak their traditional language<br />

and this makes us very happy.”<br />

I feel privileged to support these very special people.<br />

I know our community can come together and we<br />

support great causes and people. So I trust also we can<br />

come together here.<br />

Tradesmen, builder, plumbers, electricians, tilers, all of<br />

you, please consider coming together for this project...<br />

you will be recognised.<br />

Contact me for more information<br />

Bhadrena - 0403 135 372 or email... editor@injoymag.<br />

com<br />

My other vision is that a kit home company would be<br />

interested in an iconic marketing stratergy, supported<br />

by <strong>InJoy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> and other media vehicles, using the<br />

establishment of a home on Pop and Aunty’s land in<br />

Tabulam as a vehicle for promotion.<br />

This could become a wonderful project to extend to<br />

other Aboriginal Elders who are sharing culture with all<br />

peoples to ensure the land sings the dreamtime stories<br />

still... for all of us and beyond.<br />

It is with my greatest love and respect I support this<br />

initiative... it is a dream and it is time for dreams to come<br />

true, especially for people like Pop and Aunty who share<br />

much of their precious time caring for family and the<br />

future... they deserve a home to rest and replenish and<br />

keep their family safe.<br />

Thank You.<br />

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at the heart of our culture • • • •


Inspire<br />

feather art by bhadrena rose<br />

art & culture • • • •<br />

An Ode to Chris…<br />

Bhadrena Rose<br />

I was blessed to meet Chris just before his passing<br />

last December. It was a deep, brief but profound<br />

connection. I saw him one more time before he<br />

danced into the spirit world at Christmas time<br />

2011. This meeting was again brief but the<br />

resonance of our previous connection remained<br />

and through a glance we remembered.<br />

TWO FRIENDS<br />

WERE WALKING<br />

THROUGH THE DESERT,<br />

DURING SOME POINT<br />

THEY HAD AN<br />

ARGUMENT AND ONE<br />

FRIEND SLAPPED THE<br />

OTHER<br />

THE ONE WHO GOT<br />

SLAPPED WAS HURT<br />

AND WITHOUT<br />

SAYING ANYTHING<br />

WROTE IN THE SAND:<br />

‘TODAY MY BEST FRIEND<br />

SLAPPED ME’<br />

THEY KEPT WALKING<br />

UNTIL THEY FOUND<br />

AN OASIS WHERE THEY<br />

DECIDED TO TAKE A BATH.<br />

THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN<br />

SLAPPED GOT STUCK AND<br />

STARTED DROWNING AND<br />

HIS FRIEND SAVED HIM.<br />

AFTER HE RECOVERED HE<br />

WROTE ON A STONE:<br />

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There are people I have had connections with for<br />

years that have not reached the place with me<br />

that Chris did… in a moment’s grace, the right<br />

moment, the right opening and the connection<br />

was made.This is my experience and I feel to take<br />

this moment to share.<br />

During his passing and after so many questions<br />

were asked, so many stories told, grew and twisted<br />

and grew again and eventually it seemed that<br />

Chris himself was hidden beneath a quandary of<br />

questions.<br />

So it is here that I simply and humbly speak of<br />

Chris, to honour the greatest sparkle in his eye,<br />

the cheek to play with life and step where others<br />

fear to tread. I feel him dancing in the stars and<br />

this brings me great comfort in the expansion of<br />

all things.<br />

Ring the bells that still can ring<br />

Forget your perfect offering<br />

There is a crack in everything<br />

That’s how the light gets in.<br />

Leonard Cohen<br />

one of the exquisite pieces created by Christopher Vale<br />

‘TODAY MY BEST FRIEND<br />

SAVED ME’<br />

THE FRIEND WHO<br />

SLAPPED AND SAVED HIS<br />

FRIEND ASKED:<br />

‘AFTER I HURT YOU YOU<br />

WROTE IN THE SAND<br />

AND NOW<br />

YOU WRITE ON STONE,<br />

WHY?’<br />

THE FRIEND REPLIED:<br />

‘WHEN SOMEONE HURTS<br />

US WE SHOULD WRITE IT<br />

DOWN IN SAND,<br />

WHERE WINDS OF<br />

FORGIVENESS CAN<br />

ERASE IT AWAY.<br />

BUT, WHEN SOMEONE<br />

DOES SOMETHING GOOD<br />

FOR US, WE MUST MARK<br />

IT IN STONE WHERE NO<br />

WIND CAN EVER ERASE IT’<br />

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR<br />

HURTS IN THE SAND<br />

AND CARVE YOUR<br />

BENEFITS IN STONE.<br />

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Based on Dr. Seuss’s final book before his death, this is a story about life’s ups and downs…<br />

told by people of Burning Man 2011- the most fabulous festival on this planet. Directed by: Teddy Saunders.<br />

This link is a very beautiful watch… inspiring and simply true… and if you want to see a seven minute snippet of the incredible<br />

environment created at Burning Man Festivals. . .<br />

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=ahv_1IS7SiE&feature=youtube<br />

art & culture • • • •<br />

LINK TO THE ENCHANTED FOREST<br />

Find your power animal for the day...<br />

http://www.poweranimalsunleashed.com/enchantedforest.htm<br />

When I tried the elephant was my animal spirit... and this is what was unleashed:<br />

Ah, what power is yours… a tower of strength. Your heart is full of courage and you know that you can do and be anything<br />

you care to. After all, you are the elephant.<br />

With the elephant spirit within you, you will be able to command attention and hold power without saying a word. When you are<br />

this strong, when you have this much power, you can do and say little and still have great impact. Your power is absolute; there is<br />

no need to talk about it. You command the situation simply by being... go to link to read more<br />

TROLL on the net<br />

from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia<br />

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous or off-topic<br />

messages in an online community such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or<br />

blog with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or otherwise disrupting normal on-topic<br />

discussion. The noun troll may refer to the provocative message itself, as in “That was an excellent troll you posted”.<br />

While the word troll and its associated verb trolling are associated with Internet discourse, media attention in recent years<br />

has made such labels subjective, with trolling describing intentionally provocative actions and harassment outside of an<br />

online context. For example, mass media has used troll to describe “a person who defaces Internet tribute sites with the<br />

aim of causing grief to families.” The “trollface” or “coolface” first appeared in 2008 and is often used to indicate trolling in<br />

contemporary internet culture. Modern usage of the word itself dates from 1980s.<br />

ASTROLOGY at it’s best<br />

A great site for clear, concise and<br />

conscious raising insights and<br />

predictions. Created by Byron Bay’s<br />

Kim Falconer, my favourite astrologer.<br />

www.falconastrology.com<br />

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art & culture • • • •<br />

21<br />

DVD<br />

reviews<br />

• • • • Leslie’s choice<br />

I always have people asking me for lists to make it easier to choose<br />

DVDs… I even had someone come into the shop the other day with<br />

a old copy of Injoy <strong>Magazine</strong> with movie reviews in hand ready to<br />

pick out their DVDs… Leslie.<br />

Here are Leslie’s Favourite Films for 2011…<br />

Anonymous drama<br />

The Iron Lady drama<br />

Midnight in Paris romantic comedy<br />

Crazy Stupid Love comedy<br />

Rise of the Planet of the Apes action<br />

Bridesmaids comedy<br />

The Beaver drama<br />

The Guard black comedy<br />

Super 8 action/family<br />

Source Code Sci/Fi action<br />

Water for Elephants romantic/drama<br />

Incendies foreign drama<br />

Never Let Me Go Sci/Fi drama<br />

Limitless Sci/Fi action<br />

Griff the Invisible comedy<br />

Barneys Version comedy<br />

Gnomeo and Juliet family<br />

The Help drama<br />

Get Low- black comedy<br />

The Hunter thriller<br />

Jane Eyre drama<br />

Sleeping Beauty art house<br />

Kings Speech historical drama<br />

Ghost Writer thriller<br />

A Deal is a Deal black comedy<br />

Cemetery Junction comedy<br />

Black Swan thriller<br />

Babies documentary<br />

Emmas Bliss foreign drama<br />

Heartbreaker foreign comedy<br />

Sarah’s Key foreign drama<br />

The Warriors Way foreign action fantasy<br />

see<br />

more<br />

reviews<br />

in store . . .<br />

The Tree- Australian drama<br />

Made in Dagenham true story<br />

Me and Orson Wells drama<br />

The Messenger drama<br />

True Grit western<br />

I Love you Too aussie comedy<br />

Winters Bone drama<br />

City Island comedy<br />

The Last Station historical drama<br />

Broken Embraces foreign drama<br />

Let The Right One In foreign horror<br />

Agora historical drama<br />

The Kids are All Right drama<br />

Another Year black comedy<br />

Mother and Child drama<br />

Boy comedy<br />

Moon Sci/Fi<br />

An Education comedy<br />

If Leslie helps you<br />

with some great<br />

DVD tips, take her in<br />

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Three years in the making the Byron Shire’s first<br />

sculpture walk has come to fruition.<br />

The Bangalow Sports Field have<br />

a sculpture walk which is a fusion<br />

of ten Northern Rivers artists who<br />

have installed their creations<br />

along the walk… which will be on show<br />

for three to four months. Art along the walk will<br />

hopefully change regularly.<br />

Currently the participating artists are: Daniel<br />

Clemmett, Allen Horstmanshof , Suvira McDonald,<br />

Mel Robyn, Lucy Vader, Glen Sanders, David Walsh,<br />

Noel Walsh, Jim Blower and Craig Raynor.<br />

The walk acts as an open-air sculpture gallery<br />

so artists can present large works to a wider<br />

audience, a wonderful opportunity to have a<br />

look at the ever changing scape of sculpture.<br />

Curator Dev<br />

Lengjel says:<br />

“After three years<br />

we have achieved<br />

the goal to bring<br />

public art to<br />

the Byron Shire.<br />

Council itself<br />

supported the<br />

project with the<br />

concrete pads and<br />

of course council<br />

staff with its<br />

hands on getting<br />

those pads into<br />

the ground.<br />

Artists are the ones<br />

to be applauded,<br />

as they are the<br />

ones putting<br />

up the money<br />

for this venture<br />

by producing<br />

amazing works.<br />

Public art, in this case sculpture, enhances a<br />

communities understanding and wellbeing of<br />

its identity. Public art delights and confronts and<br />

certainly will get everyone talking.<br />

I hope that this venture eventually will attract<br />

monetary support so that artists and curator may<br />

get some financial recompense. I am part of a panel<br />

that has been putting together a public art policy,<br />

which is long overdue, so that public art has a<br />

foundation to work from. with a policy in place we<br />

can hold council accountable as well as apply for<br />

funding in the future.<br />

The involvement and support of the Bangalow<br />

sports association shows that community<br />

groups can work together to facilitate a common<br />

denominator. The art can act as a catalyst for<br />

people to enjoy sports and the sports people may<br />

find the artist in them. a win win situation of the<br />

most creative kind.”<br />

Inspire<br />

a horse saves a blind dog from drowning COLLINS OKELLO<br />

A young journalist covered a story on gender<br />

roles in Kabul, Afghanistan<br />

several years before the Afghan conflict.<br />

At the time she noted that women customarily<br />

walked five paces behind their husbands.<br />

Recently she returned to Kabul and observed that<br />

women still walk behind their husbands.<br />

Despite the overthrow of the oppressive Taliban<br />

regime the women seem content to maintain the<br />

old custom. The journalist approached one of the<br />

Afghani women and asked, ‘Why do you follow with<br />

an old custom that you once tried so<br />

desperately to change?’<br />

The woman looked her straight in<br />

the eyes and without hesitation<br />

explained, “Land mines”.<br />

STOP PRESS<br />

Solar Lights . . . Inside and Out<br />

posted by Starfire, Universal Energy Grid<br />

If you are ever in a situation where you<br />

are without electricity for a period of time<br />

or want to save power costs, take charged up<br />

solar lights into your home.<br />

You can set them in plastic bottles weighed<br />

down with crystal chips or colorful marbles,<br />

sand, pebbles or aquarium gravel. Bring them<br />

into your house and place them around where<br />

you need light.<br />

They can provide nice, bright, safe, free light!<br />

Set them back out in the sunlight each day to<br />

recharge and bring them in at night.<br />

See for yourself how beautiful they can be. Try<br />

some in each room and see your whole house<br />

light up. They are a perfect source of light and<br />

some can illuminate your space all night long if<br />

you want.<br />

The cost is no more than the effort it takes to<br />

bring them in and set them out each day (plus<br />

of course the initial cost of the lights).<br />

As long as you continue to recharge them<br />

they’ll be ready for use any time, anywhere.<br />

Perfect for power outages… a great but simple<br />

step towards helping the environment in a<br />

beautiful way.<br />

art & culture • • • •<br />

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youth, family, community • • • •<br />

Inspire<br />

23<br />

GGK’s‘Kids Village’ in the heart of the Byron Spirit<br />

Festival - February 2012<br />

‘Green Gene Kids’ was<br />

inspired after a 7 day<br />

green smoothie retreat<br />

with ‘Victoria Boutenko’,<br />

based on ‘Green Smoothies’,<br />

the work of ‘Byron Katie’ and<br />

many amazing life revealing<br />

documentaries.<br />

by Donna Grey © 2012<br />

Introducing the ‘Green Smoothie’ to my<br />

daughters at three and five, beginning with<br />

just 1 small cup of each day, transformed my<br />

children into healthier, happier and more aware<br />

beings, reducing their illnesses drastically,<br />

developing their own body tuning senses and<br />

eliminating all processed food cravings.<br />

With this kind of result I was determined to<br />

spread the word and share the results hence,<br />

‘Green Gene Kids’ began as the wholesome<br />

concept that it is.<br />

GGK’s goal is to help as many families as possible<br />

in becoming more ‘aware’, enabling an easier<br />

transition AWAY FROM the ever evolving,<br />

additive laced processed foods, product toxicity,<br />

environmental EMFs (electromagnetic fields<br />

effecting behaviour and development) and<br />

unsustainable over consumerism impacting<br />

the livelihood of our planet, the source of our<br />

only trusted livelihood as the direct result of<br />

extreme systematic conditioning, and MORE<br />

TOWARDS, local organic life giving foods, 100%<br />

natural products, redesigning and recycling toys<br />

and clothes to reduce consumerism, supporting<br />

and building a local economy and reducing all<br />

EMFs.<br />

GGK’s about sharing these necessary and<br />

grown-up concepts with the kids as they<br />

become our change agents and teachers.<br />

Kids respond intuitively and passionately to<br />

anything that actually makes sense. Saving the<br />

planet by learning why and how we can do this,<br />

respecting and understanding our body and<br />

•Green Smoothie Recipes•<br />

•Cool Blast<br />

•Crowd Pleaser<br />

1 frozen fresh Fig<br />

1 sprig of dill Kale<br />

3 whole kale leaves Spinach<br />

2 frozen bananas Amaranth Leaves<br />

Papaya 1 cup Apple<br />

1 apple<br />

Pear<br />

beet leaves Frozen Bananas<br />

1 tsp spirulina<br />

1 handful parsley<br />

as above with a basil leaf<br />

•Crowd Pleaser Twist<br />

•add 50% water to each recipe<br />

how it impacts behavior and moods all makes sense to kids! Going are the<br />

days of plastic toys, processed foods, inconsequential actions and turning a<br />

blind eye. Our kids and the planet need us and we need our kids to know just<br />

how much!<br />

At the March 2012 Julinbah Yowarl Rainbow Corroboree, at the gorgeous<br />

Rocky River, GGKs will be creating another ‘Kids Village’ within the heart<br />

of this festival. A beautiful non-emf space for community connecting, living<br />

foods and creative play in a safe<br />

and healing environment.<br />

GGKs will be running after<br />

school classes to plant seeds for radiant health and well-being. We will explore<br />

green smoothies, nutrition, plants, creative recycling, living in harmony with<br />

mother earth, music and sound healing, meditation and breath work, self<br />

healing and emotional awareness, radiant child yoga, intuitive guidance and<br />

local aboriginal culture, astrology and Mayan beliefs.<br />

Dark green leafy vegetables are, calorie for calorie, probably the most<br />

concentrated source of nutrition of any food. You must take care when making<br />

regular Green Smoothies to rotate the darker leafy greens containing oxalic<br />

acid. They are a rich source of minerals (including iron, calcium, potassium,<br />

and magnesium) and vitamins, including vitamins K, C, E, and many of the<br />

B vitamins. They also provide a variety of phytonutrients including betacarotene,<br />

lutein, and zeaxanthin, which protect our cells from damage and<br />

our eyes from age-related problems, among many other effects. Dark green<br />

leaves even contain small amounts of Omega-3 fats.<br />

Compounds in plants have a beneficial effect the body. There are over 10,000<br />

of them, and they have effects such as antioxidant, boosting the immune<br />

system, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, and cellular repair. Highly<br />

colored vegetables and fruits tend to be highest in these chemicals<br />

SO WHAT’S IN A GREEN SMOOTHIE?<br />

Simply, any edible green leaf, (kale, bok choy, amaranth leaves, beet leaves,<br />

sprouts, parsley, celery, kang kong, yam leaves... there are hundreds of edible<br />

varieties) organic fruit of which must include solubles, such as; banana, pear,<br />

mango, paw paw, peach, avocados etc (these creamier fruits absorb the rich<br />

nutrients and take out the greener harsh tang of the some of the greens) +<br />

any other fruit, apples, pineapples, watermelon… and good drinking water,<br />

that’s it! Ratios to ‘begin’ with are approx 60% fruit /40% greens and add<br />

50% water.<br />

All blended for a smooth and yummy Green Smoothie. You can choose to add<br />

fresh dates, figs, bee pollen, spirulina and explore with herbs to create the<br />

ultimate green smoothie for health and well-being. For more information:<br />

www.greengenekids.com<br />

and I look forward to having a hello and sharing more insights<br />

with you at the Julinbah Yowarl..... Donna


Insight<br />

Heart to Heart Parenting is back in the<br />

Byron Shire previously run through the<br />

Byron Council CARE program<br />

Heart to Heart Parenting develops<br />

ways to build authentic connection<br />

between you and your child and your<br />

community. The 6 week program<br />

encourages self-awareness that returns<br />

authentic response and builds trust<br />

and while returning joy to parenting.<br />

The next Heart to Heart program<br />

will be held at Yoga Peace<br />

in Mullumbimby<br />

beginning 1st May 2012.<br />

For further information please contact<br />

Lorella Ricci-Marriott on 0409 047 731,<br />

or email:<br />

hearttoheartparenting@gmail.com<br />

Blog: www.hearttoheartparenting.org<br />

Web: www.our-emotional-health.com<br />

Facilitators: Rachel Van Raak-Shine<br />

and Lorella Ricci-Marriott<br />

This is one of the sweetest things I have been sent of late . . .<br />

It is not known who replied but there is a beautiful soul working in the postal<br />

service who touched the heart of our my four-year-old daughter Meredith<br />

after14-year-old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, Meredith<br />

was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey.<br />

She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven<br />

God would recognise her.<br />

I told her that I thought we could, so she dictated these words:<br />

Dear God,<br />

Will you please take care of my dog? She died yesterday and is with you<br />

in heaven. I miss her very much. I am happy that you let me have her<br />

as my dog even though she got sick.<br />

I hope you will play with her. She likes to play with balls and to swim.<br />

I am sending a picture of her so when you see her you will know<br />

that she is my dog. I really miss her.<br />

Love, Meredith<br />

We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey and Meredith and<br />

addressed it to God/Heaven. We put our return address on it then Meredith<br />

pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she said it would<br />

take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven. That afternoon she<br />

dropped it into the letterbox at the post office. A few days later, she asked if<br />

God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.<br />

A few days later there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front<br />

porch addressed, ‘To Meredith’ in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith opened it.<br />

Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, ‘When a Pet Dies’. Taped to the inside<br />

front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope. On<br />

the opposite page was the picture of Abbey and Meredith and this note:<br />

Dear Meredith,<br />

Abbey arrived safely in heaven. Having the picture was a big help.<br />

I recognised Abbey right away.<br />

Abbey isn’t sick anymore. Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in<br />

your heart. Abbey loved being your dog. Since we don’t need our bodies<br />

in heaven, I don’t have any pockets to keep your picture in, so I am<br />

sending it back to you in this little book for you<br />

to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.<br />

Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping<br />

you write it and sending it to me. What a wonderful mother you have.<br />

I picked her especially for you. I send my blessings every day and<br />

remember that I love you very much.<br />

By the way, I’m easy to find,<br />

I am wherever there is love.<br />

Love, God<br />

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Insight<br />

the bigger picture • • • •<br />

Opals are known to<br />

promote introspection,<br />

dream work, and assist on<br />

spiritual journeys through<br />

awakening clairvoyance.<br />

This uniquely Australian gem<br />

acts as a spiritual mirror,<br />

sparking intuition while<br />

encouraging one’s awareness<br />

to turn inward. A crystal for<br />

inspiration, one that enhances<br />

imagination and creativity—a<br />

great manifesting tool.<br />

Transparent, translucent, or<br />

semi-translucent bodies, when<br />

you can see through an opal you<br />

are probably looking at a crystal<br />

opal. Crystal opals can display any<br />

colour of the spectrum in a beautiful<br />

play of colour.<br />

Lightning Ridge, the home of the<br />

famed black opal, offers hope of an<br />

Australian opal mining industry that<br />

began in the 1800’s will last into the<br />

21st century. A fortuitous discovery<br />

soon led to the establishment of the<br />

world’s largest and most productive<br />

opal field at Cooper Pedy, which literally<br />

translated from the local Aboriginal dialect<br />

means “white man in a hole”.<br />

by author/astrologer Kim Falconer<br />

Year of the Water Dragon . . .<br />

strength, power and a link to the divine<br />

for all in 2012. It’s an electric energy that<br />

is looking to expand with optimism and a<br />

pioneering spirit. But a Dragon, you say?<br />

Don’t they amass gold and kidnap virgins?<br />

Not these dragons! We have to remember<br />

that the Chinese Dragon is not the kind<br />

Tolkien wrote about in The Hobbit, not<br />

our Western mythic creature that knights<br />

had to slay to rescue captured princesses.<br />

Dragons in the East are revered.<br />

They not only are a composite of all<br />

animals, they come from the heavens–the<br />

realm of the spirit. What does this mean for<br />

2012?<br />

First of all, we can see this year as one<br />

where our connection to source energy, to<br />

our higher Self, to expanded consciousness<br />

and our enlightenment augments. Talk<br />

about getting on track to our own wellbeing!<br />

You can read more about the nature of<br />

each animal sign on my website:<br />

www.falconastrology.com<br />

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Here are Kim Falconer’s Law of Attraction hints<br />

and tips for the Year of the Dragon 2012 . . .<br />

Rat: 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008<br />

The Year of the Dragon gains momentum for Rat as things<br />

finally start to fall into place. Key elements are appreciating<br />

what you already have, and setting goals that count. What<br />

you want has to be an authentic desires, not what you<br />

think you should go for according to others expectations.<br />

Try not giving a rip what they think, to get your year of<br />

2012 started right. Romantic encounters with Dragons are<br />

gooooood! Secret friend is Ox.<br />

Ox: 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009<br />

The year of the Dragon can bring contrast – experiences of<br />

things you thought you wanted but find out you don’t, or<br />

things you don’t want but when they happen, something<br />

good comes out of it all. Because of this, you might feel a<br />

bit indecisive at times. Don’t worry. Trust the road you are<br />

on and any changes you make. The more you can practice<br />

judgment free living, the better. Romance improves as the<br />

year goes on. Secret friend is snake.<br />

Tiger: 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010<br />

In the year of the Dragon, Tiger makes improvement in<br />

relationships though it can mean letting go of a romantic<br />

partner if the alignment isn’t right. This can be a healthy<br />

thing! Just remember, make no big decisions on ‘bad’ days.<br />

If you aren’t feeling light and enthused, then REST. Take<br />

it easy. Do nothing for a time. Think flexible: if one road<br />

isn’t working, take another. You decide when you want a<br />

change! Romance with a horse?<br />

Rabbit: 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011<br />

In the year of the Dragon, the pace is hectic and it can<br />

be flustering if you feel like you aren’t keeping up. Don’t<br />

worry! Action isn’t your goal this year! Things come to<br />

you when you relax so let go of that ‘it’s too hard’ belief!<br />

Think about your body. Are you looking after yourself with<br />

fitness, exercise and good food? Support your Dragon year<br />

by making your own happiness recipe .Romance improves<br />

when least expected! Eye out for a Dog.<br />

Dragon: 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012<br />

This is your year, Dragon! The early part of the year is<br />

when you want to launch your rockets and boost all those<br />

positive thoughts about success. Money management is<br />

easier then and you are in the flow! If you feel nervous or<br />

not up to speed with this face paced year, the best advice is<br />

to ‘act as if‘ until, before long, everything you are hoping for<br />

is landing in your lap. The key to enhancing your romance<br />

this year is to tell a different story! About a Monkey?<br />

Snake: 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001<br />

The year of the Dragon can be one of abundance but first ask<br />

yourself, what is rich? When you know what it really means<br />

to you, consider ways to make more money. Much focus<br />

is on career and artistry so you might need reminders to<br />

nurture your love and friendships. If you don’t, the balance<br />

tips and that’s not your road to happiness. Romance<br />

improves mid-year. Secret friend is Rooster.<br />

Insight<br />

Horse: 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002<br />

In the year of the Dragon, you find a steady, peaceful, easy<br />

approach brings the best results. This can be a fabulous<br />

year if you don’t get tangled up in angst and aggression. A<br />

motto might be, I’d rather be happy than right! You decide.<br />

As for home, there is a feeling of expansion, a desire to<br />

move. It might be linked to a new or growing relationship.<br />

Single horses need to decide if they are ready to plunge.<br />

Sheep is your quiet ally!<br />

Sheep: 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003<br />

Year of the Dragon brings new people into your life and<br />

with them comes ideas, opportunities and a feeling of<br />

belonging. The key is to be flexible and spontaneous as<br />

the year races by. Indecision can leave you out of the loop<br />

so practice getting clear on what you are feeling. Breathe.<br />

It’s all working out! Relationships have the chance to go<br />

exactly where you want them to! Secret support from a<br />

Rabbit and Pig!<br />

Monkey: 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004<br />

The year of the Dragon holds as much promise for Monkey<br />

as 2011, if not more. The key is to make peace with what is.<br />

Stop resisting! There are so many opportunities awaiting.<br />

The more you open your mind, the more they come<br />

flooding in. You may also find you manifest change by<br />

changing your space. Move things, and thoughts, around!<br />

When it comes to romance this year, there are no rules!<br />

Snake is loyal to your cause.<br />

Rooster: 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005<br />

The year of the Dragon is going to be fabulous, especially<br />

if you change some of your old beliefs. These are just<br />

thoughts that you keep thinking and if you’re stuck, they<br />

are what’s slowing you down. One quick step to your dream<br />

come true is to be grateful for everything that’s going right,<br />

right now! This approach will make your relationships the<br />

best ever in 2012. There will be much to celebrate on this<br />

matter! Secret friend is Dragon.<br />

Dog: 1910, 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006<br />

The year of the Dragon is full of excitement with much<br />

contrast to show you what you really want and how to focus<br />

on where you want to go! It’s easy to look at things that<br />

aren’t working out and talk about them but this is a year<br />

to keep your eyes on the goal, not the ‘obstacle’. If you can<br />

learn to relax a bit more and trust, family and relationships<br />

improve as well as career and health. Tiger has your back!<br />

Pig: 1911, 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007<br />

The year of the Dragon brings more creative change for Pig.<br />

The important thing is to set intentions with a lightness<br />

of being. Feeling appreciation for where you are NOW is<br />

the way to allow for an even more fulfilling tomorrow. If<br />

you already LOVE your life, think about expanding the<br />

appreciation even further! Relationships and any family<br />

drama transform. It’s a growth curve! Give yourself credit<br />

for success. Secret friend is Rabbit.<br />

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the bigger picture • • • •


the bigger picture • • • •<br />

Insight<br />

27<br />

WHAT CAN SAVE HUMANITY<br />

NEPTUNE IN PISCES<br />

Whether you‘re into astrology or not, this read could<br />

open up a window of great opportunity . . .<br />

Neptune portrays a myriad of<br />

meanings from the dreamy depths of the<br />

watery unconscious, the longings of spiritual<br />

aspirations, the obsession of powerful desires<br />

to the revelation of the divine beloved.<br />

Some say it is where we seek the ineffable,<br />

or where, conversely, the ineffable seeks<br />

us. This planet also symbolises a place of<br />

confusion and deception because Neptune<br />

is sometimes too intangible for the mundane<br />

world to decipher . . .<br />

Astro-Flash: Neptune into Pisces is<br />

illusive, unconscious, ineffable. It represents a<br />

part of us that can never be defined. Neptune<br />

asks us to experience life without concrete<br />

boundaries, knowledge or proof. Sometimes<br />

Neptune can coincide with confusion . . .<br />

And confusion gets a lot of bad press, right?<br />

Aren’t we told to get clear, know our why, be<br />

aware of our unconscious motives, gremlins<br />

and tolerations?<br />

Clarity is a great way to bring awareness into<br />

our lives but sometimes there is a better one:<br />

hanging out in ‘I don’t know.’ There is a role<br />

in deliberate creation for confusion, chaos,<br />

and lack of clarity and that role is inspiration.<br />

Creation. Artistry. Love.<br />

The eighth century BCE Greek poet Hesiod<br />

said before any of the original deities, there<br />

was chaos. Ultimate confusion! All our<br />

creation myths, in all places in all cultures in<br />

all times, begin with chaos, darkness, water.<br />

The unknown. “In truth at first Chaos came to<br />

be”. . . Hesiod<br />

There is a archetypal metaphor here! To<br />

create something truly new, first there must<br />

be chaos. We have to go back to scratch,<br />

forget what we think, and what we think we<br />

think, and immerse!<br />

Jeannette Maw puts it like this: ‘Sometimes<br />

reality is a handicap to vibrational alignment<br />

because what’s happening in our “real world” is<br />

very different from what we want to create.‘<br />

Neptune is all things unworldly, without<br />

form, ideas that cannot be proven. In esoteric<br />

terms we say it represents what is behind<br />

the veil. This energy, this part of us, wants<br />

Bliss. Reunion with the divine. Merging with<br />

source.<br />

Higher and lower Neptune - My friend<br />

Mystic Medusa talks about higher and<br />

lower Neptune, lower being escapism,<br />

addictions, fears, and phobias because we<br />

want something so far beyond the rational,<br />

mundane experience of life, something<br />

so rarefied and beautiful that we reach<br />

for anything that can ‘drown’ us in the<br />

feeling. Higher Neptune energy is more the<br />

expression of bliss, love and communion with<br />

all life. Source. An experience of source while<br />

in a physical body. Transcendence.<br />

Neptune is bliss/confusion that doesn’t really<br />

function in the world of form because this<br />

energy is only interested in formless states of<br />

infinite possibility. Think of Deepak Chopra’s<br />

Discontinuity (the space or gap between our<br />

thoughts). That’s Neptune. By the time you<br />

get the message of Neptune, he’s already<br />

‘gone’ because the getting is the realm of<br />

Saturn (the edifice of the ego). Neptune is<br />

outside that.<br />

Neptune denies evidence. Neptune defies logic.<br />

Neptune simply believes - Joanne Wickenburg.<br />

This energy wants to dissolve overly rigid<br />

structures so that you can receive inspiration,<br />

communion, source energy. It is from a place<br />

of ‘uncertainty’ and allowing that creative<br />

originates!<br />

Neptune into Pisces is a<br />

home coming for this planet<br />

The sea god returns to his rightful realm.<br />

There is power there, and relief! Honour this<br />

transition. Allow yourself to get swept up<br />

into the bliss of the unknown. Welcome this<br />

ingress into Pisces like a Muse, a divine lover,<br />

the part of us that takes things on faith.<br />

Neptune says stop thinking and dance!<br />

Another word for Neptune – Namaste<br />

by Kim Falconer<br />

www.falconastrology.com<br />

Posted by Kim Falconer in Archetypes and Symbols,<br />

Astro-LOA, Law of Attraction - Saturday 04 February 2012<br />

LINK:<br />

http://kimfalconer.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/<br />

neptune-into-pisces/<br />

We are the<br />

inheritors of a<br />

million years of<br />

striving for the<br />

unspeakable.<br />

And now with<br />

the engines of<br />

technology in our<br />

hands we ought<br />

to be able to reach<br />

out and actually<br />

exteriorise the<br />

human soul at the<br />

end of time, invoke<br />

it into existence like<br />

a UFO and open<br />

the violet doorway<br />

into hyperspace and<br />

walk through it, out<br />

of profane history<br />

and into the world<br />

beyond the grave,<br />

beyond shamanism,<br />

beyond the end of<br />

history, into the<br />

galactic millennium<br />

that has beckoned<br />

to us for millions of<br />

years across space<br />

and time.<br />

THIS IS THE<br />

MOMENT<br />

A planet<br />

brings forth an<br />

opportunity like<br />

this only once in its<br />

lifetime, and we are<br />

ready, and we are<br />

poised. And as a<br />

community we are<br />

ready to move into<br />

it, to claim it, to<br />

make it our own.<br />

Terence McKenna


Injest<br />

After being married for thirty years a wife asked her husband to describe<br />

her. He looked at her for a bit and said, “You’re A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K.”<br />

She asks, “What does that mean?”<br />

He said, “Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Foxy, Gorgeous, Hot.”<br />

She smiled happily and said, “Oh that’s so lovely… what about I, J, K?”<br />

He said, “I’m Just Kidding!”<br />

Six retired Irishmen were playing poker in O’Leary’s apartment when<br />

Paddy Murphy loses $500 on a single hand, clutches his chest and drops<br />

dead at the table.<br />

Michael O’Connor looks around and asks, ‘Oh, me boys, someone’s got to tell<br />

Paddy’s wife.’<br />

They draw straws. Paul Gallagher picks the short one. They all tell him to be<br />

discreet, be gentle and don’t make it any worse.<br />

‘Discreet??? I’m the most discreet Irishmen you’ll ever meet. Discretion is me<br />

middle name. Leave it to me.’<br />

Gallagher goes over to Murphy’s house and knocks on the door.<br />

Mrs. Murphy answers, and asks what he wants.<br />

Gallagher explains, ‘Your husband just lost $500 and he’s afraid to come<br />

home.’<br />

‘Tell him to drop dead’, says Murphy’s wife.<br />

‘I’ll go tell him.<br />

A Mexican maid asked for a pay increase. The wife didn’t like it and<br />

decided to talk to her about the raise.<br />

She asked: “Now Maria, why do you want a pay increase?”<br />

Maria: “Well, Señora, there are tree reasons why I wanna increaze.”<br />

The first is that I iron better than you.”<br />

Wife: “Who said you iron better than me?”<br />

Maria: “Jor huzban he say so.”<br />

Wife: “Oh yeah?”<br />

Maria: “The second reason eez that I am a better cook than you.”<br />

Wife: “Nonsense, who said you were a better cook than me?”<br />

Maria: “Jor hozban did.”<br />

Wife increasingly agitated: “Oh he did, did he???”<br />

Maria: “The third reason is that I am better at sex than you in the bed.”<br />

Wife, really boiling now: “And did my husband say that as well?”<br />

Maria: “No Señora…The gardener did.”<br />

Wife: “So how much do you want?”<br />

••<br />

EXIPHILES . . .<br />

• To write with a broken pencil is pointless.<br />

• When fish are in schools they sometimes take debate.<br />

• A thief who stole a calendar got twelve months.<br />

• A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.<br />

• A will is a dead giveaway.<br />

• You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.<br />

• A boiled egg is hard to beat.<br />

• Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting<br />

a rest.<br />

• Did you hear about the fellow whose left side was cut off? He’s all<br />

right now.<br />

• If you take a laptop computer for a run you could jog your memory.<br />

• A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.<br />

• When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.<br />

• He had a photographic memory which he never developed.<br />

• Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.<br />

A man and his wife were<br />

awakened at 3am by a loud<br />

pounding on the door. The<br />

man gets up and goes to the<br />

door where a drunken stranger,<br />

standing in the pouring rain, is<br />

asking for a push.<br />

“Not a chance,” says the<br />

husband, “it is 3:00 in the<br />

morning!” He slams the door and<br />

returns to bed.<br />

“Who was that?” asked his wife.<br />

“Just some drunk guy asking for<br />

a push,” he answers.<br />

“Did you help him?” she asks.<br />

“No, I did not, it’s 3 in the<br />

morning and it’s pouring rain out<br />

there!”<br />

“Well, you have a short memory,”<br />

says his wife. “Can’t you<br />

remember about three months<br />

ago when we broke down, and<br />

those two guys helped? I think<br />

you should.”<br />

The man does as he is told, gets<br />

dressed, and goes out into the<br />

pouring rain.<br />

He calls out into the dark, “Hello,<br />

are you still there?”<br />

“Yes,” comes back the answer.<br />

“Do you still need a push?” calls<br />

out the husband.<br />

“Yes, please!” comes the reply<br />

from the dark.<br />

“Where are you?” asks the<br />

husband.<br />

“Over here on the swing,”<br />

I took my dad to the mall the<br />

other day to buy new shoes… he<br />

is sixty six.<br />

We decided to grab a bite at<br />

the food court. I noticed he was<br />

watching a teenager sitting next<br />

to him who had spiked hair in<br />

all different colors - green, red,<br />

orange, and blue.<br />

My dad kept staring at her.<br />

The teenager kept looking and<br />

found my dad staring every time.<br />

When the teenager had had<br />

enough, she sarcastically asked:<br />

“What’s the matter old man,<br />

never done anything wild in your<br />

life?”<br />

Knowing my Dad I quickly<br />

swallowed my food so that I<br />

would not choke on his response;<br />

I knew he’d have a good one!<br />

In his classic style he responded<br />

without batting an eyelid…<br />

“Got stoned once and spent the<br />

night with a parrot. I was just<br />

wondering if you might actually<br />

be my kid.”<br />

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