CHAKRA BALANCING

Most chakra balancing that you will find online start at the base and work up

This one which I have been using since 1978 starts at the crown and works downward ending with “grounding”

Namaste

I love the meaning of this word

The quote is from chopra.com One of the most common translations of namasté is “The divine light in me bows to the divine light within you.”

WOMENS RIGHTS

in my day there were no womens shelters — no Domestic violence orders

In the 1960’s  my boyfriend drove to the middle of nowhere late at night

Parked his fj holden and said

“Come across or walk home”

I got pregnant

I was considered a whore and a tramp

And treated with disdain

And forced to marry

I had a government job working with computers (that were the size of wardrobes in refrigerated rooms)

A job that I had sat an entrance exam for

 Only the top one percent were employed

I had to give up this job because married women were not allowed to hold government jobs

staff traiing for my first job

My husband habitually would fight with his boss and quit

 There was no social security so I got work as a barmaid at night

And was abused by other women for working when I had a child/children

My husband who was 6 foot 4 inches and twenty stone constantly hit me

When I was having my face stitched at hospital on one occasion the RN said

”My husband doesn’t hit me”  – implying I deserved it

Everyone told me I must have deserved it

I believed for decades that I did

I went to a solicitor to get a divorce and was told abuse wasn’t grounds for divorce: I had to prove adultery

On more than one occasion when I called the police they would take one look at him and just leave

At one time my husband chased me wielding an axe

Fortunately the neighbours saved me by keeping me in their house

The police treated me as if I were the criminal

 So I went to the police station and confronted them

They said

“You always go back”

To which I replied

“There is no where to go”

Women had no rights nor status

We couldn’t have a bank account

We couldn’t buy a house

 and landlords would not rent to separated women

When I was finally able to leave this relationship the second man I married was

 “past master of mental cruelty”

as his first wife (already remarried) warned me

I was in Women’s liberation in the 1970s

 some women  abused us saying that things were as they were meant to be

So happy we now have rights

Although  these days sometimes things are taken to ridiculous extremes and men are victimized

STATUS QUO

from stephencatalano

In the 1970s those of us in Greenpeace were labelled dangerous and deviant

Those of us in Animal Liberation were ridiculed and abused

When women had no rights  — could not have a bank account- buy an house –landlords would not rent to  separated women – abuse wasn’t grounds for divorce – a married women couldn’t hold a government job— and we got 75 percent of a man’s wage

Those of us in Women’s Liberation were labelled trouble making lesbians (anyone not heterosexual was considered deviant in those days)

These days i am lectured and treated with contempt for not trusting the medical system and drug companies

People were once put to death for not conforming to status quo

a painting of the Inquisition

So instead of labelling those who do not conform to the status quo as deviant and what they say “conspiracy theories”  respect their right to their opinion even if you disagree

NAMASTE

MY WISH

AN HEALTHY BLUE PLANET

When I was in primary school we were asked to write an essay entitled “My wish”

I wrote that I wished that people cared more about the environment and other life forms than money.

In high school, at lunch break; in the days when women had no rights and no status; I said that there were double standards re women. My same sex peers shouted me down, saying things were meant to be this way!

At least this has changed.

I would like to think that eventually after I die, humans will become true communists and share with one another and other species. ( contrary to what you are lead to believe Karl Marx advocated everyone share = communism!) ( Russia has state capitalism not communism– I researched this for a sociology “paper” in 70’s)

Humans treat those that live in harmony with the planet /environment as inferior/primitive.

“Humans have driven the extinction of at least 881 animal species since around 1500, with many scientists suspecting the true number is far higher, possibly reaching over a million species by some estimates, including threatened ones. Plant and invertebrate extinctions are also significant but less documented. The current rate of species loss is unprecedented, leading to an ongoing sixth mass extinction, a phenomenon primarily caused by human activities like habitat destruction.  “

Some how striving to collect money; owning things; destroying the environment and killing non human life forms; makes one superior?

P.S. Just turned on idiot box and a scientist creating an embryo to save white rhinos – he said it would be preferable if humans to be more responsible –rather than science having to provide solutions – Asimov wrote a sci fi about this in n1972

I wrote this short story as social satire and sympathetic magic

The idea that we were genetically engineered is from Mayan writings plus my belief that humans are not indigenous to the planet

The concept of translocation was once a practice pre Roman Empire and apparently still is in some so called primitive cultures

He idea that humans were livestock for the gods is mine but am sure others have thought this

I chose Ophiuchus because I was I was drawn to this constellation

I chose Kunapipi because I respect and admire the wisdom and spirituality of indigenous Australians

VEGAN

I am so happy to know that so many humans care about other life forms

I have been vegetarian since the 1970s

In the 1970s when I was first in Animal lib —-we would get a monthly news letter with recipes

At Christmas the news letter had—“Turkey Surprise” — the surprise was NO TURKEY


I found this picture years ago but do not know who to give the credit to.

In South Australia in the 1970’s and 80’s vegetarians and vegans were not catered for.

There was a cafe on the corner of Hindmarsh Square and Rundle Street Adelaide, called “Carrots” :

one restaurant that catered for vegans

and  a Lebanese restaurant  that offered a vegetarian platter.

The only vegetarian food one could buy was by Sanitarium

which was, and am guessing still is, owned by the Seventh-day Adventist church.

(And very much appreciated — Thank you Seventh Day Adventists)

We were ridiculed and abused by those in pubs, restaurants and people generally.

I made my own burghers using lentils, vegetable and bread crumbs and at a surprise birthday party for my (now ex) husband all the carnivores were eating these:

not realizing they had no meat.

If I ate meat I would have night mares about being an animal in a slaughter house.

I object to factory farming and production line slaughter.

Of course the reason the setup is this way is there are way to many humans.

I didn’t want to eat meat as a child:

for refusing I received a bashing from  my mother:

she threatened to have me put in a mental institution

and served me the same meal for breakfast lunch and tea until I ate it.

I have allowed myself to eat meat on a few occasions over the years usually because I was anaemic

The night mares return plus my digestive system doesn’t handle meat.

In this day and age when there are so many vegans, I never expected to be ridiculed but it has happened on several occasions.

I complimented one woman on having soy milk in her coffee and she abused the hell out of me:
Said that she wasn’t vegan (which according to her is worse than leprosy ) she had soy milk because she liked it.

It is important to me that I am always honest so I must confess that sadly  I have only been  a part time vegan— but still vegetarian:

Hoping this time around I will stay vegan.

If I ate eggs I bought those produced locally as I have been to the farm where the chickens are and I would live where they live  😀

I cannot watch cooking shows:

Haven’t cooked meat for anyone since 1998

I am horrified that people think eating creature that is boiled alive is a treat.

A friend asked me why vegans avoid dairy :

I explained that the cows are kept continually pregnant:

the calves go to slaughter and their mothers know.

In my opinion the drug companies are worse than the meat industry.

In 1982 the husband of one of my staff asked me to report that suckie calves were left to die of dehydration & starvation.

I was told by someone who bought stock that

all new borns are just left to die that way.

In 1982 I reported what was told to me to the RSPCA who called me a liar and a trouble maker.

I put something inwriting but it was ignored.

Years later an acquaintance who had worked in the abattoirs told me that the drug companies ask for this.

And my podiatrist  (an animal activist) told me that the drug companies collect hormones from this type of death.

Taken on Kangaroo Island last century

AHIMSA

 

If you think that death is the end this book will make you question that assumption:

 In the 1970’s I was intrigued by psychic abilities:

A fellow student at teachers college introduced me to Spiritualism:

 I thought people were way too gullible.

 I went from thinking silly humans are afraid of dying and are making the information fit to realizing that sometimes the communication with those who have died is genuine.

There are so many stories that I would love to include but it would be breaking client confidentiality.

A SHORT STORY ABOUT HEALING THE  BLUE PLANET

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under the above title) when the human population was

7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now more than 8 .2 billion

I wrote this short story as social satire and sympathetic magic

The idea that we were genetically engineered is from Mayan writings plus my belief that humans are not indigenous to the planet

The concept of translocation was once a practice pre Roman Empire and apparently still is in some so called primitive cultures

The idea that humans were livestock for the gods is mine but am sure others have thought this

I chose Ophiuchus because I was I was drawn to this constellation

I chose Kunapipi because I respect and admire the wisdom and spirituality of indigenous Australians

 

CHALLENGING CULTURAL NORMS

I know that many people realize that our cultural norms are a major factor in causing the extinction of all life.

But still conform to these social norms:

Not because they are worried about what others think:

 but because these attitudes are “hard wired”.

WASPs (as in White Anglo Saxon Protestant) believe that we own things

we are part of a culture that inculcates only money matters.

Multi nationals control the world and the politicians

WASPs (as in White Anglo Saxon Protestant)

Don’t like a messy garden with leaves on the driveway:

Don’t like bird poop on their home or cars:

Don’t want flies ants and other insects in their homes:

Snails in their vegie patch:

Or birds eating the vegetables or fruit:

AND THERE IS MORE

I am not immune

Technically I am a WASP

And I realize that hygiene is necessary

I believe we will restore the ecological balance:

We need a major attitude change:

How will this happen while multinationals rule the world?

The Matrix (original)

Namaste

I love the meaning of this word

The quote is from chopra.com One of the most common translations of namasté is “The divine light in me bows to the divine light within you.”

A SHORT STORY ABOUT HEALING THE  BLUE PLANET

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under the above title) when the human population was

7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now more than 8 .2 billion

I wrote this short story as social satire and sympathetic magic

The idea that we were genetically engineered is from Mayan writings plus my belief that humans are not indigenous to the planet

The concept of translocation was once a practice pre Roman Empire and apparently still is in some so called primitive cultures

The idea that humans were livestock for the gods is mine but am sure others have thought this

I chose Ophiuchus because I was I was drawn to this constellation

I chose Kunapipi because I respect and admire the wisdom and spirituality of indigenous Australians

If you think that death is the end this book will make you question that assumption:

 In the 1970’s I was intrigued by psychic abilities:

A fellow student at teachers college introduced me to Spiritualism:

 I thought people were way too gullible.

 I went from thinking silly humans are afraid of dying and are making the information fit to realizing that sometimes the communication with those who have died is genuine.

There are so many stories that I would love to include but it would be breaking client confidentiality.

The Gods Themselves

I read Isaac Asimovs
“The Gods themselves”

In 1973

The social satire is how scientist are expected to find a solution to a problem that could easlly be solved by stopping the cause

In the 1970s I was in the original Greenpeace

We were concerned about the damage the human plague was doing to the ecology

And therefore labelled a dangerous radical group

I havent used plastic wrap since the seventies

But   plastic wrap is still the norm

As are so many practices that harm the environment

“Humans have driven the extinction of at least 881 animal species since around 1500, with many scientists suspecting the true number is far higher, possibly reaching over a million species by some estimates, including threatened ones. Plant and invertebrate extinctions are also significant but less documented. The current rate of species loss is unprecedented, leading to an ongoing sixth mass extinction, a phenomenon primarily caused by human activities like habitat destruction.  “

VEGAN

I am so happy to know that so many humans care about other life forms

I have been vegetarian since the 1970s

In the 1970s when I was first in Animal lib —-we would get a monthly news letter with recipes

At Christmas the news letter had—“Turkey Surprise” — the surprise was NO TURKEY


I found this picture years ago but do not know who to give the credit to.

In South Australia in the 1970’s and 80’s vegetarians and vegans were not catered for.

There was a cafe on the corner of Hindmarsh Square and Rundle Street Adelaide, called “Carrots” :

one restaurant that catered for vegans

and  a Lebanese restaurant  that offered a vegetarian platter.

The only vegetarian food one could buy was by Sanitarium

which was, and am guessing still is, owned by the Seventh-day Adventist church.

(And very much appreciated — Thank you Seventh Day Adventists)

We were ridiculed and abused by those in pubs, restaurants and people generally.

I made my own burghers using lentils, vegetable and bread crumbs and at a surprise birthday party for my (now ex) husband all the carnivores were eating these:

not realizing they had no meat.

If I ate meat I would have night mares about being an animal in a slaughter house.

I object to factory farming and production line slaughter.

Of course the reason the setup is this way is there are way to many humans.

I didn’t want to eat meat as a child:

for refusing I received a bashing from  my mother:

she threatened to have me put in a mental institution

and served me the same meal for breakfast lunch and tea until I ate it.

I have allowed myself to eat meat on a few occasions over the years usually because I was anaemic

The night mares return plus my digestive system doesn’t handle meat.

In this day and age when there are so many vegans, I never expected to be ridiculed but it has happened on several occasions.

I complimented one woman on having soy milk in her coffee and she abused the hell out of me:
Said that she wasn’t vegan (which according to her is worse than leprosy ) she had soy milk because she liked it.

It is important to me that I am always honest so I must confess that sadly  I have only been  a part time vegan— but still vegetarian:

Hoping this time around I will stay vegan.

If I ate eggs I bought those produced locally as I have been to the farm where the chickens are and I would live where they live  😀

I cannot watch cooking shows:

Haven’t cooked meat for anyone since 1998

I am horrified that people think eating creature that is boiled alive is a treat.

A friend asked me why vegans avoid dairy :

I explained that the cows are kept continually pregnant:

the calves go to slaughter and their mothers know.

In my opinion the drug companies are worse than the meat industry.

In 1982 the husband of one of my staff asked me to report that suckie calves were left to die of dehydration & starvation.

I was told by someone who bought stock that

all new borns are just left to die that way.

In 1982 I reported what was told to me to the RSPCA who called me a liar and a trouble maker.

I put something inwriting but it was ignored.

Years later an acquaintance who had worked in the abattoirs told me that the drug companies ask for this.

And my podiatrist  (an animal activist) told me that the drug companies collect hormones from this type of death.

Taken on Kangaroo Island last century

AHIMSA

 

If you think that death is the end this book will make you question that assumption:

 In the 1970’s I was intrigued by psychic abilities:

A fellow student at teachers college introduced me to Spiritualism:

 I thought people were way too gullible.

 I went from thinking silly humans are afraid of dying and are making the information fit to realizing that sometimes the communication with those who have died is genuine.

There are so many stories that I would love to include but it would be breaking client confidentiality.

A SHORT STORY ABOUT HEALING THE  BLUE PLANET

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under the above title) when the human population was

7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now more than 8 .2 billion

I wrote this short story as social satire and sympathetic magic

The idea that we were genetically engineered is from Mayan writings plus my belief that humans are not indigenous to the planet

The concept of translocation was once a practice pre Roman Empire and apparently still is in some so called primitive cultures

The idea that humans were livestock for the gods is mine but am sure others have thought this

I chose Ophiuchus because I was I was drawn to this constellation

I chose Kunapipi because I respect and admire the wisdom and spirituality of indigenous Australians

 

ACENTUATE THE POSITIVES

I was going to post about how humans terrify me

(who wants to fit into a culture where

sociopaths succeed

psychopaths are glorified

Lying narcissist cause irreparable harm to others

and mindless automatons fit in

A culture that stereotypes and categorizes

Where attractive people are considered the good guys and intelligent–(thanks partly to movies and tv  where the hero is always attractive)

 

My generation (The Flower Power Generation)

have been the catalyst for change

I was in “Women’s Liberation”

Women had no rights and no status and the majority of women believed this was how  it should be.

We couldn’t buy a house and landlords would not rent to separated women:
we couldnt have a bank account

a solicitor told me that abuse wasn’t grounds for divorce

I Googled this — “Women also faced financial discrimination and were seen as a high-risk investment by banks as little as just 50 years ago. It wasn’t until 1975 that women could open a bank account in their own name.”

A woman was expected to stay a virgin until she was married:

A man was expected to be promiscuous:

Never understood how that worked:

In the 1950s gay men were put into a mental institution  (in South Australia — think  it was prison in other countries)

AND THEN CAME THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION.

YIPPEE!

Gays could stop pretending that they were heterosexual.

And women could enjoy sex.

 

I was in the original Greenpeace –

Animal liberation and later Trees For Life

Greenpeace was considered a dangerous radical group and its member deviant

Greenpeace wax concerned about how much damage humans were doing to the ecology and environment

Population and that nuclear waste cannot be safely disposed of

In the 1970s I was ridiculed and abused for being a vegetarian

This century environmental groups have devolved into impotent bureaucracies

BUT

On a positive note

thanks to both social media and the media

more are aware of the problems humans have and are causing

ACENTUATING THE POSITIVE =

more people care about the enviroment

more respect cultures

more respect sexual prefrences

and more are vegans

 be kind to  non humans

KANGAROO ISLAND2

I took this photo last century on Kangaroo Island

A SHORT STORY ABOUT HEALING THE  BLUE PLANET

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under the above title) when the human population was

7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now more than 8 .2 billion

I wrote this short story as social satire and sympathetic magic

The idea that we were genetically engineered is from Mayan writings plus my belief that humans are not indigenous to the planet

The concept of translocation was once a practice pre Roman Empire and apparently still is in some so called primitive cultures

He idea that humans were livestock for the gods is mine but am sure others have thought this

I chose Ophiuchus because I was I was drawn to this constellation

I chose Kunapipi because I respect and admire the wisdom and spirituality of indigenous Australians

I should have called this book LIFE AFTER DEATH as my experiences convinced me that this life isn’t all that there is

The clairvoyant Experiences of a Sceptic is not a literary masterpiece

but a true story.

I dont know the meaning of life:

nor understand the nature of reality:

I do know physical death is not the end.

And there are so many amazing stories omitted so as not to break client confidentiality.

The second part I wrote as therapy and had not intended to include.

It wasn’t included in the original l publication

( I started shaking when I tried to write about the abuse so it is badly written and a great deal omitted)

Complex PTSD

In my day PTSD wasn’t acknowledged

I spent a fortune on psychiatrists who told me that there was nothing wrong with me

Recently a wise young lady made me aware of CPTSD — it explained so many of my symptoms

“Complex PTSD (C-PTSD or CPTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop following prolonged or repeated trauma, rather than a single event. In addition to traditional PTSD symptoms, it profoundly impacts an individual’s emotional regulation, self-concept, and ability to maintain healthy relationships.”

“C-PTSD is typically the result of long-term, repeated trauma, especially situations where escape feels impossible.”

 Common origins include

Childhood abuse

  I suffered this from my mother whose abuse lasted  63 years and 8 moths   (until the day she died)

I have flash backs to when I was in my cot  

I was shut in the wood burning part of a wood stove when it was lit when i was four

she admitted when i was ten that she bashed me because she felt like it

Yet her mental abuse was worse

She told lies at my expense (and Dads when he was alive) to get attention or to get what she wanted

 or chronic trauma

I count at least 12 major traumas

Prolonged domestic violence

I had two abusive husbands