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)

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

MID WINTER

THE FIRST PAGE OF MY BOOK OF SHADOWS – as I was first initiated in 1983 it is very old

It is Mid Summer here = Litha

and Mid Winter – Yule  in the northern hemisphere.

THE WHEEL OF THE YEAR

The Wheel Of The Year: pagan festivals celebrating the seasons:

 solstices and equinoxes.

When the Romans and Christianity took over they could not get rid of these festivals:

So every church festival was originally a pagan one.

FYI – pagan means village dweller.

Wicca means wise –or to bend

Heathen means dweller on the heath.

The concept that we are evil came from the “Inquisition”:

(This is where the Satanists got there ideas — so if you are interested in Wicca trust your gut)

Our rituals are similar to American Indian rituals:

Or at least the one I was involved in which was Sioux tradition.

We dance and chant to raise power.

NO SACRIFICES

Anyone who has read my other blogs will know that I will literally not harm a fly

or any other creature

Blessed Yule

to those in the northern hemisphere

Blessed Litha

to those “down under”

TO “SEE” OR NOT TO “SEE”

my Dad born 1/1/1921 died 27/5/2004

I believe that everyone is clairvoyant – the ability atrophies because our culture tells us it doesnt exist

My mentor said that it was just a naural extension of our five senses

In the 1970s most people considered us the lunatic fringe

In the late nineteen eighties early nineties the so called “New age” became trendy

And was turned into the Protestant ethic of making  a profit

From trekmovie.com —-
(I  like Armin Shimerman as an actor but I’m not much of a fan of Deep Space Nine)

There is still a lunatic fringe

And there are also many con artist who charge a fortune  and are making it up

I have never charged much

Partly because my Dad was a Spiritualist and told me that I must not charge

And  also because I am so anti the Protestant ethic 

One lady told me the year before covid  that anyone who charges less than eighty is no good

I don’t care whether people believe me not

It is not a matter of belief

More one of quantum physics

See  blog” Life after Death”

Act 1 Scene 5 of Shakespeare’s  Hamlet

“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” 

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.”

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In the following book I hope to help those who wish to develop their clairvoyant abilities.

In “The Clairvoyant Experiences Of A Sceptic” I told a few of my clairvoyant experiences.

Listening to others similar stories made me realize that

it is so much better if you can have these experiences first hand.

Kung fu tz (Confucius) say “Perseverance prospers”

So don’t give up – you will succeed

And use the recorded meditations in my blog

The clairvoyant Experiences of a Sceptic is not a literary masterpiece

but a true story. I majored in sociology not literature

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)

 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 only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now  8 billion.

Our cultural norms and the Protestant Ethic are causing the extinction of all life.

I wrote this as social satire and sympathetic magic

I realize my writing style doesn’t fit what people expect

My excuse –I majored in sociology not literature 😛

I wanted to put my idea that humans are not indigenous to the planet

A few lines  from this short story:

“Most humans think that those who live in harmony with the environment are primitive and inferior. Actually they don’t think.

They just mindlessly conform to what those in power and their entertainment media tell them.

 They are really stupid but consider themselves superior to all other life forms because they talk:

They think if something or someone doesn’t talk they don’t understand.

They thoughtlessly destroy everything. They call some creatures vermin, when humans are the vermin. They kill insects and destroy all the trees despite the fact that insects and trees are essential.

And everything literally goes down the drain polluting the oceans instead of nourishing other life.”

Yule

This information is just to inform not undermine your spiritual beliefs :

yule2

Christmas was originally the pagan festival of Yule — Mid Winter — moved a few days: Every church festival was originally a pagan festival. The church of Rome incorporated them because they couldn’t get rid of same.

After the emperor Constantine made Christianity the religion of Rome there was a meeting at Niacea to decide what to put in the New Testament and what to leave out..

With a huge empire it was easier to control the masses with a religion. Hence the Inquisition to get rid of the Old Religion and the women healers who had– herbal remedies: contraception and abortion and replace the with men who used leeches and blood-letting: Couldn’t have contraception if you wanted to populate armies.

The Wheel of the Year  is from my Book of Shadows:

wheel-of-year2

Have a Merry Christmas:  Blessed Yule:   or Blessed Litha (Summer Solstice)

AND BE BLESSED

VEGAN

I have re blogged this many times

— Christmas/holiday season upsets me

I have stopped watching television but if I  chromecast from same I see ads re eating parts of the corpses of animals that have been factory farmed and production line slaughtered  or creatures that have been boiled alive

(I also object to using insect spray – so don’t like these ads either)

I have been vegetarian since the 1970s and when I was younger used to cook meat for my family but this century I have refused to cook meat


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.

I didn’t insist my family were vegetarian

I would make a vegetarian dish to share

and also cook 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 abuse 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.

Animal Liberation told me to write to my politician.

Nothing.

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.

People just don’t want to know.

I JUST SAW THIS ON FACEBOOK — THIS IS ALSO MY OPINION

Namaste

and be kind to non humans

Taken on Kangaroo Island last century

 In the following book I hope to help those who wish to develop their clairvoyant abilities.

In “The Clairvoyant Experiences Of A Sceptic” I told a few of my clairvoyant experiences.

Listening to others similar stories made me realize that

it is so much better if you can have these experiences first hand.

Kung fu tz  (Confucius) say “Perseverance prospers”

So don’t give up – you will succeed

And use the recorded meditations in my blog

The clairvoyant Experiences of a Sceptic is not a literary masterpiece

but a true story. I majored in sociology not literature

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)

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 only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now  8 billion.

Our cultural norms and the Protestant Ethic are causing the extinction of all life.

I wrote this as social satire and sympathetic magic

I realize my writing style doesn’t fit what people expect

My excuse –I majored in sociology not literature 😛

I wanted to put my idea that humans are not indigenous to the planet

A few lines  from this short story:

“Most humans think that those who live in harmony with the environment are primitive and inferior. Actually they don’t think.

They just mindlessly conform to what those in power and their entertainment media tell them.

 They are really stupid but consider themselves superior to all other life forms because they talk:

They think if something or someone doesn’t talk they don’t understand.

They thoughtlessly destroy everything. They call some creatures vermin, when humans are the vermin. They kill insects and destroy all the trees despite the fact that insects and trees are essential.

And everything literally goes down the drain polluting the oceans instead of nourishing other life.”

MENTAL CRUELTY

I wrote a blog entitled “Publicity” when I watched the first three episodes of Harry and Meghan

–this time I am spelling her name correctly  😛

I am the same age as King Charles (whom I don’t like) and I have never watched a soapie in my life

These days I don’t even watch television –just NETFLIX which my eldest granddaughter gave me

I watched this series because I already believed Meghan and Harry were being victimized

Although I cannot empathize with being famous I can sympathize with being a victim of abuse

I had an half a century  of physical and mental abuse and some people would tell me their stories and say “But it was only mental abuse”

In my opinion mental abuse is worse!

What this couple have had to endure is horrific

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.”

Four AUDIO MEDITATIONS

CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS MEDITATION

I recorded Creative Consciousness meditation earlier this century at the request of a psychic development group that I was running at the time.

TREE MEDITATION paraphrased from Mother Wit by Diane Mariechild —- it is a great book if you can find it.

Am sure you are better at finding things on Google etc than me 😛 — I couldn’t find it.

ASTRAL PROJECTION

Also from Mother Wit

Past life regression

I wrote this meditation — it has been successful when used in psychic development classes.

Clairvoyance is developed through practice:

my daughter suggested this book

I hope that it helps people

In the following book I hope to help those who wish to develop their clairvoyant abilities.

In “The Clairvoyant Experiences Of A Sceptic” I told a few of my clairvoyant experiences.

Listening to others similar stories made me realize that

it is so much better if you can have these experiences first hand.

Kung fu tz  (Confucius) say “Perseverance prospers”

So don’t give up – you will succeed

And use the recorded meditations in my blog

The clairvoyant Experiences of a Sceptic is not a literary masterpiece

but a true story. I majored in sociology not literature

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)

 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 only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now  8 billion.

Our cultural norms and the Protestant Ethic are causing the extinction of all life.

I wrote this as social satire and sympathetic magic

I realize my writing style doesn’t fit what people expect

My excuse –I majored in sociology not literature 😛

I wanted to put my idea that humans are not indigenous to the planet

A few lines  from this short story:

“Most humans think that those who live in harmony with the environment are primitive and inferior. Actually they don’t think.

They just mindlessly conform to what those in power and their entertainment media tell them.

 They are really stupid but consider themselves superior to all other life forms because they talk:

They think if something or someone doesn’t talk they don’t understand. They thoughtlessly destroy everything. They call some creatures vermin,

when humans are the vermin. They kill insects and destroy all the trees despite the fact that insects and trees are essential.

And everything literally goes down the drain polluting the oceans instead of nourishing other life.”

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.”

THOUGHT FORMS

Dachau Concewntration Camp Memorial site

In the 1970s I was asked by an acquaintance from teacher’s college to see if I could help a lady who thought her house was haunted

The house was haunted but by her own “thought forms”

This lady had been given an hysterectomy at age twelve without anaesthetic while in a concentration camp in the Second World War

In the 1970’s when I met her women still had no rights nor status

PTSD wasn’t acknowledged

(nor was PND)

So she got no support from the medical system who considered all women neurotic and having “penis envy” –as doctors were taught Freudian psychology

I thought of writing this in the early hours of the morning

When pain kept me awake and I was brooding about all the abuse and mistreatment I had suffered in my life

I appreciate the wisdom from DESIDERATA –“don’t compare yourself with others”

But sometimes it is as “reality check”

NAMASTE

POPULATION

ME AGE THREE

When I was growing up the population of the whole of Australia was 9million

And the majority lived in the eastern states

Dad at Northfield
Harley Davidson

The suburbs in South Australia were basically small country towns

We moved from Northfield to Salisbury

Which still had horse troughs in the main street and there were still farms with return veranda houses

Dad building a shed at Salisbury North

We didn’t lock our homes or our cars

In the hot weather we slept on the front lawn

Small businesses treated people as valued customers

The bus driver would drop children off at their front door if it were raining

I could phone home from a public phone box even if I had no money

I just asked the operator to put me through

Everyone was friendly and they helped each other

Salisbury is now the suburb from hell

When I first moved to Goolwa it was basically a country town

Everyone said “Hello” whether they knew you or not

And small businesses treated us like valued customers and friends

These days no one says hello unless they know you

People are rude and impatient and only a few small businesses have been able to afford to stay in business

The meaning behind my story is that the human plague isn’t just bad for the ecology and other life forms it is bad for humans too

CHECK OUT “THE ISSUE POPULATION MATTER” it wont embed?

 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 only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now  8 billion.

Our cultural norms and the Protestant Ethic are causing the extinction of all life.

I wrote this as social satire and sympathetic magic

I realize my writing style doesn’t fit what people expect

My excuse –I majored in sociology not literature 😛

I wanted to put my idea that humans are not indigenous to the planet

A few lines  from this short story:

“Most humans think that those who live in harmony with the environment are primitive and inferior. Actually they don’t think.

They just mindlessly conform to what those in power and their entertainment media tell them.

 They are really stupid but consider themselves superior to all other life forms because they talk:

They think if something or someone doesn’t talk they don’t understand.

They thoughtlessly destroy everything. They call some creatures vermin, when humans are the vermin. They kill insects and destroy all the trees despite the fact that insects and trees are essential.

And everything literally goes down the drain polluting the oceans instead of nourishing other life.”

 In the following book I hope to help those who wish to develop their clairvoyant abilities.

In “The Clairvoyant Experiences Of A Sceptic” I told a few of my clairvoyant experiences.

Listening to others similar stories made me realize that

it is so much better if you can have these experiences first hand.

Kung fu tz  (Confucius) say “Perseverance prospers”

So don’t give up – you will succeed

And use the recorded meditations in my blog

The clairvoyant Experiences of a Sceptic is not a literary masterpiece

but a true story. I majored in sociology not literature

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)

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.”

BIRDS/AHIMSA

I tried my best to practice ahimsa before I was aware of this word/concept

Impossible in a culture that believes only humans have a soul and only money matters

I Have fed the local birds ever since I moved here

Mindless automatons tell me

“Do not to feed the birds -they are meant  to find their own food”

It doesn’t occur to them that the human plague  (of 8 Billion) has destroyed the homes and food sources of all other life – making so many extinct.

I feed the crows too –one neighbour has complained about their noise

The other has told me that she likes the Ibis (that I feed) but not the crow.

Crows like many other life forms are disliked because of cultural programming

The crow I feed, feeds the baby before she? feeds  herself

I wasn’t able to take a photo because the baby flies away when I walk outside – comes back when I go in.

Humans have this effect on me — have said I am anthrophobic for decades – don’t think it is an actual word)

This is from Wolf Hollow Wild Life Centre & Facebook

I have always been a misfit in a culture –

Where sociopaths are successful

Psychopaths glorified

And it is necessary to be a mindless automaton to fit in.

taken at the Coorong

Considering all the positive changes in my life time I am optimistic that

the caring, intelligent people will prevail and stop all life from becoming extinct.

Enjoy your day