Trees

trees

I am on a corner block

The neighbour behind me and to the northeast have removed all trees from their properties

The council  removed a tree  opposite me

It wasn’t in the way of anything –not even impinging on the footpath

After it was chopped three magpies stood by the stump

Their home gone

these babies were “roadkill” a fortnight later — young birds panic when a car is coming at them and dont know which way to move

I am opposed to absolute ideologies (fascism) so I do not impose my ideas on others.

But I am tired of others imposing their views on me.

I am sick of people telling me to get rid of trees.

Trees are essential for the air and soil.

And essential for other life forms

Considering famous people like David Attenborough have been ignored I am not expecting anyone taking notice of me

I think that trees should have been listed as an endangered species a century ago

and a permit required to kill one.

Real-estate development removes millions of trees destroying the homes and food source of other life forms and effecting both the soil and air.

So instead of chopping down trees lets bring in harsher penalties for arsonists.

And build our homes in harmony with the environment.

Oops I forgot: People believe that cultures that live in harmony with the environment and don’t worship money are primitive and therefore inferior.

I no longer belong to “Trees for Life” because they have devolved into an impotent bureaucracy.

Not only do the multinationals rule the world they have the masses “brain washed”.

I have recorded a “Tree Meditation” it is paraphrased form MOTHER WIT by Diane Mariechild (Plant meditiation)

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under a different title) when the human population was only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

It is now almost 8 billion.

Our cultural norms; the Protestant Ethic and our “programming” to consume and support the multinationals are causing the extinction of all life.

Not a literary masterpiece intended as social satire and sympathetic magic

The clairvoyant Experiences of a Sceptic is not a literary masterpiece but a true story.

(My excuse is that

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

SEVEN PLAYERS ARE BOYCOTTING DECISION TO WEAR GAY PRIDE JERSEY

Seven players are boycotting their NRL match on Thursday over their team’s decision to wear a gay pride jersey.

I am sharing this –oldie but goodie – open letter

I studied world religions as an elective at teachers college and also researched a great deal when I was lecturing on Wicca in the 1980s

I have family and friends who are devote Christians:

They respect that I do not believe

But generally speaking religious people don’t accept that I do not believe  because “SAY RELIGION SAY FACSISM”

The Koran and Old Testament are almost identical

“In her radio show, Dr Laura Schlesinger said that, as an observant Orthodox Jew, homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and cannot be condoned under any circumstance.

 The following response is an open letter to Dr. Laura, penned by a US resident, which was posted on the Internet. It’s funny, as well as informative:

 Dear Dr. Laura:

 Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God’s Law. I have learned a great deal from your show, and try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination … End of debate.

 I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God’s Laws and how to follow them.

 1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighbouring nations.

    A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can’t I own Canadians?

 2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

 3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of Menstrual uncleanliness – Lev.15: 19-24.

    The problem is how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offence.

 4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odour for the Lord – Lev.1:9.

     The problem is my neighbours. They claim the odour is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

 5. I have a neighbour who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death.

     Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?

 6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination, Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don’t agree. Can you settle this? Are there ‘degrees’ of abomination?

 7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

 8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev. 19:27. How should they die?

 9. I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

 10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev.19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? Lev.24:10-16. Couldn’t we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

 I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I’m confident you can help.

 Thank you again for reminding us that God’s word is eternal and unchanging.

 Your adoring fan.

 James M. Kauffman, Ed.D. Professor Emeritus, Dept. Of Curriculum, Instruction, and Special Education University of Virginia

 (It would be a damn shame if we couldn’t own a Canadian)”

Enjoy your day

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IF YOU ARE A MISFIT

YOU ARE PROBABLY AN ORIGINAL THINKER

Albert Einstein —- I have had this photo for years and cannot remember where I got it from — hence unable to acknowledge 😦

I know that I have posted this several times

It is usually motivated by someone preaching their stupidity

This morning I woke up thinking I should post it

Once upon a time the church would tell us what to think and do

Now it is the media

from FACEBOOK

HAIL TO THEE ORIGINAL THINKERS

From THE MATRIX

“Most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many are so inured; so hopelessly dependant on the system that they will fight to protect it”

In the days when only white hetrosexual males had rights and status the mindless masses believed this was how thngs should be 😦

Original thinkers are no longer put to death

nor put in a mental institution:

they are just treated with contempt by mindless automatons.

Original thinkers see beyond their cultural programming:

OUR CULTURAL NORMS ARE MAKING ALL LIFE EXTINCT

The concept that only humans matter is so destructive to the ecology

chopping down trees:

culling other life forms because they are considered vermin or dangerous:

Destroying flora and fauna for real estate development:

thinking concrete is better than dirt:

refusing to implement zero population growth.

https://populationmatters.org/

and so much more.

Life of Brian

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.”

IN DEFENSE OF CATS

dog and cat

8 BILLION HUMANS ARE CONTINUING TO CAUSE THE EXTINCTIONOF ALL OTHER LIFE

But instead of implementing zero population growth we ban cats

Since the 16th century, humans have driven at least 680 vertebrate species to extinction.

Our cultural norms and attitudes cause us to destroy trees insects and creatures we label as vermin

Because we think they are not sentient

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/1-million-species-under-threat-extinction-because-humans-report-finds-ncna1002046

https://populationmatters.org/the-issue?gclid=CjwKCAiAg9rxBRADEiwAxKDTuo3Mh0vobe2wzJXzHv2ylQqxQxPoE5KR5DQ6brLMfFL6mtz8unAvmBoCVO4QAvD_BwE

This heritage bushland was set alight:

Soon after it was real estate development:

Real Estate companies pay the fines associated with destroying heritage bush land because they make heaps more money than the fine.

In this case they were not fined at all because it was supposedly an accident.

When I was young I believed that a few people could make a difference and from a sociological point of view the more people that want something to change  the more likely the change will happen.

But I have learned over the years that multinationals rule the world and humans believe that they are the only species that matters and the only species that has feelings ☹

Our consumer society

and the industrial revolution have done so much damage:

along with this cultural attitude that only humans matter.

I wont kill anything:

I get upset when insects die.

I thank the wind, the rain and the vegetables etc that I eat:

One Christian woman patronisingly told me I should be thanking god (back in the days when didn’t have the self confidence to defend myself)

I believe everything that exists has a consciousness and deserves respect.

Population control as in zero population growth is essential.

Humans make up 99 percent of the of the world population.

 Hence only one percent is wildlife.

When I wrote and published my sci fi short story April 2017 the human population was 7.4 billion

It is now almost 8 billion.

Kungfutz say: “Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”  

 

A few of us are sending healing and empowerment to all non human life

Please join in:

from What The “Bleep”

enjoy your day

and respect non humans

I took this on Kangaroo Island last century

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under a different title) when the human population was only 7.4 billion:

(1st published 4th April 2017)

not a litterary masterpiece

i majored i n sociology not literature 😛

written as satire to make a point

A CREATIVE MEDITATION

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CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS MEDITATION

This is a visualization meditation

You create  a sacred space which you use for healing

talking with friends

solving problems

creating anything that you wish

I recorded this guided meditation for a psychic development group that I  was running, at participants request

I have put it  in writing to bring down your guides for the first time as it isn’t included in the audio

The colours and numbers take your consciousness to alpha.

MEDITATION

Relax: centre: and protect yourself.

Breathe deeper and slower that you normally would.

Visualize the colour RED and know that you are becoming more relaxed.

Now visualize ORANGE

YELLOW
GREEN
BLUE: you are very relaxed and calm now.

INDIGO

VIOLET

You are now on a beach. Feel the sand between your toes. Smell the sea air. Hear the seagulls and the thunder of the waves. Stay here a while relaxing.

You see an hole in the cliff face and start walking toward this.

You enter and find yourself in a cave lit by phosphorescent fungi.

There are steps going down.

You descend these steps.

12;11;10;9;8;7;6;5;4;3;2;1

There is a door in front of you.

You open this door.

This is your sacred space:

You create this yourself.

The more that you use this meditation the more powerful it will become.

Have an elevator to the right at the back to bring people down for healing; problems solving; or just to talk to.

Always send them back up.

The first time you go to you sacred space you bring down a male & female guide.

They stay here. You do not send THEM back.

visualize the lift/elevator going up

then coming back down

as the door opens your female guide steps out

notice how she looks

ask her name

ask her to stand by you while you send the elevator back up

and then down again

as the door opens your male guide steps out

notice how he looks

ask his name

spend time talking with your guides

create your sacred space

Create a door to the back left to go on astral journeys.

A clock and calendar to change the date & time. — or these days a computer would do.

Anything that you feel that you require for healing

Anything you wish

I have a “natural” mineral pool because I like nature:

You could have a spar

Or a medical bed like they have in Star Trek 😛

Remember that your guides stay in this sacred space awaiting you.

When you are ready go back the way that you came.

1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10;11;12

VIOLET; INDIGO; BLUE; GREEN; YELLOW; ORANGE; RED

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.”

MORE MORNING MUSINGS

This is a recent picture of me NOT — Oh to be that healthy and energetic

For the last couple of years my life has involved resting resting and more fu-king resting:

Hence another morning of musing

This was motivated by seeing a tribal dance on morning television.

I read “Conversations with God”  at the turn of this century.

What bothered me is that he “supposedly channelled” negative remarks about the Australian indigenous people.

No disrespect intended to Neale Donald Walsch

1st is from wikepedia 2nd probonoaustralia

Our indigenous Australians did not see time as linear (until white man came and spoiled their world)

I attended an outside lecture given by an aboriginal elder in the 1980s

I thought to myself

old

black

and female –

all considered inferior in white culture at the time:

She spoke through an interpreter:

before she spoke she looked at everyone in the crowd

  then said that she would speak.

After, a male friend said “Did you feel that?”

I have indigenous Australian friends:

one lady, a “full blood”, amazes me with her wisdom and her attitude:

I met her at a church “free lunch”. (before COVID)

As I had never been before I asked if I may sit at her table

Many of the Christians there just ”looked down their nose” at her

She noticed but just smiled

I was bought up Church of England and did the “born again” thing in my 20s

I wrote a blog “Thank God I am an Atheist Pun Intended

Am including it

Several of my friends have told me that I am not an athiest

They may be correct:

I do not really have a god concept:

if I did it would be Pantheism.

Since I was 60 I have gone back to church services a few times because I like the ritual and Jesus teachings.

But the fascism

and people who claim to know God’s will

makes me leave.

One group of ladies came to my house and told me what had to be thrown out.

One was a poster with amazing art work called Astral circus.

They went through my book cases and told me my anthropology books were evil.

I have the greatest respect for Jesus but believe him to be a teacher not a god.

After Constantine stopped throwing Christians to the lions and made Christianity the religion of Rome there was a meeting at Nicaea to decide what to leave in the bible and what to take out.

If “God” is a loving god why would She desire worship?

Religion is what influences a culture.

Our culture believes other life forms don’t feel and have no soul.

We have destroyed the ecology and continue to make all life extinct.

I tried to practice ahimsa before I was aware of this word and concept:

People ridiculed and abused me for this:

some told me I was anthropomorphising animals and other life forms.

As if I would wish any creature to be human 😛

If we credit some “Being” as having created this reality, this “Being” would have to be a sadistic psychopath.

Every creature has to deprive another life form of its existence in order to survive. ( Its called eating)

Just breathing kills other life forms! As we breathe in micro organisms.

I believe everything that exists has a consciousness: And because of my clairvoyant experiences I believe everything survives beyond physical death.

I asked clairvoyantly about “the meaning of life” which strangely enough isn’t 42 (Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy)

The answer I got was more a concept than words but translated, I was asked if I could conceptualize NO linear time and when I said “No” I was told that “they” couldn’t explain.

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.”

I wrote and published this sci fi short story a few years ago (under a different 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.

not a literary masterpiece

My excuse

I majored in sociology not literature

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

THE PREQUEL THAT I NEVER FINISHED

I published my sci fi short story

On 4th April 2017

And had already started the sequel

I have never finished it

partly because of pain and sleep deprivation but mostly because my writing style sux

In the short story I didn’t give my characters any depth and planned to rectify this in the follow up

The satire in this story was that humans were livestock to the “gods”

My main character Kunapipi was an Australian mother goddess and also called the Rainbow serpent

In the story she would go to the “Garden of Eden” and enlighten the people that they were livestock and save them from the E T gods (which were giant arachnids)

According to King Solomon “There is nothing new under the sun”

So this satire has probably been written before and will be again

Enjoy your day

taken on Kangaroo Island in the 1980s

SOME TRIVIA

I sometimes a put a post on Facebook  “Have a great Thor’s day” for Thursday

I learned the origins of the days of the week from “Childcraft” encyclopaedias

I bought these encyclopedias for my children

I no longer have the Childcraft but still have the World Book encyclopedias

SUNDAY = SUN

MONDAY = MOON

TUESDAY = MARS(TUI)

WENESDAY =WODEN

THURSAY =THOR

FRIDAY = FREYA

SATURDAY = SATURN

I attended teachers college as a mature student

When Gough Whitlam was Prime Minister because uni was free

My first time practice teaching I was asked to teach aerodynamics to a grade three class ( seven and eight year olds)

The Childcraft was invaluable

I said to the class teacher “How do you think at a grade three level?” Her reply (jokingly)

“I treat everyone like they’re grade three”

Have a great Woden’s day and-

PLEASE RESPECT YOUR ELDERS

Prior to the industrial revolution one’s status went up with ones age

Older people were respected for their wisdom

Now they are often patronised

My generation implemented social change

Without us you would still be in a culture where only white hetrosexual males have rights or status.

I took this on Kangaroo Island in the 1980s

VEGAN

This is a reblog — I am so encouraged these day by the number of people who care about other life forms


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, who carted strock to the abattoirs,

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 when

I reported what was told to me to the RSPCA

I was called 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.

Blessed be

and be kind to non humans

Taken on Kangaroo Island last century
not a literarymasterpiece — written as social satire and sympathetic magic