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Welcome to the winter edition of Geomantica, of June 2006.
This edition is fairly bursting with a bunch
of news, including a big focus on water, and fascinating features.
And on the home front, 'Muckle Stone', the geographical home
of Geomantica, as seen on some Geomantica films, has just been
confirmed to be a women's sacred site, by local Jaara elder Brien
Nelson we are pretty much ecstatic about that!
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World Your'. That means a late spring edition of Geomantica,
but should be lots of stories!
Thanks go out to all the great contributors
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up on the website (something to do with the server changing to
Unix system) if only I could fix them, or afford to hire
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Dear Alanna,
I don't know whether you have noticed or not but quite a few
grid and dragon lines have reversed their polarity's since the
earth quake and giant tsunami some 14 months ago. Could this
be connected to the drifting of the Magnetic North Pole? The
Earth is due for a polarity reversal and I wonder if we might
be seeing the beginning of that event. Computer simulations in
the USA have shown that this could take place at any time and
almost in an instant when it finally happens.
Regards
Gary J Dean
Sat, 18 Mar 2006
Hello again Alanna - I have this theory, that all old-growth trees are "Trees of Knowledge" - i.e. they impart information to receptive minds in their vicinity. Indigenous cultures all maintain that trees "talk" to you - Oojeroo, Kath Walker, emphatically said that the "old men of the forest" would tell you everything you needed to know about the local environment, where to find game, where certain plants were fruiting etc., if you just LISTENED to them. I've heard this from many other Aboriginal sources too, exactly the same thing. George Negus was told by an elder that the elder's father used to talk to the trees.
Now - I have a "Tree of Knowledge" on my land - it is a 200 year old Crows Ash, Flindersia australis, and it stands by twin spring waterholes. It certainly communicates with me, although it took a few years of integrating into the ecosystem before I "heard" it.
Vale the tordonned Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine - everyone objected to that, but not to the on-going destruction of millions of bush trees by poison or bulldozer.
And of course there's the most famous 'Tree of Knowledge' of all - the Bodhi tree that Buddha become enlightened under, as he sat in deep meditation - that tree you could say was the birthplace of Buddhism, just as the one at Barcaldine is called the birthplace of the Labour Movement - trees subtely directing the little lives of men... Well, I truly think that my giant Crows Ash is birthing a movement too - the clean-green alternate, sustainable way.
Maureen Brannan,
Queensland
A Boab Tree near Derby, WA, pic by Maureen Brannan.
There's a pagan* place in the land of Wales
With the longest name in the entire world
And it means: 'Gushing spring from a tree hollow
By the whirling pool of Llan Tisillio
Near the red cave where tall trees grow.'
LLANFAIRPWILGWYNGYLGOCHGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWILLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH!!
People used to go there, pray to their gods
there
Heal up their wounds there, become at One
Celtic culture powerful, Earth their Mother magical
Whirling pool of lucent water, healing mother, healing daughter
Connecting them with Nature's wonder, resonating in Lands Down
Under
Where in a spiral flowing, the Dreamtime Spirit
was showing
THE WANDJINA, All Knowing.
But then came the Roman Legion
Spreading their blight throughout the region
Chopping down the mystic groves
Slaughtering the native people in droves.
Now they're known as the New World Order
And STILL they war against indigenous culture!
Controlling humanity with religion, war and money
Sacrificing sacredness to the god of Agribu$ine$$
Now the climate is changing, eco-systems crashing
The Wandjinas are dying! Ancestral Beings crying:
Wake up you people! Take back your power.
RECLAIM EARTH - this is your finest hour!
* The word 'pagan' comes from the latin word, 'pagani', which simply means people who live in the country, another term for indigenous. The indigenous people of Britain had nearly identical relationship with their homelands, natural landscapes, endemic plants, etc. as did the Aborigines, and really every other indigenous culture on Earth. There are many people in Britain alive today who still have that ancient gnosis, passed down in an unbroken chain since their beginnings by their ancestors and continuing to live in their ancient tribal homelands. Many more have re-ignited their love of Nature and identify as pagan. Tte term is one to be fiercely respectful of, as with any other indigenous cultural heritage. Maureen Brannan.
Editor's comment on the footnote: It's a pity
that the 'p' word / belief system has been denigrated for so
long. It has silly connotations of barbarism. I like the term
'animist' to describe indigenous eco-spiritual beliefs and find
it more nicely evocative than 'pagan'.
Dear Editor (Bendigo Advertiser)
It was great to see Peter Andrews speaking about Natural Sequence Farming at last weekend's EcoV (May 5-7) in Bendigo. Peter explained how he restores the original chains of ponds water ways on dry and degraded farmland to create lush oases in the midst of drought. He's been doing it for 30 years with great success. So, too, in Western Australia, the WISALT Society use earthworks to reverse desertification and soil salinity, with 50 years of successes; while in Queensland they have the Yeomans family with their internationally acclaimed Keyline earthworks system; and in permaculture design we use swales which, like terracing, can control run-off.
All these successful models rely on allowing rain run-off to to infiltrate the soil and store water beneath the ground. But if soil salinity is a problem you can't get government funding for any of these methods, as they dont follow the (incorrect) 'scientific' theory that you must reduce the 'rising water table'. The sooner that government scientists drop this theory, the sooner farmers can get on with restoring degraded landscapes and reducing the need for irrigation.
Let's store water in the ground, as nature would, and we'll all have greener pastures.
Yours,
Alanna Moore
said the front page headlines of Melbourne's Age newspaper last May. 100 odd staff were sent to work from home, since 5 cases of brain tumour were diagnosed in the past month, following a case in 1999 and 2001. Check Gore Hill. The tertiary teachers union warned that anecdotal reports from hastily arranged staff meetings yesterday suggested the number of people affected would grow. The top 2 floors of the school (closest a rooftop cluster of mobile phone towers) where 5 of the cases originated were closed and emr studies undertaken, resulting in nothing but the usual mantra - 'EMR is within Australian Standards guidelines, there's no proof of a connection to the Towers'. Despite this all are reluctant to work or study there. And the Electricial Trades Union has put a ban on its workers from working on or near mobile phone base towers while they are operating, until safety can be proven.
Neuroscience expert at Royal Melbourne Hospital Prof Andrew Kaye said that generally brain cancers affected 8 to 10 people per 100,000 per year.
Don Maisch of Wollogong University warned that it may not be the radio frequncy emissions from the towers themselves that is a hazard, it could be "all the eqipment running the towers, so there are probaly elevated fields in the room (below).... It's like asbestos...the safety standards dont address prononged exposure, they ony test immediate effects. What happens if you spend 10 to 15 years in a room with elevated levels?" (as many of the staff have.)
Source: The Age May 12th 2006 and EMR News, April -June '06.
The Brtish Navy is tring to lessent the deadly affects of is miltary sonar on marine mammals. "Scientists have found evidence that the low fequency signals it sues, whch travle hundres of kms, are causing the mammals to become disoriented and rise too qickly to the surface, rsulting in death from decompression (similar ot the beneds in humans). The signal appears to be intwrfrring witht he whales ability to naviagte"
Birds nesting on or near electricity pylons exhibit "altered behaviour, physiology, endocrine system and the immune function of birds which generaly resulted in negative repercussions on their reproduction or development" said Dr James Reynolds from the School of Biosciences at Birmingham University, speaking at a workshop on the Impacts of Non Ionizing Radiation on Wildlife in March '06.
What is typically the highest source of potentially harmful radio frequency in the home? The cordless phone, because it's own 'base station' is continually emitting signals, warned a German government agency recently. (The latest generation of cordless phones are emission free when not in use.)
"3G mobile phones use higher frequencies than 2G counterparts and have been associated with more adverse effects in some reports"
"More and more people are getting sick because of the new wireless microwave based communication systems like UMTS and TETRA" says Donald Forsberg, founder of Sweden's new political party the Folkets Vilja (People's Will), which aims to postpone its implementation until proven safe. "Many of the affected people can no longer work, some are suffering so badly that they are forced from their homes due to nearby antenna clusters on towers, masts and buldings".
Water News
Water, water everywhere in the news and deserving so much more of our respectful attention. Below average rains continue the drought in some 47% of Australia, yet few sources of underground water have been tapped into, compared with, say, Europe.
But do we know just where is the best place to source water? Can diviners save us? Does anyone know what is sustainable water use, in this driest of continents? How does information derided by mainstream hydrology get a hearing?......
Morad Eghbal's writings on 'new water' (see definition below) in the last issue of Geomantica have aroused enough interest to warrant looking for a way to bring him to Australia from the USA for a series of talks. The best way of getting the word out there is for a series of conferences on water, to be held in Juy 2007 in the eastern state capitals, it has been decided. These could potentially showcase some of the alternative approaches to water in the landscape and our sustainable harvesting and use of it.
As well as Morad Eghbal speaking on new water, other speakers will be sought (or are already available) to give presentations on subjects ranging from Water Divining, Keyline & Permaculture Design, to Chain of Ponds waterway restoration, WISALTs Interceptor Banks, Thermal water, Soil water (enhancing soil water storage, relationship to plant production, salinity, etc.) Atmospheric water harvesting (air wells, condensers, etc.) as well as Geomantic perspectives & spiritual relation etc etc.
Throughout the conference day films on these subjects can be shown and dowsing workshops held by local dowsing teachers to share techniques of water divining...
Stall holders will be needed, to help cover costs involved....
And much more assistance will be required to make this idea manifest. If you can offer any expertise, enthusiasm, voluntary assistance on the day, or helpful suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact - info@geomantica.com
Primary water is water that is somehow formed deep inside rock strata. Primary water was first postulated by Adolf Nordenskiold in the nineteenth century, and raised in the book 'A Journey to the Earth's Interior' by M.B. Gardner (1913). Nordenskiold wrote an essay on the subject of primary water, which resulted in him being nominated for the Nobel Prize in physics.
Primary water supplies are providing huge volumes to many urban areas in the world and continue to flow at the same rates over centuries/decades, eg. Beirut's water supply from bores in the mountains of Lebanon.
Stephen Riess's theory is that primary water is generated in the rock strata when the right temperature and pressure is present. This water is then forced into fractures/fissures in the rock where it can transverse over 100's of km. Some of this water is sometimes expressed as springs, and can be either hot (thermal) or cool (17 C). This water is always moving and therefore can be detected by dowsing.
Brian Reid (NZ dowser) believes that this water may be formed as a residue from volcanoes under the Earth's surface. These eruptions create gas that either escape to the surface as gas or turn into primary water. Brian thinks that perhaps these gases are electrically and chemically fired into the rock itself and the rock fuses the water out.
I also think that organisms may be involved with electrical and
chemical reactions (remembering that marine organisms have been
around for about 3 billion years or more and organisms within
the rock system may have been around for much longer)
Primary water is new water, and since water
can also be created by organisms (eg. converting hydrogen peroxide
H2O2 in the soil into water H2O, by stripping away an oxygen)
the amount of water on the Earth is potentially increasing; with
some more water coming in from outside the atmosphere. Also,
60% of the atmosphere is water vapour.
Groundwater as fractured rock water, is potentially the greatest
source of sustainable water supply. The shallow groundwater that
is rainfall fed, along with surface supplies from rivers/ dams,
etc. are at the greatest threat of over-exploitation. Water from
the atmosphere (8,000 cubic km) is also another major source
of water that can be recycled.
Reference: 'Dowsing for Beginners', by Richard Webster,1997.
(See also 'Divining' by Christopher Bird, USA, 1979, Macdonald & Jane's. Stephen Reiss was one of the inspirations for this great manual, a 'bible' of dowsing)
Rob Gourlay's email - rob@eric.com.au
Atmospheric water generating maDhines have been available for two years now - they evolved from the humidifier and domestic units provide abundant daily water for drinking and cooking - they also clean the air of pollutants and moisture.
The Qld State Government has been informed about this new technology, but appear to be ignoring it - it is available right now through various distributors throughout Australia, but going direct to the manufacturers will make this an economically viable enterprise for governments - they are being mass produced in Korea and elsewhere.
I heard on Radio National news last week that Sunshine Coast mayor Ron Clark was sending a delegation to Russia to investigate this air-to-water technology, which the Russians have embraced, with machines apparently producing 200 megaltrs a day. In this news item, he mentioned Peter Beattie's comment the week before, that his government HAD to build the Mary Dam because of South-East Queensland's expanding population, and because, quote, "...people can't drink thin air..", and Ron Clarke made the comment that people CAN drink thin air - through this simple technology that has evolved from humidifiers. A far better option for the Qld government is to spend a fraction of the mega millions they intend to spend on more megadams, on providing every household in SE Qld with the Solo Water Generator, directly from the manufacturers at a greatly reduced cost, and subsidising small-scale farmers & nurseries with the irrigators.
Please also note the "Lifesaver" which runs on solar power - it certainly did save lives after the tsunami crisis, and can do the same for African countries, or anywhere in the grip of drought - with political will which has not been forthcoming. I for one have been trying to draw attention to this technology for two years, with no success whatsoever to date.
Maureen Brannan, Queensland, June 2, 2006.
S>A>N>E> (Save All of Nature's Ecosystems, formerly
Save Australia's
Natural Environment before realising we have to not only think,
but also act globally)
Underground river discovered in Tasmania
The search for water has made a big
splash at Marrawah, Tasmania,. Helen Kempton reported in the
Examiner.
FOR TWO centuries, the farmers of Marrawah have mulled over a theory that an underground river flowed below their sandy soil. Many have looked for it over the years but came up dry.
However, two months ago, water diviner and Marrawah publican Peter Benson found the "legendary" subterranean river as he looked for water on the property of Circular Head Mayor Ross Hine.
He found it using just two copper-coated steel rods and a great deal of patience.
And what he found surpassed all expectations. The underground river is 30m wide, runs for many kilometres from near Dismal Swamp to the sea and is now spewing out five million litres of fresh water a day on to Mr Hine's property.
"Since this area was settled there has been talk that there was an underground river somewhere in the district," Mr Benson said.
"People have tried to find it over the last two centuries. And now I have."
..
A hole has been drilled 40m down into the earth on Mr Hine's property to access the river below.
...About five million litres a day (or 1825 megalitres a year) is coming to the surface without the aid of a pump.
The water is worth millions of dollars and its discovery has the community talking.
Mr Hine said that he would call for expressions of interest in an irrigation scheme to water Marrawah pasture.
"We must use it in the best possible way," Mr Hine said.
...Marrawah's sandy soils do not support dam building and there are no above-ground creeks or rivers in the area.
But there are underground river system throughout Tasmania, Mr Benson said, even in the dry Midlands.
"The Great Lake has to drain somewhesre," he said.
"You simply cannot tell from above ground what is happening below. There is fresh water on top of Table Cape and on the Nut.
"But I can't find where farmers want it all the time. I can only find it where it is."
Source: Sunday, 26 March 2006
The Examiner, Tasmania
Rain making in Western Victoria
An article in Victoria's rural weekly newspaper reports that fourteen Horsham farmers have signed up with Geelong 'rainman' David Miles in an effort to break the district's crippling eight year drought. They've since had the best start to the growing season for at least a decade.
'Mr Miles, a Geelong inventor and industrial designer claims to send electromagnetic signals into the atmosphere to draw ocean rains inland' the paper said. 'Weather patterns more than 100km offshore are targeted and nudged inland, where the rain falls on areas ranging from 10km to 300km wide.'
Each farmer pays Miles $200 per month (or $2000 per year) and requests minimum amounts of rain. One of them, Andrew Barber said there were many sceptics and critics, such as croppers threatening to sue if hay was spoilt by rain, plus religious people claiming it interfered with God's work. 'Mr Barber said that God's work had already been tampered through artificial insemination, contraception and herbicide use...We have been subject to ridicule, I dont want people to think we are gullible but we are starting to wonder if there is something in this', said Barber.
Source: 'Pay for Rain and Down it Comes', Weekly Times, May 17th 2006.
July 25 - "World
Day of Love and Thanks to Water".
Will you join us to say "I love you"
and "Thank you" to all the water
on Planet Earth and fill it with the highest vibration (HADO)
of Love
and Thanks that we can possibly experience?
Please join us to send our Love and Thanks
to all the water in our
physical body that has been sustaining and nurturing our lives
on
this planet. 70% of our body is made of water. We owe so much
our
health to the water in our body. Then, let us send our Love and
Thanks to all the water on Planet Earth. 70% of the surface of
the
Earth is occupied by water. The environment on planet Earth is
maintained by the water circulating in various forms. If it had
not
been for water, life would not have been created on planet Earth.
To make this event a global one, we have determined
July 25 as "World
Day of Love and Thanks to Water".
We have a vision that on this day, our Earth
will be filled with
beautiful golden/silver light of Love and Thanks that is flowing
from
the hearts of each and every one of us. Golden/silver light is
the
highest vibration in the range of visible light, and it will
heal and
cleanse all the water on earth, be it water of the ocean or that
of
our own body.
love@thank-water.net
from the Project of Love and Thanks to Water website
<http://www.thank-water.net/english/main.htm>Check
the site at --
http://www.thank-water.net/english/index.htm
At 9am on Sunday May 28th, the Channel Nine 'Sunday' program made an important contribution to the usually stifled debate about dryland and riverine soil salinity, and featured the handful of Australian scientists who cannot accept the dodgy scientific dogma on the subject.
"Last week's 'Sunday' was a memorable edition" writes the Australian newspaper's Christopher Pearson, noting it came "hot on the heels of an expose of catastrophist science" on Radio National's Counterpoint program. Both programs having relied heavily on the work of Jennifer Marohasy, director of the environmental unit at the Institute of Public Affairs.
With $500 million allocated in the recent federal budget to "saving the Murray River" Marohasy asks "but does the Murray still need saving?"
Marohasy has been critical of the CSIRO's head-in-the-sand stance on reality and it's alarmist view of an impending crisis of both the Murray River and dryland salinity generally. She points out that levels of river water salinity for Adelaide have halved since salt interception schemes were begun in 1982. Yet the CSIRO put out front page news that insisted the opposite was the case. "When she challenged the claims, the June 03 version of the web page was quietly changed" and Marohasy concluded that "We don't have a salinity crisis, we have an honesty crisis".
Asked why they would want to perpetute the doom and gloom scenario Marohasy suggested they may have been driven by environmental campaigning and were also "concerned about continual funding if they'd fixed the problem."
Peter Cullen, director of Land and Water Australia also said "I don't think the river is dying at the moment: and George Warne, general manager of Murray Irrigation "The river is certainly not in crisis with salinity"
Rising Groundwater Theory Doubters
"There is a well entrenched view that land clearance and
tree felling cause groundwater to rise in such a way as to draw
salt up to the root zones or to the surface of the soil. It's
called the rising regional groundwater theory and it remains
just that: it's a theory.
"Maarten Stapper, a principal research scientist at the CSIRO, another who insists that he's offering a purely personal opinion, says that he doesn't believe the theory" continues the article
Stapper is one of the few scientists with the CSIRO prepared to speak out about important issues such as this, and genetic engineering, but can only do so on a 'personal opinion' basis, as the CSIRO effectively gags it's people to follow politically correct scientific dogma. (No doubt he would have learnt a bit about alternative initiatives to soil salinity in the Geomantica film on the subject that he has seen.)
Another doubter of the theory is Wendy Craik, head of the Murray Darling Basin Committee. Previously she fronted the National Farmers Federation and in 2000 they had teamed up with the Australian Conservation Foundation (an unlikely bedfellow!) to demand $39 billion of public money to fix the 'salinity crisis'.
"Questioned on the 'Sunday' program Craik said that, speaking as a taxpayer, she's pleased all the money she was demanding on behalf of the NFF was not in the end forthcoming and she conceded that flawed models had vastly exaggerated the extent of the land salinity threat."
Marohasy thinks that we have been viewing the Murray through European eyes for too long and that in its history it has been often been reduced to a series of deep ponds in drought times, pointing to a photo taken on New Year's Day 1914 of a completely dry river bed at Riversdale near Echuca. Nowadays it's less likely to happen due to continual management, dams, locks, barrages and artificial flushing regimes.
"If we were to stop fantasising about a clear fresh blue stream coursing through the Australian equivalent of meadows and thought instead of an old waterway, often a bit murky and sometimes salty, meandering to its lower arid land reaches, we might be less surprised by its resilience and prone to imagining that it needs somehow to be transformed by a technological quick fix" writes Pearson.
(But that would be rather cold comfort to the people of Adelaide who have to drink it!)
Source: 'River Argument Runs Dry' Christopher Pearson., Weekend Australian June 3-4 2006.
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They can pave paradise and denounce ancient animist traditions, but the Queen of the South Seas is still revered, feared and one to be regularly appeased in this volatile corner of the Pacific 'Rim of Fire'.
Yogyakarta, an Indonesian royal city of some 3 million inhabitants in the south central part of the island of Java, is renowned for its enormous cultural significance. It is famed for its temples, schools, high society, art, drama and complex language etc.
Tragically, Yogya (pronounced Jogja), as it's called, was badly affected by the disastrous earthquake of May 27th 2006 (more than 3,500 killed) and is also currently under threat from nearby rumbling Mt Merapi, the most dangerous volcano in Indonesia. (Currently the threat is subsiding, June 12)
Gurung Merapi
Mt Merapi has been erupting for 10,000 years and is one of the most active of Indonesia's volcanoes, with more pyroclastic flows than any other volcano globally. 1 The locals call these deadly gaseous flows - 'shaggy goats'. The glorious Borobudur Temple lies vulnerably close in Merapi's shadow.
Many villagers living on the slopes have refused to evacuate and leave their farms unattended. The villagers say that they rely on natural signs rather than official orders. These would include lightning around the peak, thundering clouds and days of ash raining down, or animals moving down its slopes.
"Many villagers consider the volcano sacred. Every year, a traditional Javanese priest climbs to the top to make an offering. Most Javanese, who make up the bulk of Indonesia's 220 million people, are Muslim, but many cling to a spiritual past and believe a supernatural kingdom exists on top of Merapi" reported the ABC. 2.
Since the earthquake 'many Javanese have been offering thanks to the spiritworld in addition to the aid agencies now camped around them. Despite the devastation and loss of life, the islanders' response is not to blame the gods, but to praise them for not making it worse' reported The UK Telegraph. 3.
Queen of the South Seas
Ancient pagan animist traditions make Yogya
traditionally beholdent to the 'Queen of the South Seas', who
carries the title of Loro Kidul (Queen of the South Seas), or
Kanjeng Ratu Kidul (Supreme Southern Queen), or sometimes Roro
Kidul (The Southern Maiden). She is a beautiful goddess creature
dressed in green, who controls the nearby sea and sea bed on
the southern coast of Java and has been the traditional protector
of the once powerful Mataram Dynasty and its current descendants.
When angered she can whip up tsumanis and sieismic mayhen. 4.
"The queen, who is bound to have the disaster attributed in some way to her presence, is said to live under the ocean at Parangtritis, a beautiful black-sand beach village about 30km to the south of Yogya city centre" reported The Australian.
"It is believed there is a south axis connecting Mount Merapi, the Kraton (sultan's palace) and Parangtritis Beach', writes traveller Lie-Birchall. 4 Another possible significant alignmen is "Jalan Malioboro (Malioboro Road) - a two kilometre one-way street that runs from north to south in the centre of the city, where the main activity of Yogyakarta exists".
"Agustina Ismunjiah, an official guide
for foreign visitors to the palace in Yogyakarta, known as the
Kraton said: "I believe that Merapi and the earthquakes
are linked, that they are both warnings to the people."
"They are warnings to the people, so that they engage in
introspection and review their relations with God, fellow human
beings and the environment." "The sultan has abandoned
many of the old ways. The sense of being Javanese is waning."
Divine marriage & pilgrimage
"According to legend, Kanjeng Ratu Kidul was at one time wed to Panembahan Senopati, first ruler of the mighty Mataram kingdom, and she enjoyed his company on occasions. The Western section of Parangtritis beach-Parangkusumo beach-is believed to have been the meeting place of the two mighty rulers; that of the sea and of the land.
It is also at Parangkusumo beach where the ceremony of 'Labuhan' is performed, coinciding with the inaugural commemoration of Sri Sultan Haamengku Buwono X. Each year, on the 30th day of the Javanese month of 'Rejeb', offerings are given to Kanjeng Ratu Kidul. These offerings, in the ceremony of Labuhan, consist of food, clothing, hair, and fingernail cuttings of the Sultan of Yogyakarta. The offerings are cast into the sea in the hope that the Sultan and the people of Yogyakarta will have continuous peace and prosperity. The same ceremony is held on top of mount Merapi and Lawu' writes Lie-Birchall.
"It is also at Parangkusumo beach, according
to legend, that volcanic activity occurred. This resulted in
a formation of rocks where the Sultan of Yogyakarta and Kajeng
Ratu Kidul supposedly met to discuss the well-being of the people
of Yogyakarta-and of their love for each other. A small rest
house was built upon this formation of rock. On two special nights-Friday
and Tuesday Kliwon according to the 35-day Javanese calendar-thousands
of pilgrims come from all over to meditate in the spiritual ambience'
and pay homage to the Spirits, says Lie-Birchall. 4.
Divine Oracle
"In times of trouble, various sultans of Yogyakarta are said to have made their way through an underground network of caves to Parangtritis to commune with the queen and seek her advice. The last time this happened, people say, was during the final days of Suharto's reign in early 1998, when the city's current leader, Hamengkubuwono X, made the journey' reported The Australian.
"He returned to tell a crowd of up to a million people gathered outside his kraton, or palace, that any ruler who had lost legitimacy ought to step down - which Suharto duly did, a day later. 5
"The Queen of the South Seas' shrine at Parangkusumo, yards from the Indian Ocean's shores, is where legend has it that the goddess Kanjeng Ratu Kidul and an ancient local sultan once sat together on two flat-topped pieces of volcanic rock. By traditional belief, the Queen is married spiritually to the descendant of those ancient rulers She had been protecting, making her current spouse today's very mortal Sultan of Yogyakarta. The bloke in republican Indonesia is still revered by the local Javanese as right royalty. He is coincidentally the local governor, writes another travel writer in cyberspace. 6.
The Javanese believe the sultan has not been treating his wife with enough respect these days, thus making her mad. Added to the problem of Kanjeng Loro Kidul's divine ire, someone else is angry too, namely the giant who controls the nearby volcano, Mount Merapi. He is Kiyai Sapujagad, and related to Loro Kidul through his marriage to Her daughter...'
"Mind you, that's the simple version because the guardian spirits of Gunung Merapi vary, depending on locality. For example, on the 'volcano's northern slopes, it's mBah (Granddad) Petruk.
"But in the south, facing the ocean, the guardian spirit is our Loro Kidul's favourite son-in-law, Kyai Sapujagad. Other spirits believed to live in or guard the volcano include Nyai Kendit and Dewi Gadung Melati. You can say that there's quite a busy divine community up at the top of Gunung Merapi.
"Traditional Javanese beliefs said both Kanjeng Loro Kidul and Her fiery son-in-law Kiyai Sapujagad have protected Yogya, the main city in the region, and the surrounding area for centuries. These two powerful spirits have agreed to protect the royal house of Yogyakarta back in legendary times of the Mataram Dynasty (actually just 16 - 17th Century).
"Parang Kusumo was where Panembahan Senopati,
the first legendary ruler of the Javanese Mataram Dynasty received
a divine revelation at the southern beach of Parang Tritis. There,
he made an agreement with Kanjeng Ratu Kidul, where the Queen
would always protect the kings of Mataram and its people from
evil deeds in exchange for the spiritual marriage of every king
of the Mataram dynasty to Her. 6
Disaster or Luck?
Pilgrims believe that the reason Parangkusumo suffered only one casualty in the earthquake was because of the queen's protection,' The UK Telgraph reported.
"This area really is protected by the queen because, as you see, although the earthquake came from the south this area is safe, it was worse in other places," said Hendratno, the shrine's guardian, who like many Indonesians goes only by a single name.
"Though I'm a Muslim, I believe in Ratu Kidul. The queen saved a lot of lives."
Alongside the white wall of the shrine, Muriani, 28, is living in a tent with five other members of her family after their house was wrecked.
"I was lucky, because the children and I were already up and out of the house at 6am," she said. "I believe I have been protected by the Queen of the South Seas."
Nonetheless, the queen's power was apparently insufficient entirely to safeguard the palace of the Sultan of Yogyakarta, Hamengkubuwono X, which sits in a direct line between the shrine at Parangkusumo and the summit of Mt Merapi.
A centuries-old pavilion in one courtyard was reduced to a pile of wood and tiles, smashing several antique palanquins - a kind of sedan chair - and damaging a set of traditional musical instruments played only for visiting heads of state.
"It's very difficult," said Prince
Prabu Kusomo, the sultan's brother. "It's supposed to be
protected, but now it's like this." 3.
You can hear more of the Queen of the South Seas in the latest Geomantica film 'The Sacred World of Water'. In it, author John Archer talks about his investigation of the mystic side of water, his search for the Queen of the South Seas and the reverence paid to her by the sultan of Yogja.
...I remember fondly my own visit to Parangtritis in 1974. It was unspoilt and not easy to get to, a little palm fringed paradise. I didn't know a goddess graced her presence there. But I'm not surprised to hear it.
Sadly, I heard recently, nowadays Parangtritis is rather overrun by tourists and paved with concrete and tourist accomodation. Editor.
Compiled by Alanna Moore
1 www.volcanolive.com/merapi.html
2. ABC News Online May 17, 2006
3. The UK Telegraph, 4/6/06.
4. Parangtritis-A Beach Not Too Far by Barrie
Lie-Birchall
www.bootsnall.com/travelstories/asia/sep02beach.shtml
5. 'Disaster strikes at heart of Java identity' by Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian, May 29, 2006
6. - http://ktemoc.blogspot.com/2006/06/angry-spirits-at-yogya-occult-centre.html
See also - www.jawakidul.nl/where.htm - Queen of the South Sea's own website!
Dr Jocelyn Townrow - healer, geomancer, promoter
of Earth harmony
Her property in Sandfly, Hobart, has an amazing sacred garden
which Jocelyn spent happy hours decorating with mosaic features.
ABC TV filmed her and husband Ian Geard in her garden, for a
special feature documentary (with 3 other gardeners) 'Beyond
the Nature Strip'. In it she demonstrated dowsing and conveyed
something of her spiritual relationship with nature.
In January I was editing my film 'The Sacred
World of Water' and wanted to find a shot of one of Jocelyn's
beautiful little fountains. At that point I got the urge to switch
on the television. Right there on the screen was the very same
fountain I was wanting to see, with Jocelyn's hand holding a
spinning pendulum above it!
The show was enjoying a repeat!
Ian Geard wrote to Geomantica with the following very sad news. " Jocelyn was operted on for a brain tumour in mid December and had 3 months in hospital and one at home. She died on April 14th 2006."
I am not qualified to write much about Jocelyn, but I think the world will be a little less beautiful without her.
Here in Australia we often feel rather distant from the problems of the world, even though we do our fair share of trashing the planet. There are many ways that we can minimise global resource use, without compromising our high standard of living at all. We all have consumer power, for instance, and can choose to buy more ethically or sustainably produced goods.
'Ten Planet Saver Tips' is a new regular feature in Geomantica magazine, aiming to enlighten all planetary citizens on how to improve or make a lighter impact on our environment. Because without a reasonably intact environment - geomancy becomes somewhat irrelevant.
I have come up with the first ten tips (not in any particular order of importance). What about you, the reader, supplying the next ten? Contributors of the next best ten tips can win a DVD of their choice from Geomantica.
Okay here they go.
1. Switch off all electrical appliances that have a stand-by mode when not in use. (Stand-by uses lots of power.)
2. Have holidays close to home car and jet fuel create a hideous huge amount of greenhouse gases and pollution and we have not yet found a substitute for jet fuel.
3. Volunteer some help to organic farmers. Why not venture to sunny north Queensland this winter to help the many organic farms blasted by Cyclone Larry?
Cyclone Larry has devastated most of the organic farms in the far north of Queensland. All of these farms have lost their crops and had serious damage to infrastructure such as houses, sheds, water supplies etc. Many of the orchards have had trees ripped out of the ground or smashed and shredded.
The Organic Federation of Australia (OFA) is coordinating help. The crucial help is the need for volunteers to work on organic farms. These farmers need many people to help them clean up, repair the damage and replant.
If you are interested in working as a volunteer on a cyclone affected organic farm please contact OFA chair Andre Leu - chair@ofa.org.au
4. Don't buy products with palm oil. Help
to ease the destruction of lowland rainforests in Asia, West
Papua and beyond. Palm oil is the commonest oil in use world
wide. Not it's not coconut oil. It's from the oil palm
and huge swathes of lowland rainforest are being cleared at a
sickening rate to establish new plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia.
This oil is not healthy to consume, but worse - it is seen as
a saviour in these times of oil crisis as bio-diesel can be made
from it.
(If we all switched to bio-diesel there would be not be enough
land to cultivate it. Most production for bio-diesel is unsustainable,
including sugar cane - a major source of erosion, chemical pollution
etc.)
How do you know if you are eating palm oil? Well, er, you may
not, as it is only required to be listed under a general category
of 'vegetable oils' on products here in Oz. Be a sleuth and find
out. Lobby government to specify which oils are present, by tightening
up our labelling laws.
5. Grow/produce your own food wherever you can. It's fun, fresher and more sustainable, compared to commercial products that are shipped to and from markets and distributed by truck over vast distances.
6. Eat local produce, for similar reasons. Eating locally also means eating what's in season, and that's a healthy approach too, according to the principles of macrobiotics.
7. If weeds are a problem in your garden or farm, instead of herbicides, spray young weeds with a solution of 5-10% strength vinegar.
8. If you want to escape an unhealthy city lifestyle, don't have a 'seachange' our coastlines are under enough pressure! Go for a 'treechange' and buy some degraded land inland. You can plant out your Garden of Eden just how you like it (rater than buying, say, a piece of forest then having to cut down heaps of trees for the house site and then forever worry about the threat of bush fire).
9. If you want to plant a tree, go for a native species. If there are none to fill your requirements, only then choose an exotic. (This can apply to lawn grasses too.) This way you create wildlife habitat and foster biodiversity. Nature will love you for it!
10. Don't fret that you havent got the latest
in fashions/ accessories/ furnishings/whatever. Practise the
spiritual art of contentment and be happy with how things are.
As the song goes 'Don't worry be happy!!'
Thirty-six people attended the workshop, sixteen were members, and several of the others took out membership on the day. John Semple, our Treasurer was very busy at the start. There was a problem with the availability of the location for the workshop but, eventually, everyone found his or her way to the Youth Hostel. The workshop kicked off shortly after ten am.
Graham started by outlining the three requirements
of participants in order to get the best out of the session:
1. Focus: The realization that it was a journey to bring the
energies into focus or to learn to give them full attention by
mind, body and all six senses. We the discussed the sixth sense
using examples of telepathy, premonition, déjà
vu etc. Focus is what we use to create our own reality of life.
It is like a V8 engine running inside a Mini Minor.
2. Openness: Open heart and mindedness; being comfortable with
weirdness. You don't have to believe every word but use it as
a spring board.
3. Imagination: Examples used were the ability to create, visualize,
be flexible, open to suggestion, daydream, imagination's unlimited
capacity and strong anticipation. Graham used a grisly but true
example of a deathrow inmate of a prison who took part in an
experiment to prove the power of the imagination. Due to clever
suggestion the prisoner actually died of fear in the belief that
he was being executed.
In 1920 Werner Heisenberg proved that because nothing is solid there is no such thing as a perfect experiment. It is all an illusion. The tremendous speed of rotating particles in a atom, which is in turn rotating at an even greater speed means that everything appears solid to us in our usual reality.
We were asked to build a fire, which got us all working communally, gathering fuel, getting it alight and nursing the flame. It was a good fire.
Graham then got us to divide into working groups to create our ideas of how Aborigines interact with the environment. Three patterns were created on the ground around the fire-pit using sand drawings, sticks, stones Marri nuts and fresh vegetation to symbolically depict the ideas. Then the energies were described in sound using a drum, rattles, tapping sticks, clapping hands and humming. The fourth group very effectively enacted their ideas on being one's own true self.
As the symbols on the ground were interpreted
by their creators, Graham realized that we had unconsciously
created a mirror image of the inter-dimensional world of the
fourteen dialect speaking Nunga tribes. Their territory extends
west and south from Geraldton through the Goldfields to Albany.
The totems of the various clans all originate
from the Porongerups (Totem Hills) in the far south of the State.
The head of the great giant who was eating their children and
whom they chased and harried until they eventually killed and
dismembered him is buried in Katanning (Head Burial Place).
The whole area abounded in 'Increase Areas'
where the particular elders of the tribes ensured the numbers
of the various species. Each area was specific to a particular
creature and each creature type had its own Aboriginal Elder
dedicated to it alone.
Graham described the dreaming of the Helena River and its catchment area in this way: Two pregnant ladies were travelling down river when it flooded and they had to use Balgas (Grass trees) to keep afloat. Each time they managed to land they gave birth to the features of the landscape. They ended their journey about ten kilometres upstream of the present Mundaring Dam Wall. When the Dam was built, it flooded their resting place but they took their energies to above the water line.
Damming the Helena River and blasting the bar across the present harbour drastically changed the nature of the life force of the waters of the Helena and Swan rivers by allowing the seawater to get far upstream. This has affected both catchment areas. Consequently, the Aborigines are not surprised that C.Y. O'Connor* committed suicide in the sea. They could well have 'sung' him. Nor are the Aborigines surprised that we now have such problems affecting the river systems.
Graham then discussed 'Men's business;' how boys were 'de-conditioned' and taught to be men. This entailed becoming responsible for maintaining the natural resources of the place and learning to appreciate the interrelatedness of all things. To think not 'What is in this for me?' but 'How can I serve?' This teaching took place on the high points of the landscape, among pointed rocks.
'Women's business' was conducted in womblike areas such as depressions, gullies and caves. This business concerned the propagation of species.
After lunch we w set forth to find out more about the energies of Granite rocks. The hillside was pretty steep and very beautiful, full of vibrant bush plants, Marri and Jarrah trees. We reached a group of imposing rocks overlooking a valley leading down to the Weir. We could glimpse the water through the treetops. Some of the older members of the group had some difficulty with the climb but we all got there eventually and it was worth it.
Graham instructed us to close our eyes and,
at first, to just listen to the sound of our own breathing. Then
to listen to whatever else we could hear: the various levels
of the light wind; insects; many different bird calls; trucks
on the road below; the occasional human voice etc. We noted how
peaceful we all were. Graham explained that that was because
we were al sitting on Granite rocks. Being part of the bedrock
of the planet, leading to its fiery core, it had the effect of
really grounding us.
According to the Aborigines, Caucasians think in triangles, all
pointed and geared towards separation. Whereas, the Aborigines
see that all things form a lattice of interconnectedness. If
one element tries to pull out, then everything else is affected.
This is a part of the teaching of the Men's Business, which is
still conducted on these rocks and also a little higher up around
a natural chair of rock.
The women conduct their business in a cave situated under one of the rocks, slightly to the right of where we were sitting. Jennifer kindly conducted the ladies of the group to this spot while Graham took the men downhill to a track to wait for us. The ladies entered, singly, into the cave which was quite small, curving back and then forwards to another opening, blocked by a boulder. The atmosphere was very feminine, holy, simple and nurturing. This took a while as there were a lot of us.
We joined the men on the track below where Graham helped us to explore the capacities of the Zamia Palm (Yin/Yang balancing) and the Balga or Grass-tree (Creative Warrior) to dissipate and heal emotional upsets and trauma. Some interesting tales emerged and generated a discussion as to the worrying emotional and spiritual state of young people in this time. Graham remarked that several thousand students have undertaken his courses and, according to the teachers at school, all have shown a marked improvement in their behaviour and attitude to themselves, their fellow humans and the environment. The Aboriginal people are reclaiming their responsibility for looking after the land and the Government is starting to help. Graham is optimistic about the future of both the land and the young ones.
We thanked Graham for helping us to understand and interact with the energies of the land and for his honest sharing of his spiritual beliefs and empathy with the beliefs of the Nunga people. The workshop confirmed much of what the Natural Resonance Study Group has been working towards, lending us a deeper perspective and a clearer vision of our goals.
Thankyou again Graham.
* I don't know a lot about C Y
O'Connor. However, he masterminded the Goldfields Water Supply
in the early 1900s. This entailed damming the Helena River to
create the Mundaring Dam, the first of the big dams in the Darling
Ranges. The water was pumped in wooden pipes to Kalgoorlie for
the goldminers (the pipes are now much bigger steel ones because
the wooden ones eventually rotted away. I saw the old pipes lying
beside the new one when my late husband and I drove across from
NSW in 1960. It was a massive undertaking. They were made the
same way as coopers make wine barrels and it is a long way from
Mundaring to Kalgoorlie!) I suppose it was previous to that that
C Y O'Connor managed to blast the bar across the mouth of the
Swan River in order to create what is now the Fremantle Harbour.
Back to the Goldfields Water Supply: C Y O'Connor's calculations
were out on how long it would take the water to reach Kalgoorlie.
When it was a week overdue, he rode his horse into the sea at
Fremantle and shot himself. The water arrived in Kalgoorlie the
following day.
There have been three books written about C Y O'Connor. He is
one of WA's historical icons.
Sue Bussell
Between Environmental Sensitivity and Anomalous Perceptions
by Michael Jawer, USA
People with a 'sensitive' personality type
are far more likely to report apparitional
experience, according to a paper in the current issue of the
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. Such persons
commonly report longstanding allergies, chronic pain and fatigue,
depression, migraine headaches, or sensitivity to light, sound,
and
smell. These individuals are also more likely to report that
immediate family members suffered from the same conditions. The
survey raises the question of whether a 'neurobiology of
sensitivity' could underlie reports of apparitional experience
occurring across societies and throughout history.
Sixty-two self-described 'sensitives' participated
in the study,
along with 50 individuals serving as controls who did not profess
any outstanding forms of sensitivity. Persons in the former
group were 3.5 times as likely, on average, to assert that they'd
had an apparitional experience (defined as perceiving something
that could not be verified as being physically present through
normal means). Sensitive persons were also 2.5 times as likely
to
indicate that an immediate family member was affected by similar
physical, mental or emotional conditions.
Overall, 8 of the 54 factors asked about in
the survey were found
to be significant in the makeup of a sensitive personality:
+ Being female
+ Being a first-born or only child
+ Being single
+ Being ambidextrous
+ Appraising oneself as imaginative
+ Appraising oneself as introverted
+ Recalling a plainly traumatic event (or events) in childhood
+ Maintaining that one affects - or is affected by lights, computers,
and other electrical appliances in an unusual way.
Additionally, synesthesia - the scientifically
recognized condition of overlapping senses, such as hearing colors
or tasting shapes
was reported by approximately 10% of the sensitive group but
not at all among controls. This finding gives added weight to
the
possibility that apparitional perceptions stem from an underlying
neurobiology of sensitivity.
The survey findings indicate that a person's
neurobiology could be
shaped as easily by nurture as by nature. Recall of a traumatic
event in childhood, for example, was indicated by a majority
of
sensitives (55%), as contrasted with controls (18%). Furthermore,
a
startling 14% of sensitives reported having been struck by
lightning or suffering an electrical shock, whereas none of the
control group checked this item.
It seems quite possible, writes study author
Michael Jawer, that
certain individuals are, from birth onward, disposed to a number
of
conditions, illnesses, and perceptions that, in novelty as well
as
intensity, distinguish them from the general population. If so,
apparitional experience might have a bona fide neurobiological
basis that makes it accessible to scientific inquiry.
The paper is posted online at http://cogprints.org/4846/.
The Society for Psychical Research, founded
in 1882 by a distinguished
group of Cambridge University scholars, is the foremost British
organization for the scientific study of anomalous
perceptions. Its website is http://www.spr.ac.uk/.
# # #
Michael Jawer directs the Emotion Gateway
Research Center, based in Northern Virginia. The Center is an
independent organization that investigates the neurobiological
basis of personality. Details:
emotionalgateway@hotmail.com.
Vienna, Virginia, USA, April 2006
by Miroslav Provod sen. + jun.
I was surprised when I received one of the final answers from the known physicist who alerted me that the energetic raster that I'm describing on my website in the graph no. 6 looks similar to the ether that was reprobated by Einstein. I had never thought like that because Albert Einstein laid ether definitively down from physics. The hypothesis that brings back the thought about the existence of ether, is indirectly confirmed also by the very difficult to explain fact that the radio transmission on the Earth is worse during the in-line position of two or more planets in our solar system, including our planet - the Earth.
We can easily imagine how great the decrease of intersections of spherical rasters of planetary zones and interzones is during this "planetary eclipsed" situation when the planets are located on one line. We can also imagine the decrease of these virtual paths for the radiosignal on the earth. If we totally accept Einstein's hypothesis that is describing the magnetic fields, we can't explain this "radio effect" in full detail. These and many other facts bring up a thought if Einstein could have somehow been wrong with saying that ether doesn't exist and if there could be something we can't register in space, which doesn't interact with gravity and what we can't sense. Because of that we rather say it doesn't exist. But we really have some indices that suppoert the existence of "it".
There are similar thoughts found by the learning of the antic scholars, some of which haven't been explained yet. 2500 years ago there was a Greek philosopher and grounder of the atomic theory of nature, Demokritos, who said that matter consists of an unlimited amount of different undivisible and unvisible small particles (atoms), which are moving in empty space. This Demokrites' thought about matter, to which nobody paid much attention in the antics, wasn's confirmed until our atomic physics.
About 20 years after Demokritos, a Greek biologist, philosopher, doctor and politician Empedokles, grounded the theory about four ever lasting elements (fire, water, air and ground), and that all things are creating by mixing these 4 elements. Later, Aristoteles added a fifth element to these four - ether. Ether was supposed to be some type of a sea of a very soft nature, in which stars could move without any resistance. Nobody knew how this medium looks like and also, nobody proved it's existence experimentally. Ether was thought to be unimpugnable reality until the first half of the 20.th century, when Einstein in connection with his research declared the word ether dead.
I started to understand the elements of the antic scholars, when I connected them to the experiments. Fire, water air and ground are important natural sources of cosmic energy, the omnipresent ether looks like a conductor of cosmic energy. However, the four antic elements had the same destiny as Demokrites' thiught about matter - in the following history they stayed unnoticed. The presumption that antic scholars used kosmic energy and concentrated it, is confirmed by many architektonic elements.
The existence of some energetic raster in space is also confirmed by the fact, which was documented by optical satellites, that discharges from thunderstorm clouds of potential 100 000 000 volts, don't occur only between the clouds or between clouds and the ground, but also between the clouds and the other side, which means they are directed somewhere into obscurity, from the Earth. How and where does this enormous energy go? The cause and principal of this phenomenon hasn't been explained yet. Similar physical vacuum is related to the origin of enormous energy in the form of up to 1000 times greater energetic discharges of lightning on Saturn, which were documented by the Cassini probe.
The yet unexplained phenomena of natural character shows us, that we shouldn't unambiguosly deny the existence of ether. What is the origin of the conductivity of energetic raster? We don't know the cause of the condictivity, but we demonstrate it's existence in many cases. There seems to be a connection between ether and energetic raster, that it's just one phenomenon that is designated by two names.
Miroslav Provod sen. + jun.
March 2006
centrum11@volny.cz or centrum11@quick.cz
www.miroslavprovod.com
does not stop from the very start of the existence of Universe.
S.E. who informed us
and then weathered and evolved under the influence of the
that the evolution under that
respectively.
"Part three of Alanna Moore's Geomancy Today film series is Discovering Devas. The word Deva comes from a Sanskrit term meaning shining ones, and in broad terms, Devas are thought of as nature spirits. This film is an introduction to the realms of these ethereal beings, and it looks at deity too.
In India, Devas are thought of as gods, but in the West, we tend to regard them as elemental beings - guardians of the land. This film includes a section on finding Devas in the city environment. An evaluation of Canberra's Parliament House brings the pronouncement that it is "full of them!" And we're told that an entity that looks like an octopus, but which "may well have come from another planet", hangs around the corridors of the House of Representatives. Has H.P. Lovecraft's dreaded Cthulhu emerged at last?
If those sorts of new-age 'visions' are not your cup of herbal tea though, don't despair, as most of this film is devoted to an exploration of the gods and goddesses of ancient Europe. Time is also given to a description of the Green Man, and plenty of his images (built into various forms of architecture) are shown including one in Dunedin in New Zealand. Lovely representations of the Green Lady are also very welcome features on this film. This part of the DVD was filmed in England, NZ, Ireland and Australia (with scenes from Adelaide) and it runs for 34 minutes.
The next part of the DVD dives into The Sacred World of Water. In part 4 of the series, Alanna looks at the characteristics of water, and the ways in which people are still honouring its sacredness. In many ancient creation myths, the gods emerged from the waters to create life, so it's not too surprising that water is seen as an important link to spiritual purification. Sacred wells from around the world are shown, and their properties are explained. The connection between water and the Aboriginal Dreamtime is also explored. The running time for this part of the DVD is 38 minutes.
As a whole, the film series focuses on geomancy (Earth energies) from the perspective of clairvoyants and energy dowsers. This DVD will be of interest to those who like to investigate the spiritual planes of the New-Agers, and it will be enjoyed by pagans who want to experience a visual journey through the history and development of the gods and goddesses. You'll also enjoy the views of various sacred sites from around the world."
Produced by Alanna Moore
Reviewed by Domhnall
Available on DVD or VHS through www.geomantica.com
or write to Geomantica, P.O. Box 929, Castlemaine, Vic, 3450
Cost: $20 for DVD, $25 VHS (postage included)
By Alanna Moore, www.geomantica.com
Film 'Discovering the Devas'
"This is worth buying to see the clairvoyant pictures of the entities living in Australia's Parliament House.
A being with tentacles, very Lovecraftian I thought.This part was a bit spooky.
This DVD is almost a Ritual, it has lovely sounds and pictures, Alanna narrates her material and has put a lot of time and effort into this production. Fine shots from around the world , of powerful nature spots, animals ( and their sacred aspects) and the green man, shots of this figure from all over the world.
Alanna has been to Dunedin NZ a few times now. I was lucky to get to go to one of the workshops. Later I asked her to come to talk at the local Theosophical Society, and we had a workshop on Deva Dowsing.
I think Israel Regardie, promoted Dowsing as a way to get in contact with spiritual forces. As usual I do not have a quote available. It does seem though that this sort of thing is much easier with an experienced person there. In the workshops there were pendulums which would not move. Until Alanna put her hand on the persons shoulder, then they had the ability it seemed.
If you are interested in Earth Healing, Geopathic Stress, Devas of the Home and Land, and all that stuff, then I recommend this material."
David Baird
reviewed by Junitta Vallak.
The notion that the Earth is alive has a long history but it was scientist James Lovelock who, in 1972, brought this together into the Gaia hypothesis. At aged 86, after a lifetime engaged in the science of the Earth his latest book 'The Revenge of Gaia' is his testament. The following are some quotes from the book.
'Gaia, the living Earth, is old and not as
strong as she was 2 billion years ago. She struggles to keep
the Earth cool enough for her myriad forms of life against the
ineluctable increase of the Sun's heat. But to add to her difficulties,
one of those forms of life, humans, disputatious tribal animals
with dreams of conquest even of other planets, has tried to rule
the Earth for their own benefit alone....'
'The time has come when all of us must plan a retreat from the unsustainable place we have now reached through the inappropriate use of technology; far better to withdraw now when we still have the energy and the time. Like Napoleon in Moscow we have too many mouths to feed and resources that diminish daily while we make up our minds.'
Lovelock argues that 'not only is mankind on the brink of destroying itself and the Earth, but most of the alternative remedies that have been proposed, or are already being adopted, are also misguided. We must take drastic action now to safeguard the future of human life. Gaia, the living and self-regulating Earth, will look after itself as always. It is hubris of us to think otherwise.'
As you will have gathered by now, I was most impressed with this book, it is one worth reading and don't forget to keep your 'Sense of Humus'.
The Publisher is Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, year of publishing is 2006, the price is $29.95 and it's widely available
Reviewed by Junitta Vallak
Oracle Press, p/b, 135, 135pp.
This book is an initiation. It imparts extraordinary truths, not as teaching but as elements of the story, a gripping adventure that weaves through physical, emotional and many levels of subtle reality. The extraordinary lies just beneath a matter-of-fact surface; give yourself time to pause frequently and reflect on the implications of what you have read.
Anne is a healer, of living creatures and living landscapes,
and a person of such humility, emotional clarity and physical
courage that she has been entrusted with the momentous task of
uniting in peace the Aboriginal, Maori and Celtic races. Born
physically in Scotland, into the bloodline of the Stewarts, she
moved to Australia as an adult and had 20 'normal' years to ground
herself deeply into the land before her journey, which is still
unfinished, began to unfold.
Directions come from Higher Beings, Ascended Masters and Pleiadians
from her spirit home. Liaison officers are eagles and sometimes
other creatures, who deliver their messages telepathically. They
send her on daunting missions in perilous landscapes, sometimes
with hostile companions; she is always listening for their subtle
signs conveyed through the many media of nature. Whatever the
task, she goes without question, finding meaning and sacredness
in the hardship: "they wanted us to understand how it felt
for them" (aboriginals fleeing for their lives from whites).
Bites from spiders, snakes and lizards she receives as "initiations";
one of them takes her briefly to the Other Side. On the verge
of death, she could still regard the spider with love and appreciate
its message to her.
This is an aspect of her extraordinary gift (typically underplayed
in the book but breathtaking to those who know her) to heal negative
energies. She can do this because there is no judgement, only
an understanding of the dynamics of suffering and a profound
love for all life. The book is full of reverence: for the beauty
and power of nature, for the purity and humanity of aboriginal
people, for the joy of being alive in a land where spirit is
present everywhere. The land, like the book, holds secrets that
are not immediately apparent connected to the dreaming of the
Aboriginal people, a regenerative force which is helping to bring
the entire planet to a new birth.
This is a powerful message of hope in a world which at the 'normal'
level seems to have lost all sanity; it reassures us that the
most terrible hurts can be healed, the grossest inhumanity forgiven,
and above all, that the subtle world is helping us all the way
to restore the glories of our suffering planet. There is an overriding
sense of movement, of things changing and transforming constantly
at a dizzying pace.
Her final task, just beginning at the end of the book, is to activate the sacred birthing pool of Umutja in the centre of Australia to bring it into alignment with the new energies now coming into force. This remote and rocky waterland is a key place of healing and empowerment for women, holding the Law of the Dreamtime manifest in its stories and ceremonies. Water, in its association with menstruation and amniotic fluid, is the female element and in this ancient sacred landscape is encoded with female consciousness and wisdom. At Umutja the spirit children wait to connect with the female pilgrims whose wombs will carry them into the world. It is the setting for the epic healing journeys that will be undertaken over the next few years by women from indigenous tribes all over the world bringing their support to the Maoris, Aboriginals and Celts.
There are no pretensions in this book, no claim of mysteries,
revelations, teachings or powers, just the simplest possible
account of what actually happened. It is therefore deceptively
short. Re-read it many times: it has the power to turn the keys
in hidden locks and open unsuspected doors for long-lost connections
to be restored...
Review by Grethe Hooper Hansen, Bath, UK.
This book is available from the author for $20 posted. (Later in the year it is being published in Germany.)
To order a copy, email author Anne Stewart Saunders at
geomythical@yahoo.com.au
Anne had the following to add about the women's ceremonies she is organising this winter in central Australia.
"The ceremonies are quite remarkable
on many levels - so much so I don't quite know how to describe
them. For some it is quite a challenge to be there and for many
others participation in the ceremonies has changed their lives
in a major way."
"The next ceremonies at Yulara ( 2-8 September) will be
the last before we go to Umutja next April for the first time
with a group. It has been a very long consultation process with
all the Traditional Owners to get to this point. Umutja is a
wonderful place with 50 sacred women's sites and has been very
protected, so it is quite a step forward that all have agreed."