Namaste

In a well-known episode it so transpired that the great lover god Krishna made away with the clothes of unmarried maidens, fourteen to seventeen years of age, bathing in the river Yamuna.

 Their fervent entreaties to him proved of no avail. It was only after they performed before him the eternal gesture of namaste was he satisfied, and agreed to hand back their garments so that they could recover their modesty.

The gesture (or mudra) of namaste is a simple act made by bringing together both palms of the hands before the heart, and lightly bowing the head. In the simplest of terms it is accepted as a humble greeting straight from the heart and reciprocated accordingly.

Namaste is a composite of the two Sanskrit words, nama, and te. Te means you, and nama has the following connotations:

• To bend
• To bow
• To sink
• To incline
• To stoop

All these suggestions point to a sense of submitting oneself to another, with complete humility. Significantly the word 'nama' has parallels in other ancient languages also. It is cognate with the Greek nemo, nemos and nosmos; to the Latin nemus, the Old Saxon niman, and the German neman and nehman. All these expressions have the general sense of obeisance, homage and veneration. Also important here is to note that the root 'nama' is a neuter one, the significance of which will be elaborated upon later.

The word nama is split into two, na and ma. Na signifies negation and ma represents mine. The meaning would then be 'not mine'. The import being that the individual soul belongs entirely to the Supreme soul, which is identified as residing in the individual towards whom the namaste is directed. Indeed there is nothing that the soul can claim as its own. Namaste is thus the necessary rejection of 'I' and the associated phenomena of egotism. It is said that 'ma' in nama means death (spiritual), and when this is negated (na-ma), it signifies immortality.

The whole action of namaste unfolds itself at three levels: mental, physical, and verbal.

It starts with a mental submission. This submission is in the spirit of total surrender of the self. This is parallel to the devotion one expresses before a chosen deity, also known as bhakti. The devotee who thus venerates with complete self-surrender is believed to partake the merits or qualities of the person or deity before whom he performs this submission. There is a prescription in the ancient texts known as Agamas that the worshipper of a deity must first become divine himself, for otherwise worship as a transaction would become invalid. A transaction can only be between equals, between individuals who share some details in common. Hence by performing namaste before an individual we recognize the divine spark in him. Further by facilitating our partaking of these divine qualities, namaste makes us aware of these very characteristics residing within our own selves. Simply put, namaste intimates the following:

'The God in me greets the God in you
The Spirit in me meets the same Spirit in you'

In other words, it recognizes the equality of all, and pays honor to the sacredness of all.

Translated into a bodily act, namaste is deeply rich in symbolism. Firstly the proper performance of namaste requires that we blend the five fingers of the left hand exactly with the fingers of the right hand. The significance behind this simple act in fact governs the entire gamut of our active life.
 The five fingers of the left hand represent the five senses of karma, and those of the right hand the five organs of knowledge. Hence it signifies that our karma or action must be in harmony, and governed by rightful knowledge, prompting us to think and act correctly.

By combining the five fingers of each hand, a total of ten is achieved.  The number ten is a symbol of perfection, and the mystical number of completion and unity. It is true for all ancient traditions. Ten is the number of the Commandments revealed to Moses by God. In the Pythagorean system, ten was a symbol of the whole of creation. Ancient Chinese  thought of ten as the perfectly balanced number.

Another significant identification of namaste is with the institution of marriage, which represents a new beginning, and the conjoining of the male and female elements in nature.
Marriage is a semi-divine state of wholeness - a union between the opposite principles of male and female necessary to procreate and protect new life. The idea of human divine association was often expressed in terms of marriage, as in the description of nuns as "brides of Christ". Thus in the exhaustive marriage rituals of India, after the elaborate ceremonies have been completed, the new husband and wife team perform namaste to each other. Wedding customs, full of symbolic meanings, attempt to ensure that marriages are binding, hence fruitful and happy.  Namaste is one such binding symbolic ritual. The reconciliation, interaction and union of opposites is amply reflected in this spiritual gesture. It is hoped that the husband and wife team too would remain united, as are the hands joined in namaste. By physically bringing together the two hands, namaste is metaphorically reconciling the duality inherent in nature and of which the marriage of two humans is an earthly manifestation, a harmonious resolution of conflicting tensions. Thus namaste, which symbolizes the secret of this unity, holds the key to maintaining the equilibrium of life and entering the area where health, harmony, peace and happiness are available in plenty.

In this context, namaste is equated with the image of Ardhanarishvara, the hermaphrodite form symbolizing the marriage of Shiva and Parvati, or the coming together of the parents of the universe, for the purpose of creation. In this form Shiva has his beloved spouse engrafted in his body. It is conjectured that by wresting from her husband one half of his body as her own, and herself commingling in his physical frame, Parvati has obtained an ideal, archetypal union with her husband. Indeed which couple could be more devoted than the one which finds completion only by merging into each other? By merging her creative aspect with him, Parvati balances Shiva's destructive urge. Similarly when Ardhanarishvara dances, the dance step is itself believed to be a combination of two principal and antagonistic styles of dance. 'Tandava', the fierce, violent dance, fired by an explosive, sweeping energy, is a delirious outburst, precipitating havoc. On the other hand is 'lasya', the gentle, lyrical dance, full of sweetness, and representing the emotions of tenderness and love. It is in the lasya of the goddess that death is annihilated and turned into transformation and rejuvenation, rebirth and creation. The image of Ardhanarishvara is thus the perfect master of the two contrary elements in the manifested universe. Such an ideal, perfect marriage is the message of namaste. Thus is 'nama', the root of namaste, of neuter gender, as is Ardhanarishvara, the androgyne.

Namaste recognizes the duality that has ever existed in this world and suggests an effort on our part to bring these two forces together, ultimately leading to a higher unity and non-dual state of Oneness. Some of these dual elements which the gesture of namaste marries together and unifies as one are:

• God and Goddess
• Priest and Priestess
• King and Queen
• Man and Woman
• Heaven and Earth
• Sun and Moon
• Solar bull and Lunar cow
• Sulfur and Quicksilver (Alchemy)
• Theory and Practice
• Wisdom and Method
• Pleasure and Pain
• Astral body (consciousness) and Etheric body (sensation)
• Mind and body
• Pneuma (spirit) and Psyche (mind)
• Hun (spiritual soul) and p'o (material soul) (Chinese)
• Conscious and Unconscious
• Animus (unconscious male element in woman) and Anima (unconscious female element in man) (Jung)
• Objectivity and Subjectivity
• Extraversion and Introversion
• Intellect and Instinct
• Reason and Emotion
• Thought and Feeling
• Inference and Intuition
• Argument and Experience
• Talent and Genius
• Silence and Cacophony
• Word and Meaning
• Schizophrenia and Epilepsy
• Depression and Mania
• Sexuality and Anxiety
• Katabolism (breaking up) and Anabolism (building up)
• Ontogeny (individual evolution) and Phylogeny (race evolution)
• Right side of body (warm) and Left side (cool)
• Front side of body (positive) and Rear side of body (negative)
• Brain and Heart
• Sahasara Chakra and Kundalini
• Insulin and Adrenalin
• Pingala (yellow solar channel in body) and Ida (white lunar channel)
• Hot breath and Cold breath (Yoga)
• Exhalation and Inhalation (Yoga)
• Linga and Yoni

There is indeed no sphere of our existence untouched by the symbolic significance of namaste.

Finally, the gesture of namaste is unique also in the sense that its physical performance is accompanied by a verbal utterance of the word "namaste." This practice is equivalent to the chanting of a mantra. The sonority of the sacred sound 'namaste' is believed to have a quasi-magical value, corresponding to a creative energy change. This transformation is that of aligning oneself in harmony with the vibration of the cosmos itself.
At its most general namaste is a social transaction. It is usual for individuals to greet when they meet each other. It is not only a sign of recognition but also an expression of happiness at each other's sight. This initial conviviality sets the positive tone for the further development of a harmonious relationship.  Namaste as a greeting thus is a mosaic of movements and words constituting an intimation of affirmative thoughts and sentiments. In human society it is an approach mechanism, brimming with social, emotional and spiritual significance. In fact it is said that in namaste the hands are put together like a knife so that people may cut through all differences that may exist, and immediately get to the shared ground that is common to all peoples of all cultures.

In this context, a comparison with the widely prevalent 'handshake' is inevitable. Though shaking hands is an extremely intimate gesture, namaste scores over it in some ways. Primarily is the one that namaste is a great equalizer. You do namaste with God (and not shake hands!). A king or president cannot shake hands with the large multitude they are addressing. But namaste serves the purpose. It is the same gesture one would have exchanged with a king when with him alone. So no incongruity arises. In the absence of namaste, those facing a large audience will have to make do with a wave of the hands, a much less congenial greeting, and indeed which does not state the essential equality of all people, but highlights the difference even more. But on a parallel level it has been conjectured that both the namaste and the handshake developed out of a desire on the part of both the parties to show themselves to be unarmed and devoid of malicious intention. The outstretched hand, and the palms joined together, both establish the proponents as disarmed and show that they come in peace.

Conclusion

As much as yoga is an exercise to bring all levels of our existence, including the physical and intellectual, in complete harmony with the rhythms of nature, the gesture of namaste is an yoga in itself. Thus it is not surprising that any yogic activity begins with the performance of this deeply spiritual gesture. The Buddhists went further and gave it the status of a mudra, that is, a gesture displayed by deities, where it was known as the Anjali mudra. The word Anjali itself is derived from the root Anj, meaning "to adorn, honor, celebrate or anoint."

According to Indologist Renov "Meditation depends upon the relationship between the hands (mudras), the mouth (mantras) and the mind (yoga)". The performance of namaste is comprised of all these three activities. Thus namaste is in essence equivalent to meditation, which is the language of our spirit in conversation with god, and the perfect vehicle for bathing us in the rivers of divine pleasure.

Namaste website

Image by Mezza - Red Dirt Circle at ULURU

The butterfly is a flying flower... ~Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

Hello on Day one away from home

Today is the day we depart on our journey to the Rock!  My mind has been buzzing on this day coming around  for over three months now!  It is the 5th of May and this is it.    The entire unfolding of the trip has been perfectly timed for the three of us leaving our tiny Urunga to go to the place that hums and the place where the electromagnetic frequencies are tuned to the same frequencies my body channel searches for. 

Some of you will read this and you will immediately know what I mean.  Others may read this a scratch their heads and toss it out with the bath water so to speak.  These ones are not from the same place.  It is as if they are from a different planet.

Yes the airport is a huge place but I have a better understanding of how it all runs now these days.  It was obviously too hard to take to much notice while chasing children and being pregnant.  This time it was a very pleasant experience.  We caught a taxi to the motel.  The Airport International Inn.

Image by Mezza - Sydney Airport

The Power of the World always works in circles

 

Have you noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round..... The Sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as   ours... Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

~Black Elk, Oglala 

This cycle of living is something I know very well as I was forced by circumstance to follow my very own cycle so closely for a number of years and resorting to all sorts of magical and mystical things to try and right my energy balance with the world.  Funny all it took was to get madly pissed.  Something I had  purposefully stayed away from to help my chances of falling pregnant.  When I finished up with the IVF Program I went out and finally I got wasted and then I got pregnant.  Phenomenal. I actually went round in a complete circle and experienced the full gamut of it all from start to finish and finally I fell naturally and I delivered naturally as well.

Image by Mezza- A Majestic Dawn in Urunga

ONE More Sleep to go!

I remember when it was fifty sleeps,  I think I have hardly slept since then.  Every day I think about going to this place where I am going and everyday I think wow I always wanted to see this so bad.  Finally I am going to Uluru. Finally the place where all the dreaming tracks lead to.  The very special special place that was called Eyres Rock forever in my childhood.  Some say its hard to call something another name. I think that is pussy,  I know!  I had another name and I had to get used to this!  I am so glad I changed my name to my name my mother gave me!

I look at myself and think I hit that myth fair in the face changing my name from Cindy to Mary-Ellen .. which is my correct name.  I changed it back because I woke up in a cold sweat saying help me, I am not vibrating to my correct number and I must change this now.  I was 25 years old when this happened.  So I have been called Cindy for 25 years and Mary-Ellen for 28 years.. 

I am Mary-Ellen Peters, youngest daughter of William Henry Peters and Ellen Katherine Peters (nee Baguley) of Warwick.  Well that is how the birth notice might have read if there wasn't so much going on at the time.  For instance my father being in hospital and being told that he will never ever walk again.  I guess he didn't handle the challenge very well did he?  They broke up and he was a hard hard man!  Everyone who I have ever known said that he was a hard man.

Personally, I don't know.   I really never got to know him at all.  I never lived with him.  I can't  remember ever kissing him or being kissed by him which in itself is sad.  I remember kissing my mummy, but only in later life and as a child I got my mummy's love for four months before she had to go.  That was a special four months.  I must have loved her, I would not sleep and they said horrible things about this.  My poor mummy, if only I had known the truth!  I am so so sad about this and such a lifetime of waste.

Abandoned by both my parents is a hard and bitter pill to swallow no matter which way you look at it or who you are reading this.  I know it was never meant to be like this.  I know my mother didn't want to do this.  I know that she thought it would be ok in the end.  I know she loved me though.  I know because she gave me her mothers name and also her own name.  I feel special!  

I should have called  Montana  this name instead ...Ellen Mary-Ellen.  If I was to follow this tradition it would be that, and that is funny.  So perhaps she will call one of her daughter's Mary and one Ellen in their middle names, or their first.  That would be the pinnacle wouldn't it?  To have someone named after you.  No one would name anything after me and so this is just a fanciful dream. 

Cosmic Party 2012

On the Hill we are feeling star struck.  Our bodies are our space suits if you like to think of it in this way.  Personally,  I would love an updated space suit  because this one has a few cracks and tears.   This happened when I forgot who I was and I acted as If I were a rock.  Hard and metamorphic and unforgiving.  I am outta the rock phase now and into the skip of the hip hop and loving life again with its emotions

If you have an understanding of what I am conveying here you will know that as you awaken and you will realize  that your true family isn't those of your own race, religion, culture, county, or even your biological family.  Your true family is your cosmic family.   Those who have come as you have come, on assignment to assist in ways large and small in the current transition occurring here on this planet.  Souls who have been close to us here are now leaving at a rapid rate. It has begun.

While I have been here inhabiting planet Earth I wanted to experience self sufficiency since the very beginning.  I have yet to do this fully.   I guess I didn't chose well to put myself through that test.  I know that I love camping so I may pass but it will be an only just pass.  I have one thing going for me and that is my heart.  It wells with the emotions of  love and creativity and the wonder of the miracle of life itself.

I am a true Star Seed.  I came here to experience life on a level that at times  even I can only wonder why.  I came with the full ferocity of a fire exploding into a brilliant flame.  The flame got very low at various times and was almost extinguished on occasions. 

I put myself here to experience this.  I had then to experience the fear that came with protecting my space suit while I was here.  Everyone is obsessed pretty well in certain parts of the world.  I was in one of those areas, I chose to not deface my suit by shaving it.  My suit hated being shaved.  I never pulled at it and yanked hairs out in my earlier time, waiting until a certain maturity was reached before participating in that one.

My space suit is my body and my skin.  It protects me from the environmental changes going on around me and at times I have meltdowns and freeze ups and I think this is similar to our awesome sun and the CME's it emits.  I feel like the sun appears and all I can say to describe this is; Stuff is coming out of me.  and all of  the plasma in my body is swaying and moving and emotionally I am directly affected.

I have blue eyes and blonde hair.  My blonde hair is a dead give away to my true star lineage.  A Pleiadian light worker,   One of the blondes and subject to the phenomena of the "The Blondening" as apposed to the "Quickening" .  I am being slightly in jest here and the reason why they joke about us is because we are suckers for love.  We are gullible and  tend to think everyone here on this plane just vibrates on love but they don't!  You know that you have seen blonde aboriginals and they say the original aboriginal person did have blonde hair and blue eyes.  We are from the same place

It has been said of my hair that it feels out of this world.  I sound rather self obsessed but I have to say that it does feel pretty special.  I have been clinging to a few hairs since my birth.  Never ever going to sleep with out a few hairs clasped expertly in my fingers and the feeling is unimaginable and divine.  I find this hard to explain as it is more than just playing with my hair.  I set my self a challenge once and that was to see how I felt with out this hair and so I shaved it all off bald.  I was fine but my children suffered badly and were ever so embarrassed and to this day I still cannot work out why.

I am now an usher.  When you go to the movies and you are late, the usher shows you the way in with a torch and seats you in a place and does this in a manner as to not upset the other participators who are watching the movie.  Here on Earth I am an usher in training. I have a massive torch and it is my heart.    I still experience great turmoil about not being listened to and my throat Chakra  which is the colour blue  is a little blocked.  I want to get it spinning. I want to rectify the energies here
Psycho-spiritually speaking.   Blue relates to self expression.   For a long time this has been an issue.


Speech, communication, and the ability to communicate our needs and requirements,  is our Spirit of truth and purpose.  When this chakra is balanced the positive aspects of this colour will prevail. However, an imbalance here can produce the negative aspects of this colour and a display of disloyalty, unfaithfulness, self righteousness and a coldness of heart will surface.  When back in balance I will be extremely loyal and very trustworthy, tactful and calm.  This is the perfect state for this Chakra.  This is what we try to achieve here on earth.

I see all of these wheels as cogs, always have.  My personal cognizants and I  must see the cogs turning beautifully and smoothly. With not much knowledge of the chakra system  I still managed to see  these wheels inside of myself and at the time I was too concerned with other projects to slow down enough to care.   Now it is time for all of this to come to a crossroads and its  time to usher in the changes.    I do understand their purposes now  as I have seen them in operation.  They connect me to the universe and all of the forces that ensue.  This is the number one reason for the abilities I have that some term as psychic.  We brought these abilities with us from other places and where we came from this is the way communication occurs and not with the basic levels of communication  used here.

CME's = Coronal Mass Ejections  release huge quantities of matter and electromagnetic radiation into space above the sun's surface, either near the corona (sometimes called a solar prominence) or farther into the planet system or beyond (interplanetary CME). The ejected material is a plasma consisting primarily of electrons and protons, but may contain small quantities of heavier elements such as helium, oxygen, and even iron. It is associated with enormous changes and disturbances in the coronal magnetic field.
(from Wikipedia)

Image of Mezza -  A large log at the Christmas Waterholes at Gleniffer NSW Australia

"Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that's new to human history."

According to Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division.

 I am moving to the The New England area when I get back from Uluru.  I am looking forward to this and to growing our own food again.  I will probably suffer with the cold but that is better than drowning to death.

I am in preparation mode now and I must continue to be in such a state of flux because we are now officially on the move.  The planetary shift is a reality and the earth has the lowest magnetic levels in 2000 years.  The planets are lining up and this is going to make the water rise and fast and it will become a time without electricity. 

We will become like aboriginals again.  The sun and the Moon will be new.  This is an exciting but terrifying time no less.  Some won't even make the transition to the new ways.

My children are all grown up  fairly well.  Montana has a boyfriend and she and him may come up there when I am set up perhaps.  That would be good.

I have much to write in a list form.  I must firstly get a shed and perhaps this will be easy in the Glen Innes area.

Image by Mezza - Full Moon in Early April 2012

The Whales are moving earlier this year

If you talk to animals they will talk with you and you will know each other.  If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know you will fear.What one fears one destroys.
~Chief Dan George~


This year the whales are swimming up the east coast of Australia, this great south Land much earlier than usual and they are appearing a good 43 days ahead of time. 

Go and stand on a high place and look and yell out hello!

This image also clearly shows the rip as it stretches out like a serpent into the water taking with it all in its path.  Rips are responsible for most drowning deaths on Australia's beaches.  If you get into a rip swim with it until you can swim sideways out of it.  Keep a level head and don't panic if at all possible try to understand it is nature.  She will grip you and let you go if you ask.


Image by Mezza- Port Macquarie looking out over the vast ocean from way up high in April 2012 visiting Leanne.

Mother Earth is not a resource, but rather the source of life itself.

 We are now in a time of Prophesy:   Animal Nations would stand upon Mother Earth a different colour than their natural being and be born white. They are speaking to us with the only voice that can be heard. 

 These messages are of a blessing and yet a great warning!

It is a time of great urgency to unite for Peace and Harmony upon Mother Earth in order for our future generations to survive.Mother Earth is not a resource, but rather the source of life itself.
 
Chief Arvol Looking Horse
Walking the Red Road. 

Image by Mezza - Tiny mushrooms in the wet grass

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Wakan Tanka" The Great Mystery

 “Wakan Tanka, Great Mystery, teach me how to trust my heart, my mind, my intuition, my inner knowing, the senses of my body, the blessings of my spirit. Teach me to trust these things so that I may enter my sacred space and love beyond my fear, and thus walk in balance with the passing of each glorious sun. ”
― American Indian Lakota Prayer

 This is what I feel.  I petition the sun as the sun rises on the horizon and I know in my spirit the number of sun rises I will see here on this earth is not infinite.  During this part of my journey I ask the great spirit to guide me and to protect me and to heal my body and my spirit from the attacks of matter piercing light. The Sun warms me and protects me and energises the ancient knowledge stored within my DNA to once again live and vibrate light and love.

"Peace comes within the souls of men when they realise their relationship,their oneness with the universe and All of its powers,and when they realise that at the centre of the universe dwells "Wakan Tanka" and that this centre is really everywhere,it is within each of us.." ~Black Elk~

Image by Mezza- Port Macquarie steps up to the flagstaff

Story: What is the most holy?

Some years ago, a beloved grandmother asked me a deep and soul-searching question. “Grandson,” she asked me, “what are the most sacred, the most powerful, and the most holy of all ceremonies?”



With some pride, I began to recount some of the ceremonies that I had participated in over the years. After I was finished describing the Sun Dance, the Sweat Lodge, Vision Questing, and other ceremonies I had participated in, she said, “Grandson, those are all very sacred, powerful, and holy ceremonies, but the most sacred, the most powerful, the most holy of all ceremonies is the birth of a child.”

Then, she looked very, very deeply into my eyes and soul and said, “Then who are you?”

In this brief question this beloved grandmother strongly reminded me that each and every one of us is a Sacred Being!

Inherent in this understanding is the realisation that the very Holy and Intimate Ceremony of Creating Life, as well as, the Creative Power that ignites Human Life are Sacred and must be respected at all times! Otherwise this Sacred, Creative Power and Ceremony may be the source of great pain and suffering, for generations!

Chanupa Sapa, (Black Pipe) Ihanktowan Dakota-Chickasaw Nations

Image passed onto me by my cousin Vivienne O'Halloran

Pandora's curiosity got the best of her, and one day she opened that box.

Out came plagues and misery and mischief. She managed to shut the lid tight before hope escaped.
It's the only weapon we have left to fight the others.” ― Jodi Picoult,  My Sister's Keeper
 

Red roses of love and other bruises that make us all good losers
Image by Brice Brennan - Mary with Red roses

Journey's End

by J. R. R. Tolkien

In western lands beneath the Sun
The flowers may rise

The trees may bud, the waters run,
The merry finches sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,
And swaying branches bear
The Elven-stars as jewels white
Amid their branching hair.

Though here at journey's end I lie
In darkness buried deep,
Beyond all towers strong and high,
Beyond all mountains steep,
Above all shadows rides the Sun
And Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
Nor bid the Stars farewell.

 This has been a very sad and emotional day.  I am emotionally drained once again as I deal with the sadness's one on top of another.  Texsy isn't alone in the heavens now, she has my little sister to keep her company.  Today marks a day of sadness as we all look at our own mortality brought on by the loss of our youngest sister Sue-Ellen Mary.  She passed away at 2am this morning on the 26th April 2012.

I am pretty numb in my spirit at this time .  There is now no time left to bond with a sister who I knew only a little of but when I first met her she was still at school and she had gotten a persian kitten called Sharie.  She was very kind to me and I got along well with her but alas the sadness of losing my mother never faded as I found it increasingly hard to ever go back to Warwick.

I am at a loss and so I will play some good songs tomorrow for Suey in our radio show. Music rises to the heavens and returns back the beautiful vibrations to rain down upon us all here on Earth.  This is why we should sing.   Sound causes what we would call miracles to occur. 
Image by Mezza - Nuunguu Miirlarl

Its a skrillex moment.

More Monsters and Sprites (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 Why is it a Skrillex moment?  Well we found today that it has been a year since beginning blogging for the first time.  This automatically made me think of the song Equinox and First of the Year. 

That was funny to remember back of the previous year of pulling out my hair on many occasions because I couldn't find the right button or setting required or I was learning about widgets and Blogger and Word-press at the same time and it was a bit of a mess.

I have now found a new important detail this morning.  This is the entire reason for beginning a new blog for 2012 and why I was prompted to think of Skrillex in conjunction with this major drama. I have no photo space left.

A new blog was required for the blogging process to continue and I will link the original here as soon as possible.  In fact I will place a  link to all of my various blogs so that they are found easily at one click.

Happy ANZAC Day to everyone who is celebrating the war process.  I personally do not attest to war at all and I often wondered why didn't everyone else.  I think I have come to a resolution about this as well.  See it has been a big year.  I think that blogging has taught me many things as I have spent many hours researching my ever expanding question list.

So welcome to the new blog.

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 This 25th April 2012 / ANZAC DAY

HMAS ARUNTA ...  My fathers ship in Korea

FORM/FUNCTION/EXECUTION or THE ART CRITIC OF WAR
each and every subject's
easily erased
each model reduced
to black and white figures on a page

portraits of new monsters
an old image retraced
paint it all with numbers
a distortion of common shapes

broken down and rebuilt
servitude in relief
sculpted to be ruins
for a landscape of pride and belief

two thousand feet above
a thousand miles away
nemesis needs no face
for this re conceptualisation of space

may good fortune strike us blind
may we see not their eyes
may they wear our masks so bold
may these young hearts beat cold
that we may destroy all our enemies

I don't see or understand
why or where these men stand
but empathy alone could stay this failed artist's hand.

Thank you Hostage Life 

WAR - Edwin Starr

In the last days there will be wars and rumours of wars.  These last days are the last days of the hell fire PISCERIAN AGE and now thank goodness it should turn around and come good.  Here in this part of the universe today we are celebrating the soldiers coming home from war and our ANZAC DAY...  Australia and New Zealand Armed Corps.  Have a good day with whatever you are doing today.

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My Religion is very simple, It is kindness. Dalai Lama

I have a thing about Religion doing its thing on the  people.  It is a binding up agent, a farce.  It is a very tight knit in crowd type group.  Religion is very evil.  It has kept humanity from discovering the potential we are meant to be walking this earth plane in.
We are here for such a short time in light of eternity. We could enjoy the heavenly bliss of our mortal lives while we have our mortal lives if we don't listen to the liars on earth.
Live a happy fulfilled life.  If you bless someone with kindness, it keeps an energy going around the world and that energy is love.  Love is the highest vibration there is.

Image by Mezza - The beautiful heavenly sky over the Pacific Ocean Australia

Nunguu Miirlarl - Gumbaynggirr

This is a kangaroo increase site. Senior ‘clever men’ from the tribe would visit Nunguu Mirral to perform ceremonies to ensure that the time was right to hunt kangaroo in the tribal area.

Nunguu Miirlarl - PICKETT HILL

The last initiation was held in this area around 1920.  This area is rich in cultural heritage to the Gumbaynggirr people.

Jagun Nature Reserve was purchased under the Coastal Lands Protection Scheme and gazetted in 1999. The reserve covers 100 hectares and is approximately one kilometre north of Valla Nature Reserve. The creek bed of Oyster Creek forms the north-western boundary of the reserve. Part of the inlet to Oyster Creek also lies within the reserve.  The corridor of the North Coast Railway Line forms the south-western boundary. The eastern boundary of the reserve runs along the mean high water mark of North Valla Beach.
Image by Mezza - Looking towards Pickett Hill from North Beach.

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” Buddha

An afternoon in the front yard ..

Brice

Brice is a man who is beautiful to watch work.  Very methodical and thorough in everything that he does and this is an absolute pleasure to  be around this kind of phenomenal energy.

Image by Mezza -Brice Brennan at Urunga 2012 April

Melonpop Drive / http://www.2bbb.net.au/

We have been broadcasting for a good while now or so it seems and really I have never said much about this here on the old blogger pages.

 MelønPøP Drive 2bbb with dj's MezzA n MønStaЯ Est.2009..

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On The Hill / 2bbb Page

Images by Mezza and Montana

Tune in at 4.00pm till 6.00pm for the Drive Show also known as Melonpop Drive.  Montana and I will do our damnedest to make you smile if we can.   We like most of the music we play and we hope you do as well.

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

You gotta take some chances, you gotta risk losing it all, you gotta close your eyes and leap because it might be worth the fall. 

In my case I am really really glad I made the decision to take a chance and try to save my own life.  I had to over power my assailant who had taken me hostage in the bush at night time.  He was telling me how he was going to kill me.  I was very scared and police finally found him but it did take a number of days and a large police search through the bush west of Kempsey in 1979.

Today we sort the help of Ashley and we asked him to check  up on some details of this past traumatic incident because I continually have really bad nightmares about this stuff..

We are lucky I suppose as the police in the local area are fairly easy to get along with.  There was an incident in my life some thirty years ago and I wanted to find out if the person was dead.  Police were very helpful and now I can rest easier.

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Image by Mezza - Urunga Police truck

20 years old and jailed for 35 years.. More crimes like this will be on the rise.

People and humanity and its weaknesses are in the spot light again.  This is now occurring after young 20 year old Jason Downie, killed his ex girlfriend and her parents in a jealous rage and admitted he should have thought about it.


He is now facing 35years in prison.  He said he was fuelled by jealousy that quickly turned to rage and he himself cannot even believe the reality of what he has done.  If this does not speak volumes about what is  happening to our young people as a result of this two bit crap society we are living in.  NO ONE should be surprised really.  I sort of feel for this kid. I totally feel for the girl's family as well.  He will have PTSD now from his own trauma as well.

Pretty much jealousy. I thought we had something on. When I learned when she was with Dylan, I wasn't happy. I pretty much got angry. Like I said to you before, I had nothing against the parents.   Triple killer Jason Downie

The Psychologist is spot on with his evaluation :

"The brother, he's lost obviously his whole family. Everyone's a victim in this, close friends and family, my family, the community, everyone. The only one that is not a victim is me.
"I'm not a good person. Obviously I got problems. The problems? I'm not too sure - don't know. I'll always think about the day of what happened and the consequences."
The psychologist said: "I asked Mr Downie what his motive was for the crime and he replied 'Pretty much jealousy. I thought we (Chantelle Rowe and Downie) had something on. When I learned when she was with Dylan, I wasn't happy. I pretty much got angry. Like I said to you before, I had nothing against the parents'."
The psychologist went on: "The community's response is to assume that the offender is a "monster" or seriously psychologically disturbed. The idea that an unremarkable member of the community can perpetrate such violence is unthinkable because it raises the possibility that all individuals are capable of violence.
"The reality is that Mr Downie's crimes are not the by-product of severe psychopathology but stem from the fallibility and flaws of the imperfect human condition (ie: biblical motives such as jealousy).
"He appears to have gone from infatuation to anger and resentment to homicidal rage, which led to a frenzied attack on the victims."

I see that Downey  is the  epitome of the product of the society we are living in.  This sort of crime will be on the sharp rise.  It already is.  Many very young people are now in custody as the result of using serious violence as a result of a situation that has gotten out of hand. It either gets out of hand in their head or in the moment.  I am really noticing this and being who I am it isn't a wonder as I noticed the warning signs some thirty years ago.

I feel  it will become decidedly worse as more doctors prescribe serious mind bending anti psychotic medications often from a misdiagnosis sending ever young people into a spiral of serious issues as the medication continues to play havoc on more and more people.  People just cannot be trusted to take medication well either.  We are human, how many woman have forgotten their pill and paid the price with an unwanted pregnancy.  Proof people do not mean to fail but they do.

The police respond with murderous and clumsy attitudes. They are trained to kill and not to maim. This is still something that mystifies me in this day and age.  As a society, we should be speaking out about this!  We should be demanding more of our force.  The men and woman who are carrying these weapons and who in charge of the carrying out of the law of the land and so on.  I, for one think this is appalling and it isn't safe for any of our children or our grandchildren.  It goes hand in hand as the kids are having more and more bad reactions to these medications and wind up finding themselves shot dead.  Some have even been tazored to death as well  and others have been left damaged by the police and their approach where primarily the person isn't a criminal but in fact a sick and a disabled person.

How is any of this fair?  Who may I ask is winning out of this?

The society as a whole has seriously let its young people down like this Jason Downey and his victims

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-18/kapunda-killer-jason-downie-motive/3957046

Related articles

• Young triple killer jailed for 35 years (abc.net.au)
• Briton Jason Downie jailed for Australia triple murder (independent.co.uk)
• Triple killer's mental state revealed (abc.net.au)
• Jealous killer jailed for 35 years (news.ninemsn.com.au)
• Court finally hears Jason Downie own up-Kapunda Triple Murders (aussiecriminals.wordpress.com)
• Supporting Young People Who are Targets of Bullying and Other Negative Peer Behavior (education.com)
• Man sentenced for killing family of three (upi.com)
• Fatal obsession (news.ninemsn.com.au)
• Killer's apology letter released (news.ninemsn.com.au)

Image by Mezza - Pigeon in Nambucca Heads

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? George Carlin

It is funny as it seems the rest of the world is on another wave length and to expect any different would be silly I suppose.
On the hill today it is raining and we are expecting a flood.  People need to expect floods more often.  Not because we are having more rain.  In fact we are not having more rain.  More water falling from the sky is not the problem as it is the state of the floor of the earth that is causing the floods.  We have eliminated the trees and the mangroves and the protection for our rivers and streams and for the protection from heat for our water.  Water is the life blood of the planet and with out water we are dead.

Storm approaching Bellingen

I  stopped drinking water because of the taste of it.  I have lived in some places where the water tastes just putrid but in comparison to the rest of the world it was probably pretty good as it was clear at least.  It tasted like soap though. Eeeek!  I have tasted the chlorine in the water and I have seen the water in the tub is a blue green colour and it is smelling strongly of chlorine and even stronger if the water is hot.

The world has come around and around and around and spun for time immemorial or for many thousands of years and in the past water was accepted as it belonged to everyone.  Now we cannot live with out it and we are now charged by our governments for water and to the house not to industrial businesses responsible for killing this place ... no they bill the least they should be billing.  Do they not want to stand up to big business.  Are they afraid that business won't like them if they don't go along  with the outrageous crap that business has a way of getting government to do.  They  come in the name of the people and they talk with forked tongue.  This is government in and of  every country on this planet.  Government doesn't even know what its purpose is anymore. 

In this country we think it is bad how North Korea treat its people etc.  Well it is happening here as well.  Soon I will be locked up for writing such things as I have written here today.  This is coming to an end and I tried to warn many people about this, first they said years ago to me - they will never get rid of money.  I said a new way was coming that would usher in the mark of the beast.  I was right as then some twenty years later we are all well acquainted with the plastic card and the chip it contains with our information on it.  In the USA they are now injecting this chip into real people if they desire it.  This is the beginning of the very very END
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Image by Mezza - Back Lane behind the Hyde Street Bellingen

God Hides things by putting them all around us.

Author Unknown ..
Have you ever wanted to bend down to a river or creek and find a gold nugget?  I have wanted to.  In fact every time I am anywhere near water or a river or creek I look very long and hard for my illusive gold nugget.

Me under the living water of  life half way up Dorrigo Mountain

 It doesn't hurt to have an attitude of expectancy in your heart.  It shows that you understand the life you are living if you can understand what to expect you should be doing.

I expect we are totally meant to be drinking water that is fresh and pure and clean and beautiful.  Why  do we allow our councils to do this to our water supply!  Adding fluoride and various other contaminants all in the name of good health

Image by Brice Brennan - Mezza at Newell Falls

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. Dr. Alexis Carrel

Nungali

Yes it is painful changing yourself or attempting  going with out something you are used to.  I am attempting this and going without coffee hurts first thing in the morning. It is something I have done for so long.   There was a time when I was on a special anti candida diet and I went with out coffee for three months.  I think that is the only time I have been without it in my adult life. 

It hurts because you immediately get a head ache.  The pain of this head ache can be enough to send you back to the coffee pot.  But if you hang in there and drink lots of fresh water then it will disappear and you will feel better in the mornings because you know that if you have to go with out then you can and that you have survived this hell.

Image by Mezza - From Marx Hill looking towards Little North Arm

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”

Don Williams Jnr.

 

 We ventured off the hill today down to Port Macquarie for a small trip to pick up two delightful young girls and meet their father and his partner.  A lovely day was had by all.  The children's dad's partner was lovely.

Image by Mezza - Aurora under Marilyn Monroe the statue at Frederickton NSW