PEACE MAKING

PEACE MAKING
Let's build on the fascinating work we're doing in our Thursday Group and others like it and explore further how we can be a positive force for peace. When we link up around the world we form a grid of conscious life force energy linking in with the life energies of the Earth and the whole universe. Imagine that anyone can tap into and direct it for peace. Imagine if we could switch off any or all weapons, by focusing energy on their weakest points.
TOWARDS ENLIGHTENED WORLD LEADERS - SUPER-CONSCIOUS DEMOCRACY
Our human brains have evolved from mammal brains which have evolved from reptile brains. It's so easy to fall back into reptilian behaviour, you don't have to look very far to see that around the world, sadly often coming from the top down. How easily our fears, greed, vanity are manipulated so we act like zombies against one another. Imagine we can focus the understanding of our evolving super-human consciousness on the world's leaders and give them a vision of peaceful ways to solve problems. Earth's ability to support us all in any industrial, fossil-fueled way of life is fading fast and we must develop alternatives. If countries continue to fight for resources we will just go further and further towards mass extinction, we urgently need to find the peaceful way.
HO'OPONOPONO AND PEACE
"I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you"
I remember reading a story about a psychiatric doctor from Hawaii who was working with dangerous, violent inmates at an institute for the criminally insane. Slowly but surely they started to calm down, became less violent but the doctor just sat in his office most of the time. What was he doing?
He was simply taking responsibility for their troubles himself, studying the prisoners' notes one by one, and going through the process above with each of them, "I'm sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you".
Let's each take responsibility for everything and everyone, everywhere.
 JUST US
At the end of the day there's no "us and them" there's just us

ENFOLDEDNESS OF HEALING

(Link to blog this lovely photo came from)

You soon find when you're treating people with complementary therapies like CranioSacral Therapy or energy work that no part of the body really operates on its own. Digestive system, nervous system, heart and lungs, everything operates as part of a whole. The same with the different aspects of the energy body, chakras, meridians, channels, aura, a disturbance in one area will show up in all the others. And you surely can't separate your own personal health from the health of the Earth, the water you drink, air you breath and the food you eat, which is why Ruth and I are putting so much of our energy into the health of the gardens and orchard here on the farm, thinking globally and acting locally, learning to live simpler more Earth-friendly lives. To me, ecology, permaculture, forest gardening are all aspects of healing.

Then remote healing groups like our Thursday Group show just how enfolded we can all be if we allow it. I feel the group's energies around me just as if we were occupying the same space, enfolded with the life force energies of the Earth and the universe.

 

Life support - natural wealth is the fundamental wealth

The idea, much promoted by politicians, corporations and run-of-the-mill economists, that they are creating wealth is bollocks. They talk of wealth as a financial thing but there is nothing of any financial value that does not come primarily from natural wealth. The pursuit of financial wealth in the "developed" world is leading to a devestated Earth. Our most important work is to regenerate natural wealth wherever we are. We live our human lives within a network of other life and our health depends on the diversity, abundance and health of that network.
Ruth and I are lucky in finding ourselves in a situation where we have been able to start this change in attitude and way of life living here on the farm. I know it doesn't seem so easy to go against the established flow when you are locked into the system to find money to pay the everyday bills. All the same, if we don't change our attitude to wealth individually and collectively it will only get harder and harder to avoid the destruction of the Earth's ability to support much life of any kind. Does your daily work regenerate or use up natural wealth? Is there any way you can regenerate a bit of waste land, grow some food, sow some flowers for the bees, do some random act of kindness for a stranger? There's loads you find you can do when you get started.

Ecology and healing, life support systems

Straw bale building - the inside story...

The new toilet and shower block at Treflach

Straw bale building seems to have an image of being a cheap and easy way for people to build themselves a house. Having been involved in various low-impact buildings I'd say it's not just as simple as that...
The main points that aren't immediately obvious to people are:

• Straw bales aren't load-bearing so your building will need some kind of a frame to take the roof
• People seem to forget that they'll still need doors, windows, plumbing, wiring etc etc
• You need some kind of footing to keep the bales off the ground and dry
• Hazel spikes are often used to secure the bales as you build up the walls but they lead to various problems - they're dangerous, difficult to work in at the top layers and they may be a weak link in the long term life of the building
• It's important the straw stays dry so your building is best designed with a generously overhanging roof, much more than you would need with other materials
• Rats and squirrels have to be kept out with boards or render covering all straw surfaces

Really the bales are mainly there for insulation but they do a great job of that and might save you loads of cash. So if you're building a house and have a source of cheap bales it's definitely worth checking out but look into the whole thing very carefully!

The back wall mostly finished.

Azzi, who build himself a wonderful oval straw bale house at Sych Pwll, working with me on the frame last year.

You can see it all here, the brick and block footing, RS board boxes to take the spikes for the first layer, the timber frame and the first row of bales on the way.

Ian Steel and Azzi putting in the first row of bales

Azzi's way of restringing a bale to make it shorter

Dave Bibby working on the original trusses with help from Faze

With Azzi moving abroad and the pressure from other work our straw build progress came to a halt at about the point in the picture above. The frame sat exposed to the elements over the winter and having two hen houses blown into it in the winter gales didn't improve it much. Then the man in the picture below, James the Rocket, with many years' experience of roof structures and woodwork generally came to give us a hand and the project has moved forward again. We'll all breath a sigh of relief when it's wind and watertight.

James and I putting in the first row of bales... again...

James' magnificent redevelopment of the roof

James sledge-hammering in a spike into some of the top bales, a very awkward work space

Leslie lending a hand filling in the gaps between the bales on the back wall

Difficult getting to the top layers to get the spikes in

GETTING OUR HEADS ROUND INFINITY

Photo from Global Illumination Council

The experience of linking up energetically around the world in the Thursday group and others like it with no time lapse has mind-boggling implications for me... One of them being that every point in space is concentric with every other point, and that every point is contained by every other point and contains every other point. In other words, everything is infinitely enfolded. I expect that what we've grown up calling the universe is just one of an infinite number of similar "universes" continually appearing from points within other "universes".  We are part of a revolution in understanding of space, time, scale, enfoldment and infinity which will make the Copernican revolution look like a toddler's first steps.

!! NEW !! Energy Healing Session on Sundays, 9 to 9.45pm.

I've decided to start hosting a new regular session on Sundays as well as our Thursday sessions. My instinct is to explore and develop our work on two paths: I'd like to focus the Sunday sessions on sending and receiving healing energy and building on our already amazing Energy Medicine work, and I'd like to focus the Thursday sessions more now on developing our psychic skills, exploring global consciousness and our evolution on Earth.  I know the two paths go in the same direction, it just feels right to explore and develop in both ways now. Our work has the potential to help so many people everywhere and deserves all the energy we can give it.
Love to all and see you in the ether xx

Thanks, Ushka, for putting me on to the work of Tomasz Alen Kopera - his website here

Flooding down in Shropshire

A watery look to the Shropshire plain

What a strange, mild, wet, windy winter here, just a few flurries of snow and the odd frosty night so far. I know there's plenty of time for a late cold spell like we had last year but all the same it's been strange. The big feature of Jan and Feb in the UK has been the wind and rain. Here in Shropshire, we don't have anything like the flooding further South but we can see a lot of standing water out on the plain below us - and the winds howling around again at the moment.
We've had some damage to the farm buildings and several trees blown down:

Sad to see this weeping birch down, it was lovely sight on the skyline

One of the trees down in the ancient woodland, Bluebell Wood

A tree comes down between our car and Wes's - no one hurt even though Wes was in his at the time.

But to me this winter will be the Winter When Climate Change Became Mainstream. Having listened to, read, talked, written about and even sometimes done something about climate change issues since the 1970's, it's tempting to jump up and down and say "I told you so!" It's good to hear, for example, people on the radio talking sense about what to do about flooding, ie not to build Canuteish walls to keep the sea and rivers out of our houses but to do the Permaculture thing, to keep the water as high in the landscape as possible for as long as possible. We're going to need every drop of it sooner or later. Goodness me, it's even dawning on some politicians that it's a bigger issue than keeping the corporations happy. How out of their depth they are though, are there wellies high enough for David Cameron?