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Category Archives: Conservation
Here to hold light
To feel such joy and such sadness at the same time seems to be part of the inbuilt dichotomy of these times…and is how I feel every morning when I walk in “our” little woods to where the crescendo of … Continue reading →
Posted in Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged appreciation, awareness, birdsong, Consciousness, dharma, dichotomy of modern life, feeling hopeless, focus, holding light, loss of natural habitats, pollution, positivity, urbanisation, what can I do to help the world be better?, what is my purpose
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We still have a lot to learn
For too long, and pushing harder each year, the schooling machine has been whipping our kids through an examination-driven system more like the Grand National than an academy of life, geared at expelling productive economic units more so than rounded or wise individuals poised to conduct lives that contribute to the health of humanity and the planet. Continue reading →
Posted in Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Culture, ecology, Environment, Health & wellbeing, In the news, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged 2021, beyondexams, covid, covid and schooling, diversity, education, exams, left and right hemispheres, lessons in life, school system, schooling, teaching, vocation, whatcanwelearn
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Could 5G hasten our extinction?
Very little of the (real) news about 5G makes happy reading but if there’s one piece of information that I can’t seem to shake out of my head, its that it could be devastating to all the bees that are … Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Birds, Conservation, ecology, Health & wellbeing, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged 5G health risks, bee extinction, bird extinction, chronic health issues, Dr Ulrike Menke, eco disaster, ecology, electromagnetic environment, electrosensitivity, EMFs, how bees use electromagentic information, how birds use electromagentic information, how humans use electroganetic information, human extinction, mystery health issues, non-thermal effects of EMFs, word crisis
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The terrible responsibility of “just knowing”
This latest phase of technology, known as 5G, is being rolled out regardless of the lack of any significant “data” to demonstrate it will not significantly harm life on this planet (and plenty to suggest it will…); rushed through like some sort of shotgun wedding to cover the tracks of something else that is gestating on the other side of it. I’m no luddite, I love some of what technology can do, but I recognise when vested interest has got the upper hand over human and planetary wellbeing; and, once this is “switched on”, do we really think that those who control it are going to switch it back off, for any justification whatsoever? Have you even heard about the effect on the trees, the bees, the birds and the effect on plant growth, water, our very ecosystem? If this continues, I believe we will see one nefarious action after the other, “justified” by the drive to grab this new technology and with all of our previous niggles about the eco-crisis overshadowed into oblivion by a giant monster of an eco-meltdown, caused by playing with matches before we know enough about fire. Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Life choices, Menu, Personal Development, Seasons
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Tagged 5G, 5G effect on birds and bees, 5G effect on ecosystem, action, alarmed by 5G, birds dying, burning skin, canary in a coalmine, crop failure, early warning system, eco disaster, ecosystem, electrosensitivity, gut feeling, health effects of 5G, highly-sensitive people, intention, intuition, nervous system, overwhelm, positive thinking, trapped in a nightmare, vision issues, warning signs
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Being the unpruned tree
We should make room for some wildness in our gardens; it keeps us mindfully connected to the earth and it leads to interesting, surprising and oh-so important new experiences. Some pruning, here and there, asking the garden what it needs, can be helpful; yes, but there is no place for dubiously motivated shears in the next phase of our human adventure. Some would have us all as neatly trimmed and uniform as a garden made up of identical topiary but there’s a whole other tree that we’ve forgotten about (you could call it a Tree of Life); one that is so vast and other-dimensional (though ever-present) that many have fogotten how to look up and see it there… Continue reading →
Posted in Books, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Gardens & gardening, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness
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Tagged Aspergers, autism, Carl Jung, Connection to nature, connectivity, eco crisis, highly sensitive, human evolution, Mary Reynolds, ninth wave, rewilding, Sharon Blackie, synaptic pruning, tree of life, what the world needs now
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When did Earth become our least favourite thing?
There’s a disconnect between people and the environment and it has only become worse since the age of the mobile phone. Now, people walk around as though in their own biosphere since all of their own friends (who share their same views) and, in fact, their own mini-verse in digital form is carried around with them wherever they go via the device that seldom leaves their hand. We seem to be part of the generation that is, at once, the most informed yet most tragically naive since truth is something people get to custom-build from what they choose to focus their attention on (and there are just so many choices now). Earth has apparently become the least favourite, least attention garnering, most taken-for-granted, thing in most people’s minds and this is a balance that needs to be tipped or we are truly done for; there’s a truth we would all have to share! Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Menu, Nature, Personal Development
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Tagged albatros, birds, chinese lanterns, eco, eco crisis, evolution, fly-tipping, helium balloons, littering, plastic waste disposal, pollution, recycling, respect for earth, responsibility, save our planet, wake-up world, wildlife
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A woman’s voice across time
I like to think I’ve swept some grace through these places over the years; doing what grace does best, mixing up the light and the dark so that the line between them becomes softened…perhaps even more radiant. I like to think that in getting closer to finding my wholeness here, against all odds, I’ve increased the odds for all things that I’ve brushed past on my wending way… Exploring the underlying perfection of the places we happen to be in, however those happen to seem. Continue reading →
Posted in Art, Art purpose, Art transformation tool, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Landscape art, Life choices, Life journey, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Symbolic journeys, Walks
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Tagged art, beauty, close to nature, connection to place, ecology, grace, inner work, loss of countryside, Mary Russell Mitford, mindfullness, our changing villages, our changing world, overpopulation, Painting, Spencers Wood, stuck points, Swallowfield, transformation, village life, wholeness
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A sweeter way to be
Discovering this incredible, natural food source ethically and sustainably harvested in the jungles of Africa by people whose practices are gentle and whose lives have been tranformed (a food which felt like it was transforming my health) prompted me to consider many layers of broader relevance. I considered how we look forward to the future and what practices we use, for instance how we marry the best of traditional and modern methods (not always bowing to the latter…), how we take the quality of life of those producing the product into account and how their personal attributes (especially where this involves handling living things) feeds into the quality and the vibration of that product. Above all, there is something to be learned about how the sweetest and most nutritious things tend to come out of practices that involve the least interference, and bully tactics, of man. This approach to “harvesting” anything feeds into its energetic imprint when it reaches our cells as we eat it; you can literally taste the difference. When we snatch and grab at what we think is ours, the food tells a very different story… Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Recovery chronic illness, Shopping, Vegetarianism
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Tagged bees, collaboration, ecology, good sugars, healthy food, honey, how the way we produce food affects its health benefits, organic food, sustainable farming methods, the future of food production, the way we produce food, traditional bee keeping, tropical forest honey, vata dosha, vata-pacifying diet, vegan, vibration of food
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Bless all the lambs
Their immense zest for life is the very thing that arrests me when I watch the lambs; the way these wooly youngsters engage with absolutely everything their idyllic green world has to offer, from the comedic pheasants walking by to the playful breeze that seem to whip them into jumping spirals of the most erratic motion, like leaves lifting off the ground. They race each other in playful gangs and they collaborate with audacious climbing partners, vying to get to the top. They suddenly leap up, bronking and bucking with bizarre spring-loadedness as though the ground has just tickled them. Then, when just as suddenly spent, they gravitate to their ever watchful mother’s side and succumb to warm grassy patches where, alone or in twin pairs, they meditate away all the gentle hours, eyes half closed and, yes, a kind of smile on their faces; apparently transported by an enviable ability to surrender themselves fully to the moment. Then again, suddenly up on those spring-loaded feet, they’re back to scrambling to that water’s edge, conquering the tree stump or forming pyramids on each other’s backs. If you have ever enjoyed the simple pleasure of watching a pack of dogs playing or even (for that matter) human children, these are really no different and their joie de vive is contagious as you watch. Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Culture, Divine feminine, Health & wellbeing, Life choices, Life journey, Lifestyle, Menu, Nature, Personal Development, Vegetarianism
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Tagged animal welfare, averting our gaze, blessing things, blessings, changing the world, creation, cultural conditioning, disconnect, divine feminine, emotional disconnect, empowerment, energy, expanded consciousness, focus, follow your bliss, follow your own course, how to help animals, intention, joy, lack of honesty around meat consumption, living what you believe, mainstream media, mass produced meat, namaste, not facing what we don't like, optimism is power, overwhelm, passion, personal genius, pessimism undermines us, post-traumatic stress, power of intention setting, power of positivity, prayer, vegetarian, visualisation, waterfalls
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Parting of ways
It was like being in a scene from Snow White…surrounded as I was yet it was like the sea of wild-life effortlessly parted to make way for me as I progressed; these creatures were working with me while it was obvious I was hardly interrupting their morning at the pace I was driving. You could say, all was harmonious and in balance. Meanwhile, on the M4 motorway, two swans had taken up residence…was Nature trying to tell us all something this morning and are we ready to hear? Continue reading →
Posted in Animal welfare, Birds, Consciousness & evolution, Conservation, Divine feminine, Life choices, Life journey, Nature, Personal Development, Spirituality, Symbolic journeys
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Tagged animal welfare, animals have their say, animals on roads, balance, birds, Elen of the Ways, full moon, highways of the future, living in harmony with Nature, motorway, out of touch with Nature, pathway, return to Nature, road-kill, slowing down, speed limit, swans, synergy, visions for the future
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