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How EMF from Bluetooth Ear Pieces Can Affect Your Eyes, Ears, Brain and Body

Waking Times: Many people who use Bluetooth technology to connect their devices may have no idea that exposure has been linked to brain tumors as well as dizziness, sleep issues, anxiety, depression, mental illness, birth defects and more.

This is because Bluetooth emits the same Radio Frequency (RF) radiation as a microwave oven that cooks food. Decades of research has already proven exposure to all sources of RF (cell phone and wireless WiFi radiation) is harmful. The Radiation Health Risks website has some great articles and videos about Bluetooth...read more>>>....

Cockatoo - Totem Bird of the Day

“When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.” ― T.F. Hodge

“Create with the heart; build with the mind.” ― Criss Jami

'Memory Lane' - 8th October 2015

WHITE EGRET - STRANGER POND

The Queen Bee Negative Psychic Syndrome

Being spiritual should never be about how popular you are, and being better than your peers. It should not be about backstabbing and defaming 'your competition'. For starters, your peers, are fellow spiritual travellers with unique gifts that are different to your own. They may or may not be more advanced than you are; but instead of throwing muck at them, it should be about learning from them, and growing together. Sadly that is not the case.

There should be no competition nor a battle ground. If everyone was to combine, rather than be kept separated by prejudice and false opinions, what a powerful force it would become.

Sadly, there are certain individuals who have serious insecurities and need the adoration, and status, that can come with being a negative psychic. They need to be the Queen Bee or think they are at the top of the pile. In truth, they are not spiritual, no matter what their banner says, or how many times they post wonderful 'love and light' articles and quotes on their Facebook page.

These negative psychics are unwittingly enrolled as personalities that contribute to keeping everyone in little groups, and separated pockets. They clearly are not really there for the people they are supposed to help; instead they are merely feeding their already extended false egos. False egos that clearly indicate instabilities and problems within their psyche. This makes for potentially fatal consequences, as they are likely to pass on biased information to clients; advice based on their own flawed life experiences. Not a good scenario.

Favourite's Collection #115

I've always struggled to capture any reasonable photographs of Superb Fairy Wrens, they are small and very quick on the ground. This particular image is one of the rare exceptions, it was captured at Jerrabomberra Wetlands in Canberra. It epitomises how striking these little Australian Native birds are.

Noisy Friarbird - Totem Bird of the Day

The Carbonaro Effect: Magician reveals how fake news media indoctrinates the gullible masses with junk science

Natural News: Although this is not the intention of the show, a fascinating hidden camera magic TV show called The Carbonaro Effect inadvertently reveals how the fake news media indoctrinates the gullible masses into believing really big lies.

The Carbonaro Effect is syndicated by TruTV, and it features a talented young magician named Michael Carbonaro. You can watch some clips from his show at this link. It has recently been picked up by Netflix, so you can also watch episodes there.

Unlike most “magic” shows where talented magicians perform magic in front of people who fully expect to be dazzled by apparent magic, Michael Carbonaro performs magic that’s presented as “normal” reality. In other words, he performs astonishing feats of sleight of hand, but then acts surprised when observers express astonishment at what they just witnessed. In most of his bits, he tries to convince the observers that what they just witnessed was completely normal (and even commonplace)....read more>>>>....

'What's meant to be will always find a way' -Trisha Yearwood

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RED WATTLE BIRD - JERRABOMBERRA WETLANDS

True Mentoring Insights #6

A True Teacher Is Happy To Teach Only One Student

From a true teacher's perspective, is it better to have students who have sought you out, and are attracted to your vibrational level of understanding; than the alternative which is students that you've had to coerce onto your courses; where you have students who are not really compatible with your vibrational level of teaching? 

Surely, if you have to entice people into your classes and workshops with glossy posters, exaggerated claims regarding course material, it puts out the message that you are undertaking the offered training for the wrong reasons?

A true teacher cares not if his/her class is filled with one student or one hundred students. The important thing is that the true teacher knows that the people attending the course are truly compatible with the teachings; and are thus not going to be damaged by the effects of the core material.

The irresponsible and egocentric teacher, on the other hand, is more concerned with how popular they appear to be, and not at all concerned about the wellbeing of the students attending their course!

Shining Through the Clouds

Daily Om: When we're in a good mood, we shine like the sun. But if we find ourselves in the presence of a person, or people, in a grumpy mood, it can feel like a dark cloud approaching to dim our radiance and block our positive way of seeing the world. We can remind ourselves that clouds pass, while the sun and stars continue to shine above.

Then it's easier to think of these "grumps" affectionately, knowing that they only have the power to affect our mood if we allow it. With the power of change firmly in our hands, we can choose how to respond to a grumpy person, or a grumbling group of people, with confidence and understanding.

Like a lighthouse, we can continue to shine through the darkness, offering our light to help others find their way back to their own. We can send them a silent prayer of peace or a sympathetic smile....read more>>>....

'Memory Lane' -7th October 2015

KANGAROO - URAMBI HILLS

High doses of vitamin C aggressively kill cancer cells, research confirms

Natural News: If you’ve heard that high doses of vitamin C can kill cancer, there’s a good chance you’ve also heard some official-sounding organizations claiming that there is no science to back this up. However, new research shows that high doses of vitamin C can indeed fight cancer, underscoring the findings of countless other studies like it that are widely ignored by the medical industry.

Detractors choose to focus on those studies that showed it didn’t work, conveniently ignoring the fact that many of the studies that were inconclusive in this regard simply weren’t testing big enough doses to unlock its effectiveness....read more>>>....

Favourite's Collection #114

This spectacular Currawong photograph was taken at Canberra's annual flower festival, known as Floriade. I was really pleased with the composition of this photo; hence its inclusion in my favourite's collection folder

Losing The Weight Of The Human Form

If the weight of the human form can be forgotten, and the blue spark of consciousness is remembered, then amazing things can be created on this thought form world. For it is the reminder of mortality that prevents most minds from manifesting their thoughts.

Perhaps that is a safety net in truth, with the garbage and debris that litters the astral plane; the realm where all our wishes, whims and desires reside.

The Moon is said to be the home of the astral plane; the realm of delusion; the place of the false ego; the battlefield between what is real and what is delusion, a product of an imaginative mind. Once that barrier is overcome, the would be magician then faces true vision; he or she sees the world as it is more likely to be. For The Moon is the sheath that hides the false creation; when you look false creation in the eye, like a Russian Doll is decompartmentalises ... and reveals the truth. For that is one of the tests of this false realm.

And once the delusion of false creation is realised, the weight of the human form falls away ... for the energy of truth surges and consciousness flows to its source ... the intense blue light ... and then anything is possible for understanding procreates with knowledge; the chemical wedding and the merging of the two pillars within it all .... and wisdom shines like a new day sun ...

And then ... what then? Where then? Why ..... ???

True Mentoring Insight #5

“Using” the Mind to Know the Mind

Illusiontoreality: The mind has been conditioned to think through our daily needs and anything that has been conditioned for a long time, will run on its own momentum, as if having a life of its own. It takes a little effort and continuity to end that process. But understanding the way the mind works, its nature is such that something has to continue in it – there is no such a thing as a mind being blank.

As such a replacement will help to eliminate, if not reduce, unnecessary thinking. One can either replace it with awareness, by not forgetting to be in the present, or taking up the habit of observing what the mind is doing. Both techniques are useful as it grounds our attention back into the moment. You will observe that most of the unnecessary thinking has little to do with what is in the present. It is constantly either in the past or future....read more>>>...

Coffee makes your brain younger: Research shows that by normalizing stress hormones, coffee reverses memory deficits

Natural News: Do you start your morning off with a cup of coffee or tea? Many people do – and research continues to show that caffeine can have many great health benefits. 

Beyond coffee’s reputation for offering an instant pick-me-up, scientists have found that caffeine and its analogs may actually help stave off age-related cognitive deficits. While coffee may give your brain a boost in the short term, it seems that the cerebral benefits of coffee are actually quite long-lasting....read more>>>...

Crested Pigeon - Totem Bird of the Day

Seeker Of Light At The Rabbit Hole Entrance

So ... how far 'up the rabbit hole' are you expecting us to go? We're planning to keep climbing until we find daylight ... and are hoping you'll entertain the insights we present when we get to the daylight.

We can report a recent dream scape where the traveller we swimming in really deep water; perhaps thousands of feet down ... and below the traveller was a 'domed world' ... as the traveller looked closer the world appeared similar to the earth with clouds and oceans. 

A far off voice spoke to the traveller, and explained that to the inhabitants of that domed world, the blackness of the ocean appears like outer space; and they are none the wiser that they are in fact at the bottom of an ocean and not on the spherical world they are told they are on.

What was the meaning of this dream? Can it be taken literally or is there an incredible symbology being presented here.

'Memory Lane' - 6th October 2016

BLACK SWAN CYGNETS - STRANGER POND

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Nature of Existence is Non-existence

Illusiontoreality: Everything in existence has its own check and balance processes – a natural law that governs everything that exist, from the micro to the macro level, including the universe itself. It is like an in-build mechanism found in everything – whether be it tangible or intangible, animate or inanimate – all has the inherent nature to arise and cease by itself, moment after moment. Conditioned by its ceasing, it arises again. Conditioned by the arising, it ceases again, in continuum. This conditional principle is spread unconditionally throughout existence – not one is spared from it.

There is no wrongness in this movement of processes, neither is there possibility of things going wrong – for everything, from the minutest level, is taken care of in itself, moment after moment, in perfect harmony. How could it ever go wrong when anything that comes into existence perishes immediately? There is no chance for it to move further into any conflict or entanglement other than to cease instantaneously. If ever there is an entanglement, it will only be a perceived entanglement occurring between ego towards nature. Even the mind is subjected to perish – how else could it be possible for it to be entangled? The misconception of what things really are from the viewpoint of ego is the cause of the illusion of entanglement. What is ego? Misperception....read more>>>...

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True Mentoring Insights #4

5 health benefits of caffeine

[Net Doctor]: While caffeine often seems to attract bad press, sensible amounts are actually good for you. Caffeine is naturally found in everyday food and drinks like tea, coffee and chocolate, but this natural stimulant is also added to performance-boosting products, painkillers and specialist shampoos designed to help slow hair loss - for good reason.

 

Here are five surprising health benefits of working caffeine into your diet and lifestyle...read more>>>...

Kestrel - Totem Bird of the Day

Favourite's Collection #113

A very rare capture (For me anyway) was this Jay; a UK native bird and Passerine related to the European Magpie. I'd been observing it in the trees around a feeding table at Yarrow Park; and I was very fortunate to get this photograph.

'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away' - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Completion

Daily OM: Life is a collage of beginnings and endings that run together like still-wet paint. Yet before we can begin any new phase in life, we must sometimes first achieve closure to the current stage we are in. That's because many of life's experiences call for closure. Often, we cannot see the significance of an event or importance of a lesson until we have reached closure. Or, we may have completed a certain phase in life or path of learning and want to honor that ending.

It is this sense of completion that frees us to open the door to new beginnings. Closure serves to tie up or sever loose ends, quiets the mind even when questions have been left unanswered, signifies the end of an experience, and acknowledges that a change has taken place.

The period of completion, rather than being just an act of finality, is also one of transition. When we seek closure, what we really want is an understanding of what has happened and an opportunity to derive what lessons we can from an experience....read more>>>...

'To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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'Memory Lane' - 5th October 2015

KOOKABURRA - URAMBI HILLS

True Mentoring Insights #3

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THE COVE, AVEBURY

The Paradox of Duality

Illusiontoreality: Every experience arise in duality – in the form of opposite and contrast. To the uninitiated, each experience seems to stand out alone by itself, but in reality the opposite also arise simultaneously together with the experience at the same time. In fact they are not separable except by definition.

Take for instance, liking. When I like quietness, I am already defining myself that I don’t like noise. I can’t help liking something without disliking another thing at the same time. Like and dislike arises simultaneously. Only thing is that one is obvious and the other seemingly hidden in the background of the mind. When I love companionship, I am avoiding loneliness. When I prefer aloneness, I dislike companionship at that point of time. I may have preferences of liking companionship at some time and aloneness at another time – that is pretty normal as my mood changes all the time, but what I am not aware is that at each moment of like or dislike, the opposite too is occurring at the same time....read more>>....

Believing Is Everything

Personal belief systems are without doubt an integral part of observing an existence on planet earth. They are what keep human beings going; we have to believe in something - 'we're gonna become rich on the lotto'; 'we're gonna buy that big house'; 'the bad man ain't coming knocking at my door'; whatever we believe in; it is important.

Because what we believe in shapes the life we lead, it creates a future which becomes our now, then quick as a flash it is our past ... but is does our now live up to the billing we planned in our past? This really depends on whether it is your own belief system; whether it is an adopted belief system from someone else; and how much you believe.

In this virtual electronic realm, believing is everything; beliefs shape the perceptions which create the thoughts that write the life around us. Having beliefs based on fear and oppression, generally create a life of struggle, shame and negative emotions. Whereas, a belief that is based on self awareness, P.M.A, and understanding of the true nature of self; is likely to create the future we can depend on for good health and good well being. This future does not have to be based around the biggest car, the biggest pay cheque and the biggest house. It should be based on a healthy mind, body and spirit.

Beliefs are a powerful thing; I will share a recent experience, or experiences with you, that are a perfect example of the effect of a positive belief and a negative belief. Recently I started playing 9 Ball Pool on my Iphone. Around a week ago I started, and because I had no expectations I had a win rate of 70%+ ... I was winning 10 or more games on the trot, and I thought I was invincible. I went into each game with a positive belief. Then, I began losing a few games here and there, and my win rate began to fall. It went down to about 67% at the beginning of this week; and for some reason I adopted a negative belief - I was convinced I couldn't win games anymore, and I began potting the black too early and losing the game. I began losing to lousy players, though I was so much more skillful than them. The negative belief has persisted and here I am a week on with a win rate of 60.3%. I've only won about 10 games out of the last 30 and its because of the negative belief I can't win games. Tonight, I changed my tune and adapted a more positive way of thinking, and currently have a winning streak of 4 games. Hopefully this illustrates how belief systems can influence the outcome in our lives.

Of course, we can have belief systems that are not our own, and have our thought processes controlled by others; in these cases (And it is true for the vast majority on this planet) the life being led it not the one that are inner core beliefs set out for us ... the million dollar question is how to break this control and gain the upper hand in our lives. Until this happens, we all lead lives which is effectively slavery. 

Favourite's Collection #112

This Eastern Rosella was cooling off in the summer heat not far from our then home in Canberra; spotted at the far end of Stranger Pond ... seconds later it was gone ... it makes for a great composition and a must addition to my (Ever increasing) favourite's collection folder.

'Faith requires following the power of a whisper' - Shannon L. Alder

Grounding Ourselves

Daily OM: We often hear people telling us to ground ourselves, but we may not be sure what that means and how we might do it. Grounding ourselves is a way of bringing ourselves literally back to earth. Some of us are more prone than others to essentially leaving our bodies and not being firmly rooted in our bodies. There's nothing terribly wrong with this, but while we are living on the earth plane it is best to stay grounded in the body.

One of the easiest ways to ground ourselves is to bring our attention to our breath as it enters and leaves our bodies. After about 10 breaths, we will probably find that we feel much more connected to our physical selves. We might then bring our awareness to the sensations in our bodies, moving from our head down to our feet, exploring and inquiring. Just a few minutes of this can bring us home to bodies and to the earth, and this is what it means to ground ourselves...read more>>>...