GreenplanetFM Podcast

I really want to share this interview with you as it was a heartfelt eye opener for me as it showed that there are many people in our towns, villages and rural regions across NZ, diligently focussing on pulling the threads of community together - in many ways under the radar - at a grass roots level.

As a 'systems thinker' Anneleise Hall's insights are invaluable to all people who are wanting NZ as a whole - to prepare itself to become far more robust, sustainable and resilient. With a fast coming future descending on us - we need to really commit to 'conscious action!' Not only for our biosphere and all biota, but especially for the sake of our children and grandchildren too.

Many years ago, Anneleise was working for a local newspaper in a small region on NZ's West Coast where she basically had full control of the content of that newspaper and as she was there for many years she got an overview of the makeup of this small town and she noticed that after the extractive industry of logging was closed down and the subsequent good pay-out by the NZ government - it interested her how this small town responded to losing major income streams – and how they innovated.

So in putting together the newspaper she grew an awareness of other ways of entrepreneurship such as the West Coast wild foods event, which went on to a film festival then tourism and art - resulting in boosting their own income and the local economy.

She ended up teaching young teens skills how to get a job and build up their self-worth that lead her into community work – then it was noticed that a lot of kids had fallen through the cracks – that if there was no sport, there was not so many options – so she started up a trust to get music into schools and the smoke free rock quest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokefreerockquest

Because of the lack of interest in some of the challenges of the youth and the teachers of the schools unable to have the time etc, that she noticed another small town nearby that had a 'green dollar' group and they were having markets in the weekend and it was quite active. It was here that she enjoyed getting fresh organic produce that were traded – and use the 'various credits' for other things and people were building tiny houses and rebuilding buses as a sustainable community was growing up on her periphery .

Yet on the other hand, Anneleise still in her newspaper role, was harvesting stories from around the world of other small towns that were doing very exciting and innovative things to mitigate the so called perfect storm of global circumstances. With globalism creating massive change even if it was not necessarily in everyone's awareness at that time – she said that she was just led there without really being conscious of how it would unfold.

As she was in an industry where she was able to get all the news-feeds from around the world via news-wire and in doing so, receiving torrents of information that she could choose from. She was in a microcosmic situation of a little NZ town – looking out towards all the other towns globally in the greater planetary macrocosm – and how these towns were changing to meet the ever changing global circumstances.

One thing she became aware of just how creative people are and what is the potential when you start to think outside the square by creating real long lasting positive change – and this empowered her – in realising that these small towns and regions could really progress.

That when one town creates an innovative model – it gives other towns a blueprint and an ompetus as to how they too, can reinvent themselves.

Then Anneleise talks to the fact that she is a system – of breathing heart, lungs and this is her immediate ecology – and then in her family unit that's another ecology and then her community - it is an even larger one – and all the parts interlink and interweave and if we are healthy, that little local microcosm is too. That there is a correlation that if our wellbeing as individuals is healthy, there is a very good chance our community will become one too.

Uncertainty and faster change affects us all

She noticed that the more uncertainty and faster pace of the world affected our levels of stress, depression and anxiety - plus fear of the future increased.

As a result of the changing global dynamics, she is also seeing more fragmentation and mistrust – as we haved moved away from our innate humanity and the ability to cooperate, when we as a species are really social creatures, and have been basically interrelating since the beginning of time. Whereas the current program that we are being inundated with is having the best, the brightest always winning, "we have gotta have this" mentality … and it's turned into such a competitive mind-set that it's now a case of the haves and the have nots. The winner and the losers and that can be seen nearly everywhere especially in the 2nd decade of the 21st century.

Yet in our hearts:

Yet in our hearts there is another thing happening, people are moving back to really basic ways of being, that she finds very exciting. That all this has been seeded over the last 30 to 40 years – that was quite fringe back then – is now becoming more and more mainstream as people look at a 'time bank' or green dollars and a community garden, a local food growing project, an energy project like a car pooling project - all being ways to counterbalance the status quo. Especially as the resources on the ground cannot keep up. (i.e - be sustainable).

So when the Christchurch earthquake happened, over the hill in Lyttleton the 'time bank' that was set up was able to quickly jump into action and able to be utilised by the emergency services because they had their own telephone tree and were already embedded and known throughout that community.

This is where PLAN B comes into it.

Project Lyttleton http://lyttelton.net.nz - cherry picked all the other pilot initiatives that were happening anywhere in the world, to see how they may be integrated into their localised situation

This is where Anneleise then noticed that the mainstream newspapers were not interested in printing any articles on 'time banking' – that Project Lyttleton Initiator, Margaret Jefferies could not interest these local corporate newspapers into covering this innovative method of enabling the community to become more resilient and self reliant.

She noticed there are little pockets in areas where inspired people inhabit and come together – however how do you communicate with these people when the mainstream local newspapers do not wish to help you? (hint, they are not here to bring community together 'they' are here just to make money and keep the status quo – Tim)

It took a while to build up the time bank – because the whole concept of throwing 'money' out the window and instead trading on 'time' was so new! "That one person's time was exactly that same as another person's time – so that every bodies time - is equal."

That everyone has something intrinsic to offer and everyone's time is equal.

Dr Edgar Cahn – Time bank guru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_S._Cahn

It was a way to not use our national currency the NZ dollar, especially if we were short of cash and instead at a community level get things done with just a giving of one's time.

Anneleise says that from a systems thinking process, it is a rich ecology where there is a much greater choice when the community engages in a community wide 'time banking' system. This is because there is an amazing range and depth of talents and skills plus expertise that when you connect into and access this community you have this goldmine of real knowledge and wisdom.

That time banking is really a facility to go beyond our instinctive 'modern' mistrust of each other and start to rebuild both networks of community that Anneleise says, were once far more prevalent back in the past.

So the key here is to have some clear, accurate and balanced communication forms going on.

In the UK the Time Bank system expressed itself differently as the Government allied them to health centres – in giving assistance to old people in their homes and by helping out the elderly in their house, it meant that they could stay and live in their home longer instead of having to move to a retirement village for example. Also in Britain's Prisons – (listen to hear the story)

The Non Market Economy

The 'non market economy' can be seen as up to 40% of the economy – like child care, care for the elderly, civic participation – volunteerism – all of this work is not contributing to GDP and it is not measured – yet it is the glue that holds our communities together.

So these activities are the foundation of our healthy human existence - yet under our current economic measuring - they are completely ignored.

Love comes into it !!! What is that worth?

Sustainability is a whole system – of many interlinking components that is inclusive of 'closing the loop.'

Even the garage sale and car boot sale are parts to this whole. Where you are reusing and recycling things they are all integral to your community functioning at a social and at an economic level.

Having connection in your community is critical

Having a network of friends and kin is imperative! (listen)

Healing was another imperative !

Transition Towns

Malicious propaganda via mainstream media like sensationalism of war, terrorism, crime etc – we must not let it undermine our sense of community, undermine our sense of connection, undermine our humanity and our caring for other people - and to where this leads us …

Systems thinking and healthy children growing up with healthy boundaries, that have healthy connections to each other and our world – this requires a lot of modelling. Modelling what the adults are doing in the community. So if adults are heart centred and aligned with a very balanced intent – positive change can ripple throughout the community.

She mentions Bruce Lipton's understanding of 'conscious evolution.' See www.brucelipton.com

Finding that laughter and connection is in community.

Finding that little quiet place in nature or meditation – this is so essential to us in bringing us back to our basic humanity.

Letting go of stress, letting go of the negative media programming.

As a 'serial researcher' :) … these are other things covered by Anneleise:

We do not know what will eventuate until we go out into the community and involve ourselves.

We need to commit to make things happen

There is a richness of people who have skills talents and gifts to share.

We need to get together – share ideas and rebuild trust as well as rebuild a collective energy – where we work together in a cooperative movement and collaborate - as against competition

There is a document on http://lyttelton.net.nz – called 'our story' – which is like a blueprint or template, of what you can do.

Anneleise would also like to see a reduction of poverty and incarcerations, better health care, swimmable rivers – even a universal basic income … plus curtailing foreign land investments and what we need to do in regard to the election cycle.

Time banking and other community financial methods can be found on:

www.le.org.nz

An extremely vivid overview of someone who has thought deeply of how community comes together - 5 Stars. A must listen for NZers wishing for a greater cohesive community connection.

anneleise(at)gmail.com

Phil is passionate about and dedicated to capturing and amplifying the much needed spiritual and systemic changes that characterise our emerging global culture.Looking at the issues he says, "Some people still have no idea that there are people and families who have more influence in the direction of humanity's future than those who work within the government apparatus. Yet of those who understand the power that both old and new money yields, many still find it hard to believe that the people who really run the show behind the scenes do not have humanity's best interests at heart. To them I say, just have a good look around. Put aside the strong evidence of a Satanist ideology and pedophilic tendencies within the uber elite, and pay wise attention to not just the system itself, but the health and prosperity of the people.

First, the system. The money supply is a scam in which currency is created out of nothing, where the profits go back to those who create it instead of the people and their community needs. Food is tainted, as is water. Medicine is in general a toxic soup of adulterated elements too, which struggle to resolve the symptoms, let alone cure the fundamental issues. Now of course there are many natural ingredients that can be highly effective against the widespread dis-ease which permeates our so-called modern world, but they've been so effectively suppressed simply because the people would manage their own healing on a local level.

And that is outside of the desired control of those who are hellbent on their power trip of ruling the world. This theme is present through all of this, actually.

Then there's the mainstream media, which is a monopolized mess of propaganda and hypnotism. Now it is true that you will get some truth through these channels, but in the most part, information that reveals the big realities, especially regarding the theft of various elements of the system, will not be televised for society's benefit.

Each and every one of us has surely seen how the corporatized media works for their own interests, right?

Then of course there's the government. Big money, through their lobbyists, ensure that macro policy design supports their agenda. Its crony capitalism on steroids with a political puppet arsenal that makes Pinocchio look like he's just had a hit of truth serum.

Take for example Australia's Prime Minister. As an ex-managing director of Goldman Sachs, which is a banking institution deeply embedded into the banksterism that exists today, his appointment is such a massive conflict of interest that it is dumbfounding that the Aussies don't physically escort him out of Parliament house. To add the final blow, he is also deeply in the pocket of the pharmaceutical drug dealers which have literally killed millions of people, as well as destroyed many more people's lives through addiction and increased sickness.

Yeah, sounds legit.

So what does the public education system do regarding all this? Well, it maintains and perpetuates this status quo, of course.

Enter the people. There are three S's which characterize humanity's internal world today, which are sadness, stress and sickness. Ask nine out of ten people and they'll be either in one or more of these states, or simply completely disconnected from themselves and their purpose.

Contentment is rare. Common sense is uncommon. The authentic, empowered man or woman is nearly non-existent. Of course on the surface people seem 'fine', but peak into their lives and it soon becomes pretty clear that it's whirlwind of bitterness, smallness, hatred, jealousy and competition.

That's not to say that our fellow men and women aren't mostly good-natured and caring, but damn we're lost in a web of bullshit. We're all part of this to some degree or another, but very few seem seriously motivated to get out of the sick race and genuinely surround themselves with good vibes and good lives.

Why? There are many reasons, but to simplify it, it comes down to indoctrination, ignorance, laziness and fear. People just don't understand, and they don't want to understand, because it means much more than just changing their lives. It also means authentically facing themselves and the outside world, which means completely redesigning themselves and their concepts of reality.

So instead, many people find solace in giving back in some little way without having to do the hard work. One example is giving money to charity, without focusing on the core systemic areas that would actually deal with the problems. It's so unfortunate too, because many charities and foundations are very much embedded and even complicit in suppression of the truth.

After all, there's no need for that organization to exist if they solved the cause they were fighting for.

In any case, the world we live in is not one of general health, happiness and harmony. Instead, we have sickness, sadness and stress. And that doesn't even account for the super S of scarcity, instead of abundance. So even if the ruling class genuinely had good intentions when it comes to the care of you and your family and friends, they've clearly failed.

Either which way, it looks like we're going to have to step up our vibration of consciousness and sort this mess out for ourselves, especially in our own lives. Or not; I guess time will tell." Phillip J. Watt lives on the Mid North Coast of NSW Australia. He is an activist for individual and collective change and has devoted his career to supporting this evolution. Phil best identifies as a truthseeker, writer, self-help guide, organic farmer and activist who has lived a life of self-determination and built a strong repertoire based in leadership, teamwork and seeking the essential knowledge and skills to holistically support himself, his family and his clientele. Phil's written and film work deals with topics from ideology to society, as well as self-development. His love for spreading empowering messages evolved into being a leading writer for independent on-line media dedicated to mindful, holistic, progressive, well-informed and adventurous living. He is also an online and in person presenter of information relating to the truth and freedom network. Phil is passionate about and dedicated to capturing and amplifying the much needed spiritual and systemic changes that characterise our emerging global culture. He has a background working in multifaceted areas including journalism, policy development, security, project management, social work, operations management and providing individual and relationship guidance. He also has the privilege of interviewing a variety of progressive leaders on his YouTube Channel.Follow him on Facebook @ Phillip J. Watt, watch his interviews with an array of inspiring guests at 'The Conscious Society' YouTube Channel, read his latest work at his new website www.pushingthetippingpoint.com and visit his personal development website www.vitalityguidance.com.

This interview is sponsored by The Awareness Partyhttp://www.theawarenessparty.com

Dahr Jamail is the chief environmental reporter for Truth-out.org - the large web-based news and current events site from the USA.

An award winning writer of books such as:

THE MASS DESTRUCTION OF IRAQ THE DISINTEGRATION OF A NATION: WHY IT IS HAPPENING, AND WHO IS RESPONSIBLE

THE WILL TO RESIST SOLDIERS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

BEYOND THE GREEN ZONE - DISPATCHES FROM AN UN-EMBEDDED JOURNALIST IN OCCUPIED IRAQ

Dahr has been here in NZ checking on some of the key areas and tipping points' within our localised ecology. The diminishing glaciers in the southern alps being very noticeable. The other being acidic oceans. Plus the strange weather patterns that are skewing the seasons of spring, summer and autumn.

A third of the permanent snow and ice of New Zealand's Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to our new research based on National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research aerial surveys. Since 1977, the Southern Alps' ice volume has shrunk by 18.4 km3 or 34%, and those ice losses have been accelerating rapidly in the past 15 years.

http://hot-topic.co.nz/new-zealands-southern-alps-have-lost-a-third-of-their-ice/

Same for the Northern Hemisphere

Methane in the upper northern hemisphere is outgassing from the melting tundra. - in Russia, Canada and Alaska.

Permafrost is decaying rapidly not only in the arctic but right across the top of these northern countries.

Is the science letting humanity down?

There are 2,500 international scientists that are doing projections and they always work to the lowest common denominator. They play it conservatively. This is a problem as many of these scientists are Government scientists and they are beholden to their employers for their pay checks - they are frightened and will not tell the truth as it is.

The Great Barrier Reef

Looking at impacts of global warming and that the reefs wellbeing, recently in Australia and the Great Barrier reef is in trouble … remembering it is 'an organism' that due to human impact on the environment – we are causing changing environmental conditions that the reef is being 'bleached' and there appears to be no end in sight. It is the largest coral event in the history of record keeping. The great barrier reef last year received over 90% of its entirety bleached with between 22% and 25% of it is now lost in one year.

Statistics are leading scientists to saying that by 2050 that 98% of coral reefs globally will be experiencing a 'thermal stress event'- a bleaching event every single year.

25% of fish species are dependent on the life of a coral reef.

That if the water warms up on a reef and stays warm the coral dies but if it cools down again within- around 6 weeks – the reef will recover.

Already in the Caribbean sea we have already lost 90% of the entire coral reef system. Dahr has also just come from Guam and in the last 3 years they have lost 50% of their coral. So that is how fast it is happening.

The question is, why are the public not receiving this information?

Why is it that in the US, the media is run by basically 6 major corporations all straight jacketed into the vested corporate military banking industrial model – that censors by omission or just gives out fake news - ad nauseam.

The situation today is very serious!

How do we empower people? And emancipate them from the shackles of apathy and the psychological 'it's all too much' - subjugation?

It's all about connection … to nature and the cycles of nature – until more people go out deep into nature and have connection that is truly intimate – until they get it that we are an extension of our planet we are going to be scratching to get enough uptake to be the change that we wish to see in the world.

Because if humanity does not step up to the plate then near term extermination will come upon us.

If we do not have a clear map to see what is happening – how can we make the correct decisions?

Darhs credentials of putting himself on the line!

Having been in one of the sieges of Fallujah in Iraq, Darh came back with PTSD 'post traumatic stress disorder' and came to meet Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/aboutjoannamacy.html - who follows a Buddhist methodology in dealing with grief and loss and the psychological effect of tragedy - among many other ecological and peaceful matters. However he has been able come through this now, though it still has an affect on him.

Dahr says that not receiving correct and truthful news is a huge problem and that he had to get out of corporate America to obtain news outside their sphere of control and influence to learn the truth and what was really going on.

He said that he realised that the lies and distortions that the US engaged in and that it was involved in an illegal invasion of a sovereign country and broke countless Geneva conventions. However, if he read information coming from the United Nations or (at the time) the 'Guardian' or the 'Independent' in the UK he got a very different understanding. But where do we go today to get concise truthful information?

The truth about Climate Change

For Dahr states that this on going climate change and progressive warming is going to be the most important of issues especially for each successive day for the billions of inhabitant of our planet, period!

Dahr says this is huge, we are losing the biosphere in chunks and he only covered coral in this interview.

With the massive increase and release of pollutants into the atmosphere changing its composition and altering the chemistry of the oceans that we supposedly evolved from - to realise that our oceans will experience a collapse in fisheries due to overfishing and loss of habitat. Because one billion people derive sustenance from fish that live in and around coral reefs – where are they going to get their protein?

Look at the weather shifts especially the freezing weather winters in the North East USA. With massive fluctuations. Crops are being affected by this extreme situation – and bee pollination too.

In Africa.

That in the last 2 months the UN states there are four countries now experiencing famine.

Previously there has been a lot of grain sent from the US to Africa to provide relief - And he is not sure if this will happen under the Trump administration. (I did not get the opportunity to ask if it was GMO grain? Tim) This is only one example of the knock on effect of food production that has to been grown every year to sustain so many lives.

When in Russia it was so warm recently that they had record setting, wildfires – thus the weather patterns has affected their grain growing and instead of being a grain exporter Russia have to keep it all for themselves – but the prices then go up – globally.

Dahr maintains that even the Arab spring is all related directly or indirectly to climate disruptions …

That it was a vegetable vendor in Tunisia setting himself alight – it was an act of self-immolation as a symbolic act because people could not afford to pay for food. Because of drought caused by climate disruption. Dahr states that the same happened in Egypt – people could not afford to eat – Mubarak did nothing and this ignited a situation where he was overrun and his regime fell. Same for Syria – drought affected Syrian farmers that in the end walked off the land into the cities affecting the demographics with poor people igniting an insurrection that lead to Syria erupting in environment. (Tim, there was another component that I did not have time to question and that was a week after 911 in the US, where General Wesley Clark whilst visiting the Pentagon after the twin towers imploded – was told by another army general that the US was going to topple 7 other regimes in the Mediterranean arc - ending with Iran – that for reasons unknown - happened at the same time?). And look what it has devolved into now ….

Critical Information

Dahr, says that if there is one piece of information that he wants to bring home to everyone – "that it is happening now!"

That we cannot fall back on the default that there is still time – or that we can mitigate it or there is still this window … that is is just not true that a lot of governments today (including the NZ government) are banking on this lie.

That we, (the governments) refuse to jettison the fossil fuel economy because of all the strings that have entangled us into this all encompassing, octopus - that envelops the global economy. And though Dahr, feels we are already too late, by jettisoning fossil fuel tomorrow – that would be a starting point.

Tim then says that NZ's challenge is that we have no politician of note or business person of prestige - who stands head and shoulders above all the other leaders in their field - prepared to speak truth to power relating to the climate change that we are pretending will go away – this is mainly due to the complete disconnect from the cycles of air, water and food production that our planet provides us.

Dahr wants people to halfway through reading any of his books – put it down and walk out into nature wherever you may be – the park, among trees, out in the bush, wade into a river, hike a hill or mountain trail – to just surrender to the elements and drop out of our head and into our heart - that 12 inches of descent into our chest cavity to where our heart pumps oxygen around our body temple. Just make the connection to the sacredness of not only our body – but to the earth that supports under the soles of our feet. To be thankful and grateful that we have an ecology that nourishes us. More so that we are not yet being scorched by the heat of the sun's searing heat, or being in a war ravaged village or city in the throes of terror.

So with an emersion back into nature – for only when 'we' - the collective 'we' realise our connection and for a moment in time breathing in that sacredness of that 'presence of being'.

To reflect that, for example in the US at present – people will not be able to petition those in power to bring about the appropriate change.

People Power at Grass Roots is the Only Way Possible.

Changing from the inside.

We have to get in touch with our own grief to recognise what is happening. In Dahr's case he had been to war ravaged Iraq and had 5 assignments and had been in Fallujah during one of the sieges and witnessed first hand a lot of US war crimes upon women, children, babies - horrible things

And when he came back to the States he was suffering from PTS - Post Traumatic Stress disorder that Joanna Macy, out of the US says - that we need to get in touch with our grief. However Dahr was at that stage still extremely angry and did not know that he was in grief and couldn't get in touch with anything as he could not feel much else. Then Dahr says that this, at another level is what so many people in the States are suffering from today - also - because of their exposure to yet another news flash of what preposterous things are happening within the USA be it economic, political, ecological or war.

When we need to look at gratitude and look at where we are, and the amazing place where we live – look at the good people that we have in our lives and the things that we can be grateful for and secondly we need to look squarely and honestly to exactly see what is going on. Plus, how progressed we are on theses destructive paths.

We have to realise that we have already lost large areas of ecosystems. Such as by 2100, Mt Everest may have hardly any glaciers on it. Same for Western Canada the glaciers will be no more. Sci fi movies have not gone there yet, - however we are in it and with the recently rain and flooding in Auckland largest city, (March 2017) we are witnessing climate change first hand.

He says that we have to not only get it intellectually – but also be emotionally engaged – this is where we experience what we are collectively doing to our great sustainer, our planet. We need to feel everything that goes with this … the rage at the people responsible – the rage at our own blindness to it until now – the sadness at what is being lost and the grief and despair and the feelings of powerlessness as to what has been happening - and finally from this place we can start to see things a lot more clearly and finally reconcile with the fact as to what actions do I need to now take.

Listen to Dahr as he takes the next steps …

That it is not an intellectual discussion any more – he says we have all the data – it is how do we take that incredibly long journey from the head to the heart – 25 centimetres and this is where he is writing his book - on the state of our planet and biosphere.

Finding a place of solace – and cherishing that place and caring for it, and making sure it remains because what happens when that place is gone? Then, what you can do to make sure that this natural beauty is here for the long term – our children … perpetuity - it's about what is offered to us freely - clean air – pure water – a healthy food chain …

Joanna Macy's work … called 'the future beings' is an exercise. She breaks the workshop into half. With one half of the group are here in present day and the other half are 200 years in the future – but the 1st assumption is that there are beings 200 years into the future and our planet has no more ice in the arctic – not much in the Antarctic and Greenland is basically a puddle Ocean levels are 100 feet higher and parts of our planet look like Mad Max. Sitting in front of you is a person who is huddled in a small community somewhere on our planet that is still habitable, endeavouring to survive as a species.

And to the group that is in today – we still have much of our biosphere basically intact – ice though retreating is still here in both poles and a good part of the great barrier reef is still present. But, what are you doing?

Listen to how Dahr responds when faced with confronting the refugees of 200 years into the future … Hint – a small act now can make a huge difference in the future – (A stitch in time saves nine). That NZ can be the trim-tab factor for our Planet – per Buckminster Fuller). http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/01/08/in-the-outlaw-area

Intent comes up and following through on doing what is best for the greater consciousness – in bettering the whole … being fully alive.

Tim's critique - At present there are collectively tens of thousands of scientists who know that we are racing off the cliff, however they are not prepared to put their money where their research is showing them.

They do not want to collectively put a miserly 10 thousand dollars, from their own well-off pocket into a collective kitty to enable a couple of million dollars be put into a greater fund for a number of really hard hitting, high quality documentaries that tell it - as it is.

But, more so to empower us to action as the seed of this living planet 'Gaia' and show that we can wake up and flower as a race if we only tapped into our inner potential. (See Tom Campbell GreenplanetFM).

Do we have to leave it up to a movie star, Leonardo DiCaprio, and his timely movie 'After the Flood' to wake up the world? What are these scientists doing with their money. What are these billionaires that seem to be a dime a dozen - what are they doing with their money? Why are they not financially supporting the evidence and doing the right thing?

I would also like to mention that NZer Kevin Hester was instrumental in bringing Dahr Jamail to NZ and it has been Kevin's unrelenting drive to keep this urgent climatic subject in the news here in New Zealand.

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22521-climate-disruption-dispatches-with-dahr-jamail

What we are also up against:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations

John Seed = Deep Ecology = One of Australia's most articulate communicators of, and about, the web of life.

John gets us in touch with the psychological dimension of our environmental crisis to get beyond the denial that most people greet the news - as to what is happening to our world – and if we are in denial about the terrible plight that our planet's in –then our ability to celebrate the beauty of nature and the glory of the cosmos is severely hampered – because it's resting on a very unstable foundation.

John's work over many decades has been in collaboration with Joanna Macy from the USA. They encourage people to recognise that our deepest feelings of despair and anguish about what's happening to our world, are an integral part of us being able to celebrate and glory in the wonders of nature and the wonders of creation. That if we are in denial and are unwilling to feel and to share our pain as to what's happening to our world, then we are also unable to truly celebrate the beauty, that surround us.

This has led him to take people who are needing to be healed 'on a journey' so as to let them confront their hurt and fears and - from a psychological standpoint reconcile and rectify the trauma that they are witnessing across the face of nature today. This is an Australian story of a seminal conflict between the forest industry and the conservation movement over rainforests in northern New South Wales.

Battle for Forests

The battle over logging the rainforests of Terania Creek in 1979 started the Rainforest War in New South Wales. Some claimed Terania Creek to be the last un-logged rainforest in Australia. The war was a clash of values and cultures, but three important lessons came about from this conflict. These being the influence of the media, the role of science and ecology, and the spirituality of forests.

This ecological battle started a process that saw the eventual closure to logging and reservation in national parks of 900,000 ha of native forest, or about one third of the productive State Forests of New South Wales.

This halted the logging and sparked the NSW government's decision to gazette the remaining rainforest in NSW as a National Park.

John states "that even though we won that battle there are so many other battles...and in lots of ways they got worse."

"We still find it really hard to imagine that it was the first time people actively got out and protected the rainforest."

However John soon realised that in spite of the success of saving that forest and the wildlife that abounded, in looking at what was happening all around our planet - for every forest that was being protected, a thousand forests were being lost. And he saw clearly that there was no way we could save our planet at one forest at a time.

Addressing the underlying Psychological challenge.

That unless we address the underlying psychological or spiritual disease that afflicts modern humans one that somehow allows us to imagine that we can somehow profit from the destruction of our own life support systems – and that these actions are very enjoyable and rewarding for the participants - it would be of no particular significance to the future of the world.

So John began to study to understand why do we behave is such a self-defeating manner?

He mentions:

Paul Ehrlich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich

The famous American ecologist and population commentator who said "we are sawing off the branch that we are sitting on."

Clearly this indicates a psychological problem no matter how much the timber in that branch might be worth – it can't profit us to do this. And through this enquiry he came upon a philosophy of nature called Deep Ecology.

Deep Ecology:

And this is where he could understand why we were behaving in this way. Deep Ecology was coined by the Norwegian - the late Arne Naess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Næss the emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Oslo University who said the underlying all the symptoms of the environmental crisis was the illusion of separation between ourselves and that of the natural world. The illusion … and this has grown into anthropocentrism or human centeredness.

The idea that we human beings are the centre of everything. This view sees us being the crown of creation - the measure of all being … and that nothing has any value except human beings – nothing is intrinsic. Things can have instrumental value if they are a resource for us. But really, we do not look at life as being a web or, if we do happen to see life as a web – we are the spider in the centre of it.

We are still unable to understand the science of ecology and the wisdom of indigenous people reveals we are but one strand in that web and if we destroy the other strands we destroy ourselves.

Connection to the Earth via Ceremony

John's workshops look to how most indigenous societies practice and reiterate the connection between human beings and that 'all our relations' are not severed. Every indigenous culture has ceremonies and rituals that allow the human family to celebrate our connectedness and to nourish that connectedness. And these ceremonies involve the entire community and the children are there and are watching and are learning this. Indigenous people have this knowing that we are rooted and draw energy and nourishment from the living earth and enact it with reverence for nature in all their ceremonies – so as to never forget their roots. (When were you last bare footed walking on the grass of the earth?)

For 30 years John has been developing methods and skills to move us from a social identity to an ecological identity.

This interview covers Wetko – the mind virus that has infected materialist man and what we need to recognise - to break free. That the First Nation American peoples - saw the very connection to Mother Earth when recently here in NZ one visitor put on a small campfire, a dry branch of wood and reverently stated "to all our relations" – that the tree is of life, giving us light and warmth as well as taking in Co2 and giving us oxygen back.

Everything is connected. We are all in a grand cycle called life and it is this wonder of the web of life that is threatened by our foolish behaviour today.…

The Council of All Beings

An experiential process of deep connection – That Joanna Macy & John designed back in the mid eighties – and the book 'Thinking like a mountain towards the Council of all Beings… translated onto a dozen languages - Now in Mandarin

www.joannamacy.net/

Originally Joanna taught "despair and empowerment " and it is now called "honouring our pain for the world."

Once certain boundaries are set – people are invited to share their deepest feelings of anguish, despair and horror at what's happening to our world.

This is a rare opportunity because if anyone even hinted at expressing their feelings around this subject - under ordinary circumstances people instantly want to change the subject as everyone feels threatened when such feelings are openly expressed. But, as people are taken through this exercise – what follows is empowerment and we discover that (listen to the broadcast that John eloquently shows us a way out) - the end result is a celebration that then becomes possible!

Thomas Berry's name is mentioned http://thomasberry.org/

A Catholic theologian, who instead of focussing his attention on the Heavens to find God, became a geo seer – studying the Ancient Greek word Geo – where we get as a prefix …for geology, geography, geometry, geodesy, geopolitics etc. Our planet.

The study of the earth … Is another way to see our connection to the earth in such another way as to experience a deeper relationship and link to the earth.

http://drewdellinger.org/ Poet who wrote the poetic introduction that John introduced us with at the state of this interview.

Also http://www.genesisfarm.org/about.taf Sister Miriam MacGillis of Genesis Farm that is dedicated to understanding the Universe and Earth as a single, unfolding process. That Genesis Farm offers diverse and innovative experiences that inspire a comprehensive approach to personal and social change. As a community facility it is open to all who are interested in exploring the sacredness of the land, their mission and their work.

Sister Miriam MacGillis created a process called the cosmic walk – and this is what John's workshop will do on this coming Saturday night. (1st April 2017 at Kawai Purapura. See below) A spiralling story of the creation and the evolution of life. Which everyone participates in.

IndiaJohn then tells of his work in India, which as a country he says has given him so much inspiration to awaken his spirituality - that:

Bruce Lipton's name comes up again with his work in India around organics and farming.

http://www.organicindia.com/ and Bharat Mitra. This became a movement in organic and biodynamic farming methods that were developed and practiced. The founder's mission being to offer safe effective herbal products to the world and he is the driving force behind an organic revolution that started with ORGANIC INDIA and is now taking root all across India.

Re forestation of the sacred mountain in South India

https://naturedesignsjohnfranci.com/projects-implemented/

In 1988 John, who is a founder and Director of the Rainforest Information Centre (RIC) was asked to assist in the co-ordination of the Annamalai Reforestation Society's project to green the sacred mountain of Arunachala in South India. Now the mountain reforestation has advanced a long way since then. There is a good collection of different organisations working together to ensure the the success of the project. http://www.theforestway.org/greening/overview.html

Land rights for the Poor of India. John has been assisting these people for some time.

In December 2015, Rajeev wrote to John that the campaign to establish land-rights for the Katkari and other Adivasis was finally bearing fruit and "will help resolve the insecure village land issue in at least 600 – 700 Katkari villages".

http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/projects/india/rajeev3-16proposal.htm

The next steps are tree plantings to improve the fertility and productivity of their land. However, suitable native tree seedlings were not available and they are establishing a nursery "to ensure multiplication of diverse native plant species (fruits, uncultivated foods, vegetables, medicinal plants, fibre plants, sacred plants, flowering plants, natural dyes, etc)"

This interview of John Seed shows a dedicated man working for the earth.

Big Data Info: http://rainforests.mongabay.com

Johns Itinerary for Auckland New Zealand 2017

• MARCH 23 "What is Ecological Identity?" Auckland University of Technology
• MARCH 24 "Fostering Ecological Identity" Auckland University of Technology
• MARCH 25-26 talks and workshops at the Voices of Sacred Earth festival, Auckland Kawai Purapura Mills Lane Albany.
• MARCH 28 "Weaving Together Maori Earth Wisdom with Deep Ecology" with Maikara Ropata & Sika, Pititahi Marae , Waiheke Island
• APRIL 1-2 "A weekend of Deep Ecology"
• APRIL 3 Facilitator Training, Auckland

For the best information go to https://workthatreconnects.org/event/john-seed-in-new-zealand/

Sacred Economics and other thoughts – Lisa Er interviews Charles Eisenstein on Sacred Economics, and the world after Trump.

"The present convergence of crises––in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more––is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new."

"When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature's gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart's desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature's gifts, to use them well."

"It's a very ancient idea that the universe runs by the principles of the gift. That human life runs by the principles of the gift. And that in fact the purpose for our existence, the reason why we're here, is to give. And that everybody has a gift that is important and meaningful, and maybe even unique and essential. It's certainly true in an ecosystem where every species has an important function, and without that function, without that gift that it gives to the ecosystem everybody would be a little bit poorer. The system as a whole would be a little bit weaker."

"And this is a new understanding that may be only 40 or 50 years old, in the west at least. A hundred years ago, or even 50 years ago, scientists thought that you could eliminate one species, eliminate in fact all the bad species, and make nature better. But we're understanding now that every being has its gift to give. And this shift of perception hasn't been integrated yet into our institutions."

"Mainstream economics doesn't really understand this. It says that human beings don't really want to work. There's a phrase in economics, "the disutility of work." Human beings don't want work, so we have to make people work with these incentives, this money that overcomes your natural disinclination to create, to be productive, and to give something to other people. You have to get something in return, otherwise you won't want to do it. And it's considered good that we have a system based on scarcity, that creates anxiety, that kind of forces you to work."

"Money is just an agreement. Money only has value because people believe it has value. It is something that we create through our agreements. You can say that money is a story. It's the symbols that we interpret in a certain way, and that means that they're valuable. So why have we agreed to create a system of value that is the enemy of all of the beautiful things we want to do?

The paragraphs above are from Charles Eisenstein's presentation, "Sacred Economics, money, the gift, and society in the age of transition."

http://charleseisenstein.net/sacred-economics-money-the-gift-and-society-in-the-age-of-transition/

In this interview we covered the underlying causes of our current economic difficulties including the need for an attitude change about money, and the system, and how these both need changing.

Money is not a neutral energy. It has 'scarcity' built into it. It creates endless growth of the economy because more money needs to be created in order to support the growth.

We are not only reaching growth limits but we are reaching spiritual ones. There is a psychic limit to the cost of impoverishment of life when everything is effectively converted into money.

Charles answers questions on some of the most hopeful trends he sees today; his vision for a new economy; the key to transitioning to sacred economics; and what can we do in our communities to contribute to a new economy.

On speaking about the new POTUS, Trump, Charles says that almost anything could happen in the US, including government breakdown, and creating a new constitution, or even extreme scenarios such as break away states,

You can find Charles' bio on his web site :

http://charleseisenstein.net/about-charles/

This interview was sponsored by The Awareness Party

http://www.theawarenessparty.com/

As many of you know Bruce Lipton is a world renowned author and a quantum - cellular biologist that takes evolution to the next level.

He offers the concept that the cell is a microcosm of the human body that we can understand how a cell works (one of the 50 trillion in our body) by making analogies with how a body works.

With all the magnificent machinery that we call the human body, there is no new function that's present in your human body that's not already present in every single cell. You have a digestive system, a respiratory system, etc, - so does a cell.

The fact that we have become disconnected from our bodies has become legion as especially with Western males, who think they are bullet proof and abuse their bodies trusting that Western medicine will revive them with a cure to carry on.

That the human body can also be seen as a microcosm of our planet is another example of our connectivity. Our body is composed of air, water and earth minerals - so is our planet. That a human blood system is 3.5% salt - so are our oceans. Our body has a respiratory system, our planet has an atmospheric system. Our body has acupuncture meridians - our planet has ley lines. http://ancientexplorers.com/blog/ley-lines/

However Bruce opens up in this interview by saying that we humans have to take note – that though scientists have been mentioning it for some time now – the hard cold fact is that our planet is into the 6th major species collapse – that as we have massively increased our population and ecological footprint, especially in the last 150 years– we have not recognised where this is leading us, and continually fail to heed the warning signs.

What science is increasingly becoming more shrill about is that the present loss of species is 1,000 times greater than the back-ground loss. Which means there are always losses, but these are infinitesimal because 2,000 years ago we would have had only about 500 million people max – living without machinery and technology. Now we are approaching gigantism - where with 7.5 billion human beings we are in many ways infesting the organism that supports us.

Our planet, Mother Earth.

Now why would Bruce be bringing this to our attention, having written 3 bestselling books that have accentuated the possibility that we humans can evolve stupendously fast to become profoundly aware that we can - with much inner change and reflection - become super conscious planetary beings. To choose to wake up to the reality of what's happening and evolve a 'new knowingness' based on cooperation and shared responsibility.

He also mentions how the bio-web, or the web of life that embraces and underpins the biosphere is starting to show signs of imminent collapse … The great coral reefs that are bleaching globally as well as the fast approaching collapse of the ocean fisheries - that we are ignoring at the peril of our children.

This rapidly approaching fisheries collapse is scheduled to hit by around 2048.

Yes we have heard it all before – yet now we have a seasoned voice articulating the urgency. Someone who has a deep understanding of the evolutionary process and its downside.

Coral reef bleaching, he says is like, when we see life as a pyramid – everything at a lower level is built upon supporting everything at other levels above it. So if we drop out the lower level, then everything that it is holding up – drops out all the higher levels including us humans – and at present it is about to fall and collapse.

Geologist studying time periods call this the Anthropocene age.

Anthropocene age is about humans … and what they are noticing is that the atmosphere, the water and the land is being altered by we humans - it's being called the human interference phase … which we are seeing in all the climatic / weather changes – bottom line we are facing the extinction of the human culture. This has also been induced by the thousand of atomic bomb tests, plastic pollution and massive deforestation of tropical forests, soot from power stations, concrete, and even the bones left by the global proliferation of the domestic chicken were now under consideration. etc.

We have two choices.

The two choices are – to continue down the same road of growth at all costs towards extinction - and it's looming fast – Science conservatively states by 2048 there will be no fish in our oceans - 2048 – just over 30 years … due to three things:-

Overfishing – destroying breeding grounds and polluting the water.

We have known this for a while yet no one has done anything.

What do we do … because we can not delay ….

The other choice …

Bruce mentions the biological imperative and that it's built into every living organism – that being 'the drive to survive' … all animals, birds, insects, fish - will flee if threatened and when we translate this to the human condition today we are witnessing a global response from people that to many of them - 'it's not going well' and the gut response from increasing numbers of them, are now reacting - 'knowing that something is going on' and this is 'the collective receptivity.' We know that at heart we are going in the wrong direction and that at present we need two planet earths to support our consumer levels of extracting of vital resources, minerals, oils, wood vegetation .

So we now have a situation of 'America First and Bruce posits the possibility that the USA will be the first to collapse and break its structure due to its leadership … With a major monkey wrench being thrown into the system and waking people up everywhere - that everything is essentially dysfunctional!

The 'new President of America' is precipitating an evolutionary change – forcing people to push for change to a more evolved state .

But when positive fights a negative – they cancel each other out and Bruce mentions the metaphor of – using a positive wire and a negative wire - put them together and you get sparks and fire and you end up with a loss - loss situation.

We can go out against something and cancel our energy or instead coalesce our positive energy and 'be for something.'

We can do fear and fight or flight or we can do GROWTH.

1% of disease can be attributed to a genetic issues … the rests are essentially psychological and what we are programmed with from the outside world. Plus of course environmental considerations. Coughs colds influenza, malaria etc (seen 14 minutes 53 seconds into the interview after the introduction).

'We are the environment' – the Judeo Christian bible says that first there was an environment and then humans were dropped into the environment – but we grew and evolved out of the environment … we do not have domain over nature – we are nature ….

So when we are chopping down the environment we are chopping away at ourselves because we are an extension of the environment. Self destruction and self sabotage are synonymous in our current paradigm and the resulting stress is a psychological issue.

So where we are currently at - is that we are inducing our own evolution. That we have caused our own 'evolutionary driver' - in the words of Barbara Marx Hubbard - to force ourselves to evolve to the next evolutionary level.

This is where Bruce's book 'Spontaneous Evolution' presents us with a blueprint to advance conscious choices and make the jump to a new paradigm.

In its 2016 July 7 issue the leading scientific journal, Nature, published a remarkable essay by Richard Conn Henry, professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. The essay ran under this rubric:

"The Universe is immaterial-mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy." As unusual as such an essay may be for a major scientific journal, what really interests us is that prominent physicists have been making statements not far removed from this for several decades, arguing, for example, that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the physical world. And yet, right into our own day biologists, for example, have continued speaking as if the rock-bottom reality of the world consisted of little mechanistic devices of one sort or another. This is clearly the picture that philosopher Daniel Dennett has in mind when he tells us that evolution occurs by means of "mindless and mechanical" processes.

However beyond the quantum level, possibility is rich in potential and Bruce has been breaking into new realms in this arena for well over a decade.

Children get programmed by the age of 7 that 70% of their upbringing is disempowering, self sabotaging and limiting. We need a new enlightened program that adeptly shifts the focus away from duality with a better choice of vernacular.

Can't, won't, shouldn't - the usual suspects can be re-honed to offer other wiser word choices - so that instead of the child by the age of 5 experiencing hundred of versions of no, stop keep quite, you can't do that, you shouldn't go there, you won't succeed - we get in along side them and offer them other ways at going forward. Have you endeavoured to see it this way? Have you heard of …? This is a way that I have succeeded in. etc

This is Bruce at his enthusiastic best - even when dealing with the overwhelming challenges that are facing us as a species. The aim for Bruce is not to evolve the individual into a new Einstein - but to evolve the race - the human race and we are running out of time and space to gift our children a healthy balanced and bountiful planet. - we are on the precipice!

Bruce then gives us a pointer.

When it comes to the Matrix the movie - if you still have a video store, you will find it in the Science Fiction shelves – Ahhhh Bruce says … actually 'it's a documentary!' - yes that's right! – a documentary! We are in the matrix now and we have been programmed and the program is that of limitation.

If we wake up we can make an evolutionary jump!

This is Bruce in the flow - he states what is imperative and he articulates it in an entertaining way.

Possibilities await us - all we need to do is courageously question more, knowing that 'we are also spiritual beings having an earth experience' and that we have not only entered the quantum field we have always been embedded in it, but not known it. - That everything is consciousness as per Bruce's recently joining Tom Campbell - in that we are all extensions of 'the Greater Consciousness' that Tom, a physicists - so adeptly explains.

We are the change and the sooner we embrace it wholeheartedly the sooner this extended profundity will shine into our life, bringing with it a far deeper appreciation of existence as well as a widening smile to our countenance.

An enjoyable interview with Bruce Lipton - quantum trooper and metaphysical teacher.

BruceLipton.com

Tom Campbell Part Two of his cultural tour of New Zealand

Tom Campbell PhD - from the US has an impressive career in applied physics. Having worked in military intelligence, reverse-engineering foreign technology, as well as in missile defence, including working on huge engineering projects for NASA - the US space agency - up until very recently.

Tom was brought up and graduated in science within the mainstream university system and then by chance found himself living only 45 minutes drive from a person called Robert Monroe. Monroe had been experiencing situations where he would randomly shift his awareness to where it would be outside of his body and he would be 'on the outside looking in' and able to float and project his awareness to different locations.

This has had some people labelling it soul travel, astral travel or plain 'out of the body experiences' and Monroe could not understand it. So he looked for some young scientists grounded in reality who had been basically educated that we live in a soulless and mechanistic world and that we are only a body with a mind that is inside the brain.

Monroe, who had now spent a lot of time experiencing these differing states of being of - out of the body - and shifting his consciousness to other realms cut a deal with Tom and the other scientist. "Study what I do and make sense of it in a scientific context and I will show you how to do what I do." This started a relationship right up until Monroe's death. https://www.monroeinstitute.org

In this interview Toms says that at a subatomic level below the quantum reality we have to understand that everything is at its most basic level - is Consciousness.

That Consciousness in turn is basically information and where does this information come from? – It turns out that consciousness - is an information system and we humans are individuated units of consciousness (like you and I).

We are chunks of consciousness that share information. That's what you do if you are an information system – so we pass information back and forth. As animated chunks of consciousness – we are aware – we know what we are doing - but, what about this physical reality – what is it here for?

This is where I mention :

The four basic forces of nature are gravity, the strong force, the weak force, and the electromagnetic force. The theory of general relativity explains gravity, and quantum mechanics explains the other three forces. Right now, no one theory that everyone accepts can explain all four forces.

String theory is a theory that could become the "theory of everything".

And questions like?

• How large is the universe and how eternal? The steady state Universe …
• 528 hertz is supposedly to be the frequency of Love
• No accidents in the universe ? Correct?
• Where does sound come into it? Because sound vibrating on liquid or sand particles can bring form into being …
• Is our universe part of a multi verse like how a V 8 motor sequence works.
• Akashic records?
• Karma - the law of return?
• Why can you not contact Robert Monroe now?

So there is so much to the makeup of reality.

What's its purpose? And the logic goes like this … If you are an information system - you have to continually reduce entropy … entropy is a scientific word that is a measure of disorder. Entropy has a way of just happening – like things have a way of … like decaying, falling apart – things tend to become unorganised. Disorganisation happens over time – it just naturally does that even eventually those molecules will breakdown - that's called Newton's 2nd Law of the Thermodynamics it says the entropy always increases, that taken to its final conclusion has - from the scientific mind set - that if we wait long enough our universe will end up only with hydrogen atoms and elementary particles - that is what science says that this is what will be left - as everything will disintegrate.

However when we units of consciousness realise that we must slow down entropy we can consciously come together in a growing mass of shared consciousness and make a choice – follow the path of love or go down the path of fear. However, when the individual units of consciousness care about each other, are cooperative - they share – it's about service to the greater whole - it is not about self.

Fear on the other hand is that you trust no one, it is all about self and you are always protecting your back. Because everyone is looking to take your piece of the pie. However even in these situations they may strategically come together to group and then start to plunder the ones that are alone – then they may work together to corner the market – (so to speak) and with them having turf wars it finally ends up with conglomerates merging together. That when we see what's happening today with the giant mega complexes – corporate raiding etc and what has happened on Wall St, in the USA - we see the down side of reality not serving the whole.

Where as the units that work together we have more trust – goodwill, shared success and growth and creativity. Like how can I help you – how can I help to better the whole. Which side is the better to involve yourself with? Especially for the future of children and it has to be the love side. The logical conclusion is that if you are an information system you want to survive – you need to lower entropy – the best way to do that is through cooperation it's through being - Love. Caring about others.

Also covered is the feed back mechanisms - consequences, learning … and we are in a entropy reduction trainer for consciousness – just like pilots go to an inflight trainer to learn how to fly an airliner. Whereas we are also in a simulation - a virtual reality and Tom sees it as our mission to become love. To decrease the entropy of our individual consciousness and by doing so we reduce the entropy of the whole consciousness system – and we are a part (albeit small) here to evolve the larger consciousness system and to keep evolving …

Tom also states that Relativity and Quantum Mechanics can not work together at the level it is endeavouring to be understood. But when you see everything from a standpoint of consciousness being embedded in virtual reality - you are able to pull it all together.

See the double slit experiment.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWI19Owk_1c

This shows that our reality is not materialistic and not deterministic – it is probabilistic and particles don't really exist – there is potential particles that obey the laws of probability – and that is how this world works .

Tom has devised 6 experiments that he wants University physics departments or any institute world-wide that do research on things that are 'impossible' as in minor miracles as they crack open the old thought form and bring through a new reality of possibility and that consciousness is behind it all.

What is happening today is the emerging consciousness that has been seen to be on the fringes of science and reality is now moving very quickly to the centre.

This interview covers with Tim bring up other subject matter bush as:

Timothy Leary coming on stage in Los Angeles in 1988 and telling the audience that we are totally surrounded by information. That we decode this information and make sense of it. He was an early up taker of seeing everything as being bits of information and data and frame it in those words

Captain Edgar Mitchell 6th Man on the moon –of The Noetic Sciences was also at the same Expo where he mentioned he had had synchronised experiments with telepathy between him whilst on the moon and people here on earth and the results were very promising.

Tom says that throughout most of the universities today, any with a strong Physics Department you will find up to 20 - 30 % of the all physicists there, will be saying we want to look far more deeply into virtual reality and consciousness. Because that is where our next evolutionary step is taking us.

Today at Cern in Switzerland they are now looking at electrons as having the properties of charge and the properties of mass - thats the way you represent an electron in a computer – it's a point with the attributes of mass and the attributes of charge – if they look at an electron that way – there math will predict correctly how experiments come out. If they think of it as a little chunk of mass with a charge – they can't get the right answer – because it's just information and their experiments will not come out correctly. This is where we are today.

Also mentioned in this conversation is NZer Brian http://brianwhitworth.com/ from Massey university who too is on the leading edge of the consciousness revolution – talking up 'virtual reality' very early in this millennium.

Covering mystics talking about reality from Shri Aurabindo to the Buddha seeing that this reality is illusionary – and Tom says this is about as close to saying that the reality we live in is as close to as you can get - to saying that this is a virtual reality.

Yes, mystics have understood this, for millennia and it is available because we are an individuated unit of consciousness and we can have unlimited access to this … because the internet has connected us into one simultaneous web of interrelationship.

That virtual reality is also sub set of something larger and must have behind it a greater consciousness – and when we surrender more and get out of our intellect and into our intuitive field – we see a larger consciousness as well as the wholesale emergence of spirituality and love making itself known.

Also covered

Holon's Arthur Koestler that everything is nested in another archetypal system.

This can be demonstrated in the holarchic relationship (subatomic particles ↔ atoms ↔ molecules ↔ macromolecules ↔ organelles ↔ cells ↔ tissues ↔ organs ↔ organisms ↔ communities ↔ societies) where it expands …

Eco systems ↔ biosphere ↔ planetary ↔ solar system ↔galactic ↔ universal ↔ multiverse ?

each holon is a "level" of organisation, and all are ultimately descriptive of the same set (e.g., a particular collection of matter). The top can be a bottom, a bottom can be a top, and, like a fractal, the patterns evident at one level can be similar to those at another.

That had Alfred Russell Wallace been able to get his theory of evolution out to the world before Charles Darwin it would have shown far more cooperation within nature where animals and plants found certain non confrontational niches. Our culture today would not be so programed as in this - semi dog eat dog program we have been inculcated with.

This is how Elisabet Sahtouris sees a differing kind of evolution.

www.sahtouris.com/

Internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality, Dr. Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author and consultant on Living. Show's that within evolution there is a lot of co operation.

Brucelipton.com Bruce too signals that cooperation within nature is seen to be a way through for the human race to solve its many challenges

Covering minerals evolving from 12 major minerals not long after the big bang to 4,000 plus today.

Civilisations evolving and devolving especially when there is fear involved.

Unity Consciousness:

Using the information that Tom is bringing here to NZ and spreading it across the nation - through fibers of light across the web that covers our country – to stimulate peoples interest in unity consciousness – and that we are seen as important energy bundles expressing our inter-connectiveness and aspirations for a far better future for all biota and in particular our children and grandchildren …

Tom mentions that we can not achieve it appropriately from the intellect – we must move our understanding down to our chest cavity and that is has to be fully embraced and felt from the heart – if we really want to initiate the much needed change that at soul level we have all been calling for.

Tim mentions that we are nearing what Teihard de Chardin the Jesuit Priest (that did not find favour from Rome) called an Omega point – where at heart we as a humanity transform into a type of global group mind where we retain our own identity yet are able to surrender into a greater consciousness …

And that this momentum that we are in at present - is in Toms' words – our destiny as a humanity.

The larger consciousness can also for reference – be called God, the Divine, Source, the Creator and we are an integral part of it. This larger consciousness system is also finite, (which I Tim found is a very interesting statement) its not perfect, it's a real system that is evolving. It's not a done thing - it's an evolving system.

By expressing it this way – that is is a larger consciousness - it misses some of the dogma that we have either been programed with or held too zealously in our thought process.

This way you do not get tied to the dogma, nor the ritual. The larger conscious system just keeps on evolving so as long as it keeps on growing it will be eternal – making us as eternal too - this is a cosmic win win – forever - and is our destination.

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The Universe is immaterial — mental and spiritual. Live, and enjoy, - states Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

Note that Tom will be doing an introduction this Sunday.

Where: Parnell Community Center, Parnell, Auckland

When: Sunday Feb 26, 2017 from 1-6 pm

Cost: $75 US with high tea included (US$60 for GreenplanetFM radio listeners - use the discount code: RK60)

Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-big-toe-consciousness-in-a-virtual-reality-tickets-27502910947

Tom Campbell PhD - from the US has an impressive career in applied physics. Having worked in military intelligence, reverse-engineering foreign technology, as well as in missile defence, including working on huge engineering projects for NASA - the US space agency - up until very recently. However as a scientist with an extremely enquiring mind he has spent 30 years plus of his life - researching - 'out of the body experiences' also known as 'remote viewing' for the Monroe Institute https://www.monroeinstitute.org and studying especially the nature of consciousness and reality. And, he's done this by remaining open-minded about these topics that include the placebo affect and statistically measurable power of intent, and lucid dreaming. All this is within this 'theory of everything' which he call His Big Toe - Theory Of Everything. http://www.my-big-toe.com Yet, deep within the sub atomic domain of consciousness and quantum realms - reality also opens up to be inclusive of compassion, co-operation and love. Since the end of the 2nd World War in 1945 and up until today - we have been taught through our education and the higher levels of learning (some will say programmed) - especially, throughout our universities - - that the universe is here, all by a - random fluke, that we are all here - by chance - that God, spirit and soul do not exist and that we live in a mechanised machine -like universe and that scientific dissection has not found any soul or anything related to spirit and that our telescopes have not been able to find heaven or God. This is the standard viewpoint of our institutes of learning on our planet today. What you see is what you get. If you can not measure it, whatever it is - then it does not exist. Or, it is just your imagination fooling you. Subjects covered in this interview. Tom talks about as a child being a 'right brainer' and a holistic perceiver when as a younger person he went into science so as to get a better grounding and understanding of what the building blocks of existence were. Yet, when gazing down into the subatomic world everything is energy packets and probability. He says that the ancient mystics understood much of this and that even Buddha, way back, saw reality as illusion - that the Australian first peoples, the aborigine saw the dream time as an extension of this reality that we all inhabit. As they experience it from an intuitive level and not on an intellectual level. That human soul definitely exists and is an extension of the greater ocean of consciousness … That 'Consciousness' came before the Big Bang ... Virtual reality is the big scientific study as of this moment with 10's of thousands of physicists researching this realm. The overall message is for us to grow up, to care about others and not be so self centred … it's all about cooperation and caring - it's - to love This is where we are evolving to - that's the mission of soul … that's the mission of individuated units of consciousness The Placebo Affect - what it is and that it works in so many situations. BUT he says - be skeptical and disbelieving until you get the experience and then you becoming far more knowing. Tom is going to be here in Auckland at the end of this month giving presentations on his understanding of existence and reality. Big Picture stuff https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tom+campbell+2016+youtube. Hundred of You Tube videos. Tom Campbell will be presenting Consciousness in a Virtual Reality in Auckland at Parnell Community Center, Parnell, Auckland on Sunday Feb 26, 2017 from 1-6 pm $75 US with high tea included (US$60 for GreenplanetFM - radio listeners code:RK60) On Saturday March 4th and 5th A Two-Day Cultural Connection Workshop at Auckland University of Technology. Dr Robin Kelly from Auckland author of The Human Antenna and The Human Hologram will be part of the panel on Sunday along with Marla Frees a psychic from the US - both representing different aspects of Tom's Big TOE. Tom will incorporate their views of reality within the context of a physicist's science view of our reality in addition to showing the similarities between the ancient traditions and culture of NZ and his MBT theory. (A code has been created to allow listeners a good discount code: RK250 (US$250 with lunch included on both days) There will be no ticket sales at the door so all bookings must be in advance on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-big-toe-consciousness-in-a-virtual-reality-tickets-27502910947 Auckland https://www.eventbrite.com/e/my-big-toe-2-day-cultural-connection-workshop-tickets-27504741422

Rebuilding the decimated democracy - values as compass points.

Countering TPP and ugly sisters RCEP and TiSA - secret pacts to undermine the democracy.

TPP hangs in the balance.

The public opposition has been ignored by the government as it rushed to cement the TPP into the New Zealand Rulebook.

We await the attitude of the US President and Congress to cast the die. Will Trump allow congress to trump his campaign promise to stop TPP?

We cannot wait passively as our government is negotiating more of these corporate rights treaties; RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) and TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement).

RCEP is between the Asian economies led by China and India including Australia and ourselves. It has similar content as TPP and is negotiated in anti-democratic secrecy. Civil society is not informed until a final agreement is reached between the governments.

TiSA is between the advanced economies and encompasses services. See Wikileaks for leaked TiSA chapters which are about deregulating financial rules - it was deregulation that gave us the GFC (Great Financial Crisis).

We can work during the NZ general election campaign by seeking commitments from alternative government parties that they will withdraw from the TPP.

What do New Zealanders really want?

Greg has been consolidating the material he's been ​studying​ over the past couple of years.

He has been considering values as signposts to where the public mood rests.​

It wasn't long ago that the NZ Government asked the people about their values. It was a component of the Flag Referendum process of 2015/6. New Zealanders were asked what they stand for. The people offered 10,292 flag designs. They offered 43,000 individual contributions of what they stood for.

View the word cloud below of most frequent values expressed by the New Zealand public. Here is the image from the website.

Place Picture IN here of: many words Like EQUALITY HISTORY FREEDOM that is in documents - Thank you - Tim

None of the above suggest the TPP. Forty three thousand (43,000) people is a large sample of the 4.6 million New Zealand population.

The Flag Referendum process was advanced as a constitutional matter. Surely the Stand For values are an important contribution to the values underpinning our NZ Constitution.

Is New Zealand a democracy?

Are the people's values reflected in the Government's policy settings?

Greg says the obvious finding is that the New Zealand Government does not reflect the deep values of the people of this State.

It appears the values theme runs deep in the Kiwi psyche.

Colmar Brunton finds ethical values run deep

Recently Colmar Brunton published their latest Better Futures Report (November 2016) highlighting that values matter to New Zealanders.

Scoop reported that Kiwis are hot on global sustainability goals.

"Most Kiwis rate global sustainability goals as very important – especially those relating to social issues – according to a report released today.

The Colmar Brunton 2016 Better Futures Report incorporated the results of New Zealand's first ever survey into the public's attitude to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to which the Government signed up in 2015.

The 17 SDGs include a mix of social, environmental, cultural and economic goals such as no poverty, climate action, reduced inequalities, clean water and sanitation, decent work and economic growth and quality education.

Colmar Brunton Chief Client Officer Sarah Bolger says. "Between 60% and 80% of Kiwis rate each goal as very important. When those people were asked to name the single most important goal the top six in order of priority were: no poverty, good health and well-being, quality education, sustainable cities and communities, clean water and sanitation, and zero hunger.

It's clear from this that New Zealanders care most about improving the day-to-day lives of others and there is a strong skew towards social issues in the top six goals.

In particular Kiwis think we need to do more towards achieving zero hunger, sustainable cities and communities and no poverty, as they believe our performance in these areas fails to measure up to the importance we place on them."

Considering both the Stand For values and the Better Futures Report leads generally to what people might consider of import in the coming year. My purpose is to use these values to highlight a potential 2017 general election agenda:

1. TPP - (plus TISA and RCEP) grow the campaign. TPP if ratified by the US locks NZ in as our parliament has ratified, subject to an alternative government withdrawing..

Professor Jane Kelsey and It's Our Future propose ramping up the campaign against TiSA from 3 February.

The campaign is to gain commitments from parties to withdraw from TPP and to ensure that RCEP and TiSA do not undermine our domestic arrangements.

1. Questions for 2017 General Election;

1. How do we place TPP and trade and investment treaties into the election campaign? What is the long-term solution to democratise international treaties?

1. Is a Manifesto/Charter/Blueprint approach (2017 election and beyond) to these ideas a way of advancing our agenda?

1. The NZ constitution. Can we advance a constitutional policy that international treaties are negotiated openly and agreed in the parliament before signature?

There's a few initiatives to place the constitution and our status as a Constitutional Monarchy vs a move to republic. This won't be resolved in 2017 however there is a strong move to get the discussion going in a serious manner. I know there are a variety of perspectives on this, however it is critical we inform ourselves about possibilities and implications. To this effect the following might be of interest.

The following blog highlights some thoughts about the need to remedy some of our dilemmas:

http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/2016/12/working-on-open-egalitarian-and.html

http://values-compasspointsinaposttruthworld.blogspot.co.nz/

Professor Jane Kelsey and It's Our Future propose ramping up the campaign against TiSA from 3 February, see https://itsourfuture.org.nz

​Stand For Values are hosted here: http://www.standfor.co.nz/

Scoop published media release from Colmar Brunton 24 Nov 2016:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1611/S00349/report-kiwis-hot-on-global-sustainability-goals.htm

References for Constitutional reading:

The constitution book by Geoff Palmer and Andrew Butler, "A Constitution for Aoteoroa," is of interest and leads to the whole question of what is possible with a discussion about constitutions. (They propose to accept public suggestions on their proposal till 30 September 2017, so it might occur in the midst of the general election.)

http://vup.victoria.ac.nz/a-constitution-for-aotearoa-new-zealand/

Their website: http://constitutionaotearoa.org.nz/the-conversation/speeches/book-launch-speech-geoffrey-palmer/

The draft constitution that Palmer and Butler propose:

http://constitutionaotearoa.org.nz/proposed-constitution-full-text/

Our current NZ constitutional documents are here:

https://gg.govt.nz/role/constofnz/intro

And the Maori report on the constitution is referred to here:

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201821049/moana-jackson-a-new-constitution-for-aotearoa

and linked here: http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/MatikeMaiAotearoaReport.pdf

The Awareness Party Constitution: http://www.theawarenessparty.com/constitution/

And the Icelandic Constitution story here: https://medium.com/equal-citizens/on-icelands-crowdsourced-constitution-ad99aae75fce#.9hn79xmzw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_constitutional_reform,_2010%E2%80%9313

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