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What if 98% of Health Care could recede and go away, and knowledgeable self-care could replace it. What would we do with US$1.6 trillion in savings? - Mother Nature's strongest medicines are waiting for you (in exactly the right doses and without any side effects) - in whole foods.Don Tolman has had privileged access to private museums, rare books collections, and ancient manuscripts, and has rediscovered the secrets of health & vitality lost to humanity for millennia.Listen to Don Tolman and learn of the whole food wisdom of the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Hebrews, Chinese, Native Americans, Incas and others who through time treated themselves to high vitality and longevity using plant whole foods.

As an emergent species, the human race has slowly evolved to where we are today - to a point of crises and opportunity.Little do we know of the seed that carries our physicality forward, the encoded DNA that over eons has impeccably replicated itself in a continuous re-generational sequence - and it has only been in the last few generations we in the Western world have come to a greater understanding of our connection to bloodlines and whakapapa.What we have found is that we in many differing ways have been programmed by our immediate ancestors and survival situations, to belief systems that are now seen in many ways as outmoded - ways of thinking, that do not serve the spirit of unity, of family, iwi and community all the way to a globalised family of humanity.Old patterns, of control, patriarchy, victimhood, want, 'sin' and fear are on one hand, falling away yet on the other hand the old virtues that have been around for millennia, but have been subsumed or forgotten are re-emerging to remind us of Love, aroha, goodwill, co-operation, courage and community to embrace latter day vernacular of innovation, solution, personal empowerment, higher consciousness, and connection.These are the spring board of our next evolutionary step into a global spirituality.

And there are many differing ways to access this new way of knowing.Ojasvin Kingi Davis is Maori from the people of Ngaitupoto, Ngatihine, Ngapuhi of Aotearoa, New Zealand. His bloodline and family traditions reaches back to the stream of Waitaha and Waiomu. In his upbringing and studies he was uniquely immersed in his living culture. Since 1998 he studies the Yoga of Integral Learning. Ojasvin became a fully certified teacher for Yoga of this system of the school Min-I.L.I.T.With his partner Iris Häusermann Davis who was born and raised in Switzerland and whose parents presented her with an artistic upbringing that connected her to nature through the Waldorf School of Zug. Continuing on she became a public teacher before she studied theater and dance in Zürich.For six years she is co-working with Ojasvin around the world and has co-created with him the integral learning programme of Grandmothers Healing Haka. Since 2003 Iris has studied the Yoga of Integral Learning and is a certified teacher of the basic Elements from the school Min-I.L.I.T.The key to it all is the realisation that we are all part of a greater whole, we are one human race awakening to our connection to a larger human organism coming together to see that we individually and collectively are immense and potent beings. That our similarities and virtues are far more compelling than our differences and that in the spirit of Aroha and kaitiakitanga (guardianship of the biosphere) we can individually and collectively shape our future on this living planet papa-tuanuku - Mother Earth that science is slowly awakening to realize is - sentient.

www.grandmothershealinghaka.com

This agreement if signed will affect virtually every New Zealander for the rest of this century. It basically takes away our sovereignty and we become pawns in a globalist corporate agenda. What are its affects?The TPPA would be an agreement that guarantees special rights to foreign investors. If these negotiations succeed they will create a mega-treaty across 9 countries that will put a straight jacket around what policies and laws [NZ] governments can adopt for the next century – think no GM labelling, overriding our Laws on foreign investment, shackling PHARMAC, increasing price of medicines, no regulating info on cigarette packs, and not regulating dodgy finance firms, less NZ content on TV, private prisons, privatising education, land acquisitions, mining, fishing, high rise hotels at NZ beaches? …

As the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations have been completed in Auckland, an alliance of civil society groups in participating countries have announced a “release the text” campaign ahead of the next round of talks in February 2011 in Chile.The co-ordinated campaign aims to mobilise central and local government lawmakers, civil society organisations and ordinary citizens to demand an end to the shroud of secrecy around the negotiations.“The negotiators themselves say this is not an ordinary free trade agreement. It would reach deep behind the border into the realm of domestic policy and regulation, super-imposing enforceable constraints over decisions for which our elected parliaments and local councils are currently responsible.”If this TPPA really is so good for us, why are they scared to release the draft text and open it to scrutiny?There are now draft texts on the table on financial services and investment, and possibly more. Negotiators have flatly refused to release them at any stage in the negotiations, claiming there is no precedent in a free trade negotiation.It is nonsense to claim that releasing draft texts is unprecedented. All nine countries are Members of the WTO, which now routinely posts country position papers and draft texts in progress on its website.The New Zealand government itself recognised in its paper on IP, leaked earlier in the negotiations, that “groups are acutely aware of what they see as ‘secret’ negotiations to strengthen IP rights under FTAs and other international instruments.” After repeated leaks of the draft texts, the parties to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations eventually released them for public scrutiny.“We are repeatedly told this is a 21st century agreement; yet the secrecy that surrounds it is redolent of the Star Chamber. We would never tolerate such a blatant rejection of transparency and accountability in our domestic legislation, so why here?”“If this TPPA really is so good for us, why are they scared to release the draft text and open it to scrutiny?”, asked Professor Kelsey.“The challenge then is for Parliament to convene an inquiry before the process has reached the stage where irreversible commitments have been made where we can test out the arguments for and against a TPPA and New Zealanders, including MPs, can know what we are signing up to for the next century”.

http://tppwatch.orghttp://www.nznotforsale.orgAnd digest site for researchers http://www.tppdigest.org

Originally from Stanford Research Institute and University of California, San Francisco in the USA with a considerable knowledge in chemistry and an expertise in statistical inference in complex systems they have focused recently on the aerial poison drops of 1080 to kill possums. 1080 is called Sodium mono-fluoro-acetate and as a poison like cyanide, is toxic to all air-breathing organisms, but it is not an evil in itself. The problem is with the way DoC the Department of Conservation is using it by blanketing the forest with food laced with 1080 that is attractive to most native and feral animals, everything from worms, beetles, and wetas to wekas and horses. Clean green New Zealand is unique in the world in its use of aerial 1080. No other country is doing anything remotely similar to this. New Zealand uses over 85% of the world’s supply of 1080, a poison that is toxic to all animals, that is banned or severely restricted in most countries, and that is classified “1A, extremely hazardous” by the World Health Organization. In response to this, DoC the Department of Conservation asserts that New Zealand is in a unique ecological position, but this is simply not true.

For example, the State of Hawaii has an almost identical problem with feral mammals threatening native birds, and we learned from Miles Nakahara, Forest & Wildlife branch manager that Hawaii would not even consider such a practice. “You are pretty cavalier using a poison like that … you will destroy the forest … you will lose the very thing you are trying to save.” Similar circumstances exist on many of the Pacific islands, and similar comments have been made by every non-Kiwi scientist that has been consulted. The perception here is that ecologists and ecological considerations are being overturned, by marketing and accountancy factors, and that a true understanding of what blanket covering of the ecology by 1080, does not qualify as ‘right practice’ or the ‘precautionary approach.’ Especially when the science is not robust. With 70 million possums nation wide being unacknowledged as a resource they are instead being poisoned and left to decompose on the forest floor. There are other ways to resolve this troublesome problem and a robust public debate needs to be convened to bring clarity as soon as possible. www.stop1080poison.comwww.thegrafboys.orgwww.kaka1080.co.nz

IUCN is the world’s oldest and largest global environmental network - a democratic membership union with more than 1,000 government and NGO member organisations, and almost 11,000 volunteer scientists in more than 160 countries.Listen as to why with such a huge membership, we hear virtually nothing about the IUCN and how that is now changing?That the imperative for our global population is to realize that we are still putting huge amounts of pressure on our planet’s ecosystems, everywhere - yet we are not educating ourselves about the challenges that immediately need addressing.

There is a reluctance of governments to lead, as they appear to only follow polls of where the citizen’s consciousness or lack of consciousness currently is. That the media in clean green NZ are not at the forefront of ecology and environment and looking at our collective footprint, plus they are not championing innovative green technologies and know how. Why?That there are so many critical challenges facing us as a human species, there needs to be urgent action on multiple fronts, if we are to protect our children’s future. The sad realisation that in NZ there are no 'stand out leaders' in the environmental movement. That had Sir Peter Blake been alive today, he would have been 'head and shoulders' above everyone in this region and out in front of parliament, leading NZ to a world summit on ecological and environmental action yesterday! But Alas … there is only a vacuum.Diana mentions Prosperity Without Growth by Tim Jackson as a new book that sets out another way to work on sustainable solutions for a planet with a burgeoning population.Diana Shand IUCN Regional Councillor – Oceania Chair – N.Z Committee of IUCNhttp://www.iucn.org

OceansWatch is an international not-for-profit organisation that works with sailors, divers and scientists worldwide to help coastal communities conserve their marine environments, develop sustainable livelihoods and ensure access to primary schools.OceansWatch offers resources, in the form of ocean-going research vessels and expertise, such as marine biologists, members training, project management and support crew.Education

• To build partnerships between schools in developed and developing countries
• Support the yachting and diving communities in supplying schools with basic educational resources
• Provide educational materials to those schools in need
• Run courses on coral reef ecosystems

Humanitarian Aid

• OceansWatch wants to make a positive difference to the life of the people in coastal communities
• Aid projects can be a double-edged sword so our aim is to work for the people only at their request. We intend to build relationships with the locals and see where they feel their needs lie
• We will also look at the overall consequences of any aid.

Marine ConservationCoral reefs are some of the most ancient and biologically diverse ecosystems that exist on earth. They serve an important role to coastal communities as a source of seafood, to generate income from tourism and to provide a buffer against storms. Many reefs have already been destroyed and understanding the state of health for the rest is in its infancy.Our vision is for there to be long term sustainable fisheries for coastal communities in developing countries and wider scale megafauna protection.International Head Office is in New Zealand with an Office in North America.Focus up until now has been in Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and the Niue Islands.www.oceanswatch.org

Genevieve is a Certified Aware Parenting Instructor.The Peaceful Parent Institute, founded by Genevieve and Dan Simperingham here in NZ offer peaceful solutions to parenting problems and run seminars and workshops plus, provide one on one parent coaching.Their core message is a parent child relationship that is based on communication, care, trust and love that eliminates the need for rewards and punishments.Genevieve Simperingham is an Irish woman, living in New Zealand since 2000. Dan is from Auckland, New Zealand. They have been working together since they first met in Dublin in 1995."We are passionate about supporting parents and helping them learn how to stay emotionally connected with their children through the inevitable conflicts and differences of opinion that are normal in close relationships. We share with parents that conflicts offer an opportunity for growth, learning and deeper understanding of each other and ourselves as parents. The skills that we teach allow the bond to ever deepen between the parent and their child."

Among Genevieve and Dan's areas of expertise are recovery from childhood conditioning (including abuse and trauma) and the healing of pre-natal and birth traumas. In their parenting courses, they bring to parents great wisdom and experience from their years of facilitating inner child work with adults. Their work has taught them that it's never too late to have a happy childhood, but the earlier it happens the better!Listen to a very lucid and inspiring interview of an exceptionally compelling way to parent children and teenagers into being.www.peaceful-parent.com

Kay Urlich is a pioneer in the field of balancing the mind and engaging the heart through energy fields.While searching for answers to her own health crisis Kay discovered four new energy fields. Kay found that the alignment and structure of these fields was vital to activating life-force to promote healing from within.Kay explains how most of the problems we have can be directly related to trauma held in the energy fields and this is the main cause of destruction to our life force.Through these fields we are able to bring about transformation of the heart and mind, opening us to the gifts of consciousness and awakening us to our evolutionary process.

The conflict within ourselves affects not only our personal health but is directly related to the healing and evolution of the whole planet.Evolution is not about chasing answers outside of ourselves, it’s about the search for harmony with our own energy fields.

www.kayurlich.com

Liese Groot-Alberts is a grief therapist, lecturer, public speaker, clinical supervisor and team-trainer.“Liese is a gifted presenter and therapist, whose work reflects a profound understanding of loss, grief, bereavement and the significance of hope”.Having worked alongside Elisabeth Kubler-Ross she has a deep understanding and assisting around what we as a human species must all experience.How can we connect with someone transitioning from this life? How do we show we care for a loved one and how does one grieve and heal from the trauma of loss?How can family and community respond to support you in the situation of death and grief?Now we are in a different era where we see the body, heart and soul as one whole being and on a multi-dimensional level.

The probability that our life goes beyond death is basically a certainty.Bringing the subject of Death, Dying and Transisition into our daily life allows us to be better equipped with loss, grief and bereavement as well as palliative care.Listen to someone who's care and warmth can soothe and show us a way through challenging timeswww.liesegrootalberts.com

Imagine a country where there is balance between the rich and poor, and no one goes without the basic necessities of life; where the environment and nature support life without harsh pesticides and chemicals.Imagine a place where crime and violence are progressively diminished as people move to understand the consequences of their actions and take full responsibility for themselves. Unconditional love would be the foundation for all we do and we would not afraid to express that.This is the vision of The Awareness Party.The Awareness Party is a brand new ethical political movement - not a party - formed to vision a better future, and to work with issues of the day, initially in New Zealand, but ultimately as a model for the world. It is based on the conscious awareness of the truth of life on this planet and intended to harness people power to create change. It acknowledges that we are one people on one planet and what affects one affects all - therefore we need to care for our home, Earth, and for each other.

To achieve this vision will not be easy, and the founder, Lisa Er, advocates the model stated by American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist, Buckminster Fuller:You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

This political movement describes the current political systems as operating with no understanding of the relationship between consciousness and matter. However there is now a shift involving humanity’s deepest knowing and understanding of ourselves and our universe.So The Awareness Party is committed to operating within the context and understanding of the inter-relationship of all things.Therefore all future policies or responses will be based on the following 7 Founding Principles:

1. Oneness of all life: one people on one planet.
2. Awareness of the earth as a self regulated living being.
3. Kindness in thoughts, words and action.
4. Compassion for all living things in all situations.
5. Self responsibility for everything we do, say, and experience.
6. Balance is required in all areas of society and the environment.
7. Operating within Communities and groups is the way for humanity to move forward.

The Awareness Party describes itself as environmentally deep green but also strongly values and support science and business when working from integrity. They are highly suspicious of big business and the banking system and are looking at financial alternatives and community currencies.It’s time to take notice! In the past, people suffered in order to give us a say in how our lives and our countries are run. If we turn our backs on that right we will be in serious trouble. As Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”The Awareness Party has developed a set of Awareness’ with the intention that they become a discussion forum at Awareness Parties and in small community groups. The purpose of these awareness’ that they have developed, is not to give the answers, but to raise the questions.The 7 Awareness’ are:

1. We are all in this together. Humanity shares a common journey, a common destiny and a common purpose.
2. We have both finite resources and infinite resources. The resources of the planet belong to everyone.
3. We are all sovereign beings. Nobody owns us and the idea that we own anything is an illusion.
4. The current structures of government, economics, and sustainability are not in harmony with the needs of people, or the environment. It is time to take a look at our political systems and social institutions to see how they can meet our needs now.
5. We live in a field of infinite possibilities. We have the ability to change the way the systems operate on the planet.
6. We need to let go of what divides us and acknowledge what unites us. Non-violent methods of bringing about change are the only ones which will last.
7. We live in a multi-dimensional infinite and mysterious universe. Things are not as they seem.

An informal celebration of the launch of this movement is 11 am, Saturday November 13th, in The Garden Room, Grey Lynn Community Centre. All welcome. (Koha for expenses.)

www.theawarenessparty.com