SYNTHAISSANCE CRYOBENTHICS

NEW RADIO INTERVIEWS with JEFF PHILLIPS & FRIENDS

2012-02-18T15:20:00.000-08:00

GREETINGS from CASTLE HILL. We've been helping our dear friends Barry Brailsford and Cushla Denton to create some new blogs to get the word about on their extremely important work. We're going to help them produce a short video, as well as paint a chair for our friend in New Plymouth. The world of internet radio has been calling on us recently to get the word out about what we do and about important global issues affecting life as we know her...

Listen to my in-dept interview on the "Up Over Down Under" radio show on 9 February with Joy Mahurin and Rose Paige of www.thecontrail.com

Interestingly, we experienced an absolutely massive amount of what we were sure was electromagnetic interference/cyber-attack which caused numerous technical malfunctions...just as we were discussing topics like Anadarko Petroleum's use of technetronic weapons disguised as geophysical exploration systems, and the U.S. Navy being the greatest threats to the whales and dolphins. After a lot of extra time and work on everyone's part, here's the show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHMzzpx-md4&feature=watch_response_rev

Rose has decided to have a break from the demands of doing this show and to go 'off-line' for a few weeks for healing purposes; I volunteered to be co-host and/or regular 'guest' for as long as necessary.

Join us tomorrow, Monday 20 February at 1:00pm New Zealand time for the live broadcast of "Up Over Down Under". On this show I'll be talking about the concept of 'geo-terrorism' and New Zealand historian/author Barry Brailsford

www.stoneprint.co.nz

www.barry-brailsford.blogspot.com

will be special guest as well. Here's the link for the intro to the show:

MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY LIVE @ 1:00pm New Zealand time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXUUdYjKvDI&feature=channel_video_title

Here is the link to listen to our radio debut a couple weeks ago when Liesbet and I were interviewed by our lovely friend Irenka on PlainsFM in Christchurch:

http://plainsfm.org.nz/on-demand/radiobridge-feb2012/

"Our programmes are about allowing the voices of peace advocates, musicians and artists tell their stories in the hope of inspiring others until we reach the 'critical mass' required for peace to conquer the current cruel and unnecessary wars. This is our hope for a peaceful world. We DREAM BIG at Radio Bridge."

Irinka Britnell and Eve Walker
Co Producers

Irenka wants to have us back on the show again soon.

Finally, here is the link to my interview with comedian-infotainment specialist Vinnie Eastwood.

http://www.guerillamedia.co.nz/content/origin-conspiracy-jeff-wefferson-vinny-eastwood-show-feb-8-2012

For entertainment purposes, here is the first of three somewhat abusive emails Vinnie sent me after the show, thanking me for 'bad-mouthing' him and giving me shite for NOT calling anyone 'scumbags' and denouncing their evil ways.

"Thanks for badmouthing me, keeps me honest and will help me improve as a radio show host, sometimes I need to shut the fuck up a bit.

You censored yourself more than the FCC did by not talking about certain things, which is really lame, I would have loved to have heard more from you.

Maybe when you are hosting your own radio show I could come on as your guest and you can show me how it's done?"

Well, Vinnie...all of a sudden I AM the co-host of a radio show with around 45,000 listeners world-wide. Maybe we WILL 'invite' you on the show AND 'show you how it's done" bro.

I told him that, not knowing how much 'talking' I'd actually be able to get in, I chose to focus on THE most important 'issues', which I deemed to be the human creative process and how our 'mental operating environment' is the problem FAR MORE than any specific 'other' people or groups we like to point the finger at.

OVER AND OUT...and stay tuned

JEFF & LIESBET

CASTLE HILL NEW ZEALAND

SPACESHIP EARTH

LAKE MARIAN, FIORDLAND, SOUTH ISLAND, NEW ZEALAND

2012-02-05T13:05:00.000-08:00

"Live free, child of the mist, and with respect to knowledge we are all children of the mist." Henry David Thoreau, Walking

We recently camped out for four lovely nights on the shores of Lake Marian, a beautiful alpine lake in Fiordland on the south island of New Zealand, just off the Hollyford and Milford roads. It's relatively accessible by Fiordland standards; compared to what it takes to visit Mt. Titiroa, this is a breeze, requiring only 3-4 km tramp rising a few hundred meters. Several rocky stream-beds and rock-slide areas have to be crossed, but it's easily doable even for the long and short of age. We had the perfect camp-site, and saw no more than a handful of people the whole time we were there, mainly due to 'bad' weather...but we loved the rain and mists and the myriad water-falls that come and go. The cries of keas were a constant and we became able to discern several variations on their calls. We learned that Lake Manapouri was at its lowest level since 1970; Lake Marian appeared to be as much as 3 or 4 meters lower than she was when we visited two years ago. We froze our asses off by going swimming three times, too, but were softly blanketed by mists every night.

As opposed to our Mt. Titiroa excursion, which was extremely demanding physically and required us to be constantly on the move, at Lake Marian we were able to slow down and be still, to become much like a rock, a moss, a tree. The tranquility and peacefulness are impossible to convey in words over the internet; suffice it to say that extended periods of solitude like this are absolutely essential to maintain optimal mental, physical and spiritual health, not to mention to be in touch with the spirit of nature and Mother Earth. Being at and with...not just 'passing through'...places like Lake Marian...is experiencing the REAL 'reality.'

"MISTY MARIAN", a short film by Liesbet Verstraeten & Jeff Phillips (experimental flutes by Liesbet)

http://youtu.be/-1r-Vuapc1E

Lake Marian Photos

https://picasaweb.google.com/103250190528562753850/LAKEMARIANSOUTHISLANDNEWZEALANDJANUARY2012

https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/LakeMarianNZ

"ETERNITY IS NOW"

"VISITING A SACRED MOUNTAIN: RETURN TO GAI-Alpine 'DREAM-TIME'" by JEFF PHILLIPS

2012-01-15T16:23:00.000-08:00

"As I look out the window this morning I see the top of Mt.Titiroa covered with a massive snow-fall from the night before. It’s the middle of summer here in New Zealand, and even though we are at a southerly latitude, such a snowfall is very unusual for this time of year. Then I reflect on all the ‘global warming’ insanity..."

PHOTOS FROM OUR VISIT IN JANUARY 2012

https://picasaweb.google.com/103250190528562753850/MTTITIROAFIORDLANDNEWZEALANDJAN2012

https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/MountTitiroa2012

PHOTOS FROM OUR FIRST VISIT IN 2010

https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist/MANAPOURIMTTITIROAFIORDLANDSOUTHISLANDNEWZEALAND

https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/NewZealand_Manapouri

PHOTOS FROM OUR SECOND VISIT IN 2011

https://picasaweb.google.com/103250190528562753850/MOUNTTITIROAFEB15202011

https://picasaweb.google.com /ilnissky/NZ_SouthIsland_Fiordland

ARTICLE I WROTE AFTER OUR VISIT IN 2011

http://www.synthaissance.blogspot.co/2011_02_24_archive.html

"Visiting a Sacred Mountain: A Message from the Heart of the Earth"

“We are ALL on a journey through the unknown. Life and the Earth have gone through similar ‘windows of change’ before, but each time is unique. Humans must realize that as a whole they are waging an unconscious war against their very home and mother; as a whole they are insane with respect to the ‘reality’ of global indigenous wisdom. If humans as whole woke up, questioned what they are doing, and renavigated their process, most importantly by greatly reducing immediate damage to the Earth, her eco-systems and life-forms, they will astronomically increase their own chances not only for ‘survival’ through these ‘Earth changes’ but may find themselves included once again with a place in the coming ‘new creation’.”

"VISITING A SACRED MOUNTAIN: RETURN TO GAI-Alpine 'Dream-time'"

GREETINGS from Fiordland on the South Island of New Zealand. The 'Nu year' is upon and within us as 'nu-ness' predominates with a perceptible increase in the frequency (symbolized by the Greek letter "nu") of everything.

In recent months Liesbet and I seem to be oscillating back and forth between two 'realities', the REAL 'reality' of the world of nature and undisrupted Mother Earth (rare windows of time, increasingly difficult to access), and the artificial 'reality' of 'civilization' within which the mind-set and life-energies of most people are largely constrained.

It’s not a ‘black & white’ polarity by any means, and each has elements of the other; in our experience, however, not only are the two ‘domains’ becoming increasingly separate, but a curious asymmetry exists as well: we are hurting the Earth but she is still trying to nurture us. We require the Earth for our existence but she by no means requires our presence.

No one that’s actually alive can ever be totally cut off from nature…even if their ‘mental operating environment’ is diametrically opposed to anything natural being of intrinsic worth much less having a right to exist (what I call the “Wasichu” world-view)...their bodies are nevertheless composed of living cells, living mitochondria, living bacteria, made of water, DNA, and materials which were originally rock and soil, the ‘body’ of the Earth. And even though the ‘trans-humanists’ are hard at their agenda for the transformation of biological life into nano-synthetic replicant technologies, they still have a long way to go before they can claim success, i.e., that they will ‘live forever.’ Would they, in fact, be ‘alive’ and exactly how long is ‘forever’?

Mother Nature, on the other hand is not doing any ‘attacking’ or ‘transforming’ of her beautiful creations into anything stupider, uglier and more dangerous than what we have already done to ourselves. She, moreover, is the target of an astronomically incomprehensible world-war we are waging against her in the name of ‘progress’ and ‘civilization’, a true jihad or ‘holy war’ in the name of money and human megalomania.

A fine line exists between this ‘curious asymmetry’ and the paradoxical contradictions plaguing the human endeavor which are indicative of a species psychosis. These essentially psychological and spiritual issues cannot be resolved from the level of ‘mentality’ that is creating them; the first steps towards ‘regaining your brain’ are those towards undisrupted wilderness.

As I look out the window this morning I see the top of Mt.Titiroa covered with a massive snow-fall from the night before. It’s the middle of summer here in New Zealand, and even though we are at a southerly latitude, such a snowfall is very unusual for this time of year. Then I reflect on all the ‘global warming’ insanity that reasonably intelligent people are STILL believing, pretty much everywhere really, particularly in Australia, the first nation on Earth to have enacted a ‘carbon tax’ based, yes, on the ‘global warming’ and ‘demonization of carbon’ hoax. Do people campaigning for a ‘Carbon Free’ world realize that this also means ‘free of life’ as we know her now? And people do exist who would in fact argue that, yes, ‘global warming’ can cause snow-falls in summer!

I continue to be amazed at how many leaders of highly visible ‘environmental organizations’ seem to be functioning as ‘party-line’ advocates for the ‘global warming’ agenda AND at the same time as ‘global radiation deniers.’ In reality, as we know, it’s not ‘globally warming’; the U.S. Navy is the biggest threat to cetaceans, NOT the Japanese; HAARP can generate all the effects attributed to ‘global warming’; and, most significantly, the global radiation scenario is about to spike because the spent fuel pool at Building Four of Fukushima is disintegrating.

After visiting Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges of south Australia in December, our next nature destination was Mt.Titiroa, which we consider to be the most powerful place in New Zealand, sister to Castle Hill in Canterbury. Shortly after arriving in New Zealand we experienced first-hand the anomalous twin-quakes in Christchurch just before Christmas and recognized these as the synthetic events they were.

On January 3 we began our third trek to Mt.Titiroa after trying to ‘second guess’ the weather, and what a fantastic excursion it was! Even though Mt.Titiroa is clearly visible from Te Anau, it’s NOT a ‘tourist destination’ because of the extreme rigour required to get there.

NOTE: It’s funny, here in the back-packer where we are staying I was just over-hearing a conversation in which an American chick was skyping with someone and complaining about how their helicopter dropped them on top of a mountain, then it rained cats and dogs and they had to stay in their tent for 23 hours and hoped the chopper would be able to get them the next day. YAY! I’m pretty sure which mountain this was! We’ve heard of ‘new age gurus’ taking people up there by chopper on ‘spiritual quests’…and who knows how many thousands of dollars they paid to do it. It’s impossible actually connect with a truly sacred place, or any natural environment anywhere, if you are instantaneously deposited and removed by artificial means. On foot, you move gradually and your energy fields have time to recalibrate and entrain with the natural rhythms.

Approach from any direction requires at least one or two days of walking, with a net elevation change of several hundred meters; after that, the track ends and to ascend to the ridge requires climbing at least a kilometre through extremely dense scrub and dense forest with under-growth, so steep in places that it’s like climbing a ladder. This is particularly tough going if you’re carrying 30 or more kgs of camping and photo gear, as we each were.

Our efforts paid off, however, and Mother Titiroa gave us some of the most spectacular views, one of the freakiest ‘sky days’ we’d ever seen, and some of the most uplifting inspiration to be found anywhere! Throughout our full day of exploring the ridge, an arc of cloud energy remained directly over us; to the west was blue sky, while over-head was a constantly shifting and transforming region of unusual cloud formations. And to the east were dark stormy-looking clouds which morphed into strange beings resembling the precursor to tornado funnels.

As our day on the ridge progressed, the wind began to rise from occasional gusts into what became a constant gale-force westerly at maybe 70 to 90 kms per hour. This started kicking up a lot of sand and made it hard to stand still at times. The light and colours were shifting beautifully and we kept waiting for ‘the sun to come out.’ As Taiowa (Hopi name for the sun) crept lower and lower, he seemed to be hiding himself behind a band of cloud that seemed to be covering him on purpose! We decided to head back down to our camp-site before becoming hypo-thermic and on the way down, he burst out in a display of golden warmth. Even after we got back down, another awesome display of clouds and sky-colours went on until dark.

Liesbet and I both had a profound experience that day, of chaos and turmoil resolving into a state of well-being and harmony, as if Mother Earth were telling us that, indeed, it’s all going to be all-right in the end….but that we still have a LOT of work to do to make this happen!

It rained some during the night, which provided a much-needed drink of moisture for the forests and plants, but shortly after we got up, the sky cleared and we had THE most beautiful day anyone could possibly imagine. The whole time we were there I felt as if my mind had merged with the mind of the Earth. I think that once this connection has been established, it’s always there even when you think it’s not, like when you’re surrounded by ‘wi-fi’ signals and ‘people pollution.’

SO…here we are, back to ‘civilization’ and all that means. The last time we returned from Mt.Titiroa, after three days Christchurch was destroyed by a quake then the Fukushima thing happened three weeks later. This time we had the Christchurch quakes BEFORE we went; but now we’ve got the Iran-nuclear war scenario to contend with AND the on-going Fukushima disaster which is almost certainly going to worsen to another order of magnitude any day now.

Remember…WE are the soldiers in World War 3. What we SAY doesn’t matter…it’s how we ‘live’, what we DO and DON’T DO that actually forms the nature of our relationship with Mother Earth. This is the work before us: how to inspire people to care about what is happening around us and within us, how to motivate people to understand that they DO matter, that what they do and don’t do DOES matter in the grand scheme, how to get people to use the best knowledge we already have and to MAKE CHANGES in how we live that reflect a true love of life and the Earth, not just talking about it.

New Zealand is a 'battle ground' of global importance right now: Aotearoa is experiencing the latest in full-spectrum imperial mobilization since the Christchurch quakes have enabled a '9-11' type response on the parts of government and industry. Transnational mining and energy extraction entities are salivating over her previously untapped 'resources' which have suddenly been made available, thanks to the Key administration. An intensive 'green-washing' public relations campaign will ensue in which the powers that be will do their best to persuade everyone in New Zealand that mining is a good thing, that off-shore drilling is a good thing, that using 30% of south island rivers for dairy irrigation is a good thing, that even more tons per year of 1080 deployment is a good thing. See, New Zealand is 100% CLEAN AND GREEN, just like those glossy spreads in National Geographic tell us! 'Global warming' is the problem...not mining, not oil-drilling, not radiation from Fukushima! SHUT UP AND PAY YOUR CARBON TAX.

Stay tuned…a lot is coming at us fast right now. I’ll close with an excerpt from the introduction to an old 70’s sci-fi series, The Invaders:

“The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them. For him, it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.”

Substitute “Wasichu mentality” for “The Invaders” and “people of one heart” for “David Vincent.” Somehow WE must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun and that OUR 'mental operating environment' IS 'the invader.'

JEFF PHILLIPS
FIORDLAND NEW ZEALAND
16 JANUARY 2012

"TECHNETRONIC CHRISTMAS QUAKES: GIFTS OF AWARENESS or ENDLESS TRAUMA?" JEFF PHILLIPS

2011-12-25T01:07:00.000-08:00

PHOTOS: top two are from Great Barrier Island NZ, 13 June 2011; the other sky photos are from Linwood, Christchurch, between 10am and 4 pm on 23 December 2011; the oily sun with band is from about 30 min. before first quake

'I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS" Greg Lake

“They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the Virgin's birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winters light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas Tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire

They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a Silent Night And they told me a fairy story
'Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked at the sky with excited eyes
'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise

I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
The Christmas you get you deserve.”

"The picture that is shaping up is that Christchurch is being used as a state-of-the-art experimental laboratory for all the new ‘non-lethal weapons’ technologies that have come on-line in recent years, not only for ‘testing’ but to clear the people out of the way for resource extraction and the transformation of Canterbury into a New World Order stepping-stone to Antarctica."

“TECHNETRONIC CHRISTMAS QUAKES: GIFTS OF AWAKENING OR ENDLESS TRAUMA?”

JEFF PHILLIPS
25 DECEMBER 2011
CHRISTMAS DAY

Greetings from Fiordland in the deep south of New Zealand. We’ve been here less than 24 hours after spending three full-on days in Christchurch, where we’d arrived just before the solstice after flying from Melbourne. We were near the (former) cbd of Christchurch for the twin quakes of 23 December (5.8@1:58pm/6.0@3:18pm) and personally experienced them as much as anyone would have; significantly, over the 24 hours or so before the quakes we were observing and cataloging “atmospheric anomalies” which are associated with man-made earth-quakes. During the several hours of the morning of the 23rd and right up to the quakes themselves, we were photographing massive chem-trail spraying directly over the epi-centres as well as oily “stain-bow” clouds in front of the sun. During this same 24 hour period we also experienced the bodily sensations of radio-frequency weapons systems being activated or amplified, which includes feelings of uneasiness, head-aches, agitation, being drained energetically, and a sense that ‘something is very wrong’ with the local environment in general.

The ‘coincidence levels’ were heightened by two phone conversations I happened to be in the middle of precisely when the two quakes occurred. When the first quake struck I was talking with Iain Kerr, the CEO of Ocean Alliance, a Massachusetts-based organization founded by Dr. Roger Payne, the paragon of whale-researchers; I rang Iain when I discovered that Payne happened to be in Christchurch and I wanted to make contact.

When the second quake struck I was talking with Christchurch equestrian-turned-activist Penny Hargreaves about the earlier quake; we’d spent several hours with her the day before discussing her on-going research and activism relating to the reality of ‘technetronic’ (the ‘new generation’ of geophysical weapons based on electronic ‘Tesla technologies’ that have rendered ‘traditional’ atomic weapons obsolete) warfare, the negative health effects she’s endured on herself and her horses due to radio frequency emanations from transmitters near her farm, and the connection between localized earth-quake damage, the transmission beams from these antennas, and numerous other anomalous phenomenon surrounding the Christchurch earthquake scenario, many of which I’ve described in my ‘geo-terrorism’ postings over the past few months.

As you may or not be aware, depending on how well you know us, in recent months humanity’s war on the Earth and on ourselves as a whole has seldom been off our personal ‘radar screens’, not even on remote islands or isolated mountain-tops. We’ve come to see that what we vainly refer to as ‘civilization’ is actually NOT how the vast majority of people live or have lived on this planet, now or in the history of homo sapiens; industrial civilization is fundamentally a product of human geo-engineering which is little more than an acceptable-sounding euphemism for the all-out full-spectrum war we have been conducting against the Earth, and therefore against ourselves and life-as-we-know-her, for the past 5000 years.

This posting is by no means an in-depth look at what is happening; this will come later as we have time to get our feet on the ground in Aotearoa. I am working on my first ‘geo-terrorism update’ since July, including information concerning the on-going contamination of the planetary biosphere from Fukushima radio-activity, especially the Pacific ocean. This whole scenario, by FAR the greatest anthropogenic ‘disaster event’ ever to occur on this planet in recent aeons (the Atlanteans emulated Fukushima at least once, but details are hard to come by; the radio-biological implications of Fukushima dwarf chem-trails, GMO’s, endocrine disrupting chemicals and pharmaceutical drugs put together), has become almost totally invisible on all mainstream media; even in the few alternative media who strive to keep awareness alive, mis- and/or dis-information is rampant, due to both scientific ignorance and the fact that all ‘official’ and almost all ‘environmental’ organizations either work directly for or have been co-opted by the elite power-brokers who control international banking (and therefore all money everywhere), the Pentagon, the president, and ‘all things nuclear.’ The result is that when you see a largish-sounding number representing how much radiation has been released from Fukushima, you can be sure that the REAL figure would have between three and 12 additional zeroes, to the left of the decimal point, regardless of the unit of measurement in use.

I was disturbed by Dr. Roger Payne’s recent “letter to humanity” describing Ocean Alliance’s on-going work to map chemical toxicity of the global ocean towards “saving the whales.” I find it difficult to understand why a scientist of Payne’s calibre would totally omit any mention whatsoever of the immense levels of radio-nuclides spreading throughout the terrestrial and aquatic biospheres of the Earth from Fukushima as constituting MAJOR threats to the health of all oceanic life-forms. Nor has Payne or Ocean Alliance ever made any reference to the on-going threats to cetaceans and all marine life-forms from the activities of the U.S. Navy, which include LFA-sonar, which explodes the inner ear of whales; disposal of highly toxic/radio-active wastes anywhere with no environmental over-sight; weapons testing and ‘war games’ all over the world; and, most interestingly, the fact that the U.S. Navy is the prime owner-operator of the H.A.A.R.P. installation in Alaska, which is the single largest and most powerful of the 20+ known ‘technetronic’ weapons facilities on the planet.

Payne does, however, mention that the (clearly evil) Japanese whaling fleet is, yes, once again returning to the Southern Ocean…with a massive military escort this time (it's ok to mention Japanese military stuff 'cause it's evil, you see, as opposed to American military stuff that's, well, "good")…and lets us know, just in case we might feel like donating some hard-earned money, that our old friend Captain Paul Watson, a.k.a. Sea Shepherd, will be there, as usual, for the filming of yet another season of Whale Wars, a lucrative ‘reality tv’ project selling a lot of Coca-cola and run by Discovery Communications, who also happens to host the Military Channel. Are you getting the picture now: Watson is a Coast Guard employee, just like Adm. Thad Allen, U.S. 'national incident commander' for both Katrina and BP-Gulf disaster; Psihoyos from National Geographic, a very 'right wing' publication supporting nuclear power and the 'war on terrorism'; Payne was a fellow at Rockefeller Uninversity for many years.

I have already documented at length the fraudulent activities that Sea Shepherd has been involved with, for example, the sinking of their own boat, the Ady Gil, whose skipper, kiwi Pete Bethune, testified in New Zealand maritime court that Captain Watson ordered him to sink his own boat…because it would be ‘great publicity”! Watson, who I used to believe in, has proven himself to be a misanthropic supporter of UN/NWO agendas, “radical reduction in the human population” and an architect/participant of on-going media fraud, all in the interest of obtaining donations for his non-profit ‘environmental’ organization and diverting public attention from more serious issues. Sure, whaling is barbaric but the reality is that the U.S Navy constitutes an astronomically greater threat to the health of ALL cetaceans, ALL marine life than does the (clearly evil) Japanese whaling fleet, who, even if allowed to proceed with their grisly task unimpeded, might kill a few hundred or thousand whales, whereas the Navy has been granted a permit to ‘take’ over 11 million marine mammals over the next five years. Correct me if I’m wrong, but 11 million is a lot more than a few thousand, right? And this is what they’ve been legally allowed to do, which is only a tiny % of the real impact.

Radiological contamination of the world’s oceans and the destructive activities of the U.S. Navy…which includes ‘technetronic’ warfare affecting all continents and all human populations, specifically and most recently, Christchurch, New Zealand…are not allowed to be discussed by mainstream media or ‘environmental’ organizations, but ‘reality tv’ fraud is openly supported. As I see it, the ‘reality tv’ of Sea Shepherd (and the Japanese ‘whalers’ would be complicit ‘actors’ as well), as well as the activities of Louis Psihoyos, director of ‘The Cove’ (also replete with Japanese ‘bad guy’ actors), and former photographer for National Geographic, serve primarily to distract the ‘sheeple’ population from the real issues, and substitute entertainment masquerading as ‘public education’ to give genuinely caring…but chronically ignorant…people a sense that they know what is going on and are helping to ‘fund’ some ‘environmental activism’, while never questioning the ‘elephant in the living room’ of the U.S. Navy, who is a greater threat by a factor of millions than all other dangers combined! Excuse me, but do ANY of them even bother to mention the whales themselves any more?

Forgive my digression here; this is supposed to be a ‘short version’ Christmas Day posting acknowledging the recent Christchurch quakes, our presence there, and our commitment to helping the people of Christchurch, New Zealand, and planet Earth.

I have to admit, however, that our patience is wearing thin with ‘the people.’ I’ve been hard at this ‘information activism’ thing for decades; indigenous elders from around the world have been trying to inspire ‘civilized people’ to wake up and mend their ways for decades as well. It’s not that we don’t know what to do…or what to stop doing; it’s bringing ourselves actually to do..or stop doing…these things.

Few people are able to get the connection between the stupid and destructive ways in which we continue to “live” (I have a problem with this word, as what we are doing does not really qualify as ‘living’, in the same way that many of us could not truly be classified as ‘people’ in the sense of what it’s meant to be a person for the past few hundred thousand years), in which we over-consume and waste resources, subsidize the murder of our fellow beings, and literally pay for our own elimination…and the increasingly obvious ways in which our most advanced weapons systems are being turned on ourselves. All this can be explained scientifically, spiritually, logically, pragmatically. It’s not “them” who’s doing it all…it’s US.

How much more evidence do people need to motivate them to see what is happening with respect to the man-made earthquake scenario? Is it not obvious that these recent quakes were intended to be acts of ‘geo-terrorism’, of psychological warfare, to disrupt people right in the middle of Christmas shopping (the true ‘spirit of Christmas’…not ‘giving’ but ‘supporting commerce’), just as they were gettng comfortable again after 6 months of calm, and right before what is probably the only day of the year when families are gathered together?

“Right”, unbelievers will say, “so the Earth can’t have natural quakes any more? New Zealand just so happens to be right on a tectonic rift.”

To which I respond, “Sure, bro. Until last September geologists always said that Canterbury was THE most seismically stable region of New Zealand. International officials from the highest levels have been touting ‘tectonic warfare’ for years; a cadre of highly-placed American “terrorism management” officials were present in Christchurch for the February quake. We have personally documented the ‘signature’ phenomenon of man-made quakes TWICE, and BEFORE they occurred, in Melbourne in June and in Christchurch in December, not to mention the same atmospheric and energetic ‘signatures’ over Great Barrier Island DURING the June Christchurch quakes. What do you say to that?"

"Uh, Osama must have been resurrected and he has a wicked new laptop with technetronic warfare software...a Mac, for sure!"

Honestly, I’m not sure how much more of a chance ‘the people’ are going to get. If they…WE…haven’t taken the hint by now, when IS it going to happen? I am almost to the point of saying that I’m not actually doing any of this ‘information activism’ on behalf of human ‘people’ any more…humans masquerading as ‘people’ have had their chance and it’s probably a done deal already…it’s only a matter of time until humans are a thing of the past. Most ‘people’ can’t even be bothered to care about what we relate, much less to research anything for themselves. But when it comes to, for example, some sport, some eating out, some holidaying, some investing of money to gain massive profits, checking into Facebook…EVERYONE has time for that! But researching the reality of man-made earth-quakes…or how the Fukushima ‘problem’ is NOT ‘solved’ but only gathering (radio-active) steam…forget it!

I think the reason I persist with all these attempts at ‘creating awareness’ is for the sake of all the non-human life-forms who continue to suffer and die because of human stupidity. I would have to say that Penny Hargreaves is New Zealand’s biggest true ‘hero’ in terms not only of doing lots of hard work to understand the nature of strange things that have happened to her, but also in DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I will go into much greater detail in my ‘geo-terrorism’ update in a few days; Penny came under attack from radio frequency emanations on her farm around 1996, which coincidentally is the year that H.A.A.R.P. became operational.

She determined that radio transmissions emanating from towers near her farm had been at levels that were hundreds or thousands of times greater than those allowed by law, and that these were the cause of the negative health effects she and her animals were experiencing. Further, with the advent of the Christchurch earthquake scenario, she has determined that the regions where the transmission beams from these antennae cross are the same exact regions where the earthquake damage is greatest. The ownership of these transmitters can be traced to Clear Channel Communications, owned by Texans named Mays; it was recently transferred to an investment group but the Mays people remain on the board. I haven’t had time to do much research into it all yet, but apparently the Mays family has ties to the U.S. ‘terrorism’ bureaucracy AND is believed to be utilizing “silent sound spread spectrum” technologies in its broadcast transmissions. This technology allows “inaudible subliminal information” to be disseminated via its broadcasts in any media.

Hargreaves' evidence suggests that several different experimental technetronic scenarios may be under way in the Christchurch area at this time. I won’t go into more detail here, but the picture that is shaping up is that Christchurch is being used as a state-of-the-art experimental laboratory for all the new ‘non-lethal weapons’ technologies that have come on-line in recent years, not only for ‘testing’ but to clear the people out of the way for resource extraction and the transformation of Canterbury into a New World Order stepping-stone to Antarctica, which is the only ‘land’ to exist at polar latitudes, allowing direct access to the magnetic fields for technetronic weapons as well as to the vast untapped mineral wealth beneath the ice cap.

I’ve written about this before, and will go into greater detail in future postings, but the “ultimate” uses of technetronic weapons speculated on so far that I am aware of involve “triggering instabilities on the sun” and “debilitating the mental processes of human populations over large geographical regions.”

Because these speculations date from the mid-1960’s, I would say that there’s a very good chance that these things are already happening. With H.A.A.R.P. Phase 2 coming on-line in 2006 with power levels on the order of hundreds of billions of watts, I think it would be possible to create some kind of energetic ‘feed-back loop’ with the sun; the energy from this loop could be constantly circulated through the H.A.A.R.P./technetronic network and modulated as if it were a cyclotron. The effect would be to add energy into the planetary “resonant cavity” and/or man-made electrical grid…energy whose presence would exert behavioural effects on land-based life in particular, energy that could be focused or triggered when an ‘event’ was required.

Be aware that Zbigniew Brzezinski, chief foreign policy advisor to Obama’s White House, is a huge fan of Yale neuroscientist Jose Delgado, who pioneered radio-frequency brain control, and who believes that ‘people’ have no right to think for themselves…that the ‘elite’ should do the thinking on their behalf.

So…the next time there’s an earth-quake preceded by oily ‘stain-bows’ around the sun, strange cloud formations, massive chem-trail spraying and feelings of uneasiness and distress, just go to your Facebook page and ‘like’ Big Brother…because YOU LOVE HIM.

Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS…and think of the 60+ billion animals who are slaughtered for meat annually, and the hundreds of millions of fellow human beings who have been murdered over the past few hundred years just so that we can be here now, eating, drinking, consuming.

Anyone who thinks “peace on Earth” is even a remote possibility while homo sapiens still exists in its present form already LOVES BIG BROTHER.

JEFF PHILLIPS
FIORDLAND NEW ZEALAND
CHRISTMAS DAY 2011

"VISITING A SACRED MOUNTAIN: A MESSAGE FROM THE HEART OF THE EARTH "JEFF PHILLIPS

http://www.synthaissance.blogspot.com/2011/02/visiting-sacred-mountain-message-from.html

"THE CHRISTCHURCH QUAKE: OPPORTUNITY FOR RE-NAVIGATION" JEFF PHILLIPS

http://www.synthaissance.blogspot.com/2011/03/christchurch-quake-by-jeff-phillips.html

"EARTH UNDER ATTACK: BUT WHAT...'ME WORRY?" JEFF PHILLIPS

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-follows-are-selections-from.html

U.S. NAVY'S FIVE YEAR PLAN: A 'TAKE' OF 11.5 MILLION MARINE MAMMALS

http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/content/categories-agriculture-defense-coalition-and-california-skywatch?q=us-navy

"'BAD ACTORS': SEA SHEPHERD, ANIMAL PLANET, 'SEA-LEBRITIES' & ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS" JEFF PHILLIPS

http://www.synthaissance.blogspot.com/2010/01/bad-actors-sea-shepherd-animal-planet.html

BEYOND TELEVISION: PSYCHOTRONIC WARFARE and the 'TECTONIC SHIFT' in MIND CONTROL

http://www.regainyourbrain.blogspot.com/2011/05/beyond-television-psychotronic-warfare.html

MICROWAVE MIND CONTROL

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/05/microwave-mind-control.html

"HEROES OF 'BALARNIA'" Jeff Phillips & Liesbet Verstraeten on Flinders Island Tasmania

2011-11-25T15:54:00.000-08:00

GREETINGS AND LOLOMAI!

In July of 2011 we returned to ‘Balarnia’, a remote property on the north-west coast of Flinders Island, which is about half-way between Tasmania and Victoria. Our friend Arni ‘Balarni’ Erikson has lived here since 1985. We spent about six weeks there in the summer of 2009, and had greatly looked forward to returning, and hopefully being there long enough to grow some of our own vegetables. This time we were able to stay just about four months, every day of which we got up around 5:30am, worked harder than we’ve ever worked in our lives doing landscaping, gardening, carpentry, and several kinds of artistic projects, exploring the wild beauty of the island, and getting more deeply in tune with the “heart of the Earth” and the dream-time ancestors than ever before. And we were eating broccoli, silver-beet, pipe onions, parsnips, carrots, beet-root and assorted salads that we had grown!

Our times at Arni’s have been inspired and inspiring from many sources, from the sheer undisrupted power of the land to the presence and guidance of the ancestors, to the whales and dolphins. And at the human level, knowledge and awareness of several people (real people, dating from the ‘good old days’ when people were people) whose lives, work and message we felt to be testaments of profound significance with respect to existing as human beings, to what it means to be “people.” We think of them as our “heroes of ‘Balarnia.’

During our visit in 2009 I found an old copy of the first edition of Rachel Carson’s legendary book Silent Spring, from 1963. I’d been aware of her message and influence for decades but had never read the book in toto; primed from intensive environmental activism in New Zealand in previous months centered around the use of dangerous pesticides like 1080, I recognized her revelations as genuine ‘prophecy’ of the global toxicity which is the legacy of our generation. Because of her love of life and nature, in particular, her connection with the sea, as well as her warnings of devastation from chemical poisoning and our retreat into ‘artificial reality’, Carson became our first “hero of ‘Balarnia.’ Our film “The Chronicles of Balarnia” was dedicated to her.

After becoming familiar with Arni’s on-going construction methodology, we began to sense a connection with Friedrich Hundertwasser, the Austrian/Kiwi painter/architect/eco-philosopher whose “Dr. Seuss apartment buildings” enliven western European city-scapes, as well as with fellow Tasmanian Bill Mollison, who founded ‘permaculture’, a paradigm of landscape and garden design based on principles of ecological, agricultural and horticultural harmony. Liesbet and I decided that ‘Balarnia’ was an example of ‘semi-permaculture’, in that everything worked together pretty well, yet according to Arni himself, the buildings are not meant to be there in a hundred years.

During our visit this year several more people became “heroes” as well due to the power of our connection with their stories and contributions, which we are able to share largely through the media of books and films. One of the very first things we did upon arriving at ‘Balarnia’ this time was to construct a stone medicine wheel. This one, our eighth (our first was at ‘Balarnia’ in 2009, in a different location), entered a new dimension with the addition of a Djed pillar in the centre. My dear friend Moira Timms, author of Beyond Prophecies and Predictions, has translated Egyptian hieroglyphics for me over the years and educated me concerning the essence of the positive spiritual aspect of ancient Egyptian cosmology.

Oglala-Lakota medicine man Black Elk inspired us deeply with his vision of the “mending of the sacred hoop” and the insidious “wasichu” mentality; writer/anarchist Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitaire, inspired us equally with his journals of life in the southwest “red rock” desert of North America, his acerbic philosophy and witty diatribes targeting consumer society, “industrial tourism” and “civilization” as a whole.

Another connection we felt was with Findhorn, originally an alternative “spiritual” community founded in northern Scotland, where Dorothy MacLean learned to communicate harmoniously with the local “nature devas”, or so the story goes, setting the stage for miraculous feats of horticulture, like 40 pound cabbages and 8 foot holly-hocks and delphiniums.

British writer/philosopher Olaf Stapledon, author of Star-maker, took us on the largest-scale and most highly imaginative cosmic journeys that the English language has yet been capable of; his visions of “stellar” or “galactic” intelligence ring of reality far more than they do of fancy, especially as we glimpsed the ‘Hunab Ku’, the Mayan name for the centre of our galaxy, at the zenith as dusk drew near on winter nights.

We have to thank our friends Peter and Rosie for taking us to the William Ricketts Sanctuary in the Dandenongs, east of Melbourne, after we arrived in Australia in June. I’d heard of his work for many years but had never been there. He was a visionary sculptor who spent many years living with aboriginal peoples in the central desert. In his later years he lived in what was to become a bird sanctuary, and created dozens of life-size three-dimensional representations of real aboriginal people blending with or emerging from rocks, plants, tree, the Earth herself. Liesbet and I were blown away at the power and beauty of his work, and at the living presence of the people he sculpted. He was a deeply spiritual person whose goal was to make the (predominantly racist) Australian people keenly aware of who the aborigines truly are as the “real people.”

In my mind William Ricketts was very much of a modern-day William Blake, who was an Irish visionary poet/painter/engraver and political activist who never acceded to the “Crown” and voluntarily lived on the edge of poverty on the fringe of ‘society.’ Blake was hardly recognized in his time but today is regarded as one of the pre-eminent forces of English literature. He saw through the illusions of church and state, and believed that true art was not possible if money was involved.

Moira Timms is a very dear friend living in Oregon now, and I got to meet Bill Mollison once about ten years ago; they both have at least one painted rock of mine.

Our other “heroes” have crossed the great divide into alternity, as we all do sooner or later. We extend our thanks to all these very special people for what they accomplished during the nano-second of cosmic time we call a “life” and for leaving legacies of what being human can truly mean.

Finally, we must thank our biggest 'Balarnia' hero of all, Arni Erikson himself! THANKS ARNI for being one of the most wonderful people we know, for having us at your very special place, and for giving us the freedom to do whatever we wanted...SUCH a unique opportunity to go crazy with craziness...in honour of the freedom to create, independent thought and Mother Earth.

For more information on our human “heroes of ‘Balarnia’” check out:

RACHEL CARSON

"Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp. What is the message signalled by the hordes of diatoms, flashing their microscopic lights in the night sea?"

"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world—the very nature of its life."

http://rachels-carson-of-today.blogspot.com/

Rachel Carson experience video (1 of 6)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-NAUkyIg-M&feature=related

http://www.silentspring.org/ http://www.chatham.edu/RCI/

HUNDERTWASSER

“A tree can be cut in five minutes, but needs years to grow. That’s the difference between technocratic destruction and ecological evolution.”

“It is madness to part of a merciless competition running amok straight into a fatal illusion into the deadlock of economic growth. Our technical achievement must match our creative responsibility; we are far behind, unfortunately. We cannot think as fast as we use more and more dangerous tools. Genetic engineering violates the laws of nature in complete ignorance of the function of beauty, in all manifestations of creation. This short-sighted contempt of the beauty and inter-woven variety triggers the suicide of humanity. Because the so-called unnecessary beauty is essential for the survial of this Earth. Little to nothing is done to counteract the visual pollution which is the most dangerous of all pollutions, because it kills the soul. As we are now reaching the limits of growth, only decentralization, reflection, and slowing down in harmony with nature can save us. If you reach an abyss, only a step back can save you.”

http://hundertwasserart.blogspot.com/

http://www.phototravels.net/vienna/vienna-hundertwasser-photos.html

http://savetheworldclub.org/hunt/mouldmanifesto.doc

http://www.hundertwasser.at/english/texts/philosophie.php

http://www.grasshut.co.nz/videos-books.html

KAWA KAWA TOILET VIDEO
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=hundertwasser+in+new+zealand+video&docid=1139244794842&mid=7929AC105B656B6E3C827929AC105B656B6E3C82&FORM=VIRE3 http://artandblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/friedrich-hundertwasser.html http://www.squidoo.com/hundertwasser_art

BILL MOLLISON/PERMA-CULTURE

"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter."

"Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple"

“. . . every society that grows extensive lawns could produce all its food on the same area, using the same resources, and . . . world famine could be totally relieved if we devoted the same resources of lawn culture to food culture in poor areas. These facts are before us. Thus, we can look at lawns, like double garages and large guard dogs, [and Humvees and SUVs] as a badge of willful waste, conspicuous consumption, and lack of care for the earth or its people."

“Order is found in things working beneficially together. It is not the forced condition of neatness, tidiness, and straightness, all of which are, in design or energy terms, disordered. True order may lie in apparent confusion . . Thus the seemingly-wild and naturally-functioning garden of a New Guinea villager is beautifully ordered and in harmony, while the clipped lawns and pruned roses of the pseudo-aristocrat are nature in wild disarray. Neatness, tidiness, uniformity, and straightness signify an energy-maintained disorder in natural systems.”

http://www.tagari.com/

http://www.permaculture.org/nm/index.php/site/index/

THE PERMACULTURE CONCEPT video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofKTgmW_FAg

MOIRA TIMMS

“…the seven seals are allegorical to each of the seven chakras (energy centers, like valves between the etheric and physical bodies, which are related to the endrocrine system) of the human body. With the opening of each seal comes “revelation” and the opportunity to be purified and transformed by the particular energies released. The more successful we are in handling and transmuting within ourselves (i.e., within each chakra) the intense surge of purifying energy released by the opening of each seal, the less necessary it is for these releases to manifest in the external world as chaos and catastrophe.”

http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/2011/06/bible-moira-timms-notes-on-seven-seals.html

http://alignment2012.com/djed.html

http://www.atlantisrising.com/backissues/issue9/ar9beyond.html

BLACK ELK

“Later I learned too that Pahuska [General Custer] had found there much of the yellow metal that makes the Washichu crazy; and that is what made the bad trouble, just as it did before, when the hundred were wiped out. Our people knew there was yellow metal in little chunks up there; but they did not bother with it, because it was not good for anything." "And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father."

http://www.welcomehome.org/rainbow/prophecy/BlackElk.html

http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/elk.asp

www.humanresonance.org/black_elk.pdf

EDWARD ABBEY

“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.”

“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”

“The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.”

“Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.”

http://www.abbeyweb.net/

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/37218.Edward_Abbey

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edward_abbey.html

http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/edward-abbey/extracts/

video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW0QdfjQWoc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOgEs1OZkXg

FINDHORN/DOROTHY MACLEAN

Dorothy Maclean on the Vedic Kingdom

"In 1962 Peter and Eileen Caddy, their three children and friend Dorothy Maclean were unemployed and living in a caravan park near the seaside village of Findhorn, Scotland. They decided to make ends meet by planting vegetables - no easy feat with dry sandy soil, and a cold and windswept location that enjoyed only twenty-six inches of rain a year.

Then Dorothy discovered she could contact the nature spirits or devas. They instructed her how to make the most of the poor soil, and over time sixty-five different vegetables, forty-two herbs and twenty-one types of fruit flourished in this soil. The forty pound cabbages, eight foot high delphiniums, and roses that bloomed in the snow, attracted horticultural experts near and far, and the internationally acclaimed spiritual community of Findhorn was born. When IBM research scientist Marcel Vogel visited Findhorn he commented, ‘This garden isn’t growing from the soil, only in the soil. The plants are fed by the consciousness of the community.’"

http://www.findhorn.org/aboutus/vision/co-creation/

http://lorianpress.com/macleanhome.htm

http://www.maggiehamilton.org/inconversation/dorothy.htm

THE FINDHORN FILM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT4xwLwxi9o

OLAF STAPLEDON

“There is much in this vision that will remind you of your mystics; yet between them and us there is far more difference than similarity, in respect both of the matter and the manner of our thought. For while they are confident that the cosmos is perfect, we are sure only that it is very beautiful. While they pass to their conclusion without the aid of intellect, we have used that staff every step of the way. Thus, even when in respect of conclusions we agree with your mystics rather than your plodding intellectuals, in respect of method we applaud most your intellectuals; for they scorned to deceive themselves with comfortable fantasies.” ― Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/64177.Olaf_Stapledon

BOOK DOWNLOADS
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stapledon/olaf/index.html

Excerpts from books
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2010/07/olaf-stapledon-first-last-men-1930.html

http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2010/12/plant-men-and-others-from-star-maker-by.html

WILLIAM RICKETTS

"In this unique environment of the Divine and that we call Australia, I understand my true self, translating the vision of a Holy Mountain back into the language of the Spirit. This is achieved through myself only as a conscious willing instrument of the higher, Spirit in communion with wild life and every kingdom of nature as the Aboriginal people of Australia knew it."

"I have lived with the Aboriginal people of Central Australia and became deeply impressed by the truth that the Aboriginal people had mastered a way of life. This life, based on the systems of totems, perfectly equates man with his environment. The blundering entrance of the white man into their delicately balanced system began the ruin not only of the Aboriginal people, but also their culture."

"The Aboriginal people moved and lived in this living voice, through the achievement of harmonious co-existence with a total wild life Spiritual meaning. This is successful through the principal of differentiation Australia wide."

http://williamricketts.blogspot.com

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSmvP34whDg http://wn.com/William_Ricketts_Sanctuary

“UNDERSTANDING LOVE”
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~grjallen/ricketts/rick2.htm

WILLIAM BLAKE

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.”

“Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.”

“A Poet a Painter a Musician an Architect, the Man Or Woman who is not one of these is not a Christian You must leave Fathers & Mothers & Houses & Lands if they stand in the way of Art”

http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

http://poemhunter.com/william-blake/

http://www.gailgastfield.com/Blake.html

ARNI ERIKSON

"Every human being...they must have a dream, you know?"

"LIVE SIMPLY SO THAT OTHERS MAY SIMPLY LIVE."

MOTHER EARTH, 2011

"LOLAMAI" from FLINDERS ISLAND, TASMANIA

2011-08-24T18:55:00.000-07:00

JEFF PHILLIPS & LIESBET VERSTRAETEN REPORTING from Mother Earth

“Lolamai-Kuwaqatsi” is Hopi for "all is wonderful Mother Earth"!
TO SEE A SELECTION OF PHOTOS CHECK THESE LINKS:
https://picasaweb.google.com/103250190528562753850/FLINDERSISLANDTASMANIAAUGUST2011LOLAMAI
https://picasaweb.google.com/ilnissky/Lolamai

The past five weeks has been the most “out of touch” with “civilization” that we’ve ever been; no words can convey the power and awesomeness of being totally embedded in the womb of Mother Earth. We’re back at our friend Arni’s place on the remote north-west coast of Flinders Island, which is about half-way between Tasmania and Melbourne in the south of Australia. Most of our friends who may be reading this now have probably seen the film we made about our weeks here in 2009, The Chronicles of Balarnia, “Balarni” being Arni’s nick-name. It’s been two and a half years since we were here; it’s pretty much the same, only it’s grown a bit, both in terms of indigenous vegetation and Arni’s “semi-permacultural” construction projects. The medicine wheel we made in 2009, our very first, has held up well; before we leave this time we’ll give it a good over-haul.

This document of necessity will be quite brief, not nearly as in-depth of a report as I’d like to send, after being essentially out of electronic communication with everyone for over a month; we have to drive 60 kms both to have electricity and to go on-line, and we have to leave in about 3 hours to go back.

Up until the day we left Hobart five weeks ago I was networking massively about the state of the world and the “geo-terrorism” scenario. Just as informed minds had expected, the situation with Fukushima and the global spread of radioactivity has continued to worsen; and revelations of nefarious intention and agendas at the highest levels of worldly power continue to unfold. As always, it’s important to realize that it’s not “them” that’s doing it all, it’s “us.”

This entire reality, what I would describe as a form of Hadean tragi-comedy crossed with “theatre of the absurd” has seemed light-years away during our weeks at Balarnia, except, in fact, for the week of intensive chem-trail spraying that went on directly over our heads about a month ago. Yes, even over the northern sector of Flinders Island, home to no more than a few dozen people. For a while we even considered that these sinister pseudo-cumular emissions might be specifically for us!

Luckily, however, the very first thing we did upon arriving was to erect a Djed pillar in honour of the positive dimension of ancient Egyptian cosmology. I know about the Djed from my wonderful friend Moira Timms, author of Beyond Prophecies and Predictions, who told me that the Djed is the most powerful of Egyptian symbols and was actually the focus of their most important ceremony called “raising the Djed” that was conducted at sacred and powerful moments in time. The Djed pillar is a symbolic representation of the back-bone of Osiris, who Moira likens to being “the Jesus of the Egyptians.” The Djed represents the union of heaven and Earth, the forces of stability and regeneration. The Djed is also associated with the crown chakra. And the “Djedi” are the “spiritual body of Osiris”, that is, those who are living in their highest consciousness.

I call ours the “Uncle Djed pillar” because we’re using left-over materials like wooden cable spools, pvc piping, and an old ceramic insulator from a power-pole, plus the fact that where we are looks like where the Klampetts might have come from.

Coincidentally, we just happened to arrive at Balarnia just before the Egyptian new year, which is July 23, the “heliacal rising of Sirius”, which is the brightest star in the sky and the most important celestial being to the Egyptians after the Ra, the sun. July 23 is when Sirius becomes visible again after being in conjunction with the sun for 70 days. In perfect harmony with the cosmos, our “raising of the Djed” was conducted on the Egyptian new year.

One of the ancient Greek scientists, Aristotle possibly, wrote about how dolphins all seemed to disappear around “the time of the dog star”, what they call “the dog days” in America, which is in fact 23 July, Sirius being the “dog star.” I’ve always felt there is some kind of connection between the whales and dolphins and the star Sirius. Also on the Egyptian New Year, Liesbet and I were down at the beach and saw a pod of dolphins for the first time ever here on Flinders Island. Another cosmic synchronicity.

Only a few days later the chem-trails started appearing, so we “activated the Djed” on behalf of Mother Earth and requested that the chem-trails be banished. The next day these very interesting cloud formations appeared, and when another chem-trail was released, it looked as if these freaky cloud-beings actually moved towards the chem-trail and chased it away, causing it to dissipate and disappear.

I’ve made up a new concept for what we’re doing at Arni’s. You may have heard of WWOOFing, which is “Willing Workers on Organic Farms.” It’s an international network that people join, then they go to places that host “wwoofers” in various countries, where they work a few hours a day in exchange for food and shelter. What Liesbet and I are doing is called “WWIRSPing”, or “Willing Workers In Remote Semi-Permaculture.” We are doing more and harder work of various kinds than ever before in our lives but not for money; we pay for everything ourselves but we get to stay here and do whatever we want, build and grow whatever we want for as long as we are able to stay here, which could be anywhere from a few more weeks to a few more months. If we could raise $200,000, we’d buy Balarnia to make sure that it remains THE coolest place we know of on this planet. Then Arni could give up on mining gold and buy the schooner of his dreams!

Liesbet’s been doing a massive amount of gardening in several different garden areas, and I’ve focussed on building first furniture, then the stone medicine wheel complex based on the chakras. The Djed pillar is inside the crown chakra, and 25 meters away at the root chakra is a regenerating eucalyptus tree. At the heart chakra will be a small kiva-like chamber which we will be able to sit inside; on top will be soil with plants and sand with another medicine wheel. I’ve also built two large heavy-duty seed-beds, one with chicken-wire on top and one with plate glass; any garden area has to be protected not only from the chickens, of which there are 22, but also from wallaby’s, wombats, and the ever-present possum. In addition, I’m trying to sprout some non-indigenous conifer trees like the giant redwood and the hoop pine, of the Auracaria family.

The building where we are living is not isolated from the surrounding environment by any means; the air blows through nicely and, most awesomely, we can hear the myriad frogs and birds which are always around, especially in the evening. In particular, there are a few more-porks, a native owl, around, as well as another kind of owl that sounds like a cat meowing. At least three of four kinds of frogs, including the banjo frog; kookaburras, of course; and many kinds of small song-birds, like the blue fairy wrens and a swallow-like kind with a very complex song that appeared a couple weeks ago. An ornithologist friend of Arni's observed over 50 species of birds here a few years ago.

I’ve been working so hard that my hands and arms have begun to mutate; I’ve been doing so much physical landscaping, hauling, and construction…a form of “nature dharma”…that I have yet to pick up a paint brush, much less start to write any of the several books that it was my goal at least to begin while at Balarnia.

What we are doing is totally crazy to normal people…doing a massive amount of work, for no money, busting our asses day in and day out, on land we not only don’t own but can’t even stay there for any great length of time without having to leave because of governmental bureaucracy bullshit. We are doing our best actually to live in the reality that we would like to have, and that we’d love to see other people making an attempt to live in…a reality not only close to but firmly embedded in, the womb of Mother Earth; a way of living that is not self-contradictory and that is in harmony with nature; a way of living that is making a serious move towards extreme voluntary simplification and sustainability in a true sense…not the geo-political meme sense. We are living with no electricity, rain-water to drink and pond-water for other uses, planting many many types of edible plants, constantly honouring the Earth and communing with the local nature devas, much in the manner of the original Findhorn in Scotland. We don’t have any 8-foot hollyhocks or 5 pound cabbages grown in sand…yet…but miracles are happening nonetheless. The blue skies, the songs of birds, the voices of the wind and ocean, the gentleness of the rain, the stonedness of the rocks, and the power of life are miracles enough to keep us happy!

What we are doing and how we are living there is in honour of and in the spirit of several of our heroes, in particular, Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, whose work we first really discovered here in 2009; Edward Abbey, author of Desert Solitiare, based on his journals from being a park ranger in Arches National Park in Utah in the 1950’s; Black Elk, the Lakota medicine man whose vision of the “healing of the sacred hoop” we are trying to fulfil; William Blake, the 18th century Irish artist/poet/visionary who lived on the fringes of society, foresaw the “Satanic mills” of the Industrial Revolution which is now destroying the Earth, and said that only those people who are true artists, that is, who are true to their own inner and natural creativity, are truly spiritual; Olaf Stapledon, the British philosopher and author of The Star-Maker, whose imaginative writings resemble a journal of actual experience far more than mere flights of fancy; Hundertwasser, the Austrian artist who came to live in remote New Zealand, who loved nature and spirals, hated straight lines and right angles, and who stressed the importance of being in tune with our waste; and finally, William Ricketts, an Australian sculptor and in many ways like William Blake, who spent a lot of time in the central desert with aboriginal peoples in the 1960’s and 70’s, who then created a massive garden of sculptures based on real people that show them literally as a part of nature…I’ve never seen anything like it…the sculptures are installed in a former bird sanctuary near Dandenong to the east of Melbourne. His purpose was to demonstrate to the Wasichu mentality, the white people from Europe, the sacred nobility and beautiful uniqueness of the aboriginal people who have been almost totally exterminated by the greedy and psychotic strains of racism that are unfortunately still “alive and well” in this the “lucky country.” This, like Fukushuma and uranium mining, is another story.

We’ve been reading lots of books, and I’ve been learning some words from the Hopi language. “Lolamai” means “all is wonderful” and “Kuwa-qatsi” means “Mother Earth.” At Balarnia, “all is wonderful for Mother Earth” and we’re doing our best to show her and the Great Spirit that the “people of one heart” are not only not extinct, but are actually thriving in our own small way. We are hoping that the spirit of Balarnia will spread to the ends of the Earth before it's too late for homo sapiens, if in fact the show's not already over for "man, the wise." Maybe destroying ourselves is in fact our final and highest act of real wisdom...doing Mother Earth and everyone else who lives here a big favour.

Check out these photos to see where we are and what we’re doing. Hopefully next week I’ll have time to write more and share our journey here in greater detail. Until then may the Great Spirit smile upon you always, wherever you are and whatever the nature of your personal reality might be…may it be meaningful to you!

Jeff Phillips
Flinders Island Tasmania
25 August 2011

NEW "FREE-LANCE INTELLIGENCE" META-BLOG

2011-07-09T02:56:00.000-07:00

FULL-SPECTRUM INFORMATION

In an attempt to keep our friends up to date with what’s going on in the world as well as to share our creative endeavours, I’m creating this new “meta-blog” page. This is part of my on-going work as a "free-lance intelligence agent working for Mother Nature."

It’s purpose is to provide a single page that has links to all of our sites and blogs, so that you can quickly and easily navigate onto any of them and check out the latest postings.

* SYNTHAISSANCE CRYOBENTHICS

"A flowering of creativity that's extremely cool and very deep."

ARCHIVE SELECTIONS

"Carl Sagan and the Nuclear Scenario: A Cosmic Perspective on Terrestrial Problems"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2006_07_16_archive.html

"Dream-time DNA: A Non-local Connection"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2006_07_19_archive.html

"Notes on My Connection with Arthur C. Clarke"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2008_06_24_archive.html

"The Keringke Connection: Sacred Art from the Central Desert"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2008_07_14_archive.html

"The Ghoulest and the Coolest: A Real Hitch-hiking Adventure"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2009/07/ghoulest-and-coolest-real-hitch-hiking.html

"Torres del Paine National Park, southern Chile: The Beauty and Power of Nature"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2006_07_03_archive.html

"Aquarush Tour-boat Operator Kills Snorkeler/Shark Bay Sea-life At Risk"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2010/05/eco-tour-boat-kills-snorkeler-whales-vs.html

"Visiting a Sacred Mountain: Mount Titiroa, Fiordland National Park, New Zealand"
http://synthaissance.blogspot.com/2011/02/visiting-sacred-mountain-message-from.html

* GEO-TERRORISM

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society…dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values...this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior...Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the stepping-stones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society...In addition, it may be possible—and tempting—to exploit for strategic political purposes the fruits of research on the brain and on human behavior"

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

I created this blog in response to the “not-so-natural” earth-quakes and associated “disasters” which occurred in New Zealand and Japan in recent months. With my own writings, including first-hand reports of anomalous phenomena in New Zealand and Australia, and the gradual up-loading of relevant articles by other researchers I am attempting to share information relating to the “new generation” of weapons systems which have supplanted atomic/nuclear technologies as the state-of-the-art “coercion leverage” instruments being deployed by globalist power-brokers, who are in fact “geo-terrorists.”

LATEST POSTING:

"Geo-terrorism Update: Earth Under Attack...but 'What...me worry?' "
http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-follows-are-selections-from.html

ARCHIVE SELECTIONS

"Geo-terrorism and technetronic warfare"
http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/03/geo-terrorism-and-technetronic-warfare.html

"Global geo-terrorism update"
http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/04/global-geo-terrorism-update-jeff.html

"Geo-terrorism update: nuclear, technetronic & infotoxicology scenarios"
http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/05/geo-terrorism-update-nuclear.html

"Geo-terrorism update: women for Mother Earth"
http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/05/geo-terrorism-update-24-may-2011.html

* RE-NAVIGATING THE HUMAN PROCESS
"The Ultimate Technology"

http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/

RENAVIGATING THE HUMAN PROCESS is our most urgent necessity. Every instant we are using the "ultimate technology" that we are as a here-and-now instrument of consciousness and creativity. The problems we now face as human beings are a result of software deficiencies in our collective psyche. We have the ability to reprogram our mental operating environment and to renavigate our process away from oblivion and towards the continuity of life. The Earth is the only planet we know so graced.

My newest blog is an attempt to create awareness of how, if humanity is choosing to create the current “global picture show”, then we can also choose to STOP creating it as it currently exists. Our problems are not a flawed biology that needs to be re-engineered, but a flawed “internal software” or psychological “operating environment” that needs to be cleared, up-graded, and re-installed.

LATEST POSTING: http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/2011/07/aldous-huxley-john-c-lilly-20th-century.html

ARCHIVE SELECTIONS

"Notes on Jose Arguelles, UFO's, and 'War of the MK-Stargate' "
http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/2011/05/notes-on-jose-arguelles-ufos-and-war-of.html

"Our Highest Goal: To Maintain Our Dharma at all Costs"
http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/2011/06/our-highest-goal-to-maintain-our-dharma.html

"Creative Renavigation: The Karma and Dharma of Being Here Now"
http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/2011/06/creative-renavigation-jeff-phillips.html

"Moira Timms, 'The Bible' (Revelation, the Seven Seals', & Chakras as Internal Technology)"
http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/2011/06/bible-moira-timms-notes-on-seven-seals.html

* RACHELS CARSON OF TODAY

http://rachels-carson-of-today.blogspot.com/

"What we have to face is not an occasional dose of poison which has accidentally got into some article of food...but a persistent and continuous poisoning of the whole human environment."

Dedicated to one of our greatest heroes, this blog is all about an ecological consciousness based on a genuine love of Mother Earth and our entire family of life, and focuses primarily on threats to environmental health like chemical and pesticide toxicity, as well as threats from nuclear and radiological sources.

LATEST POSTING: http://rachels-carson-of-today.blogspot.com/2011/05/pacific-ocean-radioactive-gargage-dump.html

* WHALES AND DOLPHINS

http://tutunui-wananga.blogspot.com/

"To the dolphin alone, beyond all others, Nature has given what the best philosophers seek, friendship for no advantage; yet it is friend to all men and has often given great aid." Plutarch

“The personification of the knowledge of whales” is a Maori phrase that expresses what this blog is all about. Dedicated to the REAL people of Earth, the cetaceans, or whales and dolphins are to me not only the “ultimate indigenous people” but also a true “extra-terrestrial intelligence.” They have been on this planet ten times longer than humans, and are light-years ahead of us in terms of anything that could truly be called “intelligence.” This blog deals not only with the threats to their continued health and existence but also with “who” they are as fellow sentient beings.

LATEST POSTING: http://tutunui-wananga.blogspot.com/2011/06/songs-of-humpback-whale-dr-roger-payne.html

* INFOTOXICOLOGY/MASS-MEDIA MIND CONTROL

http://www.regainyourbrain.org/

"The scientist of today is distressed by the fact that the results of his scientific work have created a threat to mankind since they have fallen into the hands of morally blind exponents of political power. He is conscious of the fact that technological methods, made possible by his work, have led to a concentration of economic and also of political power in the hands of small minorities which have come to dominate completely the lives of the masses of people, who appear more and more amorphous. But even worse: the concentration of economic and political power has not only made the man of science dependent economically, it also threatens his independence from within; the shrewd methods of intellectual and psychic influences which it brings to bear will prevent the development of independent personalities."

Albert Einstein, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1952

I created this site in 2004 after more than two decades of research in “infotoxicology”, a new discipline I created in 1995, which concerns the pollution of our mental environment and the weaponization of mass-communication. Although this site hasn’t been up-dated since its creation, most of the material on there is not ephemeral but conceptual and historical, and so of relevance now as an aid for research and awareness. A major up-grade is in the works; as well, Peter Entell’s brilliant documentary “The Tube” can now be watched from here.

LATEST UP-GRADE (video): http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_video/the_tube.html

* THE WAR ON INDEPENDENT THOUGHT

http://www.regainyourbrain.blogspot.com/

"If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year when it is necessary, from your point of view, that he should do so. Your first job is to build credibility and the authenticity of your propaganda, and persuade the enemy to trust you although you are his enemy." Psychological Warfare Casebook, Operations Research, Johns Hopkins University, 1958

This blog is a supplement to the regain site and lately I’ve been focussing on the mind-control aspects of the “new generation” of “technetronic” weapons. Television, “wi-fi”, mobile phones and “smart meters” are all part of the integrated weaponized electrical grid scenario.

LATEST POSTING: http://regainyourbrain.blogspot.com/2011/06/tube-review-how-television-affects-mind.html

* EXPERIMENTAL FILM/AUDIO-VISUAL PROJECTS

http://cryo-now.blogspot.com/

Here we share information about our film/audio-visual projects, which include Cryo 2008, The Chronicles of Balarnia, Te Waiwaia Dreaming, and our latest project, Gaiotea Dreaming, a slide-show dvd consisting of over 1000 of our still photos from Aotea, or Great Barrier Island, New Zealand, with a sound-track of music from some of our favourite native American/ambient-nature artists, including humpback whales.

LATEST POSTING: http://cryo-now.blogspot.com/2011/07/gaiotea-dreaming.html

* ORIGINAL MUSIC/FILM SOUNDTRACKS

http://thebrink-jeffphillips.blogspot.com/

I’ve used the name “The Brink” since 1985 for myself in musical form. Here are notes on my various musical projects and links to down-load and/or listen to a selection of original music, including that used in our films.

LATEST POSTING: http://thebrink-jeffphillips.blogspot.com/2011/07/musical-experiments-by-jeff-phillips.html

http://dolphinmatrix.com/Jeff/

* The Art & Universe of Jeff Phillips & Liesbet Verstraeten

This is our main web-site where you can see a lot of our visual art; near the top of the page is a link to watch Te Waiwaia Dreaming. On the right side is a list of links to other pages, including “Thalionics” (science of humour) and “Ultimate Technology.” Links to our Picasaweb still-photo sites are there, too.

THE CHRISTCHURCH QUAKE by Jeff Phillips

2011-03-01T19:37:00.000-08:00

NOTE: In the weeks and months following the 22 February quake I've written and compiled a lot of highly relevant information concerning the "not so natural" dimensions not only of the Christchurch event but also of the earthquake/tsunami that destroyed Fukushima Japan and unleashed a global radiological toxicity scenario. Check the links below to read my thoughts on all this:

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/03/geo-terrorism-and-technetronic-warfare.html

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/04/global-geo-terrorism-update-jeff.html

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/05/geo-terrorism-update-nuclear.html

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/05/geo-terrorism-update-24-may-2011.html

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/06/claudia-von-werlhofdr-rosalie-bertell.html

http://geo-terrorism.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-follows-are-selections-from.html

"An opportunity for renavigation has been created; but will people as a whole take advantage of it? THIS is the issue. As I see it, the biggest form of awakening that needs to happen is for people to realize that the Earth is not a dead chunk of rock made of resources to be extracted; the Earth is very alive, and in more and deeper ways than most people would like to believe."

SEE ALSO: "The Karma and Dharma of Being Here Now" Jeff Phillips

http://renavigating-the-human-process.blogspot.com/2011/06/creative-renavigation-jeff-phillips.html

PART ONE: OPPORTUNITY FOR RENAVIGATION

When Liesbet and I returned from Mt. Titiroa to Manapouri the day before the most recent Christchurch earthquake last week, we felt that we had just been in “the womb of the Earth” and were resonating with her consciousness so deeply that it was as if we were sensing her feelings as a planetary intelligence. We came away not only with a powerfully enhanced connection with nature, but also with a profound feeling that she, as a planetary being, is experiencing great pain and sadness. Our intuition is that a lot of her suffering is because of what humanity as a whole is doing; but she is also going through changes due to forces originating at the heliocosmic and galactic levels. The harm being done by humanity’s global technological civilization, our on-going koyaanisqatsi, is astronomical in its own right, but also serves to exacerbate the extra-terrestrially originating energetic shifts and imbalances, negatively affecting not only the Earth’s ability to maintain stability, but also our own ability to survive the “window of transition” we are now in.

New Zealand is no stranger to earthquakes, being located right on a major planetary juncture between two tectonic plates. Seismic activity and vulcanism are common in these areas. The north island region around Napier was devastated several decades ago, with far greater loss of life than the recent event in Christchurch. Cities like Auckland, which is built on a hundred or more extinct volcanos, and Wellington, which is close to the major fault-line, have had “quake awareness” for decades; but Christchurch is located in an area believed by many geologists to have been seismically inactive for tens of thousands of years.

In the past decade, ever since I spent a month on Maui and visited the Haleakala volcano there, I’ve had a fascination with volcanos. They are powerful in many extraordinary ways, and represent deep archetypes in the human psyche, as do earthquakes. Embedded in our collective psyche are memories of catastrophic events of terrestrial and cosmic natures; deep down we all “remember” times when the skies were darkened, the earth rumbled, bolts of lightning illuminated the heavens. Humanity has been here long enough to have witnessed countless displays of “theomachy” or the “war of the gods” which ancient rulers sought to emulate. Immanuel Velikovsky believed that humanity as a whole had been so thoroughly traumatized by the succession of these events that modern man’s overall disposition was that of a mental patient who had no recollection of what had happened, but who behaved irrationally and even self-destructively in the process of repeatedly “acting out” or re-creating those traumatic events.

Could it be that this deep-seated unconscious desire to re-experience catastrophes is what leads people to build cities in what could be potentially dangerous places, for example, inside the crater of volcanos believed to be extinct; or in the case of Christchurch, on a peripheral lava flow of a mega-volcano complex that had become a wetland, which was drained for agriculture and construction.

My main purpose in writing this article is to challenge the wisdom behind what appears to be the consensus of Christchurch leadership, which seems to be forging ahead with “building an earth-quake-proof city” with “buildings that can’t kill people.” These are more or less the words spoken by Christchurch mayor Bob Parker the day after the quake.

Geologist Mark Quigley said on the same day that a lot of new in-depth research needed to be done to verify what he thought, but that he had good reason to believe that the most recent quake was NOT in fact an “after-shock” from the September 2010 quake, but an entirely new sequence of events emanating from a totally different fault. He went on to say that both of these faults could indeed be part of a single much more extensive fault system yet to be mapped; the thing to be concerned about is that, if this were in fact the case, then the entire Canterbury area would be susceptible to quakes of far greater enormity than any of those that have already happened, as a long fault can generate exponentially more energy than its shorter sub-systems.

These words alone from a highly respected geologist familiar with south island seismology should be reason enough to postpone at least temporarily plans for “rebuilding” Christchurch, shouldn’t they? Not that basic infrastructure shouldn’t be restored, housing, businesses…but where do you draw the line?

To me, the biggest question is, given the pattern of events that’s already transpired in Christchurch: large quake out of nowhere…thousands of after-shocks…medium quake…thousands of after-shocks…much worse quake…”out of nowhere”? Hardly, given what had just happened in recent months.

Given this pattern, where is the wisdom or even sanity in immediately launching into a major re-construction campaign when the possibility totally exists of more quakes at any moment, which, according to Dr. Quigley, have the potential to be far more devastating than the one that just levelled the cbd of Christchurch and claimed over 200 lives.

I don’t claim to have the answers: where will all the people whose homes have been destroyed live from now on? Would YOU want to have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on re-building your home, only to have it destroyed yet AGAIN?

I actually thought all this stuff after the September quake and its sequence of thousands of after-shocks, including the pretty big one on the day after Boxing Day. I was in a zone of silence at Wainui when it happened, and I remember hearing it quite clearly. It was actually a combination of hearing and feeling it. I knew what it was; there was something very eery about it. I definitely knew that it was not thunder and not a man-made sound, from subtle information contained in the harmonics of the rumble. It had some of the characteristics of a voice, the groan or moan of a being more than an inanimate sound.

Ever since we came back to the south island just before Christmas, we’ve been talking with just about everyone we’ve met about the quakes. Most people didn’t seem too flustered by it all, but then they’d mention, with a look of concern, “But when’s it going to stop?” This was before the quake of 22 February.

The only truthful and logical answer is that there’s absolutely no way to know. BUT the precedent has been fully established, undoubtedly, that the Christchurch area is NOW about as active seismically as anywhere can be; and it’s all totally unpredictable. In my mind, the more activity that happens, the more that could be on the way.

It’s a difficult situation. Not many people want to give up not only their homes or businesses that have been destroyed, but their entire city as well. Intelligence, however, requires looking at the entire spectrum of possibilities as far as they can be comprehended, right?

And sure, the “what if” road goes really far in many directions. But how many people, either still in Christchurch and surrounds, or exiled at least temporarily to other places, are asking their friends and themselves, “Could this happen yet AGAIN, and if so, do we want to be here for that?” I believe that, even as non-sensical and out of touch as many people seem to be these days, there would be few who weren’t entertaining these questions at least at some level.

Some might argue that since the quakes have happened, the “stress” that had accumulated has now been relieved; but according to geologists, these quakes were not the result of “stress.” Others might say that maybe the Banks peninsula mega-volcano is awakening out of what has long been believed to be dormancy or even extinction. Dr. Quigley mentioned a time-frame of “two or three million years” since these faults experienced movement. Volcanos, after all, are essentially tunnels that go way down into the Earth’s mantle; they are channels that allowed molten magma to flow up and out. I’m no vulcanologist but wouldn’t it be reasonable to think that, given sufficient heat from below, that these channels may not be capable of re-opening? The past year has witnessed more than one eruption from South American volcanos believed to have been extinct for thousands of years.

Speculation aside, however, what is clear is that this most recent disaster in Christchurch has presented an opportunity for re-navigation of everything that people there are about. At the immediate level, it’s forced people to wake up in a huge way because a lot of the things they take for granted suddenly weren’t there, including the solidity of the Earth itself. Homes, cars, food, water, comfort and safety, pets, friends and loved ones, some or all of these have been lost to many thousands of people. In a powerful way this forces people to be people again, back to the roots of what it really means to be a human being.

An opportunity is created for people to ask a lot of questions and to do a lot of serious thinking about a lot of things, pragmatic, philosophical, maybe even spiritual. It would be possible for a tremendous amount of socio-psychological, cultural, and metaphysical healing and growth to come out of all this. These events, this most recent disaster, could be a catalyst for a major transformation of what people think is important, or necessary, even what they think of as “reality.”

An opportunity for renavigation has been created; but will people as a whole take advantage of it? THIS is the issue. As I see it, the biggest form of awakening that needs to happen is for people to realize that the Earth is not a dead chunk of rock made of resources to be extracted; the Earth is very alive, and in more and deeper ways than most people would like to believe.

We have to become aware that we all together, as individuals and collectively, comprise a not insignificant factor in the overall equation of what is happening with the Earth. She feels the pain we are inflicting on her; she feels sorrow that so many of her human children no longer care about her or acknowledge her existence. Not only our actions…or inactions…but our thoughts, our intentions contribute to our “reality.” I believe that the Earth as a planetary intelligence, THE planetary intelligence of which we are an unconscious member is quite literally crying out to us to wake up from our artificial reality trance into the awareness of the peril of the natural world happening around us right now.

There’s not much we can do about changes in the sun’s energy, or emanations from the centre of the galaxy, or a super-nova, or an asteroid collision; but we DO have the option of stopping or cutting back on the ecological damage being wrought at increasingly enormous levels by the summation of our day-to-day activities, by the effects of our global military-industrial-technological civilization. Indigenous elders have been warning us for decades. We’d be a lot better off, for example, if instead of watching footy, we engaged in some basic science education.

And we DO have the option of deciding if we want to live in cities or not. Bob Parker said last week, with respect to rebuilding Christchurch, “Look at Napier, look at San Francisco.” They are both cities of varying size that successfully re-built after major earthquake devastation. But they are both still cities.

No city is a “natural” environment. It cannot possibly be. Cities of any size have huge concentrations of most or all of the most dangerous health and ecological hazards that humans are creating. Personally, I never understood why people would actually want to live in a city if they didn’t actually have to. Maybe a truly visionary perspective could prevail in Christchurch, and something kind of resembling a “city” could be re-built, but thoroughly de-centralized and arborealized, with traffic banned in the cbd just like in Berkeley, and no buildings over say three stories allowed.

Again, I don’t pretend to have any “answers” but I tried to help with some questions. A tremendous opportunity for renavigation of a lot of major processes has been created by these quakes, and globally, by the cosmic “window of alignment” we are now in; only the people of Christchurch, indeed, the people of our entire planet, will decide what they will do with this opportunity. The future, the fate of our entire species, and even life as we know it, may depend on the decisions we each make now and in the near future.

In Part Two I will examine existing evidence, not only from alternative scientific sources but experiences of friends and ourselves as well, which indicate an artificial origin for the Christchurch earthquake series.

Ultimately, the result is the same: whether the quakes are “natural” or “man-made”, we each are STILL an integral part of the overall system of human and planetary energies and consciousness.

JEFF PHILLIPS
MANAPOURI
SOUTH ISLAND
2 MARCH 2011

"VISITING A SACRED MOUNTAIN: A MESSAGE FROM THE HEART OF THE EARTH" JEFF PHILLIPS

2011-02-24T19:22:00.000-08:00

NEW PHOTOS POSTED HERE:

https://picasaweb.google.com/therockist2/MOUNTTITIROAFEB15202011#

Mt. Titiroa photos from 2010 posted here:

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NOTE FROM JEFF: The first two parts of this article were written on Monday, 21 February, the day before the Christchurch earthquake.

VISITING A SACRED MOUNTAIN: A MESSAGE FROM THE EARTH

Returning from an arduous and sacred journey into timeless wilderness, silent, clear and alive, undisrupted by human enterprise, is a profound experience, psychologically and spiritually. In the same way that we have found ourselves very much immersed in the “dream-time” dimensions during our travels around Australia, during the trek we just completed to Mt. Titiroa, the highest peak in southern Fiordland, south island of New Zealand, we found ourselves similarly in, literally, another dimension of experience, of being, of truly and immediately feeling the innate power of, and the love inherent in, the rocks, trees, waters, birds, clouds and mountains, of the Earth and Mother Nature, of a realm where the Great Spirit is audible and visible. A knowing of the reason that indigenous people sing songs to the wind and the stars; a distinct feeling that nature is indeed not only aware of our presence there, but that she is watching over us, guiding us gently in time and direction, in inspiration; a genuinely mystical recognition of and connection with a world that is infinitely more real, alive and eternal than the ephemeral and anthropocentric isocosm, the increasingly mono-cultured “artificial world of his own creation” into which mankind is retreating more and more each day.

This moment is a very special window of time during which one is still filled with the tranquillity and vibration of undisrupted nature, yet sufficiently re-engaged with the “comforts” of, for example, a place to write, to try to express these thoughts. The living pulse resounds within, even as the occasional noise of machines resounds without. A time in which to feel fully within oneself the immense contrasts, even contradictions, of “being here now” as a human being, of realizing how utterly insignificant at best, and destructive in general, most of the human enterprise actually is, for ourselves and the world we so graciously have been given to live in. A moment to reflect deeply on the central mysteries of existence as a person, and to understand how best to live, to refine the gem, the incomprehensibly wonderful gift we have each been given, this cosmically brief yet inwardly infinite existence we call a “life.”

Eventually we come back into our bodies, but for now our auras remain entwined with the unspeakable beauty of where we’ve just come from. I wish, I will for this magic never to subside, for the fibers of life-energy joining us back to the alpine serenity always to remain, so that the blessing of this special connection is never diminished.

In this special state of awareness I receive confirmation of what I already believed to be true: that the sum total of human activity is harming the Earth. What is more clear now is not only that this is the case, but that the Earth experiences this harm in an almost “personal” way, since she is a living being whose nature, whose “nature” is far beyond our comprehension as only one minute species of her life forms. What is clear to me now is that the Earth feels the pain of every tree that is chopped down, every animal, every person, who is killed, every mine that is blasted, every well that is drilled and not just the physical pain analogous to having a piece of your arm cut out, but the spiritual anguish of a level only experienced by a planetary consciousness, a mother of myriad lives and forms under attack by some of her own unique and special children. She is deeply hurt by our intent of greed rather than need, by our obsession with domination. What IS wrong with us? Why are we so different from everyone else who is incapable of being out of balance with life?

I am also keenly aware of my anger with people. This anger is not one born of negativity or destructive energy, but a constructively critical anger born from loving life yet witnessing an on-going descent of humanity into a pit of unnecessary degradation to ourselves, our fellow beings, our planet. Why must we continue to wage war on the Earth? How is it that our collective hearts have grown so cold, so distant from the embrace of the Earth and her love for us? Why have we as a whole become deaf to her music, her cries, blind to the damage we do from our ‘ways of life’? Why do we insist that we can’t make a difference, or that it’s all someone else’s problem?

I am only angry at people because of my love for them; I am angry at people’s failure to wake up, to question things they do that they know are not good but they insist on doing it anyway, at their refusal to change, to use the highest knowledge we already have. I am angry at greed, at stupidity, at inertia, at wanton destruction in the name of money, at the astronomical amount of needless killing of ourselves that we have done and continue to do, often in the name of something called or worshipped as “god.” All too often, our propensity for superficial rationalization conceals a deep unrest, a denial of what people will admit as truth if questioned. I am angered, and saddened, by how little people seem to ask of themselves.

In my life, in recent decades, I have heard indigenous elders going to great lengths to deliver messages sent down from thousands of years ago. These messages may differ in detail, in language, but in essence they are one: what we do to the Earth we do to ourselves. If we choose to destroy the Earth, to harm her, for whatever reasons we may find it convenient to rationalize as acceptable, we simultaneously inflict the same wounds upon ourselves and our descendents, possibly even precluding their existence. We ARE of the Earth: every molecule in our bodies came originally from stone, the body of the Earth. We are filled with her waters, we breathe her air; our blood flows with her iron, just as her “blood” of petroleum and “nerves” of gold flow with energies unknown to and possibly unknowable by us. “Civilized” humanity has no understanding of or respect for the spirit of a forest or a mountain, the life or right to peace of a wild animal, the solitude of an undisrupted place, the consciousness of a tree, whale, or planet for that matter. Each of these has an inherent right to exist; yet our “mentality” recognizes nothing of this, instead targeting all that is “natural” as a resource to be exploited, devoid of any meaning in itself.

In 1986 I heard Hopi elder Thomas Banyacya share the ancient prophecies from his ancestors. First and foremost was this warning: “If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.” During the same week that I heard him speak, near Black Mesa in Arizona, the Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred, releasing massive amounts of radioactive poisons into a densely populated region of the biosphere; the irony of this powerful synchronicity was that the uranium for the first atomic bombs was mined from Black Mesa, on the Hopi reservation.

I share with you now a message from the Earth, as one of the few people who may be capable of perceiving and delivering such a message. Undisrupted indigenous cultures and cosmologies are vanishing; elder carriers of ancient wisdom are dying with no suitable heirs to the gifts of their knowledge. Extremely few people in our own cultural milieu retain, nurture, have ever developed, or can even understand the importance of a genuine, deep and living real-time connection with the consciousness of the Earth. As someone who not only lives in an intermediate zone between human industrial civilization and the non-human realms, but who has also dedicated a significant portion of their total life energy to creating awareness of what the Oglala native Americans refer to as “mitakuye oyasin”, “all my relations”, of our existence as human beings within a much larger family of all of life as we know her, our responsibility for and our endangerment of this family of life, which includes the Earth herself.

My attempt to share this “message” is of course an intuitive expression; I advance no pretense of “direct translation” but offer a personal interpretation of what this message conveys. In essence, it contains nothing that I haven’t already been trying to share for decades; it is the most recent, comprehensive and concise condensation. Finally, this “message” does not originate in the domains of symbolic language; English as a vehicle of communication has its own parameters, its own utility and limitation. Mine is an attempt to bridge the worlds of nature and spirit with those of humanity and day-to-day life. Message priority: urgent.

THE MESSAGE

We as human beings are only one species of life on a planet who is home to billions of life-forms, known and unknown. All life forms are unique; in the most fundamental ways we are no different or important than any other living being, except that our beliefs about ourselves have set us apart in our own minds, in thought and in action, and in the ability of our technological-industrial civilization to poison and exploit the planetary biosphere. Dominant belief paradigms like Darwinism and Judaeo-Christianity have laid the foundation for the widespread separation from and destruction of the natural world which we now experience and exacerbate. Indigenous peoples who live simply and in touch with nature are systematically decimated; their lands stolen, resources extracted, and the remnants become assimilated into the modern “way of life” centered on materialism, over-consumption, and the religion of capitalism. In the words of Joseph Wood Krutch,

“Man is one of those animals which is in danger from its too successul participation in the struggle for existence…from the standpoint of nature as a whole, he is both a threat to every other living thing, and therefore, a threat to himself also…he has become the tyrant of the Earth, the waster of its resources, the creator of the most prodigious imbalance in the natural order which has ever existed…”

We as human beings require the Earth for our existence; the Earth loves us as one of her children but does not require our existence. As we poison and destroy the Earth, we literally do this to ourselves. Our “artificial realities” imposed on the Earth and each other have supplanted our relationship with the natural world to such an extent that nature is no longer a primary element of consciousness.

One in two people globally now live in cities. No city of any size can possibly be a healthful place to live. Cities are high-density concentrations of all the most destructive things that people do, and are permeated with high levels of toxins, electromagnetic radiation, noise and socio-cultural malaise. People living in cities are far more vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters than people living in more natural and de-centralized conditions in the country or forest.

The Earth is a constantly changing and dynamic being, a living planet undergoing transformations just as her life-forms do; the Earth simultaneously provides an encompassing context for life as we know it, but is also itself embedded in larger cosmic contexts, most notably, the heliocosm, or local solar system, which is itself dynamic, transformative, and influenced by energies and movements at the galactic level.

Current science tells us that life itself has survived several “mass extinction events”; 99.9% of all life-forms that ever existed are now extinct. Life is not so much a specific life-form, for example, an individual organism or species, but more of a process.

Human life has been around long enough to have witnessed cosmic catastrophes that have left imprints in our collective psyche. The Earth experiences cyclical variations that result in changes in climate and magnetic fields, with resultant effects on life-forms.

Ancient/indigenous cultures have knowledge of some of these cycles and have long predicted the accelerated “Earth changes” now upon us. The influence of the existence of our global technological-industrial civilization is a significant factor as well in how these Earth changes affect us and the planet. The choices that we make, individually and collectively, on how we live and what we do with respect to the Earth also comprise a significant factor in the overall equation.

In addition to the direct manipulative and destructive effects of our technological civilization, including man’s warfare against himself, we may also be precipitating a higher degree of negative influence from the cosmic levels due to the disruption of natural systems at a planetary level. These negative influences could be termed “karmic” as well as “energetic” and “morphogenetic.”

At the human level, our overall desensitisation to the vibrations of nature puts us in a frequency domain out of harmony with the Earth and out of harmony with the incoming energetic shifts. Our decision-making is affected and in general we are not living in ways that are compatible with the long-term health or even existence of life as we know it, human or non-human. When we are out of touch with the subtle intelligence of nature, we are not able to respond to urgent warning signals, psychic “alarm bells” which may alert us to impending danger. When the local environment is saturated with electromagnetic radiation and chemical toxins, our personal auras are distorted, our resonance with the Earth’s magnetic field is blocked and we are out of synch with the real world in which life as we know it has always lived and evolved.

The Earth is not “punishing” us for doing what we are doing; we are punishing ourselves, and the Earth. The result is that we are making it vastly more difficult for ourselves to make it through this window of time successfully, for example, by continuing to live more and more extravagantly, consuming more and more resources, instead of pulling back on our damage to the Earth like indigenous elders and true “old school” environmental leaders have been telling us to for decades. In no way are we using the best or highest knowledge; the opposite is closer to the truth, as we plunge head-long into accelerating destructive habits and the refusal to renavigate our course to oblivion.

In the aftermath of the development of atomic weapons, Albert Einstein observed that “everything has changed except our ways of thinking.” This same insight can be applied to the effects of our entire military-industrial civilization: science-fiction level technologies are being deployed of on an undreamed-of scale, yet as individuals we cling to totally out-moded beliefs and values that make no sense in today’s world. We each are affected daily by the results of the scientific “revolution” yet most people could be classed as scientifically illiterate.

The unknowns with which we as humans are now confronted are enormous. The biggest unknowns lie within each of us, the mystery of why, for example, we steadfastly refuse to wake up out of the hypnotic trance called “normality” and to examine our “ways of life” that are literally paving the road to disaster.

It’s clear that political “leadership” and mass-media are only making matters worse by reinforcing the unquestioned status quo beliefs that increased materialism, capitalism and “technology” are the solutions to the problems we now face.

Nothing could be further from the truth. We each have the ability to take charge of our own lives if we allow ourselves to disengage from the “artificial realities” which have come to dominate our existence. We each have the ability to choose to simplify our lives, to live closer to nature, to live as if the Earth and our family of life, “mitakuye oyasin”, actually matter as fellow beings, not as “resources.”

If we each get a little closer to nature and lessen the damage we participate in through our daily routines and things we take for granted, a wellspring of healing and love is there just waiting for us to be aware of it, from the heart of the Earth herself, our true mother.

If we drink from the fountains of life we become more alive, and regain our sensitivity and responsiveness to the intelligence of nature and the Earth which is constantly guiding and informing us about what is happening in the local universe.

This is the essence of the “transmission” I received from the Earth via Mt. Titiroa. To me, this is the “message” of the rocks, the trees, the waters, the whales and dolphins. Stated very simply: “We are ALL on a journey through the unknown. Life and the Earth have gone through similar “windows of change” before, but each time is unique. Humans must realize that as a whole they are waging an unconscious war against their very home and mother; as a whole they are insane with respect to the “reality” of global indigenous wisdom. If humans as whole woke up, questioned what they are doing, and renavigated their process, most importantly by greatly reducing immediate damage to the Earth, her eco-systems and life-forms, they will astronomically increase their own chances not only for ‘survival’ through these ‘Earth changes’ but may find themselves included once again with a place in the coming ‘new creation’.”

VISITING MOUNT TITIROA

Liesbet and I were first inspired to visit Mt. Titiroa just about a year ago. When we were in Manapouri in 2008 we saw an article in a magazine written by a photographer who had climbed to the summit ridge. He had taken photos of some amazing wind-sculpted boulders; we knew then that we had to go there. We learned that Mt. Titiroa is very unique, not only in that it’s the highest point in this part of Fiordland, but more importantly the whole top of the mountain is a huge deposit of a mineral called quartzite. I’m not a geologist but I do know that quartz and related minerals have unique crystalline properties; quartz crystals are used extensively by traditional shamans and medicine persons, as well as in computers and electronic devices.

The mountain itself is visually spectacular as the whole top is white from the quartzite. Not snow-white, but bright white. And it dominates the landscape from all directions coming into Manapouri. Particularly when you leave out to the south, or are approaching from the south towards Manapouri, you can see just how extensive the quartzite ridges of Titiroa are.

We made our first “ascent” in February of 2010, using a map from a south island guide book to show us the way. On the mountain itself no trails exist; many routes exist, and we continue to find out more all the time. The shortest and most direct way is the way we took first, which involves an almost vertical climb for over a kilometre up through deep forest filled with moss and dead trees. We left our base camp at Garnock Burn, and climbed the mountain only with cameras and water. This took us a lot longer than planned, and consequently we didn’t have ample time to get onto the ridge itself. We got back to camp just before dark, using and retrieving the trail markers I’d painstakingly left to mark our route. On this way to and from Titiroa, going up is easy, as all you have to do is head for the highest ground you can see and you’ll get there; coming down is a different matter, because you’re in dense forest and can’t see where you’re going. You could very easily get lost and go down the wrong way since it all looks the same.

When we got back to Manapouri after this first visit, we actually felt a kind of inner “sickness” for several days that we attributed to being on the mountain. It was unlike anything I’d ever felt before, and seemed to be a kind of stress centered on my solar plexus chakra. Liesbet and I figured that this mountain must be a very powerful vortex or sacred area connected not only with local Fiordland and New Zealand geo-tectonic ley-lines, but also with the global energy Earth-energy grid.

We guessed that the inner distress we felt was a reflection of what the Earth herself was feeling, possibly from a combination of what humanity is doing to her as well as from changes in her heliocosmic environment.

I have always been acutely aware of New Zealand’s existence right on a major tectonic fault, and have often felt the distortions in magnetic field and other peculiarities common to such locations. New Zealand is also very volcanic. Not only the north island, with Auckland being built on over 100 extinct volcanos, and large cones or complexes like Taranaki, Ruapehu/Tongariro, Tarawera, and White Island; but also the south island, with Lake Taupo being the water-filled crater remnant of a huge volcano, and the Banks peninsula, a triad of extinct volcanos inside whose craters are the towns of Akaroa and Lyttelton, and on whose lava flow Christchurch is built.

Last year I wrote about what we felt in a section called “The Magnetic Anomaly Experience.” Here is an excerpt:

“The underlying reasons for this feeling are probably very complex, but not unrelated to the geo-physical stress generated in the Earth all along fault-lines and tectonic plate junctures across the planet, the disruptions/distortions in local magnetic fields due to this stress, and their exacerbations due to energetic changes happening throughout the entire solar system and beyond. In other words, what we were feeling may be being felt by and/or affecting people living on or close to fault-lines all over the world, in this case, the ‘Pacific rim.’ In case you weren’t aware, New Zealand is actually bisected by a major fault-line, straddling the transverse subduction zone between the Pacific and Indian/Australian tectonic plates. Even Kiwis as a whole don’t know of the existence of what’s called the ‘Stokes Magnetic Anomaly’, a cartographic region that basically follows the fault line along the South Island, but veers off to the west in the north and out to sea to the east through Wanaka and Cromwell. Within this region the Earth’s magnetic field is distorted because of proximity to the fault line, and any readings taken using a magnetic compass must be adjusted accordingly.”

We had all this in mind when we made our second visit to Mount Titiroa last week. We tried to time it so as to be on the mountain for the full moon, which we were, and hoped for a window of cooperative weather, which we had.

Since our first visit in 2010, Christchurch had experienced its first major earthquakes, in an area believed by many geologists to have been seismically stable for as long as tens of thousands of years. Amazingly, no lives were lost; but it seemed like a massive “wake-up call.” I actually heard the Boxing Day quake from Akaroa, and we’d talked with many people about the quakes and un-ending after-shocks. No one seemed particularly worried about it, although many people expressed concern over when it might eventually stop.

So when we set out for Mt.Titiroa last week we were consciously making a sacred journey to what we held to be a planetary power spot. We “walked in beauty” in the spirit of the land. Our plan this time was to try a different route to the ridge, along a river-bed. This route would be longer but maybe a bit less vertical.

Shortly after leaving Garnock Burn with all our gear, as this time our plan was to camp out up on the mountain, we met a guy called Warren walking with a girl, who had just come down from the summit. They told us the way they’d gone, which was up the next river beyond the one we were aiming for. Since they had just successfully done it, we decided to go the same way. As it turns out, Warren’s dad is a guy called Jimmy, who has climbed Titiroa perhaps more than anyone else; he had told Warren about this route.

Remember that once you leave Garnock Burn, there is no trail. We found the river and began following it up. The good thing about this route was that we were able to see where we were going a lot of the time, even Titiroa herself at some points, whereas on our initial journey we were in dense forest until the top. The going was ok; we were carrying a good deal of gear, Liesbet probably about 20 kgs and me probably about 35 kgs or so, including still and video cameras. The other good thing about going this way was that we didn’t have to carry much weight in water, as it was flowing right beside us the whole way.

As we went further, however, the going got harder and harder. At times we had to scramble over huge boulders, hoping that we could get around them; or leave the river and enter the forest, finding a path through dense undergrowth, fallen moss-covered trees, tangled vines and rocks.

Finally after about four hours along the river we made it to the convergence where two rivers become one; it was here that we were to climb the ridge that would take us above tree-line. The day was late but we were able to eke out a tiny but perfect camp-site just up on the beginning of the ridge. Here we spent the night of the full moon. A cloud-cover had come in, but no rain. We’d checked the big-scale satellite weather picture before we left and according to that, a large system was approaching the south island from the east but wasn’t supposed to bring cloud or rain until Sunday, but this was Thursday and clouds were here.

The next morning we headed up the ridge and encountered what was by far the toughest going we’ve ever experienced in a wilderness experience. This involved climbing, almost vertically at times, up through extremely dense under-growth, with back-packs and cameras, not sure of an exact route at any time. Luckily the ridge was pretty narrow and well-defined, so it was pretty easy always to stay on the back-bone of the ridge itself. This part took us about four gruelling hours to do, but we arrived at an awesome little clearing just below the tree-line that gave a fantastic view of the whole eastern ridge all the way to the summit.

This was where Warren and his friend had camped. By now it looked like rain could be approaching, but this was our day to explore the top. It was already around 3 p.m., so we set up the tent in case it was going to rain. We also had brought minimal water to save on weight, but now, the only water we could access was several hundred meters down a very steep ravine. I was going to have to do this to get water, but decided to do it after we returned from the summit ridge in case clouds started coming in.

We set out with cameras up the tussocky end of the ridge, then we came out onto the beginning of the quartzite out-croppings, kind of like beds of beautiful white sand with micah flakes, strewn with chunks of white granite.

The cloud cover that earlier we’d hoped was only a morning fog that would burn off had persisted; now it seemed that rain was only a short time away. We climbed up pretty much to the main ridge, but it was extremely steep…in fact, when we looked back at our topographic map, the part we came up is just about the steepest incline on the entire Titiroa complex.

Liesbet spotted a “Mr. Smiley Face” boulder that we aimed for, and beneath whom we sheltered. Liesbet played some flute, and we burned some sage for the sacred mountain in whose embrace we now found ourselves. We charged our crystals in the sand, and left a small perfect white rock from Ward’s beach north of Kaikoura as a gift for the mountain.

By now the wind was picking up, and a few drops of rain were falling here and there. A mist was now enveloping the actual summit which was about 400 meters to the south; we took this as a sign that we should go back down soon, as we wouldn’t want to get caught in cloud up this high. We were never out of view of our tent several hundred meters below, but we didn’t want to lose this contact.

At first we did feel a small degree of disappointment at not having been able to go all the way to the top, or to have several hours or even a whole day to explore the extensive ridge-top and the myriad rock formations there. At this point we knew we’d be returning again, maybe sooner than we thought, and with brilliant sunny weather, to see the wonders of the Titiroa summit. But we knew that for now we should head back to camp.

Early the next morning we were awakened by a tiny “pitter-patter” of rain on the tent. We were a little stressed at the thought of having to negotiate all that steep down-hill terrain plus the boulders of the river in rain, which would make it quite tricky and dangerous. Luckily, the rain served to get us up and going, but it never rained more than a few drops here and there. We went back down the ridge to the convergence of the two rivers, after having our asses kicked by what it took to get there. Going down was in many ways harder than going up, because not only did we have to fight out way through the brush again, we were quite often in danger of falling because of the extreme steepness of the incline. I actually did a good deal of damage to my knee in this process.

We were able to return along the river to Garnock Burn more quickly than when we came up, even having a little sun-shine beside a small stream with a huge bed of moss, a veritable miniature “Garden of Eden” with a tiny view of Titiroa! Because of the fairly extreme nature of this trek, we were constantly having to be on guard for this or that: weather, which way to go, careful steps, weight load. Since there were always uncertainties we were pretty much always kind of concerned about this or that. But especially coming down, and in moments when we were camping out or had stopped to rest, we could suddenly really realize where we actually were and become fully conscious of the dimension we were now in: the dream-time, the REAL “reality” of the undisrupted natural world in which human and non-human life alike had always lived since their origins in the dim mists of the past.

It could be that the exceedingly powerful experience we came away with from our Titiroa visit was not only a function of the spirit and energy of the place itself, but also related to the fact that we went there fully conscious of what we were trying to do: to “walk in beauty” to visit a sacred mountain, to enter into a special dimension that is in truth our real home, but that remains invisible or non-existent to most of humanity, wrapped up as they are in the noise and confusion of “artificial realities” of our own creation.

Out here we were beyond the façade of human enterprise, and we could really feel that “mitakuye oyasin”, or “all our relations” were reaching out to us…the birds, the trees, the mosses, the clouds and mists, the waters and rocks…all were clearly alive in their own right, all were singing their songs of joy…and sadness. Birds, in particular the fan-tail, seemed to be delivering an important message.

This trip totally kicked our asses physically but amazed our spirits immensely! Ever since we returned we’ve been straddling the two worlds, of man and nature, feeling a little sad at having “left the womb” but maintaining the connection nonetheless.

Another important thing is that this trip wasn’t so much about what we saw but what we felt. Words cannot express what it’s like being out there, in a huge area that totally undisrupted by human activity, except for an infrequent distant plane or helicopter. The Mt. Titiroa area in general is so rugged and inaccessible that there’s never been any “tourism” or resource extraction, and hardly any hunting. In addition, there’s never been any deployment of the pesticides like 1080 that NZ DOC drops all over the more visited regions of Fiordland. Fiordland specifically is where the majority of 1080 is used in all of NZ. We’ve walked in some of these “treated” forests, and while they look nice, they seem sterile and devoid of animal life, even the birds who are supposedly being “protected” by the 1080 drops; they seem lacking in a subtle vitality, or maybe “joy” is a better word.

In other words, where we were is about as pristine as you can get, ini New Zealand anyway…maybe a pure Gondwanaland vibe. The overall place made me feel as if I were also back in south-central Chile, in Torres del Paine or in the mountains above Pucon…a very similar nature vibe and spiritual energy, of a place where very few people have ever lived, at any time, and where no killing or genocide has taken place.

What I came back with was so overwhelmingly powerful that I was inspired to write the first two sections of this article our first day back. It was as if I had been charged up with an energy and received an internal transmission of sorts from the consciousness of the Earth herself, and my job was to get this extremely urgent message out to humanity.

Imagine how shocked we were to learn of the massive earthquake that devastated Christchurch the very next day. But it all made sense somehow: the message I came away with was and IS an urgent warning for all of humanity about what is happening with ourselves and the Earth.

JEFF PHILLIPS

MANAPOURI

SOUTH ISLAND NEW ZEALAND

25 FEBRURAY 2011