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

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

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

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.