Climate Change and What you can do about it Part 1
During the years I wrote for The Shanti Sun Magazine as a climate change (then known as global warming) reporter, I had one feverishly driven goal: To inform people of the iminent danger of climate change conditions. As the the conditions started to rapidly deteriorate and the political games continued to be played my feverish investigations and reporting slowed to a more steady roll. They didn't slow because the environmental conditions slowed, no they slowed because I had an epiphany and experienced a paradigm shift. The first part of the epiphany was Everybody is not going to survive this. The second part was-- those who do will Survive by Grace and Grace alone.
I pulled back from my urgent reporting to allow others who had finally gotten the memo to report the latest disasters and to focus on how to address the Survivors of climate change shifts and what exactly we would need to do to repair our world and prevent future disasters.
It will take no less than a global paradigm shift that will change the way we relate to our planet forever.
I ask for continued Grace and guidance from my Lord and all of His wonderful and varied names as I attempt to help bring light and comprehension to the cause of human survival in climate change.
I will start at the solution. It is known as The Solution to Polution and it is practiced worldwide by people in every country and of every faith known to man. I arrived at this solution through begging for guidance and a dream (for lack of a better term) of the offerings my Indigenous ancestors made to the planet having taken on a new more literal form..The thought crystalized within me that there was something I needed to give, to return to Mother Earth, she was suffering from a lack, from depletion. In the dream I heard " She has given to you now you must give to her." so I set out on a mission to learn what I could give to Mother Earth that would help replinish her.
Mind you all of this was long before I was an Environmentalist Apprentice. I was moving on faith and vision alone.. And I was led to a school of alternatives that taught The Solution to Pollution.
When I first arrived at the school SVI, as an attendee of an Earth Day Festival, I couldn't have told you that Pollution was the problem of the Earth and the root of so many of our problems.in the earth.
After attending several talks and enrolling in classes to become an Ayurvedic Stress Management Therapist I learned that pollution is the basis of most of Earths problems and a scientific solution existed that had been around for thousands of years..
The translation of the term Agnihotra is literally fire in a pyramid or fire in the middle. The way I like to define it is as a Vedic Air Purification System, or the process of air purification using the agency of fire.
One of the first and most initially compelling things I heard about this system is that it was used in India to Iradicate Air Pollutants in Kitchens, that made sense to me, What kind of bacteria can live in hot, burning air I thought.
It made even more sense as I became more aquainted with the facts. We live in a bubble, our buble is finite, that is how we are able to fill it with pollutants that compound on one another to create visible pollution like smog. This pollution interferes with the natural function of the planet which needs to 'breathe' in a manner of speaking like every other living thing within it. Our constant pollution has messed up the breathing apparatus of the earth, That's the bad news. The good news is , if we made the mess, we should be able to clean it up. What alters anything it comes into contact with? Fire! It turns water to steam, earth to clay and solids to carbon. At a certain temperature and velocity it also consumes and creates a vortex that sucks things in right? Enter a geometric shape designed to expand whatever energy is produced within it (a pyramid) make that out of the healing and absorbing metal of copper and you have the basis of Agnihotra. The heat and product of the combination of ingredients work on two levels to eradicate pollution. One is the heat itself and two is the organic chemical mix created by the ingredients and pushed up and out by the heat that literally zaps everything it comes into contact with. Unnatural elements are neutralized, natural elements are purified and whats left is literally the most pure air on earth.
In this Pure Air, healing happens, of people animals, plants everything on earth and the planet's breathing apparatus itself.
If people all over the world are doing this , you may ask, why isn't pollution eradicated, why isn't the problem solved? The simple answer is there's more of them than there are of us. In my teaching of the concept of Camping Out Loud--a system of living waste free with little or no carbon foot print I implore people to clean up their own mess and leave it better than you found it. Basic camping rules, The same can apply to our atmosphere, if each person cleaned up their own mess by practicing Vedic Air Purification combined with a lowered carbon footprint maybe the problem would be solved . That is not the case however and with only one in ever 10,00 people or so ( there is no official poll) that means there are 10 to one odds of polluters against pollution cleaners.
Where is the scientific community on this? Depends on where you live in the world. Indian scientists have loads of data and are studying Agnihotra farms (Ayurvedic Farming) in their area and their remarkable results. Germany has a clue but is doing a pretty good job of keeping their research under wraps, America just launched an intense study of Bio Char which looks at the positive and redemptive impact of burnt cow dung on plants (sound familiar?) but a coalition of scientists studying the effects of this practice on climate change is sadly missing from the radar of the west.
Mr President Could you please assign this job to the best scientists in our country?
Like much of naturapathic medicine and governmental change We the People must step up and speak up to force our elected officials to take this solution seriously.
In 2013 Georgia and Alabama awarded the Heal The Atmosphere Association a document of appreciation for consistent work with agnihotra to Heal The Atmosphere for the past 40 years. That marked the first time this environmental practice received any kind of acknowledgement from the government. We walked 1300 miles to get that recognition and now with information about Agnihotra splattered all over the internet , I believe higher numbers of practitioners and teachers will truly affect change.
(Go here for some of the limited media coverage our Respect! walk for the environment attracted.
http://lawattstimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1077:black-woman-who-walked-for-peace-now-walking-for-the-environment&catid=11&Itemid=126)
If you are reading this you are hereby put on notice that your number has been called. Please by all means do your own research, there are links below and more to follow. I've explained what I do to heal the earth in the most elementary terms I could, there are others who do a better and more technical job of it. Please listen to them, and learn from them. Please also bring anything else that seems to you as effective as Vedic Air Purification(Agnihotra/ Homatherapy) to the table for us all to consider and practice. For your sake and your children's sake be a survivor! And for Heavens sake Survive with Abundant Grace.
http://www.shantivillainstitute.com/programs.html
http://www.vishwafoundation-usa.com/
The technological miracle of Agnihotra https://www.joomag.com/magazine/mag/0931468001410982618?feature=archive
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Friday, June 3, 2016
A Portrait Not a Melting Pot
I've always hated the term 'America is a melting pot'. A melting pot implies that all of the elements of whats'Melted" have faded into obscurity, blended in beyond recognition and become one bland and endless color.
The salad bowl analogy is only slightly better. A tossed salad is several pieces carelessly thrown together, lighter pieces on top and heavier more dense one sinking unseen to the bottom, all of it drowned in a dressing so strong the individual flavors are often lost.
The ideal of our country was not either of these things but rather a skillful portrait, in which colors are artfully blended to capture their best qualities and placed beside other colors that allow them to be showcased at their most spectacular. Together this work of art was to hold the highest principles known to mankind and be so breathtakingly beautiful,that the whole world would celebrate its Maker and its exquisite function. Ideas that high don't occur by 'coincidence'.
And then... Life happened. Ego, Greed and misplaced ambition took over and our country has begun to resemble a blood bath more than anything else.
It is sad that there are so many layers of corruption. It is wonderful that there are those of us coming together to try and reclaim what is true, best and beautiful in our original intent.
Equality, Justice, Peace these are things that resonate with the spirit and soul.
Every race of people knows we need these things to live, The question becomes, how do we bridge the gap between races so that each can see that the other is equally deserving of these principles?
As a yoga teacher it is my obligation to teach all and any who seek what I have to give.
It is my experience that between the two major races at conflict in my country the stand I take on race is perceived from two major angles.
Black People tend to think by trying to teach love and peace to everyone I am taking a low road to avoid conflict and not really speaking out about the 'real' issues of institutionalized racism and inequality. While white people tend to think I am 'safe' a loving soul who sees no color and will not judge them based on the actions of their ancestors , friends, relatives or neighbors.
Perception is key. Neither are ever prepared for what I actually believe and have to say.
There are much bigger issues on the table than your race. There is a game of life and death being played that will wipe out significant numbers of people off the planet.
Race can and does play a factor, both races need to know and understand that. If injustice and invasions had not weakened the nations of Africa and caused a power shift in this country that makes it hard to hear the voices of Indigenous Peoples and those of African descent--there would be different decisions being made. The Indigenous tribes have known for some time the danger of fooling with Environmental and Ecological balance. White people invading the country neither knew nor cared to know anything that would stop their quest for material based power.
This does not mean race does not matter. It matters in that the perception of it has allowed injustice to occur.
What matters more is that the perception of race continues to allow injustice to exist.
I have frank conversations with people of all colors. Honesty is not our strong suit as a nation. I've sat with a white person who spills their soul about how horrible it is to be in a family of racist bigots then cringes the next day when they see me, embarrassed by what I now know about their kin. I've listened to Black people who agree fighting bigotry with bigotry is a losing game then soon after joins a group of friends or family members in making racist jokes.
Each of these people has difficulty being honest, insisting on authenticity in their relationships and maintaining a sense of self worth while fighting injustice. The truth shall set you free.
Race is a complicated issue. As mothers we face the complex daily. Patience, kindness , love and focus are all necessary. I listened to a young mother on the radio earlier this week. Her child is a minority in a public school. She is watching the young girl carefully for signs she is suffering from diminished self worth from being the only one of her kind in the class. She took note of the fact that the 'conversation' is different between students of different colors, all of the experiences this girls classmates are having are very different from hers. She is forced to have conversations she would not have otherwise, she is forced to see life from someone else's very different point of view. She and her child are white.
The children will look to us and ask what to do in these situations but they will also teach us what to do, for to teach them anything other than Justice, Equality and Peace is to diminish their character and go against their grain.
To the bright eyed students in Mama Yogi Circles who need guidance on race I say to the Black child: Be Just and firm as you open the eyes of others to the fact that you are equally worthy of respect in America and everywhere, hatred eats the soul and love is the most powerful tool of the warrior. Being love is not backing down, it is holding firm with a tool that can be shared by all. Be just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality, be it your time, your voice , your money or your power.
To the White child I say, You are not responsible for the actions of your ancestors , you are responsible for your own. Be Just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality , be it your time, your voice, your money or your power.
To all I say, We are Earthlings and our earth needs recovery from sea to shining sea. Breath deep and focus on the task at hand. With the focus of a Truth Warrior, like the Masai the Moors and the Samarai, you too can use your true self to win.
The tragedy befalling the earth is made up of many elements and one of them is racism, between all peoples and all types of people on our planet. Let us claim all aspects of healing my people!
In South Africa and in Germany, resources have been shared between races and are available from the government to help resolve the issues of the past, our resources for racism here are from private sources but I hope to see this change soon. We need these resources and training on how to be healed from racism and its effects to be government sponsored and available to all. Please find the information I have to share below and feel free to post your own.
Wekesa and Afiya Madzimoyo, Warrior Healer Builder, healing opressions wounds. The couple hosts retreats and speak throughout the country to help people of African descent recognize and heal from the effects of institutionalized racism in America. http://ayaeducation.blogspot.com/p/warriors-healers-builders.html
Jane Pittman,is the third grade school teacher who designed the blue eyed brown eyed exercise in 1968. She has been traveling and teaching with this exercise for over 18 years to help white people and others understand the 'anatomy of racism' and its detrimental effect on all.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/crusade.htmlhttp:/
For more information on healing and rebuilding practices of South Africa please see this article. www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/21/1203306/-Healing-truth-and-reconciliation-in-South-Africa
And these videos of white people and others on racial healing are enlightening and insightful. and http://www.me2weracialhealing.com/
Love Yourselves, Love Each Other, Love Your Planet. Peace!
The salad bowl analogy is only slightly better. A tossed salad is several pieces carelessly thrown together, lighter pieces on top and heavier more dense one sinking unseen to the bottom, all of it drowned in a dressing so strong the individual flavors are often lost.
The ideal of our country was not either of these things but rather a skillful portrait, in which colors are artfully blended to capture their best qualities and placed beside other colors that allow them to be showcased at their most spectacular. Together this work of art was to hold the highest principles known to mankind and be so breathtakingly beautiful,that the whole world would celebrate its Maker and its exquisite function. Ideas that high don't occur by 'coincidence'.
And then... Life happened. Ego, Greed and misplaced ambition took over and our country has begun to resemble a blood bath more than anything else.
It is sad that there are so many layers of corruption. It is wonderful that there are those of us coming together to try and reclaim what is true, best and beautiful in our original intent.
Equality, Justice, Peace these are things that resonate with the spirit and soul.
Every race of people knows we need these things to live, The question becomes, how do we bridge the gap between races so that each can see that the other is equally deserving of these principles?
As a yoga teacher it is my obligation to teach all and any who seek what I have to give.
It is my experience that between the two major races at conflict in my country the stand I take on race is perceived from two major angles.
Black People tend to think by trying to teach love and peace to everyone I am taking a low road to avoid conflict and not really speaking out about the 'real' issues of institutionalized racism and inequality. While white people tend to think I am 'safe' a loving soul who sees no color and will not judge them based on the actions of their ancestors , friends, relatives or neighbors.
Perception is key. Neither are ever prepared for what I actually believe and have to say.
There are much bigger issues on the table than your race. There is a game of life and death being played that will wipe out significant numbers of people off the planet.
Race can and does play a factor, both races need to know and understand that. If injustice and invasions had not weakened the nations of Africa and caused a power shift in this country that makes it hard to hear the voices of Indigenous Peoples and those of African descent--there would be different decisions being made. The Indigenous tribes have known for some time the danger of fooling with Environmental and Ecological balance. White people invading the country neither knew nor cared to know anything that would stop their quest for material based power.
This does not mean race does not matter. It matters in that the perception of it has allowed injustice to occur.
What matters more is that the perception of race continues to allow injustice to exist.
I have frank conversations with people of all colors. Honesty is not our strong suit as a nation. I've sat with a white person who spills their soul about how horrible it is to be in a family of racist bigots then cringes the next day when they see me, embarrassed by what I now know about their kin. I've listened to Black people who agree fighting bigotry with bigotry is a losing game then soon after joins a group of friends or family members in making racist jokes.
Each of these people has difficulty being honest, insisting on authenticity in their relationships and maintaining a sense of self worth while fighting injustice. The truth shall set you free.
Race is a complicated issue. As mothers we face the complex daily. Patience, kindness , love and focus are all necessary. I listened to a young mother on the radio earlier this week. Her child is a minority in a public school. She is watching the young girl carefully for signs she is suffering from diminished self worth from being the only one of her kind in the class. She took note of the fact that the 'conversation' is different between students of different colors, all of the experiences this girls classmates are having are very different from hers. She is forced to have conversations she would not have otherwise, she is forced to see life from someone else's very different point of view. She and her child are white.
The children will look to us and ask what to do in these situations but they will also teach us what to do, for to teach them anything other than Justice, Equality and Peace is to diminish their character and go against their grain.
To the bright eyed students in Mama Yogi Circles who need guidance on race I say to the Black child: Be Just and firm as you open the eyes of others to the fact that you are equally worthy of respect in America and everywhere, hatred eats the soul and love is the most powerful tool of the warrior. Being love is not backing down, it is holding firm with a tool that can be shared by all. Be just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality, be it your time, your voice , your money or your power.
To the White child I say, You are not responsible for the actions of your ancestors , you are responsible for your own. Be Just and firm as you fight injustice even if it is in your own home, use all of your tools to help all attain equality , be it your time, your voice, your money or your power.
To all I say, We are Earthlings and our earth needs recovery from sea to shining sea. Breath deep and focus on the task at hand. With the focus of a Truth Warrior, like the Masai the Moors and the Samarai, you too can use your true self to win.
The tragedy befalling the earth is made up of many elements and one of them is racism, between all peoples and all types of people on our planet. Let us claim all aspects of healing my people!
In South Africa and in Germany, resources have been shared between races and are available from the government to help resolve the issues of the past, our resources for racism here are from private sources but I hope to see this change soon. We need these resources and training on how to be healed from racism and its effects to be government sponsored and available to all. Please find the information I have to share below and feel free to post your own.
Wekesa and Afiya Madzimoyo, Warrior Healer Builder, healing opressions wounds. The couple hosts retreats and speak throughout the country to help people of African descent recognize and heal from the effects of institutionalized racism in America. http://ayaeducation.blogspot.com/p/warriors-healers-builders.html
Jane Pittman,is the third grade school teacher who designed the blue eyed brown eyed exercise in 1968. She has been traveling and teaching with this exercise for over 18 years to help white people and others understand the 'anatomy of racism' and its detrimental effect on all.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/crusade.htmlhttp:/
For more information on healing and rebuilding practices of South Africa please see this article. www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/21/1203306/-Healing-truth-and-reconciliation-in-South-Africa
And these videos of white people and others on racial healing are enlightening and insightful. and http://www.me2weracialhealing.com/
Love Yourselves, Love Each Other, Love Your Planet. Peace!
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