Vote for the Green Party in the local elections and here's a reminder why!

What have we learned from the pylon debacle?! That our environment is synonymous with our HEALTH and our WEALTH. There is no dividing line. Everyone now understands that there are personal, immediate and lasting implications to what the government decides. In politics, it is not enough to have an impressive financial plan and just add a token policy that you will try and stop the pylons. We need a committed, knowledgeable party leading by example and with Mother Nature as their example!Then we will have no more austerity, we will learn how to thrive, in accordance with every other living thing! Why would we leave ourselves out of the running for planting new seeds, cultivation and growth?

Do not worry that the Green Party had representatives implicated in all sorts of bad ideas and agreements in the past. They were not powerful enough and were coerced like the rest of us with limited information sharing and a certain amount of ignorance as to the wild scale of the renewable energy plans. They probably thought they were doing a good thing but suddenly found that others were just thinking export and money rather than the environment. At this stage, we have all woken up. Naivety is no longer the best word to describe us. Furthermore, Ireland has a lot of clear-headed, experienced and un-corruptible party candidates in the local elections coming up on the 16th May.

I went this week to hear Green Party's Councillor Malcolm Noonan, Rian Coulter and Grace O Sullivan talk about a shared vision, rolled out through consultation and participation. They alerted us that there is even more going on than we thought. For example, a grim central access scheme that some are trying to push through Kilkenny - yes that's beautiful Medieval Kilkenny. When they were clearing trees after the hurricanes here, they snook the opportunity to fell a line of ancient trees to clear a route for a new motorway-style road in. Then there was the genetically modified spuds. This Green Party has guts and dedication, they have already been over to fight it in the European Court. Imagine if Ireland no longer had the rights to their potatoes. It would be like the famine all over again. Everyone paying Monsanto, no potato able to reproduce. If it does you are not allowed to plant them again as someone holds the patent…patented food with pesticides and herbicides bred into them. We need leaders who really understand these issues, who care about humanity, across the board. We must not be bought off!

I just saw that Jamaica, the land of wood and water, has just been entirely sold out. A new mega freight harbour planned by a Chinese company has got an agreement. The area is registered as the main conservation area and this plan will pollute the whole sea, even if there is not a particular disaster, spill or whatever. The same government who got the area officially protected last year have freed it up on the promise of 1.5 billion and 10,000 jobs. The company is already black-listed elsewhere and will never deliver.

The European Green candidate, Grace O Sullivan, used to be in Greenpeace and in the past travelled to the Arctic Circle with them to block a company building something hugely insensitive there. So it would be good to vote for her too. It is not at all easy to join Greenpeace, you really have to prove you hold the right credentials and values. So our very own green candidates are people who have the strength of their convictions and whose interest, vision and compassion extends beyond their own pockets, family, community and country to the whole fragile, but still abundant ecosystem we call earth, we call home! Is there any other party that isn't just trying to please someone and cash in?
 
What I meant to say before I got carried away was: What a buzz there's been around this week! A feeling that everything is possible. In our geometry group, in Enniscorthy, we cleared the relationship between America, Russia and the Ukraine. We're holding high hopes for a reconciliation and relaxed resolution.

Today, I've also planted old varieties of peas, potatoes, cabbage, pumpkin, broccoli and parsnips: Lose sleep and profits Monsanto and other pharmaceutical companies! Take a pipet of your own medicine! You've got a warped claim to the world's seeds but these predate you. They're organic and in the ground and ready to rock and roll!

What has Healing got to do with Corporate Planning? Co-operation where there was compromise!

Here at Harmony Hall I offer a corporate planning space. Delegates come for a very specific reason, to avoid drastic measures for drastic times. They come to find real ALTERNATIVES! With austerity came fear and compromise. Working in this vibrant setting allows in the highest energy of all and with it expansion and co-operation.  

When compromised, momentum is lost and all enthusiasm for the task in hand.
When cooperation is achieved, people with different priorities can create collaborative plans that are larger than the sum of their parts and revel in unprecedented progress!

March on Dublin against the Energy Policy

March on Dublin on Tuesday. I'm with Dr Manisha Namah in the first and Environmental Officer Allison Ruddock in the one above.

I didn't get a photo of one banner that was aimed at Pat Rabbit, who is largely responsible for the plan to industrialize Ireland's landscape and put pylons and turbines - the height of the spire above - every hundred metres or so across the length or breadth of the country. It read 'Put one in your own burrow, Pat' which made me smile. It was a Watership Down moment. We weren't rabbits but the storyline is actually the same. Our homes are all threatened by the destructive forces of big business and politics…or rather coercion and greed…much of a muchness these days.

I tuned in to see what attitude would befit an energy worker at a demonstration. Angry, righteous or victimized are all completely unhelpful when you understand the nature of the energetic universe! I came up with the generous concept that everyone is innocent in essence. I cleared that we as a people understand that the energy plans were an innocent mistake, none of us knew or could focus on how far reaching and destructive they would be. This acknowledgement of how we have come to a fight bridged the impasse between government and crowd. Instead of the defensive reaction and increasing web of lies - like pushing ahead and saying its necessary infrastructure where there are heaps of articles where the same people said that the new energy was for export and sales.  Also the way we see on our way up to Dublin or going anywhere, in fact, that they have gone ahead already, in the face of total opposition by the people and started putting them up already. Like this picture below.

So I cleared all the people here and abroad who are benefiting from the pylon plan, financially or financially….yes it was quite simple. Then I cleared any ego structures for them that was stopping them changing their minds. We are all defensive until we release our identification with these roles and structures. It doesn't really matter if you're on the powerful side or the disempowered side…both are bad habits that can happily be corrected by distance healing…so I got on with that healing for the crowd gathering for the march as well!

 Wonderful sunny day and they'd closed the roads for us all the way to the parliament buildings. Then I caught two sentences of the speeches over the 1000s of people standing around. Listen to this:
"We don't think there are going to be any affects to health caused by the pylons, substations and turbines but if you do have symptoms or your children do, take them to the doctor and get them medication"

Oh Lord…did someone in our government really say that?! What sort of medication? Maybe the pharmaceutical companies are already on board designing a compulsory pylon vaccination that we're all going to need to take! Ah doesn't that put your mind at rest!! Not really!

So the other thing, which was much more reassuring to hear was the request, clearly stated:
"We need a fundamental re-think of our energy policy"

On my jacket I had the resistance and a positive creation both represented. It read:

Use Tesla Technology 
Free Energy for all.

S ubstations
T urbines
O verhead
P ylons

I think we collectively sorted the situation out that day. Lets watch and wait with positive expectations as to what happens next!

Free ourselves from the financial, military and political matrix

As Richard C Cook asks “can a free humanity even exist in the face of the ongoing rush to a society based on servitude to the financial-political-military New World Order elites?” Those, he calls in his book the ‘controllers’. (The Return of The Aeons, www.meditatehealascend.org)

Everything can change but not by attempting to mobilize  others but by first identifying and addressing one’s own servitude to these systems and controllers. To this end, I asked in what way I am holding the financial dominating forces in place and inadvertently perpetuating them. I was relieved to discover that I am no longer part of the problem. I have healed my relationship to money, I trust in the abundance of the world, I have released limiting beliefs about not belonging and things not belonging to me either, being indebted, being undeserving and under valued. Let that all go!

This has simultaneously freed up my receptivity to support and a healthy sense of belonging. I have taken responsibility for my creation of previous poverty, via my worrying nature.  I have also acknowledged the resulting hardhip for myself and others. I had lived, like many, with a fear of not having enough and an obscure fear of being in trouble for trying to move forward. Most importantly, I have let go of blame. It is the lowest energy of all. I admit, I just switched from blaming the world to blaming myself for a bit.  That was a part of the journey. I did feel really bad for creating such a complex nightmare by feeling so strongly about everything. But not now! My mind is free, now I have the correct perspective to formulate the global solution (I liked this typo so I'm leaving it in!). My heart is also free, my sight is clear and I am a fully listening channel for intuition and the universal stream of consciousness.

Serving humanity and the Earth and all species with a free and loving heart is a far cry from servitude. One is a life motivated by love and compassionate recognition of the mirror we all are to each other. One is motivated by fear. I don’t need to point out all the fears that financial, or military or political for that matter, organizations bring up. Corruption is embedded in every structure. Only through regaining your own structural integrity mentally, emotionally and physically can you achieve the independence to create a new reality in 3D. This is the process that I help people with.

But I mentioned physical health! Medicine must go under the ‘financial’ heading now. Be under less and less illusion! A grated organic lemon has twenty times the potency of chemotherapy. Just think about that! The doctors are trained in the delivery of pharmaceutical drugs. There are even academics in Ireland that are on Monsantos pay roll. Research and sales are all one and the same now. You might be tempted to say you can trust no one! But there is one person you should come to trust and that is yourself! If you dismantle your deepest-held negative illusions and they are illusions ( you are not small, insignificant, powerless or ineffective. You are not an individual beset by big bad influences and injustices. You can start to rely on yourself. Money, strength, happiness, fulfillment, peace, food, energy are all yours to chose.

As I work each week to put together radio shows with people who have boh awareness and perspective, I listen as well to what they have to say. Our task, I realize, has the exact level of duality that the world has! It is a mixture of conscientious objector and conscious participation. When we are conscientious, we are simply careful in paying attention to detail and committed to doing a good job. If the job is living the details are: 

Food.

-Make it nourishing

- make it harmless to other life 

– non GM

- no chemicals definitely

- organic and vegan, definitely

Water

-plenty of water supports your physical and emotional stability

-be grateful for it

make sure no fluoride is in it.

-Bless it with intention

-Harvest rain water

- Ban fracking

- Convert farms from animals to crops.

- Give water to countries that need it.

- Plant the hemp crop where possible (as I gather it is the only crop with the right frequency to counteract the level of radiation in soil and air.

- Do not waste any. Appreciate and savour both hot and cold water. 

These are real blessings that if fully acknowledged could expand to quench the thirst of every one.

Air

Breathe the air you’d like to breathe. One of the advantages of the interconnectedness of all life is that you can chose what parts of reality you draw from and relate to …Yes its true! So I don’t breathe in the fumes of the traffic jam. I inhale the crystal clear negative ions from Coombe Hill, Valentia Island or the top of the Andes or the heart of the Amazon.

So there’s the conscientious objections. You won't do this anymore, you won’t buy that anymore, you won’t vote that way any more, you won’t eat that again…but there’s also conscious participation. Things that you will do!! You’ll repect yourself for the magnificent creative being you are, you’ll support compassionate movements in every area;

- the rights of animals 

- organic food production

- free clean electricity

- green politics….talking of which, I look forward to speaking to the much love Malcolm Noonan Green Party TD about what changes he has seen and what is the most effective way of bringing about political change.      

Please define 'genetic modification' and 'consciousness'

I have heard two foolish things this week by DJs on mainstream radio. One was laughing at the conspiracy theory: Genetically modified food is being widely distributed to intentionally reduce the world's population. The DJ said 'what, do they think that they are going to be attacked by a giant tomato?!'

This person clearly does not know that genetically modified means that insecticides and herbicides have been bred into the seeds, making the plants and produce poisonous. If a vegetable is poisonous to the bees and the birds, its poisonous to us. The chemicals are not processed by the body, they collect there. Yes, so over time, everyone's system is becoming knee deep in toxins and is killing people off, on the quiet.

I tweeted in to the show "526 million dollars have been given to the FDA by drug companies … that's how beholden the US government is to withhold natural cures, not ban GM crops and chemical trailing from the air". 


So yes, the intention is there. Monsanto and the other pharmaceutical companies are intent on monopolizing the food market. It has even become illegal to save your own seeds from crops. There is a patent on them! Farmers have actually been taken to court for not buying new seeds each year. Many seeds are modified to not reproduce at all. 


So yes you might get some giant tomatoes but they will be slightly poisonous. Genetically modified food is stronger in that way in that it can deliver good looking vegetables and salad. Bear in the mind though that the chemicals are simultaneously weakening the soil. Organic seeds will struggle to grow in this nutrient-reduced environment. Again, this is an intentional contamination of the environment, the soil and the air, to make the population more and more dependent on the massive modified food crops. 


Having said all this, there are some myths about organic food that I should dispel. 

1. For the moment, the earth is still good enough to support organic growing. 

2. An organically grown crop does not yield less than a genetically modified crop. 

3. If we only ask for and eat organic food, the supermarkets will have to source them and farmers will have to grow them. 

4. GM ingredients and the chemicals sprayed do not legally need to be labelled! 

5. An organic label has to be earned and is allowed only after the land has been a certain amount of years without fertilizers, the seed has to be organic, no chemical pest deterrents can be used at any stage etc etc. Even if horse manure is used, those animals have to have been fed organic oats, or their muck will be contaminated and the term 'organic' can't be used . 

This adds an unfair level of legislation to organic growers. Therefore, even if there is no organic label, I would recommend buying produce that at least confirms "no genetically modified ingredients" and "not chemically sprayed" as that confirms that good growing practice is intended, if not full organic certification achieved!

6. Do not let it go any further. The positive change-makers and preservers of health are tied in knots and given endless hoops to jump through, while the big business and pharmaceutical producers are let away with murder. Take for example, just this week, the fake sweetener aspartame has had a name change! People were starting to know how dangerous it was and it had gone down in popularity. What do the makers of aspartame do? Change some of the ingredients and give them nutritional content?Take out the harmful chemicals? No! Just changed the name! It is now called Aminosweet…yes, a hint at being an essential amino acid for the digestive system and a reference to sweetness, what harm can it do? Exactly the same harm it did before, except with new packaging!

7. We the individual have to wake up and not be sold to anymore. Make all your decisions consciously.

That was the other extra-ordinary thing said by a DJ, that I recently heard. It was about the famous couple, Gwenyth Paltrow and Chris Martin, who have said they have done a 'conscious uncoupling'

He laughed and said 'oh, does that mean they just know they've broken up'

Consciousness has a very specific meaning and many people do not yet know what it is. It is that you no longer think you are an individual, being impacted on by others. Rather than blame you realize your own participation in all the events in your life, commit yourself to making a positive contribution and that way master your thoughts, feelings and destiny.

For a fuller understanding of unconscious behavior and how to move towards consciousness have a listen to my radio show this week.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/creatingcalmnetwork2/2014/03/29/healing-from-harmony-hall-with-frances-micklem

For a great interview with Organic Highbank Orchards about organic growing, the slow food movement (as opposed to fast food!) and the specific dangers of genetically modified food listen to my show:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/creatingcalmnetwork2/2014/01/18/healing-from-harmony-hall-with-frances-micklem-1

 For help with your own conscious journey, visit www.healingbyfranc.com my website. I also do energy work via Skype sessions. Skype name: Frances Micklem  

The Walk Your Talk Project - Petition
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Worldwide_Suspension_of_Genetically_Modified_Seeds_1_MILLION_SIGNATURES_SOUGHT/?aRPhCgb

Tre Arrow as a conscious, peaceful leader!

Look what's happened to this poor pacifist! This interesting article shows the argument between what some call eco-terrorism and the others call economic sabotage, in the name of saving the earth! Forest workers with chainsaws climbing up to him 100 feet in the air and being told to cut off the branch he was sitting on. He himself wouldn't harm an ant. It raises interesting questions as to conscious leadership, if you can't work through the system, you can't lobby for change because it doesn't work, you can't defend a person or place by standing up for it, peacefully, physically being there. What can you do? What's worrying is that you have a whole generation of disillusioned people knowing all this and ready to jump into action and aggression if asked. To fight the good fight! But then the cause loses its moral high ground…to an extent. This morning I will be clearing for a conscious awakening for the people in these big businesses and legal system (when he fell the hundred foot from the tree he was charged by the sheriff with trespass before being taken to hospital! Surely, forgive us our trespasses in this instance, no?). The conscious awakening can come however it comes…through inner crisis of conscience, financial crisis or natural crisis…but so that no innocent individuals are blamed. That is so old paradigm!! So I am also holding a space of safety and magnitude for the consciousness to come in. The people protecting the Earth, the animals, the people and the oceans of the world are not a minority team, the underdog! We have, in reality, all oneness, all our very mild super powers and the infinite organizing power of Nature to help!

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/hunting-tre-arrow-the-flight-of-americas-most-wanted-eco-terrorist-20021212

Today's a good day to cut and paste, if you want, and get an objection in!

As promised, here is my latest letter to stop in its tracks the wind farm, pylons and power station-arama that Galetech is trying to push through! In good old fashioned fountain pen and note paper, I sent this to Carlow County Council as a formal objection today, to the 140 metre high windmills planned.

The Planning Dept
Carlow County Council
Athy Road
Carlow

To Whom it May Concern
Objection to application 14/36
The insane plan to put some of the biggest windmills in Europe in the heritage site of Old Leighlin.

We object on the ground of noise: Families have not been able to block it out even with 2 inches of board and 2 duvets across the windows.

On grounds of health; continual vibration, the electro magnetic charge of power stations that would inevitably follow.

On grounds of Nature; loss of habitat, contamination of water, killing of birds and bats in flight. My address is Baurnafea, widely know as Bat Valley.

On grounds of big business corruption; we know the pre planning meeting discussed 4 such windmills and the resulting application is for 21. I am grateful that this gives you, the planning department, easy grounds to refuse the application too.

Many companies, including Galetech, have a track record for lack of regard for people or the Environment and shouldn't be allowed to profit from their destructive businesses: For example, farmers have been promised money for use of land and rights of way. The money has not been paid, the land is useless, the wind farms aren't functional and have been sold between companies until no one is responsible for the debts, or the upkeep even, any more.

Everyone is united in objecting to this application. There were hundreds of people at the meetings, worried about all the above. Few may have a spare €20 euro to formally object and many feel the ordinary person should not have to pay to stop a major business ruining a neighbourhood.  But still, make sure it doesn't happen!

Yours faithfully, Frances Micklem
Harmony Hall