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Harmony Forest Newsletter Issue 233 “Be A Deva” July 2010 I hope you’ve got html enabled so that you can see our pics above and below. The one above was taken on the top of Harmony’s Hill, Vision Quest. If you can’t see the . . . → Read More: Harmony Forest Newsletter Issue 33 “Be A Deva” July 2010 Solar Panel construction, cob earth oven building, bridge building by Harmony Volunteers and our two Honey Bee Hives. . . . → Read More: Harmony Newsletter Issue 32 Autumn Equinox March 2010  Comments are closed  Cob Earth Building, Eco-Building, Eco-Living, Miracles, Newsletters, Solar Heating and Power, Solar Power, Sustainable Living, Volunteers Howcpts is Harmony deva’s human name. How Concepts is short for Concepts on How to have conscious relationships with the your Devas”. You may request HowCpts assistance if you imagine her presence (wherever you are) or if you come to Harmony Forest and ask if you can be with her. She has a way of looking at . . . → Read More: Howcpts Any being can ask the Spiritual Masters, the Deva or either of us human co-guardians for whatever its needs are, and may be given special permission to do things such as sit in the human’s fruit trees. . . . → Read More: A Human as a conscious Deva Comments are closed All Beings, Communicating with Animals, Eco-Living, Elementals and Devas, Forest Gardening, Spiritual Ecology The young folk will say there weren’t Kauris. Human’s may be more intelligent, when they think, feel, and connect. Avatar, the movie, points out that usually we don’t. . . . → Read More: Avatar It was a spiritual ecology epic teaching us spiritual ecology. Here were healthy, happy beings connected fully, completely, and sustainably with their forest environment as we can learn to do in our own ways here with GAIA. . . . → Read More: Avatar: The Eco-Movie Waxeyes birds get into our net protected fruits to talk and say that they need love not anger, and will not eat our food if we love them. We no longer need to hold onto our anger for what they have eaten in the past. . . . → Read More: Waxeyes Accept Love for Berries This morning I opened my heart fully loving Harmony and found myself in the space of Harmony’s guardian Deva . . . → Read More: Harmony’s Guardian Deva I and others feel disturbance’s in Harmony’s energies, these are our opportunity to help all beings, including ourselves, open up to more love in our lives. . . . → Read More: Loving grumpiness, Harmony’s energy clearer There is much to know to get a reliable wireless connection to the world via phone and internet when you live in rural areas and people only know about towns and cities, and what to sell to do it there. . . . → Read More: Wireless phone and internet access off-grid in rural areas This particular yogurt is a special one. When plants and animals do this at Harmony, I say they are harmonised. They are in harmony with the conditions at Harmony. . . . → Read More: Yogurt without a Fridge Each time each one of us acknowledges ourselves as Soul, communicates with all as Souls on spiritual journey, and seeks to understand God, and love each other, then the threads of a different story have been woven into the fabric of history. . . . → Read More: We are Babes in the woods when it comes to freedom Harmony is unique. Every forest is. Harmony’s community has a purpose. Every community does. Harmony Forest plans its future. Every community does. . . . → Read More: A Forest Community decides its destiny Before singing a HU Song (A Love Song to God) at ECKANKAR’s Course on Spiritual Wisdom on Relationships last night I looked at the large old trees outside, thought of my love for All Beings, and how they play with the light (filtered by their form, reflected by their leaves) and sound (wind) of God. . . . → Read More: Sing HU to all God’s creatures and see what they say Comments are closed All Beings, Communicating with Animals, Deep Ecology, Eco-Living, Harmony Forest, Spiritual Ecology, Spiritual Journey Dear Friends of Harmony The daylight hours have really lengthened since the winter solstice and we are well on our run to the longest day of the year again. Growth and Development I am enjoying this as the time to paint, renovate, and insulate ready for the damper, colder times. I’ve just put wool batts . . . → Read More: Harmony Farm Newsletter Issue 31 Spring Equinox 2009 Light and sound are the two ways we perceive the creative force of God. We recall the scene of a native forest such as Harmony expressing the vigour and harmony of natural greens and browns, with sprinkles of whites, yellows, reds, and blues in leaves, flowers, and berries. Across this landscape it is easy to imagine . . . → Read More: Muddy Harmonies of Earthy Colours Today I was gifted a warm sun with a light breeze perfect for drying paint, so I cleaned, sanded, varnished, and painted two windows ready for installation in the outdoor cob oven baking and cooking area in front of Danaa. The nice weather also gave me the opportunity to walk around testing the new wireless phone and . . . → Read More: Divine fortuitous placement Having dug calendula, horehound, and St. John’s Wort, and alpine strawberries out of our gravel paths I kept them moist, packed some cardboard for mulching and headed off to Koha Gardens to introduce them there. If the St. John’s Wort and Horehound thrive up there we will probably stop growing them in Connection, our main clearing, and . . . → Read More: Pig Party digs ground ready for planting Today’s sun made a pile of rocks pleasantly warm to handle and encouraged the weeds growing amongst them, so it was an ideal time to move them into place as garden edging. The 25mm thick board already had in place, though 5 years old, were not yet rotten as linseed oil had been applied liberally before putting . . . → Read More: Rocking with Rocks Its been a fantastic autumn. Our wettest coldest May has helped us appreciate a warmer June, and when snow closed the northern motor-way on the 16th I had a most enjoyable walk on it all the way into town. This is something I had long wanted to do but never thought I’d be able until there . . . → Read More: Harmony's Winter Solstice News 21st June 2009 Living through the winter with the heating of the sun to keep me warm I realised I was living at the same temperature as in a fridge, and often at the same humidity… and doing it relatively comfortably. if you are going to live in a fridge I suggest: Have a very warm bed with lots of . . . → Read More: You Can Live Comfortably In a Fridge Home is where the heart is, and it feels like whatever energy you put into it. Fill your place up with love and that is what you and other people will feel from the moment they arrive. Love what you do, spirit soars on wings of harrier hawk, rises high with chorus of bellbird and tui. Struggle . . . → Read More: Home is where heart is The curious sensation of feeling better within yourself while actively processing something less than comfortable on the outer surface of oneself is part for the journey of living as Soul. We can remember clearly old fears barely gone. We know them as they so recently bothered us. Clearly it is not they that are bothering us now. . . . → Read More: Like butterflies emerging through layers of mud Help takes me places I have often waited years to be able to get to, and pops me into unexpected places. It gives me extra energy, takes me in new directions. Places I may not have thought of, directions I may not have expected to go in, but taking me to where I need to be to . . . → Read More: Help from least expected quarters Hi Friends Nice to be in touch again, and to have met so many of you as visitors, clients, students, and picking me up hitching into town. Kereru HelpX Harmony Newsletter 29 HARMONY FARM NEWSLETTER 239 Waitati Valley Rd, Waitati, Dunedin, NZ BlueSkin Bay Library has just got “The Solar Food Dryer” (2006). ISBN-13:9780865715448 Having explained that his solar dehydrator will work effectively in humid (moist) climates at lattitudes such as ours (45°) Eben Fodor gives an excellent lesson in the basics of harvesting solar energy, and then plans and instructions for building one in just two days using . . . → Read More: An Excellent Solar Food Dryer Its cloudy and its raining as it is ofen enough living in a temporate coastal forest but the amazing thing is leading edge technology of Uni-Solar’s tri-junction panels with 22 sub-panels individually dioded, is that they produce power in these conditions. Once Harmony could afford her second panel she took a great leap forward. Now two 64W . . . → Read More: Amorphous Solar Panels in Series produce more power in cloudy weather Are there any compassionate hunters who talk to the animals, asking them first if they are prepared to be hunted, prepared to die, to feed the hunter? We need to talk to one. A recent walk of our tracks revealed that the wild pig(s) are making digging up our trails a live and death issue. I’ve talked to . . . → Read More: Wild track diggers make a pig of a job Comments are closed All Beings, Communicating with Animals, Deep Ecology, Spiritual Ecology, Sustainable Living Today the Hikoi rests in Dunedin on its walk from end to end of this fair island. Its mission to raise the sights of those focused on bank balances and asset accumulation to the cares of Mother Earth. Those few that walk the trails to the ecological heart of care and concern for the planet on . . . → Read More: Cobbing with the Earth Within the main clearing (“Connection”) of Harmony Forest we are 140m below the gap known as “Leith Saddle” in the hills to the south and 240m above the sea to the north. Often quiet easterly flows gently nudge sea mists up the valley towards us to rest just below our feet. Form opposite quarters southerlies and . . . → Read More: On the Edge of Mists of the Cloud Forest I wondered what was I going to write about. Would it really be that important. The two native wood pigeons answered by flying in to perch right outside my window. Looking one directly in the eye I knew, yes, I was still to write about the “Woodies”. But everyone has pet wood pigeons “They are so friendly – . . . → Read More: Pet Woodies – Native Wood Pigeons When I think of all the pollution caused by badly tuned lawnmowers burning so much fuel mowing so many lawns I wonder how sustainable the modern garden is. As a Ecologist and Naturopath I also work as a professional gardener. We hope into a van, with lawnmowers in the back, and drive round the suburbs mowing peoples . . . → Read More: Garden maintenance pollutes the air I heard my friend’s son, who didn’t know how he had just injured his own leg, talking about another person who had just fallen in the shower and broken her arm. I wondered how could people not know how they injured themselves and how does someone fall over in the shower. A short while later, while . . . → Read More: When you ask a question it is answered The support of Spirit is amazing. It always has the energy to carry on and It gifts it to those who are inspired and enthusiastic – those who love what they are doing. Alan had finally stayed the night at Harmony and his presence was making things happen. His energy had our campsite shaped . . . → Read More: Three Loves Inspires Three Gifts Last night there was a choice of two stories, but time to write just one. Was it to be the Wood Pigeons squatting on the small branches of our blackcurrants, or the young bird down by Gateway creek. Though the young bird was the most enticing to write about it seemed that the words about the . . . → Read More: Young bird sits still and is anything but camera shy Observing nature is one of the passions of Lorraine Burlingham. A passion she explores at Harmony Farm and that is shared with regular postings to and to their website www.gemstonetherapy.info with its portals to All Beings, Deep Ecology, and Earth Healing. Here is one such story special to the Harmony Forest blog: Taking some lettuce down to her . . . → Read More: Spider Engineers a cross-country transit Lorraine goes to the edge of the drive where lies a log, and where David had just stirred up the gravel a moment ago. There she starts to gently move pieces of gravel away one at a time. She mutters her frustration as the gravel slids in on itself as fast as she removes it, until a bumblebee pushes its way out, then another, and another. . . . → Read More: David bumbles into Bumbles Animals are just like children. In setting boundaries with children, you need to give very specific instructions, and to hold love, trust, and respect in mind and heart. . . . → Read More: Plump Wood Pigeons take the fruit David Baillie, has a blog which inspires you to talk to everything, your pets, insects in your house, visiting animals, and plants and teaches you how to hear the answers too at: http://harmonyforest.wordpress.com. David says “his partner Lorraine looks after honey bees and talks to them so often he often doesn’t know she is talking to him”. . . . → Read More: News Release: Honey Bees are Helped by their Friends Don’t know what bees need it for, but they love pee. We leave our pee bucket outside and they come on by morning to night to devour it. David says “I give it a sharp tap with my foot and the quickly fly out when I want to use it”. David says “I’ve thought of not leaving . . . → Read More: Pee in the bucket: Honey Bees Love it. Readers who love, or yearn to love, being asked to help others, know that a conscious relationship requires that they face up to their thoughts about themselves. They go to an edge, an edge that All Beings at Harmony are living on, an edge that is explored in this newsletter and other articles posted to: http://harmonyfarm.wordpress.com/ On . . . → Read More: Summer Solstice News December 2008 Imagine their surprise when David and Lorraine enjoying their first dinner of the year on the porch of Lorraine’s cabin, and a little mouse climbs up to the top of a bag right by their table, and looks at us, sniffs at the delightful strawberries, and climbs on back down. David said to it “Your welcome . . . → Read More: Field Mouse comes to Dinner on New's Year Day David has just added that a little mouse came to New Year’s Day dinner, maybe it was Rataouille, to their new website, http://harmonyforest.wordpress.com which has stories of many interesting experiences communicating with animals and plants. The little mouse had been out and about, and as with so many experiences that you can read about at http://harmonyforest.wordpress.com, David . . . → Read More: Press Release: Little Mouse comes to New Years Day Dinner When I want something the question is how much am I prepared to pay for it? If it something to be bought and I have the funds to pay for it is simple. Paying cash I already have is almost paying nothing. Often for bigger ticket items, like the loves of our lives, the money is not simply . . . → Read More: Bet only what you are prepared to lose We had transplanted borage several times from before we moved out of Ryehill St so this year we have been looking for wild borage plants for a month. Yesterday while gardening Lorraine found our first self-sown borage then looked up to find sheep in the clearing. She followed these up the garden path and found a second . . . → Read More: Everything a Gift If you’ve read or do read about patterns in my post “Getting Out of Mind Junk” posted 9/11/08 it connects well to this one: Decades later many of us are still following a pattern of denial on the question of the sustainability of our fossil fuel based culture. Lorraine found “The Second Earth Garden Book” edited by Keith . . . → Read More: Harmony Farm World-Wide We watched the movie “Manchurian Candidate” last night and I didn’t feel so good afterwards. I worked out this morning that I was dwelling on the fact that “I was the weapon”. I have done somethings in the past for the dark forces of this universe. Fortunately after some contemplation I realised that I am simply . . . → Read More: My choice to be hate or love Our heads are full of junk. Try to change and you have to change the junk in your head to match the new junk you are collecting so that it all matches your new patterns. This way your old patterns keep you much as you are and you can change a little at a time. We like . . . → Read More: Getting out of Mind Junk |
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