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April 2011You may need to
click "load images"
or something similar to see the photos Welcome  At
last I have a few moments to stop and give a catch up of all the events
of the last month or so. Sonja and I shifted to Wagga Wagga in
NSW, Australia and we have now been here for six days. That meant an
enormous amount of sorting, packing, throwing out, selling and giving
away of many of our possessions. Then was the meetings with
the
lawyers and accountants etc. There was also all
the travel to family and friends, which took us to Ranfurly,
Invercargill, Winton, Timaru, Christchurch and Nelson. Our short time in Christchurch took us to where so much devastation had recenly taken place driving over roads that looked more like rivers, past so many destroyed buildings and hearing so many tragic stories of personal events that happened to the people we met up with. There was a significant aftershock that woke us suddenly in the middle of the night with a very loud bang.  After
leaving Nelson we flew via Auckland to Sydney and on to Wagga
Wagga. The next day we attended the centenary of the RSL Life Care that
Sonja will be working for. We even got our photo in the local
newspaper. We are orienting ourselves to the city
and geting things organised. We have a temporary house to live, but
need to find a more permanent place to rent. There is no Theosophical
Society here, so I will have to do some scouting around to see just who
is here and what groups there are that might interest me. I
intend
to post a photo album on my site of photos around Wagga Wagga and our
journeys to get here.I am still working through all the red tape for my studies to come together, so it may be a while yet before I actually begin work on my PhD. In the meantime the publication of my book comes ever closer and I received an email asking if I would like the paper I presented in the conference in Canada last year linking the Prochaska Cycle of Change and the Holling Adaptive Cycle to be submitted for peer review and publication. I am very pleased about that as it was quite unexpected.  During this month I also heard
of the death of Derek Youngs, a Peace Walker, who came to New Zealand a
good few years back, but we have always kept in contact. When Sonja and
I went to Canada last year, Derek and his wife Carolyn hosted us when
we were in Victoria and it was a very special time, made all the more
precious, when Carolyn informed us of his sudden death from an
anneurism. Our sympathies go out to Carolyn, but there is also a real
sense of gratitude for the wonderful times we did share.Books I have Read this Month  Life is Energy: Opening the Mind to a new Science
of Life by Alexis Pietak. I met Alexis when she came to a Theosophical Society meeting in Dunedin. We met up again shortly before I left New Zealand and she gave me a copy of her book. I cannot recommend it highly enough. She takes the ideas of Rupert Sheldrake on morphic resonance and presents an incredibly well researched argument in favour of his ideas, linking them to quantum physics, complexity, fractals etc. She particularly studies leaf formation and sees patterns that match perfectly with the wave states within an atom. It presents a wonderful picure of a wholistic universe and shows how we could model our civilisation on these natural patterns we have moved away from. This is a simply superb book I recomend most highly. She has a web site at Sing the Greens. |
Subscribe to this newsletterIf you would like to receive this newsletter as a monthly email just send me an email. You may choose to email me to Unsubscribe. Previous NewslettersNewsletter archive Old "Recent News" Books I read this monthHere on Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery I
have not read that far into this book, but I am certainly enjoying what
I am reading. Tim Flannery is an Australian writer , who looks in this
book at Darwin's theories and those who followed him and the
idea
of Alfred Wallace, who looked at the same data as Darwin, but saw a
world that was filled with co-operation and wholism in
contrast
to Darwin's more "dog eat dog" world. He shows how the
predominance
of the Dariwnian style of thinking has led to the environmental crisies
of our age and proposed a more wholistic appraoch as suggested by
Wallace that might led us to a better future. This book is well worth a
look and is easy
to read.
Best of the NetWith everything happening this month it was all I could do to keep up with emails, but because of the travelling time, I did get to do more reading than I have for a while. |
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