My Old Tapestries of the 80s.

All were made in Egyptian Knot, with naturally dyed wool.


to be added..  unable to find images so far....


Here are the cartoon drawings which were placed behind the loom strings as work was done.

Text to go with Themes. Fungicides, Hormone Disrupting Chemicals, Birth Trauma

Cherries and Fungicides

Once again we in Young are to greet our Annual Cherry Festival, 2015.  The town is full of backpackers of every colourful nationality,  cherrypickers,  cherrypackers.

Last year on ABC Radio National there were interviews with young foreigners working in the Orchards.  It featured a certain orchard near Wombat.  The owner described how the cherries enter the packing shed – and are first dunked in fungicide.

Alarm bells rang in my mind!  I have read far too much about Hormone Disrupting Chemicals.  They endanger not only this generation, but the next and the next!  All the people involved in cherry packing, sale, even unto the customer eating delicious cherries, are in invisible danger.

On page 83 of “Our Stolen Future”, published 1996,  Dr Theo Colborne writes about Earl Gray, a reproductive toxicologist, who studied a male rat who looked like a female.  Pink nipples.  The male’s sexual development went awry because its mother was exposed during pregnancy to vinclozolin, a synthetic chemical that is widely used to kill fungus on fruit.  Vinclozolin disrupts  by targeting the androgen receptor which is tuned to the male hormone testosterone, rather than an estrogen receptor.  It blocks the receptor and stops the testosterone message.  The foetus at the 7^th week does not become a boy;  it does not grow testicles:  it becomes an intersex.  Other fungicides eg the pyrimidine carbinol group inhibit the body’s ability to make steroid hormones.  Fungi are stopped growing by inhibiting the synthesis of sterols which are needed to make cell walls.  Humans and other mammals form steroid hormones from….cholesterol.  Reproductive development is damaged by these fungicides.    I wonder how many of our Supermarkets might spray fruit and veg with fungicides?   Even diluted, 20 parts per trillion, effects “are not inconsequential”. 

This book,  pages 122 to 141, describes scientists’ experiments.  One story with test tube cultures of human breast cancer cells.  Tufts Medical School Boston.  One day the cells started to multiply like crazy!   It took  2 years to identify the cause.  p-Nonylphenol.   Estrogen mimic.  Test tube manufacturer Corning had changed the recipe for the resin in the plastic without telling anyone.  Same catalogue number.  So.  What kinds of chemicals are in the plastics we use every day?

Work at Stanford University School of Medicine research, on estrogen sensitive cells, found a contaminant in the plastic flasks.  BPA  active even at 4 to 5 parts per million.  1993 paper.

BPA is in the black ink on our receipts at the supermarket checkout and elsewhere.  A girl at IGA told me she cleans her hands many times a day with Wet Ones.  But I have information that this makes it easier for the BPA to dissolve and soak into the skin!  Some plastics are labelled BPA free, but it seems that the substitute chemical they use might be worse than the BPA….. 

Scientists issued the Wingspread Statement at the Wingspread Conference Centre, July 1991, in Racine, Wisconsin.  “This was an urgent warning….…we face the danger of widespread disruption to human embryonic development and the prospect of damage   that will last a lifetime.”  See page170,  and Appendix.  You may find more info online and even on YouTube. 

All these years later, and we are not made aware.

I mentioned about the cherries at a CWA meeting.  I was told they only put fungicide on overseas shipments.  Oh,  so that is OK……

You know, there is a better way.  Dunk the cherries (or all fruits) in a mild vinegar wash (with a good splash of vinegar).  Kills fungi.  Extends the user life.  And it might wash off some pesticides and those unhealthy waxes. 

****from Tiiu Vanamois, December 2015  Young Witness, local newspaper.***   

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The Ringing Cedars of Russia,  Book 8 part 2,  Chapter Seventeen,  The Vedruss Birth.

Page 185…

"The Vedruss people understood that even in the womb the child could sense relatives’ thoughts and feelings.  And after coming into the world, he would continue to find himself in his parents’ aura.  If some outsiders, even a relative with good thoughts about the child, happened on the birthing room, their feelings – even good ones- would be unfamiliar to the child, and put him on the defensive.

Page186, 7, 8 …

…. Now what possible connection could there be between the culture of prenatal education, and breast-feeding of children - and wars?  A most direct connection, indeed!

Many still remember the account of the Russian serial killer Chikatilo.  (*  ….was convicted of murdering 52 women (mainly prostitutes) and children between 1978 and 1990).  He performed sadistic acts on young women and then killed them.  Such maniacs have appeared in many other cities, terrorising the populace.  Each time hundreds of police are despatched to hunt down and capture the killer.

But an interesting pattern emerges from this.  It has been established that in the case of three Rostov maniacs, at least, their mothers had all made unsuccessful attempts to abort their foetuses in the womb.  As a result, when the foetus was born and grew into manhood, it then began taking revenge against women.

Now tell me which is more important for high school graduates:  to get high marks in physics, chemistry and a foreign language, or to acquire a high knowledge of the culture of the conception, carrying and raising of a child?

I would say that the latter is by far more important.  And yet the disciplines which present such knowledge are not even taught in the school curriculum.  Hence there are graduates of schools, colleges and universities who give birth to children which they have conceived haphazardly.  They often reflect on whether to give birth at all, or perhaps an abortion would be better?

They may end up giving birth, only what kind of babies are they giving birth to?  The kind that not only should not be exposed to the achievements of physicists and chemists, but should be kept as far away as possible from knives and sticks.

The birth of advanced spiritual thinkers is especially important in this age of scientific and technological progress.

It is a tragedy when a maniac like Chikatilo kills and tortures women.  It is a blessing that nobody like him is sitting at the controls of nuclear missiles.

A blessing- a blessing, okay – but the caveat must be added:  for now.  The worst will happen if society does not change its attitude toward the culture of giving birth to Man. "

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Next = From Dr Michel Odent's "The Farmer and the Obstetrician".   

"He wondered why humans fail to realise that they are parts of nature.....conclusion that it is the emotional desert in man which creates the desert in nature, referring to the huge capacity humans have to unhesitatingly destroy life.

p 80.     Homo superpredator  =  unable to love.

He understood that at the root of this widespread "emotional desert" is the damage we do to newborn babies.

......suggests we should be wondering about the future of our civilisation...culture and beliefs...old order was aggression and survival.

p 60.    When researchers explore the background of people who have expressed some sort of impaired capacity to love - either love of oneself or other - they always detect risk factors at birth ......(leading to)  delinquency, suicide, drug addiction, autism......

It was found that when ewes give birth with epidural anaesthesia they do not take care of their lambs.

From his point of view civiilsation will start when the wellbeing of newborn babies will prevail over any other consideration.

Promotes:      That "industrialised childbirth"  be transformed to  "biodynamic childbirth".  

(And by extension -  industrialised agriculture to biodynamic agriculture.)

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There is exquisite Sensitivity.

What is this?  you might ask.
I gave it the title Ho-onopono,  which is the Hawaiian Forgiveness Therapy.

Result seems to be a big red head (angry?)  or Planet.
Inside is a window, with a male and female (faces) shape and a child, in a gold and blue, purple and pink environment.
Colour pencils.   Lines made with left hand.  Dowsing with pendulum to choose colours and to bypass left brain intellect,  to get to unconscious.....

An expression of the primal innocence of humankind.
And of the extreme sensitivity of our Planet Earth.
She feels the touch of each gentle hand.
And she feels the torture of all the disrespect and the assault on her.
On Earth as it is in the Family.

Hence it is my thesis as I have been describing all along.
There are reasons for all our suffering.
And there may be solutions if we can change our innermost attitudes.

Wonderful people, writing books.   Dr Michel Odent.  Dr Theo Colborne.

The Human is exquisitely sensitive,  from the moment of conception, if not before.
Chemistry, Biology.  Nurture, Nature.

Please bear with me.  There is text to follow.  Not easy to compile and publish.
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Birth Without Violence, Leboyer Interview PART TWO, New Earth Records

Marko Pogacnik on Art

The Answer Lies in the Soil

Ochres, linseed oil,  siccative drier.  on paper.
Original no longer exists.
Photo only.

Lines were drawn with the left hand (heart side).
A pendulum was used to dowse where to put colours.

Interesting-  the "heads" could also be trees in a landscape.




Australian aboriginal People,  traditional owners, cared for their Country.  Exquisitely.     For tens of thousands of years.  We European invaders imposed European values and feral plants and animals (ourselves includes)  and have ruined the land in a short 100 to 200 years.

Remnants of pristine land remain.  Heroic efforts by Bob Brown's Bush Heritage Trust are saveing precious areas.
Bush Regenerators are weeding the Bush ( I used to).
Dr Germaine Greer has valiantly restored the rainforest at Cave's Creek, Queensland  AND she has written a brilliant and scholarly Book about it.  10 years work,  and some millions of dollars..  "The White Beech"....  I need to check more info.....
Our Prime Minister Mr Malcolm Turnbull made his millions of $ investing in the cutting down of rainforests in the SolomonIslands,  Vella Lavella has only one rainforest area remaining:  the Elders want to keep it but Westpac Bank is keen to have it cut down!  My hope is that maybe Mr Turnbull might feel it in his heart to repair some of the damage.....I shall write to him.
David Suzuki wrote of a forest owner who never cut into the Capital,  only harvesting the extra. That is a great example of true Stewardship.  Only when we have pure air and water and living environment can we have happy families.  Transformation seems to be impossibe-  but the possible might happen by some miracle!....

There can be no true Apology until All has been Restored to its Original Design.  There exists a Celestial Realm where the original blueprint (Hinagata, in Japanese)  still exists.  Michael J. Roads, in his books of his metaphysical travelling tells us that the forests that have been cut down STILL EXIST in another dimension. My guess is that if our consciousness changes for the better, it might be possible for us to inhabit such a realm -  or a miracle might bring Heaven to Earth.   One might say "wishful thinking"  but I say that our hearts may wish for it-  and re manifest it. One can Dream........the Dreaming.....

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The Answer Lies in the Family

Natural ochres,  linseed oil and siccative drier.

 Original was on masonite.  1980s.
Size about 45 x 60 cm.
my own work.
Only a photo exists today.

A pendulum was used to help choose where to put colour.  Eyes are so accurate!  I could not do it consciously!
Inside corners are painted  with a brush made of a single human hair.  The eye can see to a hair's breadth.  Aboriginal bark painters used brushes made of a single hair.  You can only use oil paint with such a brush.  It seems that aboriginal artists used goanna oil to mix their ochre paints.


**** If you shift your gaze, you might see a child looking up at a woman screaming!
Mother cross eyed with anguish!

 It reminds me of a story of a young mother saying "Why can no-one hear me screaming?"

 Life can be tough for young families.  Everything is so expensive!  Especially the roof over one's head.  Cruel societies force the mother to work and her children are neglected.  By rights we should help our families,  not only give pensions for old people who do not need so much money any more.....


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