Don’t you know – we’re talking about a ReVolution

So my friends, lets start with a few simple facts:

-             In the last 60 years we have changed the face of mama earth more then we have done in the previous 20,000 years.

-             The top 1 precent of the population earn the combined wealth of the bottom 60 precent.

-             Humans are slowly taking possession of all habitats, leaving no space of living to all other creatures that share this wonderful planet.

-             ¾ of our crop variety have been wiped out in the last 100 years

-             Old growth forest provide habitat for ¾ of all species on earth. These forests provide the oxygen that we breathe, the medicines that our bodies can recognise and much more. In a rapid rate we are turning these forests into toilet paper, beef and soy been plantations.

-          More then 1 billion people have no accesses to anything that resembles clean drinking water and go to sleep hungry every day.

-          Our health has been hijacked by the medical corporate industry, suppressing real cures that don’t generate profit, while keeping us ill in order to fill coffers of the medical giants.

-             Human rights, labour rights, free health and education, are all disappearing, while our governments have become the mouthpiece and the servants of their corporate masters.

 So is it time for revolution?  fuck yeh!

     We are overdue for one. Though this is a different revolution. This one is not about taking up arms and overthrowing a government, while replacing it with another set of megalomaniacs.

No – no way. We are sick of being fooled and we are tired of being taken for a ride.

     This revolution is about truly handing back power to the people. This is about total decentralisation of power, money and decision-making.

     This is about taking care of mama earth and taking care of each other. It’s about telling the truth and waking in truth.

     And the truth is; that we won’t have any earth to live on if we continue to exploit her in this way.

     The reality is that the people will eventually rise up in anger, if the top 1-precent continues to hog all the resources while others go hungry.

     The truth is that we can share the planet with all creature; big and small and our future well being is intimately related to all life.

     The truth is that we can grow food in natural and sustainable means without poisons or genetic manipulation.

     The truth is that there is enough on this bountiful earth to meet everyone’s need as long as greed does not raise his ugly face.

     A time comes when silence is a sin.

     A time comes when inaction is betrayal.

     Another world is possible. It’s up to you and me to co create her, step by step, with love, intent, determination and courage.

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Drugs in a homogenised world

                       

I have traveled the world all my life and one of the common characteristics to all the cultures I have met is – that all cultures have some substance that they use to wind down from the trials and tribulations of life.

To put it in more simple words – every society has an accepted drug, which is used by the people, and in many ways that drug defines that society

With the advent of globalisation or more so, the Americanisation of our world, the commonly accepted drug amongst most societies has become alcohol.

And of course, this is part of the scam of the mono world. Wear the same clothes, eat the same food, think the same thoughts and get the same high.

Though there is another reason I am about to tell you this story, and this one has affected millions of people worldwide, and the victims have mainly been women.

When I first traveled to India many years ago, the common high was THC. In every street, you could find a shop selling charras, ganja, and opium. To those of you not aware of these terms; every street had a shop selling hashish and marihuana. The government licensed these shops, the quality of the drugs was graded and they paid tax.

At the time most laborers in India made around 30 Rupees a day, and with an exchange rate of 8 Rupees to the dollar they made more money 33 years ago, then they make today.

So, back to the main reason for this story. Well, after work, the common laborer would pass by the ganja shop, buy a small piece for about half a Rupee, get stoned and go home.

Within Indian families, it is the woman that usually holds the money, so when the man comes home, the wife would ask him for the money and the stoned man would happily hand over his hard earned daily earnings and sit for a cup of chai with his wife and family.  Being high on ganja, the man is relaxed after his hard day at work and his wife is happy that 98% of what he earned is left for the family to use.

It is important to mention that at the time alcohol was illegal in most parts of India.              

In 1984 under a Ronald and Nancy Reagan initiative, and with great pressure put on them, India criminalised drugs and legalised alcohol in most parts of the country. With this, traditions which have been alive for thousands of years have been cast aside for the sake of so-called modernity and assimilation into the new world order.

So now we turn into the second current day scenario. These days an Indian laborer earns around 150 Rupees a day, which with the current exchange rate of about 65 Rupees to the dollar, is much less then what they earned 33 years ago. After a hard days work, the tired laborer stops by the now government licensed alcohol shop, and buys a small 250 ml bottle of whiskey for around 70 Rupees. He drinks it in the spot and arrives home drunk. When the wife asks where is the money he punches her and is abusive to the rest of his family. Half his wage has gone to his post work relaxation compare to at the most 2% 33 years ago.

What does a stoned man do? Well he relaxes, sleeps, listens to music or takes his wife to bed to make love to her passionately.

What does a drunken man do? A drunken man who has just spend half his families bread? He is angry, mostly with himself.

Welcome to the modern world: change the drug – change the people.

Domestic violence has shot through the roof since the introduction of alcohol in India with most of the victims being women. These women have been demonstrating in many parts of the country, many times burning the alcohol shops.

At the same time, multinational grog companies have been descending on the country like vultures, eager to open shop in what could eventually be the biggest market in the world for their products.

Perhaps this has something to do with it…alcohol is man-made while herbs such as ganja are gifts of nature.

Now let me be very clear. I am not writing this as a pro-smoking anti-drinking essay.

Not at all!!!

I am writing this as a call to respect that an Indian might smoke ganja and a South American Indian might chew on coca leaves and each culture has its way.

I am sharing this in order that we respect that every culture is different and these differences should be celebrated, rather than eradicated. What is good for white Anglo-Saxon people is perhaps not so good for others

And more so. Drugs can be instruments of control. Does alcohol make you think nicer then Ganja? Is it healthier for you> of course not, and just because something is not the way we are used to, doesn’t mean its wrong.

And in truth, if I had to choose between groups of drunken people or stoned ones, I know where I would go and sit.

So let us stop this hypocrisy of enforcing the white man’s way on the rest of the world.

Another way is possible, a way of tolerance and acceptance

FEAR vs MONSANTO

A couple of days ago, a friend told me he would not participate anymore in the Anti GMO campaign. He said that it was negative and sowed fear in the hearts of people. He wanted to be more positive and he wanted to go to the root cause of things rather then be involved in a fight.

It wasn’t the first time I heard talk like this and probably it won’t be the last.

It feels like some New Age disease, excuse, or perhaps just some beings being misguided or maybe it is the fear speaking out rather then the understanding.

Was Gandhi negative and sowing more fear into the world when he resisted the British occupation of his country.

Was Dr martin Luther king negative and in fear when he fought the injustice done to African Americans and when he called on his people to resist the war in Vietnam. Actually in his famous speech he said, “A time comes when silence is betrayal.”     

And my friend feels that high moral ground is persevered by keeping mum on the subject.

So, I wonder if my friend thinks that the struggle against GMO and Monsanto is of a different nature, since what is at stake is only the future of humanity.

Are we being negative when we are attempting to save the butterflies and the Bees?

Are we being negative when we are concerned with the well being of future generations and we are willing to stand up and be counted?

Are we adding fear into the world when we are standing up for true democracy, which is food democracy rather then allow a multi national corporation take control of our food for the sake of profit.  

The strange thing is that my friend is an organic farmer – doesn’t he understand that with enough GMO pollen in the air, organic farmers will sooner then later turn into museum exhibits rather then be a thriving reality offering a healthy and sustainable way of living.

We are standing up against the tyranny of the corporations, wishing to manipulate and control all life forms, and the same time we are offering solutions which are holistic, democratic and benefit all rather the elite few.

So perhaps my friend is adding fear to the world by choosing to know but not to act, to be aware and to hide. Perhaps he is talking about his own fear of dealing with the complexities of life, and the fact that at times life does include a struggle and a quest to weed out the injustices in order to create a better future.

If not, why have so many admired Gandhi, Jesus, M L King and many others who stood up to the powers that be in order to offer a better life for future generations.     

Life is in balance at present time. The forces of greed and fear are rising as well as the energy of love and trust.

Another world is possible, though we have to make her happen and staying back at home wishing it would all change without taking and tangible action, isn’t going get us anywhere.

So please my friend, and all of you my friends who have retreated from standing up in the name of positivity. Be honest with yourselves and feel the life around you…and how it’s calling all of you – all of us – to act – right here – right now.

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' I Crow River ' Book release

What’s a book? A narrative? A story? Possibly it’s just an excuse to share a dream, a vision and a tool to fire up a revolution in the hidden passages of our mind. Perhaps it is a prayer that we do evolve into a species that actually cares about each other more then we desire to accumulate ‘things’.

     At last, I Crow River is out, ready to meet and greet you with a roar.

     And sure, Nobi the Crow is in your face: to challenge, to probe, to ask questions, to make you wonder and perhaps go and wander. 

     It could be a stand-alone book since it really does not fit into any genre. 

     Both Fiction and non Fiction; an Ecological/ Spiritual/ Physical/ Metaphysical thriller, and of course, a Love story as well.

     I Crow River is available now in digital format at all main distributors such as Amazon Kindle, I bookstore, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Baker & Taylor and many more. It will take a couple more months before it’s available on paper. And anyway, let’s try and save some trees. So if you have an e-reader, go for the digital version.

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     If you like the book, if you learned something from it, if it supported or inspired you – let others know of your experience.

I Crow River is more than a book, it’s a movement of people who care and share, who dare to dream and have the courage to walk the journey.

Preface

Some years ago I was sitting on the banks of the river Ganga in a place called Rishikesh in northern India.

     It’s a place that has always been a source of inspiration for me; you might call it a sacred site or a power spot.

     I had this idea to write a book based on some of my past work with sustainability and organics. The title was going to be Organic Farming for Fools.

     After a week of sitting in front of my laptop, I couldn’t get past page one. It just felt stuck, even though I already had much of the material ready.

     Then one night I just gave up.

     I walked outside and sat by the river, enjoying the calming effect of flowing water and the light of an almost full moon.

Suddenly I heard the river talk—no joking, I heard her voice. Now anyone that knows me would vouch that I am quite a grounded person. Though that night the river did talk to me, and what she said was: “Start writing, don’t worry about the book you were planning to write, write the book I am going to give you.”

     I went back to my room and commenced typing and it just flowed, one page after the other. I never knew what the story would be, what the next sentence would be, though I trusted it was coming—the river did say it would.

     In a few weeks, the whole story was there, though it took a couple more years to polish the rough edges.

     So this was the birth of I CROW RIVER, and I promise you, it wasn’t me, it was the river.

The Book

Into the night flies an elder crow speaking the voice of the earth mother. What takes place next is an epic journey of the soul as humanity and nature face one another in the form of the man narrating the story and our bird tribe brother.

     Page by page we witness the unfolding of an extraordinary saga - from fear to love, from me to we, from a self-centred world to a universe, which includes all living beings.

This book will ignite a spark of change in your heart.

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