Last weeks newsletter brought lots of response. Very thought provoking was the words used quite often. If you haven't read    The Boiling Frog We are heading for a cultural collapse ours. It won't be the end of the world, at 4.5 billion years old (accepted by scientists) it will continue to evolve.

Let me make it very clear, I would never want to Boil a Frog, if you remember Froggy, him and I used to take tepid showers together.

http://www.onemindonevoice.org/ow/froggy.html I have been back from down south for a month now, and have not seen   Froggy since

To tell you the truth, I haven't see any of the many bush animals, who share the foot of Lumley Hill with me, did think Ernie the Echidna was around but, I now fear even Ernie has moved on.

Before I left I could lie in bed very late at night and at different times would know if it was Ernie outside, by the way he moved ever so slowly through the grass and leaves, stopping to eat morsels of ants. Or it would be the wallaby hopping down the hill, the bandicoot darting around, the Goanna high stepping, swaying from side to side,long tail gliding along behind, not to mention Belemy the Bush Turkey who has it's own regal sound, made with his feet.

The other night, I lay awake for hours and listened and listened to the crickets and only heard a dogs barking in the distance (dog's shelter) and the odd cane toad (imported) moving about. Not one of my old mates did I hear.

We humans have impacted so much on all their lives.

"When the frogs are all gone, we know we are in trouble". What about when everyone is gone - What then!!

A lot of people wanted to know was there was any hope for the Boiling Frog.

Yes there is - but it will take a lot of work by everyone on this planet.

I lay on my bed like I used to do as a child, without the views of anyone else and thought what would I do first to help turn the heat down on the Boiling Frog.

Give Indigenous Australians (Living Treasures) back the land in exchange for all the Bibles they were given.

Not to own - but to be the Custodians of as they always were

Hopefully there is still time, and enough elders left to teach all of us how to live as part of the Earth without thinking we own it - or have the right to destroy it and everything in our path.

Their way worked for them for over 40,000 without destroying Mother Earth.

Sustainability

Meanwhile the Chinese pin hopes on Goat, and we have Bush, who says "Aliens may be out there".

I thought the Aliens were in the White House, at Downing Street and in Canberra!!

No sorry that's where the War Lords are!

I did find myself a few times yesterday laughing quietly to myself -each time I thought about the fact that now that Iran has declined taking the chair of the top disarmament forum leaving the leadership of the world's top disarmament forum on March 17 - earlier than expected, the United Nations announced yesterday.

Can't you see Iraq asking everyone attending to leave their weapons at the door!!

They may disarm themselves and get a Nobel Peace Prize!!

I don't think Bush will see the funny side of this and would want to be at war before that happens. I don't think Bush would knows how to back down.

As the US warned North Korea against turning nuclear fuel rods into bomb-grade plutonium, the communist State responded by threatening to shell the White House.

He may have to learn!!

Maybe apologising for calling them evil might help! I remember a time not so long ago in Sydney in 2000 when North and South Korea marched together under the one flag - that was not evil - it was a step in the right

direction. http://www.onemindonevoice.org/poems/marchingtogether.html

On a sad note the space shuttle shows how other things impact on lives, one of the first things I read which others may have missed Shuttle Columbia to head home From correspondents in Florida February 01, 2003 SPACE shuttle Columbia's US-Israel crew wrapped up more than two weeks' worth of scientific research in orbit today and aimed for a homecoming under heavy security.

How long is a lifetime?

In the same paper many pages in a small article about the same amount of children on a school outing were killed in a snow avalanche.

How long is a lifetime?

Each one is different and personal, we can each only go on our own journey, one no more important then the next one. We are all part of the web of life, crossing the paths of each other, each encounter having an impact on our life and the lives of other for generations to come, on the smallest insect, leaf or piece of earth - to a person, community, whole world and universe.

All evolving and changing into something else as we go on our journey.

See this morning the Media is at Michael Jackson again after his interview aired here last night. What do I think.

I feel so very sorry for him, he is the results of our Culture Collapse from his own evolution and his fathers effect on him, to fame and fortune - would he knowingly hurt a child - never - he is Peter Pan - a little boy who loves nothing better then sitting high in his giving tree - beats doing drugs and violence any day.

I just felt very sad for him, he deserved a better childhood and a better father. He can't get over it, try as he might the damage has already been done - evolution sometimes has that effect. The Boiling Frog!

Have a nice day - I will as a little birdie just told me that a permit has been issued for a march on a small island off the coast of Queensland called Thursday Island - TI to the locals. They must have nicer police then the ones in the New York and London, where marches are having trouble getting permits.

This week, I have thought, listened, researched, agonised over the articles on the Middle East. I started about ten times, but something always stops me.

So instead of continuing, I went downtown to find room 105 by the loading dock, in a shabby office complex. I entered the huge empty room, which smelt like a zoo. I sat in the overstuffed chair, noticing the sagging bookcase to the left with about thirty or forty books on history, prehistory, anthropology and bibles in different languages. I then settled and stared ahead.

Maybe it was what Ami had said about

Then this week, I read what the so called leader of Israel, Sharon said -which has to be the quote of the week

You can always tell when it's election time can't you?

Then again maybe what the Pope had to say to Italians during the week is hard to beat.

Maybe he has also read that- Muslims will out number Christians by the year 2025, Muslims will be 30% of the population and Christians will be 25% that's a big loss of a power base.

The times when you expect the leaders to give us something wise- they never disappoint us, they come out with just what we expect from them!

Political bullshit. I don't know about you but I am sick of Bush, Blair, Howard, Bin Laden, Sharon, the Pope and others, telling us how to live. Do they really know how we should live, more to the point is this living?

Maybe it's time we just found out for ourselves, how to live.

I can learn more from Froggy and watching grass grow, then I have learnt from them.

Why is it, Froggy lives his life without others telling him what to do? Somehow he seems to just know what to do? He doesn't listen to the radio, TV, or read the news, or even consult with other frogs, he, like frogs around the world, just know how to live. I have never seen him reading a self help book.

I don't see him going out to kill, other then when he needs to eat? I don't see him bringing food back to store in case it doesn't rain? He managers to just live- but why?

But I forgot, of cause- we are part of the superior race! We know more then Froggy. That's why we need people like Bush. We are the chosen ones. How do I know that, well that's what I was taught? Who taught them? "Others I suppose" and so on and so on, back to when? The beginning of human's, I suppose. It's my songline, my culture.

When was it decided we are the superior beings on this planet, with the right to decide who lives and who dies?

Are we all here to screw up the planet, because we are all going to heaven or some other place the god's have waiting for us! ---------- I don't think so.

Why is it that indigenous people in Australia with the longest songline (storyline)could live for 40.000 thousands years- then when we, the civilised ones, come along, it has taken just 200 years to all but eliminate them from the planet - while we show them how they should live?

Why is it the planet could live millions of years, in 4.6 million years of earths existence, it survived very well, then 3 million years ago the first one celled creatures formed, the planet still survived very well. 40,000-60,000 ago indigenous Australian's evolved and the planet survived very well.

It is said that the age of the human race is roughly 1,000 to 10,000 generations: ... 1000 to 10,000 generations old, which is roughly the age of the human population, ... what's that, 6,000-10,000 years. In that very short time we have managed to bring the planet to the brink of destruction, because we know how we should live? What did we do- that was so different to those before us?

Why are we thought of as human's and indigenous Australian's who lived for thousands of years before then - were not human's?

From a very small child, born into a catholic family, I could never come to terms with the fact that we, me would be going to heaven, (as long as I confessed my sins and did my penance) while indigenous people (heathen's) my dog, cat, pig and chooks in the pens waiting for their heads to be chopped off, as well as animals in zoos, were not going to heaven.

I decided then at an early age, if they weren't going, then neither was I.

I learnt very early about Native Indian races,( we didn't learn about indigenous Australian's at my school back then, they were an inferior race, heathen's)

But I liked and related to the Native Indian way of life, better then other things I was being taught at school.

Why did indigenous races from around the world, all seem think the same about the planet and life? Like froggy-they just knew?

They seem to know like other living creatures and plant life - how to live - as part of the planet, not to be like us, owners of the planet? They fitting into nature, while we learn how to destroy it.

I couldn't understand why animals and plants were not our equals- that gods? decided we were the chosen ones- the ones who kill for killing sake. The one's who always have to have more then we need.

A question I often asked myself was. Why do animals seem to know how to live, when we have to go to school to learn how to live, not as well as animals just seem to know?

Why do we need rows and rows of different coloured toilet paper on shelves in shopping centres? when around the world others are lucky if they get enough food, to even have to go to the toilet. I forgot we are civilised- they are not?

Why do people who seem to have so much, seem more and more unhappy? Why do people suicide and pop pills when animals don't?

You can see the reason I was not too good at maths, and English, I was always too busy thinking Why?

From Ami bringing up Hagar and my searching for answers, mentally revisiting Frank Wesley, my guru. I became more interested in Ishmael, Hagar's illegitimate son from Abraham. Having looked at the bible and the qur'an, as well as a number of other religions all telling us, the way we should live. I wondered why Froggy just knows how to live?

While doing a search for Ishmael, I came up with an add which said

Well I did, so Friday, I race out and bought the book "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, read it and keep thinking WOW!

Then when I finished it I raced out Monday and bought "My Ishmael" and found a 12 year old girl called, Julie Gerchak.

Guess what, her favourite word is Wow!

So the past week instead of listening to the same old rhetoric and ending up in the madhouse, I thought I would take a whole new approach and sit and learn from a very wise Gorilla, called Ishmael who lived in room 105.

Do you know what I think of when I think about the world today- we human's are the Compounding Interest of our own story of our meaning of life.

Have a nice day, I will, I'm heading back downtown to room 105. I have lots in common with Ishmael.

Kerry Bowden
Global Strategic Alliance for the New Humanity,
One Mind One Voice.
A Famility of Humanity
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