tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30002412460540436242024-03-05T07:39:52.657-08:00Yuriya's IntuitionThank you. I love you. I am sorry. Please forgive me.Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-69628346565799261362011-01-16T03:53:00.000-08:002011-01-16T03:56:28.496-08:00Charity Event to raise money for QLDCharity Event to raise money for QLD<br /><br />DATE: (SUN) 23rd January, 2011<br />PLACE: North Sydney Leagues Club, 12 Abbott St, Cammeray<br />TIME: 12:00~ Tapping Touch<br /> 13:00~ Documentary Film "Mother Teresa"<br /> 14:45~ Documentary Film " The Miracle of the Gifted Quarter"<br />FEE: Donation<br /><br />Please come and join us!<br />There are plenty of visitor parking on site.Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-3507644982930400182010-09-07T17:06:00.000-07:002010-09-07T17:13:39.873-07:00<span style="color:#ff6600;">Katsuko Yamamoto, called "Kakko-chan", is a teacher at a school for gifted (challenged children) in Japan.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">She encounters the wonderful characters and powers of the children through her daily life with them, These are "big powers"-invisible; yet they support us and they let our life live. This was the encounter for her to know the preciousness of life.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">A child remembers and says "The pink swaddling clothes I wore after birth hurt my skin!". Another child sees the change of season and language as colors.</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Being with those children, Kakko-chan came to feel that "They must know something important-the truth."</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;">In the film, she talks about her exchange with children.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;">Additionally, there are comments from the authorities of archaeology, medicine and other sciences. This story is going to tell you that disease and impairment (handicap) has meaning.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc66cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#3366ff;">Everything and everyone exists becuase it is necessary. It is all right for everyone "to be" in different way and each person is important and precious in life. This heartfelt documentary represents the big and vigourous power to let our life live and gently unlocks the secret of our lives.</span>Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-64206321391812934592010-09-07T16:58:00.000-07:002010-09-07T17:05:49.768-07:00<div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;">Documentary Film</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;">"Miracle of the Gifted Quarter" screening</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#009900;">in Sydney</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc66cc;"></span> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc66cc;">on Sunday, 12th September</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc66cc;">at</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff9900;">North Sydney Leagues Club</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff9900;">in Cammeray</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33ccff;">Session Times are</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33ccff;">11:00~ 13:00~ 15:00~</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;">$15 per person</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;">$10 for under 18 and senior citizens</span></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhf9v9GreOaryX3gUcLwlJ8QB8Lx_1K_nk6jSc-enY4TMepATmvGSqkTFGpdTAnIDak3bS-YS0FkaT-0dskVnpBTDChrV0Bl9yT9o_l_t5klPDYKPeLrmB2oa5fZfRg6Mq26pnHVSTUo/s1600/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%81%AE%E6%9C%A8.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 325px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5514326264203102962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikhf9v9GreOaryX3gUcLwlJ8QB8Lx_1K_nk6jSc-enY4TMepATmvGSqkTFGpdTAnIDak3bS-YS0FkaT-0dskVnpBTDChrV0Bl9yT9o_l_t5klPDYKPeLrmB2oa5fZfRg6Mq26pnHVSTUo/s400/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%81%AE%E6%9C%A8.jpg" /></a><br /><br /></div>Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-40597548681935231762010-03-17T03:38:00.000-07:002010-03-17T03:39:44.590-07:00<span style="color:#3366ff;">--- Ayni in Action! ----</span><br /><br />The event is FREE OF CHARGE although we'll have a donation we'll have a donation box available for people that would like to make a contribution. All contributions will be sent directly to the village people of the Sacred Valley in Peru. My friend Trudy's partner Paullo who lives there will be ensuring any money raised will be going directly to those families<br />hardest hit by the recent flooding in the Sacred Valley, There are hundreds of families devastated with their homes washed away as well as crops and whatever possessions they had are gone.<br /><br /><br />----- Ayni in Action! -------<br /><br />DATE: (Sun) 28th March, 2010<br /><br />PLACE: North Sydeny Leagues Club<br /> 12 Abbott St, Cammeray NSW 2062<br /><br />TIME: 1) 11:00~12:00<br /> Peace Pilgrim Documentaries - American Sage<br /> <a href="http://www.peacepilgrim.com/">http://www.peacepilgrim.com/</a><br /><br /> 2) 12:30~14:00<br /> "WATER"<br /> <a href="http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html">http://www.masaru-emoto.net/english/entop.html</a><br /> <a href="http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm">http://www.life-enthusiast.com/twilight/research_emoto.htm</a><br /><br /> 3) 14:30~16:00<br /> Earth Pilgrims<br /> <a href="http://www.earthpilgrims.com/english/ehome.html">http://www.earthpilgrims.com/english/ehome.html</a><br /> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMRyiVlqPs">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFMRyiVlqPs</a><br /><br />Come and watch one or two or all of them!Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-34533540967623088992010-01-14T01:19:00.000-08:002010-01-14T03:17:26.928-08:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21VTl_pdYA6G7Zake2HVR754vkOCQ-KkOB4DAV40oCx_HHodIb7g_NZkIuHLQZ-Wpk2d8bWEvo0nHClqcj0n8_sv-7X2AcSD_0Z7TDgIuxu_BFeRgOikJZlHjiApwy6brzJIc_g60i4A/s1600-h/Peace+Pilgrims+2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426552324633336562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 100px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi21VTl_pdYA6G7Zake2HVR754vkOCQ-KkOB4DAV40oCx_HHodIb7g_NZkIuHLQZ-Wpk2d8bWEvo0nHClqcj0n8_sv-7X2AcSD_0Z7TDgIuxu_BFeRgOikJZlHjiApwy6brzJIc_g60i4A/s400/Peace+Pilgrims+2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1l7S5uRmiitNHitLJq56RJ4xXLzrgHAO3AKaKBQItcY7WntDDWHJMQKEuaj3od3hZh_vdo-g1LsXkOA7d5suFA6-1AOWXMccVWX1ZScATrgyfzHFbxmkDE6YfOfyGZQosd2suHjyRGw/s1600-h/Peace+Pilgrim+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426552158381917666" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 72px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 100px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo1l7S5uRmiitNHitLJq56RJ4xXLzrgHAO3AKaKBQItcY7WntDDWHJMQKEuaj3od3hZh_vdo-g1LsXkOA7d5suFA6-1AOWXMccVWX1ZScATrgyfzHFbxmkDE6YfOfyGZQosd2suHjyRGw/s400/Peace+Pilgrim+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdtmE3CYZqfLKMaPnA_uvdbNgu7FN6KNq7_xvTL3rA_UaA2rwD5Jld-9mEtHj0lvYBJnqL8C7qL_hYDucNhQ3uW1zb2i4K1Vqp8phx9s8JW8Sjad-rKtdhzU7sSsgIz77EKPzIjvc26o/s1600-h/Peace+Pilgrim+3.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426551953608759410" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 69px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 100px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjdtmE3CYZqfLKMaPnA_uvdbNgu7FN6KNq7_xvTL3rA_UaA2rwD5Jld-9mEtHj0lvYBJnqL8C7qL_hYDucNhQ3uW1zb2i4K1Vqp8phx9s8JW8Sjad-rKtdhzU7sSsgIz77EKPzIjvc26o/s400/Peace+Pilgrim+3.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="color:#003300;">One of the casts from "Earth Pilgrims" I would like to introduce you today is "Peace Pilgrim". </span><br /><span style="color:#003300;">You can watch her documentary film in the following site.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.peacepilgrim.com/htmfiles/sagevideo.htm">http://www.peacepilgrim.com/htmfiles/sagevideo.htm</a><br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;">It is an hour film, so make sure you have enough time to watch it. Probably after you finish the dishes or after you send kids to bed.......</span><br /><span style="color:#003300;">I was in tears......................... How wonderful it would be if I could live like she did......</span><br /><span style="color:#003300;">This is real "LOVE".</span><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br />Peace Pilgrim Quote of the Month January 2010<br />Painting byCliff Stelover<br />“You have endless energy only whn you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give.”<br />Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Works in Her Own Words - Pg. 44<br /><br /><br /><div>Peace Pilgrim Quote of the Month January 2010</div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#ff6666;">“You have endless energy only whn you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give.”<br />Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Works in Her Own Words - Pg. 44<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#003300;"></span><br /><span style="color:#003300;">I also would like to share some of the quotes from the Peace Pilgrims's site below.</span> </div><br /><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#330099;">THOUGHTS</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">* We can all spend our lives going about doing good. Every time you meet a person, think of some encouraging thing to say - a kind word, a helpful suggestion, an expression of admiration. Every time you come into a situation, think of some good thing to bring - a thoughtful gift, a considerate attitude, a helping hand.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">* There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. That criterion is, Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them - so keep trying.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*If you love people enough, they will respond lovingly. If I offend people, I blame myself, for I know that if my conduct had been correct, they would not have been offended, even though they did not agree with me. "Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*To those who feel depressed, I would say: Try keeping your surroundings full of beautiful music and lovely flowers. Try reading and memorizing thoughts that inspire. Try making a list of all the things you have to be thankful for. If there is some good thing that you have always wanted to do, start doing it. Make a meaningful schedule for yourself and keep to that schedule.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Although others may feel sorry for you, never feel sorry for yourself - it has a deadly effect on spiritual well-being. Recognize all problems, no matter how difficult, as opportunities for spiritual growth, and make the most of these opportunities.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*From all the things you read and from all the people you meet, take what is good - what you own 'Inner Teacher' tells you is for you - and leave the rest. For guidance and for truth, it is much better to look to the Source through your own 'Inner Teacher' than to look to people or books. Books and people can merely inspire you. Unless they awaken something within you, nothing worthwhile has been accomplished.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*No one is truly free who is still attached to material things, or to places, or to people. We must be able to use things when we need them and then relinquish them without regret when they have outlived their usefulness. We must be able to appreciate and enjoy the places where we tarry, and yet pass on without anguish when we are called elsewhere. We must be able to live in loving association with people without feeling that we possess them and must run their lives. Anything that you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*The spiritual life is the real life - all else is illusion and deception. Only those who are attached to God alone are truly free. Only those who live up to the highest light they have find their lives in harmony. Those who act on their highest motivations become a power for good. It is not important that others be noticeably affected. Results should never be sought or desired. Know that every right thing you do - every good thing you say - every positive thought you think- has good effect.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*All people can be peace workers. Whenever you bring harmony into any unpeaceful situation, you contribute to the total peace picture. Insofar as you have peace in your own life, you reflect it into your surroundings and into the world.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*That which is received from without can be compared with knowledge. It leads to a believing, which is seldom strong enough to motivate to action. That which is confirmed from within after it is contacted from without, or that which is directly perceived from within (which is my way), can be compared with wisdom. It leads to a knowing, and action goes right along with it.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*In our spiritual development we are often required to pull up roots many times and to close many chapters in our lives until we are no longer attached to any material thing and can love all people without any attachment to them.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*You cannot leave a situation without spiritual injury unless you leave it lovingly.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*If you want to teach people, young or old, you must start where they are - at their level of understanding. If you see that they are already beyond your level of understanding, let them teach you. Since steps toward spiritual advancement are taken in such varied order, most of us can teach one another.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Physical violence can end even before we have learned the way of love, but psychological violence will continue until we do. Only outer peace can be had through law. The way to inner peace is through love.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Concentrate on giving so that you may open yourself to receiving. Concentrate on living according to the light you have, so that you may open yourself to more light.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Sometimes difficulties of the body come to show that the body is just a transient garment - that the reality is the indestructible essence which activates the body.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*After you have found inner peace, spiritual growth takes place harmoniously because you - now governed by the higher self - will to do God's will and do not need to be pushed into it.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Nothing threatens those who do God's will, and God's will is love and faith. Those who feel hate and fear are out of harmony with God's will and are likely to have difficulties.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*All difficulties in your life have a purpose. They are pushing you toward harmony with God's will.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*There is always a way to do right!</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*What we suffer from is immaturity. If we were mature people, war would be no problem - it would be impossible.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Of course I trust the Law of Love! Since the universe operates in accordance with the Law of Love, how could I trust anything else?</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*For Light I go directly to the Source of Light, not to any of the reflections. Also I make it possible for more Light to come to me by living up to the highest Light I have. You cannot mistake Light coming from the Source, for it comes with complete understanding so that you can explain and discuss it.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile have been accomplished.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Never think of any right effort as being fruitless - all right effort bears good fruit, whether we see results or not. Just concentrate on thinking and living and acting for peace, and inspiring others to do likewise, leaving results in God's hands.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*You cannot change anyone except yourself. After you have become an example, you can inspire others to change themselves.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*In a conflict situation you must be thinking of a solution which is fair to all concerned, instead of a solution which is of advantage to you. Only a solution which is fair to all concerned can be workable in the long run.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">*Your motives must be good if your work is to have a good effect.</span></div><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span></p><br /><br /><br /><p align="left"><span style="color:#6600cc;"><span style="color:#333300;">Aren't they wonderful?</span></p><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /></div></span></div></div>Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-31566371549131030802009-12-10T17:38:00.000-08:002009-12-10T17:39:57.574-08:00Message from Echan<span style="color:#336666;">Message to Australians about Earth Pilgrims </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#663333;">On the occasion of presenting this film outside of Japan for the first time I would like to take note of the fact that the Aboriginees have the longest tradition of sacred pilgrimage, walkabout, on Earth. It might be no coincidence then that this vast treasure trove of true pilgrim culture, Australia, has called me to present this film.<br />As our entire planet faces more and more challenging demands on it ( and we inevitably all are involved) it might be a good time to check out the core message of Earth Pilgrims. Please join us to firmly ground this message in the ancient Earth of Australia.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#003300;">Echan Deravy<br />Sanda, Hyogo<br />Dec 11 2009</span>Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-75967961180358598462009-11-18T04:13:00.000-08:002009-11-18T04:19:21.623-08:00Echan Deravy's vision - The East West Merging Point<span style="color:#663333;">Here you will find information on the activities of one man who has a rather unusual mission in Japan. In fact it appears so unusual that we are hard pressed to pigeonhole it. Perhaps then it behooves us to look back at where this radical communicator has come from. In doing so we'll get a more comprehensive vision that will do justice to over three decades of evolving creativity. The key word linking his entire Japanese sojourn would undoubtedly be 'Transformation'. </span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">First let's look at the transformations he himself has gone through. That forms the basis upon which his current 'message' rests. If nothing else, Echan Deravy is a disciple of change with a deep faith in the power of metamorphosis. </span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">September 1974: After five years of trans planet travel and adventure Echan arrives in Japan with the intention of entering a zen monastery at age 22. He entered zen instead and left the monastery behind. For the next 15 years oriental philosophy was the central focus of his life and involved balancing the raising of a family (through university teaching positions and a unique acupuncture center) with martial arts practice and the complex study of oriental medicine. By the time he left Japan in 1989 he had acquired a Japanese level one proficiency certificate, an acupuncture and moxibustion license to practice issued by the government and a fifth dan ranking in the way of the bow-oft referred to as zen archery. He had completed a cycle that was dominated by study and internship with some of the last true masters of Japan's waning traditions. </span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">It seemed like the school of rough knocks. Japan can appear a very strict environment to do anything in. The rules of social life go back a long way-long before people like Echan showed up in fact... </span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">The next 12 years saw Canada unfold in his vision. In the pristine environment of Vancouver island a Corporation came into being. Japan Consultants Inc. was to pioneer business links between Canada and Japan through real estate consulting. As president of the corporation Echan was responsible for all aspects of the overseas investing via both private and corporate transactions.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Extremely valuable first hand experience was gained in the particular sensitivities of that quixotic character-the Japanese businessman. Canada's CBC channel featured the work Echan had done to bring investors to the economically strapped town of Kimberly in their television special 'Venture'. 15 years as a student and a teacher as well as a doctor of oriental medicine had now transformed into a short but powerful burst of activity as an international wheeler and dealer. Then, theJapanese economy crashed. </span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">So did Echan. He fell hard as did many others both inside Japan and around the world. An inflated economy was likened to a bubble. It burst. The resulting stress and overall disintegration of a very promising business career propelled Echan to transform yet again. By 1993 he and his wife had co-written and published their first book to be written about consciousness, evolution, the couple and individuation as well as the now rather well known prophecies concerning 2012.<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">A new career as a writer, public speaker (in Japanese) and worldwide adventure and research/ seminar facilitator began. Over the next several years 37 worldwide and completely amazing workshops had taken Japanese to Peru, Mexico, Egypt, Europe, Ireland and Scotland as well as England, Italy, Hawaii, Australia, Costa Rica and Greece. He had literally created a new genre. Never before had the concept of showing up at a specified location on your own (as opposed to an itinerary and flight plan all booked by a travel agency) to begin a study of Mayan sacred sites or climbing the Andes to get to Machu Pichu been proffered to the discriminating Japanese traveler. It was a huge success. Attention to detail, painstakingly learned at the point of a needle literally had metamorphosed into this. But there was to be more. </span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Though living in Canada Echan was soon required to be lecturing all over Japan and thus crossed the Pacific over 60 times in ten years to deliver leading edge concepts to the growing audiences from Hokkaido to Okinawa. His ability to communicate with pioneers in diverse fields in the West and then to introduce those concepts to Japan kept him far ahead in the changing times. Finally after one plane too many Echan got the message to return to live in Japan now that the children were adults. This is where it really began to get interesting!<br /></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">He was the first to bring remote viewing training to Japan and to teach it to hundreds over the next nine years in Japanese. Long before crop circle books were being written he was in the 'field' with Japanese actually feeling the crop transformation up close and personal. Whether it was diving with cetaceans or exploring ancient temples his adventurous spirit drew literally hundreds to participate in world seminars and literally millions to hear his message via the internet and television. </span><br /><span style="color:#663333;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663333;">Since 2002 his corporation Maranatha Japan has done translation, interpretation, publication, and media appearances as part of his mission to assist Japanese in becoming sovereign individuals capable of making theor own informational choices. The ongoing central work of public speaking has resulted in much more high profile creativity. Audiences around Japan now look to Echan for hints about what is likely to be happening in the next few years as human consciousness obviously has to evolve if we are to survive. I mean if this is not obvious then there would in fact be no market for Echan's unique brand of transformative communication. He is a 'talking shaman' who takes the job very seriously yet evokes a great deal of laughter at his events. </span>Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-22299734960254432342009-10-28T20:14:00.001-07:002009-10-28T20:25:09.431-07:00Echan's interview<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Q53GDoIU_Vvc90uZbY1tP6CVX-t_pY2dFQnfNpSdD2Ov2nvqd5tqv7fbssaedaMu5q0eaLzkMihPEoEYpDpkH8758fOTVEz-n9sY2bz3aVfxpEqyBn_jPDkX3AYX6FsZCnRg8_l6HNg/s1600-h/Echan-Deravy.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397857757444339154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 157px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_Q53GDoIU_Vvc90uZbY1tP6CVX-t_pY2dFQnfNpSdD2Ov2nvqd5tqv7fbssaedaMu5q0eaLzkMihPEoEYpDpkH8758fOTVEz-n9sY2bz3aVfxpEqyBn_jPDkX3AYX6FsZCnRg8_l6HNg/s400/Echan-Deravy.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Interview: Echan Deravy Director, Earth Pilgrims<br />By <a title="Posts by Felicia Weiss" href="http://www.holisticnetworker.com/wp/author/felicia/">Felicia Weiss</a> 28 September 2009<br /><br /><br />Can you tell us about your background and how an Irishman ended up living in Japan?<br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">I was born in Scotland of an Irish mother and Scots father so my first nationality is British. Later in life I received a republic of Ireland passport, as well as a Canadian one, so I have three nationalities and am currently a permanent resident of Japan. I have been a traveler all my life. After exploring 75 countries in search of some kind of a hint of what lays beyond the matrix of our ’societies’, I decided to enter a zen monastery at the age of 22 in 1974. I went to Kyoto and discovered it was not to become a monk, but a kind of esoteric scholar. I rigorously studied the language and culture as a lay practitioner of zen, while pursuing certification in martial arts and oriental medicine. I was an acupuncturist and university lecturer for many years before becoming a writer and lecturer on consciousness in the early nineties. Japan has been like a decades long university course that still is in session.</span><br /><br />In your personal life, how have you turned inward for peace?<br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Thanks to Felicia Weiss I ended up translating Power vs. Force into Japanese with my wife doing the lion’s share of this hugely challenging work. David Hawkins is making something very clear that relates to peace. It requires a 600 level plus calibration on a 1000 scale to achieve peace consciousness. Love consciousness begins at 500. So it should be obvious that politicians and activists who bark on about peace at levels of consciousness far below these are seriously wasting both our time and their own. Peace is not a result. It is a primary cause. It is not a reaction to war, it is the very foundation of civilized and conscious life. The idea that we can protect ourselves from enemies and thus have peace is patently absurd. Either you have it, peace in your heart, or you do not. So how do you get it? One must somehow raise one’s consciousness, but there is the quandary. In zen we had great ways to express this like ‘trying to pull yourself off the ground by yanking up on your own bootstraps.’ Sure we can and must make efforts, but then there is also the working of something entirely different. Call it grace. Call it the Lord. Call it what you will. I call it prayer. I prayed constantly as I walked. It was enormously demanding and tremendously fulfilling. The power of prayer becomes the engine of peace. Its cleansing spirit reveals our focus on the inner workings of the monkey mind and the jaded heart. It is essential for us, thus motivated by virus infected brains and dilapidated hearts to overcome the primal fear that underlies all emotions that keep us from peace. No amount of positive thinking does that. You need a spiritual life that is real. The heart generates an electromagnetic field thousands of times stronger than the puny brain. That should tell us something about the heart and why we should not lose heart now. So to conclude; peace will never result from any cerebral strategy, no matter how much money and defense systems you throw at the ‘problem’. Peace comes from a heart that knows gratitude and humility. Earth pilgrims shows us people like that in the high Andes of Peru. Simple.</span><br /><br />How do you feel about the future of our planet?<br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Planets come and go. I feel we are all far too planetary retentive. The point is not the planet, but rather this astonishing creature called the human being, who is being called to a much higher order of existence and service to the galactic community. We are the leading edge of a bio-computer program called DNA that has been riding the waves of history and chaos for longer than we can possibly conceive. We understand almost nothing about time and space (90% of the universe is dark matter is the best we can come up with??), we have almost no clue about the historical past despite thousands of theories, and we cannot even co-operate at the most fundamental level thus avoiding violence and discord. The planet is not the problem. The problem is the pilgrim on that planet. When is he or she going to re-awaken to the fact that the journey is just getting underway and that a humbler attitude to all that is might be relatively useful at this ‘point’. I feel that the peace that surpasses all human understanding and the humility of a mother Theresa or a Nelson Mandela makes the regular orbiting of Earth around a very common G type star pale in comparison. Just as you will not find your God by looking outside in the darkness, (when the light is actually on inside) our future does not necessarily depend as much as one might imagine on the state of a wee planet. That is the spirit we need to embody. Even with our shields down, warp drive out for the count and power levels at threshold lows the crew of Spaceship Earth will come up with something that the ship’s computer itself could never have imagined…</span><br /><br />What led you to create the film “Earth Pilgrims”?<br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Disillusionment. Age. Exasperation. But not necessarily in that order! I had become a rather well-known public speaker and writer in Japan, especially as a proponent of the idea that not only is conscious evolution now imperative, but also of the now popular idea that there seems to be a time limit set on humanity’s awakening i.e. 2012. I had interviewed dozens of scientists and thinkers over the years including Deepak Chopra, John C. Lilly, Fred Alan Wolf, Graham Hancock, Terence McKenna, Hunbatz men and a whole host of shamans and maverick researchers in multiple fields to get a holistic view of this shift we all talk about. I had brought their work and my interpretation of it to Japanese attention via books, interviews, television and 37 actual research trips to sacred sites around the planet. We did not just study crop circles for example, we went into them and lay down in them with Colin Andrews back in the mid-nineties. I took remote viewing to Japan and taught over 700 people.<br />After 15 years of this I wondered if I was even making a dent in the combined hallucination that government and media had generated in the minds of the people. People nodded their heads enthusiastically at me, then went back to sleep. I was now 55. Was I making a difference? Time to go on a walkabout and reflect on what I had done. After 1300 kilometers of Japanese rice paddies and highways I suddenly realized that a documentary film was the only option left. It was that or sliding into an oblivion called ‘well at least I tried’.</span><br /><br />How did you select the people you interviewed?<br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">Synchronicity really played a large part. In Japan there is an interesting expression used when talking about the creation of art. It is Musakui. This means for example that a potter will choose his clay and have a rough idea of what he wants in a pot. But as the wheel turns the pot evolves. He may then set it outside to dry and a bird might scratch the surface of the clay. The potter will incorporate these unforeseen elements into the design so that the pot finishes its own creation in a sense. I knew I wanted to show why a pilgrim spirit will soon be very important to all of us as our multiple system collapse inexorably escalates. But I did not have a script until filming ended! Satish Kumar was a conscious first choice because I literally needed a man who had walked his talk in the pilgrim world. He had walked from India to Europe on a peace march and at my age had walked all over Britain. On both occasions he took no money. I can relate to that. The remaining guests appeared at the right time. Rumi was there in my mind from the beginning because without a true spiritual master in the film, one that could not be easily appropriated by any religion despite the fact that he was born in Islamic Afghanistan, I knew I would not be able to express the pilgrim properly.<br />How were you able to obtain the excellent footage of the woman known as Peace Pilgrim?Dogged persistence. I spent a year tracking down footage having started with Friends of Peace Pilgrim. This eventually took me full circle back to Friends. I finally received the go-ahead to use the footage even though it was a for profit enterprise. But a lot of praying and visualization really did happen in the interim. I had to have a powerful woman in there, who could balance all those meaty guys, intellectually speaking of course. Who more perfect than the great saint of America’s highways and byways, Peace Pilgrim?</span><br /><br />What has been the response to “Earth Pilgrims” so far and what is your hope for those who view your film?<br /><br /><span style="color:#660000;">As I answer this we have only shown it a limited number of times in Japan since its release at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club in Tokyo on June 6. I discovered that Japanese are very reticent to air their views directly to the director! However we have received very moving responses from those who wrote about their feelings. Their comments are to be found on our Japanese website. Our English website will also have this function. Visit: www.earthpilgrims.com<br />My intuition is that the film is also a kind of consciousness barometer. For those who think our planetary scale problems are exaggerated and that evolution is a theory that only applies to other species, the meaning of the film might not be readily apparent. For those who do sense that our current crises represent far more than the Shakespearian ‘much ado about nothing’, the film offers an original perspective that is not about saving the world. It is more about ‘getting with the program’ so to speak! May I facetiously call it the New Way of Operating, or the NWO for short?<br />For those who do view this film, more than once being heartily recommended, my hope is that it will be spiritual edutainment in the best sense. I would hope they come away from seeing it inspired with a Hopi-like understanding that ‘WE really are the the ones we have been waiting for’.</span></div>Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3000241246054043624.post-54465230987878340372009-10-27T04:13:00.001-07:002009-10-27T04:47:55.431-07:00Documentary Film "Earth Pilgrims"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8ScM_tLD_kVIlH0kPFtZF6wL0ljQg_bIEZbFjn_amZMh5zYYs7yaSRMaW76peJoysHv4fr7_7JFlYRgxDSXyT8Rs-gDasanTyn-3quSgWO81jTyOK4ENbdXJTHVhQ4_Adw1JYq6Axu4/s1600-h/Earthpilgrims.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397237350234646674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 234px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim8ScM_tLD_kVIlH0kPFtZF6wL0ljQg_bIEZbFjn_amZMh5zYYs7yaSRMaW76peJoysHv4fr7_7JFlYRgxDSXyT8Rs-gDasanTyn-3quSgWO81jTyOK4ENbdXJTHVhQ4_Adw1JYq6Axu4/s320/Earthpilgrims.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I am inviting Mr Echan Deravy from Japan and hold Echan's talk and film "Earth Pilgrims" viewing in February 2010.<br /><br /><br /><br />Please find below the details:<br /><br />DATE: ( SUNDAY ) 7TH FEBRUARY, 2010<br />WHERE: PARRAMATTA RSL CLUB<br />TIME: 14:00 ~ 17:00<br />FEE: $50 P/P<br />BOOKING: kynad@optusnet.com.au or<br />0425-271-047<br /><br /><span style="color:#666600;"><span style="color:#663300;">From a world swamped in problems, in a global civilization on its last march towards the edge of the cliff, how can we reconnect with a deeper, more meaningful way of life? How can we make a difference?<br /><br />What happens when 60,000 Quechua Indians gather to give thanks to the vital life force that sustains them? What can we learn from those who put harmony and balance before gain? What is an Earth Pilgrim?<br /><br />Every person has an image of a pilgrim. In Japan it is probably the image of the ohenrosan in Shikoku. This movie was conceived while the director was actually walking the roads of Shikoku on that pilgrimage. But this is not a movie about that kind of pilgrim. It is a message about the deeper meaning of being a pilgrim in the modern world. It is about the great dangers our planet is now facing and about how the pilgrim spirit can help us all.<br /><br />The film follows director Echan Deravy as he travels in search of the meaning of Earth Pilgrim-a new kind of pilgrim, a pilgrim that we can all become in our hearts. The film was shot on location in Britain, Japan, Israel, the US and Peru as well as Hawaii. It is a documentary which includes the wise advice of several leading thinkers and an astonishing older woman. It is not about saving the world it is about how we change our way of being in the world. We do that by becoming a new kind of human that Echan calls Earth Pilgrims. It is an internationally released 90 min film available on DVD from 23 July, 2009 in English, and later in Spanish and other languages. </span><br /><br /><br /></span>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />Director's Message:<br /><br /><span style="color:#333300;">In my culture, the Celtic culture of Scotland and Ireland we have the story of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. They had to go on a quest to find the Holy Grail. The Holy Grail is a symbol of higher understanding. In this movie I go in search of a higher understanding by asking people as I travel on a world pilgrimage to give me advice. I meet people in very different fields such as anthropology, ecology, shamanism, physics and plant healing. I do two major pilgrimages. One in Shikoku was 1300km and the one in Peru was not long at all. It was high. We climbed to 5 thousand meters in the Andes with 60,000 native people to film the Qoyllur Rit'i pilgrimage. Rumi, my favourite poet speaks to us throughout the movie to remind us of our spiritual life as pilgrims. The film is a quest to answer the riddle of our times. Why is the Earth falling apart? The answer lies in the heart of each person.<br /><br /><br />The answer may be in our all becoming Earth Pilgrims..</span><br /><span style="color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="color:#333300;">Cast and Crew</span><br /><span style="color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>Echan Deravy</strong></span><br /><span style="color:#333300;"></span><br /><span style="color:#333300;"><strong>Echan Deravy, a lifelong pilgrim from Scotland, passed through 75 countries before settling in Japan where he established himself as an author and public speaker on issues of planetary concern, metaphysics, spirituality, and remote viewing. Echan has become a vital link between Japanese culture and the West, acting as interpreter for figures such as Graham Hancock and leader of many journeys with Japanese to sacred sites around the planet. He currently has over a dozen books in print in Japanese and a series of DVD talks recorded over the last 6 years-all in Japanese. His key concern is conscious evolution.<br />Click to visit his homepage at <a href="http://www.echan.jp/">http://www.echan.jp/</a></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#333300;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;">Satish Kumar</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br />Satish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is the current editor of Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a "peace walk" with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries - Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a trip of over 8,000 miles. He insists that reverence for nature should be at the heart of every political and social debate.<br />Click to visit his homepage at <a href="http://www.resurgence.org/">http://www.resurgence.org/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>Wade Davis</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#003333;"></span></strong><br />Wade Davis (born December 14, 1953) is a noted anthropologist and ethnobotanist whose work has usually focused on the observation and analysis of the customs, beliefs, and social relations of indigenous cultures in North and South America, particularly the traditional uses and beliefs associated with plants with psychoactive properties. Among Davis' many books are The Serpent and the Rainbow (about the process of zombification in Haiti) (1986), Passage of Darkness (1988), One River (1996), and Shadows in the Sun (1998).<br />Click to visit his homepage at <a href="http://www.nationalgeographic.com/">http://www.nationalgeographic.com/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>Graham Hancock</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Graham Hancock is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven's Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. His public lectures and TV appearances, including the three-hour series Quest For The Lost Civilisation, have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity's history and prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars.Click to visit his homepage at </span><a href="http://www.grahamhancock.com/"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.grahamhancock.com/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>Piece Pilgrim</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br /><span style="color:#000000;">Peace Pilgrim (July 18, 1908 – July 7, 1981) born Mildred Lisette Norman, was an American pacifist, vegetarian, and peace activist. In 1952, she became the first woman to walk the entire length of the Appalachian Trail in one season. Starting on January 1, 1953, in Pasadena, California, she adopted the name "Peace Pilgrim" and walked across the United States for 28 years. By 1964 Peace Pilgrim had walked 25,000 miles, at which point she stopped counting, though continued to walk for peace until her passing.<br />Click to visit her homepage at </span><a href="http://www.peacepilgrim.org/"><span style="color:#000000;">http://www.peacepilgrim.org/</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;">Paul Temple</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br />Paul Temple, born in England in 1953, began his life studying botany at U.C.N.W. of Bangor, later becoming a teacher in Canada, before moving to India for more than ten years where he studyied and taught Sanskrit sacred song, meditation, and Vedanta Philosophy. Paul has been a lifetime gardener, and student of the shamanic tradition with particular interest in the entheogenic use of sacred plant medicines, and their traditional and contemporary role in the development of human consciousness. For the past several years he has divided his time between BC Canada, and the mountains and jungle of Peru.Click to visit his homepage at <a href="http://web.mac.com/paultemple1">http://web.mac.com/paultemple1</a><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;">Rene Franco</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br />Rene Franco Salas is the leader and organiser among the natives people of Pisac in Peru, and is active teaching indigenous Quechua shamanism to visitors. He has been a participant of the Qoyllur Rit'i pilgrimage throughout his life, and works for the protection of traditional Quechua culture through education and ceremony. He can be reached through Paul Temple, who collaborates with him in various projects.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>Nassim Haramein</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br />Nassim Haramein is a Swiss born physicist. In the past 20 years, Mr. Haramein has directed research teams of physicists, electrical engineers, mathematicians and other scientists. He has founded a non-profit organization, the Resonance Project Foundation, where, as the Director of Research, he explores unification principles and their implications in our world today. The foundation is actively developing a research park on the island of Hawai'i where science, sustainability, green technology, and permaculture come together.<br />Click to visit his homepage at <a href="http://theresonanceproject.org/">http://theresonanceproject.org/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>Coleman Barks</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br />Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He is the author of numerous Rumi translations and has been a student of Sufism since 1977. His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words."<br />Click to visit his homepage at <a href="http://www.colemanbarks.com/">http://www.colemanbarks.com/</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#336666;"><strong>Jelaluddin Rumi</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#336666;"></span></strong><br />Jelaluddin Rumi (September 30, 1207 - December 12 1273) was born in Balkh, Afghanistan to a theologian and mystic father. Around 1215 Rumi moved to Konya, Turkey, where after his father's passing, he became a sheikh in the dervish learning community. His life was spent in a state of divine connection, which expressed itself through his friendships and through his poetry, which have become more popular today then ever in history, thanks in part to translations rendered by Coleman Barks. He remains an important figure in Sufi and Islamic culture.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;color:#000000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000000;"></span>Yuriyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00691284389181150484noreply@blogger.com0