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  1. These gold coins are from my grandfather. My maternal grandparents, Pontic Greeks, were refugees from Turkey in early 1920's. He died at age of 105 & what little he had was converted to British gold coins - 2 have Queen Victoria & 1 has King Edward as heads & St George as tails.

    I'm sharing coin pics because I've been researching Greeks who came from Anatolia (Turkey). I went to Bafra, Turkey in 2000 (this is where my grand parents came from) looking for people who may be connected with them. Below, after the coins is an excerpt from first page of book I'm writing about that experience.

    #Writing #AusWriting #PonticGreeks #Refugees

  2. After 21 yrs I reveal what we did at Woomera on Good Friday when razor wire fences fell & some refugees escaped. We, members of HOPE Caravan, held a big crystal together & we focused our energy/attention on the crystal to MANIFEST FREEDOM 4 the refugees.
    dodona777.com/2009/02/06/from-
    #photography #crystals #manifestaion #Woomera #refugees

  3. After 21 yrs I reveal what we did at Woomera on Good Friday when razor wire fences fell & some refugees escaped. We, members of HOPE Caravan, held a big crystal together & we focused our energy/attention on the crystal to MANIFEST FREEDOM 4 the refugees.
    dodona777.com/2009/02/06/from-
    #photography #crystals #manifestaion #Woomera #refugees

  4. After 21 yrs I reveal what we did at Woomera on Good Friday when razor wire fences fell & some refugees escaped. We, members of HOPE Caravan, held a big crystal together & we focused our energy/attention on the crystal to MANIFEST FREEDOM 4 the refugees.
    dodona777.com/2009/02/06/from-
    #photography #crystals #manifestaion #Woomera #refugees

  5. After 21 yrs I reveal what we did at Woomera on Good Friday when razor wire fences fell & some refugees escaped. We, members of HOPE Caravan, held a big crystal together & we focused our energy/attention on the crystal to MANIFEST FREEDOM 4 the refugees.
    dodona777.com/2009/02/06/from-
    #photography #crystals #manifestaion #Woomera #refugees

  6. After 21 yrs I reveal what we did at Woomera on Good Friday when razor wire fences fell & some refugees escaped. We, members of HOPE Caravan, held a big crystal together & we focused our energy/attention on the crystal to MANIFEST FREEDOM 4 the refugees.
    dodona777.com/2009/02/06/from-
    #photography #crystals #manifestaion #Woomera #refugees

  7. I wrote this in an introduction to the Sky Map of The Flotillas of Hope and it had a subheading "To Those Who Know". Now almost 20 years later, I feel the same way that this kind of 'knowing' marks one as an Outsider, an Outlier. And that's OK with me >>

    Somehow you’ve come to the conclusion that at the very heart of matter, at the turning point of decisions, at the core of bone marrow, molecule, atom, neutrino and pepperino there is an intelligence operating.You know that Earth is a stone with a lick of moisture on its surface orbiting about a type G star we call the Sun. You don’t disdain science and you also know that there is a blueprint of the whole of Creation.This blueprint, this plan , this informational map is embedded within every atom, cell, organism and living whole from a sand flea to Andromeda, from a child playing with a ball to the Milky Way. How you came about this knowledge is your business. It could have been through a book. It could have been a friend who told you. It could have been a certain altered state of mind that led you to this knowledge. It doesn’t really matter where you got your knowledge or even how. The important thing is that you know that there is an imperishable spirit in every piece of matter, in every volume and in every measure. This means that there is an imperishable immortal part of human nature. It is here and now, we only have to slice through the onion layers of conditioning to see it. This knowledge we are speaking about is certain knowledge. It is an X ray vision of the imperishable in matter. It is not a mere belief and neither is it an open conclusion of faith. It is certain knowledge based on direct experience...nothing is in the way. Having this knowledge gives a different spin on the Earth as a stone orbiting a medium sized type G star.In fact having this knowledge makes words like Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto mean something different to hunks of rock gravitationally stuck in orbits about the Sun. They are verbs in one context and gods in another. They are as far removed from the astronomical planets and Sun as green cheese is to the moon. This is where the possession of this knowledge instead of bringing fame and fortune will bring instead ridicule and laughter, sometimes scorn and banishment. The possession of this knowledge has marked you as an outsider. Even though it is invisible, your mark of Cain is your knowledge. If you are lucky you may have found a way to manifest secretly and keep a semblance of an ordinary householder life. Being an invisible outsider gives you great opportunities to observe and learn how to be a partner in creation. For this is what it comes down to. In essence humans are not a symbol of the Universe – we are the Universe and in this kind of partnership we all do our bit or we get flushed out of existence. Where’s our immortality then? It’s still there waiting for another to clothe it.

    #Writing #Auswrites

  8. With the book "Welcome to Sex" being taken off the shelves by #BigW because staff were abused by fundamentalist 'Christians' I ask why didn't Security just take these abusers out. They could also be fined for harassment & banned from entry into ANY shop. Why didn't that happen?
    #WelcomeToSex #Censorship #FundamentalChristians

  9. With the book "Welcome to Sex" being taken off the shelves by #BigW because staff were abused by fundamentalist 'Christians' I ask why didn't Security just take these abusers out. They could also be fined for harassment & banned from entry into ANY shop. Why didn't that happen?
    #WelcomeToSex #Censorship #FundamentalChristians

  10. With the book "Welcome to Sex" being taken off the shelves by #BigW because staff were abused by fundamentalist 'Christians' I ask why didn't Security just take these abusers out. They could also be fined for harassment & banned from entry into ANY shop. Why didn't that happen?
    #WelcomeToSex #Censorship #FundamentalChristians

  11. With the book "Welcome to Sex" being taken off the shelves by #BigW because staff were abused by fundamentalist 'Christians' I ask why didn't Security just take these abusers out. They could also be fined for harassment & banned from entry into ANY shop. Why didn't that happen?
    #WelcomeToSex #Censorship #FundamentalChristians

  12. With the book "Welcome to Sex" being taken off the shelves by #BigW because staff were abused by fundamentalist 'Christians' I ask why didn't Security just take these abusers out. They could also be fined for harassment & banned from entry into ANY shop. Why didn't that happen?
    #WelcomeToSex #Censorship #FundamentalChristians

  13. I wrote this hoping I'd get some music put to it but never happened. Inspired by a guy who gave me the shits when they cldnt get off their BS ego trip in my home, decades ago. Some1 close 2 me 'begged' me not 2 kick him out. The guy didn't become a big star but has fans even now.

    The Star

    So you think you've bought freedom
    now you've found your place,
    upon that star spangled conveyor
    tracing crackling electronic space .

    You're a market mega - star now,
    all the media take a bow .
    With your patent mark of Cain,
    you sell your alienated pain .

    You're a sight to see
    a Wanted poster on "la Godot's tree".
    With your well rehearsed stance
    cloned by all in rebel lands.

    Money dealers ride your soul
    with spurs of what's cool.
    Between the ads and the time
    your image echoes glamour crime .

    Your roots are now avant - garde
    post purist art your union card .
    You don't know where you are ,
    but now you're a great big star .

    #AusWrites #writing #lyrics

  14. Looking at an old photo of my mum & me with my 2 brothers outside our terrace in Redfern, Sydney Australia. We must've just returned from church. Across the street they were demolishing houses to make way for Housing Commission flats.

    I wrote this beginning of something I haven't completed. Below dotted line
    Names fictional.

    ......................................................

    First came the men in suits, then the bulldozers and the trucks, then the porta loos and cranes. Each day saw another house, shop, tree and a child’s doll knocked down and pulverised. Things that mattered all turned to scrap and dust. The bull dozers scraped the rubble into piles of broken bricks, concrete slabs, shattered glass and newspaper. The dust rose from under the wheels and steel jaws of the machines and swirled in the breeze. In that part of Redfern, Sydney the whole street breathed the demolition dust so holding your breath was hard. It got into clothes and between cracks along walls’ edges and footpaths. For Athena and her son Kosta, a walk down Young Street was not the easiest place to breathe.
    For over three months, every day, people on Athena’s side of the road swept away sand and dust that blew from across the street onto their doorsteps. If they weren’t quick enough shutting the front door, the wind blew the sand down their narrow hallways. Every house had something tucked behind the crack between the door and the floor. Old towels, old clothes tied together, anything to stop the debris entering their homes by the wind.
    As Athena opened the door, she said, “Kosta, close it quickly. We don’t want a desert in our house.” Kosta took a long look at the growing rock piles across the street. The wind blown sand prickled against his face and arms. He stepped into the hallway, sand grains tick, tick, ticked in pitter- patter against the shut door behind him.

    #Auswrites #writing

  15. Was mucking around one day having a chat with the I Ching. I wrote down the hexagrams & the questions. If you want to know what the #IChing said just check out the numbered Hexagrams & the moving numbers. The hexagrams here are looking at the different levels of the cast ones.
    #Iching #ManticArts

  16. Was mucking around one day having a chat with the I Ching. I wrote down the hexagrams & the questions. If you want to know what the #IChing said just check out the numbered Hexagrams & the moving numbers. The hexagrams here are looking at the different levels of the cast ones.
    #Iching #ManticArts

  17. Was mucking around one day having a chat with the I Ching. I wrote down the hexagrams & the questions. If you want to know what the #IChing said just check out the numbered Hexagrams & the moving numbers. The hexagrams here are looking at the different levels of the cast ones.
    #Iching #ManticArts

  18. Was mucking around one day having a chat with the I Ching. I wrote down the hexagrams & the questions. If you want to know what the #IChing said just check out the numbered Hexagrams & the moving numbers. The hexagrams here are looking at the different levels of the cast ones.
    #Iching #ManticArts

  19. Was mucking around one day having a chat with the I Ching. I wrote down the hexagrams & the questions. If you want to know what the #IChing said just check out the numbered Hexagrams & the moving numbers. The hexagrams here are looking at the different levels of the cast ones.
    #Iching #ManticArts

  20. Something I wrote about 30yrs ago. Mainly fragments, interesting that it's about Carbon Humans vs Silicon Based 'Humans' ie what we call today AI. I didn't finish the story because I moved onto other things. Anyway, 30 yrs ago I felt something about now..

    dodona777.com/2023/06/24/the-c

    #writing #Auswrites #ScienceFiction

  21. Well, instead of peace & love directed at yours truly the audience close to me started yelling abuse at me. Did Muktananda tell them 2 cool it? Nah. So, being a nice guy I left with my 3 kids.

    At the time I didn't know this guru was supposed to be siddha powerful. To me he was just an Indian guy who was supposed to be holy. I didn't think he was.

    A few yrs later I wrote something inspired by that encounter - don't know if it's a poem ...it's intention was lyrics for a song...but I didn't get the music done. Here it is "I'm A Holy Man".

    #writing #AusWrites #Gurus

  22. Don't know why but I've always had issues with #gurus & I've met quite a few. The one that stands out for me was when

    #Muktananda

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muktanan

    came to Australia. I was squatting saving houses from being demolished in Glebe & I heard from a friend that he was speaking at East Sydney Tech College. So I thought I'd check him out taking 3 kids from our squat commune. When I arrived the room was full & Muktananda was on a stage with leopard skins scattered on the floor. He sat cross legged on the stage floor & as did the crowd in the hall floor I, with my 3 kids were at the back & kids being kids they started making some noise & restless movements.

    Everybody in audience was QUIET & Muktananda asked that the kids be quiet. I tried to shoosh them & they were quiet for a short while. The cross legged audience all turned & stared at me. The vibes were very HEAVY & directed at me with their stares & gazes. Muktananda started to yell at me to keep the kids quiet. They were just doing kid stuff. I stood up& said, "What's your problem? They're kids being kids." Well, that didn't do down well with the hippie peacenik audience OMMING & Ahmming in my direction. Muktananda said, "Go, leave." I replied, "Funny, I think Jesus said suffer the little kids on Sermon on the Mount & he wldn't mind kids playing."

  23. Don't know why but I've always had issues with #gurus & I've met quite a few. The one that stands out for me was when

    #Muktananda

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muktanan

    came to Australia. I was squatting saving houses from being demolished in Glebe & I heard from a friend that he was speaking at East Sydney Tech College. So I thought I'd check him out taking 3 kids from our squat commune. When I arrived the room was full & Muktananda was on a stage with leopard skins scattered on the floor. He sat cross legged on the stage floor & as did the crowd in the hall floor I, with my 3 kids were at the back & kids being kids they started making some noise & restless movements.

    Everybody in audience was QUIET & Muktananda asked that the kids be quiet. I tried to shoosh them & they were quiet for a short while. The cross legged audience all turned & stared at me. The vibes were very HEAVY & directed at me with their stares & gazes. Muktananda started to yell at me to keep the kids quiet. They were just doing kid stuff. I stood up& said, "What's your problem? They're kids being kids." Well, that didn't do down well with the hippie peacenik audience OMMING & Ahmming in my direction. Muktananda said, "Go, leave." I replied, "Funny, I think Jesus said suffer the little kids on Sermon on the Mount & he wldn't mind kids playing."

  24. Don't know why but I've always had issues with #gurus & I've met quite a few. The one that stands out for me was when

    #Muktananda

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muktanan

    came to Australia. I was squatting saving houses from being demolished in Glebe & I heard from a friend that he was speaking at East Sydney Tech College. So I thought I'd check him out taking 3 kids from our squat commune. When I arrived the room was full & Muktananda was on a stage with leopard skins scattered on the floor. He sat cross legged on the stage floor & as did the crowd in the hall floor I, with my 3 kids were at the back & kids being kids they started making some noise & restless movements.

    Everybody in audience was QUIET & Muktananda asked that the kids be quiet. I tried to shoosh them & they were quiet for a short while. The cross legged audience all turned & stared at me. The vibes were very HEAVY & directed at me with their stares & gazes. Muktananda started to yell at me to keep the kids quiet. They were just doing kid stuff. I stood up& said, "What's your problem? They're kids being kids." Well, that didn't do down well with the hippie peacenik audience OMMING & Ahmming in my direction. Muktananda said, "Go, leave." I replied, "Funny, I think Jesus said suffer the little kids on Sermon on the Mount & he wldn't mind kids playing."