Calling all Muso’s, Poets, Performers, Consciousness workshop facilitators, Yoga instructors, Doulas, Midwives, Dance facilitators, Permaculturists, Story Tellers, etc., etc….. Come play with us in greyton from the 9th to the 11th of March. This is a non- profit participation based gathering with the intention of supporting our community in learning wholistic ways to live in harmony with each other and our planet – and to have fun and celebrate our journeys on this earth plane.

Interested? Check out the event details on our facebook group or website and contact Annwen if you’d like to offer something: offerings@spaceoflove.co.za

Date – 11-12 February

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So it is official Space of Love , Garden Route will be happening on the 11thand 12th of February 2012. On a majestic piece of land where we can see both sea and mountain. Please start spreading the news and we will keep u posted as per the rest

Space of Love, is a Drug free, Alcohol free and meat free Space where we can meet to play, learn and remember that its so much easier when we together.

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Contact Garth for more details – 0849909999
email – mastersedge@gmail.com

♥ A warm welcome! ♥

Welcome to our Space of Love Website! Inspired by the incredible series of books by Russian author Vladimir Megre, we have set up this website to provide information and inspiration to those in South Africa who wish to create a ‘Space of Love’ and carry the vision of Anastasia and the Ringing Cedars series forward.

next gathering – Garden Route – details

11-12 February 2012 – Garden Route

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next gathering – Greyton – details

9-11 March 2012 – Greyton

Jon is a farmer from northeastern Thailand. He founded the Pun Pun Center for Self-reliance, an organic farm outside Chiang Mai, with his wife Peggy Reents in 2003. Pun Pun doubles as a center for sustainable living and seed production, aiming to bring indigenous and rare seeds back into use. It regularly hosts training on simple techniques to live more sustainably. Outside of Pun Pun, Jon is a leader in bringing the natural building movement to Thailand, appearing as a spokesperson on dozens of publications and TV programs for the past 10 years. He continually strives to find easier ways for people to fulfill their basic needs. For more information visit http://www.punpunthailand.org

Have you ever felt the need to get back to nature and experience your roots? Seen pure spring water at its source? The sound of owls and jackals at night? Stars glittering, out of the shear joy of being in the heavens.

Would you like to experience this for a few days? Join in the basic thrills of walking in nature, through shady canopies along a stream and having a picnic with the sound of water and birds?

Join in the primal thrill of connecting to yourself in a pyramid; communing with yourself while walking a labyrinth and rejoicing in life with a purifying sweat lodge.

If this interests you why not join us at the 3day retreat on the sustainable community called ‘5 Streams’, 27 km’s from Nottingham Road nestled into the foothills of the Drakensberg. It is 2 hours from Durban and 4.5 – 5 hours from Johannesburg along very easy roads.

Friday 11 November 2011 @ noon to Sunday 13 November 2011 @ noon

Maximum number to attend 10 people

• Participate in a talking Circle to create intention for group and individuals.
• Card/Rune reading
• Sweat Lodge Entering this sacred space and participating in this very powerful clearing helps to remove your unwanted thoughts and reinforce your intention. Benjamin Steyl, will create the atmosphere by leading a meditation around the fire before entering the sweat lodge. Benjamin is an old hand at meditation and has done many years of spiritual development. Sid Organe will hold the space during the lodge and keep you all is a safe place.
• Kundalini Yoga Session as taught by Yogi Bhajan Dharam Dev (Rob Witham), a certified Kundalini Yoga instructor for the past 10 years will be leading you through this dynamic spiritual form of exercise. For further understanding go to: www.kundaliniyoga.co.za
• Nature Walk Sid Organe, our farm manager, extreme sportsman and nature lover will take you across our beautiful farm and treat you to a canopy stream walk and picnic.
• Kinesiology session Balancing the body’s energy systems so the innate wisdom of the body can heal itself. Visit: www.kinesiologysa.co.za for more information. Les Witham Dip.Kin., a Specialised Kinesiologist and instructor with 15 years in this field will treat you to this energising experience.
• Community Dinner and free flow dancing Ever wanted to dance just for the joy of free movement? Allow the music to send your body and mind into bliss. Now is your chance just to be, free of judgement and embarrassment.

We have accommodation available on several levels:

1. En suite bedroom (only one room available) with one double bed and one optional single bed. R2000 per person for the weekend. Minimum persons for this room are two. Should you wish to stay an extra night on Sunday the room is just R250.
2. In dormitory style for R1500 per person for the weekend sharing a bathroom. Extra night (Sunday night) charge will be R100 per person.
3. Camping under the trees. R1000 per person for the weekend. Extra night charge will be R50 per person.

Self-catering except for Picnic Lunch and Community Diner.

Each person should cater for:
• Friday lunch;
• Friday supper with a simple snack platter to be shared with all;
• Breakfast for Saturday and Sunday.

If you choose to stay longer all meals from Sunday lunch will be self-catering. Seasonal vegetables are available from the farm. What is available will be advised a couple of days before the Retreat.

What to wear

• As this area can experience all four seasons in one day it is advisable to bring clothing that can be layered for warmth if necessary.
• Casual comfortable clothing.
• Walking shoes
• Loose, light clothing for yoga and the sweat lodge (bathing costume if you wish)

A 50% non-refundable deposit will secure your place for this weekend.

Call Les to make your booking.
The first 10 deposits into the bank will constitute a booking.

Banking details:
Standard Bank Branch: Fourways Crossing No. 9953
Account No. 02-335-577-8
Reference: Your name and Retreat.

majestic-village@majesticinteractive.co.za

Dearest Kin,

Please read this article to find out about the exciting opportunity for another Kins´Domain eco-village in South Africa. Hans is a property developer who read the Ringing Cedars books when he was in Holland, and has been looking for land since to help develop a Kins´domain eco-village inspired by Anastasia.

He has found a piece of land between P.E and Jeffreys bay.
The site is over 600 ha, and can house around 50 families.
The rest of the land is applicable for a nature reserve. It has a beautiful view of the sea coast and on the other side to the baviaans Mountains.
There is game on the land (including zebra, wildebeest and impala) and the idea was for an Eco Village, but also for Eco Tourism which can accumulate income and be used for the settlers.

click here to read more  about the land and the proposed ideas. or email Hans directly on hans@kingshomeinspection.co.za.

To see photos of the land, email me, ashleigh@spaceoflove.co.za and i will forward photos to you. (for some reason the photo uploading software for our website is not working)

click here to Read more on the Space of Love website!

Don your warmest woollies, wellingtons and wildest anticipation and get ready to journey into the sacred heart of Winter. Dancing with the seasons, open yourself to receive the magical gifts of the solstice – igniting the fire within your hearts, souls and bellies. This is an invitation to journey deep into self and soul, to find the place of stillness, the void, where gestates the vast potential of all creation.

Let us come together for a weekend of co-creating community, co-operation and loving heart-felt communication. Mastering the art of love and togetherness will keep us loved-up, healthy, happy and toasty. There is something magical in braving winter on the Blue Hippo Farm where you will be watched over by majestic mountains and towering pine trees, while horses graze contentedly in nearby fields. Radiant beings come together, let us bless and be blessed in the heart of Winter!

ACTIVITIES

Light creative fires with song, dance, storytelling, poetry, art and performance. Workshops initiating you into conscious dreaming, community, raw foods, sacred sound, dance, yoga, meditation, organic gardening, and more will be on offer. Participate in preparing healthy, healing, nourishing cooked and alive seasonal vegan foods. This a space for the whole family, with fun, activities and workshops for the kids. We are strictly an alcohol and drug free space.

OFFERING WORKSHOPS

The SOL gatherings are a magical journey of co-creation (as inspired by anastasia and the ringing cedar book series). This is an open invitation for you offer workshops, talks or performances. Contact us ASAP so we can add you to the schedule as there is limited space for workshops:email ahrian@spaceoflove.co.za. We also invite you to prepare and share songs, stories, prayers, poetry and artwork to bless and express gratitude for mama earth and to usher in the new dawn. We would love to publish some of these on our website.

WHAT TO BRING

Come prepared, beloveds, this is winter after all! Wrap yourself up in your winter gear (beanies, thick socks, boots, cuddly jackets, jerseys, ponchos – you get the picture right). Tents, camping gear and your warmest bedding (also for tipis) will ensure cosy snuggliness through chilly nights. Instruments, art materials and any kitchen gear (blenders juicers big pots) will be most welcome. Please bring only biodegradable cosmetics. We encourage you to check out our FAQ page so you know what to bring and how the space works : http://spaceoflove.co.za/events/cape-gatherings/faqs/.

FOOD

As usual food is a bring and share affair with a focus on yummy vegan and raw foods. Bring generously – enough food to feed you and your family for the whole weekend. The food is prepared communally so bring boxes of fruit and veg and big packets of nuts, seeds, lentils, pulses, rice, dates, superfoods, honey, tahini etc. We work on a manifestation of trust system – trusting the Space of Love angels to guide you to bring exactly what is needed!

PARTCIPATION

We encourage your participation in food preparation, tending to the sacred fire, keeping spaces clean, composting and recycling. Space of Love is an experiment in conscious co-creation and as such your loving participation is vital in creating our community of peaceful loving joyous beings. If you see something that needs doing – do it : )!

DIRECTIONS

From Cape Town, take the N2 toward Caledon. About 4km before Caledon, turn left at the sign that says “Greyton / Genadendal”. Drive for about 30km directly into Greyton. At the 3rd stop street you will see a sign toward Riviersonderend. Turn right here (Osman’s shop is on the corner) Follow the dirt road over a bridge. Keep heading straight for another 4 km. There is a sign on the left to Blue Hippo. Turn in here. Drive straight and park in the big open space where the other cars are. Welcome!

From Riviersonderend, Take the N2 towards Cape Town, passing through Riviersonderend, shortly after Shell garage, turn right at sign to Greyton. Travel on dirt road (following signs to Greyton) for approx 20kms and look out for the Blue Hippo sign on right 4km before Greyton. Turn in here. website – www.bluehippo.co.za

In 1982 I died from terminal cancer. The condition I had was inoperable, and any kind of chemotherapy they could give me would just have made me more of a vegetable and I was given six to eight months to live. I had been an information freak in the1970s, and I had become increasingly despondent over the nuclear crisis, the ecology crisis, and so forth. So, since I did not have a spiritual basis, I began to believe that nature had made a mistake, and that we were probably a cancerous organism on the planet.

I saw no way that we could get out from all the problems we had created for ourselves and the planet. I perceived all humans as cancer, and that is what I got. That is what killed me. Be careful what your world view is. It can feed back on you, especially if it is a negative world view. I had a seriously negative one. That is what led me into my death. I tried all sorts of alternative healing methods, but nothing helped.

So I determined that this was really just between me and God. I had never really faced God before, or even dealt with God. I was not into any kind of spirituality at the time, but I began a journey into learning about spirituality and alternative healing. I set out to do all the reading I could and bone up on the subject, because I did not want to be surprised on the other side.

So I started reading on various religions and philosophies. They were all very interesting, and gave hope that there was something on the other side. I ended up in hospice care.

I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few friends and said goodbye. I woke up my hospice caretaker and told her. I had a private agreement with her that she would leave my dead body alone for six hours, since I had read that all kinds of interesting things happen when you die. I went back to sleep.

The next thing I remember is the beginning of a typical near death experience. Suddenly I was fully aware and I was standing up, but my body was in the bed. There was this darkness around me. Being out of my body was even more vivid than ordinary experience. It was so vivid that I could see every room in the house, I could see the top of the house, I could see around the house, I could see under the house.

There was this Light shining. I turned toward the Light. The Light was very similar to what many other people have described in their near death experiences. It was so magnificent. It is tangible; you can feel it. It is alluring; you want to go to it like you would want to go to your ideal mother’s or father’s arms.

As I began to move toward the Light, I knew intuitively that if I went to the Light, I would be dead. So as I was moving toward the Light I said, “Please wait a minute, just hold on a second here. I want to think about this; I would like to talk to you before I go.”
To my surprise, the entire experience halted at that point. You are in control of your life after death experience. You are not on a roller coaster ride.

So my request was honored and I had some conversations with the Light. The Light kept changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, mandalas, archetypal images and signs. I asked the Light, “What is going on here? Please, Light, clarify yourself for me. I really want to know the reality of the situation.” I cannot really say the exact words, because it was sort of telepathy.

The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that during your life after death experience your beliefs shape the kind of feedback you are getting before the Light. If you were a Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop of your own stuff. You have a chance to look at it and examine it, but most people do not. As the Light revealed itself to me, I became aware that what I was really seeing was our higher Self matrix.

We all have a higher Self, or an oversoul part of our being. It revealed itself to me in its truest energy form. The only way I can really describe it is that the being of the higher Self is more like a conduit. It did not look like that, but it is a direct connection to the Source that each and every one of us has. We are directly connected to the Source. So the Light was showing me the higher Self matrix. I was not committed to one particular religion. So that is what was being fed back to me during my life after death experience.

As I asked the Light to keep clearing for me, to keep explaining, I understood what the higher Self matrix is. We have a grid around the planet where all the higher Selves are connected. This is like a great company, a next subtle level of energy around us, the spirit level, you might say. Then, after a couple of minutes, I asked for more clarification. I really wanted to know what the universe is about, and I was ready to go at that time. I said “I am ready, take me.”

Then the Light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen: a mandala of human souls on this planet. Now I came to this with my negative view of what was happening on the planet. So as I asked the Light to keep clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent mandala how beautiful we all are in our essence, our core.

We are the most beautiful creations. The human soul, the human matrix that we all make together is absolutely fantastic, elegant, exotic, everything. I just cannot say enough about how it changed my opinion of human beings in that instant. I said, “Oh, God, I did not know how beautiful we are.” At any level, high or low, in whatever shape you are in, you are the most beautiful creation, you are.

The revelations coming from the Light during my near death experience seemed to go on and on, then I asked the Light, “Does this mean that Mankind will be saved?” Then, like a trumpet blast with a shower of spiraling lights, the Great Light spoke, saying, “Remember this and never forget; you save, redeem and heal yourself. You always have. You always will. You were created with the power to do so from before the beginning of the world.”

In that instant I realized even more. I realized that WE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAVED, and we saved ourselves because we were designed to self-correct like the rest of God’s universe.

The Light explained to me that there is no death; we are immortal beings. We have already been alive forever! I realized that we are part of a natural living system that recycles itself endlessly.

This is what the second coming is about. I thanked the Light of God with all my heart. The best thing I could come up with during my near death experience was these simple words of total appreciation: “Oh dear God, dear Universe, dear Great Self, I Love My Life.”

The Light seemed to breathe me in even more deeply. It was as if the Light was completely absorbing me. The Love Light is, to this day, indescribable. I entered into another realm, more profound than the last, and became aware of something more, much more. It was an enormous stream of Light, vast and full, deep in the Heart of Life. I asked what this was.

The Light responded, “This is the RIVER OF LIFE. Drink of this manna water to your heart’s content.” So I did. I took one big drink and then another. To drink of Life Itself! I was in ecstasy.

Then the Light said, “You have a desire.” The Light knew all about me, everything past, present and future. “Yes!” I whispered.
I asked to see the rest of the Universe; beyond our solar system, beyond all human illusion. The Light then told me that I could go with the Stream. I did, and was carried Through the Light at the End of the Tunnel. I felt and heard a series of very soft sonic booms. What a rush!

Suddenly I seemed to be rocketing away from the planet on this stream of Life. I saw the earth fly away. The solar system, in all its splendor, whizzed by and disappeared. At faster than light speed, I flew through the center of the galaxy, absorbing more knowledge as I went. I learned that this galaxy, and all of the Universe, is bursting with many different varieties of LIFE. I saw many worlds. The good news is that we are not alone in this Universe!

As I rode this stream of consciousness through the center of the galaxy, the stream was expanding in awesome fractal waves of energy. The super clusters of galaxies with all their ancient wisdom flew by. At first I thought I was going somewhere; actually traveling.

But then I realized that, as the stream was expanding, my own consciousness was also expanding to take in everything in the Universe! All creation passed by me. It was an unimaginable wonder! I truly was a Wonder Child; a babe in Wonderland!
At this point of my near death experience, I found myself in a profound stillness, beyond all silence. I could see or perceive FOREVER, beyond Infinity.

I was in the Void.

I was in pre creation, before the Big Bang. I had crossed over the beginning of time/the First Word/the First vibration. I was in the Eye of Creation. I felt as if I was touching the Face of God. It was not a religious feeling. Simply I was at one with Absolute Life and Consciousness.

When I say that I could see or perceive forever, I mean that I could experience all of creation generating itself. It was without beginning and without end. That’s a mind expanding thought, isn’t it? Scientists perceive the Big Bang as a single event which created the Universe. I saw during my life after death experience that the Big Bang is only one of an infinite number of Big Bangs creating Universes endlessly and simultaneously. The only images that even come close in human terms would be those created by super computers using fractal geometry equations.

As I rode the stream on and on, I could eventually see a huge Light coming. I knew it was the First Light; the higher Self Light Matrix of our solar system. Then the entire solar system appeared in the Light, accompanied by one of those velvet booms.

The Light explained to me that there is no death; we are immortal beings. We have already been alive forever! I realized that we are part of a natural living system that recycles itself endlessly. I was never told that I had to come back. I just knew that I would. It was only natural, from what I had seen during my life after death experience.

I don’t know how long I was with the Light, in human time. But there came a moment when I realized that all my questions had been answered and my return was near. When I say that all my questions were answered on the other side, I mean to say just that.

Every human has a different life and set of questions to explore. Some of our questions are Universal, but each of us is exploring this thing we call Life in our own unique way. So is every other form of life, from mountains to every leaf on every tree. And that is very important to the rest of us in this Universe. Because it all contributes to the Big Picture, the fullness of Life. We are literally God exploring God’s self in an infinite Dance of Life.

Your uniqueness enhances all of Life.

As I began my return to the life cycle, it never crossed my mind, nor was I told during my near death experience that I would return to the same body. It just did not matter. I had complete trust in the Light and the Life process. As the stream merged with the great Light, I asked never to forget the revelations and the feelings of what I had learned on the other side.

There was a “Yes.” It felt like a kiss to my soul.

From what I have seen, I would be happy to be an atom in this universe. An atom. So to be the human part of God … this is the most fantastic blessing. It is a blessing beyond our wildest estimation of what blessing can be. For each and every one of us to be the human part of this experience is awesome, and magnificent. Each and every one of us, no matter where we are, screwed up or not, is a blessing to the planet, right where we are.
I went through the reincarnation process expecting to be a baby somewhere.

But I was given a lesson on how individual identity and consciousness evolve. I was so surprised when I opened my eyes from my near death experience. I do not know why, because I understood it, but it was still such a surprise to be back in this body, back in my room with someone looking over me crying her eyes out. It was my hospice caretaker. She had given up an hour and a half after finding me dead. My body was stiff and inflexible. She went into the other room. Then I awakened and saw the light outside. I tried to get up to go to it, but I fell out of the bed. She heard a loud “clunk,” ran in and found me on the floor.

When I recovered, I was very surprised and yet very awed about what had happened to me during my near death experience. At first all the memory of the trip that I have now was not there. I kept slipping out of this world and kept asking, “Am I alive?” This world seemed more like a dream than that one. Within three days I was feeling normal again, clearer, yet different than I had ever felt in my life.

My memory of my near death experience came back later. I could see nothing wrong with any human being I had ever seen. Before that I was really judgmental. I thought a lot of people were really screwed up, in fact I thought that everybody was screwed up but me. But I got clear on all that.

About three months later a friend said I should get tested, so I went and got the scans and so forth. I really felt good, so I was afraid of getting bad news. I remember the doctor at the clinic looking at the before and after scans, saying, “Well, there is nothing here now.” I said, “Really, it must be a miracle”‘ He said “No, these things happen; they are called spontaneous remission.” He acted very unimpressed. But here was a miracle, and I was impressed, even if no one else was.

Soon our science will quantify spirit. Isn’t that going to be wonderful? We are coming up with devices now that are sensitive to subtle energy or spirit energy. Physicists use these atomic colliders to smash atoms to see what they are made of. They have got it down to quarks and charm, and all that. Well, one day they are going to come down to the little thing that holds it all together, and they are going to have to call that … God. We are just beginning to understand that we are creating too, as we go along.

As I saw forever, I came to a realm during my near death experience in which there is a point where we pass all knowledge and begin creating the next fractal, the next level. We have that power to create as we explore. And that is God expanding itself through us.

Since my return I have experienced the Light spontaneously, and I have learned how to get to that space almost any time in my meditation. Each one of you can do this. You do not have to die or have a near death experience to do this. It is within your equipment; you are wired for it already. The body is the most magnificent Light being there is.

The body is a universe of incredible Light. Spirit is not pushing us to dissolve this body. That is not what is happening. Stop trying to become God; God is becoming you. Here.

I went over to the other side during my near death experience with a lot of fears about toxic waste, nuclear missiles, the population explosion, the rainforest. I came back loving every single problem. I love nuclear waste. I love the mushroom cloud; this is the holiest mandala that we have manifested to date, as an archetype. It, more than any religion or philosophy on earth, brought us together all of a sudden, to a new level of consciousness.

Knowing that maybe we can blow up the planet fifty times, or 500 times, we finally realize that maybe we are all here together now. For a period they had to keep setting off more bombs to get it in to us. Then we started saying, “we do not need this any more.” Now we are actually in a safer world than we have ever been in, and it is going to get safer. So I came back from my near death experience loving toxic waste, because it brought us together.

These things are so big. As Peter Russell might say, these problems are now “soul size.” Do we have soul size answers” YES!
The clearing of the rain forest will slow down, and in fifty years there will be more trees on the planet than in a long time.

If you are into ecology, go for it; you are that part of the system that is becoming aware. Go for it with all your might, but do not be depressed. It is part of a larger thing. Earth is in the process of domesticating itself. It is never again going to be as wild a place as it once was. There will be great wild places, reserves where nature thrives. Gardening and reserves will be the thing in the future. Population increase is getting very close to the optimal range of energy to cause a shift in consciousness. That shift in consciousness will change politics, money, energy.

After dying, going through my near death experience and coming back, I really respect life and death. In our DNA experiments we may have opened the door to a great secret. Soon we will be able to live as long as we want to live in this body.

This body, that you are in, has been alive forever. It comes from an unending stream of life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond. This body gives life to the next life.

After living 150 years or so, there will be an intuitive soul sense that you will want to change channels.

Living forever in one body is not as creative as reincarnation, as transferring energy in this fantastic vortex of energy that we are in. We are actually going to see the wisdom of life and death, and enjoy it. As it is now, we have already been alive forever.

This body, that you are in, has been alive forever. It comes from an unending stream of life, going back to the Big Bang and beyond. This body gives life to the next life, in dense and subtle energy.

This body has been alive forever already.

Taken from the Biophile Magazine filed in: Ascension · Issue 15