Eden Magazine

April 2011Volume 1 Issue 4EDEN

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EditorMaryam Morrison

In oneself lies the whole world and if

you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in

your hand. Nobody on earth can give you

either the key or the door to open, except

yourself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Contents Gina Lake 4

(PAWS-Mumbai) 20

Lily’s story 12

Ellen Vaman 8

Yap Stone 10

Universal Real Nation 6 By; seshya urpfr.org

Our Planet Earth 24

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GINA LAKEA Spiritual teacher who has dedicated herself to helping others discover their true nature and live in the moment through her books, counseling, and intensives

Gina Lake is a nondual spiritual teacher whose teachings are similar to Eckhart Tolle’s. In 1999, she had a spiritual awakening and has since written several books, including Loving in the Moment, Radical Happiness, Embracing the Now, Getting Free, Living in the Now, Return

to Essence, Anatomy of Desire, and What About Now?

She is also a spiritual counselor with a master’s degree in counseling psychology and over twenty years experience. Her focus is to help people understand themselves and the

programming that interferes with awakening to their true nature and to help them be in the present moment and live the life they were meant to live. Her consultations take place over the phone. Please see “Sessions” for more information visit ~ www.radicalhappiness.com

Gina lives in Sedona, Arizona where she offers weekend intensives. Her husband, Nirmala, is also a nondual teacher. His website is endless-satsang.com, where you can download his

free spiritual e-books and watch satsang videos and listen to audio recordings of him. He is also available for spiritual mentoring over the phone.

Contact Gina in face book; http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=100000889145491

The following article is From Living in the Now: How to Live as the Spiritual Being That You Are by Gina Lake. Read more excerpts and find out more about this book.


Be Kind to YourselfLove is the underlying fabric of life, and kind-ness is its reflection in the world, through us. It can be conveyed in attentiveness to others, in words, or in deeds. One of the most powerful acts of kindness is kindness toward ourselves. That is really where kind-ness begins. If we aren’t kind to ourselves, how can we be kind to others? Unless we are also kind to ourselves, kindness toward others is more of a manipulation, an attempt to get others to give us something, includ-ing love. However, unless we are kind to ourselves, we won’t even be able to take in any kindness we do receive from others. That place of lack inside of us can’t be filled from the outside. First, we have to be kind to ourselves.

True kindness comes from a desire to soothe and comfort others because we have discovered the power and blessing of kindness as a result of having received it. Receiving kindness from others heals us and makes it possible to express it to oth-ers. If we haven’t received much kindness from others, we need to find a way to give it to ourselves, to be kind to ourselves even though others may not have been. To do that, we have to do two things: We have to forgive those who weren’t kind to us, and we have to see that we deserve love.

Unfortunately, those who didn’t receive a lot of kindness as children usually conclud-ed that they deserved that and that they aren’t lovable. They need to forgive those who were unable to be kind to them (prob-ably because they were treated the same way when they were young) and learn to give love to themselves. Those who were abused learned to abuse themselves in-wardly; they learned to believe their neg-

ative thoughts about themselves. They need to develop a loving inner voice rather than an unloving one. That can be done, but it takes a willingness to see the truth, to see through the negative self-image to the truth—that you are divinity in a human body, that you are love incarnate.

Everyone has the same capacity to love, but that ability may have been squelched by not having been loved. Not being loved as a child blocks the natural flow of love, and giving love to yourself allows love to flow outward again. It’s always possible to give ourselves love because our true nature (Essence) loves the human expression that we are, no matter what we have or haven’t done, no matter what our shortcomings are. When we tap into the love the kindness and compassion—that our true self has for the human that we are and for all of humanity, we unleash the power of love in our life to heal ourselves and others.

We desperately need this now on earth. Can you find it in your heart to be kind to your-self? This is not a selfish act, but the most unselfish act because it allows the love of your true nature to flow outward toward all of life. You don’t have to like the ego and its ways; just accept it as part of the hu-man condition. Be kind and compassionate toward yourself and those who are caught in the suffering caused by the ego, and this kindness will release you and others from the ego’s prison of limitation and fear. Love yourself and others for the courage to be alive and be human in these difficult and challenging times. Give yourself and others some slack. Forgive, allow, accept, and be kind. Relax and let everything be as it is.


We should not Divide and Separate the peoples in the name of Nation because EARTH- the existing only nation was di-vided and separated by the political Gov-ernments into many nations.

Example: A private sector or public sec-tor company have many departments as administration, accounting, production, sales, distributions, etc, we are giving different names to the departments for the purpose of the easy or well admin-istrations. But the purpose is whole and perfect benefit for the company. Similarly EARTH- the existing only nation was di-vided and separated by the political Gov-ernments into many nations for the ben-efit or perfect welfare of the people.

FINAL RESULT: We have many nations and many governments but the purpose

of the nations and governments is for the welfare of the people. If it is true, why we have many nations and many govern-ments and many local laws ? In the so-lar system there is only one Sun and only one Earth and only one moon . If it is true, it is not possible for one nation and one government and one law, we mean the international government, UNIVERSAL REAL SPIRUTIAL KINGDOM (Sun) and international society (Earth) international laws (moon).

In practical we have accepted SI units (International Units).

a. 60 Seconds – 1 Minuteb. 60 Minutes – 1 Hourc. 24 Hours – 1 Dayd. 7 Days – 1 Week etc.

Artwork by; Maryam Morrison


If we have accepted the above facts, at present we are the citizens of the nations. In future we will welcome as the citizen of the Earth

You can realize this at once or you may take your own time. But conversion by compulsion is unknown to me.

my planet is Earth, my planet system is SOLAR SYSTEM, my galaxy is Milky way Galaxy, my universe is on the whole One Universe I Decented from the oneness universe as a traveler to the present Earth to perform perfect Duty and after complet-ing the Duty again to ascent to the same place ,the oneness Universe. Decented is a fall of a Apple from a tree. But for to Ascent, due to the Gravitational force, we need a technology. For that technology we need actions. The action events is

Life and Everything’s and Every thinking’s that’s all. Do your Duty Perfectly with up to date Technology and Holy Consciousness for the universal citizens of the universal society the only one real society and the only way.

That resulted way of the universal Har-mony will Leads Every body to The Uni-versal Real Peace and Freedom.But we need Reforms in our Thoughts and in our Actions. This is only for the present Evo-lutionary, not to the Revolutionary.

Best Wishes to the Universal Real Spiritual Citizens. A call to join in Universal Real Spiritual kingdom.

By; seshya urpfr.org

Universal Real Nations


Ellen Vaman

I am here to Inspire & to connect with you through my ARTs

Using purely intuition & inspired visions I create images which I feel convey my hearts intent & uniquely represent essence of a being or a place.

When I do an image of you it feels as if on a subtle level I can See your colours & hear your song!

To contact Ellen or see more of her art works visit her website; www.ellenlovevaman.com.au

or in facebook; www.facebook.com/ellenvamanoflove



State of Yap: Land of Stone MoneyThere’s a tiny island called Yap out in the Pacific Ocean. The is-lands of Yap are steeped in tradi-tion and legend. The huge disks of stone money hewn by its an-cient ancestors and brought 200 miles by sea from the islands of Palau are still in use as a com-mercial currency today.

Their is one of the most distinc-tive cultures in Micronesia and it provides a unique glimpse into Pacific island culture as it existed centuries before the rest of the world even knew that there was a Pacific Ocean. Mainstream tourism didn’t reach Yap until the late 1980s and traditional vil-lage life happily co-exists with the modern world necessities of electricity, satellite television and the internet.

There’s no gold or silver on Yap. But hundreds of years ago, ex-plorers from Yap found lime-stone deposits on an island hun-dreds of miles away. And they carved this limestone into huge stone discs, which they brought back across the sea on their small bamboo boats.

Cultural heritage and lore is handed down from parent to

child and in formal gatherings in the Men’s and Women’s Houses of each village. The Yapese live on clan lands and in ancestral villages, their well beaten paths lined with stone money, repre-senting village and clan wealth. Fishing, traditional seamanship, handicraft skills and dance are all an important part of society and life on these islands.

Dance and handicraft skills are an artform on Yap. It is through dance that the legends are passed down, history recorded and entertainment tradition-ally created. The costumes and dances of Yap are lively, color-ful and complex, and children of both sexes begin to learn these important Yap traditions from an early age.

The Yapese are a warm and friendly people, but shy among strangers. Polite visitors may soon find themselves being in-vited to share a cold drink or local delicacy, helping launch a canoe or gather coconuts. This special kind of island encoun-ter is not unusual on Yap and is part of the culture and hospital-ity that makes these islands so enchanting.


Yap Stone Money

Retrieved from; http://www.guampdn.com/guampublishing/special-sections/magmic/yap.shtml


Sandra Murphy founder of The Charity “One Step at a Time”

To Make a Difference

A Story by Sandra Murphy abourt Lilly Auma


Lily is around 22 years old but when we found her begging in the market she appeared a very thin sick young girl. Her lips were cracked and white and her eyes bright red. We brought her to stay with us in our office in Uganda. After health checks we found her state to be seri-ously effected by HIV.

Life for Lily has not been easy. She explained to us that she was on the street because the remainder of her family believed that her HIV could kill them and so she was banished to a life of begging to survive. For three years this was her life.

Today I visited Lilly Auma again in her village of Apala in Northern Uganda with the manager of One Step at a Time Isaac Ok-wir. Our mode of transport was a motor bike as in the bush there is no access to the home by vehicle. The road to Apala is one of the worst in the district and we bounced around pot holes and rocks in the road, in-creasing our journey.

When we reached the home we were sorry Lilly was not there but happy

to hear that she had walked with her mum to the market 3 kms away from home. She was healthy.

We found her sitting behind a stall roast-ing meat, everyone here survives on beans and maize but Lilly wants meat and eggs. Who can blame her? Sadly there is no money for meat for Lilly but the smell was satis-fying her.

It was reassuring to see her well although a lot thinner than before.

Lilly was happy to tell her story to the world to let me people across the world know the difficulties that not just she, but thou-sands of others in North-ern Uganda have and con-tinue to suffer.

‘’I lived deep in the village where early marriages are very common.

I was 15 when my hus-band was found for me. I was happy when I gave birth to a baby girl but sad-ly and very commonly, my

baby died.

My husband was a sol-dier and when the rebel force LRA started their murders my husband was sent to fight them. I was so sad when he was killed by these rebels and I was alone without my husband and my baby.

Because I was alone I went back to live with my family, but at the time of insurgency by the rebels thousands of people from the villages had to run from our villages to internal dis-placement camps across the Northern Region and they called us IDPs.


My camp was near to the army barracks and those soldiers should protect us.

One day people came shouting that we should run as the rebels were coming to kill us. We left our hut and ran to the sol-dier’s barracks but the reb-els same in between and I was shot in the arm. When I fell down that same soldier beat my mother and she now has no sight in her eye.

When the rebels had gone and we went to our hut there was noth-ing like food to eat and the shelter was bad. I happened to go to the hospi-tal and I was told my status was HIV positive. I was very sad.

When I told my family of my status they chased me away from home because they believed they could catch it from me.

I had one set of clothing that I had when my hus-band died and nothing else and so I went with my

friend to the town. I was thinking that it would be better in town.

My friend was taken by a certain man and they wanted me to also go with a man but I knew my sta-tus and I did not want to get any infection from a man or to give any disease to any other member of

the community, so I stayed alone in the town.

Again there was no food, no work and no shelter. I borrowed money and food from many people and I slept under verandas and

in the open market. I was fearing this life. I sat every day in a very dirty corri-dor to beg for money from strange people.

One day a ‘muzungu’ (white person) was com-ing into the corridor and I couldn’t believe she was speaking to me. She sat with me in the mud but

I did not understand English. She asked someone to help and we talk-ed.

She called the of-fice and I went on a boda boda (bicy-cle taxi) to the One Step at a Time of-fice. Another mu-zungu was also there.

One Step at a Time gave me washing basins, soap, and even a small house with mat and mosquito net, food and the

thing called Hug.

I prayed at night to thank God for One Step at a Time. They saved my life. I was singing praising God that I had some help to get me a life.

Sandra Murphy preparing Lily for her travel home to meet her family for the first time.


I told them my story and they all listened to me well.

They took me for medi-cation and gave me good food, I went to church with Sandra and we prayed together. They took me for medica-tion and gave me good food, I went to church with Sandra and we prayed together. They talked about my positive status and how it had affected my life.

Their suggestion to ex-plain the effects of HIV to my family was good and I went on the motor bike to home. My mother was very happy to receive me and they said I could live there again as I could not infect them.

Some help came from Lianne and Lorna in England to build my own hut. Sandra gave me shoes from her mother which were very smart and I was happy.

Then Linda and Vicky also helped me. I am so happy for these friends in England who love me.

One Step at a Time took me home, with sauce-

pans, cups, maize, beans and many things. They always support me with the medicine for my status and I am feeling very ok.

When I have been in hos-pital they have visited me and helped me to eat and pay fees.

Now some NGO is giving free posho to people with my status and I have paid the money to register but have received no food. One Step at a time are helping me with that.

I cannot say so many thank you s as Osaat has helped so much and saved my life and lives of others.

I now have hope in life and many friends in England and in Uganda Osaat who are loving me.

God Bless you all. Please tell everyone of the need of my people and of the great Osaat.

Lilly Auma Apala Uganda

If Lily’s story touched your heart as it did ours please also reach out into the world to make a differ-ence.

For more information visit our site;www.one-step-at-a-time.org.uk/

A video of this is available from Sandra Murphy

“ If we knew the meaning to everything that is

happening to us, then there would be

no meaning.“Idi Amin Dada


Alaska’s wolves won a temporary reprieve when a state court ruled last year against the state’s aerial gunning program. But Alaska’s Board of Game took emergency action to reverse the court’s decision and the state is once again issuing aerial gunning permits for wolves.

More than 550 wolves have been killed since Alaska reinstated its aerial gunning program. You can help end the slaughter.

Aerial gunning is a brutal practice. Marksmen can gun down wolves from the air that are easy targets against the fallen snow. Or they can even run the wolves to exhaustion, then land and shoot them at point blank range.

To help visit Care2 site; www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/867/854/889

Artwork by Maryam Morrison


The Vafa shelter is a non government charity

organization relying solely on private

donations and volunteers

Make a difference and change their lifesVafa Animal Shelter

www.facebook.com/l/b8e8cI0jVoWiGIeF_2QR2cdboKg;www.cal.ir

email: [email protected]


Sufi whirling (or Sufi spinning), is a phys-ically active meditation which originated among Sufis, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi or-der. It is a customary dance performed within the Sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes (also called semazens) aim to reach the source of all perfection, or kemal. This is sought through abandoning one’s nafs (Breath), egos or personal desires, by listening to the music, focusing on God, and spinning one’s body in repetitive circles, which has been seen as a symbolic imitation of planets in the Solar System orbiting the sun.

As explained by Sufis: In the symbol-ism of the Sema ritual, the semazen’s camel’s hair hat (sikke) represents the tombstone of the ego; his wide, white skirt represents the ego’s shroud. By re-moving his black cloak, he is spiritually reborn to the truth. At the beginning of the Sema, by holding his arms cross-wise, the semazen appears to represent the number one, thus testifying to God’s unity. While whirling, his arms are open, his right arm is directed to the sky, ready to receive God’s beneficence, his left hand, upon which his eyes are fastened,

is turned toward the earth. The semazen conveys God’s spiritual gift to those who are witnessing the Sema. Revolving from right to left around the heart, the semazen embraces all humanity with love. The human being has been created with love in order to love.

Mevlâna Jalâluddîn Rumi says, “All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!”

Photo by; mekam

Sufi Whirling Dance


When You Can Endure

When the words stop

And you can endure the silence

That reveals your heart’s pain of emptiness

Or that great wrenching-sweet longing,

That is the time to try and listen

To what the Beloved’s Eyes

Most want To Say.

Hafiz

Youth from India started a mission to save our chirping beauty after studying that all major developing cities from worldwide are witnessing the decline in the count of spar-row population. Once this little sparrow lovely chirping voice was the morning alarm for all of us, but now it had been replaced by electrical bells. What is the reason be-hind it? We human destroyed the habitat of them under the name of beautification or development; we replaced our old type home into buildings & skyscrapers, small

shops into mall & shopping cen-ters, cut trees for widening of road or making parking place, due to which sparrows lost their everything that is home (nest), food as well as the place where they use to play and we use to enjoy

their movements. And other reason is the

mobile towers which release microwaves, it not only effect this little sparrow but also our health too. A non-profit organisation “Plant & Animals Welfare Society – Mumbai” and its band of young volunteers have designed an artifi-cial nest, which is made up of recycled wood and they named it as “My Sparrow Home”. Which not only give them home but also gives them their own address too. In start-ing they have just hope, but the response they received from the various developing cities, they be-lieve it will be-come a major movement very soon.

It may also be called a side effect of these changes is the disappearance of the nature’s bounty. They thrive to not defy the change, but to take measures against the side effects of the change. To protect the unprotected, to protected the sidelined. They take this chance to make the days better for one of our unheeded friends, the Sparrow.

My Sparrow Home is a mission to save this chirping beauty which is initiated by PAWS-Mumbai. You can install it near your garden, balcony or windows,

PAWS-MumbaiPlant & Animals Welfare

Society in Mumbai

A ray of hope for disappearing sparrows worldwide


but seeing the population of sparrow in that area. Do not expect that sparrows will build their nest immediately. Once they visit the shelter a couple of times and feel it safe, they will build their nest, we have to be pa-tient!

PAWS-Mumbai needs your helping hands to make this movement success , please involve yourself and your friends to adopt these nest boxes in your homes to help these birds. Let’s all welcome the upcoming breed-ing season by motivating our self and friends to Adopt My Sparrow Home.

Carlyta Mouhini an Indo - Latin Bolly-wood Pop Singer & Journalist said “As a concerned citizen we all should support this initiative by getting “My Sparrow Home” and using this wonderful

nest to help save the sparrows”.

Pooja Bhatt, an Bollywood Ac-tress said “The house sparrow is in grave danger of disappearing if we do not take an ini-tiative and provide it with a safe habi-tat and “Home”.

I implore you to save the sparrow by install-ing A “My Sparrow Home” as soon as pos-

sible, just like I have!”Nataliya Kozhenova, an Russian Bollywood Actress & Model said “They have done their duty as concerned citizens to save the sparrows and it’s now our time to sup-port this movement to make it a success”.

Sanjay Patil, Member of Par-liament who re-cently gifted My Sparrow Home to his wife in her birthday said “I support PAWS-Mumbai because I believe they can bring the change for the better.

This mission to save sparrows is an hon-est and well deserving effort on their part. They just need a bit of participation from commoners like you and me. So let us give them a hand and pull them to the shore”.


Suresh Shetty, Minister from Government of Maharasht ra , India said “I was surprised to see the small wood-en box which they have de-signed as “My Sparrow Home” to give artificial nest to the dis-appearing spar-

row population from the city. I really think, it is today’s need to keep ecological bal-ance. I appeal to the citizens to support the cause to save our chirping beauty who re-ally need our helping hand”.

Sambhavna Seth, an Bollywood Ac-tress said “as the need of the hour and being a part of concerned citi-zens it’s our duty to raise our help-ing hand to save the chirping spar-rows for a better future”.

If anyone wishing to install “My Sparrow Home” in your balcony or backyard can order it by making a nominal contribution to this conservation mission. Your contribu-tion will help them in creating awareness about the problems which is being face by sparrows. With a little support from you they will be able to increase the scale of their efforts.

Please get in touch with them by contact-ing them on +91 22 25968313, E-mail;[email protected] or visit them at www.mysparrowhome.blogspot.com / www.pawsmumbai.org

You can also follow “My Sparrow Home” at community site’s like Facebook, Orkut & Twitter.

To contact Paws-Mumbai visit;www.pawsmumbai.org

or E-Mail: [email protected]

Address: Plant & Animals Welfare Society - Mumbai2 Shiv Shakti, Patkar Compound, Gam-devi Road,Bhandup (West), Mumbai – 400 078. Ma-harashtra State, India.Helpline : 91 9833480388 . Phone : 913.7



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Let’s not forget to celebrate

Earth Day on April 22 and

be part of those who care about

our environment

Earth Dat is the day de-signed for fostering ap-preciation of the earth’s environment and aware-ness of the issues that threaten it. Earth Day is observed in 175 coun-tries and coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network.

The passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the En-dangered Species Act are considered to be

products associated with the first Earth Day in 1970. Our planet is a complex system of land, air, and water. Living things depend on each other and this system for existence.

Over the thousands of years since life existed on the earth, it has un-dergone many changes.

Many species became extinct before mankind

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mankind made its appearance. However, since human have exsited on the earth, the extinction rate has risen dramatically.

More than 4,000 species are currently considered threatened. Plant and ani-mals life become endagered for many reasons. Forest depletion, hunting and pollution are the most obvious factors.

When an animal become endangered, dozens of other species can also become endangered. For example, elephants dis-appeared from southern Africa about 80 years ago becuase of hunters. Elephants continue to be hunted, mainly for their-costly ivory tusks. The edangerment of elephants also had endangered such ani-mals in their area as widebeest and ante-lope, who live off of the open-grassland, which elephants create by eating their way through a jungle.

Oxygen-produing trees and plants are be-ing cut down for the purpose of growing foods, grazing livestock, making paper products, etc. The cutting down of forest puts forest wildlife at risk and decreases the ozgyen in the air. It also defaces the natural beauty of the planet.

Tropical rain forests are often cleared for farming. The soil in these forest are poor in nutrients, and within a few years the crops fail and he alnd is abandoned.

Our job is greater than we can imagine, but just a simple way can be effective like participate in a river cleanup, pick up litter or plant a flower garden or recycle and purchase products that contain recycled content materials as often as possible.Let make a difference today.

Retrieved from Critter Magazine April 2008Artwork by Maryam Morrison


SETTING YOUR PET RABBIT LOOSE DOES NOT MAKE HER “FREE”...IT MAKE HER “FOOD”.

It is amazing that people abandon lovely pet rabbits in the “wild”, believing that they will off the land. Domestic rabbits lack the survival instincts wild rabbits use to fend for themselves. So, they become food for everything from raccoons and dogs to crows and hawks. And the “lucky” ones who don’t get eaten get run over by a car or end up in the local shelter.

In “House Rabbit Society” you be able to learn more about how wrong is to get Rabbit for children in Easter, “Children like a companion they can hold, and cuddle. That’s why stuffed animals are so popular. Rabbits are not passive and cuddly. They are ground-loving creatures who feel frightened and insecure when held and restrained. The result of a short-sighted pur-chase of an Easter rabbit: the child loses interest, and the rabbit ends up neglected or aban-doned”.

Please think twice before getting a bunny - or abanding one.

Visit www.rabbit.org for more information.


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