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Last night on Voices from the North I had the pleasure of interviewing an extremely selfless and caring man. Erwin Alber is the founder of the Vaccination Information Network (VINE) which has been helping parents and their children for well over a decade. The VINE page on Facebook currently has over 4400 fans. I encourage you to visit and become a fan of this highly worthwhile cause:
I call Erwin a selfless man. He does this work altruistically out of a genuine, heartfelt concern for the risks of vaccines with developing children. For a time around the turn of the millennium Erwin published a quarterly magazine called Informed Choices. He had hundreds of subscribers and in its pages gave numerous examples of the risks of vaccines and the experiences of families within the immunization arena.
There is one message from our interviewit is imperative to pass on. Through his work with VINE Erwin has had contact with many families with children who have suffered vaccine-induced brain damage to some degree. In most of these cases there was a severe reaction in the child to a vaccine. This could have taken the form of screaming, convulsions, very high fever etc. When the concerned parents contacted their doctor it was explained that severe reactions are common in some children. And they were encouraged to continue vaccinating. It was the subsequent inoculation(s) that caused the debilitating, life-changing response. I cannot state too strongly here: if your child has an extreme reaction to a vaccination do not have them jabbed again. Take the time to get informed.
Dr. Leon Chaitow claims in his informative and extensively researched book, Vaccination and Immunization: Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (What Every Parent Should Know), that research shows vaccines are of questionable efficiency in terms of long-term disease protection. When an outbreak of, say, measles occurs vaccinated children sometimes get the disease and unvaccinated children don’t.
Measles, mumps and chicken pox are childhood illnesses and many claim it is best to allow children to be exposed to these diseases. They then build up immunity for life. Erwin gave an example in the interview of German families getting together to have Measles Parties when there was an outbreak to ensure there children got the disease and then developed a natural, lifetime immunity.
James P. Hilton has written a book titled Burden of Proof : Surviving Cancer, AIDS, and Most Other Diseases. He writes that the viruses causing AIDS, cancers, leukaemia and lymphomas are present in the cultures with which vaccines such as those for measles, mumps, rubella, flu and polio are made.
Erwin has created a couple of offshoots of VINE on Facebook. The first, the Vaccine-Injury Support Network, contains video of neurosurgeon, author and lecturer Dr. Russell Blaylock and more. The second, the Childbirth Information Network, includes stories of childbirth and related issues.
Click below for the complete interview with Erwin Alber:
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I just bumped into this post this morning and would love to share it here. This is the second time in the last while this concept has come up. As you grow some friendships endure and others fall by the wayside. You find yourself in different company reflecting the new person you have become. Are you happy with that person? Consider how the people around you affect you. Consider with whom you truly wish to invest your time.
Have a great day filled with meaningful, uplifting interactions.
John
Who Do You Associate With?
It Is Better To Be Alone than In the Wrong Company
Tell me who your best friends are and I will tell you who you are.
If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl.
But if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.
A mirror reflects a man’s face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.
The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate for the good and the bad.
The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.
An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people.
As you grow, your associates will change.
Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they are.
Friends that don’t help you climb will want you to crawl.
Your friends will stretch your vision, not choke your dream.
Those that don’t increase you will eventually decrease you.
Consider This:
Never receive counsel from unproductive people.
Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how.
Not everyone has a right to speak into your life.
You are certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person.
Don’t follow anyone who’s not going anywhere.
With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it.
Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life.
Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships.
Choose to rise…
Knowing one’s Self is only being one’s Self, as there is no second existence. This is Self-realization.
Enlightenment doesn’t care how you get there. ~Thaddeus Golas
I was on the phone last night with an old and dear friend, Geoff, who recently returned to his home in Wellington after living for a couple of years with his family in London. We hadn’t spoken together since his return. He told me a lovely story I’d like to relate to you here. Geoff has been a coach for a long time. About ten years ago he had the privilege of hosting and being the guide for an Indian man (we’ll call him Michael) who’d come to share some of his knowledge with coaches in New Zealand.
Wellington Harbour
Here’s the story in Geoff’s words:
Michael wouldn’t call himself a guru. He is a little man who is very calm and has much wisdom to share. When he walks across a room it is as if the space around him is lit up. Part way through his visit we were sitting together in a busy café in downtown Wellington. I was drinking a coffee, he a green tea. In the course of our conversation he could hear that I was a keen seeker of truth.
Michael asked, “Would you like to know the secret to enlightenment?”
This got me excited. After all my searching I was finally going to find that which I was seeking. “Yes,” I replied with genuine enthusiasm.
“First of all the word ‘enlightenment’ is wrong. It’s ‘lighten-up-enment’”
I was on the edge of my chair, hanging on his every word.
“You see all the people walking past us. Do you think that because they believe something, it is truth?”
“Of course not. Just because we believe it, doesn’t make it truth.”
“Then what makes you think you have exclusive access to truth, Geoff.”
At this point I was feeling a little deflated; much flatter than I had been earlier.
Michael continued, “OK, here’s the first step to enlightenment…”
I was really eager, ready to absorb the coming pearls of wisdom.
“The first step to enlightenment is that you’ve got to realise you are full of shit.”
I looked at Michael, slightly shocked. This definitely wasn’t what I was expecting.
“The second step to enlightenment is that the moment you think you’re right and start using that ‘rightness’ to teach or dominate a conversation go back to step one.”
I was stunned. I sensed there was deep truth in what he said, even if it cut sharply across all my expectations.
“The third step is that the moment you think you’ve got it you haven’t. Go back to step one.
“Keep practicing these three steps and eventually you’ll transcend your ego.”
Have a great day and a great year and may your every step illuminate those around you.
“In Search of Simplicity is a unique and awe-inspiring way to re-visit and even answer some of the gnawing questions we all intrinsically have about the meaning of life and our true, individual purpose on the planet. I love this book.”
“In Search of Simplicity is one of those rare literary jewels with the ability to completely and simultaneously ingratiate itself into the mind, heart and soul of the reader.”
On December 7th, 2009 at 1:30pm GMT Starbucks invited musicians from all over the world to sing together at the same time to raise awareness for AIDS in Africa. In that one breathtaking moment, musicians from 156 countries played “All You Need is Love” together. Watch now, as musicians from all around the world come together and share a song.
Join the million-plus viewers of a stunningly edited music video of people from 156 countries all singing the same song. This is touching stuff. Love is all we need.
“In Search of Simplicity is a unique and awe-inspiring way to re-visit and even answer some of the gnawing questions we all intrinsically have about the meaning of life and our true, individual purpose on the planet. I love this book.”
“In Search of Simplicity is one of those rare literary jewels with the ability to completely and simultaneously ingratiate itself into the mind, heart and soul of the reader.”
My special guest on Voices from the North last night was musician, singer/songwriter, dance-caller and showman extraordinaire, Pete Grassby. Pete is based in the UK but New Zealand is almost a home away from home for him. Aside from last year (when, as he explains, he and his band had too many lucrative gigs in England and Scotland during the Christmas holiday period) Pete has been performing around the North and South Islands each summer for many years.
Pete is a talented hammered dulcimer and melodeon player, although even Pete doesn’t claim to play both at once. We feature selections of tracks from two of his CDs—Cilan and Malvern Hills—during the hour and he sings one ballad a cappella in the studio as well as a set of three songs on one of his melodeons.
Pete will be hosting the Mangonui Ceilidh on Saturday night, January 16th and if it’s anything like the last time he was here two years ago it’ll be standing room only. And, amazingly, considering Pete’s considerable prowess as an entertainer, admission is still only $2 per adult plus a plate to share for supper. Accompanied children are free.
The selections played during the show were:
The Metalled Road (or The Forty Pound Wedding) (from Cilan)
Orange in Bloom (from Malvern Hills)
The Cottager’s Reply (live a cappella)
The title track from Malvern Hills
A melodeon trio of Jack Robinson’s, The Pleasures of the Town and an untitled Swedish reel
We finished with a bit of the last track from Cilan called Trowie Burn
The complete interview can be heard here:
For more on Pete and his Ceilidh band, The Aardvark Ceilidh Band visit:
“In Search of Simplicity is a unique and awe-inspiring way to re-visit and even answer some of the gnawing questions we all intrinsically have about the meaning of life and our true, individual purpose on the planet. I love this book.”
“In Search of Simplicity is one of those rare literary jewels with the ability to completely and simultaneously ingratiate itself into the mind, heart and soul of the reader.”
I had the recent pleasure of viewing a DVD called, Be Your Light. The subtitle on the cover is, ‘Igniting the light within ourselves ignites the light in others.’
Be Your Light is a New Zealand-made documentary covering such ground-breaking topics as:
The power and effect of cellular memory
Goal setting and resonance
Powerful healing techniques
It was filmed throughout New Zealand at the Our New Eden gatherings of the film’s producer, Mary Dwen, and her husband, Tony. Music is skilfully provided by The O’Connors.
Amongst the many inspiring contributors is Gary Cook. He tells a delightful story of a man, legally blind, who was able to read an article of Gary’s in a magazine as clearly as if he had the perfect vision of a child. The rest of the magazine’s type was a blur to him.
I came away from watching the 45 minute production feeling uplifted and, frankly, proud to be living in a country populated by so many visionaries with their feet on the earth and their heads in the heavens. This is highly recommended viewing for anyone wishing to find ways to contribute to a saner, healthier planet and intent on reconnecting with nature.
“In Search of Simplicity is a unique and awe-inspiring way to re-visit and even answer some of the gnawing questions we all intrinsically have about the meaning of life and our true, individual purpose on the planet. I love this book.”
“In Search of Simplicity is one of those rare literary jewels with the ability to completely and simultaneously ingratiate itself into the mind, heart and soul of the reader.”
In this, the first Voices from the North interview of 2010, Golden Globe winner Amanda McBroom shares her love and passion for the music and presence of Jacques Brel. Five songs from Chanson, Amanda’s latest CD, recorded in 2009, are featured including I Loved, Song for Old Lovers, Ca Va, Ne Me Quitte Pas (you may know this one as Don’t Leave Me) and If We Only Have Love. We probe gently into the life of Jacques Brel (France’s premier balladeer of the 60s) including his last sailing journey which brought him to the South Pacific. He was buried beside Paul Gauguin in the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia. This is a lovely, flowing, musical interview.
Chanson was skilfully arranged by Stefan Oberhaff and Michele Brourman. They played many of the instruments featured in the recording but significant contributions have been made by other musicians including flugelhorn by Oscar winning Mark Isham. Amanda’s voice and Isham’s horn on If We Only Have Love combine to produce a song of haunting quality. Overall, this is music not to be missed. It travels straight to the heart and captures the essence of Brel.
For more on the salvage of Askoy II, the 60 foot steel hulled yacht sailed by Jacques Brel to the South Pacific visit here. And for the interview I did with author and sailor, Lyndsay Wright, who pointed this out to me clickhere.
For my complete one hour interview with Amanda please click below:
For my 2009 interview with Amanda McBroomvisit here.
From share trader and financial advisor to a strong and informed advocate for local resilience, Trevor Houghton has married his wealth of experience into a comprehensive whole. In this Voices from the North interview he shares some of the many transition initiativesalready underway in Nelson that are bringing hope and strength to their community and readying themselves for the potential changes related to the post-oil world. The hour contains a clip from Transition Town founder, Rob Hopkins and part of Celine Dion’s awesome rendition of ‘‘Where is the Love?’’
Al Gore had more than thirty years of experience with climate change. His message was simple. There are more than enough commercial solutions to solve this crisis. What’s lacking is the political will and the public focus. It’s up to the constituents to insisting on appropriate legislative support from their political representatives.
Trevor mentioned the idea of hunter/gatherer potluck feasts. All the food must be locally sourced through hunting or gathering it from gardens.
Trevor discussed micro-finance and the great benefit this has brought to third world people embroiled in generation slavery. For a site where you can help go to: www.kiva.org
We looked at the present position and direction of Fontera and the New Zealand dairy industry as an example of an industrial agricultural model with globalisation problems.
“In Search of Simplicity is a unique and awe-inspiring way to re-visit and even answer some of the gnawing questions we all intrinsically have about the meaning of life and our true, individual purpose on the planet. I love this book.”
“In Search of Simplicity is one of those rare literary jewels with the ability to completely and simultaneously ingratiate itself into the mind, heart and soul of the reader.”
In this, the last Voices from the North interview of 2009, Robyn Corrigan shares her wealth of experience with the social issues affecting Maori and other indigenous groups around the world who’ve felt disenfranchised since the advent of colonialism. She gives examples of positive things (such as role models and story sharing) that can and are improving the lives of many people today. But she acknowledges there is still much work to be done and the results are not instantaneous. It took centuries to get to where we are today. It would be unrealistic to expect to see all the wrongs righted in a few short years.
“In Search of Simplicity is a unique and awe-inspiring way to re-visit and even answer some of the gnawing questions we all intrinsically have about the meaning of life and our true, individual purpose on the planet. I love this book.”
“In Search of Simplicity is one of those rare literary jewels with the ability to completely and simultaneously ingratiate itself into the mind, heart and soul of the reader.”
Heather Slocumb, Apex Reviews
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