"AIHE AOTEA ANIWANIWA"
"AIHE T'AI CHI"
GIFT FOR OCEAN ALLIANCE
MEDLANDS RAINBOWS
GREAT BARRIER ISLAND
NEW ZEALAND
"SOMEWHERE...UNDER THE RAINBOW..."
OFFERING OF SAGE TO GREAT SPIRIT
AIHE TOHORA WANANGA
"THE KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM OF WHALES AND DOLPHINS"
A 'BEYOND FILM'
by JEFF PHILLIPS & LIESBET VERSTRAETEN
"Before we can understand them we must first master ourselves.
Before we can truly communicate we must first resolve our vast contradictions.
Before we can live in ‘peace’ we must first learn what ‘living’ really means.
Before we can truly communicate we must first resolve our vast contradictions.
Before we can live in ‘peace’ we must first learn what ‘living’ really means.
For
tens of millions of years they have lived in Earth’s ocean, unknowable
and mysterious. The only threat to their well-being ever to exist now
comes from us…homo sapiens, ‘man, the wise.’
Explore the ‘full-spectrum’ attack being waged on them by human ‘economic’ and military-industrial activity…
Plumb the depths of awe and mystery, of blending with a vast spiritual consciousness, at once intimately familiar and immensely incomprehensible."
Explore the ‘full-spectrum’ attack being waged on them by human ‘economic’ and military-industrial activity…
Plumb the depths of awe and mystery, of blending with a vast spiritual consciousness, at once intimately familiar and immensely incomprehensible."
'Along the rainbow bridge,
do dolphins touch the sky?
Their songs travel to the stars
They're leaping out of waters high
The mountaintops, covered in snow
The waterdrops, falling from clouds below
feeding the flowers, lavender sweet
nectar for bees, a dance complete.'
LIESBET VERSTRAETEN
GREETINGS
FROM ‘DOWN UNDER’! A powerful conjunction of processes and events is
occurring for us individually and for humanity as a whole. Thanks to
our wonderful friends John & Peggy-anne Garlick, Liesbet and I
have just completed a wonderful seven-week stay on Aotea, or
Great Barrier Island, one of New Zealand’s most special places and best
kept secrets, a land of ancient volcanos, pristine beaches undisrupted
by human activity. There we were constantly nurtured by the sounds of
ocean and bird-song, and in our last few days completed not only our
first major piece of art for public display on the island, but, even
more importantly, the ‘trailer’ for our ‘beyond film’ about who the
whales and dolphins are as fellow sentient beings, as well as the real
global threats to their health and well-being.
You
can watch it at the youtube link above. “Aihe Tohora Wananga” is
ancient Maori for “the knowledge and wisdom of whales and dolphins.” I
won’t go into too much detail here, but this ‘trailer’ is just the tiny
tip of the HUGE ice-berg that our full ‘beyond film’ will be…an
ice-berg that is destined to ‘sink the Titanics’ of humanity’s
species-specific ‘superiority complex’, as well as our delusions about
the REAL global threats to cetaceans…and ourselves, but most
importantly, to celebrate the existence of the best friends humanity
ever had, to ‘plumb the depths of awe and mystery, blend with a vast
spiritual consciousness, at once intimately familiar and immensely
incomprehensible.’
The
whales and dolphins have been guiding this whole process, ever since I
first encountered them in 1981, and first came ‘down under’ to the
aquatic hemisphere of Gaia. The connection has deepened and gone to
next levels several times over, especially when three dolphins
approached Liesbet and myself as we were swimming off Great Barrier in
2010. We were transformed by that meeting of minds, and we came away
with a huge sense of urgency, a warning, if you will, of impending
danger of a global nature. A few months later the Fukushima
catastrophe began, which is by far the largest ecological disaster of
human origin ever to occur.
Around
the transit of Venus a couple weeks ago the cetacean connection went to
another level, and we felt as if the collective group-consciousness of
the planetary whale and dolphin community was right there with us,
guiding our every move. And right when Dr. Rosalie Bertell passed
away, we saw the brightest double-rainbows that we’ve ever seen,
filling the whole sky with an amazing golden glow. SO much inspiration
from ‘Aniwaniwa’ and the whales.
I
will write about our ‘beyond film’ in greater detail in subsequent
posts for our cetacean and film blogs, but for now would like to extend
extreme gratitude to our friends who have contributed audio and video
footage and given us permission to use it in our film. The ‘trailer’
has no credits, but all will be fully documented in the full film.
As
I write this, a class-5 super-typhoon looks as if it’s going to clobber
Japan, and a lot of people are saying that this could deliver the
‘final blow’ to Fukushima’s Reactor 4 building that’s been teetering on
the brink of collapse for over a year. Who knows what the ‘powers that
be’ have up their sleeve, having witnessed the enormous amount of
‘doomsday hype’ already placed on this; with anomalous earth-quake
activity in the Fukushima area AND a class-5 super-typhoon aimed right
there, it looks like some good old HAARP-strings might be getting
plucked up in the ionosphere. The London Olympics seem to be the stage
for an ‘alien invasion’ sponsored by Starbucks Coffee and
Stephen Spielberg, and a fleet of Russian war-ships is en route to
Syria to off-set the massive U.S. and NATO naval presence in the Strait
of Hormuz. ‘Dooms-day 2012’ anyone?
Who
knows what the immediate future holds for homo sapiens, ‘man, the
wise.’ One thing, however, is for sure: the whales and dolphins have
been here for tens of millions of years before our ancestors could even
think about thought…and regardless of what we inflict on them or the
Earth, they will still be here, in the protective multi-dimensional
womb of the ocean, guardians of life and sentinels of a true
‘extra-terrestrial’ intelligence. Will they remember us as a brief
transient of disruption and anomalous presence on Mothership Earth?
We'd
also like to extend some immense cosmic gratitude to our wonderful
friend Douglas Webster of Hawaii who has made our main web-site
possible and continues to support us in every way. Like ourselves,
Douglas is a cetacean in human form.
In
honour of Liesbet and I having been together for five years, here is
our updated 'mission statement' on our recently updated site:
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
"For
five years we have been on a unique and wonderful journey, travelling
together, creating and honouring life on Mother Earth. Our visual art,
photography, film-making, music and networking combine into a
synergetic whole dedicated to carrying the torch of a true spiritual
vision based on sharing and love. We have hitch-hiked extensively
around Australia and New Zealand, connecting with the land and the
people; our inspiration comes directly from the land, sea and sky; the
Earth, moon and sun; our fellow beings both human and non-human, the
cosmos, and eternal consciousness. We are of the P.O.O.H. tribe, the 'people of one heart.'
What we are really about is creativity in harmony with our highest spiritual path. Our mission as crew members of Mothership Earth is
not only to honour the beauty and power of nature, but to create
awareness of the ways that humanity is destroying our planet through
ways of ‘living’ that are incompatible with life and to re-navigate our
overall process towards a more conscious and coherent reality in which
lethal contradictions have been resolved, in which mitakuye oyasin, ‘all our relations’ can truly flourish.
Together
we’ve painted several thousand rocks and hundreds of paintings and
murals, made tens of thousands of photos and four films, play heaps of
music and share the fruits of our creativity with friends all over the
world. We have very deep and special connections with indigenous
people of land and sea, in particular, the native Americans, the
Australian aborigines, and the whales and dolphins.
Jeff
is a native of the Carolinas and hitch-hiked over 150,000 miles all
over North America before coming ‘down under.’ His back-ground is in
interdisciplinary science, mainly physics, zoology, and psychology. He
has recorded several cd’s of original music and had articles published
in several magazines, part of on-going ‘information activism.’
ACT NOW TO CREATE A WORLD YOU LOVE.
JEFF PHILLIPS & LIESBET VERSTRAETEN
TAKAPUNA NEW ZEALAND
18 JUNE 2012
EARTH
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