Hiking with Srini at Glenbrook

Hiking 20 km with a vaccine induced fever in 32 degree heat.  Not my best ever hike!!  Srini was very patient with my snail like pace. 

Photoshoot with Aimee

We did a fun photoshoot for Aimee's web site.  The light was limiting (glaringly sunny day) but I was happy with how they came out.  Your black and white preset is a winner, Jo!

Dear Graeme, 

I absolutely LOVE the photos..... you have captured my essence!

Thank you so much, truely, I am beaming right now with a smile. 

I don't think we need to do Sunday - they are perfect. 

I will select a few I really like and then maybe we can decide for the website :) 

Aimee xxx

Marion, wise seer and intuitive healer extraordinaire

I totally love this amazing and beautiful human being. A fellow South African, Marion is an intuitive therapist and energy healer and played a huge role in my life from 2017 - 2021. Recommended by Tina, her wisdom and insight has had a profoundly transforming effect on my life.  

I recommended all my spiritual friends to her and Shushann, Nic, Sharon, Xenia, Aimee, Lydia, Jane and Chris all ended up seeing her and swear by her.

I don't see Marion on a regular basis right now but just knowing she is there if I ever need her makes all the difference.

Marion's husband is also wonderful. We have met up for lunch on several occasions and had deep philosophical discussions. A wonderful meeting of the minds.  He got me interested in Iain McGilchrist whose books on the left and right brain I subsequently read from cover to cover.

Marion and Alun

Some insights and breakthroughs

• Help connecting to my greater Self and to a sense of oneness with All.  Felt connected for days.  All mental aspects fell into place. 
• Anger as 4 or 5 year old. A powerful "Fuck you!"  Then release and laughter.
• Marion drew a diagram of my head with a line up my neck and across the sides of my head. She said it was something for me to have looked at. Extraordinarily, I had experienced pain up my neck the night before, causing a headache to manifest along the sides of my head exactly as she had drawn. I had never mentioned my discomfort with my neck before.
• Confinement in the womb as the source of my fear of being trapped? Release and compassion for my baby self.
• The source of my strident, incessant voices: "Sergeant Rush More!" and "Sergeant Do More!"  Marion asked "What happened when you were 16?" My answer: "I was depressed and coped by immersing myself in hard work." That was the birth of those voices.
• I am worried that I will cause upset. I am sensitive and I pick up on others' upset energy. Marion's advice: "Give them permission to get upset.  Honour that. Remain centred in being caring and loving."
• The terror is not a place but a momentary experience contained in the One. I am not separate from That.  Be the space for the Fear. Be with it as a sensation.
• What would not needing to try look like?  There is no need to try! Allow creativity to unfold through me from Universal Intelligence.
• I have an attachment to Wisdom Trove being popular. Marion: "That's not the true measure of its success. The true measure is if it deeply effects one person who goes into a position of influence.  What you do (and the wisdom gained in the process) goes into collective consciousness for the benefit of the all."
• Visioning is good and fine as well as surrender. It’s God doing it after all.  Surrender is letting go of attachment to results.
• Disapproval is not personal. I’m as they need me to be to process their own stories and projections.
• Profound experiences of disappearing into stillness.
• Mackie chose to go down the stairs and gave up in order to allow me to goto Nepal. It was a fearful experience but also an act of love.

People I referred to Marion

1. Nic
2. Alessandro
3. Aimee
4. Sharon
5. Xenia
6. Jane
7. Chris
8. Lydia

Gavin's "Do You Mind?" book launch

Poetry slam with Chris

Cambodia research

I'm getting so excited. The blue circles on the map are places I'm interested in.

Helping Chris with his "international travel" speech

Helping Aimee with her poetry site

Gratitude (2017)

Housemates

• Did not rush to make Srini leave
• Sharmista paid her rent without threat
• Martin and Kate: Two beautiful new housemates

DIY

• Wood right size for hole in dining room & found exact varnish.
• Bath paint came off.

Financial

• 60 K for RA
• Did not lose my iPhone on beach
• Don’t need to pay tax on mum’s money

In Cambodia

• Did not jump first at Kiev Island.
• Didn’t get lost without water on Kiev.
• Got safely through jungle in dark.

More

• Mack’s paw fine
• Warrenbungles
• Hot-spotting with iPhone for Mac and iPad
• Aimee not see porn.

Hobart

Russell and I spent our last day in Hobart.  The highlight was driving up to the top of Mount Wellington to find a cache and do a bit of an impromptu photoshoot.  

The doggies at the hostel where we stayed.