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NATURAL LIVING ON THE CENTRAL COAST

ISSUE 8

BACK TO THE LAND

PUPPET MASTERS

SELF COMPASSION:

ARE YOU READY TO BE KIND TO YOURSELF?

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Wholeness, Wellness & Wellbeing

Liliana Aitken-Jones Herbs/Nutrition/Hair Mineral Analysis/Functional Pathology

As a naturopath & owner at Gnostic Healing & Natural Apothecary, Liliana is available for mini-over-the-counter consults 2-3 days a week. For a deeper analysis of unresolved or chronic health issues clients may also be referred to her for more specialised testing (by appointment only).

Stefan Hafner Acupuncture, TCM (Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri) Acupuncturist specialising in the gentle Japanese Toyohari style. Stefan treats most health conditions with this ancient drug free holistic system. He also provides Leech therapy and Shonishin – Japanese Paediatric Acupuncture. Registered with all major health funds.

Wayne Carroll Bowen Therapy, Emmett Technique, Reiki (Wed, Fri)

Advanced Diploma Bowen Therapy & Reiki Teacher & practitioner. Wayne uses gentle moves over muscles, ligaments and tendons to release and reset muscle tension. This relieves joint pain and dysfunction returning the body to balance and harmony. Amazing results.

Jo Cameron Lomi Lomi Massage, Reflexology, Reiki (Tues, alternate Sat’s)

Trained in Hawaii and Australia, Jo offers the ultimate goddess treatment for rejuvenation and activating your inner pharmacy for healing on all levels. Using warm stones and luxurious coconut oil, the treatment also incorporates Reiki energy to revitalise and restore.

Karin Holyman Laser Practitioner, Trigger Point/Remedial Massage (Mon, Thurs, alternate Sat’s) Karin provides non-invasive, therapeutic laser treatment using the MULTILASE laser system. She is also a 20 year qualified DRM Trigger Point remedial massage therapist. These modalities treat conditions that cause pain, restricted movement, headaches and poor circulation.

Megan Green Holistic Beauty, Waxing (weekdays)

Megan provides quality beauty and waxing services. Megan uses all organic products and the skincare is made up for you at time of consultation to specifically suit your skin type.

Sarah Bruce Herbs/Nutrition, Massage – Remedial/Myofascial, Cupping (Wed/Fri) As a naturopath Sarah combines natural remedies with achievable lifestyle modifications, to effectively address your chronic health conditions. For massage she combines various techniques in order to offer an individualised approach whether for relaxation, sports rehabilitation or ongoing pain and stiffness.

Karen Walshe Naturopath, Nutritionist & Herbalist

(Tues, weekends by appt.)

Using an wholistic approach, Karen can identify factors that may be impacting your health and wellbeing. Working in partnership with you, she develops a step by step change approach to diet and lifestyle. When appropriate, naturopathic remedies may also be prescribed to set your body on the path to self healing. (consults only by prior appointment)

Nicola Kelly Medical Herbalism, Iridology, Flower Essences, Ear candling (weekdays)

Utilising ancient cures for a modern world, food as medicine, lifestyle changes, herbal remedies & advice, Nicola identifies health issues using iridology to pick up potential dis-ease patterns & genetic dispositions. She also uses intuitive insight into what may be going on energetically to cause disharmony and treats accordingly. Available for Mini over-the-counter & in-room consults.

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Gnostic School of Higher Learning Please call class teachers to confirm holiday timetables Monday 10-11am: Meditation

You are exactly where you are meant to be every second of every day – so learn to relax and enjoy the journey.

Experienced meditation teacher. $15

Contact Gayle Lee 0439 666 636 Monday 7pm: Philosophy

Philosophical discussion group compares science and spirituality.

Explore quantum theories and learn to “know thyself” and understand your place in this world. $10

Contact Gary 0408 206 164

Tuesday Drumbala Ladies Beginners: 10–11.30am Advanced: 11.15am–12.15pm Come along and have some fun being uplifted while awakening and expanding your inner rhythm. $15

Contact Katy 4342 1112 Wednesday 10am: Free Talk

An informal but informative talk is given on various topics by a variety of speakers including authors and practitioners. Gold coin donation.

Wednesday 1.30pm: Philosophy

Philosophical discussion group compares science and spirituality.

Explore quantum theories and learn to “know thyself” and understand your place in this world. $10

Contact Gary 0408 206 164

Experience the inner peace of meditation, you don’t require nay special skills to learn to fall still and find the quiet place in your heart. $10

Contact Gnostic Forest and ask for Saimone 4344 5251

Discover your voice and create your destiny with fun and practical tools to design your own life. $15

Contact Anthony 0422 916 801

5 week courses studying the Tarot through Meditation, psychometry and the astrological meaning of the tarot. $180 for 5 week course.

Contact Jennifer 0411 156 722 3RD Sunday each month: Tao Te Ching lessons

Explore the way and virtue as explained by the ancient Chinese Saint Lao Zi. Aligning with these universal principals of truth will help you to explore your true nature. $5

First & Last Friday each Month 7pm: Energy Current Meditation Experience the healing energy. $10

Contact Kookie 0416 510 900

Contact Chantal 0438 266 582

Saturday 11am:

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Explore the inner world and transform you experience of life.

Regular meditation rebalances your energy and allows dealing with life to become easier. $10

Ongoing Evolutionary Astrology Forums and workshops

Contact Gnostic Forest for scheduled dates 4344 5251

Contact Christine 0488 022 114

It is our intention to offer space for the distribution of knowledge. Each facilitator shares their opinions and students receive through their own interpretation taking full responsibility to discern their own gnosis.

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“When you grow organically and biodynamically the soil is everything…”

Ourimbah Organics PHOTOS by LISA HAYMES

The word “passionate” is thrown around a lot these days, but as Paul and Kate Foster show us around their Fountaindale farm it’s clear that it fits perfectly here. Paul spoke with us about their organic journey.

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e’re still new to all of this. We’ve been here for just on two years. I haven’t been a farmer all my life – I’ve worn many hats, and had lots of different jobs. For a large part of my life I was writing database software for the web.

It comes to a point where you feel like you want to do something that really gives you satisfaction. Writing software is all well and good but after a while it became meaningless.

This is something I’ve always wanted to do.

I used to visit some friends of mine who have been growing food for thirty years. I loved what they were doing, so I saved enough money and took the plunge. They have acted as mentors for me.

I went into all this with an open mind – I knew anything could happen. It’s a leap of faith.

I didn’t want to enter it with pessimism. I’m not an optimist – I like to think I’m a realist – but at some point you’ve got to say there will be good fortune as well as stuff ups. Like one

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day last year I was in the house and a big storm came through. ‘A bit of rain’ I thought, ‘great’.

Then I heard it getting louder – it was hail.

I ran outside thinking the greenhouse would be shredded – my first crop in tatters. Luckily the plastic roof is very resilient, the hail just bounced off.

It has been an extraordinary lifestyle change, and a big financial one. But growing something, seeing it ripen and then eating your own food – as well as providing food to other people who get excited about it – gives you more on so many levels than just a pay packet.

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Right now we’re growing Lebanese cucumbers and two different varieties of tomatoes, Roma, and the heirloom Tigerellas. Last year we did Celery, Kale and Bok Choy. I’m experimenting with rock melons and eggplants. If they work well, we’ll offer them in quantity next year.

One thing you learn with farming is that the seasons don’t wait for you…

I’m also putting in some Australian Finger limes – they’re an amazing native citrus which only fruit once, maybe twice a year. They’re a small brown banana shape, but inside they have these caviar-like citrus burst – delicious.

We have egg laying chooks, we don’t raise them for meat. The chickens are Kate’s domain.

I actually prefer the geese. I think it’s because everything I do here has to have what I call the ‘chicken factor’ taken into account. If they got into the crop, they’d just demolish it – hence the chicken wire everywhere.

One thing you learn with farming is that the seasons don’t wait for you. If you don’t do it today you’re going to be screwed tomorrow!

You’ll be sowing for winter and all of a sudden it’s spring. You have to be organised. Like if it rains I can be in the greenhouse, and then when it stops I can dig outside because the soil won’t be so hard.

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When you grow organically and biodynamically the soil is everything – maintaining and enhancing it is the most essential thing you can do.

We don’t just stick tomatoes in again and again.

That leads to problems and ultimately depletes the soil. You have to give back.

For example, just before we put in the tomato seedlings we had mustard growing as a cover crop. That is then lightly cut in and ploughed back into the soil to improve soil fertility and help combat any soil born diseases. Then you put on compost, leave it for a while to decompose.

One of the principles of Permaculture is to have different components of the farm doing more than one thing , and that you should eliminate waste. That’s what we do here.

I started out thinking: ‘Wouldn’t it be great if we can use all the waste from the animals?’ So we’ve got fish in two tanks and we collect their waste and a third tank with Comfrey breaking down into Comfrey ‘tea’. Comfrey is a great natural source of calcium, magnesium and potassium.

Then there’s also the bath water from the geese.

That all filters down to a collection tank and then gets pumped up around the corner to mix with our irrigation water.

In another area we have a bed of coffee grinds and manure on one side. Then we take that soil into another bed, add worms so we have a worm farm. Instead of that rain water just running

away, I thought ‘why don’t we capture that too?’

We lifted the bed up, put a grill under it and a tray for collection. We call it Worm Juice, and the value of it is so important to our operation here.

I end up with several types of fertiliser which are all organic. That means a greater chance that I’m going to get the right balance of macro and micro nutrients, amino acids and algae into the soil.

Why pay a lot of money for synthetic pesticides, fungicides and fertilisers which ultimately just deplete the soil? I get a better result from having a diverse range of poultry and plants all here for free. It just makes sense.

In the end it comes done to soil type, growing organically, building up your soil, looking after your soil. If your fruit and vegetables taste good, you know you’re doing something right.

The delicious seasonal produce from Ourimbah Organics is available at Gnostic Organics.

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MIND

SELF COMPASSION

Are you ready to be kind to yourself?

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elf-compassion and its close relative self-appreciation can significantly reduce the toxic effects of self criticism. Such effects can range from dissatisfaction with life and low level unhappiness to full scale anxiety and depression.

We live in an individualistic, competitive and materialistic culture which impacts individual personality with powerful expectations of achievement, success and being above average. There is the constant threat of not being good enough, not attractive enough, not wealthy enough or just not being “enough” period.

Rejecting these cultural messages and learning to be our own best friend is a wonderful antidote to the negative effects of self-criticism. In her highly researched book on self-compassion, Dr Kristen Neff explains that although it may seem as though being self-compassionate would lead to laziness, de-motivation and passivity, actually the reverse is true: self-compassion decreases the pain of self-criticism and increases optimism, calmness and happiness. (Kristen Neff, 2011) Other research has found that being self-compassionate can reduce procrastination and lead to quickly getting back on track with activities and

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creating a meaningful life. (Linda Graham, 2014) Being self-compassionate is not about being narcissistic either. On the contrary, self-compassion helps us better understand vulnerability and self-criticism as part of the human condition: we are able to be more empathetic and compassionate in connecting with others.

Choosing a mantra that expresses the essence of self-compassion is a great strategy. The following verse is Dr Neff’s personal mantra: This is a moment of suffering.

Suffering is part of life.

May I be kind to myself in this moment.

May I give myself the compassion I need.

There is power in self-compassion and self-appreciation and it’s only a thought or two away.

A note of caution: The process of self-compassion involves acknowledging and noticing our suffering.

If that suffering is intense and overwhelming it may not be wise to confront the reality of the suffering alone and without support. The most self-compassionate strategy in these circumstances may be to seek professional support and counselling.

Nessie Shaw is a Therapist and Coach who likes being able to contribute to the world’s store of happiness and kindness.

Read more at www.nessieshaw.com.au

hat began in 1998 as Gnostic Forest –- a small retail shop with a spiritual theme, selling crystals, jewellery, inspirational books and a bit of ethnic clothing – has grown into what is now known as Gnostic Corner. It’s a trading co-op with 10 businesses including organics, a cafe, healing centre, yoga school, flower shop, angel and fairy shop, jewellery and crystals, hemp and bamboo clothing, a takeaway cafe along with the original Gnostic Forest.

Each of the businesses has its own theme and is independently owned, we are all family or friends and we work together co-operating, not competing. We share resources and cross promote. In the 16 years we have grown as a destination for both the locals and the tourists. All of this during the GFC. While the rest of the world was worrying about how to survive, our small business collective was busy helping each other and creating a village atmosphere for our community to enjoy.

If one of the younger businesses is struggling there is someone with more experience to mentor them and offer solutions. We also produce our own magazine quarterly to offer little pieces of inspiration and show what’s new on the corner.

It all looks very deliberate, but the truth is it wasn’t! Just by having faith in a benevolent universe we are prepared to take risks and time has proven that by supporting the other guy we are really strengthening our entire field. – Mary Holstein

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ORGANICS

Join the Fermenting Revolution Probiotics for gut health!

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ix months ago we held a series of “fermented workshops” which introduced me to the delights of fermented and cultured foods. Now I reap the health benefits and enjoy the depth of flavour of these foods every meal.

Many cultures around the world have been fermenting foods for hundreds of years to eat and preserve. Before refrigeration became available in Europe, fermented vegetables provided a vital source of nutrients during the winter.

Fermented foods are the single most important foods we can introduce to our diet.

They contain a power house of probiotics to enhance digestion, increase vitamin and mineral levels, help improve bowel health, and improve immunity.

Sauerkraut (sour cabbage in German) is one of the original forms of fermented vegetables.

Having good gut bacteria helps us obtain a proper balance and enough digestive enzymes to absorb more of the nutrients in the foods we eat.

It’s exciting to see so many quality products are now available. By incorporating fermented foods into your daily diet such as sauerkraut and Kimchi, (cultured vegetables) kefir, kombucha, sour dough, yoghurt you can assist your digestion and have it bursting with beneficial bacteria to boost your digestive health.

Caroline Cardier is owner of Gnostic Organics.

See more at www.gnosticorganics.com

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BIG LOVE

What are you doing here?

You’re here to write love songs for future generations.

You’re here to nourish the earth that will feed your children’s children’s children.

You’re here to evolve humanity just that little bit more.

You’re here to be the brother’s mother’s father’s cousin who did that wondrous thing, created that incredible legacy.

You’re here to fill a page in the history books, because the future will always have need of a history, and we turn to these pages for guidance, for examples.

You will die one day.

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PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE

The “nothing ever goes What if we right for me” mantra will suggested need to be replaced with “I get what I create.” that you Consider there is some ARE the great enormous cosmic creating mixing bowl. It’s not a colUniverse? ander like the one you use to strain the veggies, it’s a big fat bowl with no holes – nothing escapes until it’s combined into an experience. The thoughts and beliefs you have about yourself and life in general are ingredients that get t can be easy for people feel that they are at stored in this mysterious container. the mercy of others – the government, the The Universe is unable to provide you with system or some invisible God. It can seem like something that you didn’t supply the ingreyou have very little free will when it comes to dients for.

So if you want to be an accountant, what’s going on are in your life. Even the traffic has An ifeasy, to do to hese words subjective, and that means even youless signdisturbing up for the way course andthis do is the an effect on whether you’re late to where you read about civilisations from the past.

Try to they are open to interpretation by the physical time required to achieve this qualificaare going. We all see things differently. reallyIfget feeling for their and individual. tion. youadidn’t believe youbehaviour could understand Some days it life doesn’t seem toinfluence matter how understand what motivated them – why Because our experiences the maths, no teacher in the world is going tothey be hard youlook try, you stillworld feel like a pinball accepted the it things thatYour theybelief did. Then see way we at the each day, webouncare able to make happen. will undering around as a result of other people’s actions. them you. as your own ancestors, imagine how the bound to see things from different angles. mine New agecases thinkers talk about thebehaviour Universe changes that cameofwith hadpeople an influence In most we view our own We’ve all heard casestime where creating their and Religious refer as normal andworld everyone else’s is a people variation on on them and eventually you end up in the 21st with an illness have rejected the to theItwill ofreally God. hard at times to understand diagnosed century in your own life. You might be able to that. gets prognosis and recovered. Self belief can be a What if we suggested that you ARE the cresee that the threads of influence through time some people’s point of view, certainly their powerful force, and conversely if you believe ating Universe andtheir you ethics.

ARE your own God. change what is acceptable behaviour. behaviour – even you’re in trouble you know what to expect.

Wow! That’s a lot of ourselves responsibility!

Things that we once thought of as absurd or We tend to deceive by thinking The people who think they will find a parking Before, when you felt powerless, ridiculous now seem not so far left field when that we understand certain people,you wealso feel spot and also believe they will, get the parking felt responsibility.

When something thatno because they have a familiar pointwent of view we see the influences that happened along the spot. wrong just shrug and moan about to oursyou theycould are right, yet this just means their way to lead us to our current understanding.

The kid who listened to his parents talk how nothinghave ever been goes right fortoyou.

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Maybe about how he/she is not that good at sport, the no-one challenge you, because our limited views also. theytime grew up in awould society with a similar code never learn’t to reach and improve. While many of the people you surround yourself with Everyone is doing the best they can at all of ethical behaviour, or their family followed other kid’s Dad said “if you want it badly believe theprinciples. same thing that the we can the times, given the limitations they have that are the same We–can’t evermost completely enough you will go do it.” That kid grows into expect is to make an attemptof atothers. surviving all caused by fears, doubts and lack of underunderstand the motivations Gnostics an adult who puts positive expectations into the powers that standing. understand thatbe. all – absolutely ALL– conflict his cosmic mixing bowl. And his Universal CreaIf we are going to insist that you are the When we accept the things that influence comes from misunderstanding. tions are amazing. creator of yourmakes own experiences better other peoples’ ethics, morals and principles we It certainly life easier ifwe’d we mix with The thing to remember is you are also explain works a few can live without conflict. And when we realise people who how havethat values like and ours.give We you know guaranteed to get only what you think tips about conscious that you can that ours are based on opinions we might even what to expect fromcreating, them andsowe also know you deserve. enjoy the things that appear from this magic be prepared to let them change with time. what we can get away with. However, real creation. spiritual growth comes when we dare to step Mary Holstein––I Co-owner of Gnostic Mary Holstein like to change my Now that you know yourand experience is outside our own ethics,that morals principles Forest andlife Gnostic Bunch. recipe for and have new Examining experiences your own fault, you mayaas well take different control and try understanding completely my own as ethics as often I can.every time travel to a and create things that you want to experience. culture. different culture.

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SOULSPEAK In the interests of sharing knowledge learned through experience (Gnosis) we interview people from all beliefs to share insights from their path.

May we all learn and grow together in peace.

SOFAN CHAN Your name and important belief? I am Sofan Chan. The belief that I hold highly is “By your own efforts, waken yourself, watch yourself; And live joyfully. You are the master” – Buddha.

Your religious/spiritual belief and its lineage?

Constantly seeking the divinity within myself do what divine does, create heaven on earth for myself and other. I love Buddhism philosophy and psychology as a body of universal dharma (cosmic law and order). Truths liberate the heart.

How did you come to your beliefs? Constantly seeking, studying and applying the Dharma in my own life. Everyone has its own truth and when truths are present in life. The feelings of ‘grace’ and going with the current are the light radiating from the inside out.

How have your beliefs shaped you personally? Whenever difficulties arise I watch myself, watch the thoughts come and go specially the negative ones, waken myself to the lessons within the difficulties. In doing so, I shine more light into darkness. There is no enlightened being, there is enlightened moment by moment by our own effort.

What are your challenges spiritually? It is easy to love thousands people and be in the oneness space when we are in the meditation retreat. In everyday life, to remember how to be mindful and live joyfully regardless of if it is pleasant or unpleasant, fortunate or unfortunate, beautiful people or ugly people around us. It is a real spiritual journey.

How does your practice take form? There are thousands of roads to Rome. There is no one way is better than the other way. Just like in the Buddhist teaching: ‘Don’t mistake that the finger pointing to the moon is the moon. You must experience the moon yourself.” The outer forms of prayers, ritual, good vibrant healthy

food or supporting people around us are all skilful means to develop our own inner forms in devotion. Reverence for all beings, forgiveness to ourselves and other people and events, unconditional love to ourselves and other people.

To what end do you practice your beliefs?

There is no end, and there is only a path of the pathless, shapeless, formless journey we call life. Consciously bringing joy to sadness, shine light to darkness and be truth to ourselves and our dreams. It is better to live one day at a time.

When I live joyfully in the present, be in service to other people for the highest good, do what I love and love what I do, be inspiring wherever I go.

Where will you go when you leave your body?

Where do I go when I leave my body is not my concern. And I really don’t know.

Please share with us a short quote, lyrics, prayer or short teaching that has inspired you lately.

“Once you realise that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.” – Nisagadatta Maharaj.

Sofan Chan is a local to the Central Coast, an artist and now author of Buddhism Reading Cards. She recently visited Gnostic Forest and shared her sweet smile, wisdom, joy and gorgeous art at our Wednesday Talks.

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’ve never heard anyone say that they didn’t like music. When people see me carrying around my cello, they usually say, “I love music!”

Well, that’s great, thank you – me too! But are you prepared to invest in music?

The evidence for the value of music to the brain is growing continually. When people think I am perhaps a little over the top with my enthusiasm for parents to expose their children to music lessons as early as possible, it’s easy to back myself up with science and research.

In a nutshell, all research points to this: Children learn everything better when they learn music. Even sport! Yes, being encouraged to connect to an external steady beat at a young age can lead to better co-ordinated bodies.

When taught with structure by trained teachers, music opens up the door to creative thinking and analysis that children apply to everything else in their lives and they take this into adulthood.

Any time we’re talking about education and children, it is important to talk about love. We have to put love into passing on music to our little ones and show them how much wonder there is in a piece of music, an instrument, a rhyme or a song.

Learning music is a gift for its own sake, and worth investing in even before we add the value of the researched goodness.

Sally Maer holds an Honours Degree and Teaching Diploma from The Royal Academy of Music in London and is a licensed Kindermusik Educator. Sally runs MAESTRO POSSUMS with her saxophonist husband, JP Fleury.

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SUMMER ON THE CORNER Homemade Granola Perfect way to start your day! Homemade maple toasted granola served with our berry compote and topped with natural yoghurt.

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Dragon Power This majestic dragon stands on a light up colour-changing rock! $27.25.

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Fermenting revolution All packed with probiotic goodness! The range from Kehoe’s Kitchen includes Kale and Carrot Sauerkraut and Traditional Kim Chi. Life in a Jar showcases cultured raw organic vegetables with a tantalising array of spices.

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Gemstone Trees A range of colours including purple Amethyst (protection and calm), Orange Carnelian (memory and creativity) and Green Aventurine (leadership and confidence) prices from $15.00 – $300.00.

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Nugget Crystal Bracelets Crystal bracelets carved from your favourite stones. Bright hues to express your true colours! From $12.50   Natural Gelato & Sorbet Beat the heat with 12 delicious all natural flavours.   Available at Gnostic Rocks, T: 4342 9982 Available at Gnostic Organics, T: 4341 8900

Table center with candles Perfect for any celebration or to simply brighten your home.

Includes 3 candles. Sizes can vary and prices start from $40.00

New Ecoya Soy Melt Oil Burner with gorgeous silver accents. Average burning time 30 hours. Includes one soy melt and soy tea light. $29.95 Available at Gnostic Forest, T: 4342 4466

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SUMMER ON THE CORNER

Archangels These make a small but meaningful gift. Michael, Gabriel, Raphael or Uriel come in little carry bags for $9.50 each.

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Agate Crystal Wind Chimes

A beautiful way to display the natural patterns of Agate. Enjoy the gentle sounds of these chimes. Available in four different colours. From $30.00.

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Coconut Heaven Raw C Coconut Water: $6.40 1 Litre / $3.60 330ml Absolute Organics Raw Cold Pressed Coconut Oil: $8.20 300g / $22.99 900g   Available at Gnostic Organics, T: 4341 8900

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Natural Summer: Live Happy, Be Happy in this fun new range of summer clothes and accessories from Natural Life. Funky Hippy Fringe Pants $60.00; Peasant Style Singlet Top $50.00; Long Sleeved Cotton Beach Top $64.50. Hand Woven Vietnamese Sandals in this season’s colors and styles, $32.50. Available at Gnostic Forest, T: 4342 4466

Aluminium free Deodorant This antibacterial deodorant liquid cream roll-on from Dr Organic is extremely gentle, yet highly efficient providing skincare benefits to all skin types.

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art@MANA

Gnostic Mana Cafe features monthly exhibitions from the Central Coast’s leading artists.

JANUARY: James Mosely Painting. A great way of forgetting the real world and imaging another one.

FEBRUARY: Alain Khouri Alain returns to the Gnostic Mana following a popular exhibition of photos here in 2012.

Alain’s photos are representations of people, objects and landscapes encountered on his travels. His love of colour and pattern and his ability to capture moments in unique ways match his bold, curious and vibrant personality. He is presenting photos on archival rag paper, of which limited edition prints will be available for purchase You are invited to enjoy his solo exhibition at the Gnostic Mana for the month of February, 2015.

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WISEGUYS

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sail boat. A summer afternoon. Above, the breeze flaps the sail over the sun warmed wooden deck that lies beneath. Feet hanging over the edge gently skim the cool water.

Once you have had a morsel, a moment of delicious, tantalising sensory experience that captures you it becomes obsession to feel the immediacy and clarity of that moment (or another, just as highly charged) again and again.

To be present, truly present, is like a drug.

Addictions could be described in this way were it not that the difference lies in an addiction controlling your actions (often based on ideas about past experiences) where as being present liberates your each and every experience anew.

Be it positive or negative to our own judgement, most experiences in which we have been fully present involve (at minimum) at least one or two of our physical senses.

Think of your most vivid memory and try to exclude the senses….a smell, a touch, a sound, a taste, a sight. Impossible, right?

Some would consider this Bacchanalian with my references to sensory immersion but these are merely markers towards, or features of, being present. An appreciation of the senses without letting them control all actions we would all do well to be mindful of (note to self: cake).

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The other indicator is usually that of timelessness, albeit fleeting, a feeling of nowhere else existing descends and we immerse into what is current. Immediate. Pressing.

In this space, we exist. We do not worry. We do not fight. We just are.

In that instant we are no longer anywhere else mentally or physically, and often even emotionally except for where we are. We know what to do and how to do it (and sometimes that’s nothing at all.) We think collectively.

The birth of your child. Bearing witness to great loss. The hug of a dear one after a long time lost.

Could you, for a moment, imagine a ceaseless cavalcade of total and utter awareness. Do you think that might be what the notion of “enlightenment” feels like?

Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke is reputed to have said “Children, one earthly thing truly experienced, even once, is enough for a lifetime.”

It is not grabbing at any one thing. Not falling into the cool water below, not standing into the wind, not staying out so long so as you get sunburnt on the boat’s deck. It is loving it all.

Emily Holstein wants to know: What do you choose to fill your lifetime with? Email her at emily.j.holstein@hotmail.com

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’ve been asked lately about the “perfect” body type for Yoga, which is a reasonable inquiry. But when you consider that Yoga is a philosophy of the mind and not a form of exercise, body type is completely irrelevant.

The identification as Yoga as exercise is a misnomer, Yoga Sutra 1.2 enunciates “yoga citta vrtti nirodah”, which translates as “Yoga is the restriction of the fluctuations of the mind”. The ancient Sages were not contemplating how to develop a particular body shape in their vast and encompassing discoveries. They certainly weren’t considering what type of body shape would look best on the cover of the latest Yoga journal, far from it. They were actually working with subtle energies and consciousness.

The question of body type relates to conscious movement practises known as Asana, which is one part of a very broad based philosophy. The wellness benefits of yoga movement are incredible but singularly are not Yoga.

To answer the question concerning a “perfect” yoga body. A tall person in certain asana would have an advantage, so would a short person, a flexible person, a mobile person, a strong person, a person with great balance.

The bottom line is your body type is irrelevant.

Your height, flexibility, mobility, strength or balance will not restrict you or exclude you from asana practice. There is no perfect yoga body, everyone can benefit and improve with regular practice and competent coaching regardless of body type.

A qualified Yoga Teacher who has anatomical and biomechanical experience and a deep understanding of asana practices and sequencing will develop a practice and modifications relevant for each person’s unique body type.

If you can breathe and feel you can practice Yoga asana.

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“Tea is liquid wisdom.

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here are only two things that I love about the winter months; Chai lattes and hot water bottles! The recent opening of the Raw Deli in Woy Woy sparked the inspiration to create an icy cold chai smoothie recipe. The outcome was so delicious that I felt compelled to share with all my Gnostic friends!

The tradition of drinking chai remains a universally practised ritual.

The herbs and spices that formulate the recipe offer an array of health promoting, stimulating, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. This is why I drink chai all year round!

This deliciously wholesome and sensationally spicy beverage concoction can be drunk as a mid-morning energy boosting pick me up!

• 3 T loose leaf chai

• 2 C cold almond milk • 1 T raw honey • 1 banana

• 3 T coconut milk ice cream • 1 t cardamom powder • 1 t grated ginger

Using a tea strainer, infuse and simmer the chai tea in one cup of boiling water. Allow to brew for about one hour. Now, add all the smoothie ingredients, including the strained chai water infusion to a blender, and blend until smooth.

Pour into cute little recycled drinking bottles, before garnishing with a final dusting of cardamom.

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CROW Ancient people who had a greater understanding of energy and thoughts would be very aware of creating positive fields of thought energy around their crops for a successful harvest. Often performing elaborate ceremonies to protect the very day we have tens of thousands of crops from negative energies. thoughts, they can’t be seen and in most It’s interesting to look at the lack of ceremony instances they can’t be heard by anyone else. in our modern society and realise the negative Yet these thoughts are the most powerful tool we possess. Nothing that we do can happen energy beams we set up when we watch or read the news which is focused on the lower side without first a thought. of human activity. Everything we witness we We think of other people randomly throughthink about and then we are magnifying the out our day, and depending on what emotions we have attached to these people, we send them potential of that energy.

We each have the power to change our good or bad thoughts. thought patterns and watch the amazing Thoughts are actually beams of energy that changes in our lives. attract similar energy from the universal source.

Our thoughts determine who and what we We initiate beams of energy of one kind or another to everyone and everything we think about. are. Taste your words before you think or speak.

This energy influences the potential of that person or situation.

Medicine Crow is a Shaman who demonstrates We should all consider carefully the power of how to live with a spiritual perspective our thoughts and what we allow our attention to connecting with nature and the creator. direct our thoughts to.

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TRAVEL: VIETNAM

“The Shack” on Bai Dai (Long Beach), Cam Ranh.

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epending on your age, Vietnam conjures varying emotions and associations. Before travelling there my impressions consisted of TV personalities, that Robin William’s movie and the delicious fresh flavours of the beautiful food.

We arrived in Nha Trang, the capitol of the Khanh Hoa Province on the south-eastern side of the country, ready for a reunion with our old friend Luke who now calls this part of the country home.

Nha Trang is home to about 390,000 people and is wrapped around a beautiful bay that sees warm weather and delicious monsoonal thunderstorms.

Sign boards in town boast of paragliding and scuba diving and its become quite the tourist hub with a new influx of Russian tourists adding to the Vietnamese holidaymakers and backpackers.

Clubs and drinking occupy the younger and wilder travellers but instead we dove into exploring by motorbike. Taking advantage of Luke’s growing local knowledge and grasp of the language we ventured up and down the coast, visiting a buddhist temple on an island, getting lost in rural back streets teeming with school kids, chicken and cows, exploring waterfalls, having mud baths and eating… oh how we ate!

One of the highlights of our exploring was a visit or two to “The Shack” located in the long rickety rows of old school beach shelters on Bai Dai (Long Beach), Cam Ranh. This sweet haven for surfers, backpackers and adventurers is a cafe come surf gear hire spot come bar, and for the less adventurous, relaxing deck chairs.

We savoured more than a few hours here, the atmosphere lighthearted, with good music over the sound system and laid back friendly service.

We chatted briefly to the lovely Celine who runs the business with a local vietnamese family. A warm feeling of relaxed belonging permeates the place and travellers talked over tables about their homes, travels and families.

Upon leaving, we saw the huge beachside resort developments rising from the dunes a few k’s away.

Development follows tourism and we lamented, hoping that the special oasis of The Shack might be left untarnished by the encroaching money men.

Like any adventure, we saw what was exciting and new but it was not until the last few days in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh) when we visited the War Remnants Museum my eyes were opened to some of the depth, destruction and war history of this beautiful place.

Vietnam survived 20 years of war and a struggle for independence between 1955 and 1975.

Having been born nearly a decade after it ended I pretend not to understand the intricacies of the subtle (and not so subtle) political and economic influences that surrounded its activities.

What I can, in some small way, acknowledge through photographs displayed in the museum, is the human destruction it entailed. As is the want of war, the carnage appeared on both sides.

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within the museum (as a Communist state approved site) it’s impossible not to acknowledge the deep scar left by the use of chemicals during the war. Some 75,000,000 litres of Agent Orange, a defoliant chemical, was used to clear the jungles and thus expose the rebel fighters. The ill effects on humans and environment continues to be evident. Multiple health problems such as physical deformations, psychological impairment, and rife amounts of cancer are experienced by 3 million people here. These effects persist in the children of the children of those alive during the war.

Downstairs from the graphic war depictions is a room filled with photos of love. Photographs of the adults and children who, affected by these chemicals live together and support one another at An Phuc House.

Joy and determination have a way of oozing out of a person and Lê Và Queo entranced me, ironically at the exit of the war memorial.

He sat quietly, smilingly, threading small plastic beads in loops. My initial shyness and want not to intrude on his industriousness gave way to his

charm as we chatted about what he was making and how his day was. Since returning home I discovered we are the same age and he is one of the first Lê Và Queo members of An Phuc House, the sale of whose handicrafts, goes toward care and living expenses for the group home they are a part of.

The first part of my trip had connected me with the amazing scenery of the country but it was here, sitting with him and his friends that I felt I truly connected to the history and heart of the people of Vietnam.

Emily brought back handicrafts from An Phuc and will be sending money to the group through their sales.

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Ten of Emotion

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Experienced intuitive Palm Reader. The lines on the hand are a directory to the personality and events both past and future. By understanding these influences you can make conscious choices about your future direction.

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Using Palmistry Ian applies ancient knowledge and gives insight into your subconscious mind. Giving direction towards a successful adventurous life.

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Experienced and graceful, Loretta uses her psychic abilities, tarot, numerology and messages from your guides to help clarify your current situation and move into your future with confidence.

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Kind-hearted and caring, Christian connects with lost loved ones in spiritto bring through wisdom and messages of support. Psychic skills and oracle cards give positive guidance for now and in the future.

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Michelle works with your dream images and the tarot to help with enabling you to develop a higher self-awareness.

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Genuine and honest, Jennifer uses tarot, astrology and numerology to give specific and accurate information about now and timing for future possibilities.

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Using tarot and archetypes Jean Jacques offers unique readings to help unlock the potential of your future, combining astrology and numerology.

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Medium. Using the wisdom of the Liquid Crystal Oracle and her skills as a medium Mercy connects with your highest truth and lost loved ones to help gain comfort insight and motivation to make positive change in your life.

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