Myths for a Modern Age Part 2

Myths for a Modern Age Part 2

Bluecray.org has now reached it’s 1 1/2 year mark since its first venturing into cyberspace. For those users of  bluecray.org, Wisdom in the Land and A Balance of Faeries, I  hope that you have found some useful resources on the sites.** Astrological Stories and Myths for a Modern Age – at Wisdom … Continue reading

Planning the Dream – The Way

Planning the Dream – The Way

Phantom Koala and the Planner have a dream together……. Koala Planning Dreaming at Wisdom in the Land blog Phantom Koala and the Planner have a dream together at Balance of Faeries blog The above image and environmental advocacy poem is about how, if we listen to and learn from nature, if we … Continue reading

Philosophy of Environmental Destruction in the Name of Healing

Philosophy of Environmental Destruction in the Name of Healing

The Directions loving vision to heal + habitat = more habitat and more biodiversity killing to heal + habitat = less habitat, less biodiversity The Agricultural Chemical and Machinery Industries‘ direction within mainstream society has endowed future populations of  our world with: fast food production, decreased biosphere activity fast development increased production … Continue reading

Pesticides, the Environment and Smelling the Roses

Pesticides, the Environment and Smelling the Roses

We have so many choices today that it is easy to lose track of the consequences of our actions and decisions. Living like kings and gods, we merrily consume, play and work our way to a place that eventually nature, society and “the fates” make us accountable for. Just as society and … Continue reading

Radical Psychology : can we afford to live without it?

The camphor laurel tree(RHS) has a fig tree slowly smothering it. This takes time, but allows for nature to gradually transform an introduced weed into a native tree habitat with no sudden loss of habitat during the process. To the left, camphors have been cut down and mulched up to make way for a revegetation project. The weed sponsored habitat is destroyed (killed) to make way for another habitat, that has to slowly rebuild. The over all energy input for the LHS photos would appear to far outway the energy input for the RHS situation. The tree plantings (LHS) have also had the micro-habitat destroyed by herbicide spray, to ensure no weed growth as the young trees establish themselves.

Psychology and its practice, like all mainstream collective attempts to frame and explore human perceptions, has at it’s fringes ( and sometimes deep within its core)  elements of true genius and insight.  This insight has courage to dare step into the unknown with some rather radical approaches. This can comfort those who … Continue reading

A Balance of Faeries

The International Day for Biological Diversity is on 22nd May 2008. Bluecray, in advocating for biodiversity within the Mt Warning Caldera Region, celebrates the International Day for Biological Diversity with a true story. Faerie tales are stories of imagination, folklore and historical heresay. Many faerie stories can have deeper meanings behind their … Continue reading

Nature, Reflection and Learning

“It is good for man To try all changes, progress and corruption, powers, peace and anguish, not to go down the dinosaur’s way Until all his capacities have been explored: and it is good for him To know that his needs and nature are no more changed,in fact, in ten thousand years … Continue reading

Wisdom in the Land

Wisdom in the Land About 28 years ago, when I was studying at Gatton Agricultural College, I realised that to have a goal in life, something that I could work on, that would give me meaning to life, may be a good thing. I meditated upon this, and decided that, to keep … Continue reading