The Medici News - Edition 19 (October 2007)

                   

      

            
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EDITORIAL COMMENT:    Anita Roddick - Queen of Green.  A tribute to a life well-lived.

Anita Roddick, founder of the Body Shop, died of a brain hemorrhage on September 10, 2007, aged 64.   She was the Queen of Green, and she has left an amazing legacy - a green revolution.

Long before going green was an international pastime, when the only corporate responsibility was to the bottom line, a small store opened in Brighton, England, selling homemade moisturizers and hair-care products packaged in plastic urine-sample jars.  The cosmetics were all-natural, the containers were reusable, and the ethos - creating products that were as good for the earth as they were for the skin - was still considered radical, the kind of thing only hippies cared about.  But when Anita Roddick opened The Body Shop in 1976, she wasn't thinking about changing the world, just supporting her family while here husband followed his lifelong dream of trekking across the Americas on horseback.  It was almost by accident that she started a revolution.

By the time she died of a brain hemorrhage on September 10, at the age of 64, Roddick and her husband Gordan had turned that first Body Shop into a global retailing phenomenon, the Starbucks of cosmetics with nearly 2,000 stores in 50 countries and revenue of $986 million in 2005.  But more impressive than the numbers are the ideals behind them.  In an industry that relies on people feeling bad about themselves to push products, Roddick made her millions helping people feel good and do good. 

To the Queen of Green, bath salts and foot lotion were just the hook, a way to get people into her stores - which she called 'billboards' - to learn about the issues she loudly and tirelessly campaigned for, from the environment, to fair trade, to human rights.

From the beginning, The Body Shop was against animal testing and for Third World development, getting its materials from small communities in poorer countries like Guatemala (aloe vera) and Nambia (marula oil).  Over the years, the scope of campaigns that Roddick had taken up - and that the Body Shop has supported in its storefronts - grew and expanded.  Now a tube of lip gloss can increase awareness about domestic abuse and a bottle of perfume is a weapon in the fight against HIV.  "She made shopping a political act", says her friend Josephine Fairley, co-founder of organic chocolate company Green & Black's.  She was the first person to do that.  She made cosmetics fun, sexy and affordable, and there was always a message.  But instead of "Buy this mascara, it will change your life", her message was "Buy this mascara, it could change someone else's life."

Following The Body Shop's lead, major corporations everywhere are now seeing green.  "They were one of the first companies to have a values report", says Fairley.  "Back then, companies didn't have values reports, they had balance sheets."  But the birth of ethical business was not an easy one.  Roddick's critics accused her ethics-over-profits stance of being nothing more than a marketing gimmick.  And the one time Verve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year had an uncomfortable relationship with the whole business of big business:  she once referred to financiers as "dinosaurs in pin-stripes."

Early on, she cast The Body Shop as the David to the beauty industry's Goliath, an us vs. them attitude that she held throughout her life as a company head and an activist.  Her very public critiscism of the same industry that had made her rich and famous, calling it in her 1991 autobiography Body and Soul a "monster selling unattainable dreams", would come back to haunt her.  Although Roddick stepped down as co-chair of The Body Shop in 2002 (while staying on as a consultant), she was still accused of selling out, both the company and her principles, when The Body Shop was sold to L'Oreal last year for $1.3 billion.  But as far as Roddick was concerned, the sale was a chance to change the industry from the inside.  "The real triumph isn't the fantastic price that L'Oreal paid for The Body Shop", says Rory Stear, head of the Freeplay Energy, a company that develops environmentally responsible electronic products and has Gordon Roddick as one of its directors.  "It's that L'Oreal has now adopted into its core operating model plans to move the biggest cosmetics group in the world towards the ethical standards that Anita had championed."  The cosmetics giant has already said that it plans to phase out its animal testing.  "The triumph is that The Body Shop, which was a relatively small player in global business terms, now, after 30 years in existence, has the big players turning to it and saying, "You were right all along.  We want to do that too."  Anita was clearly a visionary, way ahead of her time.

Since the sale of The Body Shop, Roddick, whose sense of social justice kicked into gear after she read a book on the Holocaust when she was 10, had been focusing on the charities and campaigs she held dear.  Claiming that she didn't want to "die rich", she gave away around $6 million a year and planned to spend the rest of her time doling out grants and donations and lending her name to causes like stopping sweatshop labour and protesting the imprisonment of two of the "Angola 3" Black Panther members being held in a Louisiana state prison for a murder many say they didn't commit. 

In a recent article on her website, Roddick said:   "The most exciting part of my life is now - I believe the older you get, the more radical you become."  She had already transformed the cosmetics industry, awakened the world to social responsibility, and proved their was money in caring - but Anita Roddick was just getting started.
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THOUGHT OF THE WEEK:

 There are many ways open to man, but there is one unfailing, one certain true way for man to establish God's kingdom on Earth.  This is by the Light which is within himself.  Daily endeavour to realise your true self which is buried deep in your innermost being.  Remember always the quiet, pure and true contact within the sanctuary of your own being.  Be true to your own spirit, and in being true to yourself you will be true also to God and the Universal Brotherhood.

Practice this daily realisation of the great white Light within your own being and project it forth into the world of men.  Then, my friends, the mists around the Earth will gradually be dispelled.  Do not look to others to do the work for you.  Every man is his own saviour, and every man is the saviour of all mankind.   ............White Eagle

FEATURED POEM:               A Universal Consciousness
                                                (Copyright (c) Janette Wighton)

Many beings in other Universes reside,
enlightened Masters with help to provide.
So open your heart, your mind, your soul,
and let higher consciousness be your goal.
Talk to these Beings, invite them into your life,
and you will feel God's power rife.
Free will is our path of choice,
so to receive their help you must give voice.
Study their lives, their incarnations,
and learn the lessons that raised their vibrations.
For many lifetimes they have led,
and much karma they've had to shed.
For they were once human too,
and this experience means they understand you.
So build a relationship with those to whom you relate.
Learn of their attributes and seek to emulate.
For when those positive aspects you attain,
the Tree of Life will be your gain -
the positive aspects of Unconditional Love,
and the Higher meaning of life from God above.

FEATURED ARTICLE:   
  
A GATEWAY INTO THE DIVINE WORLDS OF REUNION WITH THE LIGHT

This article will challenge your belief systems on a very deep level.  The reasons why I say this is because you are being asked to embrace a different level of quantum perception.

There are influences that you are affected by that are deliberately programmed into your environment so as to distract you.  Some of you have been sensing the presence of this deliberate distraction.  You have felt the uneasiness of something not being quite comfortable.  This is already your physical confirmation that you have moved beyond many of the levels of density that keep humanity's perception in the lower vibrations of conscious perception.

What I am about to tell you may stretch your imagination, and most importantly, it will stretch your mind.  Your mind needs this exercise because it has become rigid in its ability to move beyond the parameters set in place by the old paradigms that keep you locked in an attitude that feeds your belief systems and current perceptions of life.

I am not here to feed any conspiracy theories, however, it is important that you know that not all of your conspiracy theorists are paranoid or neurotic.  In fact, much of what they have discovered is in fact true.  You have heard that very often truth is far stranger than fiction, and sometimes it is more difficult to digest the truth than it is to digest illusion.

There have been experiments conducted that have changed your world dramatically.  These experiments have already challenged the Theory of Relativity, and many of Einstein's other theories.  There have been experiments conducted, in the year 2000 to be specific, and in these experiments they managed to move faster than the barriers of Light permit movement.

Now, what this means is, that there is evidence that SOMETHING CAN BE IN TWO PLACES AT THE SAME TIME.  What it even does more, which will stretch your imagination now, is that it defies the Law of Cause and Effect.

Now one does not have to have a cause for an effect to manifest.  This means that your power to be in more than one place at one time without a cause, without motive, and without intention is possible.  In fact it is already being done.  it is vital that your consciousness takes these words in because this is part of the matrices that are being dismantled at this time.

Many governments of the world have mastered much of this already.  It is also known as REMOTE VIEWING and REMOTE INTERFERENCE or INFLUENCE.  What this means is that they can reach an altered state of consciousness working from levels that the average human being cannot work from as yet, simply because that power eludes them.

Remote viewing and remote influencing means that you are able to tune into every single probable outcome in your future based on where you are at currently.  You can ask which of those futures is the most probable, and which one is the most beneficial in terms of your learning, your journey - which one would be of best benefit to you.  With that knowledge you can then move forward, you can create, and you can influence  the dynamics of your life, and all life in fact, like never before.   This is where the true essence of magic and miracles manifest.

As Light workers, you are drawing that energy into the physical field of planet Earth, and you are drawing it into the physical field of your own body, right into the space around your atoms.

The atomic structure of your body knows all of this already.  It was made from that power.  It was birthed within that essence.  It has all of that knowledge.  Over the months ahead, the Masters of Light will be working with you and assisting you to activate the dormant parts of your brain that hold that technology - in other words, the power to become an empowerd vehicle of creation.

It is vital that your mental programming begins to move beyond the limited constructs of the old paradigm matrices that have kept humanity in that state of victim consciousness.  What this will do is lead to a revolution of such immense proportions that this world will shift its energy in what will appear a heartbeat.  This is what you will know as 2012, a time when this world will not be as you have known it.

This is your time to grasp this notion, your time to embrace the power that exists within the quantum world around you, and the quantum world inside of you.  This is the beginning stage of you learning how to TELEPORT yourself, how to be in more than one place at the same time, and how to consciously participate within both places at the same time, never losing yourself or fragmenting your soul in any way whatsoever.

I assure you that this has absolutely nothing to do with strange metaphysical wishful, creative thinking.  This is science.  It is fact, and I urge you to research the work of Dr. Wang on teleporting.  He is the one who conducted the experiment discussed here.  It has been proven that you can be in more than one place at the same time, and that the Law of Cause and Effect is part of a limited consciousness.

It is changing.  This will challenge the parts inside of you that are addicted to any kind of victim consciousness.  This I am sure will help you understand why it is so important to take responsibility for your life by becoming an active participant within your life.  It has all been for a purpose.

These new energies that the planet is receiving at this time will show you how you can heal your body with a simple intention.  How you can change the dynamics within an environment simply by choosing which one to focus your energy on.

This power of remote viewing is not psychic hocus-pocus.  It is a very real science, and every act of a psychic ability - clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognisense, all of these so called out of this world gifts, have nothing to do with being out of this world.  They are, in fact, inside you in your inner world - mechanismes within your brain.  The dormant aspects of your brain are the parts of you that are housing this phenomena.  Are you ready to explore it?

This is challenging the dark aspects of life like never before.  Darkness, as you know it, is simply the absence of Light.  In other words, the absence of Love.  So the journey beyond the veils of the old paradigm requires you to have the faith and trust in the power that lies within the unexplored aspects of yourself.  The place where angels fear to tread, the place where fools rush in, but in this case you are fools of Light, full of Light, full of courage.

You must be determined to bypass every single old paradigm programme that has told you that you do not want to know what lies within the depths of your consciousness, that there is far too much that will frighten you.  I urge you to go inside there, to play with yourself in those realms.

It is in those realms where you will find what you have been searching for this entire lifetime, and the cycles before this one, which has lead to you constantly coming back for more because that hunger has not as yet been satisfied.  What you seek has not been found.

You are now in a position to find it.  This is what brings so many souls to planet Earth at this time.  This is a Cosmic Event where every single eye is upon you because this has never been experienced before.

The time has also come where all the dark contracts are ending.  What this means is that all of the karmic contracts that were in place between souls. that bound them to beings of other planes that did not embody Light, has ended.

Now, the journey entails many processes of anchoring all the seeds of Light in all the necessary places.  This gives Light to those places which re-ignites the Violet and Golden Flames, and in every point where the Violet and Golden Flames are re-ignited, so the portals to the dimensions I am speaking of are opened, and you will witness magic, and from that magic the miracles will be born.  Those miracles are the manifestation of the victory consciousness of Unconditional Love and Prosperity Consciousness, where souls can come together honouring the Christ Light within one another.

Entertain the idea that you are so much more that you will ever be able to comprehend, and that over the next three years you are going to undergo development that now you cannot even begin to fathom.  It is not in your mind's capability to even imagine it.

What you are about to discover will change your life forever.  It is about changing the course of your personal history because you can.  These newly discovered powers, in terms of what you will discover about yourself now, can in actual fact change historty, change the effects that history has on the consciousness of humanity.

Nicola Tesla knew how to do this.  Einstein was catching a glimpse of it but did not quite know how to deal with it.  He was not very happy with quantum energy because it is so volatile.  Why is is so volatile?  It is so volatile because it can be transmuted, transformed, and altered in any way one chooses.

Those who are considered the darker energies, the darker forces, have been using that technology to keep humanity in a state of entrapment.  That is how all of you have been controlled in what is known as the matrix.

So, in order to break the matrix, not only of the old paradigm that you currently find yourself in, but the matrices for all who are coming from where you have been, and those who are in front of you, the Hierarchy is currently dismantling these matrices for you to pass through.

It is becoming a journey of such incredible empowerment, of the most amazing manifestation of magic and miracles, that there will be times when you will stop and weep because it will feel as though it is unbelievable.  This is not to say that you will never face a life lesson again, or that you will never face a challenge or an obstacle again.  What it means is that you are now in a position to consciously choose what you need to best learn.

Remember I spoke about remote viewing earlier on and remote influencing of those paradigms.  This speeds up the entire journey of the soul's learning process.  This allows many dimensions to be experienced.  As you move beyond the dimensions of the old paradigm, you are clearing the many layers of dark consciousness, the cells of ignorance that have been held in Mother Earth's body.  These are held within stagnant and dormant fields.  These dormant fields will now be dismantled, and filled with the energy of the Christ Light.

It will take approximately 18 months for this clearing to be complete on a planetary level.  Each of you, however, will undergo a far more accelerated version of this.  All you are doing is tapping into a technology that is already being used, that was hidden from you.  No longer is this power going to be kept away from the souls who choose the journey to freedom.

In order for the old to be transmuted, there needs to be equal amounts of its opposite in power.  Therefore, the Light is increasing in power to override what the darkness has perpetuated over the last 3,000 years.

You, and every other worker of the Light, are being offered this opportunity.  Whether you take it or not is of course your decision.

In order to experience a miracle, become the miracle.  You are magical beings, and therefore can easily manifest miracles.  This is your time to experience this.  The more that you practice it, the stronger it will become.
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Acknowledgements:   White Eagle, Time, and channelling by Michelle Eloff.
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