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Cae Mabon - A Retreat Village Of Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful Low Impact Buildings In Wales Britain
Cae Mabon is:
# a work of art
# a centre on the edge
# a clearing in an oak forest
# a place of creativity and celebration
# an elemental retreat centre for healing and inspiration
# a model of low impact, sustainable living
# the lair of the ancient British sun god
# grown on stories
I ddechrau, ysbrydolwyd Cae Mabon gan y dymuniad i ddysgu mwy am fywyd ein cyndeidau miloedd o flynyddoedd yn ol. Dyna felly pam yr adeiladwyd Ty Crwn Celtaidd yma yn gyntaf - adeilad tebyg i'r hyn fyddau ein cyndeidiau yn byw ynddo, ac yn traddodi storiau o gwmpas y tan. Er i nifer erall o adeiladau ecolegol gael eu hadeiladu yma, parha'r Ty Crwn Celtaidd yn galon fyw i'r ganolfan, ac yn hafan fywiog i aml noson o fwynhad, cymdeithasu, can, llenydda a straeon di ri.
The Cae Mabon Retreat Centre has been evolving since 1989. It is set in natural woodland by a rushing river, near a deep lake, at the foot of high mountains and almost within sight of the sea. A family of beautiful, natural, earthy structures provide appealing spaces for groups to meet, retreat, work and play. People have looked all over Britain for something similar but in vain.
PEOPLE
Eric Maddern
Eric has been Cae Mabon's principal inspiration and creator. He has been helped and inspired in turn by many, many people.
Eric was born in Whyalla, South Australia. He moved with his family to settle in Britain when he was 11. He went to school and university in the UK (a psychology and sociology degree at Sheffield University) then set out to travel the world in two years. It took him ten!
After sojourning in the U.S., Central America and the Pacific Islands he returned to Australia, the land of his birth. He worked in Adelaide as a psychologist then as a community artist, visiting remote places in the South Australian outback. This led to a four-year period working in Aboriginal communities, including a stint with the Araluen Bush Arts Team based in Alice Springs.
This exposure to Aboriginal people, culture and land had a profound effect on him. Among other things it made him curious about the notion of 'sacred land'.
Finally, after returning to Britain in 1982 and a spell in London, he was able to buy 5 acres of land in Fachwen with a farmhouse.
Since then he's become a professional storyteller and singer, and Cae Mabon has slowly evolved to the point where it is sometimes described as a 'sacred place'. Certainly it's true to say that it has been built on songs and stories.
Listen to eric's music on line at Indiestore: http://indiestore.7digital.com/ericmaddern
For more about Eric's work: http://www.ericmaddern.co.uk
FOREST
Cae Mabon adjoins the Padarn Country Park, 100 acres of natural oak woodland. It's an excellent example of the indigenous forests of Wales, with most of the tree species native to these parts: oak, ash, birch, hazel, alder, willow, rowan, holly, blackthorn, hawthorn, beech, yew and pine.
On the Cae Mabon land you'll also find apple, plum, pear, walnut, mulberry, lime, aspen, elder, chestnut, wild cherry, sycamore and hornbeam, as well as some fine eucalyptus trees, planted to remind Eric of his origins Down Under. (The one in the top corner of the land by the track as you come down is an especially magnificent specimen).
You may also see wild rose and honeysuckle as well as the ubiquitous ivy, bramble, bracken and fern. Up in the valley there are apparently some rare mosses, and lichen is to be found in many shades of pale.
In the spring wild garlic grows along the riverbank and later primroses, bluebells, violets, foxgloves, harebells and many other wild flowers are to be found in abundance.
RIVER AND LAKE
The Afon Fachwen ("little white river") gathers its waters from Elidir Fawr and flows into Llyn Padarn just 150 metres below the Cae Mabon boundary. Once there was a trout fishing lake higher up the hill where the fishing rights were held exclusively by the managers of the Dinorwic Slate Quarry.
But one year (in the 1950s) there was a terrific storm and the lake became dangerously full. That night the lake-keeper was not in his nearby cottage (was he drunk or dead, no-one knows) and therefore did not open the sluice gates to relieve the pressure.
Eventually the dam burst and water hurtled down the hillside, scattering boulders everywhere. The course of the river was changed forever. But next morning the quarrymen's wives filled their baskets with fish plucked from the path of the torrent and that night ate one final fish supper!
Since then it's been rare to see brown trout in the river pools. But the lake itself (Llyn Padarn) contains trout and, in its deeper recesses, Arctic char, trapped there since the Ice Age.
Migrating salmon are sometimes seen from the old bridge at the foot of the lake as they make their way back to their spawning grounds. The round-the-lake footpath is 5 miles and takes about 2 hours to walk.
MOUNTAINS
Snowdonia, Eryri in Welsh, contains the highest mountains in England and Wales. It has long been a favoured destination for climbers and walkers alike.
Though not high by world standards (Snowdon is 1085 metres) the mountains are very rugged and provide a full range of climbing challenges as well as spectacular landscapes.
The peak which can be seen across the valley (from the loo-with-a-view!) is Moel Eilio (726 metres) which means "The Supporting Hill". Snowdon can be surmounted in many ways and it's worth getting to the top at least once (Pyg Track and Watkin Path recommended). But its iconic status and restaurant makes it often a rather crowded summit.
Those interested in peace and quiet but equally dramatic rock formations and views might prefer to tackle Glyder Fawr and Glyder Fach.
The Fachwen Hill (to the left as you come up the lane) is an outcrop of Precambrian rock, making it some of the oldest, hardest rock in the world. It's a great place for scrambling and practice climbing.
PHILOSOPHY
Cae Mabon Creation Myth
I stumbled upon Cae Mabon when I was looking for somewhere else. I fell in love with the place but couldn't afford to buy it, so had to let go. Later, at the end of a meditation retreat, I had a very strong vision of what I could do there. So I went back to find that someone else had already bought it. Then I really had to let go.
But a year later I discovered, again by chance, that it was up for sale once more. I still had no money, no job and no accounts, but I did have a strong vision and determination. I managed to raise the mortgage.
The day before signing the contract I went to look at it from across the lake. It was a grey damp day in June. I'd come from living in Alice Springs, Central Australia, where the sun always shines! What the hell was I doing?
That evening I went to a singing group run by a friend. Someone had brought a song for us to sing. It went: "Sleep, sleep tonight, and may your dreams be realised. And when the thunder cloud, passes rain, oh let it rain, rain down on me."
By the time we'd sung that over and over I didn't mind about the rain. I knew my dream was about to be realised.
The next day I signed the contract with a clear heart. The day after I bumped into some friends and told them what I'd done.
"Do you know what it was yesterday?" one asked.
"No,"? I said.
"Midsummer's Day."
Now, nearly 17 years later, much of the dream has been realised. Not that I knew how it would be. All I had were a few hopes and hunches, vague ideas about what was possible. Rather than impose a blueprint I wanted to allow things to evolve organically. It sounds corny but I wanted the place to tell me what to do.
The presence of forest, river, mountain and lake is very strong. The elements are everywhere. I wanted to listen to their promptings and to the people who came here, each with their own passion and perception. Ideas seem to arise when their time is right. Some possibilities are glimpsed years before they can be brought to fruition. Others flash in and are made flesh that day.
It's been good to feel that it doesn't all have to be done in one year or even ten. There's time - a lifetime, several generations perhaps - for the full potential of the place to be realised.
It's been important for me to create works of beauty, not the ostentatious beauty of the wealthy but the humble beauty of the simple and natural. The structures are what's known these days as "low-impact".
They are mostly made from timber, stone, reed, straw, grass, lime and clay. They blend in with their surroundings. They are special places to be. Not only that, many of them echo dwellings lived in by people in far away times and places.
There is a sense in which they honour our ancestors - tribal, Celtic, peasant - whilst at the same time being very much of the now. The Roundhouse is not part of a theme park about how life used to be. It is a living contemporary building, capable of being used in many exciting ways in keeping with our "post-modern" times.
I often think the two main gifts of Cae Mabon are "healing" and "inspiration". In many ways it doesn't matter what "workshop" or "event" you do here. The ever-present earth and river, forest and fire will heal and inspire you.
Some might wish to label that a pagan approach. But I prefer to think of Cae Mabon as a place that can hold and nourish many spiritualities. Yes we have Pagan and Shamanic groups come, but we also have Christian, Zen and Taoist groups, and others who just want to write or dance or sing or get married or celebrate a birthday or simply reflect deeply about their lives.
One thing that is common to many groups is the creative use of ritual and ceremony. It seems that for many the old religious rituals do not serve any more. But they cannot dispense with ceremony entirely.
The impulse to ritual - the symbolic use of words and actions to intensify experience, to create meaning and to dignify the individual - is deep. In a place like this it is possible to devise rituals that pay homage to ancestors, that honour Nature, that appreciate beauty, that draw on traditions, that reflect the life stories and dreams of the people involved.
Ultimately such practices connect us to the bigger picture. And here the bigger picture is also about the Earth and how we can live more harmoniously and sustainably with each other and leave a better place for the generations to come. A good place to start is composting your crap!
BUILT ON STORIES
by Eric Maddern
My first ever-professional engagement as a storyteller was for English Heritage at Chysauster, a cluster of Romano-Cornish "courtyard houses" near Penzance. I'd not planned to but when I opened my mouth I began speaking in a Cornish accent. Once started I had to continue through all the stories. It was bizarre but somehow sounded natural. Only later did I realise that from that spot I could see the spire of the church at Madron, dedicated to St Madern and the ancestral home of the Maddern family. Could it be that I was tuning into the spirit of my forefathers who were somehow speaking though me? I told tales that week in the ruins of the chief"s roundhouse, with no roof but walls ten feet thick. It had a powerful atmosphere and I wondered what it was like to live in such a place.
I didn't wait long to find out. A few weeks later I met Jake Keen who took me to the Ancient Technology Centre to see his re-constructed Roundhouse. It was then I realised it was possible to make one. So next summer, back on my land in North Wales, we began work on the foundations. Jake came to help. It was three years before he was able to come again to crown and complete the thatched roof. Then we discovered that his first roundhouse, the same dimensions as mine, had burned down the very day I'd moved to North Wales in 1986, as if the roundhouse seed had flown through the air and landed with me!
In the new Roundhouse I learnt how it felt to be in a dwelling the ancient Britons had lived in for 3000 years B.C. At the core of that experience was sitting round the fire telling and listening to stories.
Since then the Cae Mabon Roundhouse has been the centrepiece for what was at first an encampment and has now grown into an elemental retreat centre, dedicated to healing and inspiration.
From the beginning storytelling has been its central theme. People say the directions to the place read like a story. The tale of how I originally stumbled upon it has become a creation myth. And of course the name itself has a story. Mabon is referred to as the "Great Son of the Great Mother" in the Mabinogion. The name is also a form of "Maponus" who some say was the Solar Deity to whom Stonehenge was dedicated. So "Cae Mabon" could mean the "Home of the Divine Youth" or the "Lair of the Ancient British Sun God"! Grandiose pretensions indeed!
On a more earthly plane, for ten years storytelling has homed in on the Cae Mabon Roundhouse. Many of Britain's storytelling "greats" have performed there, telling their funny, epic, surreal, moving, poetic and extraordinary tales. At times we've squeezed up to eighty people into a space only twenty feet in diameter. More comfortably and more often we've had forty or fifty, their faces lit by fire and candlelight. And yes, it does have a magical, timeless atmosphere.
Most commonly, I am the resident storyteller, regaling visiting school parties and youth groups, who come from as far afield as Edinburgh, Bolton, Nottingham and London. They stay from a weekend to a week and storytelling is part of a programme, which may include outdoor activities, survival crafts, nature awareness, personal reflection, journeying, music making and ritual. I remember one troubled lad from a "Leaving Care" scheme sitting down by the Roundhouse fire and saying: "Being here is like being high on nothing!" Great, except really he was high on the fire, forest, stream, stories and more.
Some of our most memorable days have been when Hugh Lupton and I have brought storytellers here as part of our "Storytelling in the Mythological Landscape" retreats series at Ty Newydd. In 2001 we had a profoundly moving six hour epic retelling of the Four Branches of the Mabinogion, where each teller told a chunk of the tale from the viewpoint of a particular character. In 2002 our theme was "The Battle of the Trees". We spent a perfect autumnal day wandering from tree to tree hearing tales told for sixteen species, from Alder to Yew! Another time we worked with the "Lost Gods and Goddesses" of Britain. Each person made a shrine to an ancient deity somewhere on the land, then we processed around hearing appropriate tales. Afterwards it seemed that the place had been re-sacralized, that the gods and goddesses had been woken from their sleep.
Since 1998, Alida Gersie has led five special workshops here. What a blessing! She's astonishingly good at inspiring creativity and gently touching depths. She works with a blend of traditional, fictional and personal tales. One year we explored the Pied Piper of Hamlin, expanding its meaning and feeling far beyond anything I thought possible. This year we all wrote stories, which Alida guided the group to work with in a myriad of creative and moving ways. It's impossible to do justice to the rich, intricate, stimulating nature of her work in just a few lines. All I can do is highly recommend a workshop with her if you have a chance.
Midsummer 2003 we tried something new. We brought together storytelling with the survival skills of wild food, making string, tracking, shelter building and fire lighting. It was the perfect combination which climaxed in a feast, a procession, chanting to the dead, telling traditional and made up stories, lighting a wheel of fire to symbolize the sun at its zenith, ritual combat between the Oak King and the Holly King, songs and finally a soak in the newly installed hot tub by the river! Bliss!
So, Cae Mabon is well and truly on its way. The burning down and rebuilding of the Roundhouse in 2002 has served only to strengthen it. And given I have been working as a storyteller since it began, I have to conclude that the place has been built on stories!
ERYRI SNOWDONIA
Meaning "The Abode of Eagles" or "The Mountains of Snow"
Since the Romans came to these islands two thousand years ago the rugged mountains and landscapes of Wales (Cymru) have been a refuge for the native peoples of Britain. These folk are the "Cymry", known in English as the Welsh.
This corner of northwest Wales is one of the heartlands of the native Welsh Language - Cymraeg, the oldest living language in Europe. Today, just over 20% of the population on Wales speak the language fluently. Thankfully this is increasing due to a strong policy of teaching the language in all public schools in Wales.
From the 11th to the 13th century Gwynedd (and Snowdonia) was a major centre of resistance by the Welsh to the Normans. Less than a mile away from Cae Mabon are the remains of Dolbadarn Castle, built by Llewellyn the Great to guard the main gateway into the mountains.
FACHWEN
In the late 18th century slate was discovered in many parts of Snowdonia. For more than a hundred and fifty years it was quarried nearby and shipped around Britain and the world. It was Welsh slate that roofed the cities built to house the workforce of the Industrial Revolution.
The nearby Dinorwic Quarry was, at one time, the biggest slate quarry in the world. It was closed in 1969 (due to decline in demand and competition from abroad) and now is the site of extraordinary cliffs and canyons, tunnels and inclines, slowly being reclaimed by nature. One can't help but be impressed by the mighty work done by the Welsh quarrymen, but at the same time shocked by the hardships they had to endure.
On the Fachwen hillside there are about forty houses and cottages (and more now fallen into ruin) where slate quarry workers lived with their families. They supplemented their income by keeping pigs and chickens and growing vegetable gardens.
Just across the river (Afon Fachwen, meaning literally "The Little White River") from Cae Mabon are the ruins of an old flour and woollen mill.
Between the wars they made writing slates for schools. At the mouth of the river a couple of large boats were moored for transporting goods across the lake to Llanberis. A woman living in one of the mill cottages is supposed to have given birth in the boat on her way across the lake!
After 1969 many of the houses on the Fachwen hillside were abandoned in favour of council estates equipped with modern conveniences in nearby villages.
Then, ten years later, Fachwen began to be bought up by English incomers. The spectacular view of the mountains made it a desirable location. Many of these purchases were second homes. When Eric bought Muriau Gwynion (meaning "White Walls") in 1986 the Fachwen Lane was described, by the estate agents, as "millionaire's row"!
CAE MABON
Meaning literally "Mabon's Field". Mabon is the "Divine Youth" of the "Mabinogion" (collection of early Medieval tales of Wales). Some say Mabon (or Maponus) was the Solar Deity of Ancient Britain to whom Stonehenge was dedicated. So "Cae Mabon" is the "Retreat, Lair or Hide-Out of the Ancient Sun God of Britain" or the "Home of the Divine Youth"!!!
Two permaculture workshops were held at Cae Mabon (when it was still "Muriau Gwynion") in 1987 and 1988. Then in 1989 the first, pioneering "men's rites of passage" was held here. The original bender and tipi were erected that year and the ground was broken and a terrace built on what was to become the site of the Roundhouse.
Picture - Looking up through bare wooden roof structure to blue sky, like spiders web.
In 1990 work began on the stone wall of the Roundhouse. It took three years, just working one week each summer. Then, in the summer of 1994, with the help of ex-thatcher Nick MacSmith, Jake Keen of the Ancient Technology Centre in Dorset and many other volunteer helpers, the roof was completed. The roof raising party was held in September 1994.
The completion of the Roundhouse catalysed things here.In 1995 the shell of the barn (roof, floor, walls) was built, followed, the next year, by the beautifully designed doors and windows. In 1997 the "state-of-the-art twin-vault dry-composting Loo-with-a-view" was designed and built, followed by the thatched Shower Hut.
1998/9 were the years of building the straw bale and reciprocal frame roofed Hogan. In 2000 we built the pagoda-esque shed and acquired the Geodesic Dome. 2001 was a quiet year when we established a couple of new terraces and acquired the Mongolian Yurt and the Iranian Shavan. Then, in 2002... !
FIRE AND THE PHOENIX
Excerpt from email letter sent out on 15th May 2002
Dear friends,
As you probably know by now the Cae Mabon Roundhouse burned down on the Spring Equinox, 20th March 2002.
Fortunately no one was hurt, it wasn't arson, nor was it a fault of the Roundhouse design. Rather a candle was unwittingly left burning unattended and seven hours later the whole thing went up. I imagine that wax dripping from the candle slowly set fire to the furnishings inside the Roundhouse, eventually gaining sufficient strength to catch the thatch.
Picture - large fire at night
The Fire
The women here were engrossed in their work inside the barn. The first they knew of it was a bright orange light through the window. The Roundhouse was ablaze.
I was away in Chester at the time and was deeply shocked to receive the news. But by the time I returned home the next afternoon I'd gone through the strongest emotions and was resigned to what I'd see - heaps of ash, charred rafters, twisted fragments of metal, the blackened skeletal remains of the once wonderful Roundhouse.
I did, for about thirty seconds, consider not rebuilding the Roundhouse, but then dismissed it as an option. The Roundhouse was the first building I built here and it has always been the heart of the place.
It was a unique, beautiful structure, the thatch sweeping up in a lovely curve, the flickering fire and lanterns creating a magical atmosphere for so many wonderful evenings. I reckon in seven and a half years more than four thousand people came there.
I imagine most of you will have special memories. For me it's been a place of community and soulful conviviality. There have been innumerable relaxed chats around the fire, times of deep intimacy somehow nourished by the Roundhouse's protective embrace. Many fine storytellers have come to entrance and entertain us. The space has filled with song and echoed with beautiful music, poetry and laughter. There have been times of profound awakening and transformation in specially created ceremonies. Couples have been married there and babies named. Once it was even home to an extraordinary courtroom drama.
Somehow this reconstructed pre-historic Roundhouse was a refuge from the hectic, troubling world, a place where we could reconnect with a simpler, wiser, more ancient part of ourselves. It's been a place enjoyed by children, teenagers and adults alike.
The "wow!" response of all who've seen it for the first time walking down the hill has been delightful. Some have sought other places like it around the country. They have found none.
Picture - roundhouse looking towards A frame doorway, in bright sunshine, trees in background
The new roundhouse
The news now is that, in the last two months, the Phoenix has risen. It has been an extraordinary time. During the four-week building period many dozens of people have come to lend a hand, some for a few hours, some for more than a week. A hardy few even made it several times, keen perhaps to enjoy the incredible atmosphere (one friend said it was the most life affirming 24 hours he'd spent in years) and experience the Roundhouse in its various stages of reconstruction. None of it would have been possible without the generosity of more than fifty people who have made financial contributions enabling us to buy the raw materials and cover various other related costs.
So, a big THANK YOU to all of you who have helped, near and far.
We've incorporated various improvements into the new Roundhouse. The wall, which was badly fractured in the heat, has been pointed and rendered with lime and given several coats of lime wash. It now glistens white. We've put down some huge slate slabs making a beautiful floor: each slab has its own name! Under the floor a clay pipe supplies air to the fire, cutting down on drafts.
The porch is a splendid creation, with an A frame made of cruck oak carved with Celtic knotwork and some lovely wavy edged yew facia boards. And the thatching looks great.
As I write there are still two or three days work to do finishing off and dressing up the thatch. We were delayed last weekend when a swarm of bees settled on top of the roof. We decided to take it as a blessing but it did mean we weren't quite able to finish when we'd hoped.
Later there will be special doors made (by Dafydd who did the windows and doors in the Barn) and of course we also have to restore the mats, rugs, cushions and seating.
ARCHITECTURE
COB COTTAGE
In March 2004 we began the groundwork for the Cob Cottage. Then in April, 30 people arrived for a "cob workshop" and, under the expert guidance of Ianto Evans and Linda Smiley (co-authors of "The Hand-Sculpted House"), we began raising the walls of the beautiful Cob Cottage.
Work has progressed steadily throughout the year and we are hoping that the Cob Cottage will be opening for business at the beginning of the 2005 season.
ROUNDHOUSE ONE AND TWO
The Roundhouse is based on the dwellings of Neolithic and Iron Age Britain. In Snowdonia there are many places marked on the map as "hut circles".
Usually they are rings of fallen stone overgrown with brambles and bracken. Once they were stone walled round huts with conical thatched roofs, the thatch made from water reed (fragmites), heather, rushes or even bracken. The Cae Mabon Roundhouse is a reconstruction of one of these pre-historic roundhouses, with the addition of a rather spectacular porch.
It's about six megalithic yards in diameter, the most common size for a Celtic roundhouse. Each roundhouse was a home for a family, providing space for cooking, weaving, storing food, sleeping and meeting.
The first Roundhouse (Mark 1) took four years to build: three years on the stone wall (about one week per summer) then five weeks in the summer of 1994 on the roof. It had a dry stone wall, an earth floor and a rather loosely thatched roof that allowed the smoke to permeate through.
The second Roundhouse (Mark 2) was built within two months of the first one burning down.It has a lime-pointed and rendered wall, a slate floor and a well-thatched roof. The rafters are spruce thinnings, the ring beams hazel and the thatch is fragmites water reed. It should last at least 20 to 30 years before needing replacing.
In many ways Mark 2 is an improvement on the first Roundhouse. However, we did such a good job on the thatching (using steel rods and screw ties) that it wasn't as permeable to smoke as Mark 1. We've had to make a smoke hole at the top and do a fair bit of fiddling around to get the draw right and minimise smokiness. But still, like Mark 1, it's a great place for "the crack" - songs, stories and conversation - around the fire.
STUDIO BARN AND KITCHEN
In this corner of the field there was originally a small hay barn and an adjacent milking parlour. In 1995 we extended the barn using a conventional double-skin breezeblock construction.
Now the main space serves as a meeting room, feasting hall, dance studio and general all-purpose centre of civilisation, being the only building in the camp with electricity. The kitchen - which was the milking parlour - is simple but sufficient to cater for up to about 30 people.
To equal the beauty of the Roundhouse Dafydd Hughes designed and made lovely, curvaceous windows and doors. (The main double doors by the porch were made from an ash tree that grew just thirty metres away). We also sloped out the base of the walls so the building seemed to grow from the ground
STRAW BALE HOGAN
The Hogan was initially inspired by the Navaho dwellings of Utah and Arizona. They are octagonal structures with log walls and a turf roof. In the end it turned out differently from its original model. It has straw bale walls clad in a lime/sand render (supplied by the highly recommended Ty Mawr Lime at www.lime.org.uk) and a reciprocal frame roof.
Eight principle rafters are pegged on the lintel and rest on each other forming a series of strong inter-locking triangles with a space in the middle for a window. Through this "eye" can be seen the trees and sky!
Picture low round building with shallow turf roof and curvy door
Inside there is a woodblock floor and white walls.
Much work on the Hogan was done by Martin Start of woodstonemetal.
I often think of it as the child of the Roundhouse and the Barn: light, white and bright like the Barn but round and funky like the Roundhouse!
It has a special stillness and is a popular place to sleep.
COMPOSTING LOO
The "state-of-the-art twin-vault dry-composting urine-separating loo with a view" was recently described by Ianto Evans (author the "The Hand-Sculpted House"?) as "the best composting toilet I've seen anywhere in the world"! It was designed and built by Andy Warren of Natural Solutions based on a Vietnamese innovation.
There are two cubicles opening onto a generous porch looking over the forest to the mountains, hence "loo with a view". Beneath each cubicle are two chambers or vaults, each a cubic metre in size. The toilet seat is placed over one chamber. After each use a handful of sawdust or chopped straw is added.
It takes about 18 months to "fill" the first chamber. Then the toilet seat is switched to the other chamber and a blank placed over the first hole.
As the second chamber is being filled, the contents of the first - helped by worms and micro-organisms - compost down into a rich fertiliser.
Then, 18 months later, they are shovelled out and placed around the fruit trees. The seat is then switched back to its original position.
The floors and seating areas in the loo are made from teak recycled from a bank in the City of London. So, if you make your deposits now in the years to come you'll be able to draw interest in apples!
One "state-of-the-art" aspect of the design is that pee is separated from crap using a gutter and draining board. It is piped off to fertilise a nearby pear tree. This means that the smell is minimised. As many visitors have said, the odour is much better than most public toilets!
The only water in the whole system is rainwater which supplies the hand basin on the porch and which, as "grey water", later washes out the gutter and pipes.
One word of warning for blokes. The loo is not designed as a men's urinal. If you want a standing up pee you have to use the bushes!
SHOWER HUT
The thatched shower-hut by the river has a mythological resonance (see the story of ""Lleu and Blodeuwedd" in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion)! The Shower-Hut was built with help from Nick MacSmith and Mark Farrant. Water from the river is heated by a wood stove and stored in a hot water tank. This supplies enough for several showers, more if the fire is kept going. If the fire is stoked up just before bedtime hot water is available for morning showers. The showering space is enclosed by hazel hurdles giving sufficient privacy but also making it possible to see and hear the "little white river" rushing by. Not far from the shower hut is a sweat lodge site that is used occasionally through the year.
TENTS
Buckminster - Fuller Geodome
The Cae Mabon family of structures include three elegant tents placed on three terraces that circle the Roundhouse. These are the Geodesic Dome (made by Geoff Geodomes, the Yurt (made by GreenJack Keith Matthews) and the Shavan (made by Brian Melrose). The Geodesic Dome is a modern design based on the work of Buckminster Fuller. It is strong, simple and supple and provides a cosy nesting place for two or three people.
Mongolian Yurt
The Yurt is based on the nomadic Mongolian felt tent. With a canvas covering it has proved very adaptable to the British climate. It is constructed from a stunningly elegant steam bent ash framework with a wheel in the centre of the roof providing a source of light. Our Yurt has amazingly beautiful doors, quite possibly the finest doors on any yurt this side of Kazakhstan!
Iranian Shavan
The Shavan is a nomadic Iranian tent designed for the desert. It is something like a cross between a yurt and a bender, with steam bent oak laths fitting into a central dome shaped wheel which is anchored to the ground by a rope and sturdy peg. It is covered by one tailor made piece of black canvas with red stitching and a separate "hat" for the dome. Unfortunately we have found that it's hard to keep tents up and dry for seven months of the year when used sporadically by visitors unfamiliar with their idiosyncrasies. So in 2003 and 2004 it is planned to replace the tents with more durable weatherproof structures. (See "Projected Work".)
CEDAR CABIN
The split level Cedar Cabin was built in 2002 on a site near the river apart from the rest of the encampment. It was designed specifically for the site (with help from Mike Chown) and largely built by Bo McGowan, who also milled the cedar logs into planks for construction. It was intended primarily for group leaders, though of course its use will be flexible. There is a single and a double room, and a porch. As of March 2003 there is still finishing off work to do on windows, internal insulation and cladding, and landscaping, but it promises to be a very sweet little pad!
HOT TUB
I'd wanted a hot tub ever since moving here. But it was always more important to build structures with rooves that didn't leak. Then in early May 2003 Jack Everett turned up for a Tai Chi teacher's retreat. "What you need here," he said, "A hot tub? I'll look into it." A couple of weeks later he called to say he'd found a company who had the last of a discontinued line of cedar hot tubs with an internal Snorkel stove. "They want to get rid of it," he said. "It's going for less than half its original price."
And so Jack came with the hot tub in pieces. Henry and I had prepared the site and three days later we were in it. Amazing! It hadn't even been on this year's "to do" list! Six weeks after Jack (known as "Bamboo Jack" by his mates) installed some bamboo railings around the decking. And now Cae Mabon can boast sublime levels of luxury hitherto scarcely imagined!
CONTACT
Eric Maddern
Cae Mabon
Fachwen, Llanberis, Gwynedd.
North Wales.
LL55 3HB.
Phone 01286 871542
Mobile 07789 810115
Link to this website: http://www.caemabon.co.uk
Email: eric @ fachwen.org
| Bank:
Account name: BSB: Account number: SWIFT BIC Code: | Australia New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ)
Fiona Caroline Cristian 012 547 5576 81376 ANZBAU3M |
8th February 2012
Ben Lowrey benlowrey.com Interviews Arthur Cristian www.loveforlife.com.au - 8th February 2012 - 89 Minutes 47 Seconds. Arthur discusses a wide range of subjects from Freeman & the law to how "The System" is designed to have us process the curses of "The System". He talks about his and Fiona's experiences with the law & why Love For Life started. Arthur also discusses the remedy to the tyranny of "The System" & the way back to peace, truth, freedom, joy, abundance & Do No Harm for all of life without loss of uniqueness or the need for slaves & rulers. Who we really are, what we are really part of & our true purpose is very different to what we are taught by the brainwashing of "The System" that has us re-present the thoughts of other men & women rather than thinking unique thoughts inspired by direct experience, perception interaction with nature. Everything we, the Cristian family, have gone through, from bank fraud and the theft of the family home to death threats and attempts on Arthur's life, is touched on.
YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/ArthurLoveForLife
More info (links to articles, debates/discussions, documents & more background info on the videos) can be found by scrolling down this Love For Life website home page
All the best
Arthur & Fiona Cristian
Love For Life
The “Name” Is The Mark Of The Beast
The Strawman Identifying Your Slave Status In “The System”
5th February 2012 - 56 Minutes 25 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 6
Under The Spell Of Intellectual Property
19th April 2012 - 51 Minutes 52 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 5A
System Science is Fraud and the Timeline of Chaos
30th November 2011 - 57 Minutes 36 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 5B
System Science is Fraud and the Timeline of Chaos
29th January 2012 - 67 Minutes 26 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 5C
System Science is Fraud and the Timeline of Chaos
22nd February 2012 - 67 Minutes 25 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 5D
Images Of Deception - The Intelligence Agents Amongst Us
24th February 2012 - 44 Minutes 53 Seconds
Song "Save Our Lives"
31st January 2012 - 5 Minutes 38 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 1
21st October 2011 - 62 Minutes 47 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 2
23rd October 2011 - 83 Minutes 47 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 3
26th October 2011 - 101 Minutes 10 Seconds
"The Dream Of Life" Part 4
29th October 2011 - 57 Minutes 30 Seconds
Key To Kindom
Co-Creation Of Do No Harm Communities
Causing A Mass Exodus From "The System"
7th February 2011 - 24 Minutes 48 Seconds
Short Story - Once Upon A Time
Written in 2007
18th February 2011 - 8 Minutes 38 Seconds
Kindom Garden
Creating A Large Organic Recycled Transportable Garden
4th February 2012 - 17 Minutes 16 Seconds
Background Information For All These Videos Can Be Found Here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/8275
April 2011
This is an extract taken from a recent Facebook Discussion.
Links to all these Facebook discussions/debates can be found here:
http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3385
Control the land and you control MAN on the land
Displace MAN from land and you turn MAN into slaves
All men, women and children have a natural inheritance to a piece of land (a hectare is sufficient) to care for and co-create life with, land with access to clean water and shelter where they can grow food and raise their families in peace and freedom, doing no harm to the land, to their lives and all of life, and passing on the land and its abundance to their descendants and tribes/villages/communities.
Is there any man, woman or child who will come forward and say we do not have that natural inheritance?
For what are we without land?
Our natural inheritance comes without the threat of being stolen or sold, and is unencumbered by debt or any other man-made restriction BUT comes with full responsibility for nurturing that land and doing no harm. Once we give up our responsibility, we need masters and, once we need masters, we become slaves. We lose our freedom and we lose our uniqueness.
We were never meant to be in the image/likeness of another MAN'S thought but, once we have masters, we are forced to mould the men, women and children we are into the likeness of the thoughts of our masters. When we are displaced from land, we have to rely on our masters for everything, thus acquiescing our freedom, uniqueness and responsibility as we accept the handouts and "The Systems" of our masters. We become the cogs of "The System", drones turning on our brothers and sisters of life, once all MAN on the land, in the name of "The System" which only benefits the tiny few who control "The System". The local councils, etc, have become the Land Barons of "The System", at the beck and call of the Priests who control everything.
Free on the land, able to provide our families with all they need, we are free to be the unique men, women and children we are meant to be, thinking thoughts that are unique to each of us as we contemplate on and interact with nature all around us.
All our problems stem from the lie that some men and women have the right to have power and control over others and, when we accept this lie, we support and maintain it.
No MAN is master of another MAN
All men are equal
Displacing MAN from land is slavery
MAN on the land is where true peace and freedom for all begins
The statutes of Council rules, etc, are all part of the scam to keep MAN from being free on the land. Common Law, Democracy and Constitutional Rights, etc, do nothing to solve this problem as they also support the displacement of MAN from land because most people cannot compete in "The System" of commerce as their natural skills lie elsewhere and they are not good at making money out of other men and women; they don't like it. Those who cannot compete are discriminated against; they have lost their uniqueness and their freedom on the land and they become the garbage collectors, the sewerage workers and all the other cogs through the rank and file of the blue and white collar workers. The dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-fittest-and-smartest "System" keep the few in control of all the land so that they can control all the men and women residing on that land.
The Church, The Bar, The Courts, The Aristocracy, The Governments and Councils are the means by which the few maintain control of the land and maintain the lie of some having power and control over others. They are not to be found anywhere in nature and anywhere there are tribes still living peacefully in pristine forests. Where they exist is where all the tribes were displaced from the land and where the remnants of the tribes and those sent in to live amongst them, live under the control of the Church and its systems. Operating out of this lie, those who work for "The System" can only do harm. If they want to go with truth, they can only stop working for "The System" and do all they can to get it out of our lives.
The cogs of "The System" can come and do harm to anyone on the land at any time without having to take responsibility for it, although all harm is a curse and curses always return to the makers and holders of the curses.
The key to our freedom is in removing the power & control of the few over the land. Once we do that, they have nothing.
Who are they to think they can tell us we are not free?
All man-made systems require slaves and rulers. It is impossible to avoid this fact, this circumstance. Being forced to live under the rules, regulations, rituals, procedures, conditions and contracts of any man-made system causes a loss of uniqueness to everyone exposed to them. No man, woman or child is answerable to anyone or anything re-presenting a man-made system. We were never meant to give up FULL-responsibility for our lives, which is what we do when we acquiesce to any man-made system, be it cashless or not, gold standard or not, religious, political, legal, social, environmental, spiritual, philosophical, commercial, esoteric, international or domestic or not, and fall under the standing of its authorities, representatives and enforcers. All man-made systems are a scam as will be the coming New World Order system with its cosmic, galactic, Christianised, feel good/feel god, "Oneness" glue remedy to cure the present earth-wide chaos engineered by the tiny few who still want all the power and glory. This cashless "one-world" remedy will be overseen by an earth-wide power structure no different to the Federation overseeing the non-sense cashless world of Star Trek.
Tools used by those behind man-made systems to indoctrinate the masses include all religions, holy books, history books, science, the New Age and all forms of education stemming from any of the many universities presently offering "system career" courses across Earth. Placed on the conveyor belt running through factory planet earth, brainwashed men and woman are being manufactured in sameness moulds to produce individuals (in-divide-u-all-s). We are already unique, not one the same as the next, but all man-made systems trick us through propaganda and manipulation into giving up our uniqueness so we can become the willing slaves and rulers in "The System". All man-made systems (all beliefs, faiths & associated opinions) cause loss of uniqueness. As already mentioned we were never meant to be in the image/likeness of another mans thought.
Broken up into individuals, we no longer feel the bonds between us which is why we think we need an artificial system to co-exist. All Freemasonic/Satanic holy books, and belief systems exist to keep us in an individualised state so that we accept "The Systems" that control us therefore giving our power and life-force-energy away to those hiding behind "The Systems" to rule us with. There is no other reason or purpose for their existence. They are all designed to con us into being ruled by man-made systems, to con us into accepting third party figures, whether saviours or "leaders" so that we give up the responsibility for our lives here and now to them. Even to the point where we no longer think that what is happening on Earth is important because we believe in "life after death" or the ascended masters of the Galactic Federation or some "other world" out there where we will have peace from the pressures of life under "The System". They all come packaged as fairytales with fairytale props and characters for us to give up our responsibility for our lives to here and now so that we can be ruled by those Freemasons/Satanists hiding behind "The System" of those fairytales.
This is why the Freemasonic/Satanic world always operates in the shadows. They are the master puppeteers pulling at the strings of the belief, faith and associated opinion of their marionettes. Just as little Mary is unable to bring forward the Alice in Wonderland characters and settings she is playing to prove they exist neither are those who believe in "The System" fairytales able to bring forward 1st party to 1st party proof/substance of their existence. All they can do is re-present them but they are the only ones present; the characters are not. No matter how intense and for how long they believe in their fairytales and how much they argue for them and protect them, the believers only have their belief, faith and associated opinion. The brainwashing is extensive.
Individualism is as if we go to the ants and say, "Hey ants! We are changing your values and giving you a new program called individualism. You are now free to be in-divide-u-all-s; you can each have your own truths and no one has the right to take them away from you." And so the ants go off to become materialists, Buddhists, Christians, Jews, atheists, republicans, democrats, New Agers, conservatives, punk rockers, journalists, psychologists, politicians, priests, banksters, judges, lawyers, etc, etc. Meanwhile back in the ant world colony, who is taking care of the babies and the elderly and maintaining the nest? Inevitably, the ant-world perishes and all individualised ants go with it! This is what is happening to MAN and MANS Earth. Is this the consequence we all want? We each need to take full-responsibility for our lives so that together the responsibility for taking care of Life is taken care of. Passing the buck to a 3rd party God, man, woman, fiction, law, political party, piece of paper, electronic/digital recording device, etc, stops each of us from taking full-responsibility for life.
We are determined to co-create Kindoms/Do No Harm Communities to be the living-remedy that provides an everlasting peace, freedom, truth, joy, abundance and do no harm for all of life without the need for having slaves and rulers or causing loss of uniqueness.
Note: To continue exploring the information we share and fill in all the other missing pieces please read the articles: "Re-Presenting Is The Pull Of Duality Into False Consciousness" 19th April 2011: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/8129, "Introduction To "The Curses Are Being Returned" 11th June 2011: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/8183 and explore the many videos, podcasts, articles and recent Facebook/email discussions/debates posted here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6608 and here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3385 and here: http://loveforlife.com.au.
Arthur & Fiona Cristian
Love For Life
April 2011
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All religions promote discrimination and division, leading to hatred and even violence and murder. None of them have yet to produce a remedy to all the suffering, poverty, unhappiness and discrimination in the world. If any religion truly had the remedy to all the suffering on earth, there would no longer be any suffering. What have Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, atheism and the New Age done to end the suffering in the world?
The Love For Life website has information from all sides on many subjects, whether about Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Law, health, psychology, mind control, vaccination, aspartame, MSG, Chemtrails etc. There are over 11,000 individual articles, documentaries, etc on the website and they are so diverse that we are sure that everyone would be able to find something they loved and something they hated, if they took the time to search. If we removed all the articles hated by everyone, there would probably be nothing left! We are not anti anyone but freedom of speech is freedom of speech and no one should condemn the work of another without taking the time to research the subject themselves. Yes, there are articles by those who have a less-than-rosy-viewpoint of Judaism, but there are also articles on the dark side of Tibetan Buddhism (and it is very dark) for those who are interested in the truth: Tibet - Buddhism - Dalai Lama: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6271 Should the authors of these articles be abused and imprisoned for daring to challenge the widely conceived reputation of Buddhism as being the religion of peace and love and that of the Dalai Lama as a saint, or should those interested be allowed to study the work and come to their own conclusions? The same applies to all the articles, documentaries, etc, about Christianity, Islam, Freemasonry, New World Order, etc.
The Love for Life website also shows how the Rule of Law, the Bar, the Government, the Monarchy, the system of commerce, the local, national and multi/trans-national private corporations, all the courses and careers on offer from our universities, all the educators, scientists, academics and experts, the aristocrats and the Establishment bloodlines have also done NOTHING to end the suffering in the world. The website maps the insanity of a world where there is no help for those in need, just as there was no help available for us when we were victims of terrible bank fraud: http://loveforlife.com.au/court_case orchestrated, condoned and protected by an international crime syndicate/terrorist organisation of judges, barristers, registrars, lawyers, politicians, banksters, big business representatives, media moguls and other lackeys who, all together, put up a wall of silence despite our trying many, many avenues. After the family home was stolen and business destroyed we were left close to poverty and destitution caring for 4 young daughters. Three years later not much has changed regardless of all our efforts. Where were all the followers of all the religions to help us? Or do we have to be members of those religions to receive help from others involved in them?
We have been accused of being anti - Jewish because we had posted an excerpt from James von Brun's book: Kill the Best Gentiles! http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6054 in which he blames Jews for the problems of the world. Obviously this is not our view because of what we have stated above. We do not hate anyone, whatever religion they follow. We are always open to talk to any religious leader or politician and meet with any judge, member of the Bar, experts, academics, educators etc to share the remedy we offer that heals all the divisions between MAN and MAN, and MAN and EARTH.
Today, a representative of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies is threatening to close the website down, because they have decided it is anti - Jewish and that we promote racism. What has the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies done to end the suffering in the world? Can they show that they are concerned with the suffering of ALL men, women and children AND ARE SEEN TO BE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT or are they only concerned with Jewish affairs? If so, they, along with all the other religions that only care for their own, are part of the problem, not part of the solution. The man who rang Arthur today was only concerned with Jewish affairs; he was not interested in our intentions or in anybody else, just as most Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Catholics, etc, are only interested in their own. While we separate our lives into groups, dividing our lives from others with rules, regulations, rituals, procedures, conditions and contracts, we will never solve our problems.
No matter what we in the Western World Civilisation of Commerce have been promised by our politicians, religious leaders, scientists, educators, philosophers, etc, for the past two hundred years, all we have seen is ever-increasing destruction of men, women and children and Earth. None of the so-called experts and leaders we have been taught to rely on are coming up with a solution and none of them are taking full-responsibility for the fact that they can't handle the problem. All religious books talk about end times full of destruction and suffering but why do we have to follow this program when there is an alternative to hatred, mayhem and death? Why are our leaders following the program of destruction and death rather than exploring the do no harm alternatives? It seems that any mainstream politician, priest or academic are only interested in supporting the RULES OF THE DIVIDE, that maintain the haves and the have nots. For 200+ years, 99% of the world population have been so trained to pass on their responsibility for their lives, others and Earth, that the 1% of the population that make up the leaders of the rest of us are making all the decisions leading to the destruction of all of us and Earth. Let's not forget the education system that brainwashes the 99% of the population that we are free and have equal rights while, in fact, we are feathering the nests of those at the top.
At the root of all our problems is self-centredness, an unwillingness nurtured by the Establishment that keeps us concerned only with our own needs rather than the needs of others around us and Earth. Instead of creating and releasing acts of love for those around us as gifts to benefit them and Earth, we take, take and take, until there is nothing left. The whole point of the Love for Life website is to show people the root of all our problems and to share the remedy. The extensive research library is there to attract browsers and to provide access to information not available through mainstream channels. If the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies can, after careful examination of our work, prove that anything we are saying is wrong, we will be happy to accept their proof. If they cannot, and they are still insistent on closing the website down, they will be showing themselves to be traitors to MAN because they are not interested in pursuing any avenue that can end the suffering in the world.
All religions, corporations and organisations that support and maintain the Western World Civilisation of Commerce are part of the problem because our civilisation is a world of haves and have nots, exclusivity, privilege, racism, violence, hatred, poverty, sickness, discrimination, abuse, starvation, homelessness, corruption, collusion, vindictiveness, social unrest, arrogance, ignorance, fear, war and chaos. While we support civilisation, we support death and destruction.
If we truly want peace and freedom for all, we have to let go of all that which keeps us divided, and come together as MAN, conscious living co-creators of creation/life. The Love For Life website offers a remedy to the problems we all face in the form of DO NO HARM COMMUNITIES (KINDOMS): http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6608 - http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3641 For more details see here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6511 and here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3385 - We also highly recommend that everyone read the brilliant Russian books called The Ringing Cedars: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/1125 - The Love For Life homepage/front-page also provides lots of inspiring remedy based information: http://loveforlife.com.au - If you want to be kept up to date with our work please register to the Love For Life mailing list here: http://loveforlife.com.au/campaign_list We usually send two postings per month. Presently (September 2011) there are over 7000 registrations reaching over 500,000 readers across Earth. The website now (September 2011) receives up to 12 million hits per month. Since December 2006, over 100 million people have visited the Love For Life website.
Conscious Love Always
Arthur and Fiona Cristian
Love For Life
17th June 2009
Being of clear brain, heart and intention, we each declare the following to be true:
• We have no intention of ending our own lives.
• We will not tolerate suppression of truth, ideas, freedom, or our work. We stand for freedom of speech.
• We stand together to support others in the expression of truths and freedom to speak out no matter how radical those ideas may seem.
• Standing for freedom takes courage; together we shall be strong in the face of all odds.
• If it is ever claimed that we have committed suicide, encountered an unfortunate accident, died of sickness/disease, disappeared, been institutionalized, or sold out financially or in any other way to self-interested factions, we declare those claims false and fabricated.
• We testify, assert and affirm without reservation, on behalf of all those who have dedicated their lives to the ending of secrecy and the promotion of freedom of thought, ideas and expression that we shall prevail.
• We Do Not Have Multiple Personality Disorders
Arthur Cristian
Fiona Cristian
Jasmin Lily Cristian
Emma Rose Cristian
Frances Hannah Cristian
Xanthe Jane Cristian
15th December 2006 (Edited/Updated 18th September 2011)
We are turning this Love for Life Quick User Guide http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6608, also found on the Love For Life Home Page http://loveforlife.com.au, into a blog (scroll down this page below points 1 to 13 & after the Facebook links) of all the main insights of our work since March 2005, whether through articles, videos, podcasts or discussions/debates. As we do not have the time to compile everything we have written into a book, as many have suggested we do, compiling all our most important work into one area of the website is a way of providing easy access to this work so those interested are able to fully comprehend the big picture. Instead of having to find our different articles, videos, etc, in various parts of the website, it will all be accessible here (scroll down this page below points 1 to 13 & after the Facebook links), from either the Quick User Guide or the Home Page. As amateurs and posted below the Facebook links, we are currently creating and posting a series of videos called "The Dream Of Life" which covers the ground of all the Love For Life insights. We plan to have the videos completed by March 2012. Once this is behind us, our intention is to create a 2 hour or so professionally made documentary covering the body of this work. We have started recording songs, with others, that express the themes of Love For Life. These will be posted on Arthur's YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/user/ArthurLoveForLife, when they are ready. Some have already been used as the soundtrack on the first "Dream of Life" video. Also, everything we, the Cristian family, have gone through, from bank fraud and the theft of the family home to death threats and attempts on Arthur's life, is documented below too. If you, the reader, are prepared to put the effort in, you will comprehend the extent to which we have all been tricked into becoming slaves, giving up our uniqueness and our full-responsibility for life and destroying everything of life to the point where life is in danger of dying out completely. You will also comprehend the remedy to all this chaos; a remedy that requires only love for life and the determination to do what needs to be done. Though our focus is very strongly on the remedy that creates a world of freedom, truth, peace, joy, abundance and Do No Harm for all of life without loss of uniqueness or the need for slaves and rulers, we realise that it is vital to comprehend how to get there and what stops us from getting there. This is why there is so much information on the hows and whys of everything going wrong in the world today. We are not into peddling conspiracy theories, we are into routing out all forms of organised crime.
Saturday 26th November 2011
Arthur and Fiona Cristian
Love For Life
Which Unravels The Reasons For The Chaos, Mayhem and Confusion Being Experienced In The World Today, Explains The Need For "Community Immunity" and Responsibility, and Focuses On The Creation Of Kindoms - Do No Harm, Life-Sustainable Communities (As The Remedy That Heals All Mans Woes) - And How We Can Co-Create Them. For Comments, Articles And Discussions, Go Here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3385 - Also Go Here To See Podcasts And Videos Posted by Arthur & Fiona Cristian: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/7309 - The Information Shared Comes From Inspiration, Intuition, Heartfelt-Logic And Information Gathered From Nature And Many Amazing Men And Women Along The Way. It Is Not Found In Any Books Or Channellings, Or Talked About By "Experts". Go Here To Read A Brief Synopsis Of Why We Started Love For Life: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/8182
go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/1125 and for more on Eco Homes, Villages, Organic and Permaculture Gardening and Life-Sustainability, etc, go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/3641 and here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/1985 and Mikhail Petrovich Shchetinin - Kin's School - Lycee School at Tekos: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/5173
go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/5068 - LIFE is information. When we distort LIFE and then eat, drink, absorb, think, feel, hear, see, touch, taste, smell and perform these distortions, the information of LIFE, your LIFE, our LIFE, our children's lives, everyone's LIFE, is distorted.
Which Covers Topics From Health to Chemtrails/Haarp to Brain Control to Archaeology to Astronomy Geocentricity Heliocentricity to Pandemics Bird Flu Swine Flu to Fluoride to Cancer to Free Energy to Global Warming, 9/11, Bali Bombings, Aspartame, MSG, Vaccinations, Aids/HIV, Mercury, New World Order, Satanism, Religions, Cults, Sects, Symbolism, etc, etc, go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/82
(Macquarie Bank/Perpetual Limited Bank Fraud Condoned By Judges, Registrars, Barristers, Lawyers, Politicians, Public Servants, Bureaucrats, Big Business and Media Representatives - A Crime Syndicate/Terrorist Organisation) Which Prompted The Creation Of This Love For Life Website December 2006, And The Shooting And Torture Of Supporters Who Assisted Us In Reclaiming The Family Home, Joe Bryant And His Wife, Both In Their Late 70's, go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/5 And Read Some Of Our Email Correspondence With Lawyer Paul Kean - Macedone Christie Willis Solari Partners - Miranda Sydney May 17th-June 27th 2006: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/7300
go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/australian_stories (If you have a story you would like us to put up, we would love to here from you:
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Evidence Revealing How Victims Did Not Break The Peace, Caused No Crime or Harm, There Were No Injured Parties. Documenting Incontrovertible Evidence Demonstrating How The Powers That Be (PTB) And Their Lackeys Will Break All The Laws They Are Supposed To Uphold. They Will Kidnap, Intimidate, Terrorise, Rape, Pillage, Plunder And Lie And Take Responsibility For None Of It. All Part Of Their Tactics Of Using Fear And Trauma To Keep Us In Our Place. Relatives Of Those Under Their Radar Are Also Not Safe From Attack And Intimidation. All Starting From A $25 Fine For Not Voting And A $65 Fine For Not Changing A Dog Registration. We Do Not Have Freedom And Can Only Appear To Have Freedom If We Comply. Regardless How Small The Matter The PTB Throw Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars Away To Enforce Their Will.... Go Here:
Fiona Cristian Reply To State Debt Recovery Office - Part One to Part Ten - From 17th October 2008 And Still Continuing:
http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6319 or
Fiona Cristian Reply To State Debt Recovery Office
Part One: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/5742 - From 17th October 2008
Part Two: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6135 - From 18th December 2008
Part Three: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6295 - From 9th January 2009
Part Four: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6296 - From 14th January 2009
Part Five: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6375 - The Sick Puppy - From 20th February 2009
Part Six: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6390 - Police Officers, Sheriff’s Officers, Tow Truck Driver and State Debt Recovery Office Blatantly Ignore the Law To Rape, Pillage and Plunder The Private Property Of Fiona Cristian - From 11th March 2009
Part Seven: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6445 - Affidavit Of Truth - Letter To The Queen + Australia: Fascism is Corporatism - From 30th March 2009
Part Eight: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6652 - The Pirates Auction And The Ghost Of VSL386 - From 4th April 2009
Part Nine: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/7073 - Arthur Cristian's Letter To Pru Goward MP - From 15th December 2009
Part Ten: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/7500 - Should We Be In Fear Of Those Who Claim To Protect Us? "Roman Cult" Canon Law - Ecclesiastical Deed Poll - The Work Of Frank O'Collins - From 13th October 2010
go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/895 - For Common Law, Democracy, Constitution, Trial By Jury, Fee Simple, etc, go here: http://loveforlife.com.au/category/main/law-articles-documents
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go here: Part One: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6616 Part Two: THE STEVE JOHNSON REPORT AND VIDEO: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6665 and Part Three: Latest Update On James Von Brunn: http://loveforlife.com.au/node/6673
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