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Beloved Friends,
As you will all
have found by now, since May 2009 I no longer
record new episodes of my inspirational radio
program, The Inner Voice, on Channel Africa,
in English that is - because I continue to do
so in French...La Voix Interieure - and my program
is then included inside a magazine program called
Bonjour l'Afrique...
This radio journey
has been an extra-ordinary one for me and one
where my wildest prayers have been answered
beyond what I considered to be the greater number
I could touch.
Through the often
repeated broadcasts of episodes of The Inner
Voice,
(up to four times a week and to accommodate
different time zones) Channel Africa, the Voice
of South Africa to Africa and the world, gave
me, for almost six years, the unique privilege
of touching the hearts and minds of millions
of our brothers and sisters all over the world,
with Spirit's guidance in the form of healing
words of love and wisdom.
My gratitude is
infinite to all those who entrusted me with
being able to share my heart with such an incredibly
great number of people, especially the Head
of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's
PBS, Mr. Thami Ntenteni. It was his own heart
alone that informed his decision to allow me
to start this journey, and most certainly not
my previous (and non-existent) experience of
broadcasting nor the commercial value of my
program, all things usually used to gauge the
worth of an idea still to be tested...And yet
- that is exactly what Thami did - he trusted
that a greater purpose was indeed my purpose
and so for ever he will be in my heart and prayers.
Knowing that I
was able to make a difference and bring love
and comfort to so many will remain one of the
greatest joys of my life.
From my own website
statistics alone I could see that more than
five hundred educational organizations in the
USA alone were downloading the program almost
weekly; in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
the same was happening with one school's single
computer... and so via shortwave, satellite,
and internet radio this became a journey of
truly great proportions.
Nevertheless all
things change and evolve and so here I am back
to giving more time to my greatest gift - that
of spiritual healing and counselling one on
one, even though I never looked at my radio
work as anything else than a simple extension
of my healing work, even though my words on
radio touched millions at a time...
I remain open
to the reality that if and when the universe,
which had opened the doors for me anyway, will
need my services again - I will return - either
to Channel Africa's English radio service platform
or any other and my work will then be taken
to the next level as I have been thinking for
a while how I would love to actually do a live
program where I can be relevant with live on
the spot guidance to the listeners who call
for help. A television version of the program
is also on the cards, but I feel its time is
not yet here...
Otherwise, I have
been busy with other projects locally and internationally
and I am now looking forward to my special annual
break of a full month with my friends and godchild
in France and Spain.
Upon my return
I will be a key speaker at the National Convention
of The Compassioante Friends, on October 3rd,
which will be held here in Johannesburg and
the theme is: Love, Hope and Healing.
There are two
books in the birthing process and they have
been there a while, even before I wrote my last
published two and they are different from my
previous four - one is about the spiritual significance
of numbers, something I have brought with me
from previous life experience and study and
the other is an alphabet of light based on the
timeless symbols we all know but forgot the
meaning of.
Neither as you
can imagine, will write itself, so I will need
to plan my creative absences if I want to give
them some life. Been thinking that The Golden
Gate will be the place where I will go next
for my gestation period as a new friend came
into my life recently with an invitation to
use her house there as and when I need it...
Keep in mind that
I will be hosting together with Courtney of
Halo Gaia, a special trip to swim with the wild
dolphins in Mozambique sometime next year -
still not decided on dates but I will do what
I never did before and that is I will be teaching
some healing skills to those willing to learn.
2010 will therefore
be a year of still greater transformation for
me - that much I can already promise you all
that care to know...
And as I will be 53 which is a eight, the symbol
of infinity, I have already promised myself
that I will dance more infinitely with Life
and She can take me there...wherever I am meant
to go...and so I shall go with the flow of Love
Divine as nothing else is real for me...
and now, much much more so than ever before...
I love you all
and check out the last article I wrote for Biophile
Magazine based on an insight I got watching
Michael Jackson's memorial and related programs
and the connection I made to my many patients
who self mutilate from so much pain...enjoy
and know I am Love, You are Love We Are Love
- and Love is ALL there IS!!!!!
FROM A
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE NO.11
FOR BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
RADICAL PLASTIC
SURGERY - 01/07/09
This month I was
inspired with new healing insights on what it
really means to subject one’s body to
radical plastic surgery while, just like the
rest of the world, I watched Michael Jackson’s
special dedicated programs after his passing
as well as the very moving Los Angeles family
memorial.
As the images
flowed on the television screen we all saw how
truly drastic and radical his plastic surgery
became over the years.
Everything about
Michael’s features was altered and dramatically
changed – the shape of his forehead, chin,
nose, cheekbones, eyes, absolutely nothing in
his beloved face was original, by the time he
left us half a century later.
And what a half
century it was too – for forty five of
those years Michael’s unique talents touched
us deeply from his soothing child voice to the
more mature and loving one we will remember
as he often repeated his mantra: “I love
you too” – over and over again –
wherever he went in the world to acknowledge
his many adoring fans.
Now that you know
beyond a shadow of a doubt that I too loved
Michael, let me tell you the insights his passing
brought me about drastic plastic surgery. Michael
was after all a larger than life example and
we all saw his life in chapters as it is often
the case with celebrities and people in the
spotlight.
Even though he
was a deeply loving human being, he lacked that
love for himself and always felt that he was
not loved for who he was, loved for his core,
his soul, his being-ness. It is no wonder then
that like Michael, so many people think that
by changing something about their outer appearance,
those changes will bring them more love.
All we need is
watch all these television episodes about real
plastic surgery cases in Beverly Hills to have
insights jumping at us about the lack of self-love
of all those who lie there being forked out
(literally) at their stomach fat as in the case
of liposuction, or cut and sliced in pieces
just to loose some extra part which they no
longer – or never did love, not to mention
the ultimate absurdity of placing plastic bags
of different sizes inside the breast as if that
would make any thinking-loving man worth his
salt, love a woman more!
And yet that is
exactly what people, who submit themselves to
such excruciating pain and aggression in their
physical bodies during (and especially after)
such extreme plastic surgeries do think and
hope: that they will be loved – more…
Self-love, just
like divine love, by implication is of an unconditional
nature, so we will – when filled with
self love, appreciate and love everything about
ourselves, including the less lovely bits and
pieces, and especially so as we age.
As a spiritual
healer, a fair amount of suicidal-after trauma
cases is often re-directed to me, and I am thus
often faced with the most wonderful souls who
hurt themselves terribly through self mutilation.
They cut their arms and inner legs and sometimes
inside their vaginas or rectums too, anywhere
not to be seen by others, or in places easily
covered by clothing – and where it is
really more painful than the emotional non-localised
pain they feel all over their emotional body
and even their soul. Yes – there is indeed
such a thing as soul pain.
And here is my
insight – self mutilation and drastic
plastic surgery are two ways of dealing with
the old, very old traumatic pain of hurt, rejection
and abandonment, pain of very early childhood
incest and/or violent sexual abuse, as well
as all kinds of emotional abuse; pain that,
to the sufferer, only seems to be released when
an injury is created – deliberately and
forcefully - on a feeling and bleeding part
the physical body.
If we were to
see it for what it is – plastic surgery
of the drastic kind would often equate to a
plain lack of self love. Of course I am not
one to discard the baby and the bath water –
plastic surgery has a special place in cases
of disfiguration, be it after trauma, war or
accident, as well as in birth defects and even
in creating greater perfection for those whose
lives really depend on it – but when it
is drastic and changes our features as it did
Michael’s beyond recognition, then we
could see it as a form of self mutilation –
a way – like any other – only perhaps
more legal and more onerous – to get some
relief from old pain and its deep underlying
wound.
In Michael’s
case he never hid the fact that he was abused
in his childhood and therefore for the gentle
soul that he was, the pain had been there all
along and he found a way of releasing it from
the emotional onto the physical level through
submitting his facial features to an ongoing
shape-shifting strategy.
Pain – like
happiness is highly addictive and this is a
truth that not many have grasped, yet one that
we healers face everyday. Some of us chose never
to heal and just keep holding on to the pain,
which by then has become the new found land
of the safe-secure and the familiar…
And so it is indeed
a truism in healing that what you do not know
you cannot understand, and what you cannot understand
you cannot heal. My deepest hope in sharing
this insight is that you understand and heal
or help someone you care about do just that
for themselves as well.
As for Michael
– where he now dwells he finally knows
how deeply he was, always has been and for ever
will be loved. For he is Love and we Are Love,
each one of us without exception.
With Healing
Love – Lou Bognon July 09
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Dear Friends,
The special event at Zoo Lake had to be postponed
for lack of support at this time - but as we
all know - all things in Divine Time ....and
so it was not meant to be now - appologies to
all those who had so looked forward to being
there with me...as you know there will be other
occasions and I am always just a telephone call
away anyway...
In the meantime check out the last article I
have written for Biophile
Magazine - enjoy and remember - this too
shall come to pass - all we need is to love
and support each other.
All my love - Lou
FROM A
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE
FOR BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
THE CRUMBLING
HAS STARTED IN EARNEST - 30/03/09
As 2009 progresses
- we sense a slowing of the frenetic pace at
which we have been travelling for the past few
years, while witnessing, as if in slow motion,
the crumbling of many systems around us.
In all TV news,
local or international, the news readers themselves,
are using the kind of
terminology that reflects our own deepest fear
and worry, and often ask the very same questions
we all do to ourselves:
When will all this end?
How are we going to get out of this mess?
How did we get here?
How did this actually happen?
How can giants in all sectors all of a sudden
and out of the blue, be reduced to a position
of mere midgets?
How could some greedy people get away with it
for so long?
In the two previous
issues I shared with you the insights I have
glimpsed as to where we are headed and, here
hopefully I will take you a little further into
the understanding of what really is happening,
how we will survive these ongoing crises and
what implications there are for us as individuals
and as a collective of humanity.
By the time you
read these words the budget deficits in some
of the richest nations (not to mention most)
will be reminiscent of a big black hole - we
now acknowledge that we have consumed, spent,
promised, pledged and invested more than we
could afford and so the situation is now more
than ever exposed for what it is - greed gone
bust, the "cooked books" looking ever
more like a concoction of figures no one really
knows for
sure whether they are real or imaginary. Some
countries did not indulge in the greedy frenzy
or the virtual financial banking reality and
are thus weathering the storm in a far better
shape. Still, all are affected.
Some governments
will frenetically print paper money as if trees
themselves were cloning each other every nanosecond
and calling it by the euphemistic name of "quantitative
easing" while the so called sound foundations
of economics have
all but vanished, disappeared, and moved into
nothingness.
In short - and
again to quote from the wisdom given in my third
book, The Divine Laws* - the crumbling has started
in earnest.
There is indeed
no going back, no holding on to what and how
it used to be; that is now vanishing right in
front of our eyes: the systemically destructive
and unsustainable way of life we have lived
for so long, with belief systems and structures
of economic governance that serve the greed
of the few against the needs of the many, have
simply now shown us beyond what we needed to
be shown, their absolute incapacity to fulfill
the needs of all humanity.
We are witnessing
the end of an era - the end times of all that
has been divisive, from
economics to religions and politics, as well
as all and everything that has become unsustainable.
In our taking without ever giving back, we have
lived under the illusion that abundance was
only for the chosen few, that the masses of
humanity
were just another tradable resource or commodity
and now the masses of unemployed and the suffering
are growing by the day inside the very nations
that birthed these very beliefs, notions and
economics of greedy unsustainability.
Time has come
to play another game, to apply new ideas, birth
new sustainable systems, but we have not yet
grasped what is ahead nor what exactly we are
to create, how to play the very game and rules
we still have to invent, and, because most
people are so lost, they cannot see, much less
sense, the new possibilities. So, here is a
peek at what is coming our way:
*As the old and
obsolete gives way to the new inventions, all
of them will be, not only
user-friendly but also and most importantly,
also friendly towards your environment and all
the elements and kingdoms of your beloved planet.
When and as you
learn to tap into the universal energy, you
will move, communicate, travel and share all
as one, for it will not cost anyone anything
to do all these things that now still remain
an impossible dream for the masses of humanity.
By then you will
have taken your place among all the nations
of the stars and you will travel there just
as they have been travelling to yours since
the beginning. *
Good place to
start - we have to just start imagining this.
After all we all are now able to understand
that our beloved Planet is perfectly able to
provide for every man's need, but of course
she cannot provide for every man's greed.
And one last word:
let us never forget that each time we imagine
something, it is the
Creator-Source who really is imagining it through
us.
With infinite love - Lou Bognon
* Taken from : The Divine Laws, by Lou Bognon
- ISBN 0-620-36651-6
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Dear Friends,
Enjoy the empowering
information I share in this most recent article
I have written for Biophile Magazine
FROM A
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE No. 6/issue 25
FOR BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
THE CURRENT GLOBAL
FINANCIAL CRISIS
We are indeed
powerful creators of our realities. And, now
we are facing one of the most interesting of
our creations: the global financial crisis,
even if most of us will disown the idea of having
had anything to do with it in the first place.
From a spiritual
perspective of course, the financial crisis
is excellent news for our collective growth
and evolution as a species.
Perhaps now -
that we no longer can afford be so focused on
“things” and how many of them our
money can buy after having created this new
reality of lack in the money supply - we will
start tapping into our inner world and relate
to each other in more profound and meaningful
ways. After all, we have been flirting long
enough with the surface of things, through the
stuff we wear, buy, give, receive, consume,
waste, tuck and throw away.
I cannot help
but refer to my third book, The Divine Laws,
where we are informed of the soon to come time
of “crumbling” when all systems
that no longer function for the greatest good
of all will disintegrate before our eyes and
we will be inundated with obsolete staff that
no longer serve any purpose.
As I drive along the many highways of Johannesburg,
I cannot help noticing how the big SUV’s
(sports utility vehicles) are starting to look
(at least to me) more and more like “FUV’s”
(funerary utility vehicles). Personally, I have
nothing against such vehicles per se –
when and where they serve their purpose in farms
and rural areas where most roads really need
the gifts of a 4x4.
This observation
aside, what we are watching is just not the
beginning of the “crumbling” but
a confirmation and a consolidation of the new
reality that informs us that things cannot stay
as they are and so it is that we have created,
collectively, crisis after crisis to come to
this important point.
As the European
leaders met in China this week to discuss this
financial crisis and try to persuade the Chinese
to part with some of the many trillions of their
hard earned savings as a direct result of their
hard labour and multi-factory production in
their heartland, it was ironic to actually witness
the death of capitalism just as taught by Marx,
Engels and Lenin, namely: “for capitalism
to die all that was needed was to give it enough
rope so that it would hang itself”.
And so it came to pass that capitalism hanged
itself in the great hall of China’s communist
party as China listened to its request for help
and replied using more of the same rope and
more of the same capitalist rhetoric as we have
been hearing from all capitalist capitals: -
let the IMF become even more powerful and involved.
Given China’s astronomical reserves in
US dollars, it begs this pertinent question:
how long will they hold on to the tons of paper
and bonds and therefore how long and/or what
will take for them to “suicide the dollar”
all together? Time alone will tell. This is
a potential reality already inscribed in the
many future probabilities and the global shift
of power to the east, predicted by Chinese visionaries
a very long time ago, even before the rise (and
the fall) of communism.
And so it is that
we are now faced with a reality where we all
need to face how obsessed we have become with
buying, collecting, showing-off and even classifying
each other by the amount and size of the outward
staff. This has bred so much fear (of not having
and being enough) so much injustice, greed,
insecurity and misery that it is only normal
that the frenzy sooner or later, had to come
to an end.
And this is where
we are at present. The least affected are those
who remained somewhat awake through this creation
and therefore did not engage the illusion or
the frenzy. The more affected are those still
trapped in the victim role. Too late though,
to blame stock exchanges, banks, politicians,
policies or conspiracies.
This is the time
to create anew. This is a time to learn to let
go of any idea of a saviour and a fixer –
we are indeed the ones we have been waiting
for all along – and it is time for this
new reality to sink in. No politician and no
economist (certainly not of the type we have
been accustomed to anyway), will make any difference
– we need to start taking our lives into
our own hands and soon realise that the least
we rely on the crumbling system/s the better
off we will be.
In closing I am
reminded to quote the words made famous by Jimmy
Hendrix: When the Power of Love will overcome
the love of power - we will be OK.
This applies
to America, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Canada,
and/or every single country on Earth, as the
Power of Love has nowhere, as yet, overcome
the love of power. But we could create this
reality. Now! Who we really are, our true spiritual
identity – can indeed -create anything
at all.
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FROM A
SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE No. 5
FOR BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
THE US ELECTIONS AND THE
WORLD – by Lou Bognon
I make no secret
about being a news junkie as I believe in keeping
myself informed from as many sources as possible,
so as to better be able to make up my own mind
about what truly is going on in our planet.
My sources of
information are, of course many and varied,
being able to read in 5 languages fluently,
to surf the Internet for hours and read its
many information sites and circulated news,
as well as have access to corporate owned and
special interest media, print and of course
satellite TV news such as CNN, BBC, Aljazeera,
etc.
It just hit me,
as I write, that I too, belong to the incredibly
complex machine that is the media, and in no
small way, this humble column notwithstanding,
since that, for the past five years, I produce
and present two programs that are broadcast
in two major languages, namely, English and
French, (by Channel Africa, via satellite, short
wave and Internet radio) to millions of people
throughout our continent and the rest of the
world.
In order to make
sense of what is happening one has, at the very
least, to have some idea of what really is going
on. So, here is my take on the American elections.
At face value,
and after much fanfare, the American people
are left with two candidates who, they will
have to get to know better, in order to choose
one to the Presidency of the self proclaimed
“most powerful nation on earth”.
This title brings
many questions to my mind: Why is it called
so?
Is it because of its currency value? Is it the
amount of its natural resources? Its surface
area? Its population numbers? Its war making
capacity? Its moral values and standing amongst
other nations? Or is it based on the way it
treats, educates and heals its poor, sick and
dispossessed? Or is it because it teaches by
example?
Indeed, why is
The United States of America called the most
powerful nation? What defines the notion of
“most powerful nation on earth’
if none of the answers to the above questions
actually do?
As for the candidates,
how do you know a candidate well enough just
by listening to selected sound bites and images
that have been so groomed and polished by numerous
“Spin doctors”, they could just
as well have been produced in a Hollywood film
and sound studio? This is especially true about
the candidates’ wives and families as
they are propped up with all kinds of lights
and make up tricks used by visual media, not
to say a word about the hordes of advisers and
image consultants that constantly decide the
camera angles, the colour of the background,
and all other colours, be it in their banners,
the nail polish, the dress or the tie.
So – here
we are – inside a reality where everyone’s
teeth shine like extra polished white plastic,
the sound bites become mantras, repeated “ad
nauseum” by the likes of CNN and BBC,
while the real issues about our collective survival,
our planet’s poor state of health and
its ever increasing efforts to signal it to
us, the injustices of famine and land appropriation
by some to the detriment of many, the ongoing
planetary wars of separation, and other urgent
issues, keep being relegated to “drawer
13” so to speak.
Barack Obama,
tries, to his credit, to raise the bar and generally,
to raise these issues, but if America is to
deserve the name it gave itself, of the most
powerful nation on earth, he must first win
this election and then proceed to create a new
reality and a new mindset in his homeland -
and, even if he succeeds, by then the world
may have shifted to such a degree that we will
be focussing on different questions, living
by different standards and counting numbers
really geo-mathematically, and not racially
or financially. Mother Earth can strike anywhere
and at any time and she cares not how many Dollars
we think we are worth.
From a spiritual
perspective, all that we are witnessing at this
time is unfolding according to the Divine Plan
for Earth and all life upon her. But we would
not, of course, see it this way if we are just
tapping into any one single source of information,
as most of them are given from an angle of fear,
manipulation or separation.
Even though
we live in a so called information age, more
than ever information is given selectively,
not objectively and most certainly, not fairly.
Take the Middle East as an example – the
pain of Israel is important, we all agree, but
what about the pain of the Palestinians who
after a horrific injustice of history, by no
fault of their own, find themselves either prisoners
in their own land or refugees in other people’s
lands? As for Iran – why can it not have
nuclear technology, but Israel can keep a big
enough arsenal to blow half the planet away?
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FOR
BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
FROM A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE NO. 4
The Air and Earth elements
As I watched Myanmar
count its dead by the tens of thousands after
being hit by a deadly cyclone, and on the other
side of the world, an ancient volcano in Chile,
thought to be dormant for millennia, spewing
- as volcanoes usually do – his special
kind of fumes, I remembered that it was time
to resume my writings on the elements.
And, as the time
will be very markedly accelerated for us on
earth from this point, I felt that I could write
about the two elements air and earth together
as they both are so well represented in both
cyclonic and volcanic activity.
Indeed if Mother
Earth was to be equated with a human body –
then her volcanoes would be her entrails –
the part of her that really needs to be cleaned
now – almost like when we resort to colonic
irrigation treatment for a highly intoxicated
body.
We all know that
when we get seriously ill, and when we have
kept all sorts of debilitating emotions, toxins
and pain inside ourselves for any length of
time, that our bowel movement starts being affected
in a very powerful and noisy way at first –
we experience severe cramps and bloating, often
associated with abnormal activity of the too
much or too little kind and eventually it all
grounds to a halt till and we need to go for
help.
So – let
us recognize these symptoms in our Beloved Mother
– her entrails are starting to get noisy
and irregular – she is bloated and uncomfortable
and her body is really – seriously –
intoxicated by all of our mental, physical and
material pollution and carelessness. Her air
element is seen in her passing of winds, read:
typhoons, cyclones, hurricanes and the like.
This is her way to blow away from her body all
the discomfort and in some parts the unbearable
pressure we have become to her.
Now – if
you recall when I spoke about water and fire
– the elements we have already seen very
active in her body in terms of what they represented:
the emotional body, the tears, the cleansing
and the fever she needs to heal – she
has done all she could using those two elements
but it was obviously not enough. Not enough
for us either – we still did not see her
pain and neither did we change our ways so as
to help her to heal.
No - we have not changed – we have not
paid any attention - we actually got worst,
greedier, more disconnected and in general became
like suckling zombies - and to a certain degree,
that has become our new normal, when faced with
information and potential future overload, we
all take the safe road – we sort of sleep
standing and go on like zombies, as if it was
none of our business or any of our doing.
Only now, zombie time is over.
In the sequence of disease and the way symptoms
show themselves off, fever is usually alleviated
by water, the effect of cooling and soothing,
which Mother Earth has done quite well.
Now, another set of symptoms are being exposed
and she is showing us her ever increasing pain
before she prepares us for some major surprises.
I feel she will soon use all of her elements
all at once, resulting in some truly major upheavals
and destruction for us as humanity, but for
her, in some greatly needed cleansing and healing.
As China is hit by a serious earthquake, and
like Myanmar it counts its dead by the thousands,
I wonder if this is already not the beginning.
In the meantime
– our world has already changed for ever
– peak oil price is a reality driving
home, as we now await oil at USD200 a barrel
and we have entered a new cycle of who is going
to drive/eat/survive first.
Yes we have arrived at such a point.
In less than a
year, and with a few cleaning strokes, Mother
Earth took away our food from her skin in millions
and millions of acres of Asia, Africa, North
and South America, Australia and generally all
over, anywhere she itched of dryness or over-washed
of pain.
As I write, we
know that the lives of some 100 million or more
of our brothers and sisters will be written
off the list of who does not eat and live next.
We also know that biofuels, now take one full
third of our food supplies. Yes we are now not
just competing with each other and with our
animals for food we have added, believe it or
not, also our cars to the big survival competition.
Collective Madness
is the name for our current state of being.
Knowing our Mother
Earth, like all mothers, she will definitely
fight for her life – mothers seldom give
up in the face of their own pain – they
always – well almost always – put
their children above themselves. But how many
of her children will she choose to protect whilst
needing to protect herself?
Like in a flight nearing its crash landing –
how much will she breathe first before giving
us the oxygen mask? Now that is the question.
Sadly to this
question we do not have the answer – we
have set in motion a somewhat unpredictable
flight that now can only be allowed to crash
or land itself out.
All we can do as always - is to pray - and to
hope - that we are part of those whose love
for her will be noted and that in return she
will be clement with our food fields, with the
roofs over our heads and with our lives.
Again I encourage
you to pray for Mother Earth everyday, to treat
all her creatures with extreme care and reverence
and in your prayers send her all the love and
healing your little child’s heart can
master – she loves to listen to children’s
prayers especially when they come out of adult
lips.
In love
and light
Lou Bognon
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Beloved friends,
Here is an article
I wrote for the May-June 2008 GLOBAL
FOCUS OF MEDITATION
at: www.earthrainbownetwork.com
on the theme of:
HARNESSING THE POWER
OF BELIEF
What I can share
as a healer by Lou Bognon
Since being told
for the first time that diamonds are of triangular
shapes, I never again looked at rocks or even
at all the sand in the sea the same way. Imagine
my joy and wonder when I discovered along the
Namib Desert coast that sea sand was filled
with billions and trillions and quadrillions
of tiny little triangular shaped “diamonds”.
The power of belief
is like that coastal sand – where I see
diamonds, others see rocks, and still others
see rubbish, stinky sea weeds, or silica or
plain discomfort for their shoes, and most see
simply, nothing at all.
Belief is the
greatest gift of all and for those of us who
have kept their heart open like a child, we
actually start with a great advantage at all
levels of life – after all for us there
is always something more wondrous than the ordinary
out there, everything is more marvelous than
it actually looks, more magic, more fascinating,
and as a bonus, belief also makes us feel more
deserving, more powerful, more connected and
more special than the ordinary.
In fact with an
open heart and with an open mind, no-thing and
no-one, is actually ordinary – how could
it be otherwise?
Ordinariness would
be the absolute anti-everything: like anti-wonder,
anti-magic, anti-joy and anti all the qualities
and attributes that actually define our belief
in all things DIVINE if you will.
So, as the years
passed, my heart opened even more – and
at 52, it has now been a few years since I have
made a choice above all others – to always
keep my heart open and for ever opening. I look
to it for guidance, I listen to it for love
and wisdom and I really choose to use it best
when I am offering myself as an instrument for
giving healing to another. My belief being that,
as an extension of the Creator of all, of Love
Itself - through us, all healing is possible.
I choose to walk this road blindfolded to ensure
that all physical, material and intellectual
distractions will not disturb my belief that
I am indeed Love.
Now, being a healer
is something that most people often visualize
and imagine as being either: hard, tiring, exhausting,
or at worst really freaky or weird – the
stuff of wicked and/or illuminated, crystal-wearing
long-robed, long haired carrot-munching nutty-case
types. Unless of course their heart too has
remained open - and then their own healing -
happens!
For healing to
happen – just like for music to be created,
heard and enjoyed – first someone needs
to tap into it, hear it, then play it –
which means using an appropriate instrument.
Music –
like healing and like love – is always
there – everywhere actually – and
upon request, intention, attention, need - it
just flows. I hear the music in the rain, in
the wind and the way the elements move in the
sea, in a river, in a storm, in the echo of
a mountain’s body, actually everywhere.
I could say that I feel the healing and I feel
the love in the exact same way. There is no
place where they are not for they are inseparable.
For me this is not plain belief – this
is my reality.
Belief is that
which, in quantum physics terms, we are all
just starting to grasp: the observer affects
the thing being observed. And in the same way
our (greater or smaller) capacity to keep the
heart – and the mind - open, will also
affect all our other capacities: what we believe
we can do, we shall and what we do not –
we don’t, can’t, and won’t.
The words of the
Great Master sum it up perfectly: let it be
done onto you as you believe, ask and you shall
receive, knock and it shall open, search and
you shall find.
The question
we all need to ask ourselves is this:
If it all depends
on our belief capacity, our choices, intentions,
and open heart-mindness – from living
better, healthier, happier lives, to claiming
our gifts and abundance from the never ending
source of IT ALL, to having the sort of blind
faith in ourselves that we can indeed do, create
and achieve anything – why then - do we
still make choices of belief in things such
as lack, failure, judgment, criticism, poverty,
war, disease and the like?
I have chosen
to keep my heart open for joy, love, abundance
and so much healing, that my intentions, my
thoughts, my words and my actions will carry
the love of my heart forward to all of creation
and back to the Creator.
In practice, when
one comes to me for healing I say silently,
telepathically the following prayer:
Thank you Beloved
soul, to have come with an open heart –
may I be the instrument of the Creator’s
Love for you and may I help you return to the
perfection you can be, for Perfection is indeed
the sole predestination you and I are here to
be.
May the healing
flow.
May you remember
that you are Love.
May you remember
that you have the healer within.
May the Light,
Love and Healing of all the helpers in the Healing
Universes be with us.
My Divine Presence
embraces your Divine Presence.
This is how belief
feels in my experience, how belief IS my experience.
With Love Light
and Infinite Healing
Lou Bognon
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Beloved Friends,
It is my honor and pleasure to inform you that
Channel Africa has renewed my contract to continue
to produce and present my inspirational radio
show The Inner Voice both in its original English
version and in French for the 2008-2009 season.
As the program enters its fifth year I will
most certainly endeavour to, at all times take
it to the next level and hopefully continue
to make a difference in the beloved Mother Africa
and in the world at large.
Mother Africa is now poised to bring into the
Light her own ancient wisdom and I can predict
that from the pain and the suffering of the
people of Zimbabwe, the world will learn to
chose its leaders with greater care and change
them faster when they start being overtaken
by the love of power instead of being guided
by the power of love.
To use one of my favorite quotes attributed
to Jimmy Hendrix:
When the power of love will overcome the love
of power - the world will be OK.
Cannot agree more.
Love and Light to you.
Lou Bognon
Check out the new content and listen on the
link here
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Dear Friends,
Enjoy the empowering
information I share in this most recent article
I have written for Biophile Magazine
www.biophile.co.za
FROM
A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE NO.3
EARTH CHANGES – A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
Before I resume
my writings on the elements I thought that I
needed to share with you the deeper insights
that came through me from the higher realms
of understanding.
It all happened
quite un-expectedly – during my monthly
meditation group where I had, as I have done
for the past six years – focused on ways
of sending love and healing to our beloved Mother
Earth.
As I sat with
my wonderful group of likeminded light workers
and prepared to give an outlook of the particular
focus for that day, I recall vaguely having
said something to this effect: thank you for
being so committed to join me on this sixth
year of our meditation group and together let
us pray today for Mother Earth, that in her
need to do whatever she needs to find her balance
and healing, her whims will not hit or surprise
us with too much pain…(…)
We all sat in
silence as we usually do and as is customary
in our group, we allow each one to meditate
and to send love and healing as they feel guided
in their heart.
What happened
next, was not only un-expected but also very
special and this is why I want to share with
you.
To the best of
my ability I shall proceed to give you the words
I was asked to transmit by the Council of Love
and Wisdom, who dictated my third book: The
Divine Laws.
Greetings Beloved
Friends,
We come to correct
many misconceptions that are circulating about
the so called “whims” of Mother
Nature.
The information
we wish to share with you today will be beneficial
and important also to our messenger as she is
ignorant of the more scientific aspects of the
interactions and dynamics of energy –
correction – very ignorant – not
being a scientist herself.
All of you present
here today are visitors from a past age where
again the cycles of nature played similar scenarios.
Back in Atlantis you lived through the times
when those who were deeply connected knew in
advance that if men continued as they did then,
the climatic consequences would be the very
sinking of their land. Still the voices of love
and wisdom then, like now, were silenced and
ignored and so that civilization, where you
all played somewhat relevant roles, over a long
period of time decided to continue on a dangerous
path that ended in the demise of that continent,
culture and civilization.
Just like you
had then, you now have the denialists, the ones
that have grown so disconnected from the source
of all Life that they not only have forgotten
the sacredness of their own lives but the sacredness
of All Life.
And so they destroy,
separate and engage in the practices that have
brought you to this place where, once you have
forgotten that you are all part of the same
energy, you start tearing at each other, at
the very fabric of life that holds you together.
From a more scientific
perspective this means the failure to understand
and more serious still - to teach that all is
indeed energy in your world and in all worlds,
that all is connected.
So, what you think
or understand as a simple whim of Mother Nature
– is no more and no less than a mere reaction
or return of the same energy that you have sent
out and generated in your world. Think about
it this way: where are the greater points of
what you also call freak energy or freak storms
as you like to call them? – are they not
happening in the places where most people live
in a disconnected state from Spirit and Life
itself and then fall into entire masses of hopelessness
and helplessness as if hey were forgotten children
of God Himself? Beloved Ones, the real question
is: who is forgetting Whom?
Mother Earth is
simply sending back to you – albeit many
times amplified - the energy you constantly
send out into the ethers, this word being just
an aid to your understanding.
Energy dear friends,
attracts itself by similar resonance, frequency
and vibration – your destruction is being
given back to you collectively, your inner turmoil
and emotional pollution is also being given
back to you as we just said – amplified
– sadly many thousands of times over.
Know then –
that you have the power to send not only thoughts
of despair and destruction – but also
thoughts and intentions of love and healing
into the entire energy matrix of creation and
that powerful and pure thoughts of love can
– and will - stop the greatest storm,
redirect the biggest cyclone and dissolve into
nothingness the seemingly impossible task ahead
of you. Nature and all climatic conditions are
simply mirroring your collective energy. Change
the energy you send out and you will change
the way Mother Earth is responding. You can
change the climatic conditions you are experiencing.
Send out more love, more gratitude and more
reverence.
More than ever,
you need to remember that Love Changes Everything.
We bless each
and every one of you.
There you have
it – Let me have your feedback and share
as widely as possible, if this message resonates
with you.
Lou Bognon
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FOR
BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
www.biophile.co.za
FROM A SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE NO.2
HALLUCINATING FIRE
The first article
of this series I set out to write on the four
elements of nature: water, fire, air and earth,
ended by saying that Mother Earth was bathing,
and that her bath was running over…And
what do we do when we come out of a long running
bath? We reach out for warmth of course - just
like she is doing.
Focused on the
fire element, I can not help but think how Her
elements seem to be working not just in intelligent
sequence but also in perfect sync: all over
the news we have been witnessing the fires devastating
Southern California, where some of the most
rich and famous earthlings live.
And yet not too
long before the Californian inferno, the lungs
of our planet were literally chocking with fire
- yes – the Amazon was burning…but
the same corporate mass media the world over
(that had showed us California burning), had
not found its fires news worthy. Why should
they? How many celebrities live in the Amazon
anyway?
Plus who cares about the “what is its
name? zone”, the more it burns the more
land is “freed” for grazing so that
the masses of the world can continue to eat
hamburgers…This reminds me about the disconnected
thinking, which was literally decapitated during
the French revolution, saying of the then starving
masses: if there is no bread let them eat cake.
Now the thinking goes: let them eat hamburger.
Yeah! 21st century…Hallucinating I agree.
According to the
UK’s Independent article of 5 October
2007, by Daniel Howden and Jules Steven: Vast
areas of Brazil and Paraguay and much of Bolivia
are choking under thick layers of smoke as fires
rage out of control in the Amazon rainforest,
forcing the cancellation of flights.(…)
Roberto Smeraldi, head of Friends of the Earth
Brazil, said the situation was out of control:
"We have a strong concentration of fires,
corresponding to more than 10,000 points of
fire across a large area of about two million
sq km in the southern Brazilian Amazon and Bolivia."
Each year at the end of the dry season, in anticipation
of the first winter rains, farmers and cattle
ranchers throughout South America set fires
to "renovate" pasture land. (…)
Mr Smeraldi was clear on who was to blame for
this year's fires: "They are mainly, I
would say more than 90 per cent, the result
of expanding cattle ranching." The first
rains have arrived but they are weaker than
usual in most areas and have been useless against
the fires.
Yes – you read right: 10 000 points of
fire across an area of about 2 million sq kilometres.
We definitely
live in a world of disconnect from our Mother
Planet – in fact most of humanity is so
disconnected we may just as well be living in
another planet or in some parallel universe
all together.
Nobody seems to
want to connect the dots, to realise that the
fires that devastated Greece this summer, parts
of France and Portugal, as well as those of
Australia, South Africa – and of course
California (twice in a month), were just little
steps by mother nature in her dance of hallucination
that has now reached the beauty and vastness
of the Amazon in a massive, albeit non-reported,
scale.
From a spiritual
perspective, fire represents the whole consuming
flame that cleanses, transmutes and purifies.
But fire also represents the Light essence -
that which allows for things to be created and
re-created anew – the blueprint of divine
codes and information. Mentally and intellectually
we often equate fire with passion and in its
positive aspect fire is truly the motivator
and the great generator of energy. In our physiology
and materiality though, fire often means fever,
which when too high results in delirium and
hallucination, powerful signals that the body
is in trouble and fighting an invading enemy.
Given my deep
connection of love to Mother Earth I honestly
feel that her message for us at this time is
one of feverish hallucination. The infection
has been going on too long now from her perspective.
As we continue to refuse to change, she feels
somewhat past our “promised-pill”
dates, drips won’t do it either at this
stage – and so we can expect more fever-fires
of the sweeping kind we saw (and those we didn’t)
recently on our television screens. Mother Earth
is now really raising her temperature as a defence
against all the invading viruses and bacteria
we have become to her body.
As a healer I
often compare Her pain to that of rape victims:
they share the same sequence: sadness, water
to wash everywhere, till the bath runs over,
then the rage, anger, confusion, the shivers
after having gotten cold physically and spiritually
and finally the struggle to decide to heal and
fight - the resulting fever of survival. From
what I can see, this is where Mother Earth is:
she has already engaged her own fever process.
She is now starting to use the awesome power
of all her elements for her own survival, not
just for ours.
Given the sequence
of things, we can expect her to use more of
her other elements: air and earth – in
combination and in the sequence; no longer just
water and fire but volcanoes and earthquakes,
and perhaps all of them simultaneously in a
multitude of combinations and permeations…but
that is what I will be writing on next.
Till then, again
I ask you: plant more trees, plants, flowers,
walk upon the body of our beloved Mother Planet
with love and reverence, expressing as you go
along as much gratitude as you can master for
the blessings and the bounty of her gifts, for
they no longer can be taken for granted.
And more than ever – let us not forget
to tell her of our love – by consuming
less, driving less and smaller cars, eating
less meat, inflicting no harm, doing what we
can, by making a difference…only love
can make a difference now…
Lou BOGNON
is a spiritual healer, author, teacher, producer
and presenter of The Inner Voice, an inspirational
program on Channel Africa which is broadcast
internationally in English and French.
email her at: lou@loubognon.com
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Dear Friends,
Here is an article - in what I hope will be
the first of a few dedicated to the elements
of Mother Earth - which I wrote for the most
wonderful South African Magazine - BIOPHILE
- whose motto is: for the love of our earth
and all those who live on her.
Enjoy.
FOR
BIOPHILE MAGAZINE
www.biophile.co.za
FROM A SPIRITUAL
PERSPECTIVE
SUBJECT
1. WATER-WATER EVERYWHERE
This has been
a season of water rising records.
In China alone more than two hundred million
people were displaced or affected in some way.
In just two of India’s provinces another
20 million people were left homeless and hungry
for days before help on such massive scale could
cover the enormity of the area and the numbers
of people.
As for low lying Bangladesh by the time it was
evident that half the country was under water
nobody bothered to estimate how many more millions
were affected.
Main stream corporate
media suddenly stopped reporting about England’s
worst ever floods which of course by then looked
almost benign when compared to Asia’s.
As I write this column, Switzerland, Germany
and parts of France are starting to be added
to the list and this is not to mention Eastern
Europe’s storms and flash floods that
did not even make it to the world news for us
all to notice. Same could be said of the washing
and killing rains of Sudan, a country we are
more accustomed to associate with war, genocide
and desert.
Now, we all have
– in every continent, without exception
– come to understand what global warming
is all about – or at least the palpable
tangible effects – or should I say side
effects of it. Scientists are still divided
in camps of “told you so” and “what
global warming?’ – even though the
latter camp seem to be marginalizing themselves
in the face of such powerful evidence now before
us (and them) even before those paid to look
the other way by some major political and economical
lobbies.
Al Gore and his
documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”
showed us images that speak louder than any
of his own or anybody’s statements, especially
those pertaining to the melting of the glaciers,
the rise in temperatures and how the world maps
are likely to change.
From a spiritual
perspective, those of us who are deeply connected
to Mother Earth and all life forms evolving
on Her, we know that this she is a nurturing,
sentient and intelligent being trying to cope
as best she can with the unbearable pain we
have inflicted upon her, her creatures and upon
each other through our collective greed, carelessness
and mindless consumption.
Our collective
pollution is not just the visible rubbish we
have accumulated, from our own homes to the
waste dumps, but most serious still, is the
emotional pollution we have created with the
belief systems that have separated us, drove
us to “just”, “liberation”
“independence” “holy”
and all kinds of wars, creating unbearable suffering
and exploitation of all kinds and in general
brought us to this sense of dirt and clutter
that prevails.
And what would
each one of us do if we were to feel dirty,
cluttered, raped, violated, used and lonely?
We would want to wash it all away – and
that is exactly what she is doing. Mother Earth
is washing herself now. And her bath is just
filling up. Like a pained and overwhelmed mother
she is allowing the bath to run over. This season
she will not care - all she wants and all she
needs is water-water everywhere.
Become her life
line – send her your love and gentle words.
Act for Her:
sell your gas guzzler, plant more trees, walk
on Her body with your bare feet and tell her
you love her often, become a mindful consumer,
live from the heart, and whatever you do, buy,
create, invent, sell, connect to her to find
out if it is good for her and all the life forms
she supports.
She needs our collective healing love. Now!
The more of us do this the faster she will choose
to heal.
By not changing anything in our lives and in
our behaviour, we choose to experience the alternative:
sleep in the bath water with her and perhaps
never wake up again on her loving heart.
Lou BOGNON is a spiritual healer, author, teacher,
producer and presenter of The Inner Voice, an
inspirational program on Channel Africa which
is broadcast internationally in English and
French.
www.loubognon.com
lou@loubognon.com
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