A new book review in LILIPOH 'The Translucent Revolution, How People Just Like You are Waking Up and Changing the World' by Arjuna Ardagh,New World Library, Novato, CA starts out like this: Late one evening, Robert was out taking a walk. He had passed through many trials and tribulations in recent years and his mood was blacker than the night. 'I am finished,' his mind announced. He still has trouble explaining what happened next. 'I was overcome by a sense of relief,' he reports, 'A sudden feeling of inexpressible freedom. My body was filled with happiness, as if I was suddenly getting a joke I'd been missing. I was totally here, in this moment. I could feel the trees around me, and hear the sounds without having to listen to thoughts telling me things needed to be different in some way. Everything was being experienced, but the 'me' was gone.'
Over the past 12 years the author has spoken to thousands of people who have passed through similar shifts of consciousness...the majority ordinary people...

Does this sound familiar?

To the Environmental Protection Agency
Co Wexford
Ireland

21 February 2006

To Whom it May Concern

We ask you to seriously consider the consequences of the steps you are contemplating in allowing GM crops to be planted in Ireland. Once you introduce modified GM seeds you are putting the control in the hands of a few, or possibly just one, corporation. This is extremely unwise and a possible future danger to the public.

It is also a surrender to monetary forces; blinding those in power to the protests against this defacement of the living earth.

Consider that this is truly a matter of life and death—the living forces of plants grown naturally are in a relationship to the earth, sun and moon. Manipulate plants as in GM seeds and this relationship is interfered with. Ireland is a verdant country. That is what draws people from other places to it. Compare a field of naturally grown produce with fields of GM crops, one is light-filled, the other visibly barren. Maybe you have not observed this. We have, to our horror.
Have the courage to say no to the giants from abroad and don’t imperil this land, not even with one field of potatoes. You do not want to contribute to another famine.