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This week: On Federal Politics and on the election of a new Pope
Yoga Thursdays in Balingup; Fridays in Margaret River [PLEASE note that ANZAC day will have no yoga due to the Retreat in Denmark] - all welcome!
Meditation new series based on neuroscience starting soon in Withcliffe. A new set based on Steiner's main personal development book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, starting in May in Balingup.
 Friday 25th April - Bluff Knoll Walk - one-day event for teens on ANZAC Day
I am planning to walk up Bluff Knoll with teens... parents will have to organise / share lift to and from the car park
(there is an entry fee to the Park unless you have a pass). Parents can car-pool so that not everyone needs to drive
down and back (or camp nearby if you so wish).
Cost $20 meet at the Bluff Knoll car park between 8 and 8:30 AM Friday 25th April.
BRING at least 2 litres of water (one litre can stay at the car), morning tea to eat up the top, a fruit (preferably an
orange or apple) and a treat (energy bar or equivalent). Decent walking shoes (though I have done it in sandals),
SOCKS! (it may get cold), rainjacket, and warm jumper (even if not worn!).
At the top we'll have brunch, and do 12 minutes of Paneurhythmy before heading back down. Total walk will likely
take around 5 hours (depends on slowest walker). I have walked to the Knoll both in Summer and in Winter, and it
can be challenging, but everyone I know who has done it (including 10-17 yo +) have all thought it worthwhile.
Please note that though I previously lead bushwalks in Victoria, my first aid has NOT been updated, and my
insurance does NOT cover incidents. Participate at own risk. Parents do not NEED to walk (in fact, I would suggest
that the driver avoids the walk in order to not feel exhausted for the drive back). There is a camping ground about
30 mins away in case some families would like to stay the night before or after (I will be heading to Denmark that
evening for a yoga and meditation retreat).
PLEASE SHARE - this activity is open and not restricted to homeschoolers.
Homeschooling 12-17 yo TERM 2 (May - June 2025) - 8-weeks - 9:30-11:30 am and 12:20-2:30 pm
Bookings now open for Margaret River and for Balingup - If you are interested please let me know by text or email (0490770061 - jmd@fourhares.com)
Margaret River at Gathered Organics – Friday mornings
9th May - 27th June – Cost: $260
9:30 - 11:30: Literature, Politics, and History through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Overview: This programme delves into Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet exploring language, theatre art, history and psychology.
Ideal for: Teens in Margaret River, Witchcliffe, Augusta, Prevelly, Cowaramup areas who are committed to participating every Friday mornings.
Note to Parents: Your support in ensuring consistent attendance and engagement is essential to the programme’s success.
Trial two weeks: $80 (Confirm after the second session and pay the remaining balance).
Balingup Town Hall [venue t.b.c.] – Wednesdays
7th May - 25th June – Cost: $500 both sessions; $260 mornings or afternoons only
Morning 9:30 - 11:30: Literature, Politics, and History through Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Overview: This programme delves into Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet exploring language, theatre art, history and psychology
Afternoon 12:30 - 2:30: philosophy - focussing on the development of guiding philosophical ideas in epistemology and ethics from Plato to John Deely
Overview: We explore some development in consciousness over the centuries through the history of philosophy, focussing especially on how we understand the world (epistemology) and how we develop inner virtues to best respond to circumstances that we daily face (ethics).
Ideal For: Teens in Balingup, Nannup, Bridgetown and Donnybrook who are committed to participating every Wednesday.
Note to Parents: Your support in ensuring consistent attendance and engagement is essential to the programme’s success.
Trial two weeks: Mornings & Afternoons: $150 (Confirm after the second session and pay the remaining balance).
Balingup Yoga Studio – Thursdays 4:00–4:45
Yoga for teens (12 - 17 y.o. only) – please contact to book
 Spiritual Formation through Direction
Book a session and see where it leads...
Personal Development has traditionally focussed on spiritual formation through what has been referred to as Spiritual Direction. In the manner that I work, I include practices inclusive of imagery and meditation. If you are interested in finding out more, please have a look at SDI-Companions (I have been a member on and off for over 20 years).
As in the past, following an initial consultation, those desiring to pursue deepening their work commit for a once-a-month meeting for either 6 or 12 months (renewable if desired). Cost $160 per session (conc. available for financial hardship).
More details please do read the pdf included here, which in part reads:
Spiritual Formation is first and foremost a journey, not a destination. This journey remains personal, and as any aspect of life, is unique, though sharing characteristics with the journeys others have travelled. It is in recognising and sharing the signposts, bringing awareness to aspects of a map whose reality others have explored, that what is called spiritual direction may be beneficial. The journey remains, however, personal as development unfolds according to one’s own steps upon a path created anew and afresh.
Spiritual direction provides us with a means to deepen our relationship with the divine, and to learn and grow in our own spiritual life and formation. A spiritual director is someone who is able to accompany us, in part only, within that journey. As a director, I see my part of the journey as bringing some guides or signposts into view, making use of symbolic tools that have long been used so assist you in taking some new sejourneying steps.
Yoga
Denmark retreat 25-28th April 2025 - a reminder to mark your calendars for participants
This retreat is now fully booked. We'll be organising retreat for later in the year - so keep an eye out for details in this Newsletter.
● Balingup Yoga on Thursdays (10 am and 6 pm). The (please 'like' and share if you're on FB) Balingup Yoga Studio (simply text me on 0490 770 061).
● Margaret River yoga on Fridays (6 pm) held in the Hall at the back of the Anglican Church at 11 Station Street View on Apple Maps. (Alice also has yoga sessions here on Mondays) - PLEASE note NO Yoga in ANZAC Day due to the Denmark Retreat.
● Yoga in the Gardens of Caves House Hotel in Yallingup is now over for this Summer-Autumn season
Meditation
● Balingup Meditation on Wednesdays (6 - 7:30 pm). The (please 'like' and share if you're on FB) Balingup Yoga Studio (simply text me on 0490 770 061). This series will focus on Steiner's Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, especially the first 3/4 of the book (with a major focus on the Lotus Flowers / Chakras).
● Witchcliffe on Sundays (2 - 3:30 pm) details forthcoming - 9 weeks, with a neuroscience focus.
Flourish Wellness - Margaret River - Massage Therapy, Spinal Flow, and Cellular Health
See Katana at the Wellness Expo in Nannup on Saturday!
Options include Relaxation and Remedial Massage, Spinal Flow, and Cellular Health consults... Contact Katana for more details or book: FlourishWellness.au
Inner Dance - Online, and in Bunbury and Busselton
Have a look through James's offerings...
'Through Innerdance we quiet the mind, come into the wisdom of our bodies, allow our heart to open and our soul to shine' InnerdanceWithJames
Tarot
Russell Sturgess's online course: A Map for Transcendence - check it out at www.russellsturgess.com.au
Read my March 2025 Newsletter - April's issue in preparation... it can be read online here: fourhares.com/news-email.html
Subscribe to Fourhares (mainly) tarot international monthly newsletter (sometimes less than monthly).
● If you would like to see a small range of videos on which I speak of tarot, head to www.fourhares.com/tarot/video_references.html - If you wish to receive my next Tarot Newsletter, please subscribe to my Fourhares Newsletter (different to Sage) - it comes out monthly (though frequently less often!) - fourhares.com
This week in focus
Federal and Vatican Elections
Interestingly, there are two elections that are fast approaching. The first is the Australian Federal Election, and (potentially) simultaneously, the College of Cardinals will determine who is to be the new Pope (Pope Francis, the first Jesuit to have been elected as Pope, having gone to face his maker during the Easter period).
I've been struggling with the altering political landscape in Australia - it used to be (or it seems to me) to have been far simpler than now... and my current choices and suggestions (mentioned below) reflect the inner tension and struggles we each, in our own ways, need to find and make in order to best reflect the freedoms we have enjoyed, and the sacrifices our predecessors have made in the service of our way of life. Here, i simply acknowledge the many who have, across history, made those sacrifices that have allowed us to stand where we can still speak of honour, of virtue, of truth, or courage, of love, of wisdom, and of justice - something that the spirit of ANZAC in many ways honours.
so... firstly, on the Australian elections...
I wasn't planning to write much about it at all, except to perhaps bring a brief outline, for especially the benefit of those whose first time it is to vote or who are somewaht unfamiliar with our voting system. In essense, we, ie, the adult Australian population (and of course, here, unlike in most places around the world, voting - or at least getting your name crossed off at a voting station - is compulsory. The voting in the Lower House must have each and every box numbered in order for the vote to be valid; in the Upper House (the Senate), there are now a number of possible ways to show your vote. Unless you wish to vote 'below the line', which requires you to number the individual candidates 1 through to at least 12 ... but if you're voting 'below the line', you may as well number up the the end, usually between 30 and 60. If voting ABOVE the line, there are two options, either vote '1', which will mean, effectively, that you have allowed that political party to have determined your preferences, or vote at least 1-6 (your voting preferences will then flow according to those parties in your preferred order.
Remember that we have a prefential voting system. What this means is that, unlike in many other places around the world, your vote still counts towards (as example) your preference as you list them for the major parties should your 'minor' unlected first preference does not in fact get in (of course, the ideal is that your actual first preferencec does in fact get elected - an often slim yet possible outcome.
Now the main problem lies (excuse the pun, we are talking politics, but hope that instead of lies, truth and other virtues predominate). I have been asked a number of times who I recommend. Given that this Newsletter, though mainly for the S.W. of WA, has readers interstate as well, I will not name names of candidates (with an exception here and there), but rather my Party preferences given what is known of them (please do your research, as it does appear that infiltration by globalist-buraucratic-oriented forces have infiltrated what at first seems 'freedom-oritented' movements... though I have not as yet been able to confirm, an interstate candidate for the Legalise Cannsbis Party is supposedly such a case.
Here is how I would simply order the parties (both Lower and Upper house based on their record, as well as what they stand for. Please note that I am placing the LIBERALS higher than anticipated due to a simple and important comment that, if followed through, halts at least one major socialist-wing concern: the local Liberal Candidate, Ben Small, has stated that if elected, would:
A stop to the Geographe Bay wind farm threatening wildlife, tourism and the South West way of living.
A 'Wind Farm' is of course not a 'farm' - an abuse a language as fer as I can see. But the proposal is a serious concern that Labor, the Greens and Teals seem keen to push - with so many concerns that, aside from other places, has already been adequately raised at a special Council Meeting in Busselton (not that it is a Council decision of course).
So here are my recommendations - please note that I rarely speak on political issues, and encourage each and everyone to look into areas you would like to support or preclude and vote accordingly.
Vote for each and every party within each column (if in your State) in your order of preference
Each column, I would suggest, is best rendered in your own preferred order, but to be maximally effective, EVERY party therein listed, if in your State (and not all are in every State), is maximised by your inclusion in those preferences. Please note that I have listed the so-called 'Independents' being funded and supported by the political action group Climate 200 with that name (on the ballot paper, Climate200 will NOT be listed! - but all candidates can be found here).
 and importantly... on the Papal elections...
Firstly, it is with sadness that the passing of an important religious figurehead is met, and my prayers are added to the numerous others as he reaches the heights of rest and faces his karmic judgements. Those of you who know me personally know that Pope Francis (the first jesuit to be elected to the office of pope), was not my favourite: he all too often seemed to favour the temporal to the eternal, and I would personally prefer a Pope who openly spoke of the importance and vitality of Christ.
So what now... first there is the nine days of mourning, following which the Collegiate of Cardinals will meet to elect a new Pope. At the earliest, this will take place by early May - though it could take many weeks of closed-chamber votes to achieve the 2/3 +1 majority needed (as well as the acceptance of the College's vote by the candidate). Though in theory the College could elect as Pope any man baptised, in practice it is the custom that the new Pope will be elected from the rank of Cardinals. Who are the most likely candidates of the 137 electors? in my personal view, there are only five that stand out as likely candidates (though the Spirit moves in mysterious ways!):
Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi; Cardinal Péter Erdő; Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa [a potential favourite]; Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça; ... and as a real outsider, the new (and youngest) Australian Cardinal Mykola Bychok.
Of these, and though I suspect the Cardinal Erdo will get an early run, why I suspect that the young Australian Cardinal Bychok stands a very high chance is two-fold: at the moment, the Church, post-Francis, is seen as divided, and every other candidate will be judged as either pro- or -anti- the recent history. With Cardinal Bychok, who is an Orthodox Catholic, there is the perceived possibilty that he will be seen to be focussed on re-uniting the now 1000-year old fracture that occured between east and west (Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox), bringing the Church back as ONE (minus that various protestant congregations). This would also be an easy way to bring back the possibility of married men into the priesthood without causing further division... and his young age would be perceived as a man yet to be molded by the powers that be (though one would pray that the impulse of the Holy Spirit weaves its grace...
What would be even more interesting is if the new Pontif took the name Anastasius (the Vth).
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From my perspective, it adds to what is already known to be the positive cellular healing effects of redox signalling molecules with what is also known of the positive impact of gold in healing (such as what is referred to as white gold powder – though it is in gold's natural form that RedoxGold incorporates this beneficial metal).
1) Go to HealThySelf.au of RedoxHealth.au and choose the 'Buy Here' from one of the three accounts listed - mine is 'obviously' FourHares or JMD, Katana's is by her name;
OR
2) Go from here to my FourHares ASEA page , and then simply click to Buy Here' . My suggestion is to try it for 3 months, I'm sure you'll want to continue - with a box (4) bottles of ASEA Drink and 1 Renu28 - this seems to be what most people regularly use. If you have any questions or would like to discuss any elements, PLEASE be in touch
Summary of RECENT FINDINGS ('White Paper') (independent research by University of Bath and University of Western Sydney):
● The research conducted independently by both universities found that the Nrf2 pathway was significantly impacted by redox signaling molecules.
● Nrf2 is a genetic pathway that plays a vital role in regulating genes that support response and resilience to a range of stressors. These stressors may include fatigue, emotional stress, inflammation, environmental pollution, and even lifestyle factors such as poor diet or sedentary behavior.
● One key finding in the research was that supplementation with redox signaling molecules increased Nrf2 activity by up to 60%. This is significant given the Nrf2 pathway enhances the antioxidant protective system inside our bodies’ cells. (See fig. 7B.)
● Another key finding is that supplementation with redox signaling molecules increased cells’ production of protective proteins like glutathione, which play important roles in promoting overall balance. The research revealed that supplementation with redox signaling molecules increased glutathione production by 40% in healthy cells and that it restored glutathione production in compromised cells even more—by 55%. (See figs. 12A and 12B.)
The White Paper (linked above) includes the following explanation:
Signal transduction by electron transfer, or redox signaling requires an electrophile (a molecule that attracts electrons) reacting with a nucleophile (a molecule that will give up electrons). Redox signaling involves reactions where an electrophile takes electrons away leaving the nucleophile in a more oxidized state (oxidation reaction). In this situation the electrophile is called an oxidant. On the other hand, reductive stress is characterized by an excess of cellular electron donors. When conditions result in ratios where antioxidants exceed pro-oxidants, reductive stress occurs with a consequent excess accumulation of reducing equivalents like reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH), for example, surpassing the compensatory activities of regulatory oxidoreductases. In summary, oxidation and reduction by loss or gain of an electron induce changes in structural and functional characteristics of molecules, thus modifying signaling processes.
Redox signaling is part of the normal physiology of all cells, including flow stimulated growth of endothelial cells, and plays a significant role in pathophysiological responses such as occur in ischemia/reperfusion injury, as well.
> See also From Vaccine Injury to Vitality: and ASEA Story
Included again from previous weeks, here is a fascinating medical interview showing ASEA's impact on blood coagulation and oxygen carrying capacities
vimeo.com/1000174468
Jean-Michel
0490770061
email: sage@fourhares.com
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