Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts

Solar storm heads Earth's way after double sun blasts
The Aurora Australis is observed from the International Space Station during a geomagnetic storm on May 29, 2010 (AFP Photo)

Northern lights over Terschelling, Friesland..

Northern lights over Terschelling, Friesland..
(Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands - 27-28 February, 2014)

Northern lights delight Dutch in surprise showing in north and east.

Northern lights delight Dutch in surprise showing in north and east.
Still from timelapse film by Schylgefilm (Terschelling, Friesland, Netherlands - 17 Mar 2015)


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"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) -

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.

They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."
"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, Global Unity,..... etc.)



"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Indonesian Exhibition Reveals a German-Dutch Botanist on the Frontier

The Jakarta Globe, Katrin Figge

The exhibition at Erasmus Huis on the occasion of the bicentenary of explorer Junghuhn’s birth runs through Jan. 10. (Photo: Katrin Figge, JG)

Many travelers have come and gone to the island of Java, fascinated by its beauty. But only a few have really explored it, let alone dedicated years of their lives to the task.

But Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, born in 1809 in Mansfeld, a small city in central Germany, spent a great deal of his life in Java, during a time when Indonesia, then the Dutch East Indies, was still a blank spot on the map for many.

Overshadowed by colleagues such as Alexander von Humboldt, and almost forgotten by Germans, the Dutch and Indonesians, a new exhibition, titled “Researching, Measuring, Arguing,” reintroduces the life and work of Junghuhn, 200 years after his birth, in a collaboration between the Dutch Erasmus Huis and the German Goethe-Institut.

The jewel of this exhibition is Junghuhn’s map of Java, surprisingly accurate for the time it was created, including almost every village and river.

“There were so many different aspects of his life,” said Roman Roesener of the Goethe-Institut and curator of the exhibition. “He was an explorer, a naturalist, a botanist, a doctor, a photographer, all at the same time.”

On several wall charts, visitors to the exhibition find a biography of Junghuhn. The timetable pointing out the most significant events in Junghuhn’s life reads like an adventure story itself, starting at an early age.

“His father initially wanted him to be a doctor,” Roesener said. “But Junghuhn was more interested in botany. He began his medical studies but was so unhappy about it that he dropped out. After an attempted suicide, it seemed that his father finally gave in and let him do what he wanted.”

In 1830, Junghuhn came in conflict with the law. After a quarrel, he fought a duel with a fellow student. Duels, however, were already against the law at the time and Junghuhn was arrested. He spent a year in prison.

“He was about to be released, pardoned by the Prussian king,” Roesener said. “But he was unaware of that fact, and one night before he was actually to be a free man again, Junghuhn escaped from the military prison and fled through France all the way to Algeria.”

He joined the Foreign Legion and later worked in Paris for a couple of months.

Junghuhn first set foot on Java in October 1835. Initially hired as military doctor, his superior, Dr. Fritze, soon recognized Junghuhn’s talent as a naturalist and asked him to join him on a medical, geological and botanical tour through western and later eastern Java. This was the beginning of a lifelong passion for Junghuhn. Together they inspected the volcanos on the island. Junghuhn was eventually released from his medical duties and became a member of the Natural History Commission.

“They paid him a monthly salary, and that gave him the opportunity to focus on the things he loved,” Roesener said.

He also traveled to Sumatra to explore the lands of the Batak.

“The Dutch sent him there for self-serving reasons, of course,” Roesener said. “It was very important for them to have maps of the region, and to see if there were any natural resources.”

This points to an inner conflict that would bother Junghuhn for the rest of his life: Though he loved nature, he was financially dependent on the Dutch and had little choice but to participate in colonial exploitation.

In his book “Java, Vol. 1,” he wrote: “Through increasing population and cultivation of the soil the beauty of nature is destroyed. The magnificent flowering bushes, the grasslands alternating with forests and home to so many living creatures, so attractive, so entertaining to see — they are being crowded out by the land use systems predominant in Central Europe, by ugly monotonous fields, which one cannot look at without wishing to away as quickly as possible. This is the end of the song for which Nature sacrificed herself.”

In 1848, after spending 13 years in the Dutch East Indies, Junghuhn was forced to return to Europe due to poor health. His book “Journey Home from Java to Europe on the So-Called English Overland Mail” was published three years later. Settling down in the Netherlands, Junghuhn married the daughter of a Dutch officer and became a Dutch citizen in 1853.

But after only six years in Europe, Junghuhn became restless and decided to return to Java. As the inspector for natural history investigations on Java, Junghuhn settled down in Cianjur with his wife, but spent most of his time traveling, until he was put in charge of cinchona cultivation. Quinine, the first known treatment for malaria, is derived from the bark of the cinchona, so the Dutch government was eager to grow the trees in Java.

Junghuhn succeeded where his predecessors had failed. However, he never witnessed the success of his cultivation methods as he died of amoebic dysentery one year too soon, in 1864.

“Junghuhn was deeply bothered by this inner conflict,” Roesener said. “He died at the age of 54, and some say that he died of a broken heart.”

It is believed that Junghuhn’s last request before he died was for his doctor to open the window, so he could see his beloved mountains and breathe the fresh air one last time.

Researching – Measuring – Arguing
Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn
Until January 10

Erasmus Huis
Jl. Rasuna Said Kav. S3, Kuningan
South Jakarta

Tel. 021 524 1069

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