Cempaka Belanda: Prince Claus Fund supports Chinese library after earthquake

"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.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … 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.)

"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. …”

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Prince Claus Fund supports Chinese library after earthquake

The library of the mountain village of Beichuan, which was destroyed in an earthquake, will receive 120,000 euros from a Dutch charity to store what it has been able to save from under the rubble.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Marije Vlaskamp, November 2009 - 1:41pm

Li Mingcui, 61, wearing Qiang minority costumes, holds a red scarf as a sign of respect to the rescuers during the May earthquake at Beichuan County, Sichuan province November 11, 2008. Li was dug out by rescuers from the rubble of a collapsed market about 164 hours after the earthquake on May 12, 2008, local media reported. (REUTERS/Bo Bor)

This is the first time the Prince Claus Fund has earmarked such a large amount for cultural emergency aid, and it’s also the first time the Fund has undertaken a project in China. "The library director mailed us a budget from her hospital bed".

Director Li Chun intended to move part of the collection from the overfull library in the centre of Beichuan to a modern annex in an outlying neighbourhood at the foot of the mountain. She was as the printers next door to the library to pick up some blueprints for the annex.

Primeval force

Then the mountain came crashing down on the town of 160,000 residents. An earthquake registering eight on the Richter scale scattered tonnes of earth and rocks the size of lorries.

"My head was bleeding and my hand was trapped under the rubble. I heard someone next to me call out in the dark. It was the girl from the print shop. The printer was also lying there somewhere. Dead."

Li Chun lay buried under 20 meters of rubble. It was only after being saved that she learned she had been buried alive for 75 hours. The printer’s girl had been dug out earlier. I don’t know whether she survived. I never saw her again."

After being admitted to hospital, Li Chun realised she easily could have died. The combination of gangrene, the amputation of her left buttock and a psychological trauma meant it took her more than a year to recover. But an irrepressible urge to save whatever was left of her library, which had in its collection irreplaceable books and CDs on Beichuan, inspired her to cling to life.

Ethnic minority

Beichuan is home to the Qiang, a small ethnic minority. They are a mountain people with their own language and traditions, which are passed on orally. They don’t have their own script, and over the past few centuries most of the Qiang have adopted the Chinese language and customs. Only one in three Qiang still speak their own language.

To preserve the last remnants of their unique culture, Li Chun - a Han Chinese married to a Qiang man – began collecting material on the Qiang and their native land. Embroidery patterns, songs, funeral rites; she had videos made of whatever was not written down.

Documentation project

A fraction of the Qiang collection was saved. The rest is slowly disintegrating under the rubble, which is why she began mobilising her network from her hospital bed only three months after the earthquake struck, looking for support to properly preserve the remains of the Qiang collection. "As soon as the new Beichuan is finished in 2020, we will get back to work and resume the documentation project."

"The people in the disaster area have tremendous resilience. They are working hard and organise all kinds of help," says Eleonore de Merode, project coordinator of the Prince Claus Fund’s Cultural Emergency Response department (CER), which offers financial assistance when cultural heritage is at risk of being lost as the result of war or a natural disaster.

Hard hit

This is not the first time the Fund has assisted a library after a disaster. Earlier beneficiaries include an Indonesian library which received assistance after the 2004 tsunami, as well as archives in Lesotho and Lebanon. The donation to Beichuan is the largest in the Fund’s history, but then the Qiang have been exceptionally hard hit by the earthquake.

At 300,000 souls, the Qiang were never a numerous people, and one in ten were killed in the earthquake. Without its 'initiated', the elderly people who still know and practice the old traditions and customs, it will be next to impossible to document the Qiang rituals. However, Li Chun, who has learned to consider every day a gift, will not be deterred.