Clever Copper Did you know that the ancients used copper to heal a variety of afflictions? The Egyptians sterilised wounds with copper and believed it made water safe to drink. Boils, eye infections and venereal ulcers were supposed to be alleviated by copper in Persia and India, while the Aztecs used it to treat sore throats. The Romans had derivatives of copper in many of their drugs, using it extensively for medicinal purposes. (Source: Wikipedia) Air Shared The new best of traydioshow - Air to Share - is proving a big hit. Take a listen to Carl Munson and me, as we laugh our way through our new radio programme, full of stories, insights and banter on living a more conscious life - minus the pomp and preachiness. Check us out right here Turning turtle Did you know that a Leatherback Turtle has been known to swim 17,000 km in one year! They'll only continue to do this if we start caring for our oceans. Find out more at our Copperwiki click here Make yourself count Want to be more than just a profile in a social network? Join us in here where we'll consider you more of a partner than a member. Tell us how you'd like to see the site develop, add to the CopperWiki convesation, get your voice heard on traydio.com, and help us help you in all aspects of living consciously. Healing cat-alyst Ingrid Collins is a spiritual healer with a powerful determination. Vets wrote off a new-born kitten with a deformed leg, but Ingrid had other ideas. Can healing really straighten bones? Find out here World Fairy Festival 3/4th May Take a moment outside amongst any tiny plot of nature you can find and send your love to the fairies. According to Doreen Virtue 'the more of us who believe in the fairies, the more power they have to heal and protect our precious planet'. Big cat's big message   IsI like to consider animals as equals and feel they have an important part to play in our personal and spiritual growth as well as in our eco-system. Take White Lions for example... Ponder this: White Lions are born naturally only in Timbavaati, next door to the Kruger National Park, although most are bred in canned hunting reserves until we do something to change this. According to local legend they are messengers from the Gods, and only come to Earth in times of great ecological crisis. To add to their mystique one white lioness was born on December 25th in the year 2000 in a place called Bethlehem - the one in South Africa, but still….. They urgently need us to pay attention; do so at www.whitelions.org Beauty or the Beast? Sumatran tigers, Javan rhino's and the wonderful orang-utan, all endangered species, are under threat increasingly from our beauty industry. Palm oil, used in products like Dove soap, is harvested from their Indonesian rainforest habitat which is being destroyed faster than any other. Greenpeace have been making their point, dressed as orang-utans, outside Unilever factories in Merseyside and their headquarters in Italy and Holland. Source: Greenpeace Resource: www.littlesatsuma.com purveyors of palm oil free soap. Making a killing from sex? Aphrodisiacs sell well, so two 19th century rhino horns stolen from a South African museum last week could be used to cash in on this lucrative market. However, if used in this capacity they could be deadly; they're drenched in poison! Source: Planet Ark   Street's London Could the city you live in be the New Jerusalem? Chris Street, author of The Visionary Landscape, believes London has all the sacred geometric patterns in its landscape to claim this title. Not only does the London landscape generate the most phenomenal star patterns, it also gives birth to a Dove, a Unicorn and a Lion, with the Lion facing due East just like the Egyptian sphinx. Could this really mean that seven million people (including this editor) live in a sacred landscape with a sacred mission? To find out more listen to Chris click here and visit his website here   Love link fixed If you tried to click through to Sandra Hillawi's Love Clinic website in the last newsletter, please accept my apologies for including an incorrect link. To find out more about The Love Clinic please go to here   Ghost writing 'Floating plastic is causing untold damage to sea birds and turtles alike. A recent survey by the RSPB found that many albatross chicks are dying of starvation because the parents are picking up plastic objects thinking them fish and feeding to their offspring. Turtles, who live to be older than many of us humans, are also being fooled by plastic objects like bags they think are jelly fish. They often suffocate or starve through the ingestion of the bags. There is one area of the Pacific ocean that has a floating island of plastic claimed to be as large as the UK. So where does all this plastic come from? It comes from sewage outlets, cruise ships, cargo ships and people on the beach throwing their plastic objects away. So take rubbish home from the beach, save your used postage stamps and send them to Albatross Appeal, RSPB, Sandy Lodge, Bedfordshire, UK or send letters or emails to your water company, cruise ship companies and shipping companies asking them to stop killing our fellow planet inhabitants. More at here Empath Man's Inn-sight of the Week Reach for the stars, you just might get to the pub. Survive or thrive? That is the question! 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