Support The Animal Sanctuary!

If you’re ever in Cheshire and you or your loved ones are fond of animals and care about animal welfare, then I would highly recommend a visit to the Animal Sanctuary in Wilmslow.

As part of the Humane Education Society,  a charitable organisation working for a more compassionate society through education and practical work with children and animals, the Sanctuary offers permanent and temporary homes to animals in need of some loving care, including cats, horses, hens, rabbits, ferrets and pigs.

We were shown round the sanctuary by a lovely woman called Jenny (thanks, Jenny!) who is clearly devoted to all the animals and had a tale to tell about each and every one, telling us how they ended up in the sanctuary in the first place and sharing little details about each animal’s individual personality.

All the animals are extremely well cared for and well loved by the staff. Whilst I would love to work in a sanctuary like this,  I think it would break my heart to say goodbye the animals which are rehoused, even though I knew they were going to a good home.*

Not all of the animals are rehoused though, and some – like the pigs Erica and Babe, and Flea, the office cat – remain permanent residents of the sanctuary. It was wonderful to wander around and be followed by little black cats, some hens and a duck – and my partner was particularly taken with Daisy, the resident donkey!

Of course, sanctuaries like this cost money to run and as a charity, the Animal Sanctuary at Wilmslow is reliant on public support. Having spent some time in its wonderful warm and welcoming atmosphere, I can assure you that any donation you give will be money well spent. I’ve personally signed up to make a regular direct debit payment each month and plan on doing some fundraising too.

If you’d like to find out more about the Animal Sanctuary, then please check out their website here.  And do pop in if you’re ever nearby – you will always be guaranteed a warm welcome by both humans and animals alike The Sanctuary also welcome group visits so if you run any kind of group which you feel will benefit from a visit the sanctuary, then drop them a line via the website.

*As an empath and HSP, I was bracing myself for the floods of tears I thought I would be reduced to – in the past, I’ve visited other animal rescue units and I’ve ended up sobbing the whole time and left feeling desperate to adopt all the animals. However, the vibes I picked up at the Animal Sanctuary were so loving and compassionate, and the animals were so well-cared for that I left the centre with a warm glow in my heart and a feeling of joy that there were such places in the world (although I did still want to adopt all the animals!). There was only one heartbreaking and tearful moment – we visited a little pony who hadn’t been there long and had been the victim of a cruel former owner. The terror in this little chap’s eyes, despite the gentle reassurance and kindness he was being shown by the staff, was something which will haunt me forever. I do hope that when we visit again, he is much happier and has learned that not all humans are bad.

2012 and the Black Swan

In my previous post, I predicted that a Black Swan event was imminent. Since then I have received further signs that this is the case so I will now briefly explain a little more about what a Black Swan event is and what this means for humanity.

A Black Swan event is something which is extremely rare and prior to its occurrence, considered improbable, but which leaves profound changes in its wake,  radically altering the status quo forever. Examples of Black Swan events are described in more detail in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book about Black Swan theory, including the rise of the Internet, the 9/11 attacks, the invention of the personal computer and World War I.

Black Swan events can also occur on a personal level but I believe that the signs that I’ve been getting imply a more global change which is connected to 2012. My daughter was recently reading about 2012 on the internet and asked me with some anxiety what it meant and whether the world was going to end. I reassured her that planet Earth was not going to cease to exist – but that life as we know it would go through some radical and much needed changes. We’re already seeing the beginnings of this with the revolutions which are occurring around the world and the riots which have occurred here in the UK. People everywhere have had enough of the lack of empathy shown by the powers-that- be regarding their circumstances and the inequality which this fosters  (and vice versa) and are beginning to rise up and make their voices heard.

I believe that the impending Black Swan event will be the turning point for humanity and will lead us into a new era – an era where people wake up and recognise that the foundations on which our society are built are too precarious and imbalanced to last ; where people wake up and realise that they’ve been sold a lie by the powers-that-be, who have abused that power to feather their own nests at the expense of the majority. We’ve been led to believe that consumerism is the key to happiness – that we should all work hard to buy stuff to validate our existence  – but as the economic systems built on these principles collapse, and people are left with nothing whilst the people at the top of these systems carry on as normal, more and more people are beginning to reflect on the truth of this and look for more authentic and empathic paths to inner peace.

I’m still not sure what the Black Swan will be, but I do know that it will be soon and will be something which will wake a lot of people up very quickly, with the result eventually being lasting positive change for humanity, kicking off in 2012 when the dust from the Black Swan event has settled. (Please note that this change will of course not occur overnight (changes of this magnitude never do), but we will see a positive movement towards change starting in 2012 which will be tangible and the beginning of something very wonderful.) So yes, I suppose you could say that the world will end – but only in its current  form.