which was submitted to the Victorian Bushfire Royal Commission
(WARNING:Please be aware some images may upset some readers or viewers).
Protect Our Heritage Inc message below sent to the State Government to Save our Communities Wollert and Woodstock
Saved Wollert community structures but unfortunately not our Federally Protected Landscape. Hopefully commonsense will prevail!!
Heaven & Earth Works Pty is a home based business privately owned by Pamela Clune who believes there should be no separation from ourselves and our environment.
I draw much of my inspiration form my family, friends, pets and our environment where magnificent River Red Gums stand tall holding roughly 600 years of wisdom.
My business name has some thinking I am an extreme greenie or that I am associated with a religious group/cult but I am not either. Everyone has their right for what ever they wish to believe and who to be surrounded by to learn and nurture their beliefs.
For me it is simply being in a quiet peaceful place that allows me to nurture my own self belief and find true inner peace.
I am one of 6 children and lived all my childhood on farmland. Although living on the land was extremely challenging our parents taught us to respect each other and our land. They gave us and also our children the chance to enjoy and learn country living and I am forever grateful to my parents for this along with their unconditional love, guidance and support.
When my husband and I married we were off to the big city but our hearts were very much still connected to country living.
The home our 3 children remember most of their lives is amongst open space farm land where cows graze in nearby paddocks and we have the opportunity to enjoy magnificent majestic heritage river red gums. It is a space which has given us a sense of connection to the land while not far from suburbia. It is here where we still enjoy our home with one very large dog who found us.
We are privilaged now to be grandparents; innocent children giving us increased fun, enjoyment and enriching our lives.
Treasured love and responsibility ~ whole family.
Working within the banking industry was my first employment before marriage and again returning to the work force. A natural progression began which altered my employment to the nursery industry.
Over many years I have developed products and services from opportunities which present themselves and through my personal life experiences. Health and Wellbeing learning has given me increased knowledge and options I can offer to community while being a wife, mother and grandmother.
Friendships and personal life experiences have opened my mind to learn traditional and complementary therapies which have allowed me to experience the sense of how good inner peace freedom of self is for your mind and body especially when facing and overcoming adversity.
I have always tried to help people around me as much as possible throughout my life, the best I can do is lead by example.
Watching continual growth of greed for personal self worth and power as well as becoming a grandparent has increased the desire to pay more attention to nurturing family, friends and our environment.
Most profound learning can happen form adverse and confronting life experiences. The power of the mind is incredible. The negative thoughts you can allow yourself to create and hear can be the destruction of yourself and your environment. Being mindful of the power of thought and maintaining inner peace within allows me to live life compassionately personally and professionally, in a free and positive way. Compassion is good for my mind, body & soul, and assists me to walk in harmony.
Hence the last few years I have maintained a solid desire to develop 'Landscape Of Compassion' as a community based not-for-profit, non denominational organisation. The words alone create a positive and caring holistic approach for all living things and our environment.
I do like the philosophy of Buddhism but I am not a Buddhist. I am pleased I did take the opportunity to attend some Traditional Tibetan learning given by a Sharman Traditional Tibetan Doctor. It was there in May 2008 I had the most incredible dream of which I shared the vision with all who attended. Nine months after on 7th February, 2009 the vision 'Black Saturday' aftermath came real. For two months prior to that day I had a very uneasy feeling something was about to unfold that was not going to be good. I also had a feeling it would involve my husband, a CFA volunteer, he suffered serious burns; I knew he would survive but unfortunately many others living within the region were not going to be so fortunate.
The dream vision has highlighted to me the profound connection we can all access if we lead an open mind. I am truly grateful of the connection and awareness I have achieved which is available to all who wishes to learn.
The nearby total devastation and our personal inclusion in the worst Natural Disaster in Australia's history, Victorian Bushfires 2009, as well as receiving notification of Government proposals which included us and our community placed us in a position surrounded by grief, trauma and adversity. The most positive outcome has been opened opportunity to see and meet people who uphold our national value of respect, compassion and comradeship to help and support our communities in need. 'Spirit Of Australia'.
May 2009 I was given the opportunity to attend an Indigenous experience which was exactly what my mind, body and soul required to soak up healing energy from Indigenous women from our home land who supported my connection back to the true essence of our land 'Mother Earth'. I am forever grateful.
I am laying within a traditional indigenous healing sauna in Arnhem Land.
Elders cried with emotion as they spiritually saw me 'returned to mother earth'.
My connection to Mother Earth has again been acknowledged via images I received within a dream of water and mud slides which happened January 2010 with tragic and devastating Foods in Queensland. It was as if I was re- experiencing the dream I had again 9 months prior.
Having a daughter who holds a great voice has allowed creativity of expressing stories and powerful universal messages in songs. They are available to the world and we hope you find them enjoyable, uplifting and inspirational. Music
Below is a poem I wrote and recorded an audio/visual clip following the Victorian Bushfires 2009
Live Now For Today
It is my personal mission to uphold and share the values and messages of truly compassionate world leaders.
"Invite me to an anti-war campaign and I will not attend, Invite me to a peace campaign and I will be the first to attend." - Mother Teresa.
Mother Teresa believed that positive words make people act in a positive way.
Being mindful of terminology we speak can change our outcomes eg:
'anti-bullying' to 'respect and compassion'.
"Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity." - The Dalai Lama.
Kiesha Crowther Little Grandmother, one of the 12 young Shaman wisdom keepers to establish the "Tribe of many colors" recently was on a European Tour spreading her message on how to start living from the heart. She also speaks about our ancestors, the pole shift, where the extraterrestrials are hiding and what we can do to change our world and heal Mother Earth. watch Little Grandmother on YouTube
'You become what you practice most.' - Anon
"If your compassion doesn't include yourself it is incomplete" - Buddah