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Soul Pals to Cure Environmental Crisis

• January 30, 2023
•  Andrew Michael Esquire
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Welcome to Healing From Within with host Sheryl Glick RMT Reiki Master Energy Teacher and author of the newest book in the trilogy A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Globals Awakening which shares stories and messages from Spirit that show us our challenges are not economic political or societal but a deep disconnect from our inners soul connection to higher consciousness. Sheryl is delighted today to welcome Andrew Michael Esq. author of Soul Pals; Keep Your Eyes on the Rise who uses story and animal characters Soul Pals to illustrate the environmental and cultural challenges facing earth and its inhabitants and to posit a solution to those challenges-raising consciousness.

As listeners of Healing From Within are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate and insightful stories and events that help us become aware of our soul essence and eternal life force that works in cooperation with our physical life and when Universal Laws of Energy are practiced and observed in all interactions and events, it becomes possible to secure a more productive prosperous and healthy life experience. It is in the knowing, not the doing, that we fulfil our soul’s mission to create and manifest the best possible outcome no matter what the challenges are. In our search to understand life we take a metaphysical scientific and spiritual approach to ask age old questions Who are we? How did life begin? And What happens at the end of a physical life cycle?

In today’s episode of Healing From Within Andrew Michael Esquire author of Arising Soul Pals shows us that Earth is in peril. Severe droughts parch some areas while torrential rains flood others: gargantuan wildfires consume whole territories and freakish ice storms crash on city grids. These and other environmental stresses are flaming human conflict and harming our health and the well-being of the animal kingdom. We will explore these environmental and cultural challenges facing Earth and its inhabitants and try to find viable solutions by raising consciousness and encouraging hope. Andrew describes Soul Pals and as a modern day Aesop exposing his view of the Earth in peril through severe droughts rains floods wildfires ice storms and other environmental stresses flaming human conflict and inflaming the health and well being of the animal kingdom.

Andrew was inspired you to become an environmentalist perhaps by knowing that there are many sentient beings in the animal and plant queendom and they must be appreciated for teaching us all about those living in nature. The practice of acknowledging creation is derived from the spiritual practice of being grateful appreciative and understanding we are all connected at some level. Shamans Mayans Indigenous People Catholic Franciscans Jewish Kabbalists mystics Hindus and Tibetan Buddhists all together are “Thundering Grace,” reigning down inspiration for many of the Soul Pals.

The positive and negative side of acknowledgment is the power to manifest form and reality. Ironically ignoring a certain reality re-enforces the ignored reality and produces more to that you are ignoring. Incomplete positive thinking can expand negative response. In the negative whatever is resisted actually persists affirming and producing whatever is not liked.

AMP (Acknowledgement Manifest Perception) Be the Cause, cause Reality

In Andrew’s experience, some of the most pressing threats to our environment are not fully appreciating the elements: water earth fire and air and how we are affected by changes to these life necessary forces. Water; we can’t live without it, and thankfully much of the Earth is made up of it. Yet we face major problems where the life-sustaining liquid is concerned. While there is technically enough freshwater available for all 6.8 billion of us, one-fifth of the world’s population live in areas of physical water scarcity. Vast improvements in infrastructure are required in order provide freshwater to areas which remain without, but also to ensure continued access in the face of widespread pollution, wastage and drought.

The degradation of water quality not only poses supply problems for our population, but also has a huge, inevitable impact on marine life. Whether it’s through storm water runoff from cities or farms, dumping from industry, or ill-regulated efforts to drill for yet more oil (more on that later), we’re increasingly filling our rivers, seas and oceans with toxic pollutants. From dolphins to coral, life in our seas is suffering tremendously. The Pacific Ocean is famously home to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, while the Gulf of Mexico has a sizable patch of nothing at all — a dead zone resulting from the travels of farmland fertilizers down the Mississippi River. And what happens at sea doesn’t stay at sea. With pollutants entering oceanic ecosystems, they invariably pollute our food.

Deforestation has long posed a threat to our Earth. Forests cover 30 percent of the planet’s land, and provide vital protection from sandstorms and flooding as well as the substantive natural habitat for wildlife. They are one of our greatest resources for offsetting some of our outrageous carbon emissions and without the canopy we leave areas vulnerable to intense heat, further driving climate change. Yet every single year we lose an area the size of Panama.

We’ve all heard it before, but really, we need to stop destroying and start replanting. There are incredible instances of ambitious efforts to replant our woodland areas, from a man in India, Jadav Payeng, who single-handedly planted a 1,360-acre forest, to the South Korean founder of Future Forest, Kwon Byong Hyon, who has led desert tree-planting efforts throughout Mongolia and China.

With forests often cleared to make way for farmland, and worldwide consumption of food expected to increase sharply by 2050, both sides of that particular coin desperately need to be addressed, which leads us to… Food production comes with a hefty carbon footprint, with damage caused by deforestation, the use of fertilizers which pollute our water, and pesticides which kill our bees. And, as we noted, food demand is expected to rise sharply — the Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that by 2050 a population of 8.9 billion will eat, on average, a diet with 340 calories more than the 2000 average of 2790, other studies posit that our food demand will double by that same date. Some of this projected increase is attributed to an expectation that areas which currently have inadequate access to nutrition will see improvements in the coming decades, a huge, important and challenging development.

But as we expect to produce more food to meet the needs of a growing, hungry population, we can expect to see a corresponding increase in our carbon footprint. One recent study called for a 50% reduction in meat consumption by 2050 just to keep emissions from the meat industry where they are now. But at our current rate, we also waste an estimated 30 to 50 percent of all food produced.

Huge changes are needed in agricultural infrastructure to stem this wastage. Lower cost imports of big ag’s often genetically modified crops are causing domestic produce to go to waste in developing countries, and misguided policies are causing food aid to go to waste. But while changes must be made in how we farm and how we then sell that food in order to ensure that the right amount of food is grown for supply food where it is needed, there’s also a great deal of progress we could make by simply avoiding unhealthily oversized portions.

Urban farming initiatives make a significant dent in both food environmental concerns. By converting urban areas into fruitful green spaces, food can be grown directly in the community, provide food security and serve as a hands-on educational experience on where our food comes from and how it’s made.

On a related note, pink slime and tuna scrape are not food, they’re vaguely edible by products of the food industry, laced with chemicals to reduce the chances of poisoning us. They’re by no means the only examples; there are plenty of items finding their way to our plates that in no way should be in our bodies. And that’s wrong on so, so many levels.

ENERGY

In the US alone we’ve made the Gulf of Mexico toxic with oil, we’ve caused earthquakes in the Midwest while fracking for natural gas, and we’ve blasted the tops off mountains in Virginia looking for coal. In the course of turning non-renewable resources into energy we’re releasing all manner of toxic gases into the atmosphere, driving climate change and creating a hazardous environment for all living beings.

The fact that we’re destroying the planet for a short term quick-fix of energy resources that will run out is a pretty good reason to give pause and change course. Yet massive corporations wielding immense political strength continue to drive increased, fundamentally experimental and ill-regulated fossil fuel sourcing missions. Deepwater drilling off the Cuban coast, anyone?

Steps to regulate drilling, fracking, mining and their ozone depleting emissions are certainly a great thing, but it’s time, if not well past the time, that we move wholeheartedly into renewable resources. This year has seen incredible progress in both policy, innovation and adoption of renewable resources, largely solar and wind power. But there’s still a long, long, way to go. The Great Lakes of the US and Canada have the potential to provide power for 210,000,000 homes, and as the US seeks to expedite the approval process for wind farms, we still have to design better turbines to adequately protect wildlife.

There’s a lot we can still do on an individual level to reduce our energy usage, and corresponding responsibility for fossil fuel usage and the generated emissions. Simply switching to LED lightbulbs can cut energy usage of lighting a home by a third. It might not sound like much, but — as with so many easy, individually adopted earth-saving measures — when replicated across a large area is starts to make a very significant impact. Plus, the bulbs are getting cheaper!

TRANSPORTATION

While studies show young people to be driving less, many of us still aren’t going to be doing without cars any time soon. As long as urban developments are built to be un-walkable (we’re looking at you, Apple and your new Cupertino Campus), we’re going to have to find a way for everyone to be able to get from a to b and back again without destroying the planet. As it stands, the Environmental Defense Fund estimates that a full 20 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions come directly out of our tailpipes.

Fuel efficiency is on the up, albeit rather belatedly, with the most recent data suggesting that carbon dioxide emissions from new cars sold in the UK has declined 31 percent since 2007. But we’re invariably better off with the ever improving hybrid electric technologies, and the recent New York Auto Show marked the release of some pretty incredible extended range vehicles. As this technology improves, the cars can only be as green as the grid they draw their power from. It’s one thing to steer clear of gasoline, but even better when we can avoid emissions generating fuels altogether.

Similar emissions-reducing advancements are much needed in the aerospace industry. A coordinated project by the biggest manufacturers to develop affordable biofuel technologies for planes is an encouraging move in the right direction, but as we’ve seen, emissions from agriculture are nothing to get too thrilled about. That said, the whole not-driving idea is also pretty great when one has the chance. And if you’re in an area with exhausting inclines, such as San Francisco, electric bicycles still carry a far lower carbon footprint than many alternatives.

WASTE

As a growing population, we have a lot of stuff. From consumer electronics to clothing to diapers, a worrying proportion of our ‘stuff’ is made using finite resources, with environmentally destructive practices only to be used for a relatively short amount of time before being tossed into landfill. And if you’re reading Inhabitant, chances are you’ve thought about this at least once or twice in your purchasing practices.

The use of reusable and recyclable coffee cups, shopping bags and other ubiquitous items is increasing with widespread awareness of wastage and availability of alternatives. But there are always ways we can do more to use less, use better, reuse and recycle. Mining for metals commonplace in items from consumer electronics to jewelry causes widespread environmental destruction, polluting water and releasing greenhouse gases into the environment. And many of these metals, when used in consumer electronics, still often find their way into landfill, allowing lead, cadmium and mercury to seep into ground water.

In the instance of consumer electronics, 17 states have taken steps to mandate recycling, but where recycling is not municipally provided, it becomes of even greater importance to take the initiative within our own communities. And for items which don’t need to be new, or disposable, we can keep on recycling, upcycling, salvaging and transforming.

GLOBAL WARMING Everything on this list above is a contributing factor in global warming, and yet we still have elected officials who argue that it isn’t ‘real.’ A poll recently commissioned by Yale University brought some refreshingly reassuring news, as the majority of participants agreed that global warming was worsening an increasing stream of extreme weather events and natural disasters. Earlier this year surging seas presented evidence that with sea levels predicted to rise 20-80 inches by 2100, 3.7 million residents are at risk from flood waters. Meanwhile scientists looking to the past found that naturally occurring carbon emissions drove the end of the last Ice Age — and that uptick in emissions was far lower than our current surge. Yet we still, absurdly, have politicians who as part of their campaign strategy insist that carbon dioxide emissions do not pose a threat to our environment.

So as we all work towards a greener, more sustainable future, adopting responsible practices to lower and eliminate emissions of all greenhouse gases, it’s time for climate change deniers to finally give in to the evidence.

Andrew tells us why he choose for most of the characters in your stories to be animals. Play Pals are to create and amp your life. These characters are colorful and powerful. Because Soul Pals are intriguing, they are memorable and able to be transformative. These pals are verbal, visual, musical and emotional cues to rise. You absorb the best in them to be your best. With Soul PALS your life can be about playing at ease.

In the story each character is called a Pal. A Pal from each story is a bridge to the next story with each episode in the upward spiral. The Altitude of characters rise as a players “Attitude” can rise to a higher level of consciousness. The core of magnification acknowledging what you love and having confidence in what you would like more of in your life is possible when you acknowledge thinking and seeing, feeling, and hearing which now grows to become how you live in the future.

We start with the story of The Octopus’s Magical Garden (OMG) which is under attack from environmental pollution caused by Increased Shipping. A Pelican meets Octopus after his mother ventured out to deal with a recent Oil Spill and never returned. Then Pelican bathes in Egret’s Lagoon which is not yet infected by environmental change and they chat as friends. Egrets are present everywhere with as with African Elephants Egrets are a calming force for the elephants Next we met the Rhino native to Northern India and along with Elephant and Hummingbirds mingle with people in the forest but Rhino is in danger as rifles are pointed at him. There is danger for All. The Octopus Magical Garden OMG is an opportunity to offer Practical and Useful Solutions The Octopus has an intelligent predictions that turn true just like intuitive or psychic people

Conscious Attributes are confirmed by 50 notable Scientists in Cambridge Declaration in consciousness.

The arising stories and characters face facts that are true to them as well as to others. It is said that in the end is in the beginning and this circular cycle is true in Arising stories. The Whole is in the smallest of parts: one DNA code hold the blueprint for the whole being. A drop of water when magnified shows elegant crystal patterns and a leaf reveals miniature pathways that mimic grand watersheds where all rivers flow into the ocean. And in this book we begin with the Pelican that dives into the Octopus’s Magical Garden. The pelican was defiant as oil washed tar harmed the fish and birds. Brownie as the pelican was called wanted to correct this situation but died in the process. A pack of wolves took up Brownies cause and gave life a chance decreeing, “United we stand, Divided we fall”. The egret was next and the egret’s motto was, “Don’t regret, egret.” A Cycle of Care has been completed between the Soul Pals in these stories.

In the stories we see how each character is connected in ways that support life for all of them and so Soul Pals are energy beings who interact and contribute either to the advancement of all or harm themselves and others. In these stories the hummingbird elephant rhino hippopotamus and Mamba Patrol are members of the Jade Brigade.

These star characters or soul pals have 3 important qualities;

1. Heart -EQ (Emotional Quotient) Love and Compassion
2. Intelligence IQ Intelligence Quotient
3. Courage WE-Q Whole Experience of Respecting. Courage to do the right thing with All: everyone and every being in all situations.

With the power of these 3 qualities on their migration path the characters Rise to the challenge Reach their goals while protecting themselves family friends and their homes. As Soul Pals we learn if you can feel it see it and experience that to which you Aspire the future eventually becomes the present and you can manifest and live what you imagine. Albert Einstein once said, “The imagination is a preview of things to come.”

Andrew’s book makes the case for raising consciousness as the means to fight climate change and the destruction it is causing since these stories are based on facts about people culture animals and the environment. When we ask certain questions, we see the synchronicity and continuing forces that make life either work well or not.

For example we may ask,

“Why have pollinators stopped pollinating plants to grow.”
“Why have so many bees died in recent years?"
“Why do elephants continue to migrate to Lake Chad even though it has shrunk to a mere puddle?” ((Now 5% of size it was 50 years ago)
Why do deeply held cultural and spiritual beliefs determine the life and death of elephants and rhinos, Not food Not water Not villagers or farmers, herders Not even rifles.

Your book is full of acronyms. What is it about acronym that is so compelling? An acronym is a pronounceable word formed from the first letter or first few letters of each word in a phrase or title The newly combined letters create a new word that becomes part of everyday language. Using shortened forms of words or phrases can speed up communication. Explore the useful shorthand with these examples of acronyms.

Some popular acronym examples are:

AIDS acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
ASAP As soon as possible
AWOL Absent without official leave
IMAX Image Maximum
LASER Light Amplification by the Simulated
Emission of Radiation

Ordinary citizens can help in the fight for climate change and the destruction it is causing. Andrew suggests an example of the Mamba Patrols Mission, that protect villagers and elephants and are trained and equipped by the African Park Organization to protect the elephants and surrounding communities from poachers. These patrols have been outfitted with military equipment and technology to have a fair chance against these violent bands of poachers. Prince Harry from England funds the Mamba Patrols in three African countries. Sadly, the demand for elephant tusks and other wildlife who live at the shoreline near bodies of water have also sadly declined. With the loss of life for animals, 10 million people who’s work is derived from the water industry has made it nearly impossible for the people in those areas to prosper.

Sheryl says “We will get a lot further toward solving the problem if we focus on solutions rather than continuing to highlight the problem,” Chissell says.

Project Drawdown recently put together a report highlighting 30 behavioral solutions ordinary people can take to combat climate change. The top three include wasting less food, adopting a plant-rich diet and consuming less energy and water.

Readers of Arising Soul Pals might want to take away with them after reading Arising Soul Pals that We all face people with power trips and political games from people at work, in our communities, and even in our family. An example is a Legislator and chair of a committee that oversaw a $50 billion budget was particularly frustrated. It had been two years of explaining and educating others about the importance of a proposal and wide implications for the way priorities had been determined in the budget. This year, he had received the necessary votes in both chambers of the legislature and all that was needed was the governor’s signature. He received a letter from the governor denying the legislation from going into law. It was at this point he brought the crocodile smile and the acronym derived from the word crocodile to focus his attention on getting the bill passed even though it had been rejected. Here is the acronym describing the qualities necessary to support determination and persevere against any negativity in achieving your goal to pass legislation that improves life for the animals and protection of the environment. The key here is, like the animals, we must use all of our skills to survive and never quit.

Calm
Response
Occupies
Conniving
Opposition,
Denying
Intrusion;
Laughter
Empowers!

We thank Andrew Michael Esq. for sharing his book Arising Soul Pals to show us how arising stories and the qualities of animals may achieve a world of compassion and action to realize a globe of healthy people, animals—all sentient beings and a rejuvenated earth and all of its ecosystem.

In summarizing today’s episode of Healing From Within, we have discovered the PALs you have met and will meet, demonstrate how to apply the PAL concept, some PALs you might like, and others you may not. In the end, what is most important is you create or adopt PALs that best work for you. the best basic formula for forming your PALs is described this way: First, a problem or challenge is identified for an opportunity for growth. Next, a PAL for whom you already have a special feeling toward is chosen. Then this pal is Applied to the problem, by simply focusing on a picture of the PAL and thinking about this being. Gradually, the repetition of this visual image, its associated word meaning and feelings you experience when bringing this PAL to mind, will liberate you from a thought that has limited your ability to lead your life as you desire.

P-roblem
A-pplication of an AMPed PAL
L-iberation


Whatever PAL you work with, whether it’s a person, animal, or object, it should bring about some special feeling within you, and these feelings can help transform and bring about your desired attitude and actions, making the world one that works in harmony, peace, and balance, and leads to better lives for the sentient beings on the planet.

Andrew writes on the cover of his book: “Rising from the depths of the sea to the heights of the sky in altitude and attitude. Finding ‘deep perceptions (deeperceptions)’ to replenish the positive and diminish negative.”

I am Sheryl Glick, host of Healing From Within, author of the newest book in a trilogy, A New Life Awaits Spirit Guided Insights to Support Global Awakening, which shares stories and messages from Spirit that show us our problems are not economic, political, or societal, they are just a disconnect from our soul inner wisdom and invite you to visit my website www.sherylglick.com to read about and listen to leaders in the metaphysical, spiritual, scientific, medical, educational, and music and arts, explore the duality of life in its physical and energetic dimensions, helping us rise above the problems of the physical world to live more productive, successful, healthy, and joyful lives.