Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Deep Peace Trust Fostering deep peace for all species ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://deeppeacetrust.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://deeppeacetrust.com/blog/) - [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section] - [The Rare Privilege of Dying on One’s Own Terms](https://deeppeacetrust.com/the-rare-privilege-of-dying-on-ones-own-terms/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_title title=”off” categories=”off” comments=”off” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] I had an experience a few weeks ago when my much beloved horse Silver died. And while I’ve been teaching sovereignty for decades, it really struck me what a privilege it is for - [Vale Fenn](https://deeppeacetrust.com/vale-fenn/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_title title=”off” categories=”off” comments=”off” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] This week is a sad one here at the sanctuary. Our beloved rescue dog Fenn passed away after twelve years as my close companion (Andrew sometimes joked we weren’t bonded, we were epoxied.) - [The Intelligence of Sheep](https://deeppeacetrust.com/the-intelligence-of-sheep/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_title title=”off” categories=”off” comments=”off” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] I was talking to someone who supported live export the other day. I told her that sheep are sweet, sensitive, intelligent, fun, and playful individuals, and it’s time we stop thinking - [Response to the Proposal to Allow Aerial Culling in the KNP](https://deeppeacetrust.com/response-to-the-proposal-to-allow-aerial-culling-in-the-knp/) - Below is Andrew's response to the proposal to allow aerial culling in the KNP. The proposal is here. You can respond in several ways: complete the online survey email to npws.submissions@environment.nsw.gov.au post to The Project Team, Kosciuszko National Park Wild Horse Heritage Management Plan National Parks and Wildlife Service PO Box 472 Tumut NSW 2720 - [SAVE THE SNOWY WILDERNESS IN NSW](https://deeppeacetrust.com/save-the-snowy-wilderness-in-nsw/) - WILDLIFE AND BRUMBIES Contrary to popular propaganda, the native wildlife in the Snowy region would prefer to keep their big protectors, the wild equines, in their eco-system where they have been for 200 years. They see the fast dwindling numbers (now way less than the legislated 3,000) who are scattered over thousands of hectares. They - [Impacts and Management of Feral Horses in the Australian Alps - Submission to the Senate Inquiry](https://deeppeacetrust.com/feral-horses-senate-submission/) - by Billie Dean Introduction I am an award-winning filmmaker making films about wild horses for international film festivals. I’m a former journalist, and I write about animals and the non-human perspective. I run an animal sanctuary with my husband, where we have 80 rescued brumbies in a free-living state, who we have been living with - [Vale Presto](https://deeppeacetrust.com/vale-presto/) - Billie and Presto, April 2022 Sooooo... early this morning, the stars took a dear friend. Our aged and health —challenged beloved ex racehorse, Presto. She was the last of her herd of race horses we took on in 1997. The end of an era. We had just moved in and absorbed a dozen abandoned racehorses - [The Myth That There Will Be Too Many Animals on Earth If Everyone Goes Vegan](https://deeppeacetrust.com/the-myth-that-there-will-be-too-many-animals-on-earth-if-everyone-goes-vegan/) - Often times, when discussing going vegan, people make excuses for why we shouldn’t do so. One idea people talk about is the enormous amount of animals that we’ve bred into existence and questioning what would happen to all those animals if we all went vegan comes along with that. So, just how many domesticated - [Vale Heyoka](https://deeppeacetrust.com/vale-heyoka/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.14.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.14.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_post_title title=”off” categories=”off” comments=”off” _builder_version=”4.14.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Yesterday, we lost our beloved dog, Heyoka (that’s her in the picture above, and in the gallery at the bottom of this post). She’d been with us for 15 years, having come to - [Vale Big Mama](https://deeppeacetrust.com/vale-big-mama/) - 18 November 2021 We lost Big Mama in these wild eclipse energy times. She was a beautiful black standardbred rescue from 2018. She came during the drought with her daughter and we spent months making sure she was in the best of health. She and her daughter Bindi ruled the roost! That's her looking happy - [Of Love and Loss](https://deeppeacetrust.com/of-love-and-loss/) - I can’t believe I’ll never see Zen again. I’ll never have to squeeze past him on the porch to get to the bathroom or look out the kitchen window to see him sheltering behind the wall of animal washing in our outside laundry. I worried he was cold, because he was frail and it is - [Climate Change and Its Effects on Australia](https://deeppeacetrust.com/climate-change-and-its-effects-on-australia/) - According to National Geographic, the global average surface temperature has seen a significant increase of more than 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 0.9 degrees Celsius since 1906. This is evidenced by the shifting precipitation patterns and melting sea ice and glaciers from the North to the South Pole. But we don't need scientists and researchers - [Turning the World the Right Way Up](https://deeppeacetrust.com/turning-the-world-the-right-way-up/) - It was in 1978 that I first heard of the indigenous Prophecy of Peace , a golden era on earth of a thousand years of peace, surpassing any other golden era in Earth’s history. I was immediately smitten with the idea, and my soul put my hand up to do whatever I could to help - [Let the Brumbies Run Free](https://deeppeacetrust.com/let-the-brumbies-run-free/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmPxD21CwmQ We made this video in 2011, after rescuing two herds of horses living wild. In the decade since we've been rescuing wild horses we have come to know them well. Called "destructive", "pests" and "feral" by the current people in power, we are once again faced with inhumane actions of the most barbaric nature - [WHY DONATE TO AN ANIMAL SANCTUARY?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/why-donate-to-an-animal-sanctuary/) - Here's another guest post from the wonderful vegan writer Adelle Goodman! And it is perfect timing, as A Place of Peace is being affected by the relentless drought in NSW, and needs your support and contributions like never before. Drought makes significant impact on people and animals emotionally. Animals hang around gates waiting for - [Vale Sarah - The Story of Our Beloved first Sheep baby.](https://deeppeacetrust.com/vale-sarah-the-story-of-our-beloved-first-sheep-baby/) - Sarah barged past me at the gate into the house yard, like she always did. She was a big sheep and often grumpy. We thought she had been grumpy ever since we weaned her into the back yard from the house. She never wanted to leave the house. She adored Tamsin and it was to Tamsin she turned - [Another Article re the Fire](https://deeppeacetrust.com/another-article-re-the-fire/) - This article tells of what happened to both our neighbours up the road, and to us, the day the fires hit on November 29, 2019 It wasn't fun. https://the-riotact.com/animals-find-sanctuary-as-owners-tell-of-losses/341821 - [Summer 2020.. And then, there was more...](https://deeppeacetrust.com/summer-2020-and-then-there-was-more/) - December 2019 to April 2020. Tamsin finally bought a tiny radio from Eddie the local gadget guy. The local radio was invaluable for keeping everyone in our district informed about the fires. From not bothering to listen to radio at all, we were suddenly glued to it, sitting around the old wooden kitchen table in a horrifying - [Vale Beloved Bast — Our Mother of All Cats](https://deeppeacetrust.com/vale-beloved-bast-our-mother-of-all-cats/) - The black cat stared us miserably from the paddock next to the hay shed where she had sought shelter. It was raining and cold in the middle of winter and my heart went out to her. She walked into the trap with food, but that’s when we saw the kitten. The kitten who slipped away behind - [Thank You for Saving Our Sanctuary](https://deeppeacetrust.com/thank-you-for-saving-our-sanctuary/) - Drought, fires, heatwaves, wild dust storms, flash flooding, pandemic and now the threat of 1080 poison from the Government bait drops into the fire grounds... it's been several months of survival mode, doing everything we can to keep the animals of A Place of Peace safe. It's been so full on we haven't had a - [After the fires, 1080 baits pose new problem for animal sanctuary](https://deeppeacetrust.com/after-the-fires-1080-baits-pose-new-problem-for-animal-sanctuary/) - RIOT ACT did an article about my concerns about 1080 poisoning near our property. After dealing with bushfires, a flood and a drought, the owner of an animal sanctuary near Braidwood has raised her “extreme distress” about the use of poisonous 1080 baits one kilometre from the perimeter of her farm. Billie Dean of the - [Living with the Fires](https://deeppeacetrust.com/living-with-the-fires/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.29.3″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″][et_pb_post_title title=”off” comments=”off” featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”3.29.3″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_image src=”https://deeppeacetrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_3472.jpeg” _builder_version=”4.0.7″ box_shadow_style=”preset2″][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.7″] A Place of Peace on Friday, November 29, 2019 as fires burned. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.29.3″][/et_pb_divider][et_pb_button button_url=”https://deeppeacetrust.com/donate” button_text=”Click Here to Donate to the Deep Peace Trust and Support the Animals” button_alignment=”center” _builder_version=”4.0.7″ custom_button=”on” button_text_color=”#0694c6″ box_shadow_style=”preset2″][/et_pb_button][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.29.3″][/et_pb_divider][et_pb_image src=”https://deeppeacetrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IMG_3397-scaled.jpg” align=”center” _builder_version=”4.0.7″ box_shadow_style=”preset2″][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.0.7″] My hair - [What the Weather Elementals Need Us To Do](https://deeppeacetrust.com/what-the-weather-elementals-need-us-to-do/) - For a long time now, I’ve been checking in with the weather spirits with whom I have developed a relationship over the decades. But this year, they’ve been wanting me to deliver a message to humanity. And if we are to restore the balance to this planet, I really hope the message is heard. Right - [A Beltane Vegan Feast!](https://deeppeacetrust.com/a-beltane-vegan-feast/) - In Wyld Shamanism we follow the old nature-based calendar because it reflects the natural cycles and rhythms of the earth and when we are deeply connected to the natural world, we feel these subtle turns of the wheel. So we celebrate the eight Sabbats of the year, noting the first buds of spring, the first - [Plant-based Treats -- get active for social change!!](https://deeppeacetrust.com/plant-based-treats-get-active-for-social-change/) - It''s the holiday season and a perfect time for gentle activism. Here's some recipes you can take to work to share with your fellow employees. Organise a picnic! Make it vegan. Organise a high tea. Make it vegan! Fundraise for an animal sanctuary (like A Place of Peace) making a vegan treat event be - [Sanctuaries for farm animals: Why are they significant?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/sanctuaries-for-farm-animals-why-are-they-significant/) - (Today, we welcome a guest post by Adelle Goodman. Many thanks! — Billie) Imagine a world where animals live in harmony, devoid of fear, pain, and anxiety. What a great world would it be! Well, such a peaceful world exists in a farm sanctuary. Whether you are familiar with farm sanctuaries or not, it is - [Welcome Esmerelda](https://deeppeacetrust.com/welcome-esmerelda/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″ fb_built=”1″ _i=”0″ _address=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”0″ _address=”0.0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”0″ _address=”0.0.0″][et_pb_post_title title=”off” comments=”off” _builder_version=”3.29.3″ hover_enabled=”0″ _i=”0″ _address=”0.0.0.0″ featured_image=”off”][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_video src=”https://deeppeacetrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/IMG_2301.m4v” play_icon_color=”#0694c6″ thumbnail_overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.6)” _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”1″ _address=”0.0.0.1″][/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”2″ _address=”0.0.0.2″] Andrew playing with the wildling cat, Esmerelda, about half an hour before he was able to catch her. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”3″ _address=”0.0.0.3″][/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.29.3″ _i=”4″ _address=”0.0.0.4″] She - [Why Is Wyld Shamanism Important?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/why-is-wyld-shamanism-important/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.0.48″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″][et_pb_image src=”https://deeppeacetrust.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Screen-Shot-2019-02-04-at-15.26.23-pm.png” _builder_version=”3.19.15″][/et_pb_image][et_pb_post_title featured_image=”off” _builder_version=”3.19.15″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.15″] Why is Wyld Shamanism important? The shaman traditionally was the healer and the bridge between the worlds for the tribe. They were people of very high standing. They understood the silent language of the rivers, the rocks, the trees, - [Meaningful Monday!](https://deeppeacetrust.com/meaningful-monday/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.19.15″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.19.15″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.19.15″][et_pb_post_title admin_label=”Post Title” _builder_version=”3.19.15″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.15″][/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.19.15″] Welcome to Meaningful Monday! There’s so much going on in the world that can make you think, “What’s it all mean?” Click. Swipe. Tap. Rush. Work. The daily grind of it makes it hard to find meaning. But you can cut through and make - [Why Aren't More Spiritual People Vegan?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/why-arent-more-spiritual-people-vegan/) - In my years of teaching animal shamanism around the world, this question comes up over and over. Why aren’t more animal communicators vegan, and why are so few spiritual teachers, pagans and shamans vegan? And further, if the Prophecy of Peace only needed 144,000 “rainbow warriors” to reach a tipping point, then why hasn’t it - [RIP Freda the Sheep](https://deeppeacetrust.com/rip-freda-the-sheep/) - We just lost Freda. The sun sank a little in the sky when her breath left. Like a whisper, it walked in the trees. Tears fell. A little sheep born in peace, and taken far too young. Six long months of tending a lamb who grew to be a vital young sheep living in freedom, - [5 Reasons to Love Sheep and Not Eat Them](https://deeppeacetrust.com/5-reasons-to-love-sheep-and-not-eat-them/) - We've learned a lot about the spirit and spark of sheep. Here are five reasons to love them, and not eat them. In bringing up Sarah the lamb inside the house, we found that she loved classical music and would often sit at Andrew’s feet as he played, looking up at him adoringly. Sarah, like all lambs, - [The Adventures of Elf with Food](https://deeppeacetrust.com/the-adventures-of-elf-with-food/) - So last night I was writing till 3 am. I thought I had better go to bed. Every day is a big day here. But there was this quiet and insistent mournful moo which I could hear from the open bedroom window. Tired Mind said, "They'll work it out. They are clever beings." But another - [The Further Adventures of Elf with Food](https://deeppeacetrust.com/the-further-adventures-of-elf-with-food/) - A picture of the calf during the day, as the night photos didn't really come out. People enjoyed the first Adventures of Elf with Food, so I thought I'd do another instalment. Elf, for newcomers, is my (Billie's) nickname. I feed the cows (and horses and goats and sheep) hay. And they love me back! - [Una the Amazing Sheep](https://deeppeacetrust.com/una-the-amazing-sheep/) - Una knew I would come when she called. So last night just as I was going to bed at around 1 am (an early night), I heard an insistent baaaaaaaa. I wandered outside in my slippers to check who was calling and there was a lone sheep outside the house yard fence, where 16 sheep - [All Life is Precious](https://deeppeacetrust.com/all-life-is-precious/) - So today while I was out feeding horses, I noticed a log that was dangerouly close to being swept into the dam as little Avalon is running with water at the moment. The log called me to help. As I collected the log, it broke open to reveal an ant colony. I spent the next - [Story About Cows](https://deeppeacetrust.com/story-about-cows/) - Click the image below to see photos of cute cows loving their hay. [cro_gallery no="105"] The cows we rescued last year were nervous. There were the two people who fed them. And a stranger. And the yards. It could only mean one thing. Suddenly before our eyes,14 calves bunched together under the order of two cow - [Introducing Maeve and Integrating New Dogs into the Pack](https://deeppeacetrust.com/introducing-maeve-and-integrating-new-dogs-into-the-pack/) - I saw her posted on the Facebook wall of my school, Rainbow Fianna. Within seconds I was ringing the pound. No thought required. Found wandering the streets of a country town, she was in danger of being put to death for no other reason than she was homeless. She called. I answered. And now we're back up to - [40+ New Lamb Souls (Have lost count!)](https://deeppeacetrust.com/40-plus-new-lamb-souls/) - My phone rings: "Mum quick, a mother sheep needs help giving birth!" I grab towels, my birthing medicine kit and a bag with sterile gloves and everything else I need to be a sheep midwife. I pop dogs in the car and drive into the special maternity paddock we have created. Would the baby be - [The Society of Animals](https://deeppeacetrust.com/the-society-of-animals/) - A note about the young of horses, cows, sheep and goats -- as young ones, they befriend the other young ones in the flock or herd. They form strong bonds and have a rich social life. They play together while the parents graze. There is always a nanny who keeps an eye on the children, - [Marybelle — A Life Worth Saving](https://deeppeacetrust.com/marybelle-a-life-worth-saving/) - It must be an awful feeling to be in trouble medically, and have all doctors close the door on you because you are the wrong species. Or you might be the wrong colour, or race or religion. But this is our world today. This is the true story of Marybelle — who is not just a - [About Tribal Elders...](https://deeppeacetrust.com/about-tribal-elders/) - In a time when we no longer have leadership we can trust, when we are looking for authenticity, transparency and thinking seven generations ahead; when we need all humans to accept sovereignty of not just themselves, but the animals, trees, rocks, rivers and the unseen, I love the idea that now is the time when - [Celebrating A Place of Peace's 20th Birthday](https://deeppeacetrust.com/celebrating-a-place-of-peaces-20th-birthday/) - Join Andrew, Billie and Tamsin for a moo-ving and fun evening of short films, celebrating A Place of Peace’s 20 years as an animal sanctuary, and support our fundraiser for much-needed winter hay!! The evening will include talks, short films, raffles, and party nibbles. Come and see our work with animals through the arts! A - [A Story About Culling](https://deeppeacetrust.com/a-story-about-culling/) - I was at a function, talking to a young woman about this and that, when the topic turned to the wild horses of the Snowy Mountains. She said she was in favour of culling because they "destroy the environment". I felt my blood boiling. This woman was obviously not a horse lover -- and just - [Planting Seeds](https://deeppeacetrust.com/planting-seeds/) - So I just had a car full of JW's come down my drive. As I don't like unannounced visitors I met them at the fourth gate, wearing my Superior Sunshine Dragon armour. Now a lot of people are rude to JWs, but I take every opportunity to lead by example when I can. So I - [The Secret to Happiness: Making Dents](https://deeppeacetrust.com/the-secret-to-happiness-making-dents/) - Are you happy? Or does the world make you angry and the ashes of that anger burn at the touch? Or does it make you sad, overwhelmed and want to withdraw? The secret to happiness ... is kindness. Kindness is love in action. This season, let's make Christmas into Kindmas! What does it take - [Sanctuary Life: A Year in Review](https://deeppeacetrust.com/sanctuary-life-a-year-in-review-and-whats-ahead/) - 2017 was huge. Just huge. Early in the year, we won a grant from Lush to help us with fencing. As the cows, sheep, goats and horses had done a great job of trashing our fencing, this was so very welcome. Our fencer came, observed, got to work, and soon we not only had fallen - [Make a Difference - Join Veganuary 2018](https://deeppeacetrust.com/make-a-difference-join-veganuary-2018/) - It's amazing.. thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people are going vegan this January for Veganuaryj! Yay for the animals!! Join this amazing movement of compassionate change-- for the planet, for animals and for you! You'll feel better, cleaner, clearer and happier without all the animal products clogging your system, and knowing you saved thousands - [I'm Here for A Reason](https://deeppeacetrust.com/im-here-for-a-reason/) - I'm here for a reason. I am a living,breathing, social soul with a society, families, spiritual lives and deep compassion for the world. Like you I am sentient. I am smart, funny, caring, curious and I love my friends and family. I love my children. I hold the keys to many worlds. A long time - [It's All About Kindness! Connect up!](https://deeppeacetrust.com/its-all-about-kindness-connect-up/) - Seriously .. life is about kindness. When Tam and I went to the beach the other afternoon for a much needed break, I had an opportunity to mingle with humans. There was a guy just sitting in his car alone, and being my usual chatty self, I asked him if he was going for a - [About Sovereignity of the Land](https://deeppeacetrust.com/about-sovereignity-of-the-land/) - Here at the Deep Peace Farm Animal Sanctuary, we're about sustainability and forging new ways with the land and the animals, acting in an interconnected way. I'm very influenced by my Celtic heritage and the old ways of working with the Unseen. In ancient Ireland, the King married the land. He recognised the Unseen and - [Quote of the Week](https://deeppeacetrust.com/quote-of-the-week/) - I belive animals should be respected as citizens of this earth.They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families and their own life. John Feldmann - [Vale Marley](https://deeppeacetrust.com/vale-marley/) - I said yes to Marley's subtle, desperate call for help without even seeing him. He was scooped up into our loving care with a large collection of cat people from a Sydney Pound on D Day with absolutely no time to spare. A little, white, smelly staffy with food issues and the worst skin condition - [Poetry as Medicine](https://deeppeacetrust.com/poetry-as-medicine/) - He was the colour of rich brown earth in a swirl of dust. A young colt, frightened of humans, wary, spooked. Fear built into his DNA. We had him in the paddock near the house with six other horses, including three who were used to humans. Three who could send calming signals to the others, - [Drought-Proofing the Land](https://deeppeacetrust.com/drought-proofing-the-land/) - A Place of Peace, like other sanctuaries, is struggling with the worst drought in living history. My entire focus all 2018 has been on keeping the animals fed, watered, happy and healthy during their second winter without grass. This isn't easy because grazing animals love and need to graze and there are health issues one - [Special Solstice Ceremony for Activism](https://deeppeacetrust.com/special-solstice-ceremony-for-activism/) - 21 December 2018 This solstice I'm holding space and helping trapped and shattered souls move forward out of the trash heap that is the Singleton aerial cull of beautiful wild noble horses. They went ahead with it on Wednesday, killed 150 ponies who had lived there since the 1970s, including pregnant mares and foals at foot. - [Goat Communication](https://deeppeacetrust.com/goat-communication/) - [et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.15″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.15″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_post_title _builder_version=”3.15″][/et_pb_post_title][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.15″] Goats are incredibly physical animals. Sure, sheep and cows will clunk each others with their heads, and horses are known to communicate with their feet. 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[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.0″ hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Thank you so much! If you’ve made it to this page, your transaction at PayPal has completed. Thank you for your donation or purchase. The animals - [30DoWS: Day 27: The Smile Challenge](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-27-the-smile-challenge/) - https://youtu.be/xXHiQ6z4_T0 The Smiling Game We are just emerging from two years of mask mandates. (in some areas) People will be able to smile at each other. And not just with their eyes. This is huge. Smiling is about connection. People are so closed down these days, and that is a mark of our separation. And - [30DoWS: Day 30: Enchantment and the New Earth](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-30-enchantment-and-the-new-earth/) - https://youtu.be/9G1F_3o4q-I Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — attributed to Winston Churchill Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — William Butler Yeats “sometimes - [30DoWS: Course Page: 30 Days of Wyld Shamanism — February 2022](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30-days-feb2022-course-page/) - Welcome! This page has the links to each of the challenges over the 30 days starting February 1st. We release them in batches of five, and send you an email when new ones are available. Remember that you can take it at your own pace (going faster or slower), but we encourage you to take - [30DoWS: Day 29: The Fun Challenge](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-29-the-fun-challenge/) - https://youtu.be/w4Gd_GdSfSM Laughter is truly the best medicine. It’s well documented what the physical effects are, but what about the spiritual effects of laughter? We all need to laugh more and lighten up. Enlighten up! Laughter raises our vibration. That is healing in itself, and the key to the spiritual benefits. When we can laugh off - [30DoWS: Day 26: Gratitude and the Power of Perspective](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-26-the-importance-of-gratitude/) - https://youtu.be/bZJ12MxBnTc NOTE: By now you might be feeling the benefits of the "Beautiful is" poetry and the daily writing. You can choose to continue, or not. Up to you. But ask yourself today if you have gained insights into your life and longings, because that is important in today’s challenge. Waking up to who you - [30DoWS: Day 28: The Happy Challenge](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-28-the-happy-challenge/) - https://youtu.be/3zYR49cfEXk Projection Do you want to be right or happy? The next time you get into an argument, ask yourself this! Today we are going to practise the art of not being offended. It’s an ancient and wise practise of understanding that the person insulting you is really talking about themselves. It is called "projection." - [30DoWS: Day 23: Trusting You! And Intuition](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-23-trusting-you-intuition/) - https://youtu.be/-NSKJx6OtU0 Listening to the Language of You There never has been a more important time for discernment, There is so much sorcery and false word weaving that is slowly crumbling right now, but it has held humanity in its spell for centuries. You can test for truth with your gut. With your inner knowing. That - [30DoWS: Day 24: Your Future Self and Song of the Heart](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-24-your-future-self-and-song-of-the-heart/) - https://youtu.be/rmM_dhrcyoQ Your Future Self: We know that timelines are not fixed. We know that every time we make a decision or take an action, or even say words or think things, we are drawing a particular future to us. The object of finding and doing more things of the heart and soul that bring us - [30DoWS: Day 25: The Practise of Stillness and Silence](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-25-the-practise-of-stillness-and-silence/) - https://youtu.be/GcpUQanFavg "I was sitting outside under the moonlight with my year-old orphan foal. He had his head on my lap, eyes sleepy. I was telling him how much I loved him and how the Earth was also his Mother who would never leave him. And the sky his Father, and how the moon was his - [30DoWS: Day 22: Anam Cara — The Soul Friend](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-22-anam-cara-the-soul-friend/) - https://youtu.be/XS3Zwn7VmKU Anam Cara The Celtic tradition is woven with many threads of bright love. The love and heralding of nature, of our ancient kin, the animals, and of each other. But one idea that really resonates is the idea of soul love. Anam Cara is Gaelic for soul friend. And your best soul friend is - [30DoWS: Day 21: Peace as Bliss](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-21-peace-as-bliss/) - https://youtu.be/tOdhAEBMFQ0 Whenever you accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you are still, you are at peace. — Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ― John Lennon Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. - [30DoWS: Day 19: Holiness, Happiness and the Search for Meaning](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-19-holiness-happiness-and-the-search-for-meaning/) - https://youtu.be/rgv7Fn8omAQ REMEMBERING: The shamanic journey to the past that we did in the video should help you remember or realise gifts that you are bringing through not only to help in 3 D but in the shift of consciousness and beyond. A lot of people struggle with their soul purpose. Are they on track? Are - [30DoSW: Day 20: The Power of Words](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dosw-day-20-the-power-of-words/) - https://youtu.be/uJGyp6xGhkU Words as Sorcery Many of the words and phrases we use today come from a time of unconsciousness. As one awakens, one might like to become more aware of how we speak. Many words and phrases are very hurtful and unkind to animals, who are all telepathic and understand much more than people think - [30DoWS: Day 18: The Barefoot Challenge](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-18-the-barefoot-challenge/) - https://youtu.be/W-L-F0m6dJ4 In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of - [30DoWS: Day 16: The Power of Forgiveness](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-16-the-power-of-forgiveness/) - https://youtu.be/155rNHEFPDc The Power of Forgiveness Forgiveness is the secret to dancing lightly in the higher vibrations. What we hang on to holds us. It weighs us down. In shamanism, the forgiveness practise is called the Recapitulation. Forgive everything and everyone! And I had a powerful lesson in it during my training, when I realised how - [30DoWS: Day 17: Reclaim the Sacred](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-17-reclaim-the-sacred/) - https://youtu.be/gJY6acXzJG0 To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, from the essay "History" Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry. ― Robert Bly Can you - [30DoWS: Day 14: Radical Reverence and Telepathy](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-14-radical-reverence-and-telepathy/) - https://youtu.be/SRZkuCojXK8 Mutual respect is the key that allows true peace to occur in the Dream of the Planet. — Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God - [30DoWS: Day 12: A Daily Conscious Kind Act](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dosw-day-12-a-daily-conscious-kind-act/) - https://youtu.be/RsjqlH2zuh4 Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay… small acts of kindness and love. — Gandalf the Gray in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit - [30DoWS: Day 15: What Can I Do For You?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-15-what-can-i-do-for-you/) - https://youtu.be/vbBOWCqtJYk If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. — Eleonora Duse The Resonance of Reverence Not only are we - [30DoWS: Day 11: Reclaiming Your Connection with Nature](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-11-reclaiming-your-connection-with-nature/) - https://youtu.be/1mRTBAiQWkI "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself." — William Blake Once - [30DoWS: Day 13: Time And Physical Immortality](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-13-time-and-the-magic-of-numbers/) - https://youtu.be/As-kSxogh7Q “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Teresa Time, according to ancient lore, is not linear like we humans are duped to believe. It is a wheel. it is a circle. It is a spiral. One can step out of time. Outside of time. - [30DoWS: Day 10: The Practice of Ahimsa](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-10-the-practice-of-ahimsa/) - https://youtu.be/CRvYclxbyxM Ahimsa The word and practise of ahimsa, is the foundation of all our work and neatly describes the Wild Elvin Fae perspective as well. It is a very high way of walking in the world, and one we all need to try and master with out thoughts, words and deeds for the world to - [30DoWS: Day 9: Decoding Signs in Nature, Fresh Eyes!](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/decoding-signs-in-nature-fresh-eyes/) - https://youtu.be/ib0YtkCRfUI To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Introducing the Hidden Codes To play the game of life the Fae way, we - [30DoWS: Day 8: Shining the Light on Conditioning](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-8-shining-the-light-on-conditioning/) - https://youtu.be/CHEHJgRBsyA Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. — Rumi Our beliefs can make us bland. And we are wild, free and the Divine walking! I hear people making all these black-and-white comments about life as it is — as if we were all made - [30DoWS: Day 7: Are You Listening to the Song of Your Soul?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/are-you-listening-to-the-song-of-your-soul/) - https://youtu.be/JEflEgo0pLA You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before - [30DoWS: Day 6: The Unseen and Getting Back into the Forest](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/the-unseen-and-getting-back-into-the-forest/) - https://youtu.be/zwdg5edNG8U "We elves don't make offerings to the spirit world in order to obtain our desires. Our gifts are freely given because of our love of the spirits. If they for their part, should return that love by granting our wishes, then we are truly thankful and consider ourselves blessed." — The Silver Elves The - [30DoWS: Day 1: Introduction. Don't Look Down. Fire Ceremony Alchemy](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-1-let-us-begin/) - https://youtu.be/qcwsZbx90kM (Quick note: this being set-up time, today's and tomorrow's text is longer than the other days. Just thought we'd mention that. Don't be alarmed!) Wyld Shamanism By Billie Dean Welcome Day I: Stop Looking Down! And Fire Ceremony Alchemy "You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it. " Robin Williams 1951 - 2014 Introduction - [30DoWS: Day 2: Being a Faith-Keeper - The Prophecy of Peace... is Now](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-2-the-vision/) - https://youtu.be/qY8vSGGe8L0 https://youtu.be/Q5e3dMxe4gI Hi everyone.. welcome to Day 2. I apologise for the long read.. this subject is a passion of mine and I got carried away. Really carried away!! If you can truly absorb my enthusiasm for being a fully realised human and having a world of deep peace for all species, then my - [30DoWS: Day 3: The World is Not What it Seems](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-3-the-world-is-not-what-it-seems/) - https://youtu.be/Hl1kFFxy_aU Remember: Make the Impossible Possible! The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir Shamans talk about "dreaming the world into being." And this is what groups of people do today with intention -- dreaming for peace. Intending it. Visioning it. Saying deep peace to the quarters. At Deep Peace Trust - [30DoWS: Day 4: Our Wildness](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-4-our-wildness/) - https://youtu.be/nDXBmGdvOzc No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. — Albert Einstein In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir Losing Our Wildness We all used to be wild and nature was our home and the animals our kin. We would never dream - [30DoWS: Day 5: The Great Domestication](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30-days-feb2022/30dows-day-5-the-great-domestication/) - https://youtu.be/3Wm1PlcwH70 The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. — Henry Miller Our Fall From Grace and Entry Into Disconnection Understanding the significance of the fall from grace and Utopia underpins our work here. 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Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” ― Mother Teresa Time, according to ancient lore, is not linear like we humans are duped to believe. It is a wheel. it is a circle. It is a spiral. One can step out of time. Outside of time. One - [30DoSW: Day 1: Let Us Begin](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-1/) - (Quick note: this being set-up time, today's and tomorrow's text is longer than the other days. Just thought we'd mention that.) 30 Days of Spiritual Wildness - by Billie Dean Welcome Be the change you want to see in the world. — Gandhi Hello and welcome! Here is where we begin our new story, our journey. This is the - [30DoSW: Day 20: The Power of Words](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-20/) - Words as Sorcery Many of the words and phrases we use today come from a time of unconsciousness. As one awakens, one might like to become more aware of how we speak. Many words and phrases are very hurtful and unkind to animals, who are all telepathic and understand much more than people think they - [30DoSW: Day 9: Completing an Old Paradigm, and the Young and Magical Mind](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-9/) - The End and the Beginning Today is a nine day and nine is the sacred number of completion, and a whole lot of other lovely higher consciousness things. Nine is a great day to let go of things from the past and so far we have talked a lot about doing that in this course. Easier - [30DoSW: Day 30: Enchantment and the New Earth](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-30/) - Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. — attributed to Winston Churchill Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. — William Butler Yeats “sometimes i - [30DoSW: Day 2: The Vision](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-2/) - In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision. — Dalai Lama You might have stuff going on in your life, or feel an emptiness or a yearning for something more. You might be feeling confused or alone or pushed to the edge. You might feel afraid of what is - [30DoSW: Day 3: Dreaming the Impossible](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-3/) - Remember: Make the Impossible Possible ! The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir Morphic resonance, the 100th Monkey Effect, the Maharishi Effect, how our heart intelligence knows things before we do, how the magnetic field around our heart and feelings affects the magnetic field around the earth, the power of - [30DoSW: Day 6: The Wild Fae, the Elves, and the Age of Delight](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-6/) - Wild Fae and Elves Because everyone is coming in at different levels, I wanted to mention about the Wild Fae and Elves who are a group of wise and venerable Druid-like Others, who live in a different dimension and who want to help us anchor in the Age of Delight. These are my mentors and - [30DoSW: Day 23: Discernment — and Dancing for Joy](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-23/) - The new time we are building is founded on honesty, transparency and best outcomes for all. It is inclusive, not divisive. And that inclusion is not just all peoples, but all species and all the natural world. We see each soul, each tree, each rock as precious to the interconnected web of life. It's - [30DoSW: Day 22: Let Go of Who You Think You Are to Find Who You Really Are](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-22/) - Attachment guarantees that you will wake up every morning with a mission: to prove you are who you think you are — today. But it’s a total energy drain. You’re so busy performing a role that you miss out on the freedom to improvise, to be real rather than rehearsed. ― Gabrielle Roth, Connections: The - [30DoSW: Day 26: The Importance of Gratitude](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-26/) - NOTE: By now you might be feeling the benefits of the "Beautiful is" poetry and the daily writing. You can choose to continue, or not. Up to you. But ask yourself today if you have gained insights into your life and longings, because that is important in today’s challenge. Waking up to who you are - [30DoSW: Day 25: The Silence](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-25/) - "I was sitting outside under the moonlight with my year-old orphan foal. He had his head on my lap, eyes sleepy. I was telling him how much I loved him and how the Earth was also his Mother who would never leave him. And the sky his Father, and how the moon was his Grandmother, - [30DoSW: Day 24: Heart Song](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-24/) - Heart Song: The Song of the Wild Be in the moment. 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And I had a powerful lesson in it during my training, when I realised how much I still hadn't forgiven - [30DoSW: Day 15: What Can I Do For You?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-15/) - If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. — Eleonora Duse The Resonance of Reverence Not only are we the - [30DoSW: Day 14: Venerable Wild Lore and Radical Reverence](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-14/) - Mutual respect is the key that allows true peace to occur in the Dream of the Planet. — Don Miguel Ruiz Jr., The Mastery of Self: A Toltec Guide to Personal Freedom If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Mother - [30DoSW: Day 12: A Daily Conscious Kind Act](https://deeppeacetrust.com/30daysofspiritualwildness/30dosw-day-12/) - Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. 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People have become so removed from nature and the natural cycles of life in our modern world and if we want to re wild, getting back to some ancient customs which mark the natural cycles might be a - [SWDtR: Day 19: What if the World Wasn't?](https://deeppeacetrust.com/spiritual-wildness-level-two/swdtr-day-19/) - There are beautiful and wild forces within us. — St. Francis of Assisi You will not break loose until you realise that you yourself forge the chains that bind you. — Arten, in The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary R. Renard Awakening The process of awakening is like coming out of a long, drugged sleep. You begin to - [SWDtR: Day 18: Time... to Meet Your Future Self](https://deeppeacetrust.com/spiritual-wildness-level-two/swdtr-day-18/) - Do Time Lords Exist? According to Wikipedia, the Time Lords are: ...a fictional, ancient extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' protagonist, the Doctor, is a member. 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