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It has become evident to me that HRH Prince Charles has not been clay pigeon shooting and drinking sherry while waiting his turn to rule over his kingdom. Until quite recently, however, I wasn’t quite sure what he was doing other than gardening and the usual charity photo ops.
While packing up our camera gear after interviewing Rupert Sheldrake in England recently, we discussed the value of putting his new book ‘The Science Delusion’ out in an audio format. My argument for such a decision was that Rupert has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard. Then I added, “You and Prince Charles.”
Ever since I can remember, I have had a “thing” for the voice of Prince Charles. This is not something I would have admitted to in recent times as we have learned more about the less flattering operations of the British Royal family and some of their less admirable traits overall. Still, I always held that somehow Prince Charles was a soul not cut of the same cloth as the others who appear to offer little more than a dazzling pageant from time to time to keep the commoners feeling included and cherished in some small way.
After commenting on the quality of Rupert’s and Charles’ voices, Rupert asked if I had read Prince Charles’ new book titled ‘Harmony’. Surprised, I said that I had never even heard of it. Rupert replied, “It appears that no one else has either. The British media refuse to cover it.” Now I was intrigued.
It would be right to say that, though I am married to a Brit and have many British friends and can even make a “full English breakfast” (beans and all), I do not understand their relationship with Prince Charles. He appears to be sniggered at from all quarters – from right wing media to conspiracy theorists. Many call him a “tree-hugger” or “utopian idealist” as though those traits render him completely unfit for any type of consideration. Others point to a bloodline that is said to have ruled the planet with only small mercies directed toward the needs of humankind and that it exists for its own benefit, exploiting the rest. Weighing all of this in my mind, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy of the book.
Before picking up a copy at Waterstone’s bookstore in Winchester, I began asking British people if they had read, or even heard, of ‘Harmony’ by the Prince of Wales. Blank stares, furrowed brows and far off glances were followed by, “I’ve never heard of it.” Not one person, including some of our more inquisitive and well read friends and CMN viewers, had heard that Prince Charles had written this book, one reportedly good enough to have been recommended by Rupert Sheldrake.
“Harmony” is a deeply thoughtful, soul-filled, whole-istic, practical and even mystical look at humanity and our relationship with the earth. While I was secretly looking for thinly veiled references to depopulation, carbon credits and other neo-con/Illuminati agendas, I found no such thing. That said, HRH clearly does buy into the notion that human behavior is at the foundation of global climate change, over which there is much disagreement and debate. Beyond this point, he and his co-authors Tony Jupiter and Ian Skelly, artfully and diplomatically laid out the price we have paid for disconnecting from each other, our communities, our land and our own intuition. Prince Charles is clear in his belief that this has not happened accidentally as evidenced by some of his writing. He quotes the wartime propagandist Edward Bernays who said, “We are governed, our minds moulded, our tastes formed by men we have never heard of……who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind.”
He continues in his own words, “It is a fact of history that humanity will never wake up to the dangers until the crisis actually hits us between the eyes. Until then, vested interests stave off the warnings by shooting the messengers or destroying the sanctuary that holds the wisdom of the heart, either by suffocating it with ugliness of all kinds or reducing the argument to the level of a tabloid travesty – anything rather than face the darkness that overwhelms the soul. At such a crucial moment in our history it is vital that we reignite the lamp and illuminate what has lain in the shadows.” Throughout the book he offers solutions alongside the challenges, none of which call for an 80% reduction of the world’s population.
While this is a small attempt to summarize this work, he is suggesting that we need to turn our attention to the indigenous people of the planet who have retained relationship with the earth, one another and their communities, people who know how to live with without causing undo harm to their surroundings. He points to the Anastasia type of education that exists in Telcos, Russia in which the children explore every subject until its understood, often teaching each other. The idea is to gain true wisdom, not just knowledge. He shows the value in connecting children with the land both for their understanding of food and to nourish their minds and hearts. He is a hands-on gardener who believes that having a relationship with Mother Earth keeps us connected and balanced within ourselves and fosters higher intuition and connection with each other.
He also details the need for, and path to, create a new type of economy that is not based on treating nature as a machine to be raped for resources. In one statement he shared that the amount of money it would take to stem the unhealthy practice of deforestation is the same as was reportedly paid in bonuses during 2009 to the staff of Goldman Sachs. These are choices we make he says, stating that we have the power to do otherwise.
As for over-population, as one example he speaks of offering opportunity to mothers in economically under-developed parts of of the world. One such example is the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. The exceedingly high birth rates among the country’s women began to drop as they were extended micro-loans to generate self sufficiency through animal husbandry and the like. They felt empowered, no longer needing to have several children to create security for themselves later in life. They had an endeavor to feel proud of and nurture. It is through personal empowerment of this kind, a real, non-mechanistic education, healthy families and communities, and core spiritual values that include our connection with nature that he sees a sustainable future for our planet and it’s people. Honestly, I couldn’t argue any but the tiniest of points, global climate change aside. And I began to see why he is categorically rejected by the media. He is talking about a life that honors life, not a life designed to consume.
Meanwhile, as I did my informal ‘marketing research’ to see how few, if any, Brits knew of this book, I came across a man who is a longtime CMN viewer and very connected to the spiritual and esoteric communities in England. He said that he wasn’t surprised that Prince Charles had written such a book. I asked why that was.
Skilled in David Hawkins calibration of consciousness protocols, some years earlier he had “calibrated” Tony Blair, the Royal family and others. It will not surprise you to learn that the Queen barely broke the level of consciousness above psychopathic at 220. Tony Blair came in at 170, which is apparently common among the ruthless political class. Remember that consciousness has nothing to do with intelligence. One can be a genius while having an under developed social and spiritual consciousness. To continue, Prince Charles tested out at 465, which is a very high reading for anyone that has incarnated within a physical body. This is the level that denotes highly developed spiritual purpose and understanding.
I sighed and thought about it. It felt right to me. Prince Charles has always seemed like the odd duck in the family, just as most of you reading this may be in your own families. He hugs trees and chickens. He despises the ‘brutalist’ architectural movement because it give us soul-robbing edifices. He chose to love his best friend rather than a beautiful Princess whose blood was chosen for him. When it all went very badly, he was held to blame and we may never know the true story behind Diana’s death.
Still, humans are very complex creatures and we never know the mission of a soul. Perhaps Charles wanted to inject some clear thinking into society at a critical time by using the profile given a member of the Royal family. Ironically, his position is apparently why no one will listen to him – he’s seen to be taking advantage of his position to proffer his views. What a Catch-22 that is.
This journey through ‘Harmony’ further reinforced something for me which is that it is dangerous to judge one another by our cover, in HRH’s case, the cover of Royal blood. He appears to be a man who is trying to offer very real and beautiful solutions to very real problems of environmental, physical, spiritual and communal degradation. I’m glad I gave him a chance. If I have been conned in some peripheral, sub-consious way, I can live with that because the words in ‘Harmony’ were a reminder to me of a better way of living that I have long cherished.
To this end, we have included the book in our Book section and I encourage you to savor it while you can. It is also a film and you can watch the trailer below.
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I’m delighted and surprised to hear someone put in a good word for Prince Charles. It doesn’t happen often. He’s regarded as a loose cannon with unconventional ideas by the Establishment in England – not at all what you want in the heir to the throne. At the same time he’s despised by others because he’s a member of the Royal Family. Despite being in this impossible position he continues to speak out for the things he believes in. It takes great courage to do that with a the British press constantly ridiculing him or criticising him for interfering.
So thank you, Regina, for yet again writing something that has me saying “Yes,yes,yes” as I read it.
Thanks Regina….will buy the book, looking forward to reading it. always thought Prince Charles was different and loved his sense of humour. The Goon Show and all the rest….:) :)
Thank you all for your comments.
Twenty years ago I was among the handful of regularly featured environmental reporters on television, with a news segment titled The Envireport. This was before there was Green media.
The Enrireport was my concept, which I convinced a local CBS TV station had value. My inspiration was in part due to having witnessed clear cuts in the majestic California forests. I love trees – our planet’s lungs, shade, protection and art. Most of us who have a visceral relationship with this beautiful earth are likely to feel pain at her debasement. My motivation for doing this TV segment was personal – I simply loved this beautiful place enough to put my time and energy into learning and sharing what I could.
As I read Harmony I felt the same depth of feelings running through the pages as I did on my own path, which also resulted in my producing and writing an award winning documentary that was well received.
The impressive point for me regarding Harmony was that people were not sacrificed, nor their happiness and well being, in the larger view of Prince Charles – they are as precious as the land itself. This differs considerably from Agenda 21.
In the end we have to use our instincts as to who is worth listening to and who is not. There are very few environmental groups I give any serious consideration to any longer as I feel their integrity has been breached by “insiders” and through the sticky business of acquiring funding. For me, Harmony took it back to basics and had a purity that I feel is genuine, which included an abhorance of the insidious business of Green Washing as well as disregarding the needs of the human as a spiritual being. The theme was around the ability of human Beings to self-organize in harmonious ways while interfacing with the Earth for their own physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual well-being.
Meanwhile, I very much look forward to hearing comment from all of you after you’ve read the book. Perhaps I’m missing the clues as to a darker agenda here. It’s certainly possible as I am an optimist by nature. That said, I did have one discomfort with the book – I wish that Charles could show up in his photo ops in a T-shirt and khakis just once! Gray colored suits with pocket squares don’t work in the jungle.
Regina, I have read this book. I stumbled across it probably a year ago in a small independent bookstore in Los Osos, California where I live. I really could not afford it, but it was so beautiful in every way that I had to have it. I fell in love with Prince Charles for all his insight and vision of connectedness. I was struck with the idea that here is someone who hcas the chance to be a real leader, whether he ever takes the throne or not. Maybe better if he didn’t. There are so many concepts in the book that it’s impossible to pick out one, but the concept of how sacred geometry is imbedded in the natural balanced world is certainly primary. That little bookstore in Los Osos is called Volumes of Pleasure. Thanks for all your hard work – Sid
Something about this touches my heart – after ordering the book on Amazon I noticed there is also a children’s version which looks even lovelier so I ordered that also ($0.38 plus $3.99 shipping!)
Thank you Regina for this. I’ve always had a soft spot for Prince Charles, for which I have recieved quite a bit of critisism. Amongst the “truther” movement there is much black and white thinking: Royals = evil or Rosecrucians are somehow a dark cult. In the real world things are less likely to fit the narrow constructs of our prejudices. If we are going to judge people at all let’s judge them on their merits and not what other people say about them.
Insightful Jim.
well, I asked a question here in the comment section yesterday about David Hawkins calibration method only to find that I had already answered it for myself a week ago. I bought his book Power vs Force at a thrift store because it looked interesting, but hadn’t paid attention to the authors name. So I looked for information about this online after reading the above and saw this title Power vs. Force and I thought “Hey, that sounds familiar”. I turned to my right to look at the stack of books on my nightstand and there it was. I love answering my own questions a week before I ask them.
I haven’t read the book myself or even heard of it, and know very little about Charles other than what I’ve read about, bloodline speculations and the like, as you mentioned. One thing I have realized though is that there is nothing more confusing now than working out what “Green” really means.
The ‘elite’, not the ordinary misguided human who gets high on wealth and power, but the thoughful ‘architects of the dawn’ behind it all, seem to have the Earth/materialism thing as one of their principal doctrines – Agenda 21, UN initiatives, radical environmentalism, new age luciferianism, neo-Darwinism; all these things seem bundled together into one green idelogical stew that appeals to our emotions, except of course if we have traditional religious values.
The problem, as I see it, is that although this marketing campaign for a new “green” spirituality is very appealing because it is all from the point of view of “caring for mother earth” (all hearts want to care about something), we often don’t realize that we are getting further entrenched in materialism, all the while believing it is spiritual, albeit a different kind of spirituality to old “unenlightened” religious structures.
In other words, no area are we more prone to deception about than our relationship to the planet. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for living in harmony with the earth, the seasons, our bodies and doing what can be done to keep things healthy, however I am finding myself cringe more and more when I hear of the latest green campaign. We are being sold something far more involved than mere “care of the earth”, something which perhaps will only become clear when its too late.
Perhaps the greatest mistake people make in considering the illuminati and its minion groups, is thinking of them as ‘evil’. The real danger is not that they are evil, it is that they are Good, so good in fact that they can committ the most heinous atrocities for ‘noble’ purposes, cleaning up the earth is one example. You can’t argue with someone who reasons as if they were God, or someone that believes they cast no shadow.
I am curious about the David Hawkins calibration method you mention here. Any thoughts about where to find out more about this? I have never heard of it before.
Thanks so much for this information, Regina. Its quite incredible how a true voice can be silenced no matter how well-known or respected. It’s equally sad how we muzzle the very people who serve us to save us.
Thanks again. I too intend to make this book as public as possible.
Thanks Regina! I hadn’t heard of this book by HRH Prince Charles either, but there’s will hopefully be a nanoburst in sales as we spread the word and I plan give some as Christmas gifts this year.
I don’t know if you’re aware of this but Prince Charles had two very conscious and aware teachers when he was young. Sir George Travellian who founded The Wrekin Trust and wrote many thought provoking, visionary books and gave many talks and lectures, and Sir Laurence Van Der Post who was also a wonderful thinker who was brought up by a woman from the Kalahari tribe the San. He wrote ‘the lost world of the Kalahari’ and was a very close feind of Carl Jung.
you’ve shown us prince charles in different light, regina