Eden Magazine January 2011

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January 2011Volume 1 Issue 1

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Eden Magazine is an independent monthly online magazine. Our aim is to create a better enviroment where we live among other living being in peace and harmony. We support arists that their work match our critria. If you would like to submit your

artwork, article or/and your photography for our future issues please [email protected] or www.theedenmagazine.com

It has been almost two years from my last publication of Critter Magazine. I thought it was time for me to follow a different alley by not only focusing on animal’s world and expand my love and passion to the all energies that surround us.

So, Eden Magazine is a new era for me to be part of the discovering path to peaceful living among other living beings. We are all made of vibration and light in the universe to manifest our energy around all livingness. Respect and honor animals, plants and everything in our beautiful Universe.

I would like to thank everyone who helped me with my first issue.

Thank you SiriSat Julia for contributing an article about your life and emotional artistry, I love your music and your beautiful voice.

Thank you Rosa for sharing your amazing art works, your inspiration and passion.

And thank you Craig for sharing a story about wonderful time you had with Cooper he always remain in our heart.

Editor’s Note

Maryam Morrison

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Contents

SiriSat Julia Claire 4

Dogstar Foundation 8

Rosa Furoghi 12

The power of Imagination 16

Fur or Faux 19

In Memory of Cooper 22

SiriSatJulia Claire

Angelic, uplifting voice taking you to a blissful journey

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When I first listened to SiriSat´s voice I felt my spirit lifted up to beyond and eternity. Her angelic voice has been enchanting audiences since

as early as her age of nine.

“Siri Sat Julia Kaur” means “The princess who manifests the greatest truth” the name she received from the Master Yogi Bhajan. Music and performing is not new for SiriSat as it was always her primary focal point while grow-ing up, and this leads her to passionately follow performing arts of all varieties from Classi-cal Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary Dance, to Drama and Theatre Arts qualifying with the London Royal Academy in England.

She performed her first song in public during her young teens, and became an actress in the BBC series “A Little Princess”. At age sixteen she performed in her first stage musical in England.

She took her career and passion for arts even further when she signed her first recording contract in 1987, and whilst travelling in Spain her single “A Summer Romance” became top of the charts. At this point SiriSat´s career propelled to a new dimension which lead her to share her talent through many concerts and TV specials.

On the road of transformation she experienced in the eighties she performed worldwide on TV with her own band and dancers. She was diving even deeper in this journey by becoming a Yoga teacher and Reiki Master. Healing and Meditation was the key that inspired SiriSat´s


spiritual discovery not just as a vocalist and dancer, but as a channel of sacred wisdom and healing. Her first solo mantra albums “Celestial and Mantra Chill Out” represent her deep devotional strength inspired by the Mantras of Yoga manifested by musical producer Carles Reig.

She presently furthers her transformational musical journey by preparing a brand new mantra album with Carles and OHM Spirit Sound.

By sharing her musical gift, she embraces life with harmony and love, inviting all to accompany her on a deeper, blissful healing journey through sacred song.

SiriSat Julie’s voice and music are described by many as angelic, uplifting, energizing, healing, peaceful and blissful journey for the senses.

SiriSat - Julia Clairehttp://www.facebook.com/l/ca52d-81R6-zyiSeiftgh_cWy8w;www.sirisat.future-producer.netRecord label - Producer-Director Carles Reig OHM Spirit Soundhttp://www.facebook.com/l/ca52d7--xitC2pX54FMjItQPv0Q;www.ohmm.com


“Are you a God? they asked the Buddha. No, he replied.Are you an angel, then? No.A saint? No.Then what are you?

Replied the Buddha, I am awake.”


Dogstar Foundation is a Regis-tered UK Charity and WSPA

Member Society based near Ke-galle Sabaragamuwa Province in Sri Lanka. Working in partnership with local Sri Lankan vets , Veteri-nary Clinical Sciences Department at the University of Peradeniya and overseas Volunteer Vets, the Dogstar Foundation provides ac-cess to free veterinary care, ster-ilisation and vaccinations for dogs and cats from low income com-munities in Sri Lanka via fixed and outreach clinics.

The name Dogstar was chosen as its the more common name for the star Sirius in the constellation Canis Major (The Dog) which the

brightest star in the night sky and is visible from both England and Sri Lanka. But now the question is how his amazing foundation start-ed? In September 2006 Sam vol-unteered with a Sri Lanka Charity Millennium Elephant Foundation (MEF). Sam had been made re-dundant earlier that year and had wanted to travel to Sri Lanka and bath an elephant ever since watch-ing the Blue Peter summer expedi-tion to Sri Lanka in 1983 !

Part of the volunteer program was teaching english at a local Buddhist temple. During one of her classes Sam noticed some small puppies and a very ill adult dog that the Temple monks were caring for.

who give a second chance to our companion in their own words

Dogstar Foundation


The dogs urgently needed medi-cal attention and the Monks had no access to veterinary care. Sam spoke with the Monk who was very concerned for all the dogs’ welfare especially the adult dog and Sam promised to arrange a vet to visit.

Vets from MEF’s mobile veterinary unit (who provide free treatment to any Elephant in Sri Lanka) were fortunately in the local area, they attended that evening and Sam paid for the cost of the medicines required.

For the mea-gre sum of 12 pounds the adult dog Mango was successfully treated for mange, infected wounds and a badly healed broken leg and all 4 pup-pies were vaccinated against rabies. This was also Sam’s first introduction to working with Dr Dangola and the student vets at the University of Peradeniya.

Sam later posted an appeal for help on an UK animal welfare forum The Refuge asking if its members could send worming tab-lets or flea treatments to her direct

in Sri Lanka. The response was fantastic and within weeks par-cels flooded in from the UK allow-ing many local dogs and cats to be treated.

From Sam’s single act of request-ing a vet for the Temple dogs the idea of setting up a permanent method of working with MEF and the University of Peradeniya was born. The name

Dogstar was cho-sen as its the more common name for Sirius a star in the con-stellation Canis Major (The Dog), it is the brightest star in the night sky and is visible from both Eng-

land and Sri Lanka.

In 2010 the Dogstar Foundation became a UK Registered Charity and a member society of the World Society for the Protection of Animals ( WSPA ). In July 2010 we signed a 1 year lease on a build-ing which we converted into a clin-ic and accommodation for visiting Vets, partial services have been operating from the clinic since September 2010 and full services will be offered from January 2011.


Dogstar is not a big charity, in fact it costs us on average just £ 25 a day to feed all our dogs, provide free sterilizations, vaccinations, and veterinary treatment & medication. Even so we struggle some months to raise the money required and Dogstars 3 unpaid trustees make up the shortfall. No amount of mon-ey raised for Dogstar is ever too small and it can be a life changing

sum for the vulnerable animals we deal with.

By working in partnership and educating the benefits of sterilisa-tions & vaccinations and providing free clinics, the Dogstar Foundation is actively reducing the numbers of unwanted puppies and kittens in Sri Lanka. A reduced canine and feline population has more resources like food and shelter

available per head and this cou-pled with access to veterinary care and vaccines makes for a happier healthy environment for the entire community.

There are many ways that you can help by sponsoring one of dogs, volunteering, donation and so many other ways.

If you want to be part of this uncon-ditional love and make a difference in their life visit Dogstar at http://www.dogstarfoundation.com



Artist Corner

Rosa furoghi

As a visionary digital artist Rosa try to manifest her visions of

being in altered states of conscious-ness into three dimentional physi-cal form through art.

She attempt to show what lies beyond the boundaries of our sight and express the unseen through visions which have been inspired by psychedelics and spiritual journeys within.

This is to aid awakening of individuals and guiding them to their own unique paths of experience.

If you wish to contact Rosa via email,;[email protected], or add her on facebook to view more of her artworks.


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The quality of your life cannot be better than the quality of your thoughts

An amazing truth unfolds to us in an ancient story where the prehistoric people got together and decided to build a city whose tower would reach up to Heaven. When God saw what they wanted to build, He admitted that those people could not be stopped from doing what they had imagined.

In proposing or planning their proj-ect, those people engaged the forces of their imagination. Surprisingly, God said they would have whatever they had imagined to do even when their project was against God’s plan. That is how powerful the principles that control our world are.

Your Picture Determines your Future

To stop the building of the tower, God confused the speech of those people. They began to speak different languag-es. It was not really their language that He was after; it was the picture in their hearts. As long as that picture could be sustained, it was going to happen.

God had to disable that picture by con-fusing their language. The moment they could not understand themselves anymore, the picture began to reduce in size until it eventually disintegrated.

Imagination turns impulsive thoughts or ideas into pictures in the mind. When God designed you, He put in your mind that equipment that turns impulses and thoughts into pictures. Imagination is simply image formation.

Our imagination functions like the film in a camera or like the memory card. When you have an image on the film or card, you can find it on a post-card. It is the image on the film that is printed out for you on the postcard. Whatever picture stays on the film of your mind or in your memory long enough will eventually be printed out or you in real life.

One of the reasons people live frustrat-ed lives is because they expect God to change their circumstances when they have not changed the image on their film. They expect the picture on the outside to change without first chang-ing the picture in their imagination.

By; Mark Irabor


THE POWER OF IMAGINATION

Digital art by Maryam



The prayers of many people are not answered because what they are ask-ing does not agree with what they are thinking. When you pray, and the pow-er of God comes on your life, whatever image it meets on the film of your heart is what it prints out for you in real life. That takes us back again to the basic principles; the quality of your life can-not be better than the quality of your thoughts. It is your picture that deter-mines your future.

When God wants to change people’s lives, He first changes their imagi-nation. If the film in your heart is negative,God will not work against His principles to create favorable circum-stances for you. He does not break his principles.

Imagination is powerful. The snag is always that our natural circumstanc-es, like lack of material things, tend to stamp an impression that is too strong on our imagination.

Circumstances, like lack of material things, tend to stamp an impression that is too strong on our imagination.

There is a new card for you, but you have to see it with your inner eyes. Your imagination is an asset to you; do not waste it. It is only in your imag-ination that you cannot be limited by time or space.

What do you presume it means when God says a man should have domin-ion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air and over every creep-ing thing that moves on the earth?

Your physical body cannot accom-plish all that, because it is limited by time and space. There is limit to how much weight you can carry with your hand. The part of you that really car-ries things, achieve big things and move things on earth is your invisible part. And the major part of it depends on your imagination.

Break the limit of time. Break the limit of space.

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“Today more than ever before life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility,

not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.”

His Holiness The Dalai Lama


If you have ever thought about how nice it would be to have that pretty fur coat, then perhaps you should watch Martha Stewart’s contribution to PETAs five minutes video found on the website www.furisdead.com. To even think of what animals go through to end up on our bodies is more than tragic. In today’s age, we are able to simulate just about everything imagin-able, even fur.

So, why kill an animal for absolutely no reason when you can have some-thing just as nice and beautiful but cruelty free? To further emphasize the cruelty of using real fur, many fashion designer, including Stella McCartney, Marc Bouwer and Ralph Lauren, now

use only Faux fur in their clothing lines. Fake fur, also known as faux fur, is just as appealing if not much more desir-able simply for the mere fact that noth-ing had to die to make the things we wear. Fashion does not have to be fatal.

If you watch the video, you will learn that the animals are kept in cages the size of small boxes, and sometimes multiple animals are in the same cage. You’ll also see the inhumane treat-ment of these animals as they live and die. Some are beaten to death to save the integrity of their fur or skins some are poisoned, strangled or even have their necks broken by being slammed onto the ground, so as not to damage the precious fur. Some are even killed by anal or vaginal electrocution, again to retain the integrity of the skin and fur. Sometimes, the electrocution does not go quite right the first time, and must be done repeatedly, on the same suffering animal. Also there are many times when the animals are still alive after being skinned or even wake up while being skinned.

About half of the fur imported to the U.S. comes from China and is taken from abused and mutilated cats and dogs, and most of t is said to be delib-erately mislabeled. There are currently no regulation governing the Chinese fur trade, therefore, you could easily be wearing cat or dog fur without even knowing it.

Fur or FauxBy Sandi Feiz

Still want a pretty fur coat?

This information is compelling but if it is not enough to change someone’s mind about wearing or buying any item that is made using real fur, then listen to even more distressing news. Some animals caught in the “hunter’s” trap are domesticated animals with owners who are very concerned about their health. Some dogs go home with a leg chewed off because they were caught in a trap and knew no other way out. Can we still possibly think that having real fur clothing is worth it all?

The video narrated by Martha Stewart is graphic and heartbreaking, but also quite a reality. None of us should turn our heads to the cruelty these creatures are subjected to. If we do, it makes you no better than those who do the exe-cution and selling of these defenseless victims. Go faux, not fur.

Nobody going to notice the difference, except the animals.

For the list of cruelty-free clothing retailers visit. www.peta.org.

Retirved from Critter Magazine Vol 1, issue 8



I met Cooper at the Savannah-Chatham Humane Society in August 2007, his name at the time was Mike and he was 7 months old.

Cooper lived a brief but happy life with me. He enjoyed chasing squirrels and cats. He prob-ably would have gotten at a few if I did not restrain him. I had a great trainer in Maryam Morrison, who patiently answered questions and helped me with Cooper’s development.

Cooper loved peanut butter in his Kong toys, and especially liked to hunt for hidden toys around my apartment. He was always happy and never bit, growled or snapped at anyone. He loved leaping at the waves at Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Strange as it may seem, Cooper loved going to the vet. Dr. Hassan and her staff at George-town Veterinary Hospital spoiled Cooper and everyone there took the best care possible to give him a healthy life. Cooper loved “talking” on the phone to his Grandma, Grandpa, and Auntie. He really enjoyed being around kids, especially my nephews, Nicholas, Alex, An-drew, Patrick and Kyle.

One thing that Cooper never outgrew was that he liked to get socks and run around with them hanging out of his mouth. Even a week

before he passed away he was trying to get me to chase him with a sock hanging out of his mouth.

Cooper loved walking around City Market, River Street and Forsyth Park in Savannah, Georgia too. Not a visit downtown was left without hearing people comment on Cooper “what a beautiful German Shepherd”, “what a nice dog”, and “you have a fine dog there.” It is so hard coming home and not seeing his little face at the window waiting for me, or seeing me leave.

I know wherever he is, that he is well loved and happy. He trained me to be a good dog owner for my new dog, Molly, Cooper’s little sister. Cooper will forever be remembered as a per-fect best friend who touched so many people in his short life.

The one who touches your heart you never forget

In the Memory of Cooper

Life and Death are but an illusion. Happy and Sad are just a state of mind.Love and Compassion alleviates the suffering of all sentient Beings

those who have been our Mothers and our Fathers.To recognize the interconnectedness of all beings

Is to know peace!

Buddhist Homage

By Craig Wymer


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