In Part One of this history, we have traversed nine years, from the early beginnings in 1992, through to the point at the end of 2001, when the New Millennium Essences had been launched onto the global stage.
Peter walked all around the botanical gardens, finding and photographing a number of
flowers, but still no big tree with white flowers.
His footsteps took him into the herb garden, where he found a flower, the
Sneezewort,
but this was not all that he found in the herb garden.
Sitting on a park bench was a woman, and Peter stopped to speak with her.
The woman's name was Vanda, and she was from Brazil. She had come to New Zealand
to learn English, and to find her next step in life.
Several hours later, Peter and Vanda were still talking, and within a week they were
partners and co-workers. And, it was Vanda who found the big tree with the white flowers.
Later that day, when walking together through the gardens, Vanda suddenly stopped and said,
“What is that big tree?”, and this was it, the one tree that Peter had come
to the gardens to find! The Magnolia grandiflora, or
White Magnolia, and it fills a very key role in the New Millennium Essences. Click on
its link to see what that role is.
Peter and Vanda first went back, several times, to the place of their initial meeting,
the Christchurch Botanical Gardens. There they found a good number of interesting
flowers, some of which were to become important New Millennium essences, including
the
Black Knight Bergamot, and the
Violet Dahlias.
There is a very interesting story of “synchronicity” in the finding of the
Violet Dahlias, which is detailed in our
information webpage that describes this essence.
In early March, Peter and Vanda headed south, all the way to Invercargill, at the very
bottom of the South Island, where, in the botanic gardens, they found several important
flowers, including the
Tornado Rose, the
Sunrose Rose, and the
Softly Softly Rose.
Along the way, they also found the
Self Acceptance Stone, on “Stony Beach”, Otago.
The circumstances of the finding of the
Softly Softly Rose is a very interesting story, which is told in the
information page on this essence.
They then headed right up north to the top of the South Island, Nelson, arriving at the
beginning of April, as summer turned into autumn, and stayed in that area for the
remainder of their time together.
On their very first day in Nelson, they went to the Botanic Gardens, and immediately found
two new flowers, the “Heart Energy”
Pink Rose, and the
Yellow-Orange Rose.
Both of these roses hold key positions in the New Millennium Essences, especially the
Yellow-Orange Rose, for “breaking the pattern”, and this essence has been
incorporated into the
Practitioners Set, and several other sets.
Three days later, they discovered a small park just up the road from where they were staying,
Wigzell Park, and in this little park, they found three new flowers that were to fill very
important roles.
The first was the
Yellow Rose, which is the number one ingredient in the
Everyday Emergency essence mixture product for trauma.
The second was the
Yellow Berries, which is another important ingredient in the
Everyday Emergency trauma product.
The third important new essence that was found that day was the
Cream Rose
Peter and Vanda made two trips over the hill from Nelson to Golden Bay, and here
they also found flowers that were to become important new essences. At Collingwood,
a small seaside town, they found a road-side garden with lots of lovely dahlias growing,
and several of these were cataloged and photographed for use as new essences, including
a pink dahlia for insomnia and sleep issues.
Upon arrival back in Nelson, a visit to the grounds of “Fairfield House”,
a lovely old restored historic house, that has become in recent years the place of choice in
Nelson for any gathering or meeting of “like-hearted people”,
yielded a lovely surprise. Six new flowers were found, including the
Dark Pink Geranium, the
Pink Dahlia, the
Rhubarb, and the
Small Red Dahlia.
Peter and Vanda then settled down in Nelson, to consolidate their work together.
However, their new discoveries were not yet finished. During two visits to Broadgreen
House, in Stoke, a Nelson suburb, they found a very large number of important new
flowers, most of them roses.
These included the
Elina Rose, the
Tyriana and the
Intrigue roses, which can the thought of as being a “pair”, and the
Valentine Heart and the
Moody Dream roses.
There was also the day in April, when Vanda found the “Shamanic” essences,
in the Begonia House, at Washborn Gardens, Richmond, Nelson.
This was a major achievement for Vanda, and its story is told on the information page of the
Red Begonia and the
Pink Begonia.
When the dust settled on all the above activity, Peter found that a whole new category of
flower essences had appeared. Until now, all flower essences on Planet Earth
had been inherently “dualistic”, where every essence had two sides to it,
a “positive” and a “negative”. However, these new essences
were not like this, they could be said to be “beyond duality”. They are
what many people would term “New Energy” essences, in that they embody
a holistic form of energy that is a lot different from the “old energy” of duality.
For a fuller explanation of “New Energy Essences”, see our main index
page on the
New Energy Essences.
While continuing with the consolidation work, from May 2002 onwards, the work of
discovering even more new essences did not cease. Several times, Peter went back
to the rose garden at Broadgreen House, and each time he found more new flowers,
all of them being “new energy” type, including
Memory Lane Rose, for dissolving cellular memory,
Friesia Rose, for balancing the body's meridians, and
Uetersen Rose, for dissolving the consciousness of duality.
And, Peter's long season of discovery was not yet over. In June-July, he travelled over to
the North Island, to Wellington, and while there he found even more of the “new
energy” flowers, among them being
Typhoon Rose, the essence for releasing the energy of post-traumatic stress from the
body cells,
Stargazer Rose, for apprehension,
Rosy Cushion Rose, which is possibly the most important flower essence in the whole
of the New Millennium Essences range, and
Lilac Daphne, the essence for the “magical child”.
Many of the mid-winter flowers have a real energy of starkness and clarity about them.
A lot of the roses have just a few blooms left on the bush, in some cases just a single
flower, with the bush almost bare, apart from the one single flower, and, in the photographs
that carry the energy of the “essence”, this creates a very powerful energy.
Also, the light in the winter time has a very different energy than mid-summer light,
and this also adds to the powerful energy of these essences.
A good example of this energy of “starkness” is the
Loving Memory Rose.
Over the early summer of November and December 2002, Peter's love affair with roses
continued, and he made many visits to the rose garden at the Christchurch Botanical Gardens,
and also to the rose garden at “Mona Vale”, which is a lovely public park
and function centre, with large gardens. Among the new discoveries that he made
with the roses at these locations, were the mini-sets of flower essences for the
Body-Embedded Trauma Issues, and the
Generational Inherited Issues.
As is the case with many of the new discoveries that Peter makes, the process of new essence discovery
is a very personal process, in that the new essences are discovered in response to a personal
need. Over this time of November-December 2002, Peter was working in-depth with his
own issues of “body-embedded trauma energies” and “generational
inherited issues”, and it was through a process of noticing, and working with, each of
the individual issues that are specific to these flowers, that Peter was led to find each flower.
Peter's days were very full over this period of time, the days rushed by, and in no time at all, it was Christmas, which is in the middle of summer in New Zealand. Peter took a break from the essence work, and from 28 December to 3 January, he attended “Convergence”, which is a gathering of like-hearted people, held every year at a site out in the country north of Christchurch. He had a wonderful time there, making many new friends, and enjoying the sunny days, the workshops, and the joy of hanging out with over 200 wonderful folk. However, it was at “Convergence” that a fateful meeting took place, a meeting that was to change Peter's life.
