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November 9, 2026

Alfred: ‘believers rule’

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Thanks to April (Echo, April 2) for her ‘inspiring artwork’ showing the huge ‘shaman lady’ treating little cyclone Alfred like a puppet on a string. Onya April.

In this age of the internet and global TV news, people all over the world knew of the unusual cyclone Alfred. The call went out to lightworkers to help ‘steer the cyclone’ away from land, with corresponding results as verified by satellite images and meteorological reports of Alfred’s ‘erratic behaviour’.

The feedback I received ranging from: ‘I don’t believe in all that stuff’ to, ‘Yes, I found it so easy to work on Alfred,’ was surprising. Many hearts make light work!

So are we alone or all one? In this age of Aquarius, Mayan prophecy, Kali Yuga, Second Coming, etc. we are coming to a fulcrum point of consciousness. Apparently we have been here many times before, with cultural/climatic mass extinction events, i.e. Atlantis, Lemuria, the Great Flood, etc.

Today we have MAD, mutually assured destruction and the climate emergency. As stated last week in The Echo ‘thought creates your world,’ i.e. INTENTION + EMOTION X C = MANIFESTATION. Believing is seeing. Are we victims or creators? Believers rule.

Noah Yamore, Mullumbimby



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