Sharon and I will be living there permanently. The money from your donation, will allow us to continue living at Manouane Lake, in order to create a peaceful place, where you will be invited to observe nature as well as participate at certain times, to different autochthones spiritual activities.
The Owanka Nature Consciousness Movement is an organisation based on protecting nature by denouncing, bringing awareness, educating humans and help them by harmonizing with mother earth. So this is where your funds will be utilized when you become a member of our movement.
Manouane Lake is situated in the middle of the forest about 160 km north of Saint-Michel-des-Saints and 160 km west of La Tuque in the province of Quebec, Canada. There are no water services, no sewage services nor electricity. You have to drive on dirt roads. There are neither shopping centers, convenient stores, gas stations nor police or fire stations.
Since we are a young organisation, we have to adjust as situations evolve. Sharon and I would love to live in the forest, feeling significantly and financially secure, in a healthy and harmonious environment. Unfortunately, harmony is not here and life is a constant and difficult battle to fight. This is reality, sometimes sad, sometimes ugly, every so often beautiful and happy. We would have liked to live with nature without feeling compelled to fight. But because of the problems at Manouane Lake, we cannot live there with our eyes closed, while preaching harmony, peace and balance. This would be like leaving mother earth all on her own. We would simply be lying to ourselves.
Being in the field of alternate medicine, we know that it is just not enough to heal only the body and if the environment is sick, it is because man is also sick. Without this awareness, there cannot be any healing. Without healing, man dies. It is only when this awareness is attained, that a choice can be made. Choose to fight and live or ignore it and die. However, closing ones eyes is the same as choosing to ignore and die... To heal man and the earth, this is the movement.
The Owanka Nature Consciousness Movement is not the environmental police, even though we will denounce certain pilfering. The movement is above all, a bridge of healing and harmony between man and mother earth. Alternate medicine, crafts, native spirituality and observing nature, will be important to the foundation.
You know times are hard for everyone, us included. Living on just my meagre military pension, it is far from paradise, believe me. Add to that the cost to maintain the small structures we have in the woods is very expensive. Our minimum cost of living has gone from 45,000$ to 16,000$ a year but our average income is more like 10,000$ once taxes are removed. You can help us by becoming a member of the movement with an annual contribution from 25$ to 100$ or more. You can even create a group. Your name will be inscribed on a plaque that will hang on the walls of the foundation and we will never forget the reasons you placed your confidence in us and the movement.
You will not have the impression that you are giving us charity…You will be supporting people whose work is necessary, innovating and with solid results on the land. The cost would be at least 10 times more if it would be under the provincial responsibilities. Sharon and I will keep the donors up to date on our projects and our accomplishments by our on-site journal.
You have the choice to help transform this project into something that we will all benefit from. When the time and space allows us, we would love to welcome you, so that you can participate in our little part of paradise, in our life and in our experiences. A similar stay with an outfitter, who pollutes the environment, would cost three or four times more that an annual donation towards The Owanka Nature Consciousness Movement. While passing through Lac Manouane, stop and see where your donations have been spent.
Wouldn’t it be great if the tax payer could do the same and check on the use of their tax dollars given to the State, a state that favours bureaucracy, expensive and unfortunately at times, and in many cases, useless. Now, at last, here is a person who’s interested in protecting our heritage and whose interests are compatible with the personal interests of all. Amongst others, the economists actually dream about this and who knows, some may also be ecologists.
In conclusion, remember, the success of the movement depends upon you, my friends. For more details on The Owanka Nature Consciousness Movement, please contact us either by e-mail or through the mail.
Thank you.
Sharon and Daniel Soucy CD. (Hummingbird)