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Hello! We are very happy you are here at the Once Upon an Eden website!

Welcome! We, the Once Upon an Eden team, are pleased, grateful and relieved that you are here now visiting the Once Upon an Eden website! It is always fun to have visitors. Especially now, in this time of "social distancing" connection is more important

than ever! You could virtually be visiting anyone. It is our delight and a great blessing that you are spending your time with Once Upon an Eden.

Recently, the world as we knew it, was hit by an iron fist punch of illness, death, economic destruction, gripping inner turmoil and the greatest thing to fear according to former United States President Roosevelt -Fear itself (1.) all encompassed within a minute enemy so tiny that a high powered microscope is necessary to see it in its life form. Corona Virus -19. (2.)

As the global health sector around the world is doing all it can to combat this unseen menace, governments are taking extreme measures as per their flavor of political and leadership style to curb the rise in death of their citizens. Cultures in some countries are shifting and changing on so many levels in a head spinning rate as a result of individuals, during this time of global "lock down", being forced to scrutinize their own self care habits, thus, becoming more acutely aware of their own actions and life choices. Likewise, this level of intense self examination is beginning to change how we as a society, on a whole, tend to interact within and without our demographic arenas on a day to day basis forcing ourselves to adjust accordingly under the guidelines of governmental guidelines of WHO (World Health Organization), CDC (Center for Disease Control), FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and in the United States (White House Corona Virus Task Force), along with governors, mayors and local government and civic departments and businesses being dictated to by the driving force of CoVid-19.

So in these days of a society being impacted and refashioned by Corona Virus-19, we at Once Upon an Eden will do our best to keep you informed with the most reliable information possible of what your local government is doing or how you may find out, what is expected of you while in lock down or under "shelter in place" and "self isolation" orders and most importantly where food, water and other resources and what you can do to be part of the greater solution while complying with local authorities. And because common sense is not common, and stubborn, selfish, idiots abound we will give some flagrant examples of what not to do as well.
(1.)http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5057
(2.) https://www.cnet.com/news/this-is-what-the-deadly-coronavirus-looks-like-under-a-microscope/
(3.)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozHNn9tc8m8

BUT FIRST A SONG, A STORY, A PEP TALK AND SOME GRATITUDE!

A SONG

When you have time slow down these words and really take a look at them. In times of disaster (natural and man made/ government made) and of the unknown (from microbe, pollution to asteroid looming or hurling our way), people responding to government elections these words of this song seem so apropos. When all Hell breaks loose no matter the root cause YOUR RESPONSE IS EVERYTHING! YOUR MINDSET, YOUR PREPARATION, YOUR RESPONSE. YOU YOU YOU YOU ARE KEY. YES THE WORLD IS ALL ABOUT YOU AND NO THE WORLD OWES YOU NOTHING AND HAS NOTHING FOR YOU. YOU YOU YOU OWE YOU AND YOU HAVE EVERYTHING OR DO YOU? hmmmm?!

IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES YOU CAN BE A POPCORN MUNCHER (WHICH IS NOT SO BAD ACTUALLY) OR
IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES YOU CAN BE A CHICKEN LITTLE ADDING TO THE PANIC (AND HOARDING) KINDA GRUBBER
IN THESE TROUBLED TIMES YOU CAN ALREADY BE PREPARED, BE SENSIBLE AND HELP YOUR SELF, YOUR FAMILY, YOUR NEIGHBORS AND COMMUNITY WITHIN THE SAFETY GUIDELINES. -YOU KNOW BE THE TYPE THAT HELPS KEEP THE ECONOMIC WORLD AND EVERY DAY SOCIETY GOING RIGHT WELL AND ADJUSTED BY TAPPING INTO YOUR INNER "CAN DO! WE SHALL! WE WILL! WE ARE! ALL DONE! YAY THE HUMAN FAMILY!" MENTALITY

OUT OF THESE THREE RESPONSE TYPES POPCORN MUNCHER AND SENSIBLE PREPAREDNESS ARE GOOD RESPONSES AND EACH IN THEIR OWN WAY HELPFUL. GRUBBERS NOT SO MUCH -ACTUALLY NOT AT ALL. PLEASE DO NOT BE A GRUBBER/HOARDER AND DO NOT BE A CHICKEN LITTLE. PANIC AND FEAR ARE ENERGY WASTERS. WE HAVE ENOUGH GOING ON AS IT IS AND NEED ALL THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE NO MATTER THE SITUATION. SO IF YOU ARE NOT A FIRST RES-PONDER, AN ESSENTIAL WORKER OR A VOLUNTEER, THEN AT LEAST POP YOUR POPCORN ENJOY THE SHOW BUT STAY IN THE AUDIENCE AND OUT OF PRODUCTION'S AND THE CAST MEMBERS WAY. (IN OTHER WORDS STOP POSTING THAT THE APOCALYPSE IS HERE OR THAT WE ARE UNDER GLOBAL MARTIAL LAW. TRUE OR NOT, NONE OF THAT IS HELPFUL RIGHT NOW.). NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE(S) OR SITUATION, YOU HAVE IT IN YOU TO RISE TO THE OCCASION. YOU NEED YOU TO DO SO. YOUR FAMILY NEEDS YOU TO DO SO. YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY NEED YOU TO DO SO. AND RIGHT NOW SO DOES YOUR COUNTRY AND THE WORLD. HOW? FIRST GET YOUR MINDSET FOCUSED RIGHT CORRECT!!!

A STORY

A PEP TALK - Reset Today 18th Century Style

THESE ARE UNCERTAIN TIMES FOR SURE. THE WORLD HAS BEEN TAKEN HOSTAGE BY A MICROBE. A VIRUS. HOW DARE IT? IT DARES. MICROBES WILL BE MICROBES NO MATTER HOW THEY CAME TO BE OR WHERE FROM. DID IT COME FROM A EATEN DISEASED BAT OR DID IT COME FROM A LAB? DEBATE THIS ALL YOU WANT FOR NOW WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT THE CORONA VIRUS IS HERE AND IT IS DOING WELL. SO HAVE MANY MICROBES IN THE PAST OF HUMAN AND WORLD HISTORY. YET WE AS A SPECIES HAVE MANAGED TO SURVIVE AND EVENTUALLY THRIVE. AND THE SEASON OF CORONA VIRUS (COVID AND ITS OTHER MANY NAMES ), OF THE MIDDLE END OF 2019, AND THIS 2020, WILL BE NO DIFFERENT. WE WILL SURVIVE AND THRIVE. YES, HEARTACHE AND LOSS WILL HAPPEN. HISTORY IS IN THE MAKING. WE WILL LEARN OUR LESSONS AND MAKE NECESSARY REAL TIME ADJUSTMENTS AND HINDSIGHT 20/20 ADJUSTMENTS. IN THE END WE WILL COME TO THE CONCLUSION OF WHAT WE HAVE ALWAYS OF KNOWN: THE GOVERNMENTS CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH (and while they are helping We the People there will be moments of taking advantage of crisis when or if possible. So keep a level mindset, eat more popcorn. Make sure you have enough first. Share if need be. Share safely. OUAE will provide tips how. ) LIFE DEPENDS ON WE THE PEOPLE. EACH INDIVIDUAL DOING HIS OR HER RESOLUTE RESPONSIBILITY OF SELF CARE AND FAMILY, NEIGHBOR AND COMMUNITY CARE. IN TIMES OF CRISIS AND MAJOR STRESS (like now) AND DISASTERS, IT IS HELPFUL TO KNOW WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT AND THE WHEN, WHERE, WHY AND HOW OF IT ALL. FIRST AND FOREMOST IS MINDSET. TIME FOR ANOTHER SONG...THIS TIME A SING ALONG. OH SO MUCH TRUTH IN A SONG. MAY WANT TO SLOW THIS ONE DOWN TOO AND READ (OR LISTEN TO) THE WORDS TO THIS ONE TOO.

BEFORE WE GET INTO THE TIPS AND TRICKS TO HACK CORONA OR COVID WE HAVE SOME MORE IMPORTANT POINTS TO PONDER FIRST... DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN THERE WAS ONLY ONE PURPOSE TO HOARD TOILET PAPER AND TOILET PAPER WAS NOT SOLD ON EBAY AS IF IT WERE MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD? LET'S VISIT THOSE GOOD OLE DAYS (Post is from "Just Yesteryear" of May of 2019 -The Flying Cowboys)

~~~AND NOW FOR SOME GRATITUDE!!!~

TO ALL FIRST RESPONDERS, MEDICAL PERSONNEL, SUPPLY SOURCES, ESSENTIALS AND VOLUNTEERS

WE CELEBRATE YOU!!!

ON A MORE PERSONAL NOTE:

I am known for being blunt, direct and full of tough love, not such a nice person, but full of loving kindness, which can be prickly. I am well aware that the message above from the capitalization to the verbage and the videos may be off putting. However, we all know it is the truth that : Our individual focus collectively will be the deciding element of how we adjust to not just overcoming the illness of the Corona Virus -19, but also the sweeping societal, cultural and government changes that the CoVid is beating down on us like a series of hurricanes and tornadoes. For instance 5g is not a promising/threatening theory now. It is our reality along with so many other forms of Big Brother tightening the corset around the world. "Do this and do that" is being shoved at us from the world leaders to the responders, medical personnel, social circles, religious and educational leaders to everyone with a keyboard and maybe a video camera. And what I am saying to you, is quiet yourself. Do not get caught up in the storm. You are breathing? Good. You can do nothing unless you are breathing. Nothing else matters unless you are breathing. If you are not breathing, you are dead close to it. Now, thank Life. Thank Love -God/Creator that you are breathing. Take stock in what you have besides breath. Take stock in what you have. Take stock in what you can share (that is life affirming and helpful). Take stock in what you need. With this assessment done, you can now wisely move on to resource sharing and gathering. And if you do nothing more than your daily assessment, then that alone makes you part of the solution. No matter your level of capabilities or resources you are both the cause, effect, solution. You can and will do this. I know so. I speak from experience.

January of 2019, I was hospitalized for a sepsis disease due to a flea bite. If you are a regular visitor to the Once Upon an Eden website you would have read about it already. The hospitalization was months long. I was bitten by a flea which caused me months in the hospital fighting for my life and relearning to feed myself soup without spilling, relearning to walk, relearning to communicate and to take care of my daily needs.

I kept asking God, "What is the hope and purpose in all of this? What do I need to focus on? Help me to see with Your eyes this situation. Help my mental perspective to be where it should be. As my body was dealing with so much fluid that my skin was so stretched it bled in new locations daily and I could not move any of my joints, and blankets and hospital gowns draped over my body to hide my modesty, it was the seeking Father Creator for his vision, his ways and his knowledge that over came my fear and terror so that I could with the help of the doctors' and nurses' care and the instructions of the Occupational and Physical therapists win the fight for my life, improve, and regain back quality of life.

Just as I needed to relearn basics and to learn how to maneuver a body that grew to gigantic proportions almost over night and am relearning my body once again as it comes back to normal, we as a country are learning to maneuver within the current restrictive parameters and we will have more adjustments on going as we get back to every day life as the restrictions are slowly lifted. Make no mistake we have been and will remain forever changed by this Novel Corona Virus. While the few people throughout the country and the world have misbehaved hording, looting, reselling items or ignoring needs of elderly and disabled in bound neighbors, the majority of people have proved themselves human dynamos pulling together in various remarkable ways demonstrating the impressive resilience that provides solid hope.

In the following pages on the Once Upon an Eden website we will celebrate the amazing courage, drive and determination of countless of people who are sacrificing to meet this unseen menace -fear and a new life threatening microbe and a global cultural society that has experienced a rapid reset. As I write this in closing, it has been brought to my attention that a new disease is now looming over China. In fact, while Corona 19 has been sweeping the world there are several serious illnesses sweeping through the human population right now on top of all of our other health issues. Hopefully this situation with Corona Virus helps us become a generation who takes better care of each other and ourselves. For more information on how you can do just that tune in.

Much love to you and your loved ones wherever you may be.

Michelle Carmela

(Love and Gratitude to the supporters of Once Upon an Eden from around the world who prayed for me all of the last year and who continue. Love and gratitude to the staff of the Union Rescue Mission and Director Andy Bales, El Monte General Hospital, The Infectious Disease Hospital of San Gabriel Valley and the Glendora Transitional Care Unit and to friends and family and the Once Upon an Eden team who continue to encourage me through my physical recovery and the radio and media friends who also encourage me through my recovery and allow me to continue to share my heart's message and work on their platforms.

Once Upon an Eden is an international global entity of networking individuals, families, communities and organizations seeking to meet the needs of children, families and communities affected by organized crime, child abuses, exploitation, and crimes against humanity.

Once Upon an Eden was/is founded and directed by Michelle Carmela*, a survivor activist of extreme child abuse, religious and ritual abuses and a number of other tortures. You can read about her in her bio section http://www.onceuponaneden.org/ouae-founderdirector.html . If you cannot click on the link to take you to the blog, you may have to highlight the address then cut and past it to the URL search.

"Michelle is her work. Her work is her healing. As she heals the rest of us heal." - P.A.G
( P.A.G. introducing Michelle Carmela for the first time to another woman on Skid Row. P.A.G. was a former client who has long since become a sister to Michelle Carmela and has taken on the call of challenging darkness.)

Once Upon an Eden does not adhere or aspire to the UN's victim/bully paradigm or terminology such as the terms "human trafficking" in our (Once Upon an Eden's) work. Once Upon an Eden, also does not adhere to the current Politically Correct environment. Once Upon an Eden is Not a 501c3 nor are we an "anti-human trafficking" organization, although Once Upon an Eden forms co-operative networking alliances with 501c3 organizations, private and public charities and individuals to stop human rights abusers (and that which is called by the UN and is known in this generation as "human trafficking", but is actually abuses, exploitation and organized crime) and to provide education and services to individuals, families and communities who have been violated.

It is only by the alliance of so many organization and individuals from around the world, that Once Upon an Eden has and maintains a global influence and impact on governments and communities, as well as also

forming safety nets of helps for individuals and families regardless of continent when such cases arise. For a list of projects and organizations associated with Once Upon an Eden in your area or for a list of help in your area, please send a request to onceuponaneden@gmail.com.
The list of availability is subject to change as per projects, topics and organizations featured according to the website.

Once Upon an Eden is pro preventative while restoring in our approach in addressing abuse(s), slavery and exploitation and crimes against humanity. Once Upon an Eden informs and equips our staff, clients and visitors in such a way that each are able to find the resources within themselves as well as through smartly networking in order to meet their unique challenges and provide a safe haven for all who come to us for help, by helping them turn their harsh, rocky, dry, barren worlds into lush thriving oasis where they may rest and thrive. As the singer Peter Gabriel would put it, We "dig in the dirt to find the places that we were hurt. We dig up. We rise up". In other words, "Shadow work" (deep inner work) is a key component of most all we do here at Once Upon an Eden. We are constantly weeding out those slimy demon slugs and other parasites.

"Slavery was born at the time that one or more of the first peoples realized they could profit from the misfortune, loss, pain and insecurity of another. Manipulation of circumstances or persons and peoples toward slavery gave birth to abuse(s) and exploitation as well as religion, politics, mass education ( mind manipulation and indoctrination), organized crime.

Not until the second to last person dies or the world has an instant unison change of heart and mind will slavery and all associated with it ever end." -Michelle Carmela

Predator/Prey, Master/Slave, Conqueror/Conquered, King/Kingdom, Darkness/Light, Indifference/Love, Lies/Truth -terms used here at Once Upon an Eden to help you get back home -the inner core of you -your Garden of Eden-where you and Creator commune.

We are going back to our thriving lives Once Upon an Eden one seed of action at a time. We are obtaining our freedom and restoration one thought at a time. We are over throwing the darkness and rebuilding/restoring Loving Life within us and around us one action at a time.

"Free your mind. The rest will follow." - En Vogue

The Once Upon an Eden website serves as a library, of sorts, for Once Upon an Eden members, clients and visitors. We use the information to help each of us improve ourselves, our lives and those in our circle of influence. The website also serves as an educational tool and a means by which to connect and remain connected with our clients that we meet "in the field" and with our visitors who come to our website.
If you notice articles or references that you once found on the OUAE website missing, not to worry, we keep them archived. If you send us an email stating the topic, and leave us a reliable contact such as your email, we can send you the information you are requesting.