SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM ONCE UPON AN EDEN FOUNDER/DIRECTOR MICHELLE CARMELA TO THE VISITORS OF THE ONCE UPON AN EDEN WEBSITE:
Hello! We are very happy you are here at the Once Upon an Eden website!
During your journey of exploration on the Once Upon an Eden website, we at Once Upon an Eden hope that if you learn anything, you will learn how fabulous, amazing, wonderful, powerful and capable you are to tackle your own personal challenges. And that by caring for yourself, your family and your neighborhood/community one action at a time, you are creating a beautiful world. Everyone has a part to contribute. Their own plot to plow and plant as it were. Each seed of action goes to yielding the harvest of a gorgeous life. What? Your life is not looking gorgeous? Yeah, plowing is hard messy sometimes complicated toiling thankless work. So necessary though as the plot smooths itself out. So much effort goes into yielding a gorgeous thriving core being and a gorgeous thriving core physical reality. Such a vacation when we finally get to enjoy it!!! By every thought, by every word, by every action you are changing not only your world but that also of your family's history.
It is an honor, joy and privilege to have you visit our website-even more so that you are on the planet at such a time as this. Whether you know it or not, your presence right where you are just from the first inkling of your possible existence has been making an impact even before you were born. That is right, just the idea or thought of you already started changing lives starting with your parents and extended family. Throughout our lives we are constantly creating, destroying and reconstructing. Our lives are always influx just as our being is -all is the continuing process of thriving. What?! Your life is all work and little to no thriving. Well now, look around here long enough and that will change. I know because when I am starting to get off track, I come back here to the Once Upon an Eden website and to the Pathway To Eden Newsletter websites to get a good reminder of who I really am- thankfully shedding off whatever layers of mental, emotional and spiritual junk I have allowed myself and others accumulate within me. Yes, this is a confession that even I come to the Once Upon an Eden and Pathway To Eden Newsletter websites for self care. I tend to forget that I am no one's storage shed. Not even my own. We humans are gods, children of the Most High God/The Creator of the Universe and all there in (John 10:34) ! Sounds nothing like a storage shed to me, now does it? How about yourself?
Well, it is pretty damn cool to have you here, if you don't mind my saying so. Stay as long as you like, have a look around, feel free to leave a message or contact me, Michelle Carmela, at onceuponaneden@gmail.com. Same email if you would like to leave a message to anyone in general. I or anyone on our website team usually answer within 24/48 hours. If the message/email is addressed to me specifically, it is I who answers. When it is addressed generally, then it is most likely a member of the website team. If we don't know the answer to your question, we will let you know; however, we will do our best to research and source the answers to your question and make as much of the information (including resources and references) available to you as possible. No question is off topic. All topics are welcome. Please note, that we do not discuss nor debate we serve only as a mode of passing along information. That goes for both the website and the email.
On a special note, I would like to personally thank everyone who has been praying for me during the ordeal of recovering from a disease that I got from a flea bite while conducting ministry in Central City Down Town Los Angeles aka Skid Row Los Angeles, California. I am pretty much recovered thanks to modern medicine, ancient medicine, your prayers and encouragement and keeping up with my physical therapy as much as possible. It is still difficult for me to walk. I have been walking on my own for about five months now with walking devices. I still have about another year or two the doctors expect before I can walk well without the use of walking devices. Still I was able to make a trip across the country from Los Angeles, California, to North Carolina, to visit with some friends and continue on with my physical therapy. We rode out Hurricane Dorian together. In our area Dorian was nothing more than some rain and the internet giving out. I have more traveling to do in the very near future. I ask that y'all continue to keep me in prayer, if you would not mind. Though we may never meet*, every visitor to the website is very special to me and I keep y'all in my prayers. I am quite thankful for each and every one of you.
* Over the life span of the OUAE website, upon several occasions while traveling, I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of visitors to the OUAE website in person. Thank you each and everyone of you who has introduced yourself to me and shared with me your story in person and how OUAE has impacted you or your family or community in some way. Thank you to everyone who is taking what they are learning here and using it for your own self, family and community and you either shared with me your story in person or have messaged me via social media to inform me. Meeting or hearing from y'all is always such a humbling honor that fills me with much gratitude.
Much love and many blessings to you and yours,
Michelle Carmela
It is an honor, joy and privilege to have you visit our website-even more so that you are on the planet at such a time as this. Whether you know it or not, your presence right where you are just from the first inkling of your possible existence has been making an impact even before you were born. That is right, just the idea or thought of you already started changing lives starting with your parents and extended family. Throughout our lives we are constantly creating, destroying and reconstructing. Our lives are always influx just as our being is -all is the continuing process of thriving. What?! Your life is all work and little to no thriving. Well now, look around here long enough and that will change. I know because when I am starting to get off track, I come back here to the Once Upon an Eden website and to the Pathway To Eden Newsletter websites to get a good reminder of who I really am- thankfully shedding off whatever layers of mental, emotional and spiritual junk I have allowed myself and others accumulate within me. Yes, this is a confession that even I come to the Once Upon an Eden and Pathway To Eden Newsletter websites for self care. I tend to forget that I am no one's storage shed. Not even my own. We humans are gods, children of the Most High God/The Creator of the Universe and all there in (John 10:34) ! Sounds nothing like a storage shed to me, now does it? How about yourself?
Well, it is pretty damn cool to have you here, if you don't mind my saying so. Stay as long as you like, have a look around, feel free to leave a message or contact me, Michelle Carmela, at onceuponaneden@gmail.com. Same email if you would like to leave a message to anyone in general. I or anyone on our website team usually answer within 24/48 hours. If the message/email is addressed to me specifically, it is I who answers. When it is addressed generally, then it is most likely a member of the website team. If we don't know the answer to your question, we will let you know; however, we will do our best to research and source the answers to your question and make as much of the information (including resources and references) available to you as possible. No question is off topic. All topics are welcome. Please note, that we do not discuss nor debate we serve only as a mode of passing along information. That goes for both the website and the email.
On a special note, I would like to personally thank everyone who has been praying for me during the ordeal of recovering from a disease that I got from a flea bite while conducting ministry in Central City Down Town Los Angeles aka Skid Row Los Angeles, California. I am pretty much recovered thanks to modern medicine, ancient medicine, your prayers and encouragement and keeping up with my physical therapy as much as possible. It is still difficult for me to walk. I have been walking on my own for about five months now with walking devices. I still have about another year or two the doctors expect before I can walk well without the use of walking devices. Still I was able to make a trip across the country from Los Angeles, California, to North Carolina, to visit with some friends and continue on with my physical therapy. We rode out Hurricane Dorian together. In our area Dorian was nothing more than some rain and the internet giving out. I have more traveling to do in the very near future. I ask that y'all continue to keep me in prayer, if you would not mind. Though we may never meet*, every visitor to the website is very special to me and I keep y'all in my prayers. I am quite thankful for each and every one of you.
* Over the life span of the OUAE website, upon several occasions while traveling, I have had the pleasure of meeting a number of visitors to the OUAE website in person. Thank you each and everyone of you who has introduced yourself to me and shared with me your story in person and how OUAE has impacted you or your family or community in some way. Thank you to everyone who is taking what they are learning here and using it for your own self, family and community and you either shared with me your story in person or have messaged me via social media to inform me. Meeting or hearing from y'all is always such a humbling honor that fills me with much gratitude.
Much love and many blessings to you and yours,
Michelle Carmela
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September is Hurricane Preparedness Month which just happens now to coincide with the destruction of Hurricane Dorian which has shredded to bits the Bahamas and wreaked havoc up the Atlantic Sea Coast of the US from Florida all the way to America's neighbor Canada. If you rest your cursor on the words "Once Upon an Eden" a menu will scroll down. Please click on "Hurricane Preparedness" for information on how to prepare for hurricanes, what agencies are involved with rescue, recovery, relief and restoration as well as how and where to give to the victims suffering from the devastation these storms bring.
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Prayer request for Once Upon an Eden founder/director Michelle Carmela
Michelle Carmela and members of Once Upon an Eden would like to thank everyone who have been praying for and employing their faith system technology towards Michelle Carmela over this past year.
Michelle Carmela believes thanks to the healing energy you are sending her way (along with employing modern medicine and ancient medicine) she is recovering remarkably well and fairly quickly after being bit by a flea and contracting a deadly Medieval disease while on the mission field in Skid Row/DTLA (Down Town Los Angeles for which she was hospitalized over the Winter and Spring Months (2018-2019. The disease nearly cost her, her life and has resulted in many months of recovery with more than a year's recovery still left to go as is expected by the doctors.
Michelle Carmela and members of Once Upon an Eden would like to thank everyone who have been praying for and employing their faith system technology towards Michelle Carmela over this past year.
Michelle Carmela believes thanks to the healing energy you are sending her way (along with employing modern medicine and ancient medicine) she is recovering remarkably well and fairly quickly after being bit by a flea and contracting a deadly Medieval disease while on the mission field in Skid Row/DTLA (Down Town Los Angeles for which she was hospitalized over the Winter and Spring Months (2018-2019. The disease nearly cost her, her life and has resulted in many months of recovery with more than a year's recovery still left to go as is expected by the doctors.
Your prayers (with ancient and modern medicine) during this ordeal have seen Michelle Carmela through the following so far:
~The long several days of fighting for her life while she was on life support,
~The more than a month and a half of around the clock intravenous anti-biotics (and steroids and anti-histamines so she would not have deadly adverse reactions to the anti-biotics). And the many allergy (adverse) and anaphylactic (deadly) episodes she had despite the best efforts of the infectious disease hospital staff's toward preventing the adverse and deadly reactions.
~The two and a half months of physical therapy and occupational therapy at a transitional health care facility so that Michelle Carmela could re-learn to walk, talk, feed herself and care for her daily needs, and, as well as learn to maneuver in what was now a body weakened from disease, death, the emotional, mental, physical painful recovery and the physical pain of her body being quite enlarged as a result of so many months of steroids and bed rest. Michelle Carmela actually gained pounds of water weight sometimes seemingly over night. In good humor and to give expression of the pain she was going through, Michelle Carmela referred to herself as "Madam Blueberry (of the Veggie Tales) and "Violet" (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).
In all this ordeal, Michelle Carmela saw fit to see that the leadership of Once Upon an Eden be passed on to one or more of the other international members of Once Upon an Eden and to the restructuring of Once Upon an Eden just in case she would pass away or not be able to return to ministry. In a vote of confidence the associate ministries around the world that help comprise Once Upon an Eden voted to continue to remain members as is and for Michelle Carmela to continue as director of Once Upon an Eden. They kept in constant communication with her, keeping her encouraged with their thoughts, prayers/employing their faith system's technology, and even giving advice as well as continuing to seek Michelle Carmela's advice.
~The long several days of fighting for her life while she was on life support,
~The more than a month and a half of around the clock intravenous anti-biotics (and steroids and anti-histamines so she would not have deadly adverse reactions to the anti-biotics). And the many allergy (adverse) and anaphylactic (deadly) episodes she had despite the best efforts of the infectious disease hospital staff's toward preventing the adverse and deadly reactions.
~The two and a half months of physical therapy and occupational therapy at a transitional health care facility so that Michelle Carmela could re-learn to walk, talk, feed herself and care for her daily needs, and, as well as learn to maneuver in what was now a body weakened from disease, death, the emotional, mental, physical painful recovery and the physical pain of her body being quite enlarged as a result of so many months of steroids and bed rest. Michelle Carmela actually gained pounds of water weight sometimes seemingly over night. In good humor and to give expression of the pain she was going through, Michelle Carmela referred to herself as "Madam Blueberry (of the Veggie Tales) and "Violet" (from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).
In all this ordeal, Michelle Carmela saw fit to see that the leadership of Once Upon an Eden be passed on to one or more of the other international members of Once Upon an Eden and to the restructuring of Once Upon an Eden just in case she would pass away or not be able to return to ministry. In a vote of confidence the associate ministries around the world that help comprise Once Upon an Eden voted to continue to remain members as is and for Michelle Carmela to continue as director of Once Upon an Eden. They kept in constant communication with her, keeping her encouraged with their thoughts, prayers/employing their faith system's technology, and even giving advice as well as continuing to seek Michelle Carmela's advice.
Michelle Carmela credits your prayers and all these remarkable men and women in each your own and his and her right to be keepers of her flame when it was merely a glowing ember and barely a flicker. When asked to describe her stamina levels now (almost a year into her recovery), Michelle Carmela describes her inner fire and physical strength as one that is at a kindling level moving up to slow burning. We, as well as Michelle Carmela, look forward to her returning back to the fullness of her strength and then some.
She also recently made a cross country trip by Greyhound Bus to leave Los Angeles, California, to visit with friends who have been hosting her during more than a month of rest and relaxation and pretty much being offline. While the trip itself went fairly well, it took her several days to sleep off the effects of "jet lag" (she was not like that a year or two ago- an example of her low stamina). On a brighter note, Michelle Carmela says, as a result of her leaving Los Angeles, Ca, her immune system and endocrine system have both calmed down so much that the most she has to deal with is chronic sinusitis.
Michelle Carmela has been pulled back into ministry on a limited capacity due to hurricane Dorian. * Research which was requested of her by potential volunteers and groups she has decided to make public on both the OUAE website and the pathwaytoeden.info page and also wants the public to further understand the decimation happening in Skid Row and other cities around the United States and some parts of the world due to government/corporate contracting interests. *She is also doing "maintenance" on a long distance exorcism from the United States to Australia for a family in Australia (mentioned with the family's permission).
Continued prayer request(s) for Michelle Carmela:
Michelle Carmela asks that everyone who has invested themselves in this particular healing journey (many of you have been along for the ride in many of her other health incidents) continue to focus on her stamina and a place for her to relocate either permanently or for a long duration of one to five years. Preferably five years to permanently anywhere along the Gulf Coast, US, or in the Deep South, US, so that (1)*the plans that were set in motion for Once Upon an Eden two years ago can be seen to fruition while she continues on her recovery and (2)* the home base in order to carry out the next phases of Once Upon an Eden will already be established. *Michelle Carmela will write more about this later. Michelle Carmela will be traveling again in the very near future which begins a several months long journey to several cities along the Gulf Coast, US. She is asking for people to continue to pray for her during these travels.
She also recently made a cross country trip by Greyhound Bus to leave Los Angeles, California, to visit with friends who have been hosting her during more than a month of rest and relaxation and pretty much being offline. While the trip itself went fairly well, it took her several days to sleep off the effects of "jet lag" (she was not like that a year or two ago- an example of her low stamina). On a brighter note, Michelle Carmela says, as a result of her leaving Los Angeles, Ca, her immune system and endocrine system have both calmed down so much that the most she has to deal with is chronic sinusitis.
Michelle Carmela has been pulled back into ministry on a limited capacity due to hurricane Dorian. * Research which was requested of her by potential volunteers and groups she has decided to make public on both the OUAE website and the pathwaytoeden.info page and also wants the public to further understand the decimation happening in Skid Row and other cities around the United States and some parts of the world due to government/corporate contracting interests. *She is also doing "maintenance" on a long distance exorcism from the United States to Australia for a family in Australia (mentioned with the family's permission).
Continued prayer request(s) for Michelle Carmela:
Michelle Carmela asks that everyone who has invested themselves in this particular healing journey (many of you have been along for the ride in many of her other health incidents) continue to focus on her stamina and a place for her to relocate either permanently or for a long duration of one to five years. Preferably five years to permanently anywhere along the Gulf Coast, US, or in the Deep South, US, so that (1)*the plans that were set in motion for Once Upon an Eden two years ago can be seen to fruition while she continues on her recovery and (2)* the home base in order to carry out the next phases of Once Upon an Eden will already be established. *Michelle Carmela will write more about this later. Michelle Carmela will be traveling again in the very near future which begins a several months long journey to several cities along the Gulf Coast, US. She is asking for people to continue to pray for her during these travels.
As Michelle Carmela's healing continues to progress, she is losing the weight by concentrating on her gut flora, her adrenal health, liver health, inner work and shadow work. As a natural result, Michelle Carmela's mental energy, physical energy and life force energy to continue to increase which then allows her to continue on with her physical therapy. Though severely limited in her mobility, she is making gains in her movements almost weekly as far as simple household chores such as cooking, cleaning, laundry. Yet, she is still having challenges walking with out the use of devices such a rollator, walker and cane and there are some household basics that are still out of reach due to range of motion limitations. Though working towards it, Michelle Carmela is still quite far from the independence she had even a year ago let alone the mission field where she was only a year ago where Michelle Carmela as well as the rest of us here at Once Upon an Eden look forward to her being.
We at Once Upon an Eden are grateful and proud of Michelle Carmela. Just as she continues to give us love and support through prayers and encouragement, we are the same for her now and thank you for yours as well.
We at Once Upon an Eden are grateful and proud of Michelle Carmela. Just as she continues to give us love and support through prayers and encouragement, we are the same for her now and thank you for yours as well.
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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.
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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. |
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"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.)
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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.
The list of availability is subject to change as per projects, topics and organizations featured according to the website.
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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.
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"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
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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
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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. |
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