{"id":564,"date":"2009-05-19T07:52:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-05-19T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:52:21","slug":"fox-ngandu-badibanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Fox Ngandu Badibanga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image0011\"\u00a0\u00a0F<\/strong><\/span>ox Ngandu, who lives in <\/span>Los Angeles<\/span><\/span>, came to the <\/span><\/span>United States<\/span><\/span> from The Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002 at the invitation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship. \u00a0<\/span><\/span>He worked in the French-language section of the Esoteric Department and also worked for the Education Department in both the English and French languages. \u00a0<\/span><\/span>Fox devotes much of his personal time to correcting the lessons of students who enroll in the Fellowship\u2019s correspondence courses. \u00a0<\/span><\/span>Now, his first book, a science fiction story titled, Global Warming and Al Gore Faustus, Adventures Inside The Earth,<\/span><\/em> gives a new perspective and insights that will surprise everyone except students of Western Wisdom as he sympathetically considers our endangered Earth, the host that sustains us.\"fox-book-23\"<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Fox Ngandu Badibanga<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Where did you end up having your book published?\u00a0 Did you find a competitive printer or publisher near <\/span>Los Angeles<\/span>?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The book is published by BooksOnDemand.com, the Wisconsin company you recommended to me. Thanks!<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>What inspired you to write a book of this type?\u00a0 You were living in the Democratic Republic of Congo when you got the idea.\u00a0 How did the idea develop through the years in <\/span>Congo<\/span>, and later as you left <\/span>Congo<\/span>, and moved to the <\/span>USA<\/span> and <\/span>California<\/span>?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Three events inspired me to write this book. First, in 1993,\u00a0the Congolese government decided to make the day of December 5th a Day\u00a0For Trees.\u00a0 As I was at school at that time, we were asked to plant a tree in order to make the city green and clean. Since then, every December 5th has become\u00a0Tree Day in <\/span><\/strong><\/span>Congo<\/span><\/strong>. December 5th is my birthday and that event became part of my birthday. I was proud of it. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Second, in\u00a02000, while I was working for the governement of the <\/span><\/strong>Congo<\/span><\/strong>, my boss offered me membership\u00a0in an Environmental Non Profit Organization. I become the Outreach Manager for that group whose goals were to\u00a0eliminate the mountains of plastic, paper\u00a0and other\u00a0waste products\u00a0by recycling them, and therefore clean the city and the environment. My work was to meet with\u00a0various members, most of them well placed people and officials, and to explain to them the purpose of the organization. Meanwhile, I became Assistant to my boss at the <\/span><\/strong>University<\/span><\/strong> of <\/span><\/strong>Kinshasa<\/span><\/strong> teaching\u00a0International Law and\u00a0Environmental Law. My interest in the environment was growing deeper and deeper. Learning how the greenhouse functions was the most interesting piece of information that finally triggered my mind to think along this line. Adding to this was my natural curiosity to know\u00a0beyond the visible things, the invisible! <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Third, was The Rosicrucian Cosmo Conception<\/em> by Max Heindel. It is true that I have been reading this book since I was 15 years old, but it was only during my involvement with environmental issues that one day I was able to connect the scientific information on global warming to the information I had learned from the Cosmo Conception. At that point,\u00a0my child-like dreaming, the Cosmo Conception,\u00a0and the scientific information about the Earth and the environment found their expression in an idea to write a book. But the events of my life were running very fast.\u00a0 <\/span>I moved to the <\/span><\/strong>USA<\/span><\/strong> in 2002, and I waited until the time came when I started putting ideas together. The most amazing thing is that from mid 2007\u00a0until the time I finished the book in December 2008, I was very worried about the uncertainties of my life. Stress, loneliness, things not going the way I wanted them to go; I became tired and more frustrated than I’ve ever been in my life with fear for the future, guilt from the past, anxiety for the present etc., but when my mind calmed down I was able to have clear ideas, and these are now in the book. I was able to connect seemingly irrelevant pieces of information to each other. I am sure God was visiting me during these hard but inspiring times. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>And what do you hope to achieve with this book?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>The most dreamed-for achievement for this book, what I hope for, would be to bring forth a new and clear understanding of what the earth really is: a living being with feelings, memory and spirit —\u00a0to get humanity to realize that as a whole we are the Spirit of the Earth and the Earth is our treasure which we all need to cherish and protect. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>How did you become aware of the impact of global warming?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This will make you laugh, but it was the best evidence\u00a0that humans cause global warming: In August 2002, I arrived on\u00a0the beautiful grounds called <\/span><\/strong><\/span>Mount<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong>Ecclesia<\/span><\/strong> which was\u00a0full of flowers, green trees and blooming life. A year later, a fight for power began ravaging <\/span><\/strong>Mount<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/strong>Ecclesia<\/span><\/strong>‘s administration. The messages of love and friendship were changed into slogans of hatred, discrimination, conspiracy. I stood there and witnessed a falling of an almost century old empire. Then the land that was green became grey, dry and dead. Plants and flowers died as the division and hatred grew. Even the watering and nourishing of these plants could not stop the burning. It was like a fire\u00a0inside the land was set up to burn and kill all that lived there. Even the small animals we were accustomed to seeing on the grounds had become scarce. What happened? \u00a0Yes, I saw and witnessed\u00a0the impact\u00a0of global warming! The book talks about the causes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0ER \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 So, h<\/span>ow do you feel now about the changes in your life as you look back over the past 10 years?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I feel like a human being. Looking back over the last 10 years, I feel like if I had known what was coming I would have wished I was never born.\u00a0 At the same time, I feel more confident than ever. I have gone from illusions\u00a0about life to a realization of the realities. I have learned to face my fears. I have learned to live with and love them, for only then can I transmute them. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Do you have plans\u00a0to write another book?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What topic?<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, I have 3 other projects: one on the future of the human race, a second on humanity’s addiction to war and\u00a0third on\u00a0the life of a legal, then illegal, immigrant.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>You practiced law in the <\/span>Congo<\/span> and planned to gain credentials to practice in the <\/span>U.S.<\/span>\u00a0 Is this still an objective?\u00a0\u00a0How does\u00a0<\/span>USA<\/span> law and the judicial system differ\u00a0from that in the <\/span>Congo<\/span>?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, I have a few more classes to resume before graduating with JD [Juris Doctorate]. \u00a0I had to suspend my classes for a few months due to financial hardship and stress. I will resume soon. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The main differences between US and Congolese judicial systems are that US is common law while <\/span><\/strong>Congo<\/span><\/strong> is civil law, US has the federal system while <\/span><\/strong>Congo<\/span><\/strong> has a unitary one. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o Can you\u00a0explain these terms or elaborate?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o <\/span><\/span>The difference between civil law and common law lies not just in the mere fact of codification, but in the methodological approach to codes and statutes. In civil law countries, legislation is seen as the primary source of law. By default, courts thus base their judgments on the provisions of codes and status, from which solutions in particular cases are to be derived. Courts thus have to reason extensively on the basis of general rules and principles of the code, often drawing analogies from statutory provisions to fill lacunae and to achieve coherence. By contrast, in the common law system, cases are the primary source of law, while statutes are only seen as incursions into the common law and thus interpreted narrowly.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The main differences between a unitary and a federalism governement lie more on the extent of presidential and congressional powers vis-a-vis local governments. In the unitary form, the President has really vast powers. He exercises control and supervision of all local governments–regional, provincial, city, municipal etc…They can be removed with or without cause. They are considered the alter egos of the President. Thus, the President has under him the entire local governments, all military and police forces, all tax collection agencies, all fiscal agencies (banks), all health agencies, all prosecution agencies, all health and social welfare agencies, all natural resources agencies and labor. He can also declare war and national emergencies and use emergency and military powers during war, rebellion, revolution and terrorism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But, the philosophy of law is universal.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>You incorporated some Western Wisdom philosophy in the book.\u00a0 How did you\u00a0become acquainted<\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0the Rosicrucian teachings and the Rosicrucian Fellowship?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I became acquainted with the Western Wisdom Philosophy when I was about 15 years old. I read the Cosmo Conception, then\u00a0all of the\u00a0other books by Max Heindel and the RF.\u00a0 I worked for the RF and I love the teaching. I am still grading lessons online. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Did Al Gore ever respond to you? \u00a0(I am assuming that you contacted him as you said you intended to.)\u00a0 If so, what did he say?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I have not contacted him yet. I will now do so by sending him a copy of my book.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Do you still plan to write a children’s version of the book?\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Yes, I am working on it. I will let you know when it is ready.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>ER\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>What would you do with your life if there were no limitations?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Fox\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/strong>o<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Have as many experiences as possible. Always worship God, endeavor to be a good person and be helpful to my fellow humans and to nature.<\/span><\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

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Global Warming<\/em><\/strong><\/span> and Al Gore Faustus Adventures inside the Earth<\/em><\/strong> can be ordered\u00a0at:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Global-Warming-Faustus-Adventures-inside\/dp\/0615289673\/<\/span><\/span><\/a>
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\u00a0\u00a0Fox Ngandu, who lives in Los Angeles, came to the United States from The Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002 at the invitation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship. \u00a0He worked in the French-language section of the Esoteric Department and also worked for the Education Department in both the English and French languages. \u00a0Fox devotes much of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-friends","tag-global-warming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}