Message In A Bottle

worldKatherine Frisk – Call me old fashioned. But if you do not understand how the seed and how the root system works in biology, you cannot understand the fruits of any plant that appears on the surface.

The same goes for humanity. In the modern world we ignore the seed and the root system and pay attention to the fruits. These days if we do not like what comes out of the ground we just chop it down, or genetically modify it, or even patent it to make money. The thing about seeds and root systems is that they can stay dormant for centuries, eons in fact, in spite of companies like Monsanto. And when then climate is right, they will re-grow and flourish. So no matter how much the powers that be might try to manipulate and control society, our seeds, our roots, will always be there, waiting for a spring rainfall to let them grow, flourish and develop.

At one time in my life I made a study of the Bushmen of the Kalahari. They have the oldest genetic structure of all race groups in the world. Today there are only approximately 400 of them left. They are almost extinct. But their genes are carried throughout all of humanity. So when I get lost, when the world confuses me with its lies, deceit, theft, wars and duplicity, I go back to my roots. I go back to the seed. I go back to these values, morals and humanity that so far as we know, is the oldest on earth still alive today. Even though there are now so few of them left.

So what kind of life do the Bushmen value? Here are the main points.

1. Freedom to roam the earth. No borders, no fences, no laws or regulations to tie them in. No ownership of property, no taxes, no levies, no slavery to a debt monetary system. Continue reading

Bottled Water And Bottled Beliefs

Exopermaculture | April 22 2012

BottleTranspose this hilarious youtube send-up of the bottled water craze to our addiction to competing belief systems that we enjoy/endure as we grope and/or march our way blinkered, forwards or backwards or sidling sideways, pretending/hoping/praying that we know best and fighting with or “tolerating” all the others who don’t. (BTW: the creators of this bottled water video didn’t even mention the god-knows-what chemicals that leach out of the bottles into the water.)

Each belief system is a brand, with its own advertising, cost, unintended consequences — and, hopefully, a sell-by date.

Once we let go of belief and expectation as our anchor, once we morph back into full occupation of our own bodies with (preferably bare) feet firmly planted in the living soil of this good green Earth, then we can let go of our crazed need for certainty and realize the profound security of our serene interconnectedness with the natural world.

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