To put it all in perspective: I could make a very serious argument that relying on corporations for our sustenance and being addicted to the money and materialistic system is what is causing the 6th great mass extinction on planet earth, as well as the degradation of our sacred community. While it may be simple to just scapegoat or attack the messenger, the real deal is to look inwards to realize how you have perpetuated or supported the 6th great mass extinction of species on planet earth. AND then take real action. Dont just watch a movie about this issue and then consider that part of the solution. Shake yourself out of your addiction/depression/anxiety appropriated by the money system and learn how to see and be ecological abundance. Yesterday I spent the day tending my gardens, working on a strawbale house, and eating copious amounts of cherries from a tree on one of the yards we work on. While sitting under the cherry tree, I couldnt help but feel - What if grazing from our neighbors fruit trees became our currency? What if this dappled shade became our dinner table? What if this food and our connection with community became more important than the money system weve been told is our only lifeline? What if I could plant enough edible trees around me that I could just wander from tree to tree everyday, pick my food, and have the rest of my time for all of the good things in the world - music, family, and spiritual enlightenment. The corporations ARE NOT better than permaculture at producing food for our future. The corporations, and governments who answer to them, dont care about sacred community or saving or planet from becoming completely inhospitable. Their egos have grown too large and too cold to see the world in ecological abundance. So, dont spend another minute of your time asking them to change for you. Stop relying on them and start planting food for our future with all of your neighbors. Biologically the only currency we truly need is good habitat, food, shelter, and clean water. We are sacred community when we recognize our common good is most deeply served when we live in virtue with the land, plants, animals, fungus, the divine father, and mother earth. Spiritually we are served most deeply when we commit to become stewards of this sacred community. At this point, the only anxiety I feel is whether enough of my friends and family realize this ancient, sacred form of currency before we are flooded and left with an inhospitable climate for the rest of our lives. Whether we can dispel our own insecurities to actually see each other as community. Or whether we will just keep using our time to make money and never have any time to build sacred community. If you are just trying to carve out your piece of the materialistic pie that this society sells you, YOU ARE A PART OF THE PROBLEM. If you feel guilty, make that your catalyst for change. If you feel like the system screwed you over, make that your catalyst for change. One things for certain, the only thing that is going to get us out of this mess is our commitment to building sacred community. All great movements have been predicated upon the building of sacred community. Somehow we have to create a system of currency to value that sacred community and commit our time to that. This is what I am trying to do with The Harvest Collective.
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:19:20 +0000
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