Many have said that there is a deeply troubling aspect of our culture. We are addicted to the crime drama. Remember, like historical fiction, it is not substitute for what actually happens. Oddly enough, I have several friends who have had murders perpetrated on their young daughters. There was no special victims unit or elaborate team of sleuths ferreting out the circumstances, much less the killers of these young women. I will go so far as to say that in all the cases that I have heard about from the victim's side, ineffectual police work stems from several legitimate sources. Underfunding restricts the numbers of good people and the extremely high costs of testing create bottle-necks in the system, I get that. On tee vee, we find that the only time a criminal is not caught, is when they are written in to a two-part plot development. In real life there are more unsolved cases than solved ones.
I mention this only because there is a saying in cop shows, when a suspect, or someone who was supposed to be under surveillance or protection escapes, they are deemed to be "in the wind". Well, fortunately, all the crime drama geeks will be with me on this, but the term is so very much more than that.
It is my wholehearted belief and experience that there is a resurgent paganism that is taking place not just in my neck of the woods, but worldwide. Who has not felt the empathic crushing of their spirit as we hear, from scientific quarters, that we are on the brink, and helping to usher in the sixth mass extinction. All of our fossil energy, which took millions of years to lay down over geologic time (like a solar battery being charged, after all, that energy came from the Sun) might only last a generation or two if we keep burning it at the current rate. Who has not felt and been surprised by the changing climate? Now that we are learning about power and control, and the social chaos that it breeds, or the sources and purity of our water. The spirits of the land have been calling out for a long time, but more and more there is a growing sense of the importance of nature. We are beginning to hear the messages that the wind is carrying; just now we seem to be admitting that we could lose our water entirely if we do not take drastic action and take strong steps toward more responsible use of that precious resource.
The Earth has been talked about as Mother since the dawn of time. Our species is coming out of a deep delusion that was boastful and claimed independence from the womb of Mother Earth. Look where it has landed us. Returning with great humility are pagans from around the globe, the peaceful loving people as I call native people from every corner of the planet. Some refer to them as Rainbow, hippies, whatever name you choose, choose wisely, there are more and more each day.
The very air we breathe is sacred, yet we allow ourselves to be lulled into a great cataclysmic exhaling of carbon monoxide fumes whenever we turn the key of our fossil fuel burning vehicles. More and more of these neo-tribals as I sometimes call them is to bike commute, gear up and bike holiday or, as we did, invest in the carrier for children/groceries. Learn what constitutes a walkable city and move there, or utilize friends to develop one where you live. The co-op movement is not dead, they just don't get on the nightly news, nothing they do is bad enough to seem like a crime drama.
A dear, friend who has passed the veil used to say, "The demise of civilization began when we no longer sat at the hearth." In his way, he inspired me to occasionally sit by the fire and chat with friends via the internet. they may not get to see the flickering flames, but the camaraderie is there. as my friend put it, by sequestering the heat in boxes, away from the center of the home, a schism developed that was not possible before the advent of electric stoves and efficient furnaces. Heck, using electricity, you can make toast with a fire burning dozens of miles away. Fire-pit parties are on the rise, as are rites during full and new moon phases, leading from fire to water in two rites or less!
We have many shared awarenesses and to deny that they are in the wind would be to discredit our ancestors for giving us our strong base in paganism. We never wiped out the "witches" we never eliminated the wisdom of the shamen, how could any conqueror expect to take away the most essential part of each of us, the unbroken bridge of genetics that leads back to the ages when the ancestors ascended to the stars, where their bones and flesh nourished the soils after their parting of ways with the physical realm. Their deaths upon the bosom of Mother Earth is what has led to us being given the chance to live!
The messages that I share in these posts is not just the ravings of an individual. I am of a race of people that cannot be vanquished from the Earth, one that humbly submits to the outdated idea that giving back is the only thing that can enrich us. My recent offer to share as much as I know about bio-char stands testament to that. It sounds so primal, so "primitive", but perhaps breathing life into the soil is the only chance we have for a new way forward. I am not willing to sit back and use this miracle substance for only my own benefit. I want as many people as possible to learn to make and to make and teach others to make it as well. It is the only way I know of to efficiently put carbon into the soils. removing it from the atmosphere for many thousands of years.
I want all of you to put this out there, in the wind so to speak. Talk about a miracle substance that could help reverse carbon dioxide build up in th atmosphere and oceans, reduce ocean acidification, stabilize soil moisture (char holds six times its weight in water, even more when microbes inhabit it) I am also working to raise enough capital through ECO-Tours of Wisconsin Inc. to produce a short film that teaches the same process that I discuss in my classes.
The spirit of the giving person cannot be held captive, it will always remain "in the wind" but for this brief moment, we have communicated and that keeps the messages flowing!
I mention this only because there is a saying in cop shows, when a suspect, or someone who was supposed to be under surveillance or protection escapes, they are deemed to be "in the wind". Well, fortunately, all the crime drama geeks will be with me on this, but the term is so very much more than that.
It is my wholehearted belief and experience that there is a resurgent paganism that is taking place not just in my neck of the woods, but worldwide. Who has not felt the empathic crushing of their spirit as we hear, from scientific quarters, that we are on the brink, and helping to usher in the sixth mass extinction. All of our fossil energy, which took millions of years to lay down over geologic time (like a solar battery being charged, after all, that energy came from the Sun) might only last a generation or two if we keep burning it at the current rate. Who has not felt and been surprised by the changing climate? Now that we are learning about power and control, and the social chaos that it breeds, or the sources and purity of our water. The spirits of the land have been calling out for a long time, but more and more there is a growing sense of the importance of nature. We are beginning to hear the messages that the wind is carrying; just now we seem to be admitting that we could lose our water entirely if we do not take drastic action and take strong steps toward more responsible use of that precious resource.
The Earth has been talked about as Mother since the dawn of time. Our species is coming out of a deep delusion that was boastful and claimed independence from the womb of Mother Earth. Look where it has landed us. Returning with great humility are pagans from around the globe, the peaceful loving people as I call native people from every corner of the planet. Some refer to them as Rainbow, hippies, whatever name you choose, choose wisely, there are more and more each day.
The very air we breathe is sacred, yet we allow ourselves to be lulled into a great cataclysmic exhaling of carbon monoxide fumes whenever we turn the key of our fossil fuel burning vehicles. More and more of these neo-tribals as I sometimes call them is to bike commute, gear up and bike holiday or, as we did, invest in the carrier for children/groceries. Learn what constitutes a walkable city and move there, or utilize friends to develop one where you live. The co-op movement is not dead, they just don't get on the nightly news, nothing they do is bad enough to seem like a crime drama.
A dear, friend who has passed the veil used to say, "The demise of civilization began when we no longer sat at the hearth." In his way, he inspired me to occasionally sit by the fire and chat with friends via the internet. they may not get to see the flickering flames, but the camaraderie is there. as my friend put it, by sequestering the heat in boxes, away from the center of the home, a schism developed that was not possible before the advent of electric stoves and efficient furnaces. Heck, using electricity, you can make toast with a fire burning dozens of miles away. Fire-pit parties are on the rise, as are rites during full and new moon phases, leading from fire to water in two rites or less!
We have many shared awarenesses and to deny that they are in the wind would be to discredit our ancestors for giving us our strong base in paganism. We never wiped out the "witches" we never eliminated the wisdom of the shamen, how could any conqueror expect to take away the most essential part of each of us, the unbroken bridge of genetics that leads back to the ages when the ancestors ascended to the stars, where their bones and flesh nourished the soils after their parting of ways with the physical realm. Their deaths upon the bosom of Mother Earth is what has led to us being given the chance to live!
The messages that I share in these posts is not just the ravings of an individual. I am of a race of people that cannot be vanquished from the Earth, one that humbly submits to the outdated idea that giving back is the only thing that can enrich us. My recent offer to share as much as I know about bio-char stands testament to that. It sounds so primal, so "primitive", but perhaps breathing life into the soil is the only chance we have for a new way forward. I am not willing to sit back and use this miracle substance for only my own benefit. I want as many people as possible to learn to make and to make and teach others to make it as well. It is the only way I know of to efficiently put carbon into the soils. removing it from the atmosphere for many thousands of years.
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The spirit of the giving person cannot be held captive, it will always remain "in the wind" but for this brief moment, we have communicated and that keeps the messages flowing!
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