Hi Neville,
I did take a break. A couple of days walkabout so to speak.
First let me tell you that I really enjoyed to read about your off topic response to me going off the terrain.
One of these pleasures of modern life, to easily connect to other brains at the other side of our world.
I still remember teletype in the 1980‘s…
Australia is not the backwater it used to be. The town Sydney where I grew up was surrounded by a coastal sandstone environment with a tremendous variety of unique native plants. It has all been eaten up by housing development, except in the water catchment and national park areas. Things that I saw as a child, now exist only in books.
I did spent about two month in Sydney, Kings Cross, Bondi and Manly.
Picturesque describtion of yours and I am sorry to hear that, but it‘s the same here, degeneration processes on many levels, and for that matter pretty much all around the world, one can see the same patterns.
Is it the human being, trying to get a better life, being drawn to the cities, where a livelihood seems to be reachable?
Is it the bad education in public schools, neglecting the importance of true environmental awarenes in children to become mindfull centered citizens, who know by their gut, that destroying the environment is equal to self sabotage, because we are all one, interconnected through a godly matrix?
Is it this lack of religious concience that lead people on to become greedy, abominational housing developers and corrupt politicians?
I have read some of Rudolf Steiner, and Goethe, mainly because of my interest in organic gardening. We have a small farm, and we do try to allow some space for things to regenerate. We have succeeded in getting the Casuarina trees (she oaks) to spread. They are important because Casuarina trees have nitrogen fixing bacteria, like legumes. The grass is always greener under the Casuarina trees… not sure if it is the nitrogen or the frost protection.
I congratulate you having your own farm and being able to work in gods garden.
Casuarina is apparently also a dominant character with chemical and healing properties about which I wasn‘t aware of. Thank you!
[It is discovered that Casuarina leaves and bark can be used for removing textile dyes. While the leaves are effective on methylene blue, reactive orange 16 Rhodamine B, methyl violet 2b, and malachite green, the Casuarina bark is only effective on methylene blue.] 28 Casuarina Tree Facts That Will Surprise You About The Plant | Kidadl
Methylene blue on the other hand has also some healing properties that are not commonly known, but well worth to look into. The Surprising Health Benefits of Methylene Blue
[It is said that Casuarinas eliminate competing plant species by using allelopathy, which is the act of releasing some chemicals that prevent the development and growth of competing plants.]
Now I really wonder, why the grass is allways greener under your Casuarinas?
If you look at Montgomery, you will find that exploiting the environment has been going on far longer than your 120 years. One of the important points he makes is that about a third of the CO2 emitted since the industrial revolution comes not from fossil fuels, but from soil degredation.
That‘s right the abuse of our environment is much older, because the lack of awareness that nature is our mother.
I belive focusing on CO2 is a distraction. No CO2 = No life!
It really is about control:
I have not grown hemp. We do not crop. There are medicinal hemp farms in Tasmania. As far as I know we dont grow it for fibre. It would be a much better fibre crop than cotton. Cotton has a huger water demand, and water is a scarce resource in Australia.
Hemp is a god send plant for us humans to benefit effectively.
Cotton is also a polluter since the crop must be constantely protected with pestizides etc.
I agree with you there is a religious component in environmental thought. We can only do something by acting as individuals and fixing our own little area. Worry about my own faults, not someone else’s.
If everybody would think that way, it would be a great start.
Global problems are insoluble.
Ok, it is a tremendous task and life is to short, but did somebody really, I mean really try? Shouldn‘t this be the first of all agenda of ALL the global agencies and NGO‘s? Not to increase restrictions, but to build bases of thoughts and education on which free men will do the right thing?
Well, there is this notion that it is gods will, to keep us in the sisyphus treadmill. To keep us abusing the planet, the civilisation, up until nuclear destruction and then start over again? In an endless devil’s circle. Dante‘s inferno? I find it hard to believe, because it doesn‘t fit the freewheeling abudance of nature and it‘s regenerative character in general.
The lessons from biology are that overpopulation will eventually lead to decline, but not before there is a lot of collateral damage.
You most certainly know that ALL of humanity would fit into the USA? As a natural organizer it‘s hard to immagine, that with the right information and the right tools there is the possibillity to bring humanity around.
I‘ve seen waterpumps with powerfull filters, that did deliver 40.000 litres of fresh water from any source per hour. Developed and marketed in Germany, in action in Africa, only to get suppressed and forbidden later on.
What about the huge water reservoirs in rocks under the libyan desert, Ghaddafi tried to green Africa and become independant. Look, what happened to him! To me it is a matter of ones own will and the powers that be, who don‘t want to lose their power of control.
The message from religion is that everyone is important as an individual, and the whole of humanity is important because it is a sacred creation. All the creeds say that.
Agreed! Plus we are electrical, spiritual beings occupying a human body like we use a car or plane, and without this limiting vehicle we can transcend into all dimensions. And know it all.
So yes, we are off to Mass today, to see what Pentecost has to say. Worship is part of the cycle of living.
Do you find it diffcult to devote yourself entirely to the creators will in all aspects of life? To me it is enticing, however difficult at times, when the ego wants to steer against the ‚flow‘.
N.W.F. ? Is that National Wildlife Federation?
Sorry, this is a term I picked up DownUnder. Which I thought is common knowledge in Austraila. It might be a sailors term, because sailing the coasts of Australia is often pretty rough.
Anyways, pretty good logical guessing on your part.
It simply means ‚No (w)ucken (f)orries‘…
Which is easier said then done.
While we grow older with open eyes, we become more aware of all the hoaxes surrounding us from the start. Many veils starting to be lifted.
Hoaxes that are pictured in many nice colours and narrated as the most beautifull life.
But it‘s a crooked deck of cards and most people, who understand it, play along. Therefore it is so hard to have real change. So, one lives in his bubble, by his own thoughts, not raising his head higher then absolutly required. Which is actually ok. Because in the end we have to take the last step alone in our mind as well. Maybe affraid of what‘s to come, but there is nothing to be affraid of. This is the step we take to free ourselfs from the delusions of the human existence.
Australia has been very good for me. In the woodlands between Byron Bay and Nimbin I got to dive deep into the natural life. Living on a Farm and milking cows in Nimbin and meeting up with Kangaroos and Leaches deep down in the forests and surrounding national parks.
Which looked like really old untouched jungle in a fairytale.
Here is a song that explains my ideas very well.
Oh My Love - Featuring Katyna Ranieri by Riz Ortolani
Thank you for your attention!
Regards
Klaus