Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Tommy Tolson <healinghawk@earthlink.net>]

The spiritual aspect of reconnecting with nature was not avoidable,  
even for my scientist (geophysicist/geologist) wife, when we lived in  
a Permaculture design.  It's not just the plants, though.  It's all of  
nature.  Nature is my Higher Power (I've been happily sober for three  
months and twenty three years today).

Yes, I think the idea is to make the future better than the past.   
Plato said that the meaning of human existence is found in relations.   
It's taken twenty five hundred years, but we're finally getting it.   
Jesus only gave one commandment: love each other.  We're not even  
close on that one, as far as I can tell.  But that's where living in  
relations with the land, with "all our relations," takes us, sooner or  
later, I think.  John Bradshaw once described it as an oceanic feeling  
of secure connection with all that exists.  He was talking about the  
context of two people falling in love, though.

One thing is for sure.  We in the US can no longer live a lifestyle  
supported by exploiting Others (we're less than five percent of the  
global population yet we consume forty three percent of global  
resource production each year).  We have to come back down to Earth  
and join life in progress.  I think a load gets off of us as soon as  
we do that.  It's certain that our relations with our fellow species  
members will immediately improve.

Smiles.
Tommy

On Jan 17, 2010, at 6:08 PM, Debbie Mcdonald wrote:

> Re Tommys post, I wonder do you all take this gardening to a  
> spiritual level as regards the plant relationship with us, etc which  
> is how I thought Tommy was leaning but? Is not this whole coming  
> scenario a test that way anyway and not just a survival thing with  
> who can grow the most food. I am sorry I was not here a year earlier  
> etc etc etc;0