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  • From: "Marsha Hanzi" <hanzibra@svn.com.br>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Zone 6 and zones in general : Essential Agriculture
  • Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 17:26:23 -0300


Where does Permaculture, as a discipline actually stop? When we begin to
work intimately with live, integrated systems, our intuition attunes
tremendously to the place, and we begin to move into these edges, where
strange things happen ( like inexplicable rainbows etc..) Is this still
Permaculture?

I have just developed a second course, complementary to my "orthodox"
Permaculture courses , called "Essential Agriculture" which goes deeper
into this aspect of the "essential" in terms of the absolutely kernel
necessities ( as Fukuoka has done) but also "essential" in terms of our
essence, and Nature's essence, understanding and communicating directly.
In this course I include dowsing techniques,soil re-vitalization
techniques, material from Viktor Schauberger about water, materials from
Perelandra about accessing information directly from Nature, and
excercises which help people develop and believe in their intuitions. I
tried to give this course the most general, neutral name possible, and pray
that it does not become a label nor a club...

In the Permaculture courses I concentrate on planning integrated systems,
the question of agroforests, food production, housing, etc. Of course the
natural and spiritual aspects are latently present, because the people who
participate have these aspects of themselves as well, which respond to the
beauty of the place and to the people involved... And it often happens that
the participants of the "orthodox" courses ask for quiet time, meditations,
celebrations of the full moon, etc..So one course is actually an extension
of the other...And of course this multidimensional aspect is very much
present in Brazil as a whole, at all levels. (One of my "meditating
partners" is the director of a light company...)

Marsha Hanzi
Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia
http://www.geocities.com/oliarte


> >Larry and friends,
> > I, too, like the concept of Zone 6 to represent a continuous
> >gradation of nearly invisible awarenesses of "all-our-relations" and our
> >expansive sphere of influence beyond old, limited belief systems about
> >time and space, etc. by strenghtening our intuition abilities and
> >"in-tune"ments which can help us reach beyond normal understanding and
> >communication.
>





  • Re: Zone 6 and zones in general : Essential Agriculture, Marsha Hanzi, 03/20/2000

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