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  • From: "Healing Hawk" <healinghawk@earthlink.net>
  • To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its origin and the Permaculture movement
  • Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:55:07 -0600

When Martin Luther King, Jr. started channeling Jesus' egalitarian,
pre-Christ manifestation, he was assassinated in Memphis, where he went to
support striking garbage workers who wanted a fair slice of the
socioeconomic pie. Jesus said, "This I command you: Love one another."
That's the only command he issued. Paul of Tarsus, a Roman tax collector,
co-opted the Jesus Movement with all his rules. Tarsus was a hotbed of the
cult of Mithras and Mithraism is the origin of the Christ, a King born to be
sacrificed for the good of the people.

The egalitarian, respectful part lives on in the Permaculture movement. The
Christ part does not, to me, fit into Permaculture. More than anything, the
Nicene Creed gave the Roman Empire a domestic behavior police in the guise
of the Roman Catholic Church so that Constantine could continue expanding
the Empire. After eight centuries of the Inquisition, the people had had
all they were going to take of the Roman Catholic Church and started
fighting back. Protestantism resulted. The Pope has not apologized for the
Inquisition.

Permaculture arises from what we know now of how the world works. Nature is
the God science has discovered, a God that gives us life, our next breath,
food and clothes and shelter and each other, a God that seems capricious and
cruel when we don't understand it or see the larger reality in which our
personal reality plays out in the world.

Jesus is as dangerous to American Empire as he was to Roman Empire.
Egalitarianism and true democracy (as opposed to Dubya's neocon spin job
democracy he endeavors to force upon Iraqis) threaten imperialism and
oppression. Permaculture is egalitarian and democratic by nature. People
must be free to respond appropriately to the environment in order to live in
proper relations with nature so the future continues to occur. The social
control inherent to consumerism does not allow this level of responsibility.
The Republicans in the US advanced personal responsibility until they found
out what it meant. It is our responsibility to throw off the yokes of
social control so we can respond to the call of our souls, the life energy
in each of us. Permaculture, by teaching us to feed ourselves physically,
emotionally, socially, mentally, spiritually, and volitionally, gives us a
vehicle which enables us to live as Jesus commanded, loving each other.

Permaculture teaches us to love the land rather than forcing a harvest from
it, and it teaches us that "everything is everything." We love one another
by loving the land.

Tommy Tolson
Austin, TX

-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence F.
London, Jr.
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 12:12 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: [permaculture] Similarities between the Jesus Movement at its
origin and the Permaculture movement

I wonder what, if any, relationship may exist between the Jesus Movement
during the era when it originated
and the Permaculture movement as it is currently evolving. I am sure there
are close similarities. Many
permaculturists concerned about human rights, love and respect for your
fellow man, our living environment and justice
and fairness in global society must feel close kinship with the Christian
activists around the time of Jesus and the
goals they were stiving to achieve.
--
Lawrence F. London, Jr.
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