To the readers of the NN list around Portland:
What a sorry, predictable story is presented on YouTube an example of the era of media-cracy we are beginning. There are many good points in these posts. When there is an enormous shift of human consciousness going on, often, like the other times in which these mutations occur, 2 of which 'the west' has been a part, we must remember that the World is not anthropocentric. In this light, we are being forced to suffer through the end of the mental era in all its deficiencies. This has made me very afraid and I will grasp onto anything to pretend get back to 'nature', which really died 3,000 years ago, esp the last 200 years during the industrial finale of this era. What loss and sadness this brings, even after the realization that being nested within nature and culture is gone and I must understand that I must be born to an all together other consciousness, maybe, but only through living this sad mental state out all the way to its dying, limping, weakened from bad food, confused. Yet in this pathos, I am strengthened in surrender to it. We cannot go 'back' to an imagined ideal, even though we can vaguely remember it. We must suffer this in whatever wounded way we can. Just because we cannot be totally healthy on the physical level does not mean that we are not working and articulate on another.
This is terrible for my little olde ego, which dearly wants to fight, resist and survive. I want to set an oppositional people's movement in order, want to save the human race from its 'tendencies' and all. Yet this is the old way of the mental era, setting opposition and fighting in fright, reaction, much easier than being led to a greater understanding which may include moving corporation and myriad bureaucracies, business, gov, ngo from lethal and murderous, indeed genocidal to regenerative. Just noticing and staying with extreme corruption is difficult. We just do not know what is next, do we?
And I find not many, if any, even in the budding food movements really want to understand the soil food web, to take our place among biologies far and wide, near and immediate. I think we are doing really OK in light of the fact that at this point the machines are autonomous as animals used to be on this earth, that biological technologies like homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture, nutrition, food web technologies, holistic grazing and management are with us here, helping us move from the merely natural to the supernatural. What we do totally depends on these technologies so that if we can stay on the planet or if we must move on or aside, we can apply it appropriately. Or maybe it will apply itself in ways we will not ever understand, being merely human, stilled and dignified in our degeneration.
At least on this day we have not had to bow in witness to the terror of our atomic God in naked, stark revelation. This IS a real miracle.
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