wheatgrass
- From: "swan" <thirdwaveswan@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 21 Aug 2006 09:27:35 -0700
wow - i was just looking for a sprout grower on the internet and i ran
across this rap on a wheatgrass site - some clear thinking here about
where we're at and what to do about it - and the best advertising for
wheatgrass i ever saw!
SUPERIOR SOIL, SUPERIOR FOOD, SUPERIOR LIFE AND
....SUPERIOR CHILDREN
By KK Fowlkes
Someone, a friend of mine once, said: "Where the light meets darkness
is the razor's edge of our human existence. We exist where light
comes to meet the great mineral world to mix and draw it towards the
light through the mystery of chlorophyll, basis of organic life." (See
newsletter archives: Of the Light)
To quote this same anonymous author: "The organic sheen of life on
earth lives within narrow limits. In fact, the top 8-12 inches of soil,
and about the first 20 feet of ocean water, carry the life processes
that allow conversion of sunlight to carbohydrates among other things.
All organic life depends on this process of transmutation. Without
soil, we die.
"Satellite photos show clearly that our topsoil is being destroyed at
incredibly rapid rates. It is being carried out to sea by rivers. It is
being blown away by the wind. Its delicate life structure, (for soil is
truly alive with microorganisms), is being destroyed by too much direct
sunlight. Grazing animals are packing it down and denuding it of
protective cover at which point the soil is washed away by rain, wind
and storm.
"This destruction of topsoil results in inferior crops and weak plants
susceptible to attack by insect and disease. Inferior crops provide
inferior nutrition to those who eat them. This in turn results in more
disease, people of lower intelligence, and less ability to reproduce
strong healthy offspring. Add to this the chemical soup that is used in
large scale farming and industry and we have a recipe for disaster.
"The translation of sunlight into high quality enzymes held in a plant
cell matrix containing vitamins and minerals is the key. Only a healthy
vital soil can provide the substrate for that activity. When one
remembers that all of our human accomplishments depend on what we can
grow in a narrow 12 inch band of soil that is being depleted at a rate
20 times faster than it is being replaced worldwide, we need to pause
and consider what that means for us, our children, and their children.
These generations may see a catastrophe caused by this massive decline
in the soil's fertility, and thus its ability to support the plant
structures that catch and transmute sunlight. If this destruction
reaches a certain unrecoverable point, life as we know it will die."
So.... Is this something new? We have known for years that our soils
have become depleted of their mineral content. This knowledge inspired
the "back to the earth " movement in the 60's when thousands of so
called flower children returned to mother nature and her ways, and
began farming organically, using only natural methods to restore and
enrich their soil.
After having lived on a bio-dynamic farm in Israel for several years
and living from the organic fresh fruits and vegetables there, I find
upon my return to US life that it is very hard to live on the fruits
and vegetables one can buy at the supermarkets here. It just doesn't
taste good. I go longingly to the organic vegetable section of my local
health food store and drool over unaffordable high-priced produce.
Thinking again about the rate of our soil depletion and what it means
for the world, I am just a little bit overwhelmed. Certainly I know
that I, as one simple individual, cannot help the world turn back from
this road to disaster. There are hosts of things that conscious people
are doing...such as becoming better informed, planting trees, reducing
waste, recycling, driving less, and supporting legitimate environmental
efforts. The point of question now lies with me as it does with every
individual. Now comes the question: What can I do? I know that as an
eternal being, I am totally, absolutely and solely responsible for my
own eternal progression - with the help of a higher being to whom I
feel a great responsibility. "The buck stops here," as Truman once
said.
Some feel that meeting their responsibility rests solely in what they
think, say, and do-especially in relation to how they treat others.
If I have informed myself correctly, then I know also that in order
meet this responsibility, i.e. to think positively, speak well of and
to others, do good, and treat others with kindness, patience and love,
that I must consider the fact that I am not just a spiritual being. I
must consider the clothing of minerals or the clay that I have been
clothed with and the fact that it is sometimes a major hindrance to
expressing the godlike qualities heretofore expressed... "Because
sometimes I just don't feel good. Maybe it was a letdown from the
caffeinated drink I had a few hours ago, or the heavy animal protein,
denatured and cooked non-nourishment which I had for lunch." (One day
in the life of any man, especially one who lives in the fast paced
modern world of fast-food America.)
Although this clay is infused with the life of my spirit, who wishes
only to do good, it causes me (my self or my spirit) to be cross,
irritated, impatient, and at times even mean toward my fellow man. And
why does this clay, this mineral clothing that I wear...do this? -- I
have to remember time and time again that this clay, this potential
temple, is yet built of darkness, uneducated, and mainly undernourished
and many times burdened with just the work of the day -- eliminating
inundation after inundation of chemical, processed and overcooked food
that I (anyone) send to it three times a day. (It is a known fact that
some animal protein meals take 8 to 12 hours just to digest.) If the
body has to work that hard and that long to just digest a meal, how
much energy does it have left to uplift the spirit and carry one down
the path of a positive and happy life. We are dual! We are dual! We are
dual! -- In a body/spirit relationship! What one does affects the
other. Always!
Keeping this in mind, there still remains the question: What can I do?
Remembering that I have informed myself correctly, in that I believe
the eternal being to whom I am responsible, initially or originally
provided a way by which the clay or the darkness will not weigh so
heavily upon me. It is a fact that He did provide and has done so
eternally to the inhabitants of his worlds --a life force...Found in
guess what? ----In the foods, which we are,
necessarily-in-order-to-stay-alive required to eat three times per day.
A life force which transfers into my own life force and gives me the
positive energy to be kind, to be good, to be patient, and to help
others and doesn't require my own life force to be expended in the
process. One might say...messages encoded from far and distant worlds--
for billions of years, into delicious morsels of fruit of the vine or
of the tree which is there for me/you to enjoy and ultimately to teach
or spark life into each tiny cell of this my body or the clay which
encumbers me. Was all of this pre-planned before I got here? Yes, I
think so. It is my opinion so. You would think that after 14 billion
years He would get it right.
Then... do I have a responsibility to the clay itself? Some think not,
not realizing that it consists of many, many, individual cells who have
a life, and sometimes a very burdened life, who work day after day for
the benefit of the master (me, or you) with very little nourishment of
quality and very little rest. After becoming informed, and still
wishing to exercise my mandate to always be kind to every creature, I
realize that I do have a responsibility to the clay-which is no
longer clay, but trillions of individual cells (animal units?) infused
with the life of the creator. And especially because I do wish to
progress rather than regress in thought, word and deed, to transmute
this darkness into light... the clay, if super energized with the
amazing life force which is there for me to just pick from the tree or
squeeze from the grass CAN HELP ME DO THIS!
WHY? Because the clay is ME! (Or I am training it to become such.)
I claim it. I identify with it. I wish to have it feel good in this
life. I wish to be in a process of living, not dying.
Therefore, I will provide the correct base (soil mixture) for this life
force in the plant, that it will contain all the necessary ingredients.
And what are the necessary ingredients that the flower children of the
60's searched for and found when they embraced once again their good
mother?
Mainly they found that most pristine soil found where much vegetation
grows (nature's forests, grasslands, etc.) contains these necessary
ingredients: the 90 plus minerals or elements of material creation.
They found also that this soil or this pristine base teems with
uncountable varieties of living organisms that assist the plant to
absorb these minerals.
So...again, what can I do? Well...I can try to grow some of my own
food, trying not to kill any of it by cooking, and...I can grow and
consume a super food such as wheatgrass (which is known to pick up more
minerals from the soil than any other plant) or barleygrass in my own
kitchen! To provide that correct base, I can use a compost with living
organisms or I can make my own compost from expended wheatgrass flats.
This living soil will provide many of the minerals, which I desire my
plants to absorb and which my body needs for optimal health, well
being, peace of mind, and the ultimate transmutation of darkness into
light. In addition I can also add a natural additive which contains 60
to 70 of those trace minerals which are not always found in all soils.
Now, I can do this. I am doing this and I feel peaceful, leaving the
repair and healing of my body up to the intelligence of the creative
life force which is contained in all living matter.
here's the link to the newsletter:
http://www.wheatgrasskits.com/issue15.htm
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