Every once in awhile, I wonder why, I am writing this blog. Not just a vague uneasiness, but a deep reservation about its value. At the most basic level, I am writing it for myself, as I like to write and I want to contribute what I can, to humankind's understanding, of why we are here and what we are doing. But what do I know! I do want to learn. Writing this helps me learn. Teaching is a primary way of learning. We are always, teaching ourselves. Of course, I would hope someone else gets something out of it, too.
I have been questioning the purpose of existence all my life. However, I threw myself into living, for the most part, with alacrity, even though I questioned the traditional interpretations 'of life'. It drove me to the study of philosophy. I think, I read, the complete Mentor Series on philosophy long before I went to college. I read the major religious books, some several times, but like Omar Khayyam, I came away without much lasting truth. The Rubaiyat is one of my favorites.
One of the major things, I was impressed with, is how humankind had separated itself from Nature. In fact, some of the religions of the world, made Nature suspect and some a source of evil. How could we trust who we were, if we were to deny, who we were? Regardless of our interpretation of mind; we have bodies. Many of us are aware, mostly about our bodies, we are suppose to deny them?
Then our hellbent, headlong dive into technological solutions for everything, seemed to seal our separation from Nature. Then the Sixties came and then the Seventies, and folks all over the world, thought, "Hey, we have got to find a way back to Nature." Many people, including Jamie and I, engaged in 'homesteading' as an attempt to get back to Nature, and discover what we had lost, through our love affair with technology. The movement was so powerful in the early seventies that I thought it was the wave of the future. Instead, most of society seemed to move further away from Nature and Mother Earth.
The homesteading movement seemed to move underground, and many folks in the last forty years have bought a patch of land and are raising gardens and livestock. Being, out of it, and long of tooth myself, I don't know if there is any organization or network to help them learn from each other.
Which brings me to one of the original motivations for this blog. I have been watching civilization, as we know it, crumbling for over forty years. I felt, and I still feel, the world as we have known it, is about to collapse. I wanted to create a forum to help people learn to live on the Earth, with love and appreciation, for Nature and what she gives us.
However, the collapse is a process. It seems to happen with agonizing slowness. I imagine the folks of ancient Rome experienced their collapse as slow, but looking back 2000 plus years, we see it as rather sudden.
So why am I writing this blog? I feel like I am in a rut. All I can do is remind people that we need to get back to Nature, and take care of the Earth, as the Mother she is to all of us. And of course, the solution to all our problems is Love. I don't like saying the same old things over and over......but...but... we have to accept we are creative beings. We create by focusing our minds on what we want. Do I irritate people by saying that?
Perhaps I need to take my own advice, and lift myself out of any discouragement, I might feel. The process, of the collapsing empire takes time, but people are waking up all over the world. We will be ready. We will welcome each other with open arms. We will fall in love with each other and our Mother Earth. It is happening.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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