DISCOVERING WHO WE ARE

It is cool and raining. I can look out my window and see the grass greening up in the North pasture. Yesterday it was Sunny and very warm. It got up to 67 F, marvelous for this time of year. We are in for a cool spell that will last five or six days. We have been having temperatures 10 degrees above normal for a few days, then 10 degrees below normal for an equal number of days. We have had this pattern before; in fact, it seems more common. All that I know, for sure is, I get use to the warm weather and my mind and body doesn't like the reversion to Wintry conditions. I get impatient for warm, settled weather, and I have sheep ready to lamb in a few days, and warmer weather would be desirable. Yesterday, would have been perfect for lambing.

Yesterday, was a day for silly little errors. For example: I wanted to wish my grand daughter happy birthday on Face Book. I accidentally wrote her Mother's name instead of hers. I didn't even see my error, until it was pointed out to me, by one of my daughters. When I went up to Ogilvie to get the paper, the proprietor asked me how I was, I said, “I feel old!” She asked why and I relayed my story about the names. She said, “That is not old. That is human nature. Hey, as long as you used a name in the same family, you are okay.” I thought that was good affirmation. No, I can't say that kind of error is age. I have been stumbling along like that all my life.

Another error, again on Face Book. About thirty years ago, we planted some crocuses in the lawn. They bloom and are gone before we need to mow. Every year they supply an important bellwether for Spring. When I went out to do the Morning chores I spotted one blooming. I went out with my iPad, took a picture, and put it on Face Book. I wondered why there was no acknowledgement. No likes, no nothing. I thought, maybe it is banal, by now, there have been many first flowers of Spring published. This Morning something occurred to me, I looked at the privacy setting. It was set for me only. So it isn't true that nobody loves me { I didn't go that far}.

We do depend too much on feedback from others. How can we get over that? We are all perfect beings at our core. We are unconditional love, yet we have been so programmed to doubt our worth, that we beg for crumbs from the table. We are all crippled beings, looking for evidence of our worth, from other crippled beings. How is that going to work?

Fortunately, many of us have seen through this charade and realize we get back what we give. We reinforce others worth and get our own worth reinforced in return. That is great, but we remain vulnerable as long as we need reinforcement that we are okay.

How can we get over this need? What has to happen, for us to realize we are marvelous, lovable persons in our own right, and we don't need anything from outside us? It is complicated by the fact that we are not separate. We do need each other. We nourish each other with our company, with our warmth, with our beingness. We are not meant to live separate lives. But we are all equal loving beings. We can enjoy each other, without depending on others affirmation of our lovability.

How are we going to wash away thousands and thousands of years of programming? How are we going to learn our individual sovereignty? How are we going to learn to really think for ourselves?

The answer to these questions is, that we are doing it right now. We are waking up and realizing, we don't need to depend on a sick society, to affirm that we are okay. We know we are okay. Sure we still slip back into the doldrums, but we are making progress. We know that all judgement, and any version of fear, divides us and keeps us from realizing who we are.

Yes, we want to change the world! Most of us realize, the only way we can do that is to change ourselves. Do we want more love in the world; love the world. Do we want more peace in the world; find your peace and radiate it. Do you want more joy in the world; sing, dance and laugh heartily. We are changing the world!

We are Love.

I will talk about how healing/learning centers can accelerate this process.

Love and Peace, Gregg

EASTER MONDAY

To blog or not to blog, that is the question. It has been a busy Easter Monday. I had stacks of dishes to do and then I had an eye appointment at 10AM. I broke my glasses couple months ago and I have been holding them together with repeated applications of super glue. Since I haven't had an eye exam since 2011, I couldn't get new glasses.

I arrived back home about 11AM and was entertained by Elijah for an hour or so. He and his Mom spent the night, they just left a few minutes ago.

My vision is slightly out of focus, at least for this screen, I had drops to dilate the pupils.

I thought I could blog but the screen is just out of focus enough to be uncomfortable. I am bereft of profundities any way.

I will be here Wednesday.

Love your life! Celebrate the day!

Love and Peace,  Gregg

NOTHING LIKE A GOOD POOP!

Another day on planet Earth. We escaped the big weather system, that swept across the continent, we didn't get a single snowflake. Now we have a clipper system coming from the Northwest, we may not be so lucky. According to the forecast, there is a possibility of an inch or more.

There is knowing and knowing. Is knowing a collection of facts? Certainly that isn't the knowing behind wisdom.

Have we considered a seed? Is that knowledge, that is locked in it? It knows how to use water to expand. It knows how to split open and send up a shoot. It knows to grow up. It knows where light is found. It knows when to send out its cotyledon leaves. It sends its roots into the ground to find nutrients and moisture. With perfect timing it send out its adult leaves. It continues into maturity and makes seeds of its own. We can see it, as stimulus and response, as we can describe photo-synthesis in detail; but is that it, a collection of observations, a collection of facts? What about the energy that goes into it? What is the 'idea' that is locked into the genetic material?

Consider one of our own human offspring. They master one of the most complex tasks in a very short time; language. Speaking words involves the lips, tongue and breath. The mind has to make connections with the eyes and ears and the objects portrayed by the words. Parents make a big show of teaching their children to talk; but the truth is, the children learn to speak whether they are spoken to or not. It is further amazing, that having accomplished this marvelous task on there own, we think we need to teach them everything. When is teaching, teaching, and when is it programming? Are we teaching our children because we want them to know truth? Or are we, programming out of fear, that they won't be as we want them? Are we more interested in management or having free happy children who can think for themselves?

It is said that the test of truth, is that it is true. Have we been so brainwashed, managed, and penned up in our various occupational, professional, political and religious cages, that we can only accept the limits of the perceptual reality, we so willingly accepted? Oh, we love to belong!

To test what is true, we need to get acquainted with who we are. We need to find out what we have always known, like the seed that is planted in the ground. We came into this world 'knowing'. Our culture, our upbringing, did everything to cast doubt on this 'knowing'. We were taught to depend on others, who had already lost their 'knowing'.

We need to make a conscious effort to get rid of all the nonsense we absorbed. Let us rid ourselves of our beliefs. Let us dispel our judgements. Let us let go, of all our preconceived ideas, of how the world should be. Let's let everything go with one big whoosh. Oh to be free! Oh to have an empty mind!

There is nothing like a Good Poop!

Love and Peace, Gregg

SOME RE-THINKING

There is a big weather system brewing up some troubles for Minnesota. Nothing unusual for March; but, we have already gotten used to Spring like weather. Some areas of Southern Minnesota are supposed to get up to a foot of snow. The Twin Cities will get 5 to 8 inches, according to the last forecast, I saw. We live about forty miles North of the, outer edge, of the metropolitan area and 75 or 80 miles from downtown. So far, we have only flurries forecast, we have all seen how that can work out.

I got spoiled by that early promise of mild weather. Our temperatures, right now, are in the normal range. Does that mean we can't complain? I don't really mind much. It is called the 'theater of seasons' for a reason.

I noted that the sheep in the North pasture drank all their water. I had to haul them extra. That means that those ewes are within two weeks of lambing. An exciting time! One of the reasons why I look forward to warmer weather is that I can water the animals with the hose. The hoses are over two hundred feet.They lay, permanently, mostly under the sod. They are difficult to drain completely. Sometimes I do use them this time of year; but they may not thaw out until late afternoon, or not at all. They will thaw out quickly if there is only a mild freeze; but 20 degrees F, uh uh. I may have a couple more weeks of hauling water. Unless, unless that mild weather returns.

There is evidence that Spring is early. Our local lake [Lewis Lake] is now open. That is the earliest ice out I know of. The average ice out is around April 17 in this vicinity.

Is that enough local color? I am in a quandary about what to write. I had intended to write several blogs on our need for relearning and why healing/learning centers were a good idea. I was going to take one institution of our society, at a time, education, medicine, science, religion etc., and illustrate how we have been mis-taught and mis-led. I want to make a powerful point about how little we really know and how our beliefs have been shaped by folks who are only interested in power and money. The vast majority of people are innocent of any deception. They only pass on what they were taught. Most of us are too busy surviving to put much interest in these subjects.

I feel like, on one hand, I am preaching to the choir; many of my readers have a good handle on anything I could say. On the other hand, there are people that cannot hear what I have to say, because they have yet to have that experience, that shakes them to the core, and they realize the world is not what they perceive.

Things will happen that will rattle our cage. It is happening now. Minds are opening. The profoundness of our ignorance is still not appreciated. We were cut off from any opportunity to see reality a long time ago. We have been lied to, manipulated, and kept in a cocoon of ignorance for ages. We are about to break out. We are about to discover who we are.

I want to break out of the cocoon myself and I want to help others as much as I can. I am as dumb, as they come, when it comes to knowing anything. However, I am very sure of that; I don't know anything. From not knowing anything, I can go forward. I do have one belief, and that is, that Love is the Nature of the Universe so, therefore, are We.

I will go forward and discuss each institution and our need for relearning.

Love and Peace, Gregg

MORE ON ANGER

It is a little gray outside. It was 22 degrees F when I got up; but it is warming up nicely. It is now 37.2. Spring is back, despite the gray. One has to look to find the few traces of snow that are left. I have been seeing Redwing Blackbirds, Robins, Bluebirds and I have heard Sand Hill Cranes and Green Herons, for at least a week.

I just took a sip of coffee and spewed it up my nose. How does that happen? How does it happen that one normally takes a drink of coffee and it goes up the back of your nose? Oh well, the unpleasant sensation is fading now. I can get back to the subject of this blog. Oh! What is the subject of your blog Gregg? Well we will have to just wait and see, won't we.

I haven't settled on what to write about. I have much more to say about healing/learning centers, and our need for relearning; but I don't feel like delving into one of those topics today.

Ever since I wrote Friday's blog, I have been thinking about the problem with anger and why we hang on to it. I talked about the delusion that it is protective; but it has other seductive features. When we feel helpless and afraid it makes us feel energized. When we have low grade, chronic depression, it can make us feel alive. When anger temporarily lifts us out of feeling bad, we don't recognize the downside. It can effect us in the same way an addictive drug does. We can use it to feel alive and in charge.

Clever politicians play on folks, chronic dissatisfaction with their life. Anger energizes them and promises some hope for change. Of course, the politician gets what he wants, their vote, and there the promise ends.

Anger can be a vicious poison, disguised as something helpful. It is never helpful. It will always engender more negativity.

When I say we need to give up our anger, I am not recommending we repress our anger. It causes greater distress when we push it down. If we are angry, we are angry. We must look at it and see what it is about. Who do we need to forgive? What do we need to see differently? Underlying anger is some kind of fear; what are we afraid of?

Many folks walk around with chronic anger because they are afraid to get in touch with it. They have been carefully taught that they shouldn't feel that way. They often need to feel their anger, to discover it won't destroy themselves or who they are angry with. It helps to see a shrink or someone we can talk to safely. We need to work these things out in a safe relationship. Folks do amazing things with contemplation and meditation, but a good therapeutic relationship is very facilitating.

Anger has been with us for eons. To give it up we need to see how useless it has been; both personally and globally. We can't give up something we still think has value. Look at it. Study it. Use your knowingness. You will see we don't need it. We don't want it.

Happy Monday Folks!

Love and Peace, Gregg

ANGER

 

We awoke this Morning to a white world. It snowed last night. It wasn't much, but enough to make everywhere white.

I am going to depart from my series on healing/learning centers, to discuss anger. There is a lot of anger in the world right now. It is being whipped up by certain politicians who are seeking power.

The seduction of anger is the illusion that it is protective; of course it isn't, it only attracts retaliation from other egos. Whether, at an individual level, or a global level, anger can only be destructive. Anger is always limiting to spiritual and psychological growth.

All that we have to do is look at ourselves, “What has anger done for us?” I look at my own life and I see anger and its relatives; irritation, crabbiness, off-putting, etc. have only served to make me more unlovable and lonely.

Our egos feel under attack. We see some form of defensiveness as protective. Defensiveness is always seen as an attack by another ego. Anger never, never, never ever protects anything or anybody. Anger temporarily blocks love, it blocks compassion, it closes the door on any sense of oneness and it is more destructive to the sender than the receiver.

Many of us, who value our spiritual growth, have eschewed anger. We don't like it. We don't want it. Yet, we still react with anger under the right [or should I say wrong] circumstances. It is a knee jerk response. We may regret it immediately. But, there we are. If our reaction is to a similar reactor, a way we go. There may be no stopping until violence erupts.

The problem is, we may have intellectually rejected anger, as an appropriate response, but we have learned from our culture and upbringing that it is protective. We have much reinforcement for this belief. Those who find themselves reacting, may think it is hopeless. It can feel that way. It isn't. We can pay attention to ourselves. There are many times, we have a rising gorge, and it doesn't manifest into an observable reaction. Whenever we have the slightest twinge, we need to remind ourselves, that anger is not protective. With repetition, the danger of a reaction will attenuate.

I know it is difficult to see, but our consciousness is rising. The awareness, that what we do to others, we do to ourselves, is becoming mainstream. It will become easier and easier to give up these old habits. We have help! There is a core of peaceful energy [sometimes buried] in all of us. Those who are open to the belief, may call on a guide or guardian angel. Universal energy is eager to help.

Let us look at ourselves, our relationships, our world and see that anger is never helpful. It always hurts.

We are One.

Love and Peace, Gregg

HEALING

 

Our lovely Spring is taking a hiatus. There is snow in the forecast. They scared me last night. They forecast 2 to 3 inches of snow on three progressive periods, tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night; that is a possibility of 9 inches. Now there back, to what they predicted, day before yesterday, which is less than a half inch each time. I think the system is very dynamic and hard to predict. I hope the latest prediction bears out.

It seems that one of the primary focuses of a healing/learning center, needs to be, on our physical and mental health. With all of our, up-to-date technology and knowledge, we would think we would be a very healthy people. Instead we are plagued with chronic diseases and beset by one infliction after another. One of the problems is environmental. We live on extensions, away from Nature, and we have polluted our air, water and ground, to the point, where ingesting chemically free food is next to impossible. I will address that subject later. Today, I will limit myself to a few aspects of medicine.

Have you ever listened to TV from 5 PM to 6 PM? I noted three, sometimes four, drug commercials during each station break. They all featured upper middle class types that were active and apparently successful. If you wanted to join their group all that you had to do was to urge your doctor to proscribe some drug. I recently read that drug companies spend a vast amount more money on promotion, including advertising and lobbying, than they do on research and development.

Have you paid attention to the possible side effects? It is amazing our minds have been able to soak in the advertising message and not be horrified by the side effects. Almost, perhaps all, these drugs are synthetic. They are chemical compositions copying a naturally occurring agent. Have we ever stopped and asked ourselves, “Do we really have the wisdom to do this?' Our ability to manipulate our world far outstrips our ability to understand it. “Do we really think we know enough about our body and minds, that we can introduce foreign substances and expect no negative results?” We are just on the threshold of understanding and appreciating the majesty of our minds and bodies.

Perhaps, if we had a magic button, that we could press, and take the profit motive out of medicine we would see things differently. Money is a hugely corrupting force. Doctors, whether they like it, or not, become corporate entities and shills for the pharmaceutical industry. It is tragic. Every doctor, I know, wants to be a healer. Most of them, would love to spend time with their patients, get to know them and be able to treat the person and not just the wart.

The healing arts are, just that. They are intuitive as well as scientific. Healing is most effective when the practitioner has an appreciation of the mind and body as one. Every time we have a thought; we have some change in brain chemistry. Every time we have a change in brain chemistry; we affect some body systems. And, of course, the reverse is true.

So much of our drug use has been primarily profit motivated. I don't know that we need to eschew all synthetic drugs. We do need to take another look at what we have done. We do need to take the corruption of money, out of medicine and science, before we can see clearly to go forward.

So many of these change have to await the the collapse of the present system. Wouldn't it be nice if a collection of healers could come together, create a pilot project, and offer healing to their respective community at an affordable cost [perhaps a freewill offering]? Patients could show their appreciation by working in the organic gardens.

Wouldn't it be nice to be intellectually, emotionally and spiritually free enough, to explore our universe, and see what is there? Who are we? How are our bodies part of the Earth and Mother Nature? How are our minds and souls part of the Universe? Wouldn't this be an exciting adventure?

Love and Peace, Gregg

THANKFULNESS

It is one of those soggy Spring days. A little dreary, but with such promise of things to come. I am feeling good. Although, the loss of my brother Garth is on my mind. It is good. Death of our bodies is part of life. There is no death of our being. We celebrated his birthday with a picnic Saturday. It was an impromptu affair, with Naomi, Greg, Adam and Elijah [and us] in attendance. We sat out on the deck for most of the afternoon. It was a glorious day. It didn't get chilly until dusk.

We had our oven go on the blink Thursday. The repairman couldn't come out until this Morning. We have an old restaurant stove. Its age is meaningless because they were built to last forever. We didn't realize how much we used the oven until we were without it for three days. The repairman was out this Morning and he got it working in a short time. A thermo-couple needed replacement. It is a lovely experience having folks in to repair things and they contribute to your household. It is a pleasure observing folks who know what they are doing. He knew exactly what was wrong, by my description on the phone, and was able to hone right in on the problem. That was a good experience.

What I feel greatest about, is our optimism about Jamie's health issues. I had mentioned before that she had a number of troubling symptoms. She is a researcher and she soon zeroed in on her problem; sleep apnea, it explained the problems she was having. She scheduled a sleep study. Then.................. she had to cancel. She developed a disc problem in her neck and the required medication precluded her participation in the study. She was just about over that problem, when at Christmas, she fell off a stool and dislocated her shoulder, [she was reaching to get something off a high shelf]. She was making a good recovery when her shoulder was re-injured in late January. In order to sleep well she had to take some pain medication. She may have only needed it two or three times a week; but she was unable to predict it well enough to do the sleep study, which requires an absence of that type of medication.

She was able to do the sleep study Friday night. She definitely has sleep apnea. She won't get her device until this Friday, but we are very optimistic that a long struggle is coming to an end. In this last year, Jamie has researched, everything there is, about the symptoms she was having. She already knew a lot about vitamins, nutrition and biochemistry; now she knows a great deal more. She is going to have to write a book and rent herself out as a consultant.

I will continue my discussion about our need for relearning on Wednesday. I hope everyone is bearing up okay, with the craziness in the world. It is hard to believe there could be so much insanity. I can't believe this election campaign. I keep expecting a certain orange colored candidate to announce, “I was just kidding. It is just a joke! I don't really want to be president.” There was a series of interviews, with some of his followers, published in the paper Sunday. It appears that most of them are afraid for themselves and the country and they see him as an antidote. It is amazing what fear can do and how it can be exploited by those who would.

The craziness won't last. People are waking up in droves. There certainly will be some chaos for awhile. However, if we keep focusing on what we love and eschew fear, we will create our own paradise around us. Let us constantly express our thanks for this beautiful Mother Earth and a Great Benevolent Universe.

All is Well.

Love and Peace, Gregg

EDUCATION

It is a gorgeous day! The Sun is shining! It is going to be in the sixties today, fantastic!

Yesterday, I was crabby. I don't know why. Crabby enough to put Jamie on a state of alertness. Two days past the New Moon, so it shouldn't have been related. I often have a touch of crabbiness on the New Moon. I had a good sleep last night and I am not crabby now.

In our discussion for relearning, I would like to talk about education today. I know little about this subject, in terms of what to do about it. Like lots of people I see much of what is wrong. There is a great deal of experiment with education and I believe the answers are out there.

Education is one of our major problems. Children are programmed to fulfill a sick societies requirements. We create drones to supply workers so a few can gain more power and money. The teachers among us might protest. From inside their capsule they might see it differently. They are dedicated beings who are doing everything they can to help their students. They want their pupils to think for themselves. They want the kids to learn and grow, and despite being in a system that seems to discourage genuine learning, many are opening their eyes to truth.

Lets face it. We are all products of a crippling system. We don't even know our history. As some one said, “The victor writes the history.” We are not told the truth about how the indigenous peoples, we call Indians, were brutally eliminated on our sweep Westward. We don't use the word genocide, when it is most appropriate. We don't know the truth of any war. The real reasons. The enemies atrocities are blaringly published; our own, how much do we really know? We don't know the real horror of slavery. Oh things come out. We have some idea; but our history is much worse than we imagine.

History is an easy example of how we distort education. It happens in every field. Anthropology and Archaeology have been crippled by elitism. New thinking is punished. New evidence is distorted to fit old ideas. One of the most crippling ideas, is the assumption that we have progressed in a linear fashion and there are not older civilizations that were more accomplished. I think that is absurd. I propose, that in a few years from now, we will recognize we are in a very dark age, intellectually, philosophically and scientifically. Spending some time reading the ancient Greek philosophers can be an eye opener. I learned about atoms, energy, the nature of perception, the nature of illusion, and had a look into a different world. I was startled by how much the Greeks knew, and more startled, that there was little acknowledgement in our educational system.

That be as it may. The past is the past. The greater tragedy is what we are doing now. We are more interested in turning out slaves for the military/industrial complex than we are in creating free beings.

What would an educational system look like that was geared to turn out free, creative beings, to live in the now, and enjoy the benefits of this lovely Earth?

I will leave you that thought.

The telephone rang ten minutes ago. My beloved brother, Garth, died last night. He left peacefully. It is a relief. He struggled somewhat in his last few days. Now I know why I was crabby yesterday.

Love and Peace, Gregg

RELEARNING

It is 7:12 AM, early for me to start blogging. I have been up since shortly after five. Shearing day. {Those who aren't familiar with my blog can read Mistakes Happen for some background.} I went out last night at 11: PM and the sheep were still not in the barn. I went out in the dark at 5:15 AM, the barn was empty. As it got light, I observed the sheep from the living room window. About 7, they started to move toward the barn, I was able to close the barn door without incidence. Humph! I could have stayed in bed and got seven hours sleep instead of five and a half. Oh well, I will survive. The shearer is coming at 8 AM. I have a few things to do. I will finish this blog later.

The shearing is completed for another year. It is now 9:15 AM. Let see if I can be coherent on 5 ½ hours sleep. I am not sure I can convince anybody that we need relearning. It is difficult to see the power of conformity, obedience to authority, group think, the desire to belong, worship of wealthy people, and all the other things that shape our consciousness. We grow up heavily influenced by parents, teachers and caregivers. Then we have the groups we want to be accepted by. We don't want to be out of step. We want to be accepted.

There is all the things about medicine, science, economics and education. We can't know all about everything. Some of us cave in to authority and believe what we are programmed to believe. Some of us try to make decisions based on our own learning and perception. We like to think there are some areas free from contamination; science for example. But it isn't. Scientist have egos like the rest of us. Money and power influence who gets grants, what universities get them and who can do research and what research is accepted. Scientific elitism is a serious problem. Folks who come up with ideas, that go against the grain, of accepted belief are often demonized. We would like to trust authority, in at least, the sciences, but we can't. It is hard to accept, but until this present authority crumbles, there is very little we can trust.

Can folks come together and create communities based on what they know and experience every day? Can we find a way to look at the Earth and the Universe with fresh eyes? Can we give up all our stored up beliefs and see what is really there?

For a healing/learning center to work it must be composed of folks who can do this. We do need a guide. I would suggest our present society is based on fear. I would suggest our emerging society be based on love. What would happen if we gave up all our beliefs and based all our decisions on unconditional love? What if we insisted on seeing the Earth and the Universe as creations of Love?

In future blogs, I will take individual aspects of our society e.g. medicine, agriculture, education, etc. and examine why we need to relearn, things we think we know, and how we might approach seeing differently.

Love and Peace, Gregg

HOW DO WE BEGIN?

 

It sure looks like Spring on Laughing Water Farm. We still have patches of snow and ice, but they are receding quickly. Good sense and knowledge of history should insulate us from being too optimistic. Is there such a thing as too optimistic? Even though we know, we could get three feet of snow next week, one has to trust their feelings. Spring feels for real. I put my toboggan and snow blower away. Well the snowblower wasn't working anyway.

Jamie planted seeds of tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse and great gardening dreams begin.

My intention was to start a discussion of our need for healing/learning centers. I am a little overwhelmed by the task. Condensing my thinking of forty years, on the subject, to a few short blogs sounds difficult. If I had any sense I would prepare outlines of each subject I want to cover in a blog. But, that is not me. I just sit down here and start tapping at the keys and hope what comes out is intelligible.

Some things to consider are the make up of the people. The setting. Our aim. We need to ask ourselves, “How are we crazy?” Not just how is the world crazy, but us too. The people who make up the staff of the center must be aware that they are crazy, too. The only difference is they know it and want to seek healing. I see the staffs as a collection of healers, educators, scientist etc.; those who belong will know they belong. Some folks will come together because they know it is their mission, others will need a little persuasion.

I see a group of people, who want to further their own healing, offering an experience of healing to the surrounding populace. Every person seeking healing will select the modality that makes sense to them. There will be a smorgasbord of healers, but the one seeking healing must make their own choices. Those skilled at helping people choose, can help, but there will be no expert/dummy consciousness.

We need to, be very aware, of the energy that comes into the centers. One of the major conduits of energy is food. I don't know how things may play out, but it seems to me, in the beginning, the center should consider raising their own food. In our society right now, there are very few who would not benefit by getting their hands in the dirt. Part of the overwhelming sickness of our present society is the food we eat. If a healing /learning center is going to be successful, they must have a good source of food. At least in the beginning, that means we raise our own. Also, gardening would be good therapy for both the staff and folks seeking help.

We need to be profoundly aware of how misled we have become. Most of what we think, we know, is in error, in full or part. The drive for money and power have corrupted medicine, agriculture, science, education, religion and every other aspect of our society. In our present state, we don't really know if what we believe is based on truth or is part of the indoctrination. But we do recognize truth when we see it. Some folks have excellent B.S. detectors, others will need a little help finding their intuition.

In future blogs I will discuss aspects of the learning/unlearning we have to do.

Happy Spring!

Love and Peace, Gregg

THE DISCUSSION BEGINS

The weather is dreary; overcast and 35.9F. However, there is a promise of Spring in the extended forecast. I am not gloomy, myself, but I seem to be in some kind of holding pattern. I am not sure what to write. I would like to comment on the world situation; but, it seems so bizarre. On the surface, nothing makes any sense. It appears that structural collapse is imminent; but, the economy, and other structures, go along as if they are not on the verge of going in the dumper.

Perhaps, the collapse will be slow and gentle, that would give us an opportunity to imagine the world we want. I think we need healing/learning centers to help folks reconnect with Nature in a healthy way. I don't think many of us realize how separate we have become.

If we realize we are one with Nature, and Nature being part of Source, everything we need for a happy productive life must be all around us. Didn't we, at one time, rely on Nature? What happened? For the last thousand years or more we have been teaching separation from Nature. We have learned to exploit the Earth, but not live with it, and cherish it. The Earth is a loving being like everything else in creation. Didn't we know that once?

Why have we been denying our oneness with the Earth and all of the Universe? Is this the ultimate separation of the Ego?

How would it be if we perceived the Earth as a loving being that longed to provide nurture for all her denizens? When we felt ill, wouldn't we be able to find relief in the plants that grow around us? Wouldn't a loving Earth provide everything for her lovely children? Could it really be any other way?

It seems to me that our separation, that happened a long time ago, is the source of all our problems. Separation has been a source of power and money for a few. Our present state of insanity is not an accident.

We need to reconnect with each other and the Earth. What should our learning/healing centers look like? What ideas do you have? We need to re-learn everything.

I will be discussing this subject further.

Love and Peace, Gregg

MISTAKES HAPPEN

 

Monday, the phone rang, Jamie answered it. It was the sheep shearer. He said he was coming 8 AM on Wednesday. I wasn't too happy about it. It is a little early. I don't like to do shearing until late March. Besides, the ice dripped off the barn roof and made a ridge of ice and I couldn't get the barn door open.

Yesterday, I took my eight pound splitting maul out to the barn and chopped away at the ridge of ice. It didn't take too long to get the door open. I put some new bedding down so the shearer would have a clean place to work.

My sheep are not trained to a feed bucket, so I need to lock them in the barn, when I can catch them in there. I went out at dusk; they were not in the barn. I went out at 9:30 PM; they were not in the barn. The trip was worth it because the sky was, the most blazing with stars, that I have ever seen. I saw constellations I never saw before. It was absolutely amazing. I went out again at 11:PM. The sky was not as spectacular; the moon [first quarter] was still below the horizon but it was lightening the sky. My sheep were lollygagging in the pasture. They showed no sign of wanting to go into the barn.

This Morning, I awoke at 5:55 AM. I bet those sheep are in the barn. I leaped out of bed. Well not quite leaped, I am long of tooth. The Sun wasn't up, but the dawn was not far off, and I could see to navigate. The sheep were in the barn. I closed them up.

Now I had to wait two hours for the shearer. I did the crossword puzzle, played a version of scrabble with some folks on my iPad. Thought of some more things to do to get ready for the shearing. I needed to get an extension cord from the garage. The outlet in the barn is ten feet from where the shearing takes place.

Back in the house. It is getting close to 8 AM. Look out the window. Drink coffee. Play some more scrabble. 8:30 comes. 9 AM arrives. Call the shearer. He says, “it is next Wednesday.”

Well life goes on. Mistakes happen. Now I will be ready. If I can get the sheep in the barn, again. They were jubilant to get out. They kicked their heels up and danced around like lambs. You would think they were locked up for three days not three hours.

I love every moment of my life; even the silly parts!

Love and Peace, Gregg