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Personal Blogs => Michael Maher Blog => Topic started by: Michael on March 01, 2023, 09:58:04 PM
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The Green Man
Someone asked Rudolf Steiner, on a train, a significant question (paraphrased):
“Speaking on behalf of so much of awakened humanity: I know what I should be doing, how I should live, but I just can’t reach and sustain it in practice. What is wrong?”
Steiner thought for some time, in silence, then replied that the problem lay in the food people eat. He believed that there were extra energetic elements to our food, which modern agricultural practices have caused to become depleted. And that these elements were essential for the energy to feed the spirit, beyond the body. This led to his biodynamic agricultural practices and movement, but is also why so many, and those who can afford it, opt for organic produce and especially eschew commercially processed food.
Steiner was responding to a problem he perceived in his time, which is now around a hundred years ago. This problem, that he identified, has not departed – in fact it has become so severe that the very living surface of our planet is threatened, and the health industry of all nations is in state of freefall in its ability to not only repair bodies, but cannot possibly meet the escalation in mental illness. Certainly, the food industry is in crisis, and the burgeoning adoption of Regenerative Agriculture is hyper-alive to the desperate situation, offering exceptional practices to remedy.
But they are still too few and too late, to forestall the explosion in mental health demands that are now flooding across into political spheres, threatening the fabric of our global and national governance. The crisis in mental illness presented in social media and obsession with internet, fuelling a depraved fixation upon celebrities as an infused aberration of personal identity, is reaching global panic threshold. Homosapiens are tipping into collective psychopathy.
But let’s revert to this question of Steiner. It was not about the mass of humanity, but the hurdle that serious aspirants to spiritual growth face when they have learnt all the ideas, concepts, words and thrown themselves into that aspiration – they have glimpsed the horizon-point of their deepest yearning, and yet, find it impossible to actualise that vision.
My insight, at this late phase of my life, is different to Steiner’s. His prescription was accurate for his time, but not now. If any aspirant is still eating commercially processed foods as their primary diet, they are not ‘serious’ – by now, we all know that home cooking with fresh food is essential for health of body and mind. And aspirant that has not discovered the joy and craft of cooking is a fool. No, something entirely different has crept into the human condition which wasn’t especially prevalent a hundred years ago.
Humanity has become city dwellers, and lost their intimate relationship with the natural world. Unfortunately, I took this for granted in the past, and wrongly assumed spiritual aspirants would instinctively know that the ancient lore – ‘go into the wilderness alone’ – was absolutely the key prerequisite to a successful path. Wrongly, I say, because I belatedly realised that not only was this injunction not understood, but worse, not practised by many who pretended to spirituality.
Were someone to come to me today with that same question posed to Steiner so long ago, I would immediately say, leave the city and move to the edge of the natural world. Somewhere where your days and nights were infused with the presence of untamed nature. Not completely in wilderness – that has its own dangers – but on the edge, such that life is balanced between the constructs of humanity and natural wilderness.
So, the person would say, “That is impractical. I need to work and be near my family. Is it OK if I just walk regularly in the park and along the river front?” “No!” I’d respond. And there are many reasons why not. The first, is that it means you are not committed to the path of personal realisation.
The second, is that you do not understand the energetic quality of nature. Of course, a garden, a park, a tree along the roadway, are all beautiful and critical for our relationship with nature. But all these are there for human purposes, and as such they are like pets – tamed creatures for human desires. They lack a special etheric light which shimmers off the surface of all free beings which live for their own purposes – not slaves of another’s design.
There is no alternative option. If you have not lived sufficiently on the edge of wilderness, in order to feel the presence of free nature in your bones, then you quite simply lack the infusion of alien energy into your being, which alone supplies that extra boost we all need to launch ourselves out of instinctive life.
Those who learn from all the books and are touched by the true gurus and shamans of your time, and yet have not been able to relocate their living to also be touched by the alien energy of free nature, fall into a special trap. They believe themselves to be wise and possessors of hidden knowledge, and yet they are trapped between worlds – they know too much to return to the common fold, but lack the fire-power to reach that new, unfathomable world of spiritual light.
Unavoidably, instead of facing their condition squarely, truthfully, acknowledging failure, which would be too humiliating to look in the eye, they turn their ‘face’ back to the common world. And with the powers acquired from their aborted journey, which did at least yield some supra-sensible capacities, they revert to playing magician for the attention-paying spiritual dilettantes, who seek entertainment with incense. These ‘magicians’ are a sad and desperate lot, who live out their lives as circus curiosities.
Alas, there is no hope for them in this or the next world, unless in the depths of their subconscious despair, they rally one final burst of courage – face their calamity fully and strike out for freedom with every fibre of their being. They MUST leave their place of abode, and seek a new life closer to nature. Alas, there is no other way – the forces aligned against them are so vast and powerful, nothing short of an outrageous, reckless thrust into the unknown will jolt their entrapment and maybe, just maybe, cleave the slimmest of cracks through which their spirit can escape.
https://michaelmaher.bandcamp.com/track/04-the-will-to-survive
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Modern statistics are, unfortunately, rather pessimistic:
Today, the average child in the US spends 4-7 minutes outdoors and 7 hours indoors in front of the TV or computer every day.
In Finland, 9th graders spend 50-75 hours a week on their smartphones.
The estrangement from nature is accelerating.
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I said RayMond on FB is my Greenman 7 years looking out for me. Many don’t know or understand yet been protecting. Aware who is real or not.
Maybe like an all seeing eye a witness
Earth too?
I know many have been confused by him I told folks let him be
I even told him once to be nicer to you Michael
Lol
Sometimes we might not know who is our witness so
Either way I felt he was my green man
Watching me grow all this time
I felt called to get Brighid and green man recent
Glad I did
I guess I now wait myself till spring?
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I woke from a nap
It’s raining
god is in the rain
And you never know who is your witness so
Be nice
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You may want to peek at my video
Cause he has been watching you MM
And he likes me better than you
You know it so…
You lucky I asked HIM
To give YOU grace
I told him when my family abandoned me
You were there
Green Man
I’d keep it a secret but…
You know
Just show you all
How lucky you are
Cause he is that…
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Good thing you
We’re nice
Gave me back my blog cause
If I went down….
He was…
He supports me…
Always has
You think he trolling…
Think what you all want
And yet he never said….
I added him and said
Let him be….🔥👇☘️✅🦚🌈💯🌹🔥
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One of many YouTube’s on his FB
In all CC groups.
Even SIR
This
Good enough
https://youtu.be/UrIiLvg58SY
He got more power than you MM
Even me
Scary huh!
flowering done!
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Power of Silence!
Bless those that
🌹
Who really ….
You don’t know….
Kiss you all soma
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3-Yh6rnOchs&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
I need to think of a good YouTube to send him on the down low….
Between him and me
You all dumb and dumber…
See that sun coming up?
🍀✅🎶🕶
We both not for sale
*👓✅🎶🍀🧙
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Awe it just popped on
I don’t need to pm him
He just spoke
To y’all
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jhat-xUQ6dw&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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But I did pm him.
We uh good
☀️ 👓 🌝
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Uh oh
I know he like the AShs
Amber
Yes
Young ones.
Olivia
Me
But you all?
He tossing shade
I need to chat with him….
In my own way
Cause 3-13 a few years ago
That was A aboriginal wall…
I got pulled out of
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l64EyXcxvmo&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Styx
Lemme go chat…
Cause he not…trusting of this shit
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I’m sure a past life wall
But fire chasing me
Nasty things
Ney my black cat jusding
Shout on now
Let me
Power of a silence you all fir a change…
See how it feels
I git the whole world in my hands….
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Ps I take note
My kids and grandkids are safe
But that wall…
It got nasty and Michael I kept asking you for WORDS….
You will soon want..,mine or his…
Renegade on…
No lie….
Oh mama he knew….
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Yeah many tears you flowerers….
Many…
Better not block
K I’m gonna meditate on it…
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Ray dude was my catalyst the beginning
Raymond my Greenman
He isn’t my end
Yours all?
flower if I know…
He likes who he likes that is all
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhuso4OTG4&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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Ah he
https://youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
He nice if he like you but…
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Ps shiva
He got to obey karma too
So MM
3-13
Walla if they could talk
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Ps shiva
He got to obey karma too
So MM
3-13
Walls if they could talk
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Copy?
I dunno
We all got talking walls
Who cried the most tears
Fought the most
Who knows
I know my ❤️
Did my best
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My very first username online
Wanna know?
Genesys
Don’t know which one
But if
Let’s do this while I
Bodhidharma and face a Wall
https://youtube.com/watch?v=suCNZe3Gwkw&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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The rain coming down
I’m not spamming
Sanctum they are safe
✔️✅
But Lee
Fire and Derek
I really did take out Legion
That wand
Landed right in front of
Nataraja
Didn’t knock it over…
But fire
The animals
The eyes
Not Shivas fault sure just
flowering people…
I claimed her right when I spotted her…
And yet my first look
Here she is…
She is kinder than I
I saw something
Others did not….
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Oh fing Phil
Sorry all
That ✅☘️ Man
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YcY3FH208l8&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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Phil’s an asshole
He doesn’t deserve the rain
I saw his story
So did Green Man
Rain here but
flowering Phil…
🔥.
He ain’t Irish lol
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I did give Dana the song
He’s messaging my son now
12 years
I tried
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TU3aUid1UnM&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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Phil and Dana
Countless chances
Countless
Dumbos
Phil sing it and
Go check his story 🎤
flowering dumber
Chance should = Change but
They get comfortable….
Michael flowering they dumb
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pEEMi2j6lYE&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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The Green Man
Someone asked Rudolf Steiner, on a train, a significant question (paraphrased):
“Speaking on behalf of so much of awakened humanity: I know what I should be doing, how I should live, but I just can’t reach and sustain it in practice. What is wrong?”
Steiner thought for some time, in silence, then replied that the problem lay in the food people eat. He believed that there were extra energetic elements to our food, which modern agricultural practices have caused to become depleted. And that these elements were essential for the energy to feed the spirit, beyond the body. This led to his biodynamic agricultural practices and movement, but is also why so many, and those who can afford it, opt for organic produce and especially eschew commercially processed food.
Steiner was responding to a problem he perceived in his time, which is now around a hundred years ago. This problem, that he identified, has not departed – in fact it has become so severe that the very living surface of our planet is threatened, and the health industry of all nations is in state of freefall in its ability to not only repair bodies, but cannot possibly meet the escalation in mental illness. Certainly, the food industry is in crisis, and the burgeoning adoption of Regenerative Agriculture is hyper-alive to the desperate situation, offering exceptional practices to remedy.
But they are still too few and too late, to forestall the explosion in mental health demands that are now flooding across into political spheres, threatening the fabric of our global and national governance. The crisis in mental illness presented in social media and obsession with internet, fuelling a depraved fixation upon celebrities as an infused aberration of personal identity, is reaching global panic threshold. Homosapiens are tipping into collective psychopathy.
But let’s revert to this question of Steiner. It was not about the mass of humanity, but the hurdle that serious aspirants to spiritual growth face when they have learnt all the ideas, concepts, words and thrown themselves into that aspiration – they have glimpsed the horizon-point of their deepest yearning, and yet, find it impossible to actualise that vision.
My insight, at this late phase of my life, is different to Steiner’s. His prescription was accurate for his time, but not now. If any aspirant is still eating commercially processed foods as their primary diet, they are not ‘serious’ – by now, we all know that home cooking with fresh food is essential for health of body and mind. And aspirant that has not discovered the joy and craft of cooking is a fool. No, something entirely different has crept into the human condition which wasn’t especially prevalent a hundred years ago.
Humanity has become city dwellers, and lost their intimate relationship with the natural world. Unfortunately, I took this for granted in the past, and wrongly assumed spiritual aspirants would instinctively know that the ancient lore – ‘go into the wilderness alone’ – was absolutely the key prerequisite to a successful path. Wrongly, I say, because I belatedly realised that not only was this injunction not understood, but worse, not practised by many who pretended to spirituality.
Were someone to come to me today with that same question posed to Steiner so long ago, I would immediately say, leave the city and move to the edge of the natural world. Somewhere where your days and nights were infused with the presence of untamed nature. Not completely in wilderness – that has its own dangers – but on the edge, such that life is balanced between the constructs of humanity and natural wilderness.
So, the person would say, “That is impractical. I need to work and be near my family. Is it OK if I just walk regularly in the park and along the river front?” “No!” I’d respond. And there are many reasons why not. The first, is that it means you are not committed to the path of personal realisation.
The second, is that you do not understand the energetic quality of nature. Of course, a garden, a park, a tree along the roadway, are all beautiful and critical for our relationship with nature. But all these are there for human purposes, and as such they are like pets – tamed creatures for human desires. They lack a special etheric light which shimmers off the surface of all free beings which live for their own purposes – not slaves of another’s design.
There is no alternative option. If you have not lived sufficiently on the edge of wilderness, in order to feel the presence of free nature in your bones, then you quite simply lack the infusion of alien energy into your being, which alone supplies that extra boost we all need to launch ourselves out of instinctive life.
Those who learn from all the books and are touched by the true gurus and shamans of your time, and yet have not been able to relocate their living to also be touched by the alien energy of free nature, fall into a special trap. They believe themselves to be wise and possessors of hidden knowledge, and yet they are trapped between worlds – they know too much to return to the common fold, but lack the fire-power to reach that new, unfathomable world of spiritual light.
Unavoidably, instead of facing their condition squarely, truthfully, acknowledging failure, which would be too humiliating to look in the eye, they turn their ‘face’ back to the common world. And with the powers acquired from their aborted journey, which did at least yield some supra-sensible capacities, they revert to playing magician for the attention-paying spiritual dilettantes, who seek entertainment with incense. These ‘magicians’ are a sad and desperate lot, who live out their lives as circus curiosities.
Alas, there is no hope for them in this or the next world, unless in the depths of their subconscious despair, they rally one final burst of courage – face their calamity fully and strike out for freedom with every fibre of their being. They MUST leave their place of abode, and seek a new life closer to nature. Alas, there is no other way – the forces aligned against them are so vast and powerful, nothing short of an outrageous, reckless thrust into the unknown will jolt their entrapment and maybe, just maybe, cleave the slimmest of cracks through which their spirit can escape.
https://michaelmaher.bandcamp.com/track/04-the-will-to-survive
Finally read your words on a screen
Food we eat
How about what you feed the mind
How you perceive
Those eyes
That sly green man
So hidden
He slick…
Not saying I always knew
But that fog just….
Hard to explain….
I respect folks don’t
Oooooo
It on….
I don’t remote view minds.
I just
It playing
And yet those witnesses
This one
Another member of Genesis
Doing his best.
Those flying monkeys tho
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kU8OJAOMbPg&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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Sun
Moon
Truth
Veil?
flowering RIPPED
See those hands?
Peter
St Peter
He Hangman too
Upside down
Oh it on but should I
But it on
Don Juan
He sees something
You flowerers passed
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lrKZNqIR2U0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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☘️✅🎶🦚🌈🎤
Freak it out if this atmosphere
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjRi-S7J70Y&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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flower Steiner…
Let’s Shift
Out of this Shit…
WTF?
He said this
Ok GM
Done!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rbQgaHZOFZ0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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Take ‘em out
Shallow yet
You LIVE!
Done! ✅🍀🌈😂🔥🎶🦚✅
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Lol
I told ya
Only for the kids
Shallow done!
It’s on! ❤️🍀🎶🦚🌈🔥
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wBl2QGAIx1s&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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F I know.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=saEpkcVi1d4&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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Syd
Didn’t need them
It’s cool
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lKJ8n8xYd-Q&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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Some old stuff relevant tho….
I’m ready for the ignorance to stop
And the light to crack in
Shift what can be done….
flower those smoke and mirrors.
Smoky mirrors…..
I’m so……
3-13 Uranus discovered by accident
Pluto demoted
Neptune
Who cares…
Sun🐝🌹🎤☀️⏰
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55
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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66 triangle
https://youtube.com/watch?v=AwPV3qJegEE&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
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flower Steiner…
Let’s Shift
Out of this Shit…
WTF?
He said this
Ok GM
Done!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rbQgaHZOFZ0&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE
Y’all thought Shiva the Destroyer was gonna save you
Closest I get to a gopher
He been posting forever.
Lol
K I think we good I just wanted to add my stuff…
I know Michael
I won’t get a thank you
For shifting us away from a dystopia Mars deal
It’s all good….
My coffee cup says
“Things Will Work Out.”
Green Cup.
Baby Krishna arrived today too…
And tomorrow
23 and Me test? Call back two call backs for jobs
And nails? Green of course…
👸🏻👑🍀
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Caddy shack…
Didn’t see THAT coming!
Trump cheats at golf oh yeah
So we needed a gopher….
flowering perfect!
The rest…
Nothing changing that gophers world appears like! ☘️🍀🌏☀️🕶🌞🌤🌅🌦⛅️🌥🌻😎
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Modern statistics are, unfortunately, rather pessimistic:
Today, the average child in the US spends 4-7 minutes outdoors and 7 hours indoors in front of the TV or computer every day.
In Finland, 9th graders spend 50-75 hours a week on their smartphones.
The estrangement from nature is accelerating.
I’m noticing a very different trend. I’m a hairstylist … the majority of the time if I don’t talk to my client they immediately get out the cell phone. CERTAINLY if I walk away the phone comes out.
However … a couple years ago I started to notice a shift in people in their early 20s (so now let’s say folks from 25 to younger). They never get the phone out. In fact they try very hard to engage with me and will not let me push their advances for conversation away. This is so counter to what everyone expects culturally I started polling them all on this behavior. Consistently the answer has been “the phone makes me feel bad. I really want connection”. Or they see the phone as a tool … it’s always been around … it’s not that novel … why the heck would they pay attention to that when a real live new human being to interact with is around.
These kids seem hungry for connection.
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Maybe you are the reason they stay away from their phones. Your personality and energy. :)
Fascinating Facts About Americans and Smartphones
Want to know more as to how much time the average American spends on their phone? Check out these amazing stats below:
- Most mobile phone users check their phones up to 63 times daily.
- Americans spend an average screen time of 5.4 hours on their mobile phones daily.
- There will be over 311.53 million smartphone users in America by 2025.
- Social media is responsible for 2 hours and 24 minutes of global internet time spent online by an average user daily.
- 13% of millennials spend over 12 hours on their phones daily.
- Baby Boomers spend 5 hours using their phones.
- Millennials spend 48 minutes texting every day.
https://techjury.net/blog/how-much-time-does-the-average-american-spend-on-their-phone/#gref
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Does that include all the things phones have replaced? I know a lot of ppl use them in the place of a computer or they have streaming services and watch just on their phones? How does that compare to the early 2000s tv usage or even the amount of time people spent streaming Netflix on their phones during the pandemic? Statistics are good when put into context.
Also, what is the source of those statistics?
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Does that include all the things phones have replaced? I know a lot of ppl use them in the place of a computer or they have streaming services and watch just on their phones? How does that compare to the early 2000s tv usage or even the amount of time people spent streaming Netflix on their phones during the pandemic? Statistics are good when put into context.
Also, what is the source of those statistics?
This conversation about children and smartphones started with my statement that young people do a lot of things in cyberspace and don't go outdoors or in the woods enough. There are a lot of statistics on the subject and if you are interested it is easy to find, so I can look it up.
The main point of this discussion is the relationship between humans and wild nature.
This can be characterised, among other things, by the level of urbanisation of countries.
For example, in Sweden, the urbanisation rate is close to 90% and 85% of the country's population live on less than 2% of the national territory.
In the US, 83% of the population are city dwellers.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
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This popped up and I looked at this post again. I remember the Green Man showing up for me in 2023 it was nuts!
I have strongly considered, not necessarily the wilderness, but getting away to a rural area, live in a cabin somewhere in peace. But with having kids, and grandkids, I would miss out on all of that and hate life. I may have the benefit of detaching from the shit of the daily world, and I sometimes even think "save yourself!" But I just can't do that right now. The kids tie me down. Not in a bad way but I know my heart is with the family.
I worked way too hard to keep us together. They are my world.
It would be nice if you could come up with a post for us "urban shamans" who do not have the luxury of leaving in such a way, what they can do. Like, and this is not a criticism, but you or Steiner who say to the person "can't I walk the park" and say that's not good enough. I step back and say "there has to be a middle road here, for the many who do desire the path, but it's not feasible to walk totally away from the daily world."
I do think there is ways to unplug from The Matrix, even if they have to function in and out of it on occasion. There has to be a way.
I mean if I walk a park, vs walk the wilderness, isn't it the same earth?
Which I know, it's different with the human footprints all over it. It can be different but there are ways.
Now I notice something which has been coming in reads a lot. I am noticing in them, a call for folks to travel, and get away. I do get this, for folks to do. So I see the value in this.
Now, with all going on, I suspect communities are going to form, grow their own, get down to nature. I think we shall see this over the years, due to all this weird oligarchy that is surfacing. Folks looking for ways to survive beyond this.
Now what you said on food, that is one thing folks CAN take charge of. I have done this over last couple of years. I have only a handful of processed food in boxes in the house I rarely have. I do have cans, but of things with few ingredients other than soup or veggies. diced tomatoes. And tons of produce in the fridge. Getting away from "man's food" to "Gods food" is the way I designate it, is critical. I feel a huge difference energetically, cause I changed all of this. Once you stepped into eating naturally as much as possible, you have little to no desire to go back.
But I do think that folks should seek out areas where they can go. Even if to get away on the weekends at least. I think per the mental health epidemic that the daily world is causing, they need a place to return to sanity. But this can be hard to do when the human footprint has touched so many areas.