The question of the day is "WHY". That seems to be it. Why should I publish another herb book? People don't really want one. They want to go to the drug store and look through all the bottles until one tells them that this will help arthritis or knee pain. They don't care if it isn't going to fix the problem; they just want the problem elevated for the time being. Maybe they will go a step further and go to a health food store and buy a bottle that says arthritis relief thinking that it is an herbal combination when in fact it is herbs combined with chemicals.
Why? Why would I write a book telling them about different plants when they can ask their neighbor what worked for them? People do not want healing. For most of them they don't think that it is possible to heal anything unless the medical profession gets involved in killing the bacteria, virus, fungus or parasite with chemicals.
No one wants to take the time to find out either what plants would be helpful or how to do this.
Last week I heard about a lady who is having a hip replacement next month. So for a month she is going to take pain killers and then after her surgery she will be cured. She does not know that once that body has been invaded, the discomfort will be with her for the rest of her life. If she would read my article on Slippery Elm, a few things might change. One; it might be possible to help the body rebuild the area the way it was originally and two: she has no business walking around on a bad hip or one that is bad enough to warrant replacement. Does she care? NO!
My sister did this same thing. She told me that the Doctor's would fix her. After the doctors gave up on her, then she thought that she would try herbs? Too little, too late! She died in 2005.
People are so busy that they can't take the time to find out things for themselves. Let someone else do it.
When was the last time you allowed the world in? Well, I had better clarify that. We have so much "noise" around us all the time that we couldn't hear a plant if it was screaming at us and they do! When was the last time that you sat on the grass and just listened to the world around you? What did you hear? (I'm sorry, I forgot that you can sit on your lawn because of all the chemicals that you have sprayed on it)
Have you ever heard a plant cry? Have you ever heard a tree sigh? Most of us are too busy or our world is too loud. We wouldn't even need herb books if we could walk up to plants and listen to what they could do for us. They might not know what chemicals they contain, just as we don't know what our blood pressure reading is at any one time but they know if they can help and will be more than willing to assist us.
I believe that there was a time when God's creation told people what they could do. The books say that we learned about herbs from watching animals and seeing what they ate or used. That isn't my belief. There was a time when most people could commune with nature. Now very few do.
My son told me that I should write a book about what plants were edible, sort of a survival book because most people don't know what they can eat and what they can't. Would that do any good? Do most people know a Purslane from a Plantain in their yards? So Survival will depend on finding a way to talk to the plants.
How do we go about doing that? The plant world has given up on us for the most part. "People just want to cut, mow or kills us with sprays. Even their domesticated animals don't hear us anymore." I have a lot of friends who tell me that they can't have a house plant or it dies.
What kind of energy is coming from a person like that? I often wonder if they kill fish and kittens too.
I have seen people who get a kitten and then due to the anger in the human, the kitten grows up to be a really angry cat. I even took care of a cat like that. He hated everyone. I took him in for a year while his owner was relocating. I was the only person that he wouldn't tear apart. He hated everyone but tolerated me. I felt so sorry for that little being.
How about the dogs that are treated badly and then have to be "put down" because they have become "bad dogs." Just writing about this hurts me so much. These animals are not bad, they just take on the personality of their owners. I have read where this is helpful for the humans that own them or the humans would be sicker than anything if their animals didn't dissipate some of that anger. What a job those little beings took on to help humans.
So these people will never be able to communicate with the subtle energy of a plant or plants.
It is the plant angels that are best at interfacing with humans. They are Devas or Beings of Light. We all have angels around us and so do plants. By relaxing around plants and trying to fit into their world, Devas will assist you with information that might be helpful. Most people call this meditating but that is an eastern concept that we have adopted. When we relax and allow our brains to resonate on a different level than our day to day pace, we have moved into the area that subtle beings are able to communicate with us.
At first you might find that they are surprised to find that you even want too. Most humans don't want to be bothered. Their next thing is to play games with you. They like to have fun but no matter what is happening, they do want to help.
I think sometimes that this planet will shift to the point where only the people who get back to listening to it will survive. Does that mean just me? NO, there are a lot of people who are capable of listening but for some reason they didn't like all the distractions of the world so they run around with ear plugs in, listening to some music that they want to hear. My feeling is that a lot of young people can do this. This is my hope for the world.
We have so much input these days. Would it be bad if we ran out of petroleum? If our machines couldn't work and we had to go back to the beginning? Most of us would say, "Yes, it would be bad? " We like it this way with cars and trucks, trains and planes, lawnmowers, and skill saws and all the other machines that make racket. I live in a rather quiet neighborhood and it is still noisy with human noises.
The best time to talk to the Devas is after dark, (when humans have gone in to their dwellings) and in the wintertime (When repair work can't be done and lawns can't be mowed.)
I love snow because the Devas have tucked in most of the plants for the "long winter's night" and are available to talk. What have I learned from them? They want to co-create with humans. They want to help us create what we want. If we don't have any ideas, they will fill in with other things that we might call "weeds". If you’re an herbalist, you know that there aren't such things as weeds, only plants that are in the wrong place. As I have mentioned in other places, my best friends are on the Ortho list at Sears to be killed with this or that Ortho product.
Will people ever learn how to do this? Does anyone really want to? So that brings me back to my original question, Why write an herbal book?
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Secrets
Yesterday I bumped into a wonderful and exciting word, Secrets. What is a secret? It is something that we keep hidden from the light of day for a reason.
I just looked up the word Secret in the dictionary and there are more definitions of it than letters in the word. It talked about everything from mystery to national security.
All of that sounded interesting but on a personal level, a secret is just something that you would rather others not know about.
When we were little everything that was around us was a mystery so when we learned about it, it seemed natural to share this with everyone else who might like to know about this mystery. Maybe they did and maybe they didn't want to know, perhaps they already knew but sharing the mysterious information was great.
Little at a time we found that some of the things that we learned about could and did hurt other people when revealed. So we learned to keep some of these mysterious things to ourselves.
We parked them in a place called the "hidden secret cave" which is located in the cortex of our brain. This can only be accessed by a password. Some of us put this all under the password of Guilt. Guilt isn't the only password to this area. A lot of people have it under the password of Prejudice. (Think of this in terms of Pre-judging.)
When a secret starts to build and expands, it naturally wants to get out of the cave. What do we do then? Most of us share this with a close friend, someone who will keep the secret with us so we don't have to carry such a big load. Once the door of the secret cave has been opened on a specific secret, it can never be shut again. There is someone out there that knows our secret. Does that make it "not" a secret any longer?
Not really but the side effect is that the person this was shared with now knows what a terrible person we are. The Secret doesn't make us terrible people but over years we have added to it until we are sure that if people knew about it, they wouldn't think well of us. The fact is that most people are so wrapped up in their own world that what is going on in other people's world, isn't that important.
There is an exception to what I have just said and that is when the person needs to feel that they are a lot better than you are. When this type of person gets information that would make you look smaller or terrible, they need to tell the world. I have run into people who have such small minds that they have no place to keep a secret, theirs or yours. The In and the Out door is always open.
As you can see, telling someone your secret can be very dangerous.
Let's go back to why we keep secrets again, basically so that we don't hurt ourselves or others. Yet to keep the secret seems to be hurting us; it is a conundrum that we don't want to face. So what do we do with all of this pain that keeps imposing itself on us without our consent?
What I have learned about this is to give it to a stranger. The guy on the bus, a counselor or any other stranger that you will never encounter again. (And probably never wants to hear from you again either.) Once the stranger has it, I let go of it. It no longer has a residence in my brain. Yes, I can think about it from time to time but it does not live inside of this body anywhere.
I am getting ahead of myself. First one needs to handle any problems that the secret entails. If this means quitting a job because I have to lie to make quota, so be it. If it means eliminating a relationship because I no longer wish to pretend to enjoy that person's company every Wednesday afternoon, so be it. If it means having an all-out talk with someone to clear the air, so be it. But then I am a Scorpion and we like to clear the air at all costs. (Sometimes it costs a great deal but again, so be it.)
Whatever the secret is, only the person keeping it feels like a bad person. The Secret is an experience that has been lived through or is being lived through. It has no power to hurt that person. The only power a secret has is hurting others or to make someone feel like they are terrible in the eyes of others.
Most of us do not want to hurt anyone so we take it upon ourselves to be hurt instead. The longer the secret festers, the more hurtful it becomes. Sometimes one has to cauterize a wound to make it better and by confronting the problem that created this secret, we do just that. Telling a friend the secret does not handle the problem that created this secret.
Again, one must test the water and find someone with whom to share our secrets. I have found that some people are most trust worthy and others are not. Choose wisely.
I just looked up the word Secret in the dictionary and there are more definitions of it than letters in the word. It talked about everything from mystery to national security.
All of that sounded interesting but on a personal level, a secret is just something that you would rather others not know about.
When we were little everything that was around us was a mystery so when we learned about it, it seemed natural to share this with everyone else who might like to know about this mystery. Maybe they did and maybe they didn't want to know, perhaps they already knew but sharing the mysterious information was great.
Little at a time we found that some of the things that we learned about could and did hurt other people when revealed. So we learned to keep some of these mysterious things to ourselves.
We parked them in a place called the "hidden secret cave" which is located in the cortex of our brain. This can only be accessed by a password. Some of us put this all under the password of Guilt. Guilt isn't the only password to this area. A lot of people have it under the password of Prejudice. (Think of this in terms of Pre-judging.)
When a secret starts to build and expands, it naturally wants to get out of the cave. What do we do then? Most of us share this with a close friend, someone who will keep the secret with us so we don't have to carry such a big load. Once the door of the secret cave has been opened on a specific secret, it can never be shut again. There is someone out there that knows our secret. Does that make it "not" a secret any longer?
Not really but the side effect is that the person this was shared with now knows what a terrible person we are. The Secret doesn't make us terrible people but over years we have added to it until we are sure that if people knew about it, they wouldn't think well of us. The fact is that most people are so wrapped up in their own world that what is going on in other people's world, isn't that important.
There is an exception to what I have just said and that is when the person needs to feel that they are a lot better than you are. When this type of person gets information that would make you look smaller or terrible, they need to tell the world. I have run into people who have such small minds that they have no place to keep a secret, theirs or yours. The In and the Out door is always open.
As you can see, telling someone your secret can be very dangerous.
Let's go back to why we keep secrets again, basically so that we don't hurt ourselves or others. Yet to keep the secret seems to be hurting us; it is a conundrum that we don't want to face. So what do we do with all of this pain that keeps imposing itself on us without our consent?
What I have learned about this is to give it to a stranger. The guy on the bus, a counselor or any other stranger that you will never encounter again. (And probably never wants to hear from you again either.) Once the stranger has it, I let go of it. It no longer has a residence in my brain. Yes, I can think about it from time to time but it does not live inside of this body anywhere.
I am getting ahead of myself. First one needs to handle any problems that the secret entails. If this means quitting a job because I have to lie to make quota, so be it. If it means eliminating a relationship because I no longer wish to pretend to enjoy that person's company every Wednesday afternoon, so be it. If it means having an all-out talk with someone to clear the air, so be it. But then I am a Scorpion and we like to clear the air at all costs. (Sometimes it costs a great deal but again, so be it.)
Whatever the secret is, only the person keeping it feels like a bad person. The Secret is an experience that has been lived through or is being lived through. It has no power to hurt that person. The only power a secret has is hurting others or to make someone feel like they are terrible in the eyes of others.
Most of us do not want to hurt anyone so we take it upon ourselves to be hurt instead. The longer the secret festers, the more hurtful it becomes. Sometimes one has to cauterize a wound to make it better and by confronting the problem that created this secret, we do just that. Telling a friend the secret does not handle the problem that created this secret.
Again, one must test the water and find someone with whom to share our secrets. I have found that some people are most trust worthy and others are not. Choose wisely.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
We are all one
Isn't it interesting when all the things that you believe start to show their faces? Lately I have been finding this happening.
I enjoy watching the WORLD channel on TV and a few days ago they were talking about string theory. This is something that scientist have been working on for a while. The premise is that mass particles and waves are inter-changable. Let's see if I can put this a little simpler. According to what I understand, matter can be made up of particles and sometimes these particles turn into waves or vice versa.
While watching my favorite program, this lecturer was talking about turning gasses into liquid etc. I find that fascinating but then he mentioned the particle/wave idea and I sat up quickly. He went on to talk about the Einstein Bose Condensate. This sounded interesting, something new for my mind to wrap around. (Learning is my erotic zone.) So what was this new idea? It was the fact that matter can be made up of particles and/or waves and sometimes when the waves have been altered a bit by extreme cold, they become each other.(He went into Absolute Zero, another interesting concept but this will wait until later.) As one can see, I don't have the Einstein Bose Condensate theory down but I do understand this last part, they become each other.
They become each other is the center of my life. It is a concept that I have been embracing for a very long time. When I would have weekly talks with the Devas of Oakwell, they would continue to tell me that "We are one." That could have meant that they are all joined together but I really think that they were trying to tell me that all beings, and now all matter is one.
That sure would fit with my concept of the universe.
I read a book called TURNING HOME by Paul F. Eno and in it he talked about all sorts of things but what hit me from that book was a Biblical translation that he quoted. I have never really felt that the Bible was translated the way it was written and he confirmed this. The quote that he used was Matthew 22:39. In the Bible it says, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Isn't that a beautiful thing to think about? But Paul Eno says that the original Greek that this comes from is, "agapesis ton plaision sou os seauton." He even underlines the "os" in this. He said that the real translation is: "Love your neighbor because he is yourself." And they become each other.
When you hurt, I hurt. When you are happy, I am happy. We are all one.
That really doesn't seem to fit into our world, does it? I am different from you. I am a certain political party member. I am a certain religious member. I am a certain race. I am……. But what am I really. I am you!
Will we ever really understand that concept? What would happen if we did? Would we stop fighting? Do we need the separation to be ourselves? Are we afraid of losing our identity?
Yesterday a lady stopped by to chat. She was telling me about a long time friend of hers who just decided that they were no longer friends. The lady mentioned that maybe it was a good thing as they didn't have much in common anymore. They do, they have life in common but it isn't always enough.
Why do people come and go in our lives? God created us in his image to experience life on this planet. Does that mean that we are each different? No, it means that we are all in our own experience of this life. We
collect experiences and they shape what we think and how we feel about everything. Does that make us different? To the degree that each experience impinges on our soul, that would be a "yes".
I don't really know anyone who is not experiencing major trauma in some manner at this time. We are all being forced to learn. The climate in the world is about change, in all aspects and each of us is being forced to learn so that we can do this.
Many years ago, when I was finding myself being super sensitive to those around me, I would get a pain in some part of my body. It might be a headache or a pain in my knee. I found that by looking around me at the people who were near me, then going inside my head and asking "Is it yours?" while looking at one person, it would go away. If not I would continue my search. To test this out I would go up to that person and ask if they had a headache. They might say something like, "Does it show?" I would make up something to answer this like, "Your eyes looked dark. I just thought you might have a headache." (I don't get headaches) How about the knee problem? "You seem to be favoring that leg." I took on the physical problems of those around me. We are all one.
I had to work very hard to shield myself from the problems of others. We have been taught to shield ourselves from each other until we think…..Yes, we only think we are separate beings on this planet.
We are all one! Find yourself in those around you. We are part of the life force on this planet, we are all one!
I enjoy watching the WORLD channel on TV and a few days ago they were talking about string theory. This is something that scientist have been working on for a while. The premise is that mass particles and waves are inter-changable. Let's see if I can put this a little simpler. According to what I understand, matter can be made up of particles and sometimes these particles turn into waves or vice versa.
While watching my favorite program, this lecturer was talking about turning gasses into liquid etc. I find that fascinating but then he mentioned the particle/wave idea and I sat up quickly. He went on to talk about the Einstein Bose Condensate. This sounded interesting, something new for my mind to wrap around. (Learning is my erotic zone.) So what was this new idea? It was the fact that matter can be made up of particles and/or waves and sometimes when the waves have been altered a bit by extreme cold, they become each other.(He went into Absolute Zero, another interesting concept but this will wait until later.) As one can see, I don't have the Einstein Bose Condensate theory down but I do understand this last part, they become each other.
They become each other is the center of my life. It is a concept that I have been embracing for a very long time. When I would have weekly talks with the Devas of Oakwell, they would continue to tell me that "We are one." That could have meant that they are all joined together but I really think that they were trying to tell me that all beings, and now all matter is one.
That sure would fit with my concept of the universe.
I read a book called TURNING HOME by Paul F. Eno and in it he talked about all sorts of things but what hit me from that book was a Biblical translation that he quoted. I have never really felt that the Bible was translated the way it was written and he confirmed this. The quote that he used was Matthew 22:39. In the Bible it says, "Love your neighbor as yourself." Isn't that a beautiful thing to think about? But Paul Eno says that the original Greek that this comes from is, "agapesis ton plaision sou os seauton." He even underlines the "os" in this. He said that the real translation is: "Love your neighbor because he is yourself." And they become each other.
When you hurt, I hurt. When you are happy, I am happy. We are all one.
That really doesn't seem to fit into our world, does it? I am different from you. I am a certain political party member. I am a certain religious member. I am a certain race. I am……. But what am I really. I am you!
Will we ever really understand that concept? What would happen if we did? Would we stop fighting? Do we need the separation to be ourselves? Are we afraid of losing our identity?
Yesterday a lady stopped by to chat. She was telling me about a long time friend of hers who just decided that they were no longer friends. The lady mentioned that maybe it was a good thing as they didn't have much in common anymore. They do, they have life in common but it isn't always enough.
Why do people come and go in our lives? God created us in his image to experience life on this planet. Does that mean that we are each different? No, it means that we are all in our own experience of this life. We
collect experiences and they shape what we think and how we feel about everything. Does that make us different? To the degree that each experience impinges on our soul, that would be a "yes".
I don't really know anyone who is not experiencing major trauma in some manner at this time. We are all being forced to learn. The climate in the world is about change, in all aspects and each of us is being forced to learn so that we can do this.
Many years ago, when I was finding myself being super sensitive to those around me, I would get a pain in some part of my body. It might be a headache or a pain in my knee. I found that by looking around me at the people who were near me, then going inside my head and asking "Is it yours?" while looking at one person, it would go away. If not I would continue my search. To test this out I would go up to that person and ask if they had a headache. They might say something like, "Does it show?" I would make up something to answer this like, "Your eyes looked dark. I just thought you might have a headache." (I don't get headaches) How about the knee problem? "You seem to be favoring that leg." I took on the physical problems of those around me. We are all one.
I had to work very hard to shield myself from the problems of others. We have been taught to shield ourselves from each other until we think…..Yes, we only think we are separate beings on this planet.
We are all one! Find yourself in those around you. We are part of the life force on this planet, we are all one!
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