[Terrapreta] NZ leading the way

[lou gold]

Hi Sean,

Hope you don't get the idea that I'm picking on you, which is not so. I find
that your remarks often give me an opportunity to express things that are
stirring in me as well. I am grateful to you.

You say,

*I don't think I care about the Earth so much as the Earth's people,
especially the other people that need to survive after I'm gone.

*While I understand this view. I would personally like to move away from any
notions that the Earth and people are somehow separate. I believe this is an
error -- one embraced equally by both industrialists and environmentalists.
Separation is the 'sin' of our Age and it has caused much mischief.

The main and deeply profound prayer of the Lakota (Sioux) people of your
region says *Mitake Oyascin *which means "All My Relations." Actually,
healing from the painful consequences of separation -- from self, from
other, from earth, from heaven -- lies at the heart of all the great
spiritual traditions.

Sometimes I just picture all that pottery in Terra Preta and imagine a
reconnection of people and earth in a living soil. What a beautiful vision!

hugs,   lou



On Dec 17, 2007 12:20 PM, Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com> wrote:

>  Hi Michael,
>
> Yes, I have heard something about the "Hug-the-Earth" Christian
> revivalists.  I am just a Catholic kid, with no grand political + religious
> scheme.  It just struck me that the policy we now use to mine fossil fuels
> for energy consumption is not a very nice thing to be doing to poor people
> or our children.  I don't think I care about the Earth so much as the
> Earth's people, especially the other people that need to survive after I'm
> gone.
>
> Cool permaculture video.  Is there somewhere in biblical prophecy ...
> "they shall make the deserts bloom" ... ?  Has this Geoff Lawton guy ever
> heard of Terra Preta?
>
> Regards,
>
> SKB
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> *From:* Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
> *To:* Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com> ; Terrapreta<terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, December 17, 2007 1:02 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Terrapreta] NZ leading the way
>
>
>
> On 17/12/2007, Sean K. Barry <sean.barry at juno.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  It seems pretty much like Un-Christian behavior, really, to continue to
> > do so, don't you think?
> >
>
>
>
>  It is interesting that fundamentalist, right wing Christianity is
> starting to get a Care-for-the-Earth  polemic in the USA these days
>
> Michael the Archangel
>
> "You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .
> Most people don't know that"
> FROM
> http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf
>
>
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