Thread: Dannon's random writings, posts, ideas, and thoughts on life.

Originally Posted by juroara

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I started making a list of all the things I want to buy to start my garden. But then I had this insane crazy really weird thought. Why do I have to sow the seed? Doesn't nature know how to grow itself? Couldn't I let one generation of carrots, flower, pollinate, let their seeds drop to the floor, and sit back. Let nature do what it knows how to do......grow? Lol...am I that lazy? It just felt like the more I read gardening books the more it felt like we don't trust nature to do what it does best.

Wild just started to sound better. I go to the super market, and nothing inspires me . But when I see fruit growing on a tree, I think YUMMY. Its even crazier when I realize, the fruit doesn't look anywhere near as perfect as the fruit in the store. It would be nice to eat wild food. To know where food is coming from. And to rival this idea that some how, nature can't provide for us.

I know! Sit back, paint a picture of your garden as it grows! Let the worms plow the fields! Consider the lilies in the fields, or the birds. They don't worry about tomorrow. Nature provides. Up in the arctic the Inuit live in houses made of snow and reindeer hides. They eat raw seal blubber. Nature provides for them, surely she provides for us. It is amazing how much food on this planet is consumed everyday! And how much goes to waste everyday! It is amazing to think of how many cans of tuna fish are in all the convenience stores around the world. Can they all really be tuna?

If we eat local, and know where I food comes from, we will appreciate it more. I try not to waste any food at all. I eat the tops of carrots. I eat the leaves of broccoli. I have a compost pile but I have a groundhog who lives under my porch who comes out and eats all my scraps before it turns to compost. But he is cute, just a huge ground squirrel. I don't mind him.

I am not good at finding enough food in the wild to live off. When I was a camper I definitely ate a lot of wild food: cat-tail roots, miner's lettuce, dandelion greens and dandelion fritters, nettles, cleavers, acorns, almonds, filberts, apples, asian pears, persimmons, sunchokes, thistles, walnuts. But I would've had to make it a full-time occupation in order to live off the land. I still bought rice and beans and tea.

But it could be done, especially if you were part of a community of hunter gatherers.

Some say that agriculture was where humans went wrong. That is when our psyche was split. I am not too familiar with the Biblical story of Agriculture, it has to do with Cain and Abel, no? Are they sons of Adam and Eve? If so, Agriculture was when we were expelled from the Garden of Eden (Eatin'). It definitely took knowledge to clear land and grow crops and save seeds.

But agriculture also gave us the freedom and time on our hands to ponder our place in this existence, and to express our deeper feelings with art, music, and dance. It gave us time to study the stars, to study numbers and mathematics, to develop culture.

Well, Juroara, can I be in your hunter/gatherer tribe? Or maybe just gatherer?

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Well, Juroara, can I be in your hunter/gatherer tribe? Or maybe just gatherer?

LOL! Okay! Not that I know anything about living off the land. But I'll get there one day.

I just came from a book reading and signing by Robert Moss. He is an old white-haired wizard kind of guy. It was very inspiring, he shared some very good insights only an elder can give. He spoke of how as dreamers we pay attention to our dreams during the night and coincidences during the day. Coincidences guide us. Let me quote him:

Navigating by synchronicity

"Do you pay attention to coincidence? By monitoring the play of coincidence and the symbolic resonance of incidents in everyday life, we can tap into the deeper logic of events, receive extraordinary counsel, and have wonderful fun. Navigating by synchronicity is the dreamer's way of operating in waking life. We can get guidance on our life issues by putting our questions to the world and opportunities that come through chance encounters and unexpected occurrences. We can learn to live more richly and deeply by becoming open to the unexpected and playing with the Trickster - who is our devil when we insist on following old road maps, but our friend when we are ready to improvise and change. This is a path of natural magic, and when we follow it we'll find that we move beyond self-limiting beliefs into a world filled with juice and possibility.

Our dreams tell us what our soul wants, not what we think we want. Our soul goes ahead and scouts out the terrain. This was very important to 'primitive' cultures who lived on the edge of survival who depended on having some dreamers around to guide the whole community for the common good and the common wealth."

I had to do plenty of reality checks during the event since one of my dreamsigns is being in a school for dreaming or dream discussion with a teacher.

I am going to a workshop lead by him tomorrow.

Rebirth of Pan in Rock & Roll

Since JHVH exiled Adam and Eve from the garden and blamed it on Eve and the Serpent and identified the forces of nature infernal and evil, humanity has lost touch with its deepest connections to life and death. The church has waged war on nature and the worship of divine forces in nature. After all the witch trials and inquisitions Pan was thought dead. News of Pan's death came to one Thamus, a sailor on his way to Italy by way of the island of Paxi. A divine voice hailed him across the salt water, "Thamus, are you there? When you reach Palodes, take care to proclaim that the great god Pan is dead." Which Thamus did, and the news was greeted from shore with groans and laments. But Pan did not die, but rather imprisoned in the underworld of our subconscious, forced to take on all the projections which we fear in ourselves. Thus, humanity, cut-off from the life-blood of Nature and the numinous quality of nature magic, lives now in a material world with only material forces. We don't listen to the voice of the goddess Intuition which whispers to us from our hearts and our right-brains.

Now Pan is the devil, falsely accused of the injustice man inflicts on each other out of ignorance of our oneness with each other and with Nature. But Pan is more powerful than the church, Pan is more powerful than any man-made doctrines. Pan bubbled up from the depths of our psyches and inspired Rock & Roll. Now, he gains acceptance as he throws off all the chains and projections imposed on him by us.

Before you read any further, watch this video: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

Can you see the spirit of Pan in this performance where Mick Jagger jumps around like a Satyr to the voodoo beat at a Dionysian festival urging us to have sympathy for the Devil? Can you see how the creed of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll is a throwback to our roots as Nature worshipping Pagans? Mick Jagger screams "Tell me Baby,what's my name? You're to blame!"

If only our culture could relearn how to recognize entities in abstraction.

I chose not to go to the workshop tonight that Robert Moss was teaching,
but rather hang out with my friends who I haven't seen in a while.
I feel like I made a good choice.
Even though Robert Moss reminds me of my hero David Attenborough.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

I chose not to go to the workshop tonight that Robert Moss was teaching,
but rather hang out with my friends who I haven't seen in a while.
I feel like I made a good choice.
Even though Robert Moss reminds me of my hero David Attenborough.

We've got something in common. Didn't read all your stuff, but the bits I read I enjoyed.